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Please refrain from excess venting in this thread. Talking about negative emotions is fine but it's best not to dwell on them for too long. TV Tropes is not suited to deal with mental health situations.
If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
Since we mentioned stormy weather earlier, may I have a hug, please? Something very anticlimactic just happened. >.< -.-
And here it is. I thought it I left my house right away, I could pick up dinner from my favorite fried chicken place before tonight's (impromptu) severe thunderstorm happened. Everything was going smoothly, but I ended up not only driving into the very storm I thought I could avoid, I missed my turn, on account of the slowed down traffic and how dark it got. x_x So now I'm home and about to prepare one of the dinners I have in my freezer.
Don't worry, I drove defensively and got home safe, as you can tell. :)
I was probably too ticked off to be scared anyway.
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By your powers combined, I am Cake!
Mmm, a couple of those would be tasty right now.
I’ll be having ice cream after dinner, though. ![]()
Earlier, I checked out Treasure Island from my college library today.
One seeks an answer that one cannot grant her, You’re looking for light only you can ignite.Good choice.
I got that on my reading list. :)
I'm not American, but may I quote Bill Bryson, a man who spent his adult working life in Britain and returned to his native Des Moines, Iowa, after perhaps two decades living outside the USA. Bill was dismayed as to how his native country was moving to a point where the sole, preferred and almost mandatory method of mobility was the car: trains and public transport had diminished to near invisibility, and above all, using your own legs to actually walk to places now appeared to be a felony. This is quoted in Road Trip Across the Street, for instance:
in Notes from a Big Country, one example involved some of his neighbours being invited to his house for dinner one day and despite living a short way down the street they drove there. Bryson mentions jokingly asking if they go shopping via light aircraft. He then brought it up again in A Walk in the Woods, in an even more ironic/ridiculous example — a friend who complains about how tough it is to get parking at the gym when she lives only 5-10 minutes away on foot. When he points out that she should just walk, and save herself the parking headache (as well as spending a little less time on the treadmill) she looks at him as if he's crazy, saying that the treadmill has her whole "program" on it, and it can be adjusted for difficulty.
There are other bits of Bryson cited at various points around the wiki concerning Americans and walking. But Notes From A Big Country, about how an American who went native in rural Britain adjusts to returning home, is well worth a look!
Edited by AgProv on Aug 18th 2025 at 4:05:41 PM
Elderly curmudgeon and awkward person. Professional old fart.![]()
"Insert post from r/AmericaBad" maybe?
It is political?
Edited by magicmundanenice on Aug 18th 2025 at 12:05:36 PM
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Not conventionally political, no. Bryson is something of an old-time tradtionalist and in love with Rural England, also bemoaning the direction the USA has taken since he spent so long as a non-dom in Britain. if I were forced to guess, I'd say he's Green, in the loosest sense. A very funny writer, though.

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One seeks an answer that one cannot grant her, You’re looking for light only you can ignite.