I am feeling old

[igor_kavinski]

I use to write girls pomes in calligraphy when I was in Jr. high and high school, haha.

How many did you manage to score with your pomes? Girls, I mean

 

[Pohemi]

That's more beautiful looking than mine!

Get into penpalling. You will get a lot of girls

I wrote out more of it, and when I got to the AT...I wrote an F instead of the T and started over with a shorter version. Brain farted and I crossed it, lol.

How many did you manage to score with your pomes? Girls, I mean

Well... @brianmanahan's mom, for one For real though, maybe a half dozen. I've never been a chaser...I was more smoove...butter em up and wait for them to come to you, gnomesayin'.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Eat 8 cans of sardines a day. Your vigor and vitality will sky rocket!

You'll be 25 again.

Hmm..may have to look into that. Only thing is, I don't like the sardine bones.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Psychology of Love

That is a COURSE???? I'm intrigued! Gotta research that!

Maybe I can be a Love Professor and lure me some nice little birdies into my nest

 

[Captante]

How many did you manage to score with your pomes? Girls, I mean

Writing poetry is all well and good but if you actually want to get laid you need to learn some rudimentary guitar and SING it to women while strumming! (on-key helpful but not required!)

Mega bonus-points for having no shame and a cheap acoustic @ a party!

 

[Motostu]

Yeah my 14yo is excited to prove to me his typing test score of something like 80wpm. A real keyboard - not the dang phone screens.

I learned to type fast because of MUD games in college. Who's with me?

Same. Wasted way too much time in a few different MUDs. Was a decent typist before, but that really did take it up a notch.

Still amazed at the number of people at my workplace that don't touch-type. Pretty decent for hunt/peck I guess...

 

[nakedfrog]

dude, you were supposed to write it on a piece of cardboard and take a selfie with it.

 

[Captante]

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[igor_kavinski]

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Oh wow. You are a beautiful man

 

[nakedfrog]

Oh wow. You are a beautiful man

Well, the thing is I'm not a man

 

[Captante]

Oh wow. You are a beautiful. man

Ftfy.

Certainly better looking then I am!

*(admittedly this is not saying much!)

 

[igor_kavinski]

Well, the thing is I'm not a man

I'm guessing not a woman, either?

 

[Captante]

I'm guessing not a woman, either?

Dude.... quit while you're behind.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Dude.... quit while you're behind.

No offense intended. I'm just curious.

 

[Captante]

No offense intended. I'm just curious.

Intentions DO matter BUT .....

 

[Muse]

Do any of those color-blind glasses work for your version?

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Glasses designed for color blind people have maybe a 50-50 chance of being some kind of improvement FOR ME according to EnChroma's website, my having taken their online tests. If they do help, they would accomplish practically nothing compared to having eyes with all 3 sets of cones.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm guessing not a woman, either?

Depends on how you measure, I suppose, I am non-binary, but "woman" is generally convenient and close enough for practical purposes.

 

[Muse]

That was sort of the thought, but it originated from older writing implements (quills and older styles of pen), and a fairly recent study found that it wasn't particularly faster among children.
They teach typing these days

Yeah, typing was right up there as a favorite class in junior high school. I think it was 8th grade. I got up to ~40wpm there and LOVED IT! I've typed ever since, of course. Back then electric typewriters were somebody's wet dream. I owned manuals for many years.

Well, obviously they teach kids to write, just "print?" I was taught cursive and can do it OK, but I more often print, but I figure I can cursive faster, but probably not as legibly unless I work at it. I do NOT work on my cursive, I do that if at all just for myself.

 

[igor_kavinski]

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Sorry. Didn't know it was that serious.

 

[nakedfrog]

And of course now I remember how to do the stupid lower-case cursive f.

 

[nakedfrog]

Yeah, typing was right up there as a favorite class in junior high school. I think it was 8th grade. I got up to ~40wpm there and LOVED IT! I've typed ever since, of course. Back then electric typewriters were somebody's wet dream. I owned manuals for many years.

Well, obviously they teach kids to write, just "print?"

Typing I and II were prerequisites for the computer class in junior high for me, taught on electric typewriters. Can't remember how fast I typed then, certainly not as fast as now.
They taught my kid cursive ten years ago, I suppose probably just block letters for places where they don't anymore.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Depends on how you measure

I think what matters is that seeing you made my hormones happy

 

[Muse]

not having salt makes you insane?

my family has a history of high blood pressure.
so i havent added salt to any meal i make for decades.

i wont ask for 'no salt' on the dishes at restaurants but i also dont add salt from the shaker either.
i am shocked at how many people add salt to the same dish i'm having.

I wasn't trying to connect the low sodium with sanity, it was just an aside. Obviously, staying sane is going to be a good idea in life at any age. I just tossed it in there.

The salt: Well, I started cutting back on salt probably when I was about 30. I remember encountering a young woman in a health food store in my neighborhood and in conversation she said she didn't salt her food at all. She made sure to tell me that it isn't something she was advocating. We didn't continue to discuss that, but it stuck in my mind. I was aware that high sodium had a rep for association with HBP. I was also aware that my grandparents had HBP. I don't know if I was aware that my parents did at the time, but they sure did. Now, my mother had a habit of salting her food at the table. If we went out to eat (we did that occasionally, not habitually), again her reach for the salt shaker was something that we noticed. She continued to do this, lived to almost 100 YO.

Anyway, in my early 30's I started watching my salt. I found that I was satisfied with less and less and that if I ate typically served prepared food (i.e. not by myself) it tasted too salty. I figured this was a good thing, not craving as much salt as the typical American. I salt the food I prepare (not always), but judiciously. I did a bit of online research on the topic a few weeks ago and it appeared to me that there is not consensus on the relationship of "excess" sodium and HBP. Maybe there's an association for some people and not for others. Studies apparently have not figured this out. Anyway, I have OK BP, but not as low as some in some cultures. It can be quite low for some. For an American, mine is quite acceptable, maybe. Last time checked, I made this note (in Oct. 2021): "My BP was measured at 128/74, which for me is high." My doctor, however, said it was fine.

 

[igor_kavinski]

My BP was measured at 128/74, which for me is high. My doctor, however, said it was fine.

Yeah. Doc said the same thing to me when I had similarly high (based on my recent history) blood pressure. I was just happy to see that my diastolic crossed the 70s. It was previously stuck below 70 for many, many months.

 

[Pohemi]

I have HBP and stage 3b renal (kidney) disease. I'm not giving up my salt (my blood labs sodium levels are middle of normal range). It's not going to save me at this point, so I'm not going to deprive myself of enjoying my food the way I want to for the time I'm still here. YOLO.