☮ Social ☮ PD Social Talk Thread: Firly Swolks Discussing Mitillating Tatters Fithout Wilters

[Xorkoth]

Met a really hot (my taste i mean, not like a babe, i find it a repulsive word and even more that my ex sometimes called me that lol) girl on OK C, half Flemish... I don't normally care so much when I got matches, but my first impression is super yummy.. wish me luck

Good luck! Being relaxed and being yourself is the best way. No expectations, as little stress as possible.

A bit jealous spacejunk ^ wish i had a yard with lots of light... trying to grow plants indoors but it is pretty hard and a lot of work (fighting pests and diseases which normally are kept in check in nature, and cleaning up more than you would outside for example)..

Likewise... my one issue with my property is that since it's in the forest, I don't get any full or even close to full light. I took down some saplings and one larger tree in the front, so I have a section that gets enough light for baby greens, strawberries, wineberries (a type of raspberry that grows wild here and is bar none the best raspberry) and maybe black currants if this bush takes off (the blueberry bushes are sadly dying before even getting large enough to produce ). I'm trying to figure out what forest plants I can grow that are edible, solomon's seal has a stalk that is compared to asparagus. I want to grow ramps (a native sort of cross between garlic and onion), but apparently they're really, really difficult to grow, and take a year and a half for the seeds to spout). I don't get enough light for any vegetables, even my greens won't get beyond the "baby" stage.

 

[spacejunk]

30° is lovely, try low 40°'s for absolute shit.

That said I hate the cold and winter, I like sitting outside but can't hack the 10°-13° shitness we've currently got which is probably not even cold to you :D

i'm the opposite - i have been really enjoying the cooler weather, i've still been sleeping with the window next to my bed open all night, for instance.
one of the reasons i moved over here (there were many) was that i couldn't handle the heat in perth any more. summer was still pretty gross over here (to me, anyway) but i love rugging up in winter, wearing long coats and scarves and not getting sunburned.
i've got scandinavian heritage though - i didn't evolve for the Australian climate.
i feel a lot more creative in cooler weather, for some reason. the heat takes it out of me, i guess.

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah I feel the same (also scandinavian heritage), the heat fucks me up, when it's 90 degrees (F) (32C) or hotter, I feel so drained and shitty. At my house it's usually around 21-24C (70-75) in the summer which is absolutely perfect. I love that it gets down to 15-18C (60-65) at night, I leave my doors and windows open all night too or else it doesn't cool down enough before the next day's heat for my tastes.

I don't like it super cold either. Of course cold is relative. Where I grew up, it occasionally dropped to -40C (which is incidentally also -40F; the temperature measuring systems are weird, well, F is anyway) on the coldest nights. It even hit that with wind chill during the day one day a few years back. Below freezing is like the entire winter with almpost no exceptions, it's regularly 0-10F (-17 to -23C).

 

[Solipsis]

i love solitude, but not isolation, if that makes sense?

Sounds like a pretty cool scene man.. and yeah that definitely makes sense ^ I hated getting isolated by moving a couple of times...

Xorkoth I thought you lived in some burly place in the woods, you can't make a big garden there? Oh well in the forest, is it not done to cut down just a few trees? Maybe plant a few others elsewhere to make up for it?

On another note i have some pure neotame which is 8000 times sweeter than sugar, weighed it to make a solution pretty much like a lysergamide in a baby dropper bottle. I was careful but still i could taste sweetness from handling it... a pretty sweet sweetness actually...
Am gonna experiment with sweetening a non-sweetened lemon water since my wisdom teeth are getting massive holes in em.. if it is nice I would sweeten my cider with it (after opening each bottle because this neotame is not stable long term in solution)... although since I quit drinking I'ma store that in my mom's cellar.

Anyway long story short, that's how dangerous it is to handle fents etc.

edit: also handled some ultra hot pepper seeds just now (ghost pepper, scorpion pepper, also golden habanero), so together with the traces of neotame things are getting hot and spicy here...

They called off the traineeship meeting because the office was like boiling over It's fine...

 

[Xorkoth]

Xorkoth I thought you lived in some burly place in the woods, you can't make a big garden there? Oh well in the forest, is it not done to cut down just a few trees? Maybe plant a few others elsewhere to make up for it?

The trees are like 60-80 feet tall, taking each one down is at least $1000, plus I love my trees. I only live on a half acre anyway and it's all slope, plus I'm in a little cove and the sun rises over the ridge behind me and sets over the ridge in front of me so the later half of the day involves lots of trees that are not in my yard. Basically virtually impossible even if I had lots of extra money to spend destroying the forest.

Basically, if I took out quite a variety of big trees in my yard, I could probably get an extra 2 hours or so of direct sun on a part of my garden, but I'd still be at only 6, 6.5 hours per day. Still not enough for most vegetables.

 

[spacejunk]

oh man that sounds so divine xork.

Yeah I feel the same (also scandinavian heritage), the heat fucks me up, when it's 90 degrees (F) (32C) or hotter, I feel so drained and shitty. At my house it's usually around 21-24C (70-75) in the summer which is absolutely perfect. I love that it gets down to 15-18C (60-65) at night, I leave my doors and windows open all night too or else it doesn't cool down enough before the next day's heat for my tastes.

I don't like it super cold either. Of course cold is relative. Where I grew up, it occasionally dropped to -40C (which is incidentally also -40F; the temperature measuring systems are weird, well, F is anyway) on the coldest nights. It even hit that with wind chill during the day one day a few years back. Below freezing is like the entire winter with almpost no exceptions, it's regularly 0-10F (-17 to -23C).

blimey, that's cold! i've not experienced temps as low as that (-40) before.

i love that you put it in both of our respective languages of temperature. thanks for that



hey i hope things go well with your potential ladyfriend, solipsis

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah it's so cold that you'll be entirely wrapped up with thick padding, down coat, etc, with wool hat, scarf and earmuffs and the instant you step outside the exposed skin around your eyes starts burning painfully and the only thing you can even think about is getting back inside. It's intense. A lot of homeless people die each year in Chicago in the winter. And in the summer is gets up to 100F (37C) or so, and people die then too, I think mostly the elderly or otherwise relatively immobile people with no air conditioning.

Where I live now the variation is much less... it gets up to 32C occasionally but usually more like 24-28, and in the winter I've seen it get down to -17 once before but usually it will be at or above freezing during the day. And we get plenty of several-day periods of 12-15C.

Man I'm getting better at doing conversions. I'm always annoyed at first when people talk about temperatures in C, but I realize we're like the only ones who use F instead.

 

[swilow]

Haha, that doesn't even approach cold. In the middle of winter, even reaching freezing is pretty nice in my book.

You cannot imagine how cold I got when we visited Tromso in Norway. But the whole city was geared towards it. I loved being there but fuck. Shivers.

 

[KneelB4Doom]

Last day of work this week.

Plan to have an obscene amount of fun this weekend8( Hope everybody does the same!

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I'm finding myself increasingly angry and disenfranchised here (where I live, not here). I'm concerned that there will be a metaphorical boiling point to this anger and I may erupt. It's grating. I feel like I hate all the people and things I see around me.

 

[Solipsis]

Why in particular are those people and things so aggravating? And where do you think it's different?

I do hate the loud drunk people after going out at night (i live very close to the center), i don't mind them having fun but a lot of them are just chanting like hooligans and shit. Today someone just took my bag in the supermarket when I accidentally forgot it temporarily. Nothing in it really, and a relatively cheap one... but still, a durable one and a bullshit move. I think I saw him leaving when I was explaining it to the cashier... it was pretty funny actually: I described it and then said: "actually it's one exactly like that", but I couldn't really do much about it at that moment and they are far from one of a kind.

Sometimes though I do wish that people were more conscious and it is a bit like many of the good ones leave this city to go live in busier faster big-city like parts of the country (I have studied and lived in those parts too). Then again there are plenty of assholes in those cities but things are more simple here in the south which is merely.. different, though i get impatient.

One city over though, where I work now... it's more of a small university town with very charming landmarks, architecture etc.. if it weren't for being finally happy that I can live somewher without having to move... I think I'd rather live there.

When you do things that fulfill you, there is probably lots more happiness and patience with where you live?

 

[spacejunk]

Where do you live, Mr Gravy?
Southern USA somewhere, if i recall correctly?

 

[Cream Gravy?]

^Yes, I live in a Texas suburb. Everyone around me is white and rich and insensitive to the very existance of everything else around them. I've lived here most of my life and always hated it, but having lived in Arkansas for school, where the entire state population is less than the urban-suburban metroplex I live in and it's the second poorest state in the nation, I really rather miss the poverty and space to breath. There's trash everywhere here, and even though roads are oft 5 lanes wide, there's still bumper to bumper traffic.

Everyone (being probably 70% of the population) seems complacent with or even jubilant about Trump's destruction of our country, and people here are still scared of weed. Don't even talk about acid.

I see multiple Hummers a day now too. Something about a vehicle getting 7 miles to the gallon just to get one person around really irks me.

 

[solistus]

Sup folks? Extended involuntary sobriety can be really trippy... Lol jk it's still soul-crushingly boring.

Oh well. Got a friend's bday party to go to tomorrow evening, that should be cool. And Sara might be able to join me, which would be super awesome because A) we haven't seen each other in 2 weeks, and B) it would give me a chance to show her off to most of my closest friends in Austin, who will also be there. We've been dating for over 7 months now - probably about time she meets my friends, yeah? Oh, and her birthday is next week... Still gotta figure out what to get her

My little bro gets back from his summer study abroad program in Italy today. Should get home any minute now, actually - my sis left to pick him up like an hour ago.

 

[iamthetalker]

Sounds a lot like where I used to live, Cream Gravy, only the people weren't rich and still acted that way. The Deep South is a wonderful place to go if you want the freshest taste of entitlement and racism America has to offer.

Japan is really the bee's knees when it comes to people being conscious of and courteous to others and the environment. You'll find the occasional loud vehicle and racist old folks (the former in cities, the latter being more prevalent in rural areas) but you never have to worry about things like your bag being lifted if you leave it behind. People intentionally leave bags and coats behind to claim tables and such. It took a long time for me to get used to--and even longer to be comfortable with--leaving a bag unattended, but even in Tokyo it's just not something people worry about. It's the outdated healthcare practices, backwards opinions on reproductive and mental health, and draconian drug laws that get to me .

 

[perpetualdawn]

^Yes, I live in a Texas suburb. Everyone around me is white and rich and insensitive to the very existance of everything else around them. I've lived here most of my life and always hated it, but having lived in Arkansas for school, where the entire state population is less than the urban-suburban metroplex I live in and it's the second poorest state in the nation, I really rather miss the poverty and space to breath. There's trash everywhere here, and even though roads are oft 5 lanes wide, there's still bumper to bumper traffic.

Everyone (being probably 70% of the population) seems complacent with or even jubilant about Trump's destruction of our country, and people here are still scared of weed. Don't even talk about acid.

I see multiple Hummers a day now too. Something about a vehicle getting 7 miles to the gallon just to get one person around really irks me.

Ugh .. why don't you move Cream Gravy? It's a good thing for the world that someone like you is in the midst of that to at least demonstrate an alternative, but for your own sanity.... I can't imagine being happy in a place like that. But actually the world and especially the USA needs more people like you who aren't residing in their own bubble, whether that be geographic or online.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I'd be happy just to move out of my parent's place, let alone to another city... the money just isn't there. I'm in one of the most job rich areas in the nation, and the only work I can find (I have a Bachelors degree in history) is at a home improvement store working for 12/hr part-time. It's fucking sad. Now, if I had majored in chemistry... I could make six figures, or be a renegade acid chemist. Curse you liberal arts degree, why were you so much more enjoyable and appealing...

 

[KneelB4Doom]

House is officially spotless. Time for blast off!!!

 

[psy997]

I'd be happy just to move out of my parent's place, let alone to another city... the money just isn't there. I'm in one of the most job rich areas in the nation, and the only work I can find (I have a Bachelors degree in history) is at a home improvement store working for 12/hr part-time. It's fucking sad. Now, if I had majored in chemistry... I could make six figures, or be a renegade acid chemist. Curse you liberal arts degree, why were you so much more enjoyable and appealing...

Favor, Uber, or Lyft my dude.

 

[DixiChik]

I'm finding myself increasingly angry and disenfranchised here (where I live, not here). I'm concerned that there will be a metaphorical boiling point to this anger and I may erupt. It's grating. I feel like I hate all the people and things I see around me.

CG's description could be me...right here, right now. Sorry, I'm not good with the quote function!