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[inotyce]

After one year not having visited any Italian schools, today I went back to one and while waiting on the sofa for my turn to receive a visitor card, I found how *peaceful* the atmosphere was, all people around sat still like frozen statues, no one talked to each other much, only in extremely silent soft voices.

 

[Borek]

Italian schools

all people around sat still like frozen statues, no one talked to each other much, only in extremely silent soft voices.

Impossible. Italians are noisy and talkative.

You sure it wasn't an Italian museum, and these were real people and not sculptures?

 

[Bandersnatch]

Being great - that's... someone help me out here.

...nice?

 

[DennisN]

Impossible. Italians are noisy and talkative.

You sure it wasn't an Italian museum, and these were real people and not sculptures?

 

[HayleySarg]

No school tomorrow, it's flooding all over the place..

I'm guessing that you're in CO? I hear it's quite bad. I wish the best for you regardless. (all teasing aside!)

 

[dkotschessaa]

I am listening to John Cage's 4'33 on repeat.

 

[Pythagorean]

the audience is always out of tune

 

[dkotschessaa]

Impossible. Italians are noisy and talkative.

I read (too quickly) "Aliens are noisy and talkative."

They probably gesture with their tentacles a lot too.

-Dave K

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I am listening to John Cage's 4'33 on repeat.

I've been listening to this on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA

 

[OmCheeto]

I read (too quickly) "Aliens are noisy and talkative."

They probably gesture with their tentacles a lot too.

-Dave K

I read (too quickly too) "They probably gesture with their testacles a lot too."



cleans glasses...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So, I have this customer who is renting a hydraulic power unit from another company through me. It was needed to operate a newly designed system during the shop testing phase, before delivery to the end customer. They go through me because it simplifies the billing process.

They expected to need this for a month maximum. We are just now at the end of the fifth month of this arrangement. The unit costs me $1500 a month. So I charge my customer $2000 a month and pocket an easy $500. With five months of rental under their belts, their cost to date is $10,000. My profit so far is $2500.

They haven't even turned it on yet. All this time it has just been sitting there.

 

[NATURE.M]

I've been listening to this on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA

I must say very amusing.

 

[AlephZero]

They haven't even turned it on yet. All this time it has just been sitting there.

I can remember a similar situation where, when the gizmo was finally turned on, it didn't work - and the warranty period had already expired.

Maybe you ought to use some of your profits to buy an insurance policy

 

[OmCheeto]

So, I have this customer who is renting a hydraulic power unit from another company through me. It was needed to operate a newly designed system during the shop testing phase, before delivery to the end customer. They go through me because it simplifies the billing process.

They expected to need this for a month maximum. We are just now at the end of the fifth month of this arrangement. The unit costs me $1500 a month. So I charge my customer $2000 a month and pocket an easy $500. With five months of rental under their belts, their cost to date is $10,000. My profit so far is $2500.

They haven't even turned it on yet. All this time it has just been sitting there.

And here, all this time, I've been contemplating asking you for business advice...

On another random note,

Today, I lost my first tooth in about 50 years. My dentist just called to see how I was doing. I've never had a dentist call me. I was like; "Do people get anxiety attacks over this kind of thing? Is it like a long time friend dying?" He said that most people have anxiety before the operation.

Then we both wished each other a happy weekend.



sincerely,

toophless Om



And yes, he did tell me that my tongue would start playing with the stitches after awhile.

 

[lisab]

And here, all this time, I've been contemplating asking you for business advice...

On another random note,

Today, I lost my first tooth in about 50 years. My dentist just called to see how I was doing. I've never had a dentist call me. I was like; "Do people get anxiety attacks over this kind of thing? Is it like a long time friend dying?" He said that most people have anxiety before the operation.

Then we both wished each other a happy weekend.



sincerely,

toophless Om



And yes, he did tell me that my tongue would start playing with the stitches after awhile.

A good friend of mine, who is NOT neurotic, had to have a tooth removed. She was amazed at her reaction - it was like a death in the family! She had to grieve for a few months before she felt OK with it.

The only tooth I ever lost was in such poor shape, I was happy to see it go. The bridge that's there now is fine, but it's not like a real tooth :sad:.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I can remember a similar situation where, when the gizmo was finally turned on, it didn't work - and the warranty period had already expired.

Maybe you ought to use some of your profits to buy an insurance policy

Do you really think I would be in the R&D business without being insured to the rafters?

 

[zoobyshoe]

They shouldn't put The Rock and Vin Diesel in the same movie. It's like serving spaghetti and lasagna as two different courses of the same meal.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I've been listening to this on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA

Great song, WRT to it's intended effect in the movie.

Otherwise it would make me want to...harm myself.

-Dave K

 

[AlephZero]

And yes, he did tell me that my tongue would start playing with the stitches after awhile.

Stitches? I think you need a dentist who gets more practice at extracting teeth, if he needs to sew up the mess he made. Unless you are a hemophiliac, of course.

 

[dkotschessaa]

They shouldn't put The Rock and Vin Diesel in the same movie. It's like serving spaghetti and lasagna as two different courses of the same meal.

True.

They shouldn't put them in separate movies either.

 

[OmCheeto]

Stitches? I think you need a dentist who gets more practice at extracting teeth, if he needs to sew up the mess he made. Unless you are a hemophiliac, of course.

He asked me if it hurt before the extraction. I said; "Only when I eat peanuts".

The tooth was a lost cause molar that had lost a 40 year old filling, looking like a collapsed marine volcano, in a sea of flesh.

I'm sure he just wanted to not see me again in three weeks, complaining of peanut bits in the healed over crater.

 

[AlephZero]

I'm sure he just wanted to not see me again in three weeks,

I assumed he DID want to see you again in 3 weeks, to charge your health insurance another $1000 for taking out the stitches

I guess that's why dentists don't like extracting teeth. Once your do that, there's no repeat business.

 

[OmCheeto]

I assumed he DID want to see you again in 3 weeks, to charge your health insurance another $1000 for taking out the stitches

He said they are designed to dissolve over time. He said if they don't, that I can pull them out with tweezers by myself.

I guess that's why dentists don't like extracting teeth. Once your do that, there's no repeat business.

I never thought of that. I do have 27^* teeth left though.

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When I was 18, my four wisdom teeth were pulled out by the US Navy, before they even popped through the skin.
They gave me some excuse about being on a submarine with no dentist on board.
I didn't count those when I mentioned this was the first one I'd lost since I was 5.
Think of them as teeth unfit for military duty. And this one, died in the great cavity war.

 

[zoobyshoe]

True.

They shouldn't put them in separate movies either.

Hehehehehe. That's a good one.

 

[lisab]

My late afternoon: on the big screen porch with my husband, daughter, and two of my three step-kids (all adults), goofing around, drinking wine, deciding what to have for dinner. I figured whatever we decide on, we will need carrots. So I go out to the garden, everything is in its final throes of summer. I dig a bunch of carrots (one straight from a porno ), and although no rain is falling there is distant thunder every few seconds. I see our chickens digging around in the field. I pick a little tomato and eat it.

My husband is now making salmon chowder.

Dirt under my nails.

Life is good.

 

[drizzle]

Nice lisab. The skies are still crying over here..

 

[zoobyshoe]

Professional driver. Closed course.

 

[lisab]

Professional driver. Closed course.

Do Not Attempt.

 

[Enigman]

God, I am terrible at cheering someone up...

 

[turbo]

Professional driver. Closed course.

"Amateir drivers - open road". A friend of mine and I used to wrench his MGA and take it out to see what we had accomplished. We would take turns driving on a curvy gravel road, doing 4-wheel drifts on the tight corners, so we could get through them. That little car was overpowered - head into a curve going way too fast, drift, feather the brakes and accelerate trough the turn.

He was either generous or crazy or both to let me split the driving with him.

 

[Evo]

Got to agree with Ina Garten when she says she would hate to have a marriage where you have to "work at it", she said (of her marriage to husband Jeffrey) we just enjoy each other's other's company and have fun. That's how relationships should be, if you have to "work at it", something is wrong, as in, you aren't made for each other. But then, that would put marriage counselors and therapists out of business.

 

[Enigman]

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”---A.E.

 

[dlgoff]

We would take turns driving on a curvy gravel road, doing 4-wheel drifts on the tight corners, so we could get through them.

Oh yea. But in my case; 14 years old in a '52 Chevrolet. :thumbs:

 

[dkotschessaa]

Got to agree with Ina Garten when she says she would hate to have a marriage where you have to "work at it", she said (of her marriage to husband Jeffrey) we just enjoy each other's other's company and have fun. That's how relationships should be, if you have to "work at it", something is wrong, as in, you aren't made for each other. But then, that would put marriage counselors and therapists out of business.

My wife and I have known each other since we were 12, have a bollywood epic like love story, and enjoy each other's company immensely. We can spend days/weeks on end with each other 24/7 and never tire of each other. But we also work at our relationship, because it is such and indescribably precious thing, worth nurturing as its own entity. So I find that statement kind of misleading, to say the least.

-Dave K

 

[Evo]

My wife and I have known each other since we were 12, have a bollywood epic like love story, and enjoy each other's company immensely. We can spend days/weeks on end with each other 24/7 and never tire of each other. But we also work at our relationship, because it is such and indescribably precious thing, worth nurturing as its own entity. So I find that statement kind of misleading, to say the least.

-Dave K

Work as in you constantly fight and disagree on even basic things? That's what a lot of people "work" on due to fear of being alone. I've seen that all of my life and don't get it.