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does bruce springsteen grab anyone else the way he grabs me? i could listen to that guy forfreakinever. my favorite song of his ( or one of them, there are several ) is "Downbound Train". not only do his lyrics kill, but the marraige of words to music is unparalleled, IMO.
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i wonder if the reason why so many people are intolerant of other's lifestyles is because they're so comfortable in their own they can't imagine someone else's. how much of that mindset is determined by our childhood years?
there are many ways to deal with childhood trauma. you can perpetuate the cycle and make others suffer as you have. you can insulate yourself to such a degree that no one else can get in. you can try to control your environment, or replicate the experiences so you feel more comfortable. you can bury it and take a path in the opposite direction, or utilize a conglomoration of all of these coping mechanisms.
still, the ghosties and boogies of your childhood ( good and bad ) will follow you relentlessly.
i believe intolerance is a way of controlling your environment. controlling fear, or perceived threats to your own lifestyle or defenses you have built to protect the child inside.
i know a gay couple. they are very much like any couple - they have their quirks and spats, they have made a home and a family. unconventional by some standards, but they're happy. not my cup of tea, but they're happy. they are functional and have been together over 20 years. thier relationship has been successful; my marraige failed after 13 years. both relationships have suffered major stressors; what makes me better than them?
nothing. i would say they are the success and i am the failure.
one half of that gay relationship and i came from the same environment, but evolved into two completely different people with two different ways of coping. this is interesting to me in the face of the question "Is it nature or nurture?"
personally, i think it's a genetic predisposition that is triggered by environmental influences.
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the girlchild and i watched a beauty pagent last night ( on the oxygen network ) for big and beautiful women. the winner was crowned "Miss F-A-T"... Fabulous And Thick.
when they had narrowed the field down to two women, a final question was asked of them both. "What would you like to say, this minute, to skinny America?"
the first contestant said, "Just love me. Look at my inner beauty and just love me."
the second one said, "Eat a coupla cheesburgers. You'll feel a lot better. There's more of me than there are of you, so get used to it."
i laughed my ass off. she got my vote...but the other girl won.
truthfulness is not necessarily popular.
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the girlchild and i have also started our own personal vocabulary list.
slobberamus: someone who wears too big, too holey and too dirty clothes for public viewing.
"I feel like a slobberamus," said Nancy as she picked at the dried gravy on her hole-infested, triple X tee shirt.
stankified: the lingering stench from passed gas that permeates a room.
"The entire room has been stankified thanks to cabbage for dinner last night. I need to call the Stanky Relief SWAT team, Henry."
jingly jangly: the motion of a large woman's breasts without adequate support.
"Oh girl, Tosheeba came trippin' down them stairs so fast goin' jingly jangly her boobs dang near killed hersef and that no good man o'hers wit them thangs."
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and finally, today's word of the day.
The Word of the Day for August 07 is:
gruntle \GRUN-tul\ verb
: to put in a good humor
Example sentence:
"He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." (P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters)
Did you know?
"Gruntle" is the result of a mistaken assumption about the verb "disgruntle," which means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix "dis-" often means "to do the opposite of," so people naturally assumed that in order to have a "disgruntle" there must be a "gruntle" with exactly the opposite meaning. But actually, "dis-" doesn't always work that way in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. "Disgruntle" developed from this intensifying sense of "dis-" plus "gruntle," an old word meaning "to grumble." "Gruntle" began to mean "to make happy" only in the 1920s, when it was assumed to be the antonym of "disgruntle." By contrast, "disgruntle" has been around since 1682, and the original grumbling "gruntle" dates back to 1589.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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i wonder if the reason why so many people are intolerant of other's lifestyles is because they're so comfortable in their own they can't imagine someone else's. how much of that mindset is determined by our childhood years?
there are many ways to deal with childhood trauma. you can perpetuate the cycle and make others suffer as you have. you can insulate yourself to such a degree that no one else can get in. you can try to control your environment, or replicate the experiences so you feel more comfortable. you can bury it and take a path in the opposite direction, or utilize a conglomoration of all of these coping mechanisms.
still, the ghosties and boogies of your childhood ( good and bad ) will follow you relentlessly.
i believe intolerance is a way of controlling your environment. controlling fear, or perceived threats to your own lifestyle or defenses you have built to protect the child inside.
i know a gay couple. they are very much like any couple - they have their quirks and spats, they have made a home and a family. unconventional by some standards, but they're happy. not my cup of tea, but they're happy. they are functional and have been together over 20 years. thier relationship has been successful; my marraige failed after 13 years. both relationships have suffered major stressors; what makes me better than them?
nothing. i would say they are the success and i am the failure.
one half of that gay relationship and i came from the same environment, but evolved into two completely different people with two different ways of coping. this is interesting to me in the face of the question "Is it nature or nurture?"
personally, i think it's a genetic predisposition that is triggered by environmental influences.
****
the girlchild and i watched a beauty pagent last night ( on the oxygen network ) for big and beautiful women. the winner was crowned "Miss F-A-T"... Fabulous And Thick.
when they had narrowed the field down to two women, a final question was asked of them both. "What would you like to say, this minute, to skinny America?"
the first contestant said, "Just love me. Look at my inner beauty and just love me."
the second one said, "Eat a coupla cheesburgers. You'll feel a lot better. There's more of me than there are of you, so get used to it."
i laughed my ass off. she got my vote...but the other girl won.
truthfulness is not necessarily popular.
****
the girlchild and i have also started our own personal vocabulary list.
slobberamus: someone who wears too big, too holey and too dirty clothes for public viewing.
"I feel like a slobberamus," said Nancy as she picked at the dried gravy on her hole-infested, triple X tee shirt.
stankified: the lingering stench from passed gas that permeates a room.
"The entire room has been stankified thanks to cabbage for dinner last night. I need to call the Stanky Relief SWAT team, Henry."
jingly jangly: the motion of a large woman's breasts without adequate support.
"Oh girl, Tosheeba came trippin' down them stairs so fast goin' jingly jangly her boobs dang near killed hersef and that no good man o'hers wit them thangs."
****
and finally, today's word of the day.
The Word of the Day for August 07 is:
gruntle \GRUN-tul\ verb
: to put in a good humor
Example sentence:
"He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." (P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters)
Did you know?
"Gruntle" is the result of a mistaken assumption about the verb "disgruntle," which means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix "dis-" often means "to do the opposite of," so people naturally assumed that in order to have a "disgruntle" there must be a "gruntle" with exactly the opposite meaning. But actually, "dis-" doesn't always work that way in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. "Disgruntle" developed from this intensifying sense of "dis-" plus "gruntle," an old word meaning "to grumble." "Gruntle" began to mean "to make happy" only in the 1920s, when it was assumed to be the antonym of "disgruntle." By contrast, "disgruntle" has been around since 1682, and the original grumbling "gruntle" dates back to 1589.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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