Huh. Well, a belated happy birthday to him.


Came across a good documentary today, about the lives of a few transgender individuals in western Japan (Okayama and Kagawa, specifically). It was quite sad at times, as you'd imagine. One boy was disowned as soon as he made the decision to transition, others met with prejudice, and just a lack of understanding... but among a few others they found support and encouragement. It's hard there, but I believe slowly, slowly it'll get better.

On a side note, I was very happy with how well I managed to understand this documentary. No subtitles. I can Japanese!

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I saw another episode of Jazz last week and find it an interesting documentary of a family handling a transition of a family member...

Good to hear you are fluent, Kaz...

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I think I could be a killer. Basically, all it takes is the ability to be an asshole to people and do not feel any remorse, and I am good at that. So, just one step from here. Albeit it is huge step, but not in any life changing way. I always read how these killer guys live their normal lives and noone suspects them; it's not because they put a lot of effort to hide that they are different from normal people - it's because they are not that much different at all.

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

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I think I could be a killer. Basically, all it takes is the ability to be an asshole to people and do not feel any remorse, and I am good at that. So, just one step from here. Albeit it is huge step, but not in any life changing way. I always read how these killer guys live their normal lives and noone suspects them; it's not because they put a lot of effort to hide that they are different from normal people - it's because they are not that much different at all.

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offense? me?? look at my signature

another creepy thought of the day: I am fascinated with psychopaths. it was very hard for me to control my empathy once, even now I cry at sad movies like a, but these guys are completely free of it due to their condition. normal people like you are on the other part of the spectrum where people just accept who they are and live according to their innate traits, even if sometimes that plays to their disadvantage. I think people should have a say in this, a choice. I think we should be free to choose if we want to empathize with people or not. inability to do so is the key part of suffering from heartbreaks that we see almost glorified in the works of art, while this actually needs to be shamed, people need to know that if they work a bit on personal development, they would not have to suffer.

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

there is urban legend on the internet that says, following is a test for psychopaths. they tell them a story where certain girl's mother dies, and the next day they arrange huge funerals, and a lot of people attend, and the girl does not know a half of them. so there she meets a young boy who she immediately likes. they spend some time together but, as the funerals end, they part their ways. the girl goes on to live her life as usual, but in a month she kills her sister. why did she do it?

the legend says, psychopaths can see the answer right away, and normal people can't. I know I could not. I bet you can't too, unless you heard this before. but to think that to someone with a judgement that is not clouded by emotion the answer is obvious while to people like me it is not, - that thought does not sit well with me. I want to have what they are having.

but, of course, I also do not want to lose an ability to truly enjoy things that they cannot enjoy. can it be done? I think it can be done. and you think it's creepy.

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

i think you are mixing critical thinker and psychopath as same. There is a lot of common things between them but they do things for completely different reasons. Most of the great businessmen are great critical thinkers they do things that makes sense without emotions. Psychopaths on the other hand like human suffering, it is not like they do not have any feelings, they have positive feelings to negative emotions. There is a big difference

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Watch everything but only take the good things from it

Ask, think and learn. Because the more we know the more we grow.

Watching the wrong to happen is the same as commiting the wrong.

If it looks like things are forcing you to be creative, Then be creative.

its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso]
taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

this is a debatable topic which has very few scientific proofs. so i dont want to argue but i think you can look into the nature vs nurture debate. this topic has some common things with it as you mentioned sadistic behavior

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Watch everything but only take the good things from it

Ask, think and learn. Because the more we know the more we grow.

Watching the wrong to happen is the same as commiting the wrong.

If it looks like things are forcing you to be creative, Then be creative.

its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso]
taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi

Registration Date: 07.12.16
oh ****
1/12 of 2018 is gone
oh ****

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

hahaha, don't remind me! As we get older, the time seems to fly by faster and faster. I can't hardly believe that I cannot say to people that "I was in the hospital for 6 months last year". It is now 2016 or the year before last that I was in the hospital for so long...cc

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on the other hand that's nothing compared to some other forums where I still lurk. one tech forum has to bear with me since 2002, that's almost 16 years. not much to you, but half of my whole life to me.

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so loving what - Stephen Fry.

hahaha, it is amazing... I listened to the news last night and tonight and the report was about stores like Walmart slowly closing out their sales of CD's in general and bring into stock more vinyl records...

I know that in my little town, there is a factory that makes master disc's for creating vinyl disc's. I happened to catch a show on national TV about them one time.

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WOW! Totally blown away!!!

I went to a nearby Historical Museum and planned on scanning the 1936 phone directory, or parts of it anyway, that I knew was there... Then I found a treasure trove, so to speak! There were a number of these directories, from 1935 to about 1952. I was glancing through some of them and talking to the Docent there and there was only about 30 minutes to go before the Museum closed for the day.

I don't know why I said it because, c'mon, these were Museum artifacts, for cripes sake. I asked if I could take them home to scan them..... and the man said YES!!!!.. So I have been scanning and setting in order the pages alphabetically onto a flash drive... Now these books are not very big, I mean, how many people had phones back in those days? But they contained multiple city listings separated by city or the beginnings of what are now BIG cities... One city only had 6 listings in 1935 and ballooned up to 30 in five years...what is that, a 500% growth spurt in only five years? lo

I only brought home from 1935 to 1942 and I've done up to 1939. I initially did a rough scan and just zereod in on 2 or three cities and as I've gone through 'cleaning up' the entries, I've added more of the cities from each year and the 'yellow' pages as well. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but one fukll page ad for a theater showed that it showed movies from three major studios, Mickey Mouse, World News and refreshments. It also listed as 'conveniences', "headphones for the hearing impaired", and a "crying room"...

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So my recent job search (it's still ongoing, but at least I'm making progress with something!) got me wondering what everyone here does. I realise some regulars are retired, but other than that, I'm not sure about people's jobs. So what do you all do, including part-time or studying?

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Still hoping for ya, arren... hang in there...

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So my recent job search (it's still ongoing, but at least I'm making progress with something!) got me wondering what everyone here does. I realise some regulars are retired, but other than that, I'm not sure about people's jobs. So what do you all do, including part-time or studying?

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I'm a media studies student, but I'm in my final year so I'll be job hunting very soon. I'm hoping to find a job that's in the media industry but I'm not that fussed about which field it may be in, as long as it's interesting

My first job (other than part-time casual work in school holidays) was as a junior technician at an American-owned geological survey company who had survey teams out in Saudi Arabia searching for oilfields. We processed the seismic data that came in from the field, cleaned it up, applied various filters and then the clever well-paid people determined which strata had the high chance of being oil-bearing. It was a fun job with a lot of young people in the office and I was lucky enough to meet my first serious GF there, a relationship that lasted many years. Through friends I made at this company I also met my future wife, so it was a fortuitous move. Was there from about 1981 to 1985

My second, third and fourth jobs - 1985 to 2009 - were working as a technician for various London-based insurance brokers who operated in the Lloyds market placing international insurance cover (airlines, container ship and tanker fleets, oil rigs and workers compensation policies mainly). I drafted bespoke policy documentation (called "wordings" ) and this career lasted me most of my working life until digitisation eliminated hand-typed paper documents.

As I got older I got fed up with the London commute, the tiresomeness of it all and the cost so in 2010 I moved careers to work in IT at Jaguar Landrover cars, in their design and development plant between Leamington Spa and Banbury. This was great fun and it was a real eye-opener to peek inside the cutting edge of the high-end motor industry. I also got to drive some great cars!

My marriage also finally failed at this time and I moved out to live alone - which was a very fun and relaxing adventure in itself.

That job only lasted me 3 years and I was then unemployed for 2 years while I decided what to do. I had come to hate the rat race and working at a desk for a faceless big company. I spent a few weeks doing van delivery work around the West Midlands which was another eye-opener (I found that among the English blue collar working community sexism and racism were very much alive and well )

After that I chose to do something more socially caring and joined a company that delivered hot meals and care work for the elderly. My round was in Peterborough and in the 2 years I was there I discovered that city as well as met some really fascinating people. I met my current SO while working there.

I felt I was doing something very useful when on two occasions I was able to call ambulances for two clients who, upon entering their homes I found very unwell but the deaths of a couple of my more frail elderly clients was upsetting as well.

After that I spent a year kicking around again unemployed wondering what to do when I was extremely lucky to have a pension I had with one of the brokers reach a point when it was mature enough to allow me to retire early - at age 58. It was September when I received this news and made the decision and the very first day of 2018 when I officially retired. I have other pension schemes that will mature later so am in the happy position to be able to top up my income in the future as well.

I'm now happily retired and taking up my main hobby (one I've loved since I was 5 years old) of building my dream model railway. I've begun to collect and build models again and go to the conventions/shows to talk with like-minded people and its great to begin making new friends at my age.

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"An old man like me stands no chance fighting against a high school girl in her underwear" - Oshino Meme, Nekomonogatari (Kuro)

I'm a second year geology student. Nice to know you have been working in this field Saddletank, I imagine employment is still years ahead for me though.

My life was spent moving around for no particular reason that I ever thought of, across Canada and then moved down to the States when I was 6 and the moving continued. I spent most of my childhood moving around Southern California and Nevada and finally Virginia where I dropped out of high school and joined the US Navy for four years, serving in Vietnam for about 2 of those years.

I completed my high school and attended two yrs of college for a degree in Law Enforcement. I had planned on becoming a police officer, but the new wife vetoed that idea as too dangerous and too liable to leave her and my daughter without a father/husband. I won't go into all the details (yeah, don't say it, LOL) but I have worked most of my life out of doors, starting with moving houses in my teens. Worked a little in a restaurant, a carnival, a tire recapping shop before the Navy.

Afterwards I worked in Service stations pumping gas, etc, tow truck, spent over 9 yrs Driving and them Mechanicing school buses and ended up lead mechanic. Moved on the Calif Hwy Patrol as a big rig (bus and semi-trucks) inspector working at a weight scales, then 4 yrs on the road doing terminal enforcement and accident investigation. During all this time I also worked in all phases of security work: armed; unarmed, uniformed, plain clothes and radio patrol car, both full and part time (mostly part-time). I quit the Dept and went into business for myself doing the same thing (truck inspections) but the country hit a recession (90's) and that ended that, went back to work as a shop mechanic, the ONLY one, for a glass window and door company.

During my 14 yrs there, I had over about 25 small trucks and trailers in Sacramento, CA and over 50 in our our main yard near San Bernardino, CA, as well as the company cars and forklifts and answering and checking out alarm calls at night in the main plant. I got a lot of air miles flying back and forth. I had to farm out a lot of the work, impossible to do it all on my own. I road-tested the new drivers and maintained ALL of the paperwork involving the vehicle and driver records. THe BIG building recession hit and I went back to Security work full time. I was by then divorced after 27 yrs and have been on my own since then. I finally retired a few years ago and while not well-off, I am comfortable and that is enough.
I now devote my time to my Grandkids and my hobby of local history. HAHA, somehow I have become a County Historical Commissioner. ( I was also a local Library Trustee for a while as well)

I spend time with my friends, do some volunteer work in San Diego on a Vietnam Veteran's Memorial and, oh yeah, I've been a Tavern member for (next month) 10 years, I enjoy my anime and manga and other reading. I am working towards completing at least one parachute jump in a few months, heh heh, gotta lose 10 more lbs...

In my life, I lived in Japan (my ship was homeported there) for almost 2 yrs; visited Hong Kong twice; visited family in Saudi Arabia; skin dived in various parts of the States, Japan and the Philippines and learned to sail in the Great lakes and the Philippines; shot Police Pistol Competition for 4 yrs (took 3rd place in an LAPD match); learned to ride horseback and was actually a paid rider at one time (ok, ok, it was for one day, but they asked me to) and finally I have 3 great kids and (so far) 20 grandkids...

That's it for me so far and I'm 71yo....



(Edited for speling)

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