Tbf FLT, sometimes I'm not writing for everybody. I'm sure greensaint doesn't need one. Incidentally, what elements didn't you understand.?
Yeah, I made the right call watching the football at 1:30. The race finished at HT so I could see Lewis take the chequered flag.
I realised that TSS. I sort of lost it when I realised I didn't have a flavoured computer - I remember the fruit one bing launched but I hadn't realised I was so far behind
Grave of the Fireflies is an incredibly sad film....I think Ghibli tackled a really difficult subject in a very sensitive way without pulling any punches. Great catalogue of films, and as you say, all the family can watch many of them together.
It ends with "after my wife tried to stab me for the second time, I decided it was over" . I've had some pretty toxic relationships, but my first marriage was a classic. Unfortunately there were 3 kids involved so it was a painful breakup because of that, and involved custody battles, injunctions, various false accusations of violence against me and breeches of child access court orders. All 3 kids are now grown up, 2 are married and I have a great relationship with all of them so all the effort I put in to stay in contact was worth every painful minute. I was travelling from Oxford and Gloucester back to somerset every Friday just so that I could see them for a day and often got to their house to find out that the ex had taken them away so that I couldn't see them......luckily they didñt believe the lies they were told such as " daddy doesn't love you anymore, he's got a new life now". As I said TSS, it was pretty painful for about 10 years after the divorce but worth the effort. The girlfriend who crashed my car was a complete sweetie, but I was young and dumb and couldn't see what I already had when I split with her and started dating the woman I later married . Current wife, as I describe her, is a diamond though so it all ended well for me.
Am still in Florida till next weekend so my posts are 5 hours behind what I'm answering just in case anybody wondered why I'm posting at silly times of the day, cos they're normal times to me. 95 degrees today when I was fishing on the gulf coast, and a trip to the Florida keys stating tomorrow so having a great time despite the footie not going quite as well as I'd have hoped, we have tree frogs and lizards all around the house I'm staying in so my daughter is loving all the exotic house guests we get if we leave the door open for 10 minutes. I actually don't want to come home, which is rare for me as I love England but have been blown away by Florida.
Yep, I'll give you that one. Generally, when talking about Linux operating systems (OS) the jargon term 'flavour' often gets used because there are f****** millions (I exaggerate slightly) of different versions of the original concept OS. This'll give you some idea of how many there are, but it's by no means complete: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions I do try to steer away from jargon most of the time even when I'm communicating with someone who knows the lingo. The thing is, even if I ask people if they don't understand, the biggest indicator I usually get is a blank expression. People seem to either hate being seen to be ignorant or positively celebrate it. To my mind there is zero shame in not knowing (why should anyone.?) and zero reason to be cocky about it either (not you here before you get the wrong idea). All I can say is, thanks for the feedback FLT. It's rarely given.
Reads like fun. Like yourself, I love GB, but often fall in love with my holiday destinations. Two that I have seriously done some research on were the South of France, around the Ardeche region, and Crete. In Crete I also had a loose invitation to stay for a whole summer maintaining hired motorbikes, but I'd paid for my brother who was suffering from a massive relationship breakup and I felt he needed the close company. He wanted to get back home, so that idea fell apart before it firmed up. Emigrating to NZ was easy but I did that without the holiday first.
I'd love to visit NZ and would happily emigrate just for the adventure of such a massive change, but the wife wouldn't move away from Wiltshire so I'm kind of stuck really(not that it's a problem, as I do love the UK). I spent 5 months travelling around the USA about 20 years ago with a guy from NZ who I had worked with at a kids summer camp, and have never met anybody with such a massive love for and pride in their own country. We went halves on an old car ($500 total) and drove 28000 miles all over the states, Mexico and Canada......I've been trying to save enough up to go and visit him but something always rears its ugly head and takes priority over the trip so haven't managed it yet. My mate has been to the UK a couple of times so we stay in touch but NZ is my next big adventure, come what may. I've travelled extensively throughout France, including a spur of the moment couple of months where I hitchhiked to Bordeaux and did some grape picking when I was a teenager. I love France, and really liked Crete.....probably my favourite of the 8 or 9 Greek islands I have had a chance to holiday in (spent a couple of weeks in Agios Nikolaos plus a fair bit of hiking and driving through the interior of the island) but haven't been back since. I met a Cretan guy who ran a bar in the USA who had fought for the resistance during WWII. He gave me all the contact details of his family back on Crete and literally ordered me to go and stay with them, but I lost the details when I got mugged in New Orleans. I had a German GF at the time, who was actually the first German person the Cretan guy had spoken to apart from during the war. "I killed my first German when I was14, and I'm in no mood to stop doing it now" was a particularly memorable quote from him, but he allowed my GF in his bar, and actually came to like her before we moved on My one regret though is not going and living in another country as an adult ( spent first 7 years of my life in the Irish republic but don't really count that as foreign, plus I was only a youngster so didn't appreciate it other than it was my home at the time) My brother lived in Brazil for a few years, and I think it gave him a different outlook and appreciation of his own country from the experience. Still time to do some more travelling though as I'm only 48 and relatively healthy.
Sadly TSS, I have one of those brains that when something like computer speak (or other topics I don't understand) starts up, it freezes and shuts down. I wish it wasn't like that as I am very inquisitive, however that is just the way I am. I'd like to try and spend time re-training my brain to me more open to new understandings.
I am exactly like that...I know I could master it at least to an adequate level, but can no longer be arsed. This will happen to the present young generation as well...there is a point where the outcome isn't worth the effort. There will always be people to do it for you.
