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Marilyn Tassy wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

You need to be strong enough so that at least you can make it 1/2 way across. Then if you can't make the rest, you can turn back.

That's a good point, although if I didn't make it back, I'd be doing something i loved.

Drowning?

klsallee wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

If you were Belgian you would only have to grow a funny mustache.

And an outrageous accent.

To everyone else, the English already have that. 

You say potato and I say /pɘʔeɪ̯ʔɘ/...

SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

If you were Belgian you would only have to grow a funny mustache.

And an outrageous accent.

Dare I saw it but a bit of a "camp" accent and flamboyant behaviour too. 

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.  Not that there was anything wrong with that but since Dr Watson was supposedly married, it might have been a bit some level of tension with the threesome around the fire in the evening. Unless Mrs Watson was in on it.   I can imagine, Watson looking on, while Sherlock, stoned out of his head,  twanged his bow. 

Personally I really liked the Miss Marple movies of the 1950s.  Classics.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.

I think he was just celibate.

Not everyone has sexual interests. As with all things. nothing is binary. There is rather a complete continuum. From zero to 100%. That is, some people simply have zero sex drive or interest.

But of course, in the end, we are discussing a fictional, literary character. So assigning any real "sexual proclivities" is really silly. Else we could start pontificating about Poirot and Captain Hastings, Nero Wolfe and Archie, etc.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.  Not that there was anything wrong with that.

Short of sodomy, any form of "gross indecency" would have been an offence under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.

I think he was just celibate.

Not everyone has sexual interests. As with all things. nothing is binary. There is rather a complete continuum. From zero to 100%. That is, some people simply have zero sex drive or interest.

But of course, in the end, we are discussing a fictional, literary character. So assigning any real "sexual proclivities" is really silly. Else we could start pontificating about Poirot and Captain Hastings, Nero Wolfe and Archie, et etc.

Oh sure, sexuality is on a continuum.  Medics etc seem to have realised that now but I think this has been covered better in literature as fantasy etc.

Sherlock could be asexual but people need the company of others, even affection even if it's not physical. That's one of the reasons Dr Watson was there - his companion but perhaps not more. Both were there to help each other with psychiatric issues.   Hard to say really although I think there was a hint in the excellent TV show Sherlock had a relationship in the past.

But on the wider question, what's wrong with pontificating even theoretically?  I thought we were here to just BS about everything and anything.

And besides, I don't think Archie was gay.  I assume Archie from the Archie Comics.  My knowledge is weak, culled only from the TV series Riverdale much beloved by TF (Teenage Fluffyette).   His GF is Veronica, daughter of the local gangsters.   

Dunno about Hastings or Wolfe.  I have certain views on Shaggy and Scooby if it helps (not).

I'm watching a couple of TV shows at the moment where robots suddenly gain consciousness and awareness.  One is Westworld and the other is Humans.  As far as I can see, all the conscious robots are very straight which is kind of interesting.  But that leads me to tying myself up in knots - are they just emulations of humans or are they a separate species (albeit artificial and mechanical)?

Hmmmmm......

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.  Not that there was anything wrong with that.

Short of sodomy, any form of "gross indecency" would have been an offence under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

Doesn't mean to say it didn't go on.   Look at Oscar Wilde and Bosie. 

I would have thought any allusion to Sherlock being gay would have been well hidden although I believe the premise by Conan Doyle was that Sherlock wanted to keep a clear head unbefuddled by romance. 

Attitudes of befuddlement have changed now.

fluffy2560 wrote:

But on the wider question, what's wrong with pontificating even theoretically?  I thought we were here to just BS about everything and anything.

Nothing. Nothing wrong with that at all. And so I am just pontificating, IMHO, you are dead wrong.

fluffy2560 wrote:

And besides, I don't think Archie was gay.  I assume Archie from the Archie Comics.

Wrong Archie. The Archie Goodwin who was Nero Wolfe's live in assistant who did all the leg work for him, since Nero Wolfe almost never left his house (or his famous chair) due to his ponderous weight and size.

Side note: A good set of shows about Nero Wolfe mysteries available at youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UvZDRX … DHlG-iSy-Q

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I am sure  there are quite a few hints Sherlock was gay.  Not that there was anything wrong with that.

Short of sodomy, any form of "gross indecency" would have been an offence under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

Doesn't mean to say it didn't go on.   Look at Oscar Wilde and Bosie. 

I would have thought any allusion to Sherlock being gay would have been well hidden although I believe the premise by Conan Doyle was that Sherlock wanted to keep a clear head unbefuddled by romance. 

Attitudes of befuddlement have changed now.

I seem to remember that old Oscar was put away for it and made a shilling or two bashing out some doggerel on the subject, but that was before the days of homosexuality in gaols being compulsory.

(DIVERSION STARTS)
With all this sexual equality malarkey, why don't we have mixed prisons or (for that matter, more practically) mixed toilets (at work, in public places, etc). We as a society have a very double attitude to these things, and we have the same with racial equality or the disabled etc. On the one hand I am supposed to ignore that an applicant for a job is a deaf-blind immigrant lesbian in a wheelchair, but on the other hand I have to make provision for her. That's an artificial example of course, but I mean that all of us are required to be in this situation of doublethink where we both know and don't know that someone is different from ourselves.

Of course we should not discriminate on things that are irrelevant, but truly not to discriminate surely would mean not to even notice, and you can't not notice that some people are female or blind any more than you can't think of an elephant.  And we are expected, as decent people, to help blind people on buses and trams, that sort of thing, and so we tread a fine line between being helpful and being patronising. I find that befuddling.
(DIVERSION ENDS)

And have you seen the price of penny dreadfuls these days?

SimonTrew wrote:

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I seem to remember that old Oscar was put away for it and made a shilling or two bashing out some doggerel on the subject, but that was before the days of homosexuality in gaols being compulsory.

As for befuddlement, have you seen the price of penny dreadfuls these days?

I dunno, I think he was fairly broken by the experience.

How much are penny dreadfuls nowadays?

BTW, I've heard Poundland sells stuff for than a pound now.

klsallee wrote:

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Wrong Archie. The Archie Goodwin who was Nero Wolfe's live in assistant who did all the leg work for him, since Nero Wolfe almost never left his house (or his famous chair) due to his ponderous weight and size......

Hmmmm....must be a Balaton thing to think of that Archie.  Too many dark nights, not enough Internet and lack of Archie comics.

Being stuck in a chair never stopped Ironside getting around - even if assisted by attractive sidekicks.

fluffy2560 wrote:

what's wrong with pontificating even theoretically?

What would pontificating practically look like? (Or is that a meta-pontification?)

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

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I seem to remember that old Oscar was put away for it and made a shilling or two bashing out some doggerel on the subject, but that was before the days of homosexuality in gaols being compulsory.

As for befuddlement, have you seen the price of penny dreadfuls these days?

I dunno, I think he was fairly broken by the experience..

Could have been worse. Could have been put away for being Irish.

fluffy2560 wrote:

[BTW, I've heard Poundland sells stuff for than a pound now.

I'm waiting until they sell Poundworld for a pound.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

what's wrong with pontificating even theoretically?

What would pontificating practically look like? (Or is that a meta-pontification?)

Maybe the context is wrong for practical pontificating.

Hypothetical, conjectured or surmised discussion might work better?

I am sure all Popes gets a book on the first day on the job - Easy Pontificating for Popes - Book 1.

Practical Pontificating is Book 2 and that's when you get to wave from the window and talk unintelligibly in foreign languages.  Book 666 covers forked tongues.

fluffy2560 wrote:

And besides, I don't think Archie was gay.  I assume Archie from the Archie Comics.

klsallee wrote:

Wrong Archie.

I was assuming Archie Andrews. Well, he always had another man's member up his bum.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

And besides, I don't think Archie was gay.  I assume Archie from the Archie Comics.

klsallee wrote:

Wrong Archie.

I was assuming Archie Andrews. Well, he always had another man's member up his bum.

Whoa.....how many Archie Andrews are there?  Seems like there's a surfeit.

The Riverdale one - from the comics - was also called Archie Andrews.

In the TV show, he's self-propelled.

SimonTrew wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

We figured if I take the averages of my swimming laps inside a 55 meter swimming pool, without waves or currents in the water, I might on a good day make it 1/3 of the way across the lake.

You need to be strong enough so that at least you can make it 1/2 way across. Then if you can't make the rest, you can turn back.

Took me a min or two to realize I was just told to ,"go jump in a lake"!
All good, i'd always be the first to get into the deep water.
Dad used to always go tell us kids to play on the "freeway" guess these days it would be a paid highway.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Aw, we've ordered deerstalker hats, pipes,  magnifying glasses, bought some hounds and started violin lessons.

That is where being English can cause excessive expenses.

If you were Belgian you would only have to grow a funny mustache.  Well, of course, that is only you would. Not your wife or children....

rr
Speaking of mustaches,
My step-dad was in his 30's when he decided to experiment with different styles of facial hair growth.
This was in the 1970's.
He was half Irish and half Czech.
This was before he had about a half inch of nose removed after crashing his Harley, he had a look not too different then a certain unpopular German dictator from the 1940's, just had "the look" about his face, darkish hair, really pale with that large straight nose.
He tried  out the old Elvis lamb chops sideburns, the French Goatee , various looks.
One day he came out of the bath wearing a tiny little square moustache like you know who was famous for.
My mom had a fit but he refused to shave it off. He wore it for about a week or so before even he realized it wasn't the most popular of styles, looking so much like a certain person was bad enough to begin with.
After that he stayed clean shaven forever.

When my son was 16 is he got a couple of tiny little "sprouts" on his chin.
He was so proud of them that he would take them off although they were red and scraggly.
My sister used to freak out badly that he would cut them off, they really looked bad, all 6 of them.
To this day he has a very sparse amount of facial hair, he is a red head and the hair is so light it hard to notice even if it was thicker.
What's funny to us he he spends a ton on the best newest razors out there, they ones that are locked up behind the counter like gold . He is one person who could actually get away with a one dollar a package set of blades. It's funny as heck to have him ask me to pick up his blades when I am visiting him, he gives me his credit card because he doesn't carry that much cash around for blades. Uses them a couple of times and out in the trash they go. Such a waste.
Knew a man at a LA gym who used to brag about never washing his gym socks, When we said Yuck, he mentioned he just threw them out after one use.
Some people.
Personally I don't get the "hipster" look with the beard. Find it a bit "dirty looking" but to each his own, just not happening in our house, thankfully.

SimonTrew wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

You need to be strong enough so that at least you can make it 1/2 way across. Then if you can't make the rest, you can turn back.

That's a good point, although if I didn't make it back, I'd be doing something i loved.

Drowning?

Can think of worst ways to go... drowning in debt for one.

fluffy2560 wrote:

klsallee wrote:

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Wrong Archie. The Archie Goodwin who was Nero Wolfe's live in assistant who did all the leg work for him, since Nero Wolfe almost never left his house (or his famous chair) due to his ponderous weight and size......

Hmmmm....must be a Balaton thing to think of that Archie.  Too many dark nights

Love the dark nights here. Perfect for a crime/mystery junkie with a good "who-done-it" book (these days mostly e-book).

By the way, I have the complete, real paper, two volume set of all Sherlock Holmes stories.

fluffy2560 wrote:

not enough Internet

"The Internet is the opium of the people." ~ klsallee

Just going to have a rant, have people not heard of Google (or any other search engines) or is it they can't use them?

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

Drowning?

Can think of worst ways to go...

I almost drowned. It was not pleasant.

There are only a few worse "natural" ways to go that I can think of (i.e. being eaten alive)

But there quite a few much worse ways to go, all from the hands of others: drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, flaying, etc..

SimCityAT wrote:

Just going to have a rant, have people not heard of Google (or any other search engines) or is it they can't use them?

With the advent of Web 2.0, many people see only the "hive mind" as a source of "information". The idea of doing a self, personal, research is not in their personal radar. So if they have a kitchen fire, they will take a photos of it, post it on Facebook, and ask what they should do.

Thus, it is about social conditioning. If they know about things like Google or not is thus irrelevant. It is not how they are conditioned to interact with the Internet/Interwebs.

But if you want to make a suggestion to turn on the the self research part of their brain, then just send them to http://www.lmgtfy.com.

klsallee wrote:

But if you want to make a suggestion to turn on the the self research part of their brain, then just send them to http://www.lmgtfy.com.

Yeah, I do know that site, I think I am going to have to use it more often.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

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This was before he had about a half inch of nose removed after crashing his Harley, he had a look not too different then a certain unpopular German dictator from the 1940's, just had "the look" about his face, darkish hair, really pale with that large straight nose.
He tried  out the old Elvis lamb chops sideburns, the French Goatee , various looks.
One day he came out of the bath wearing a tiny little square moustache like you know who was famous for.
My mom had a fit but he refused to shave it off. He wore it for about a week or so before even he realized it wasn't the most popular of styles, looking so much like a certain person was bad enough to begin with.
After that he stayed clean shaven forever.
..... It's funny as heck to have him ask me to pick up his blades when I am visiting him, he gives me his credit card because he doesn't carry that much cash around for blades. Uses them a couple of times and out in the trash they go. Such a waste.
Knew a man at a LA gym who used to brag about never washing his gym socks, When we said Yuck, he mentioned he just threw them out after one use.

That moustache is called a toothbrush I believe.  While Adolf is a serious subject, I was wondering about how he'd looked with sideburns or some other retro style.  Would he be the subject (deservedly) of such hatred and ridicule?   

Dumping the blades is sensible. Imagine the dried skin, bits of blood festering on the thing after a couple of days.   

And as for the gym socks, mein Gott, what the hell was the guy thinking?   Those socks would be able to stand up on their own like a pair of boots.

But people are weird.

I went for dinner once many years ago and the hosts put their finished plates on the floor for their dog to lick.  We weren't too happy to know after the fact that Fido had had his slobbering chops all over the utensils.  Then the hosts picked them up and washed the dishes in the sink using a rather old looking foam cleaning pad.  This was before dishwashers with high temperatures were the norm but even so,  jeez.   And here's one of the oddest things about that experience - the guy was an IT worker and the woman was a GP.  Yup, a medical doctor.  She must have missed Uni that day when they did communicable diseases.

Maybe some people here think that's normal but dogs are dogs, they ain't people and they go around sniffing dog poo, other dogs bums and eating crap off the streets.  Kids get blinded from dog crap in playgrounds and from dogs licking faces.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

not enough Internet

"The Internet is the opium of the people." ~ klsallee

Maybe people are the opium of the Internet.

Well, when it becomes Skynet perhaps.

Hasta la vista.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Kids get blinded from dog crap in playgrounds and from dogs licking faces.

Much like the cat lady who thought it was a badge of honor that both she and her cat both had the same round red ring on their skin.

Yep. Ringworm.

fluffy2560 wrote:

But people are weird.

I don't mind weird. Weird can be fun. I am weird.

But some people are really, really stupid. Stupid is dangerous. Stupid is the problem.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

That's a good point, although if I didn't make it back, I'd be doing something i loved.

Drowning?

Can think of worst ways to go... drowning in debt for one.

I fell into a river rather too close to my house once and couldn't get out, it is a fairly fast flowing river. I rather stupidly was chasing after my hat that the wind had caught, and slipped on the bank and went under. I pretty nearly drowned and it was quite nice actually. One of the good things of when I was at school is everyone learned to swim, what with all this water around us in the British Isles it does come in handy sometimes, I don't suppose it is much of a practical skill if you live in Nevada unless you want to dam the Colorado River or something. (I rather forget that the missus can't swim. I just expect that everyone can swim. I mean I am not going to win the Olympics at it but just to keep meself alive)

It is a peculiar sensation when you are nearly drowning. I nearly gave up treading water etc, I could not get out very steep river banks. Someone eventually chucked me a lifesaver which was a bit sweet for my tooth but seemed to do the job. I dragged meself home with a trail of water behind me and was a bit chilly so ran a bath or in american, er, bath and was sitting in it when the ambulance arrived, took me temperature it was 32 celsius when it should be 37 I know that in fahrenheit it should be 98 but it was pretty bloody chilly apparently. The medicine man said I have nev er known someone that temperature and not be in hypothermic shock.

It appears that I am indestructible. I walk under ladders with an easy conscience. Magpies in threes no longer make me unlucky. I can stop buses with a single outstretched hand (at request stops). Truth, Justice, and a side order of Vimto... for I am... PRETTYGOODMAN. (Not super,, just pretty good). I can leap tall buildings in two or three bounds. I can unpuzzle puzzles. I know who put the wham in the wham-a-lam-a-ding-dong.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Kids get blinded from dog crap in playgrounds and from dogs licking faces.

Much like the cat lady who thought it was a badge of honor that both she and her cat both had the same round red ring on their skin.

Yep. Ringworm.

fluffy2560 wrote:

But people are weird.

I don't mind weird. Weird can be fun. I am weird.

But some people are really, really stupid. Stupid is dangerous. Stupid is the problem.

I shall have to start editing that Wiki now, without even looking at it I can probably add some of my own stupidity to it.

Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Kids get blinded from dog crap in playgrounds and from dogs licking faces.

Much like the cat lady who thought it was a badge of honor that both she and her cat both had the same round red ring on their skin.

Yep. Ringworm.

fluffy2560 wrote:

But people are weird.

I don't mind weird. Weird can be fun. I am weird.

But some people are really, really stupid. Stupid is dangerous. Stupid is the problem.

I shall have to start editing that Wiki now, without even looking at it I can probably add some of my own stupidity to it.

Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

I also like The Peter Principle which must have some connection to Basic Laws of Stupidity - i.e. incompetent could also mean stupidity.

Oh, btw, what's weird?   My uncle was an electrician in the UK and had a pet duck he kept in the garden.  He built it a little house with a pond. Then he got divorced and moved to Australia where he lived in a trailer by the beach for about 25 years with a woman he met there. I always thought he was a fun kind of guy but was that weird or just eccentric or just interesting or quackers*?

*yes, it's a pun about the duck

fluffy2560 wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

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This was before he had about a half inch of nose removed after crashing his Harley, he had a look not too different then a certain unpopular German dictator from the 1940's, just had "the look" about his face, darkish hair, really pale with that large straight nose.
He tried  out the old Elvis lamb chops sideburns, the French Goatee , various looks.
One day he came out of the bath wearing a tiny little square moustache like you know who was famous for.
My mom had a fit but he refused to shave it off. He wore it for about a week or so before even he realized it wasn't the most popular of styles, looking so much like a certain person was bad enough to begin with.
After that he stayed clean shaven forever.
..... It's funny as heck to have him ask me to pick up his blades when I am visiting him, he gives me his credit card because he doesn't carry that much cash around for blades. Uses them a couple of times and out in the trash they go. Such a waste.
Knew a man at a LA gym who used to brag about never washing his gym socks, When we said Yuck, he mentioned he just threw them out after one use.

That moustache is called a toothbrush I believe.  While Adolf is a serious subject, I was wondering about how he'd looked with sideburns or some other retro style.  Would he be the subject (deservedly) of such hatred and ridicule?   

Dumping the blades is sensible. Imagine the dried skin, bits of blood festering on the thing after a couple of days.   

And as for the gym socks, mein Gott, what the hell was the guy thinking?   Those socks would be able to stand up on their own like a pair of boots.

But people are weird.

I went for dinner once many years ago and the hosts put their finished plates on the floor for their dog to lick.  We weren't too happy to know after the fact that Fido had had his slobbering chops all over the utensils.  Then the hosts picked them up and washed the dishes in the sink using a rather old looking foam cleaning pad.  This was before dishwashers with high temperatures were the norm but even so,  jeez.   And here's one of the oddest things about that experience - the guy was an IT worker and the woman was a GP.  Yup, a medical doctor.  She must have missed Uni that day when they did communicable diseases.

Maybe some people here think that's normal but dogs are dogs, they ain't people and they go around sniffing dog poo, other dogs bums and eating crap off the streets.  Kids get blinded from dog crap in playgrounds and from dogs licking faces.

Sorry about your near drowning. ( heard the lungs hurt badly)
Of course I have no plans on going out that way, would make a messy sort of funeral if one got bloated and had to have a closed coffin...
My sis and her ex had a good friend who drown in a boating accident, closed coffin, took a few days to find his remains....
My sister's ex, my beloved nieces dad's second wife fell off a boat and drowned, like Natalie Wood,
if we can believe that story( I have me doubts the truth was told).

Just yuck on the eating after the dog licking the plates!!! My sister's ex was a chemist and one of his many quirks was to carry his own silver wear to restaurants.
If they allowed that in front of company, makes you wonder what went on behind closed doors...

My mom was very careful to not spread germs in the family.
6 kids getting sick at one time was a nightmare.
If company ever ate over she would quietly put their plates away to clean until later on by themselves, boiling water and all.
She bleached the heck out of all our sheets we only had white sheets at the time.
Our bathrooms smelled of strong cleaning products everyday. It was a total tear down of the bathroom every day.
floors washed with lysol daily at least the kitchen and bathrooms.
Felt more like a hospital then a house sometimes.
She grew up before penicillin was discovered. Saw people pass from what now would be considered minor things because of lack of penicillin.

My husbands grandfather had 9 kids.
He caught TB and moved himself outdoors into a extra room to not expose his children to it.
sad. He was the trainer and buyer for the Budapest police dept. He bought and trained all the horses used for Budapest.
He was in his early 40's when he got TB and died.
Really horrible to be left alone with 9 kids and  no husband, poor granny.
They got a small amount of money from his pension but not enough for such a large family to live on.
had to move out of the big house the gov. had given them to live in when he was working.
Penicillin would of saved the day.
I freak out about dog and human waste on the sts. People just don't get how dirty it is. New strains of viruses are out all the time and keeping up with killing them is close to impossible.
Taking drugs might cure you but in the long run they also mess up your system, best to not get sick in the first place.

SimonTrew wrote:

Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

We all have the potential to be stupid. But simply making a mistake is not the same as being truly stupid. Stupid at that level rather might be defined in this case when one does not learn from the mistake.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I always thought he was a fun kind of guy but was that weird or just eccentric or just interesting or quackers?

Yes. All of them.

klsallee wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

We all have the potential to be stupid. But simply making a mistake is not the same as being truly stupid. Stupid at that level rather might be defined in this case when one does not learn from the mistake.

My sister marrying her Ex, that was a mistake, but she is far from stupid.

SimCityAT wrote:

My sister marrying her Ex, that was a mistake, but she is far from stupid.

A potential example of the Fourth Law.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I always thought he was a fun kind of guy but was that weird or just eccentric or just interesting or quackers?

Yes. All of them.

Hmmm.....I think that's a cop out.    Let's play Weird, Eccentric, Interesting or Quackers - WEIQ?!

There's a couple of brothers in this village who are unkempt and overweight, with beards and scraggy hair and absolutely filthy hair and clothes.   They are mentally ill but seem to live together somewhere but no idea where.  Apparently their mother died and they wait - it seems - on a corner for her to reappear.  That must have been some years ago when she passed.  But they still do that loitering regularly. And they look forlornly but hopefully at any people passing.  Sad really.

W, E, I or Q?

fluffy2560 wrote:

I think that's a cop out.    Let's play Weird, Eccentric, Interesting or Quackers - WEIQ?!

One can give biased examples to fit one's own WEIQ definition or not. So not sure worth playing. Simply define it for yourself what is WEIQ or not.

More simple*: What is "normal"?

* Actually, it isn't. However you define it, may not agree with other's definition.

fluffy2560 wrote:

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I always thought he was a fun kind of guy but was that weird or just eccentric or just interesting or quackers?

Yes. All of them.

Hmmm.....I think that's a cop out.    Let's play Weird, Eccentric, Interesting or Quackers - WEIQ?!

There's a couple of brothers in this village who are unkempt and overweight, with beards and scraggy hair and absolutely filthy hair and clothes.   They are mentally ill but seem to live together somewhere but no idea where.  Apparently their mother died and they wait - it seems - on orner for her to reappear.  That must have been some years ago when she passed.  But they still do that loitering regularly. And they look forlornly but hopefully at any people passing.  Sad really.

W, E, I or Q?

Waiting for a vision or ghost... Now that is down right scary.
2 village idiots in one family.
Hmm, hope not to read years from now that they found something unsavory buried under their house.
Interesting enough I've watched a few video's of Hungarian serial killers from the past.
Bela Kiss was one of them, a real."Romeo" killer of ladies.
There is a site on U tube called," ObsoleteOddity" which has allot of interesting historical tales of crime and odd stories of weird tales. Most are narrated and really done nicely.
They had one about a Hungarian female who was a murderess who dressed like a man at the turn of the century, everyone thought it was a male killer, she killed men who abused women.
true crimes and very odd stuff.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I think that's a cop out.    Let's play Weird, Eccentric, Interesting or Quackers - WEIQ?!

One can give biased examples to fit one's own WEIQ definition or not. So not sure worth playing. Simply define it for yourself what is WEIQ or not.

More simple*: What is "normal"?

* Actually, it isn't. However you define it, may not agree with other's definition.

I like this reply and you've sussed that out.  Yes, all very subjective. I was making up my own rules and then shoehorning others into the game.   It's what The Donald does everyday. But I wasn't thinking of it as an experiment.  I really wanted to know what made you think you were weird as you said in the past posts?  Weird is relative.

I guess eccentric is harmless, weird is possibly dangerous, interesting is interesting and quackers is daft.  I was discussing the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's paintings with Mrs Fluffy (there's an article on the BBC web site) and I said she's interesting and eccentric but Mrs Fluffy thinks she's weird.

Anyway, more importantly, why is anyone on this forum on this sunny day.  It's a day for being outside...surely?