What are you doing today?

[Fishmanic63 179]

Go to the smart portion of your samsung tv and do a search for app categories. You have to download any apps you want to use. Two app suggestions are Pluto and Tubi but there are hundreds of other totally free apps

 

[jaylach63 179]

Was out side with a few people today and, once again, just shook my head. What happened to 'polite' language. Keep in mind that my apartments are 55 years old minimum yet there is just a flood of profanity. Can't say when it happened but, these days, 'f-bombs' seem to now be accepted as part of everyday conversations. I'm no prude but today's 'common' language just bugs me.

 

[Lanpenn1]

In the last days, I have been watching some videos from the Dating Beyond Borders channel. Obviously, they are satirical and have humour, but I always wonder what it is like to date around the world.

Although here in Brazil, physical contact is extremely common, I am not so enthusiastic about that. Even if a beautiful, strange girl hugs and kisses me in greetings, I find it weird. I do not know if this is from my German ancestry or anything else (my grandfather was also not enthusiastic about physical contact), but, indeed, I am rather conservative in this matter. Even when I am in love and interested in a woman, I am not a touch-enthusiastic person. When I had a first date with a woman several years ago, the maximum thing I did was to kiss her hand when we were saying goodbye (after all, she liked and found me "amorous"). Since I am in love with her, I greeted her with a warm hug. A few years later, when I was simply going to meet a woman who started chatting with me on Instagram, she would hug me in the "Brazilian way", however, I just shook her hands, thing that she accepted to do. A few days ago, I also decided to explore and do research about how dating used to be in Brazil during the 1910s, 1920s, my great-grandfather's time... there were beautiful letters published in magazines, such as this (in Portuguese). I have also decided to read the articles by Helen Fisher about these themes. Indeed, very interesting. Even nowadays, I love to write letters, to practice some things, such as to open the car door for the woman... and much else. I do not know if there's some Instagram page where anonymous people can send love letters and poetry to their beloved.

Okay, next week I will go to a fair in São Paulo, called "2025 Entrepreneurship Fair". I hope I can meet potential customers, who knows...

Several days ago, this creature (Rhinella marina) appeared. He (or she?) likes to enter the dogs' water bowl and, later, leave poop...

 

[GaryE24 22]

This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving, so we'll have a house full tomorrow for a feast. Temperatures have tumbled in my region, though today isn't bad. Summer is solidly in the rear view mirror. I need gloves on to finish the annual gutting of the vegetable garden.

So I'll give thanks to my family, and even to inanimate things like my fishroom. The fish set up is thoroughly winterized now, and to me it's a weekend to take stock before heading into the many months of cold. This year I should have a break with a fishing trip to West Africa mid winter, so that's exciting to ponder.

I got 8 new tetras yesterday while on a run to the larger regional centre. Imperial Lapis tetras, a fine name for the Mandarin speaking market. Google suggests two newly discovered tetras are being farm bred and sold under the same trade name, and these little ones will need some time before I can be sure of what I have. They look to be about 10 weeks old. I thought they'd be Hyphessobrycon melanostichos, but there is a better than even chance they're going to be Hyphessobryon cyanotaenia. They're in QT and have some serious growing to do.

 

[Back in the fold17 2]

Was out side with a few people today and, once again, just shook my head. What happened to 'polite' language. Keep in mind that my apartments are 55 years old minimum yet there is just a flood of profanity. Can't say when it happened but, these days, 'f-bombs' seem to now be accepted as part of everyday conversations. I'm no prude but today's 'common' language just bugs me.

I know what you’re talking about . It’s to the point I don’t even like being around people . Another thing that bugs me is some bumper stickers . Some are sexually explicit and others are filthy . Used to be the cops would pull you over and explain it to you . Society is in the dumps .

 

[GaryE24 22]

We've kind of lost the thread on register. There are places I'll swear like an old school sailor, and places I won't. I have no problem with the overuse of swearing, though we'll have to invent new shock words if we wear the old ones out. They kind of lack punch now.

We just use them in the wrong places and wrong times, and it wears them out.

If I'm writing fiction and I invent a character who is going to swear, then to be true to him/her, there will be foul cursing. That's fair. If I could time travel and sit with my great grandmother, uh no. I'd have the sense to bite my tongue. It's that element of sense people are leaving out. My male teachers were almost all World War 2 vets, and I'll wager they didn't talk like angels when they were into the beer. But they would never have let loose in front of the kids.

In the last few years I taught Grade 9, the kids were very upset I wouldn't swear in class. I never did. But with my old friends back where I grew up, yeah, I spoke in a different register. You look at who you're with. If this list were entirely US, I'd spell words wrong as a point of honour, I mean honor. You respect your audience.

 

[gwand62 179]

The overuse of any word diminishes its power.
I saw a bumper sticker today that I liked.
MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU.
I am a bit of a tree hugger.

 

[Back in the fold17 2]

I am a bit of a tree hugger.

I’m more than a bit of a tree hugger . I’m an old school , dyed in the wool , monkey wrenching Earth First type . That and a peacenik , commie, pinko , liberal , socialist , ban the bomb hippy . We all were back in the seventies it’s just that I stayed true to myself . Many of my generation sold out to The Man and that’s a crying shame .

 

[Back in the fold17 2]

@GaryE I am of the opinion that an intelligent person need not cuss at all . I do , on occasion , drop a mild expletive but I have cleaned up my language considerably . My favorite episode of Star Trek is “ The Squire of Gothos “ . General Trelane is my model of perfect speech .

 

[Lanpenn1]

I know what you’re talking about . It’s to the point I don’t even like being around people . Another thing that bugs me is some bumper stickers . Some are sexually explicit and others are filthy . Used to be the cops would pull you over and explain it to you . Society is in the dumps .

The Portuguese language is complex, and when I read, for example, love letters from several decades ago, the language is more refined, even while being offensive. I personally do not use many dirty words, only when I have more intimacy with the person and at some situations (please, do not use this when trying to know your beloved). I am reading a book from the 19th century in Portuguese, and this is so difficult to understand, I always have to use the dictionary.

I personally do not like using so many dirty words. However, as GaryE said, the word "sense" is so important in everything in our lives.

 

[GaryE24 22]

No one needs to cuss. It's one of life's little pleasures I enjoy. And a well placed Anglo Saxon word can become an excellent intensifying adverb or adjective!
When I drive, I use French, Spanish and Italian more than English, if people do stupid things around me.
We all speak languages within languages. I can use mid Atlantic language teacher English, Verdun, Quebec street language with Franglais thrown in, high register formal English, low register informal - and can understand a lot of Brit slang. You only really realize it when you have to step back and think about what you're doing.
I love language and love playing with words of all sorts. None of them are dirty. None of them are clean. Many of them would get my great grandmother to whack me up the side of the head if I'd used them around her.

 

[jaylach63 179]

I have always thought that the extreme use of profanity is simple. To me one that uses such has no real confidence in what they are saying so they use profanity to bring attention to their unfounded argument. It simply gets then attention.

 

[GaryE24 22]

I once heard a guy say "f the effing f". It was grammatically correct and pretty funny. But the swear in every sentence people get tiring by Grade 8. People have to be more creative. Absolute stream of swear words conversation is only acceptable when discussing glo-fish.

Some of the smartest people I've met swore like drunken sailors, and some of the dumbest didn't - and vice versa. It depends on your culture and your audience. Sometimes I hear people dropping f-bombs everywhere, and figure they should be able to do better than that. But I've heard some prude types who could have made use of an adjective with punch rather than waltzing around what they had to say.

We do fine here without cutting loose. I'm more concerned about those ... individuals who can't be bothered to think through their use of languages they have mastery of and be clear. Some people are like carpenters who use the hammer handle to drive nails. They don't think about how to use wonderful tool that's language. Words are just tools.

If someone tried to set me up on a date with @Lanpenn's Rhinella marina toad, you'd hear some taboo words.

 

[MattW63 179]

I have been mixing & sorting out my new substrate today. Trying aquatic compost for the first time in the new scape. I also have bags and bags of pebbles, gravel and cobbles taking up loads of room

 

[GaryE24 22]

Aquatic compost? I guess I have something unexpected to learn today. That's new to me.

I have semi-accidentally bred a barb. I prepared my Angola Barbs (Enteromius fasciolatus) for breeding, put them in a breeding set up and thought I'd failed. I vaccuumed out the the tank, did a 90% not dechlorinated water change and started thinking about how I'd do it differently. 2 weeks later, I spotted movement when I went to reset the tank for some tetras. So I started feeding. I now have somewhere between 6 and 10 young African barbs in there. I wonder how many I would have had with more patience and better powers of observation?

I accidentally saved them by throwing in a clump of java moss, and they found food enough that they look extremely healthy. With artemia going in now, they've doubled in size over a week.

So now I can brag about my skills. It's 2025 and we're supposed to do that now.