Broken_Erika
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Random Thoughts XIV: Pizza, Pomegranate Juice, and Shreddies
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Oh? Both you and Kyriakos have had much more positive effects on my life over the years. Taylor Swift has had none.
Note that I'm not saying she's had a negative effect on my life. It just means that she's not on my radar as mattering.
Right now I'm spending time in the social room in the building I live in. It snowed the other day and it's finally cold enough that I'm going to have to close the window someone left open. It's chilly in here.
amadeus
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There is aluminum in alum.
So what is titanium in?
So what is titanium in?
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The way I see it, Travis Kelce is aware of the risk that if he does something stupid, it's probably going to wind up in a song. He's surely also aware that some of Taylor's exes have been written about in a positive light in songs. And I believe there are even a few who haven't had songs written about them.
And with Taylor having been in a relationship (just one!) for seven consecutive years, there's precedent that one may wind up leading to marriage. She's more aware of what she wants and doesn't want, and the hazards of being someone famous where people may be interested in dating her for herself, or they might be interested in it simply for the fame. Conversely, they might be interested in dating her but not be able to handle the effects of the fame.
Is it a fun, casual fling and a chance for both of them to do something a bit different? Or something serious? Or the former with the chance to evolve to be the latter? I don't know and I don't particularly care. But I will note that the degree of seriousness in a relationship isn't necessarily something that is known up front.
Point being, whether they intend for it to be serious (long term), or not, that's okay. And honestly, that relatively rapid pace of relationships in her 20s might not be a bad thing for current relationships. A wider perspective, and willingness to end things if they aren't going to work, can lead to better outcomes later, or at least avoiding poor choices. Is it worse to have a number of short relationships, or to marry the wrong person because you don't want to break up with them, even though you probably should? I know people who have gone the latter route. None of those marriages have lasted.
So, yes... at this point in time, I would date someone whose relationship history had similar chronological contours to Taylor's, if other aspects appeared to align. The bigger unknown in terms of qualifications might be Travis. I'd have to assume he's pretty decent at catching a football and blocking players from the opposing team, but how much of his life do we know through song lyrics?
And with Taylor having been in a relationship (just one!) for seven consecutive years, there's precedent that one may wind up leading to marriage. She's more aware of what she wants and doesn't want, and the hazards of being someone famous where people may be interested in dating her for herself, or they might be interested in it simply for the fame. Conversely, they might be interested in dating her but not be able to handle the effects of the fame.
Is it a fun, casual fling and a chance for both of them to do something a bit different? Or something serious? Or the former with the chance to evolve to be the latter? I don't know and I don't particularly care. But I will note that the degree of seriousness in a relationship isn't necessarily something that is known up front.
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Point being, whether they intend for it to be serious (long term), or not, that's okay. And honestly, that relatively rapid pace of relationships in her 20s might not be a bad thing for current relationships. A wider perspective, and willingness to end things if they aren't going to work, can lead to better outcomes later, or at least avoiding poor choices. Is it worse to have a number of short relationships, or to marry the wrong person because you don't want to break up with them, even though you probably should? I know people who have gone the latter route. None of those marriages have lasted.
So, yes... at this point in time, I would date someone whose relationship history had similar chronological contours to Taylor's, if other aspects appeared to align. The bigger unknown in terms of qualifications might be Travis. I'd have to assume he's pretty decent at catching a football and blocking players from the opposing team, but how much of his life do we know through song lyrics?
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Still thinking about this comeback. You're either a Taylor Swift fanboy or a Putin fangirl. Everything else is in a spectrum between the two
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also noticed that those who were lined up in a quarry by Israeli soldiers have been turning up "mostly" alive . This is an era of competition in madness or faking it until making it . Yeah , supports neither and both with a million or two of qualifications .
Build your own Titan-brand combat robot (you're in Japan after all) and use titanium in it and thus you solve your problem.
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Bonyduck Campersang
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Just saw a Twitter user with the flags of the UK, Russia and Israel in his username.
Someone should make some sort of a record of these flag combinations
Someone should make some sort of a record of these flag combinations
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I totally fancied and gashed over malt extract which is back at the local mall.
It has a lot of vitamin B6 and I use it instead of sugar and sweeteners. No more than one table spoon per day though. To substitute sugar I also eat fruits with fructose/fruit sugar like very ripe bananas.
I usually do just fine without sugar, but on days when I need a lot of carbs, I eat beans and dates. Sometimes I mix honey with tea to get the sweet taste.
It has a lot of vitamin B6 and I use it instead of sugar and sweeteners. No more than one table spoon per day though. To substitute sugar I also eat fruits with fructose/fruit sugar like very ripe bananas.
I usually do just fine without sugar, but on days when I need a lot of carbs, I eat beans and dates. Sometimes I mix honey with tea to get the sweet taste.
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I've been watching episodes from the first 3 seasons of the tv series Bones, which aired 2005-2007. Something that I've been observing the last few years struck me again, while watching these episodes: I don't know if it's just me, but I can't tell recent decades apart in entertainment. Up through the late 1990s, I can tell more or less when a movie or tv show was made, just by looking at it. Movies and shows made in the last ~25 years are hard to tell apart. There are times when a movie or show made in 2023 is indistinguishable from a show made in 2013 or 2003. I can't discern fashions in clothing or hair, car designs, set designs, etc. Among the cast of Bones, only David Boreanaz is someone I'm familiar with, so these actors don't 'look young' to me, because I don't know them. The only thing that dates this show for me while I'm watching it is that people are using flip-phones and occasionally someone references MySpace.
It's kind of true of music, too, come to think of it. I can generally hear the differences in music from the 1920s to the 1990s, maybe stretching into the early 2000s. But lately I'm finding "new" music that, when I look, turns out to be 8, 10 or 12 years old. If I hear a song from the '60s, '70s or '80s that I've never heard before - and I do, a lot - I can sort of tell when it's from. There are songs I've heard from the last couple decades that are throwbacks to earlier eras and genres, and some of those have effectively tricked me into thinking they were older than they are. But while I can say that a particular song from the 2010s or 2020s sounds like it's from the 1970s, I can't tell that a song sounds like it's from the 2010s or 2020s, if you follow.
It's kind of true of music, too, come to think of it. I can generally hear the differences in music from the 1920s to the 1990s, maybe stretching into the early 2000s. But lately I'm finding "new" music that, when I look, turns out to be 8, 10 or 12 years old. If I hear a song from the '60s, '70s or '80s that I've never heard before - and I do, a lot - I can sort of tell when it's from. There are songs I've heard from the last couple decades that are throwbacks to earlier eras and genres, and some of those have effectively tricked me into thinking they were older than they are. But while I can say that a particular song from the 2010s or 2020s sounds like it's from the 1970s, I can't tell that a song sounds like it's from the 2010s or 2020s, if you follow.
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Yeah, these episodes of Bones I'm watching are 17 years old, and except for a few telltale details - like MySpace - I wouldn't be able to tell that they aren't contemporaneous with shows like The Rookie, Will Trent or The Lincoln Lawyer, which are from this year. Poker Face is explicitly an homage to older shows, like the above-mentioned bands that knowingly emulate music styles from past decades. East New York really seemed to me like a deliberate homage to older American cop shows, but it was never explicit (except in one scene when one of the characters references NYPD Blue while in the presence of Jimmy Smits' character and he kind of pauses and glances at them over his shoulder, like his ears were burning - then, I knew that they knew).
I don't know if this is just me, or something about pop culture today.
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