Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Iv'e been thinking to start a thread on this topic soon. American Culture: Where Is It Heading?

More like, American Culture: Where Did It Go?

Our culture has been replaced by a self replicating corporate virus.

Is this what you were thinking of, Modwiz?

[ulli]

I haven't been to N.Y.City since 1992, and had no desire to go back there, until I saw this photo:
Something special about that place...that incredible mix of all cultures, is what makes it special.

[Dennis Leahy]

I just found out that is is impossible to yell "I love you!" in German.

Dennis

[ulli]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
I just found out that is is impossible to yell "I love you!" in German.

Dennis

Why on earth would you want to do that?
Wanna know something strange?
Even though I was born and raised in Germany, where I had the usual high school crush
(which only lasted two months, before he dumped me, since I lived too far away),
I have never said 'I love you' in German, nor yelled it, nor even whispered it. Not even to my parents.
Ever.
After that crush at age 14 (he was 17) I never had a German boyfriend, husband, nor lover.
German men always scared me.

My 18 years in Germany were the hardest years of my life,
and I never looked back until now. I'm finally getting help with that, and from a Costa Rican psycho therapist.
Verry interresting what I'm discovering.

That first puppy love broke my heart, big time.
I googled him once and saw that he was the organizer
of the Berlin Jazz Festival. I did love that guy. Funny how destiny works.

[Dennis Leahy]

Ich liebe dich, Ulli.

[ulli]

Costa Rica never gets wintery.

Unless one drives up to the top of Irazu, our highest volcano.

This picture is from elsewhere.



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I love you too, Dennis.
(So what was that for??)

[Dennis Leahy]

So, I was downstairs with the door shut and a loud fan in the room (a humidifier - the relative humidity went down to 29%), and my daughter was upstairs yelling something to me. I knew what she was probably yelling ("the soup is ready!") but I actually only heard unintelligible garbled sounds of her shouting something. So, I decided to yell something back to her, out of context. Ich liebe dich popped into my head, and I tried to yell it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=39iHNFLrWQI

(I had a German girlfriend once.)

:~)

Dennis

[ulli]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
So, I was downstairs with the door shut and a loud fan in the room (a humidifier - the relative humidity went down to 29%), and my daughter was upstairs yelling something to me. I knew what she was probably yelling ("the soup is ready!") but I actually only heard unintelligible garbled sounds of her shouting something. So, I decided to yell something back to her, out of context. Ich liebe dich popped into my head, and I tried to yell it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=39iHNFLrWQI

(I had a German girlfriend once.)

:~)

Dennis

I tried to turn on that video, and only had to hear the first five seconds...
and I was outa there.

Jeez, Dennis, how can you stand it?
(That music, I mean)

[WhiteFeather]

Evening Villagers. Good comeback Modwiz. I agree where did American Culture go. So true and yet sad.
With all those Angel photos. I thought to elaborate with this sound of angel. Give it a few minutes. Light a candle, burn some good incense and enjoy. Im sure you will find it Angelic and Blissful.

We are all from 1 tribe.............

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K93aPRE5-jo

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by ulli (here)
...I love you too, Dennis.
(So what was that for??)

...because you said:

I have never said 'I love you' in German, nor yelled it, nor even whispered it. Not even to my parents.
Ever.

I tried to get you to say it!

...and because, until I just pulled up that YouTube video to try to show others how hard it would be to yell, I had no idea that phrase is reserved for deep romantic love - which of course means I misused the phrase to you, and have no idea how to say "love ya, sister!" in a more casual way in German. My girlfriend only taught me that one way to say it, and (secrets revealed in public), it did sorta melt her heart to hear both that and her name properly pronounced in German (rather than the Anglicized version.)

Dennis

[Flash]

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Evening Villagers. Good comeback Modwiz. I agree where did American Culture go. So true and yet sad.
With all those Angel photos. I thought to elaborate with this sound of angel. Give it a few minutes. Light a candle, burn some good incense and enjoy. Im sure you will find it Angelic and Blissful.

We are all from 1 tribe.............

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K93aPRE5-jo

modwiz and Whitefeather, you make it absolutely irresistible, I cannot resist being obnoxious, all in playfullness of course, showing most probably my ignorance, what is said abroad:`

Where did the American what go???

In most countries, the American culture start with American porn movies, it is the first thing they saw that was American. The Russians are keeping up with it right now. For the rest, we think up north that American should at least know there is something up their northern border that is not only a lost detached piece of land name Alaska.

(on a personal basis, yes I am aware of great writers, discoverers, scientists, etc. who make the American culture)

the funny extremes below (yes i am aware there is those extremes in every countries, but please, one should know where they are going before making war to the place):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

[Richie Montgomery]

Yes I draw it all in pen and ink, thank you very much!

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Posted by AwakeInADream (here)
Ah! Dennis You've made me realize what Richie's Artwork reminds me of.
M.C.Esher (sounds like a rapper lol):


Richie's work:


I really like your style Richie! Is it pen and ink or print work?

Yes I draw all my art in pen and thank you very much!

[Marianne]

Good night, beautiful village. Here's a lullaby if anyone needs soothing to sleep.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ya4OZ7_vz_c

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us
At rest in the hollows that rustle between.

Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow;
Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,
Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Ich liebe euch. Sie gefallen mir.

Sports were discussed recently in the thread. Above any sport, I really dig soccer, or football/futbol/Fußball, I grew up playing it and learned discipline and tenacity from it. As far as competition goes, soccer lends itself to beauty. Maybe because it's played with a sphere against the feet and head. Anyway, growing up in Mississippi, I've never had a chance to play hockey, but always loved watching it. I saw my first NHL game in Nashville. I was drinking in a bar, alone, in Nashville, and a stranger, after we became acquainted due to the proximity of our barstools and choice in adult beverages, offered me an extra ticket to sit with him at that night's hockey game. I agreed, much obliged, and had a great night.

Anyway long story short, I've been listening to my favorite musician tonight Warren Zevon. He happened to write the best hockey song ever. Dennis, I know you live in the cold part of the country, but I don't know if you like hockey, but I can tell you appreciate good music. Have you ever heard this song, or Zevon for that matter?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufEtQcisrgg

[Dennis Leahy]

Thanks, Playdo.

I don't remember if Warren knew he had cancer at the time of that appearance. He died the next year.

Great songwriter.

"Enjoy every sandwich."

Dennis

g'nite, village

[eaglespirit]

Man, talk about ebb and flow in the extreme regarding weather here on the Cape.

Yesterday and today it was 55 degrees plus and next Tuesday and Wednesday nights
we're suppose to get hit with wind chills of 15 degrees below zero.

[Guest]

Good evening villagers stopping in to say hi -busy right now.

Playdo I'm invariably in hot water with one relative or another lol
If we cannot be ourselves than who would we possibly be?

1inmany
I inherited an addicted premature 4lbs baby from one of my relatives. Probably one of the
Hardest things I've ever done. The state drove me crazy too.
The baby lungs weren't developed and had all sorts of medical conditions. Just precious and so fragile.
The baby had to sleep in a car seat upright so the lungs would drain and breath. It was really scary.
For 6 mos every night I put the baby to sleep facing me next to my bed said a prayer of love, sang a song, good dreams and went to sleep. Every morning
I was so grateful to see these two beautiful little eyes were blinking, peeping out from the blanket at me. The baby is almost 5 now.

I've been having good and amazing dreams lately. We all really have some very deep allies. Humbling.


Love

Nora

[Flash]

What is the name of the baby Nora, if you do not mind to tell (or initials, so we can give the baby a name)

[Guest]

Thanks Flash,

Being protective and keeping anonymity for my little relative.
KB are the initials.

Love

Nora

[araucaria]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)

Posted by gripreaper (here)
Isn't the number of posts in this thread commiserate with the number of years in the Precession of the Equinox? Do you think that is coincidence, by free will choice, or manifest destiny and infinite design?

I thought it was 25,920 some odd years give or take,,, grip. I could be wrong.

We've had 6k posts since mid-September when I inadvertently posted #19000. At this rate, I reckon we'll be all square by Jan 17, feast of St Roseline, patron of the French 0 meridian, the Rosy Line.

Before anyone describes the above as a failed prediction, let me say that today Jan 15th was my original estimate, which I changed to a more ‘interesting’ date.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian



If you believe that, you will believe… the truth But it doesn’t matter, the point being that whoever dips, however (in)frequently, into the stream of this thread, they will feel the same steady current.



Anyway, I was wrong: today is just as interesting a day as any other innit?