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Ponderings for April 16th 2022

chac54 said:
So I was out driving and running some errands, and I saw this jogger on the side of the road. After doing a double take, it was the asshole from Grindr that was making fun of my body saying I shouldn't be showing it. What a small world, I hadn't thought about this for over a year as I've been off Grindr since April of last year. Kind of bummed me out bringing up all those memories of being tormented through school for my fat body. I have a reasonably thick skin, but damn it still hurts occasionally.
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You should have run him over Chac. lol. I guess not that but some people are just fucking cruel and deserve bad things to happen to them. I am sensitive as well and can still remember negative comments made to me and about me from many years ago and they still hurt when I think about them. It sucks that people can be that insensitive and cruel. Hopefully karma will fuck them over in some way at some point in their lives too.
 
chac54 said:
Whelp it's been a coons age since I posted here, and nearly 3 years since starting this thread. Today was a good day I guess, I had to go for my first full body skin check up at the dermatologist. I was already as nervous as could be and this hot 20 something gentleman walks out of the office and while he's chatting with the receptionist getting his next appointment scheduled he's absent-mindedly standing there constantly adjusting himself while in Gray sweatpants. FML 😭. Figures that my nurse practitioner is a smoking hot guy and I'm going to be naked in front of him and the nurse LOL I was thinking of horrible things to not get a boner 🤣

Hope everyone's day has been awesome!
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How long is a coons age? As in raccoon? Fascinating.

I've never been to a dermatologist at all. Is this a common thing?
 
trebligon said:
How long is a coons age? As in raccoon? Fascinating.

I've never been to a dermatologist at all. Is this a common thing?
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I go to the dermatologist yearly for a full body scan. He once found a pre-cancerous growth on my face, and on my most recent visit removed a small growth on my nose which was non-malignant. It is included with my health plan for a $20 co-payment so I feel it is a wise preventative thing to do if the cost is not prohibitive, depending on your coverage.

And I did a quick google search and this is the AI answer to your first question, Treb.

“A coon's age" is an informal American English expression that means a very long time. It's similar to saying "a long time," "forever," or "an eon," according to Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster.

The phrase likely originated from a misunderstanding about the lifespan of raccoons, which are often referred to as "coons".While raccoons in the wild typically only live for a few years, the expression suggests a period of time that's longer than their usual lifespan. “
 
I suppose I could have googled it myself. I like to ask other people things that are probably easily answered by Google because it allows for perhaps a greater conversation to come about.

I'm currently taking a class called Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and I recently brought up in class discussion how dependent people are on the first answer they see (this is not a slight against you, Mikey! I do it too.) and how we can easily fall to m/disinformation because of it.

Assuming the origin given there is correct, it is quite surprising, as small mammals are, at least in my experience, known to live short lives. My own dear gato is 16 years old and I am terrified every time I come home that I'll find him dead.

I had also wondered, since so much of American history is based in racism, if it were of racist origin. I know that coon has been a slur against Black people. Thinking along those lines, could Google actually sensor racist word origins as some sort of appeal to the Trump administration's rejection of DEI?
 
trebligon said:
I suppose I could have googled it myself. I like to ask other people things that are probably easily answered by Google because it allows for perhaps a greater conversation to come about.

I'm currently taking a class called Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and I recently brought up in class discussion how dependent people are on the first answer they see (this is not a slight against you, Mikey! I do it too.) and how we can easily fall to m/disinformation because of it.

Assuming the origin given there is correct, it is quite surprising, as small mammals are, at least in my experience, known to live short lives. My own dear gato is 16 years old and I am terrified every time I come home that I'll find him dead.

I had also wondered, since so much of American history is based in racism, if it were of racist origin. I know that coon has been a slur against Black people. Thinking along those lines, could Google actually sensor racist word origins as some sort of appeal to the Trump administration's rejection of DEI?
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Interesting perspective on the possibility of a racist origin. I'm from New England and it's a colloquial saying.


And if a potential date orders Manhattan clam chowder, we are done. Chowdah needs to be thick, almost stand a spoon straight up in it and it better have pork fat and cream in it 😆
 
The old cliche of how fast time goes by as we grown older just hit me. I am old fashioned, (and just plain old too, lol), and keep my appointments on a real paper hanging wall calendar as opposed to on my iPhone. I just looked to see what appointments I have for June and as I turned the page I noticed the fold in my calendar with the staple was right there indicating that the year will be half over at the end of the month. Wasn’t it just New Year’s Eve and 2025 just began? Crazy shit dude! :wink:
 
mikeyank said:
The old cliche of how fast time goes by as we grown older just hit me. I am old fashioned, (and just plain old too, lol), and keep my appointments on a real paper hanging wall calendar as opposed to on my iPhone. I just looked to see what appointments I have for June and as I turned the page I noticed the fold in my calendar with the staple was right there indicating that the year will be half over at the end of the month. Wasn’t it just New Year’s Eve and 2025 just began? Crazy shit dude! :wink:
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I got a big chuckle out of your post, I too still keep my appointments on a wall calendar in my kitchen. Yes this year is half over and has gone so fast.
 
mikeyank said:
The old cliche of how fast time goes by as we grown older just hit me. I am old fashioned, (and just plain old too, lol), and keep my appointments on a real paper hanging wall calendar as opposed to on my iPhone. I just looked to see what appointments I have for June and as I turned the page I noticed the fold in my calendar with the staple was right there indicating that the year will be half over at the end of the month. Wasn’t it just New Year’s Eve and 2025 just began? Crazy shit dude! :wink:
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So true, time is flying by way too quickly. My nephew is graduating highschool. Shit, feels like 2 minutes ago he was in diapers puking on me when burping him after a bottle 🤣
 
When I contemplate time, I sometimes think about how I have had so much time to think about how quickly time passes. I think about all the people who came before me, and my contemporaries, and the future generations, and how it was/will all be over in a blink of an eye.

My late mama once said to me, "How did I get so old?" It was a weird moment (it made me burst into tears). I knew she experienced time like anyone else, but to hear it from her at that moment was startling. I suppose it should make me feel good that I have so many fellow travelers with me, but it just makes it feel more tragic. Human self-awareness is a blessing and a curse.

Not sure what point I'm making. Shrug.
 
trebligon said:
When I contemplate time, I sometimes think about how I have had so much time to think about how quickly time passes. I think about all the people who came before me, and my contemporaries, and the future generations, and how it was/will all be over in a blink of an eye.

My late mama once said to me, "How did I get so old?" It was a weird moment (it made me burst into tears). I knew she experienced time like anyone else, but to hear it from her at that moment was startling. I suppose it should make me feel good that I have so many fellow travelers with me, but it just makes it feel more tragic. Human self-awareness is a blessing and a curse.

Not sure what point I'm making. Shrug.
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You are making a very important point, Treb. In fact it may be the most important point of all in human life. We are all here for a very finite period of time, actually an infinitesimal period of time. And the point is for us to enjoy every day that we have to the best of our ability. Easier said than done, though……..
 
Today I’m pondering on how fit guys seem to be today, at least in my neighborhood. I had an early appointment this morning and as I was walking back home around 8:30 AM, I noticed a slew of guys heading to the subway to work in Manhattan. Brooklyn Heights is literally one subway stop away from Wall Street and for young professionals who can afford to live here, it is an ideal spot to live in a quiet neighborhood yet be only minutes away from work. (And for anyone who does not know, I can afford to live here because I’ve lived here so damn long, lol, and I have a rent stabilized apartment so my rent increases are limited).

But back to this morning, the guys I noticed were in their mid twenties to early thirties and they all seemed to be dressed similarly in nice slacks and shoes, a dress shirt with no tie and they all carry an over the shoulder bag. Without a suit jacket the strap of the bag pulls their shirts close to their bodies, and damn these guys all seem to be regulars at the gym. No, I didn’t take pictures as that is very obvious and while my eyes always wander to fit young men, taking a cell phone photo is a step beyond…..but damn there were so many hotties out this morning. :001_smile:
 
One more pondering, as I’m feeling “ponderful” today, lol. I was out again on another brutally hot day, and there are so many workers doing construction or working on trucks or even delivering packages or the mail. I feel very sorry for these guys and girls who need to spend all these hours out in the heat in the sun. I imagine they get paid well, but they sure as crap deserve it. That’s it for my pondering for today. :wink:
 
Speaking of heat, the city of Philadelphia is really starting to stink. Our sanitation workers have been on strike for a couple of weeks. All the rotting trash in severe heat is making it pretty bad.

I'm adamantly pro-union, so I accept the necessity of it, but I reserve the right to whine.
 
I'd move into a hotel or Airbnb in another city for the duration LOL. I can't stand rotting garbage smell, it churns my stomach 🤢
 
I haven't pondered in a bit. Life lately has been a bit of a shit show that I'd rather not participate in 🫠. I won't unpack here, but damn getting older sucks sometimes 🥺

hope everyone's else is good though 😊
 
Sorry to hear that Chac. You are one of the good guys in a very fucked up world. Here’s hoping that things turn around soon. You deserve good things. 😇
 
I don't have a full time job so paying for somewhere else to stay would be crazy, and I probably can't even afford my August rent with how few hours I've been able to pick up. My apartment with the AC is good enough to hide the stench for now.
 
Earlier today I posted on the Hi, how is your day going thread about the collapse of the concrete awning on the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights. I wanted to reference my previous post on that historic hotel and the pics I took and posted on that thread. In my mind, I made that post a month or so ago and I couldn’t find it. I finally searched it and was shocked to find it was in February. Holy crap! Time goes by so freaking fast. That’s my pondering for today. :ohmy:
 
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