So sorry, I haven't been able to have pets for ages, but I still miss my little girl who died fifteen years ago.
My sister saw a friend of hers get murdered. Thoughts and prayers for him and his family would be appreciated.
I think I've become The Sniffer at work. Everybody hates The Sniffer. I say "I think" because I catch myself doing it every now and then and feel like I probably do it a lot without realising. It's one of those offices where none of the windows open and we have aircon on 24/7 to regulate the temperature, which dries out my throat and plays havoc with my sinuses. I'm also a hay fever sufferer... I'm worried everybody talks about my irritating sniffing.
I literally have no sense of smell. What? Smell is a sense, is it not? And just like how people can not have sight or hearing, some (like me) can't smell. You people really need to take your sense of smell with value. I'd love to know what a flower smells like.
There's a sweet here in England called Parma Violets, they taste the same to me as the flower by the same name smells, the same with anything rose based. For what it's worth, some foods based in a sugar syrup fools you into tasting things with perfumes and colours. It seems that a second dog I know is on their way out. My family's Dalmatian, who we adopted as a pup when I was in my teens, has arthritis in his hip and it's getting worse, but also, a relative of my bf's has a dog that I found now has a failing thyroid on top of being born with heart problems. When they adopted her it was stated she wouldn't last a year but she's 5 or 6 now. And on a lesser note, back to work today after a week off seeing them down in Devon...
Strange feelings of sadness this morning, a general malaise settled in yesterday. Le "mal de vivre" they call it in French. Or just simply being tired of everything, and yet stopping to regroup would be just as bad as trudging on in defiance of this state. I reckon that being patient is the only sensible thing to do at this point until the wind shifts and the climate follows. I feel that I have no more fight left in me when facing up to the non-sense & noise continuing to manifest itself in droves, regardless of how insignificant it all seems to me these days. Despair and contradiction are fuzzing out my desire for clarity. I needed to express this. That is all.
Flowers = meh. I don't know if I have a stronger-than-usual sense of smell or I'm just more sensitive to smell, but maybe we can do a deal - I'll give you my extra so we both have an average sensitivity to smell?
So, I was doing a bunch of research on the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide today for my novel... god, it makes me sick. Not the fact that there was a genocide, though that in itself is pretty sickening, the thought that a person can and will wipe out an entire race. No, I'm talking about the fact that I knew nothing about it before this year. The fact that schools in America don't even mention it. "We shouldn't talk about genocide, it's too gory for the kids" That doesn't seem to be a problem when it's the Holocaust we're talking about. Is it because it happened in Europe? Does Southeast Asia not matter enough to even mention it? "World War Two, though. It was one of the biggest parts of the second World War." The takeover of the Khmer Rouge happened at the same time as the Vietnam war. America was very involved in that, if I remember correctly, and I checked a few hours ago, so I'd say my memory is pretty spot on. And America teaches kids about the Vietnam War. This is true for other genocides that have happened, too. The Holocaust could have been the largest genocide that's taken place in the last century, but those millions of other people that died across the world due to genocide matter, too. Sigh. Humanity as a whole frustrates me.
@Skye Walker I didn't learn about it (or the Vietnam War) in my UK education. I'm surprised and a bit saddened by how often I come across parts of history that I had zero concept of. Not that I think schools are responsible for everything because there are only so many hours of history lessons we can take, but certain events seem to have been wiped from the record everywhere except the internet. Nobody talks about them or remembers them. Even now I'm trying to think of a horrific event in Korea where US soldiers tortured and decimated the residents of a village for no reason - they were just full of bloodlust. It took many decades for any kind of justice to be applied, and most of the main culprits got away scot free. Even though I read about it, I can't remember the name of that village. Shame on me. Actually... it might have been a Vietnamese village. Jesus. Going to look it up again later and commit it to memory...
Not very well, no. Not sure if I should be offended at this. I can't smell very well, why do you have to act like I'm faking it? Typical, really... @Skye Walker : it's simple. If it's non- white people being killed en made, no one gives a fuck.
You know what? If you have a choice about whether to be offended or not, why wouldn't you choose NOT? And I guess I should be taking the same advice, but, really I'm not seeing much of a choice with "typical, really...". I was trying to commiserate and/or converse about a topic you raised. You've taken it as an insult and stated that it's typical of... me? of humanity? to insult you. So I'll do you the favour of not responding to you anymore, since apparently my responses are typically insults. You can wallow in self-pity and imaginary victimization on your own. See ya.
Taste and smell are very closely linked - a lot of what we think we taste is actually smell. So whenever somebody has issues with their sense of smell, it's likely their taste is affected as well. Yes, that's it! I take it that it's better known in North America? I think I only heard about it last year and nobody I spoke to (UKers) knew of it.[/QUOTE]
I was JOKING, Bay!!!! D: Come back here, I was joking! One of the perks of being "different" is that you can pretend to play the victim. But I wasn't being legit! Guess I went too far this time. Sorry about that, gal. Come back, I was just trying to jerk everyone's chains!
I'm not sure about that. People of my (Vietnam-era) generation most likely remember it, but these days it's probably being taught (if it's mentioned at all) as an example of American genocide.
Your sarcasm was REALLY on point though. Had me fooled (but that's not exactly difficult because I suck at detecting sarcasm to begin with...)
Fairly well-known, yeah. Which makes sense - it wasn't a British massacre... I don't think I could give a specific example of the nonsense you guys got into in India. Of course, I'm not American, but living next to them makes them hard to ignore...