A second hand, but unused, handmade glass perfume bottle. Lower half of a vintage copper fondue set. A pyrography pen. A book on pyrography. A can of Monster.
It's more than 10% sugar by weight, and has the following ingredients; (Monster Energy) Carbonated water, sucrose, glucose, citric acid, taurine, natural flavors, sodium citrate, l-carnitine, panax ginseng root extract, ascorbic acid, caffeine, sodium chloride, niacinamide, riboflavin, larks vomit, guarana seed extract, inositol, weasel shit, glucuronalactone, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanobalamin. That's one way to wake up in the morning I guess. My life is unhealthy enough already.
Hey, hey, back up already! Can everyone just stop shaming and bullying me for my beverage choices please? And could you at least put a trigger warning before posting such explicit content?* I'm starting to be made to feel unsafe here. *FYI, Lark's vomit is an ancient oriental remedy, you bigot
See my recent post in Mental Health to understand how truly sorry I am for contributing to this spiral. Rest assured the focus was humorous and directed solely at these energy drinks, for my part. Your choices for what one thing you choose to enjoy on any one day do not represent you poorly at all. I own what I claim, and in no way intentionally infer any trait on you in any way. Sometimes we just get carried away on the playground. Good on you for standing up!
I don't think of it as an issue. Nowadays loads of people are using caffeine to get through the day, or even the odd day. I don't myself, but I don't judge anyone who chooses to. Personal choice, and it's not harming anyone else. You carry on.
Umm, sorry folks. I was kidding. Should have added an emoji. For future reference, you're very unlikely to upset me by judging or damning or shaming my beverage choices.. Or any other choices for that matter. Happy in the sandbox here:
PS: an older gentleman chuckled at me as I was walking back from the shops, can of Monster in hand. I think he may have thought I was a boozer, day drinking a pint can of White Lightning or Special Brew. Or he could have been laughing at my random apparel. I won't describe what I was wearing, but it was a collation of items discarded on the sofa which I threw on just before I ran out. It's quite a nice old fashioned place this. Apart from the little piles of runny dog shit everywhere. Lots of elderly people, and the elderly little dogs to go with them. Old people don't like picking up poo.
I always thought the expression "up with the larks" meant awake early - I didn't realise it should be "thrown up with the larks"
Agreed. Also, I was wondering if a can of Monster is anything like a can of whoop-ass. Just kidding. I knew it was a drink. The last thing I bought was hand towels and washcloths. But I found a first-generation Kindle when I was moving some stuff around in Mom's former craft room. It's charging now.
Don't know the history of this convo, unsure if you're serious or being humourous. I'm commenting if you were serious...disregard if you weren't...and I'm well aware this post may not be well received. For the small amount of time I've hung out with everyone here, my perception is these folks don't come across as shamers and bullies. All I see is just some friendly ribbing. I've been on a health journey since my time in hopsicle back in 2008, and when I read the ingredients of the energy drink, I received that info differently from you, not better or worse, just differently. When I read it, I appreciated the info that informs me how damaging it would be to me to drink the stuff...thus I appreciate the person for posting it. My experience of the ingredients post is a positive one. Which brings me to the understanding that took me a few decades to acquire, in that we live in a subjective realm. Which means each individual responds to the environment according to our thoughts and feelings we construct within them. A simple example: The common definition is a comedian is someone who makes people laugh. This is completely untrue. It's the individual who has the power to make themselves laugh or not when they hear the joke. The comedian, the element in the environment, has no power to make anyone do anything. All a comedian can do is offer jokes. Test: Two people go to a comedy club to listen to a comedian. One person laughs and the other doesn't. Thus proving the comedian doesn't have the power to make people laugh. If s\he did, then both would have laughed. Thus, and oh boy is my life now a damn lot better for having understood this and implimented it in my soul. We humans are in complete control of our thoughts ,feelings and actions within any type of experience. The reduction of control, and self control is a most beautiful freedom to have, the reduction of self control is proportional to how much we don't accept this and are unconsciously influenced\controlled by external forces. After getting out of hopsicle, a few months later I had an experience with a rather nasty street preacher. He wasn't nasty till I shared some thoughts that he didn't agree with. It was in that experience I discovered I've unintentionally acquired a super power ( 'tis not actually a super power, anyone can develop it, but since it's so rare it looks like one) I can no longer be offended within social situations. You can insult me to my face with the most horrible words you can muster and I'll remain deeply peaceful and joyful, and may wanna hug you when you're finished. The exact opposite of what I used to be like. "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius "A person is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions." - James Allen "We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves. " - Leo Buscaglia "Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom - the power to choose, to respond, to change." - Stephen R. Covey "True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom." - Jack Canfield "Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." - Stephen R. Covey "The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor E. Frankl "By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization. In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom." - M. Scott Peck
˜bangs fists together like a little child˜ YAY!!! Guess what I just picked up from the post office? Yup, my brand new unused sealed in box PS3. Will video the unpacking and testing later this arvie. Haha, speaking of eBay experiences...the incompentent and dodgy sellers. While looking for a hanger extension last week I came across a few aussie sellers but they list posting time to be 2-3 weeks. This of course is bs. Usual posting time in Oz is a week, sometimes a week and a half depending on alien activity. This means they'll be asian sellers who may or may not reside in Oz, but definitely their stock's in Asia somewheres. So I message them all with this... "Slow postage speed means you're not an Au seller, thus you're lying, thus adding you to my 'never buy from' list." 80 on me list thus far. The responses have been hilarious. It seems evident to me that not one of these sellers understands english well or at all. One person is now offering a refund...apologising for the delay and is offering a refund on an item I've never bought. I told them, cheers, I'd like a refund, if you can.
Green sports leggings* x 4 Black racerback sports bra x 4 Black crew neck tee shirt x 4 Purple wrist sweatbands x 6 *"they move with your body", so the blurb says. I was relieved to find leggings that don't stand still once I start walking forward.
