I'm sorry I can't afford to buy you a coffee or 3 at the current time Julian. But I will do as soon as my finances slightly improve. I'm a man of my word & read your every post. For what it's worth, I do give a thumbs up at all times. Friends are people you can talk to & have similar views, things in common. For that reason we are pen friends. Like you I also love animals. Although I was above average intelligence in my school years. I had big problems with authority. Mainly because I like to do things for myself. As a small child for all my parents gave me what they could afford to. I didn't have a very close relationship with my mother. My older brother got that attention. My father worked every hour he could. I was very good at sports & achieved a lot sports wise. But only achieved what I felt like achieving academically. As usual I gained the qualifications I have now independently on my own. That authority thing has never left me. So much so I'm a qualified manager in my field of work. But prefer to work at trade level. Can you imagine someone hating authority that much. That I refuse a higher salary & have always done as a manager because of it? In many cases I'm more qualified than all management on the jobs I work on. Being the age I am, I'm the most experienced also. That's a short bio of myself. I thought you should know being a friend of mine.
My childhood pastimes mirror yours. I was born in Oregon in 1953. My strict parents would be answering questions from a social worker if I were a child today.
Word senses are confounding. Rather than using 'friend' as Julian I would express my 'regard' for such an individual.
I know someone who came from Canada illegally to Las Vegas and was a factotum for thirty years. He worked in the automobile industry while in Canada but ran away from his wife and family for some reason. Today he lives in Serbia and receives social security checks. You should check that with the Canadian consulate.
A bit late, but somehow more things happen than a few weeks ago...
And then there was my birthday (78) and surprise... i was having dinner with my last ex and then her eldest son (my stepson) and his girlfriend and another friend of the family came to join the dinner and so we were with 5... I was flabbergasted and now i have 2 bottles of VSOP cognac...
They all i recon as my friends...
But they let me know they are not interested in what moves me most: Geopolitics, Autism and how to avoid a Nuclear Armageddon.
I'm sorry I can't afford to buy you a coffee or 3 at the current time Julian. But I will do as soon as my finances slightly improve. I'm a man of my word & read your every post. For what it's worth, I do give a thumbs up at all times. Friends are people you can talk to & have similar views, things in common. For that reason we are pen friends. Like you I also love animals. Although I was above average intelligence in my school years. I had big problems with authority. Mainly because I like to do things for myself. As a small child for all my parents gave me what they could afford to. I didn't have a very close relationship with my mother. My older brother got that attention. My father worked every hour he could. I was very good at sports & achieved a lot sports wise. But only achieved what I felt like achieving academically. As usual I gained the qualifications I have now independently on my own. That authority thing has never left me. So much so I'm a qualified manager in my field of work. But prefer to work at trade level. Can you imagine someone hating authority that much. That I refuse a higher salary & have always done as a manager because of it? In many cases I'm more qualified than all management on the jobs I work on. Being the age I am, I'm the most experienced also. That's a short bio of myself. I thought you should know being a friend of mine.
My childhood pastimes mirror yours. I was born in Oregon in 1953. My strict parents would be answering questions from a social worker if I were a child today.
Word senses are confounding. Rather than using 'friend' as Julian I would express my 'regard' for such an individual.
Julian, I hold you in high regard.
I have regard for my fellow readers.
I know someone who came from Canada illegally to Las Vegas and was a factotum for thirty years. He worked in the automobile industry while in Canada but ran away from his wife and family for some reason. Today he lives in Serbia and receives social security checks. You should check that with the Canadian consulate.
A bit late, but somehow more things happen than a few weeks ago...
And then there was my birthday (78) and surprise... i was having dinner with my last ex and then her eldest son (my stepson) and his girlfriend and another friend of the family came to join the dinner and so we were with 5... I was flabbergasted and now i have 2 bottles of VSOP cognac...
They all i recon as my friends...
But they let me know they are not interested in what moves me most: Geopolitics, Autism and how to avoid a Nuclear Armageddon.
I will never understand the way NT's think.
Sander
About that 'overparenting' - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-do-you-explain-this-by-l-reichard.html?m=0 - written by someone who grew up in a culture like you did - an excellent analysis of why we're so lost in ....overparenting by guvmint....which we allowed!
You have one friend and two masters in that photo!
Buy you a coffee sign has gone!
Yup