FOLIO OLIO: TUESDAY #3483

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

NEWSY BITS

This animal tore the throat out of one gunman as he shot at the Brits. It then attacked two others, leaving them seriously injured. Six more jihadis fled.

On a side note, what the hell is that pocket like thing near the man's crotch? And if it's to take his dick out to pee he don't need to be in the army; the porn industry needs a man like that.

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I found it very smart when they tag zebra and other prey animals and watch for them to flee in a certain way which indicates that poachers are in the area.

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The Rescue

You may want to double click that image, then use zoom.

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SOCCER GOINGS ON

Congratulations to Croatia for reaching the World Cup semifinals. Here is their president enjoying the moment.

Mexican football team Club Tijuana have a “Neymar Challenge” during half-time, where fans roll from half field to the other side

Remember, I win a lot of money if Belgium wins. Cheer accordingly.

A second-hand deep fryer is an acceptable gift for third weddings.

LANGUAGE

That's true.

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Hahahahahahahaha!

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Let me give you an example:

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Works for me.

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Autocorrect just changed “loose cannon” to “loser cannon” and now I’m imagining all the people I could shoot out of it.

A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF MY LIFE VIEWS

Haven't done this in a while, but do me a favor and listen to this as you peruse this next section. I think you will like it

Everybody seems to have advice for how you can live a happy life.

I do not have such advice. I would like to tell you what has made me one of the happiest, most satisfied motherfuckers on the planet.

This next post is more or less how I feel about it.

I don't know if it will work for you, but I have worked very hard to be beloved and I love without demands, which, I think, is the trick.

I think about everything. I still pick up every demand on my time and examine it to see if it makes sense.

But don't dwell on minor flaws.

No one is perfect.

Many people think I'm just being a contrarian by things like my refusal to wear a necktie, but I have never been adequately convinced that it makes sense.

Fuck changing to abide society - let society change to abide me...or leave me the fuck alone.

I like myself just like I am. If I didn't I would change my thinking, not my body.

All of that does not mean you can be lazy. I have worked very hard all my life and have achieved more than I could have dreamed before I started.

I'm even okay with being old. I never curse my aching body because I'm the one that wore that bastard out.

Another flaw in most people.

I don't do that....ever.

I do however continually weigh reward vs consequences. That goes for decisions like speeding down the interstate and any and all dangerous situations. What do I get and what am I risking. It has worked well.

Like keeping me away from dangerous drugs.

I only conquered this relatively recently.

20 or so years ago, I was lying in bed rehashing some of my embarrassing moments and simply decided to stop. I mean that.

Yeah, Robin, it was kind of like that. I imagined my daughter sitting on the side of the bed and me telling her about all those embarrassing moments. She would have laughed at me for even remembering such silliness.

Prior to that, I blogged about some of my most embarrassing moments and by telling the whole world I never felt embarrassed again. Like the time security cameras caught me masturbating in a dentist's office.

I once had an ailment that caused me unbearable pain once or twice a day. Then after about a year the pain just stopped and hasn't returned. Every day when I wake up without that pain is a very good day. And every time I am asked how I am by a friend or acquaintance I answer, "I've never been better a day in my life." And I truly mean it.

Listening to "Don't Worry, Be Happy" in my bar and everyone said it reminded them of me. Indeed.

I've come to accept that death is just a phase of life that will come to every person, so if it happens to everyone, then mine completely loses its uniqueness.

This is the perfect quote for how I feel about being alive and conscious.

And this?

I don't care one way or the other. I know I'm here now and I'm not going to waste any of my limited time worrying about whether it "matters" according to someone else's invented criteria.

I do not believe this.

I have found mine and we prove it to each other every goddamn day. Maybe the reason people don't like the term Soul Mate is that it is overused and thus quaint. But I use it to mean a person who has decided to share her life with me and me with her and neither of us would change one thing about the other.

And if you find yourself overwhelmed by society's demands on you...

Get fucking mad! You do not have to tolerate the bullshit. Your life is YOURS. Don't give control of it to anyone else, including your parents.

Example: Holding your steak in place with your fork in your left hand; then cutting off a bite with the knife in your right hand; then laying down your knife and switching the laden fork to your right hand before putting it in your mouth. That's just insanity.

That is just one of the "rules" that I was taught that I picked up and examined, then discarded it to the trash bin named illogic.

I will remind you of my favorite truism:

Rules are not made to be broken.

Rules are made to break you.

When you allow the rules to govern you, there is almost no way to win.

You voluntarily accepted these rules and, by god, you can voluntarily un-accept them.

Of course, doing that means you have to make your own decisions and unchartered waters can be scary.

Want to wear sneakers with your suit? Do it.

Want to let your hair grow out or sport a beard? Just fucking do it.

Want to be a cowboy? Move to Montana and sign on with a ranch. It's just that easy.

But I am not advocating this.

I understand that some people are more highly motivated than others, but I have seen people who use every precious minute of their very limited lives distracting themselves with mindless crap.

Most people who tell you what you should deem important are just expressing their personal likes and dislikes that work for them, but there is no guarantee they will work for you.

That includes this post.

Because it works for me. It works very well for me - the giving and the getting.

I have never wanted to "fit in."

I've always wanted to stand out. It didn't always work out, but I never blindly followed the dictates of the "in-crowd."

I don't believe this.

Bullshit!
We live with more health, more wealth, longer life expectancy, less violence than at any time in history.

Quit your goddamn bitching.

Finally, suicide.

I understand a chemical imbalance in the brain that convinces you that your life isn't worth the effort. But there are others who kill themselves over matters that are within their control.

I have never understood removing any chance of improvements in your circumstances by quitting existence. There are millions of options and to quit before exploring the alternatives is, in my opinion, the coward's way out.

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Never ask a bald man if he remembers something off the top of his head.

MISCELLANEOUS BLOG FODDER

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion...

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Looking at the kiln I think the pots were placed in there just to "glassify" the glaze.

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Remember this?

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This is Ryugu, Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is now just about 13 mi away from it. It will grab a handful of rocks and return them to Earth.

"A copper projectile, or "impactor" will separate from the spacecraft, floating down to the surface of the asteroid. Once Hayabusa 2 is safely out of the way, an explosive charge will detonate, driving the projectile into the surface.

"We have an impactor which will create a small crater on the surface of Ryugu. Maybe in spring next year, we will try to make a crater... then our spacecraft will try to reach into the crater to get the subsurface material."

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Do you think this is real?

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Look carefully.

Did you notice that her big toe is on the wrong side of her foot?

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Dr. Sanberg declares:

“One can answer the Fermi Paradox by saying intelligence is very rare, but then it needs to be tremendously rare. Another possibility is that intelligence doesn’t last very long, but it is enough that one civilization survives for it to become visible. Attempts at explaining it by having all intelligence acting in the same way (staying quiet, avoiding contact with us, transcending) fail since they require every individual belonging to every society in every civilization to behave in the same way, the strongest sociological claim ever. Claiming long-range settlement or communication are impossible requires assuming a surprisingly low technology ceiling. Whatever the answer is, it more or less has to be strange.”

( RH: I'm just thinking of the almost infinite numbers of possible host planets and moons and can only assume that to be untrue.)

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Applications had been filed for “Gutter sluts,” “chink,” “damn vegans,” and at least five applications with the term “nigga.” There was even a swastika in the mix.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/24/damn-vegans.html

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Testing a Stain-Proof Shirt.