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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.235
Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - 11:09 am:   

I have discovered Tilt shift. A simple function on photo editors that makes everything look like a toy. I can't stop using it or indeed thinking about it. It's so mysterious. It's made my world new, like a side door onto a new frontier. I think it makes me feel like a child - not childish, just gives me that mysterious mindset by blurring the edges, the way life felt in those early years.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.132.32.171
Posted on Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 11:09 pm:   

Yeah. Was good for a while. It's probably better that preoccupations don't last too long.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.102.147
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2020 - 01:11 am:   

I hate fucking EVERYTHING. Everything's fucking dying. Deep down we hate each other, everybody. Name one person you like, honestly. We're a mistake, a cancer. We need to be gone.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.67.243
Posted on Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 10:09 am:   

There are wonderful things and people in the world. You know this, though you can't feel it right now. May you feel it again soon! Until then, keep going Tony.}
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 08:52 pm:   

Wow... hope things have improved since, Tony....
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 01:00 am:   

Just angry, Craig. Brexit HAS affected me, and people cutting down trees and dumping rubbish everywhere. Ì went to Scotland recently and honestly the tone was radically different- friendly, creative, living small... it felt like the real world. I took a blood test today and it came up that I had diabetes, but then when I went to the doctors they did another test and I was fine. I don't know how it works but the brush with death has made me feel great today.
Hey ho.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 03:13 am:   

I figured you were just having a vent. This is probably a good place to do so - a forgotten message board, the haunting grounds of spies and lonely-hearts.

I would think with the death of newspapers, books, and the rise of all things cell-phones, the forests of the world are breathing sighs of relief!

Forget diabetes: now you have the Corona virus to fear! It's all bullshit hype, imho. It reeks of manufactured panic, of manipulation, of the political, of an agenda. The invisible hand at work, unseen forces, making us their puppets to dance to their tunes. Fuck them. The stock markets are being deliberately manipulated, because they have no way else to get people to panic like they want them to - look, look, the stock market is tanking! Who cares?!

Turn off all news, that's going to be the new remedy for our ills. I'll find out all on my own when it's time to panic.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 09:56 am:   

I hate Brexit because it brought out the verbal racists, so many. I've never been bullied or harried by a brown or black person I realised, only fellow whites. I've seen a Muslim family picking up other people's litter. This is stuff I can *see*. But Corona schmorona - I agree, it's flu 2, less contagious, only harms the old or already sick.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.85
Posted on Monday, March 02, 2020 - 11:13 am:   

Sorry to disagree chaps, but Covid-19 is both real and serious. 3,000 people have already died from this. I know people who are old and people who are already sick, so it does matter.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Monday, March 02, 2020 - 06:59 pm:   

I'm in that old and not too health group. The world could do with less of us. I just heard flu kills more people daily. Also, I don't think my worrying or not worrying can affect it, though it is scary. I just don't know what to do.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.85
Posted on Monday, March 02, 2020 - 10:22 pm:   

Oh yeah, I'm not saying anyone should panic, or even worry. Just be careful. And that it IS a real thing.

I thought Soderberg's CONTAGION was very good on this. Gwenyth Paltrow fans probably didn't have a great night out with it though.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2020 - 10:44 am:   

Yes, we were sounding harsh. It struck me how much people hate the old or resent them, that they seemed glad to see them being chipped away. As this old woman said on the radio this week, they fought nazis, they used recyclable materials, they made and mended, they didn't fly all over the place. Also, the old have the resource of wisdom, history.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.67.76
Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2020 - 12:03 pm:   

I agree completely. For all the self-congratualtory right-on-ness of today, how we treat old people (or every middle-aged people) will be looked on with shame by future generations. The same goes for animals.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 01:42 pm:   

It's like some Philip K Dick thing is pulling people apart. First Brexit now viruses. "Dont trust each other, now don't touch, don't socialize."
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 08:49 pm:   

The conspiracy-theorist in me detects a level of manipulation by Big Media - Big Controlling Narrative, you could call them. The people, the masses, are drifting ever away from their controlling influence, their narratives, their reach - so they must experiment with ever greater means to keep us chained to their galleys. I've also been predicting a mass turning-away from all things Big Media/Controlling Narrative - and this seems to be a reaction to it. It's like BM/BCN is acting like Communist China, cracking down cruelly on us for straying away. It feels like oppression - like being dragged back, kicking and screaming if need be, this whole obsession with the Coronavirus panic. I don't trust them, those in power. In the (paraphrased) words of Miss Marple: "Oh dear, I stopped believing people a long time ago...."
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.70.231
Posted on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 06:12 pm:   

My son tells me a lot of stuff about apes, which he is crazy about. These things live in tight communities forever, any unwanted offspring get cared for by a familiar face. The animals groom one another, even strangers. They are one. My feeling is something wants us apart, and...scared, is all I can think. Depressed people spend money is all i do know - if they can get it.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.70.231
Posted on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 06:14 pm:   

Excuse the silence btw - been away for the weekend having a horrible time. Odd, a horrible holiday makes home look amazingly good, makes you feel lucky to be alive...
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 06:10 am:   

Weirdly prescient you writing that on the 9th - indeed, the whole world wants us apart now, for the unknown future. And also, freaked-out people spend money - all our stores are depleted I hear, literally cleared out, the stores have closed early - people panic buying everything - I couldn't bear to go into the stores with all those people - guess I'll have to starve, or live off fast-food.

I am not concerned about C-19, but I'm not saying it's nothing to be concerned about. The stark facts, every day, do not spell doom, barely spell concern... but they keep telling us they KNOW something beyond those stark facts... so I guess we have to believe them....
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.155.160.42
Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 09:22 am:   

It all reminds me of that scene in Close Encounters, the worst moment, where they are all in the helicopter and Dreyfuss tried to make them take their masks off and only two do. I always think of those people. In trying to live, we kind of die. This virus, it's flu 2, and are we scared of the flu, which in England last year killed 15000 people? No. Fear kills, too, probably every bit as much. I refuse to be scared, though I admit I am.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.155.160.42
Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 09:25 am:   

To go briefly back to apes, my son recently told me that an orang utan once used sign language to tell people it WAS the forest. That must be one of the most thought provoking thing I've heard an animal say (outside the dying parrot saying "see you tomorrow").
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.150.52
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 12:33 pm:   

You can be not scared but still take precautions. Maturity means that we can keep two or more contradictory notions in our heads at once. This IS very serious (and the worst is yet to come), but we don't have to shrivel our lives up to survive it. That's not the choice we have to make. We may need to curtail what we do but we can still live fully in other ways. It's all about attitude. People with the right attitude are free almost irrespective of the physical constraints around them.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.205.241.134
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 01:35 pm:   

I always have two contradictory thoughts in my head, it's just when I write I tend to write down the one that's currently there.
Yesterday I was happy the virus existed. On the radio old people were saying how merry they felt isolating, and a presenter was saying how cheerful people had been on the streets. I felt euphoric, the happiest since pre Brexit days. Gaia, God, who or whatever, thank you.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.150.80
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 11:49 pm:   

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQsVBolPNs&t=30s
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.150.80
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 11:49 pm:   

Oops...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQsVBolPNs&t=30s
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.155.160.42
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 01:11 pm:   

What a great clip. What is that?
It freaked me out that when I thought I had the virus last night I was relieved almost, or rather not scared.
People have been talking of playing music, playing it out of their windows. They mentioned the Shawshank Redemption, how it's like the isolation, how important the music is. I've realised this week that life is horror and beauty hand in hand, not taking turns on us.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.132.180
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2020 - 12:43 pm:   

It's season 1, episode 5 of THE WEST WING.

I walked the empty streets in the city yesterday at "rush hour". There wasn't a car on the road. I heard birdsong and saw trees budding as the sun was setting.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.154.91.38
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2020 - 01:37 pm:   

Like the guy in Avengers Endgame, a year after half the world has been wiped out; "Minke whales are in the harbour again."
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2020 - 12:40 am:   

"We must learn to love life without ever trusting it." - GK Chesterton.

A week later, same here - though it's more like your average major holiday, for SoCal, every day: all the shops and stores open, traffic light but not absent... but mostly, quiet everywhere. But if you landed here you wouldn't think it was a pandemic - you'd just think, Oh, it's Christmas.

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