So, what do you want to know?

What are you most thankful for?

 

Only one thing? If I were to pick one it would be being able to breathe.


If I can expound, I'd say: love, feeling more in touch with myself than I ever have in life before, creativity, warm purring fluffy kittie cats, and wonderfully supportive in-laws.

Those are the things I'm most thankful for every day.

 

Is a half full glass full enough?

 

only if you're not very thirsty. ;-)


(all of a sudden i feel like i'm in a different thread)

 

What are the major differences between our christmas season and your own experiences ?

 

I have two cats. The male is all black, short-haired, named Toby. He's the active one. The female is gray, short-haired, and named Yoko Ono. (The name came with her. My roommate adopted her from someone else.)

I have a YouTube account. My online name is "tvjack". One of my videos shows both cats playing in and around paper bags.

By the way, nice to meet you. I live in Wisconsin.

 

• no christmas cookies (it seems) but christmas 'biscuits'? (but I'm going to make my own)

• no snow (i was from NY and well haven't checked but normally this time of year we'd be under 4-5 feet of snow.

• ornaments are baubles

• you guys call it 'Cringo' and call them 'Prezzies'

• Artificial trees are widely accepted (still hate them - i know it's bad to sacrifice a tree for a holiday ... but i love the smell of natural pine - and if i had a garden i'd get the living kind you can plant later)

• no eggnog (least not that i've seen)

• not nearly as much commercialism (which i don't consider bad - as you guys start putting up Xmas things in late Octoberish and in the States you'd see Xmas things start going on sale in early September - which doesn't count the 'Christmas in July' sales)

• you have Panto plays

• Kids can do Nativity plays in school (that one shocked me as that would start a lawsuit in America)

Overall, I find Christmas nice here. Few things I miss, but there aren't really any majorly noticeable differences (i had to think hard to come up with those ones up above). The biggest thing I miss (and I'm not kidding here) is the long drive down from NY to NC to visit my parents and family at Xmas. I loved driving through Pennsylvania at Christmas time as it would almost always be blizzard-like conditions (and i'm not talking about the English concept of a 'blizzard' but literally not being able to see a foot in front of you blizzard) and the snowfall would be absolutely beautiful. Long drive (about 12-13 hours depending on weather could tack on another 2 hours) but I always loved driving home for Christmas and then watching my mom cook way too much food for the people we had over for the holidays.

Oh, and to add to the list of things I miss (which is really more of a family tradition for us) proper Southern biscuits (not cookies) with Virginia salt-cured ham slices and scrambled eggs on Christmas morning. Very nice way to wake up for the day. =)

 

Hello Wisconsin! (sorry been watching too much That 70's Show)
are you a cheesehead? ;-)

I'll have to check out those vids later. Just logging off now as I have to do some laundry and need to get it started before the neighbors complain it's too late.
I love videos of cats doing weird things. I have a blurry picture (which is why it's not posted) of my one cat Sheba who had crawled inside the paper wrapper that is around big balls of yarn. Her hind legs and tail were sticking out one end and her head and front paws were sticking out the front.

At first, I thought she was stuck with the way she was rolling around. So we pulled it off of her, and then she IMMEDIATELY dove right back into the paper tube. Guess she wanted to get in touch with the feeling of being yarn.

 

Would you like to be invisible? What would you do?

 

Very good question ... the first part doesn't take a second's thought. Yes I'd LOVE to be invisible ... or at least have the power of invisibility.

I'd probably go out and do stuff that normal non-obsessed people do - like go to festivals without blinking an eye or go shopping without the fear of people pointing and laughing - cause they couldn't see me!

On the other side of the super human power coin, I'd also have to use the ability to maybe be a bit of a Robin Hood type figure and take from the wealthy to give to the poor - anonymously. I've always wished I was rich so I could not just have nice stuff myself but so I could secretly give others things that I never had. Like find a family or families that are down to their last 10p have little food in the house and several days till they have a way to get more money and just leave money in their mailslot and run away.

It'd be cool to have the power of invisibility I mean in the wrong hands it would be horrible for someone to have that power. But if enough people that wouldn't just use it to look out for themselves only had such power maybe the world could change some and be a better less scary place to live.

 

If you had to get a mullet, what type of mullet would you get?

 

omg ... i think i just died as i thought of myself with a mullet ...

hang on going to mulletsgallore.com now to see what mullet choices there are ...


after purusing and nearly vomiting several times i have chose tne "dreadgothmullet" as it would allow me to keep the dreads, look dark (though i'm not) and still have the creepiness of the mullet. If you want to take a look it's number 69 under section 7. There were a few other nice choices, but I think I'd go with that one.

oh i'm clever figured out how to import the dreaded (pun intended) mullet pic.

 

I tried to go to that website and it was just a naughty site with bums and swinger offers etc and your picdoesn't work

I'll await the mullety goodness

 

no wasn't trying to send you to a swinger site ... that's really weird the pic worked originally

here's the link to the site : mullet site
i promise it's not a porn site


and here's the link to the god-awful mullet hairdo: god-awful mullet do


hopefully those will work

 

Cant for the life of me understand why you are here at all. Its a website for gays, not nutters! Your not gay but definetly nuts. Go see a shrink - SOON!

 

Do you know anything about the native americans?

What are the reservations bean like?

Are thery treated well?

Do they still wish to live like they used to?


IIf you havn't bean then it's ok but if you have plz tell me!

( I like native americans)

:indian_br :indian_ch

 

A little bit, but definitely not a scholar by any means. I've had a few friends that had Native American blood in them, but honestly I don't think I have ever met a full-blood Native American, at least not knowingly.

I've only ever really seen reservations in the New York/Pennsylvania areas. Generally as you approach a reservation there are a lot more farmlands, less traffic, etc. There was one in particular I was near (but unfortunately can't remember where it was) that was STUNNING the surrounding wilderness was beautiful and there were great gorges running through the forest. The Native Americans that live on the reservations i've been to seem to live typically in small houses or trailer homes.

Honestly the one reservation which was the stunning large one I was driving through as there was a highway or something that cut through the land. The other ones I would visit because of the cheap petrol and when I smoked cheap fags.

I would say though that most Native Americans do not live on Reservations.

Well, that depends on how you look at it. There are those like myself that would tend to revere the knowledge that say an old Native American might have and be interested to learn about their life etc. There are other people that are still just as rascist as they ever were about them. I mean, how can you say anyone is treated well when their land was basically taken from them in exchange for beads.

Native Americans (those with i believe 25% tribal blood or more) don't have to pay tax though. So, that is a bit handy. It is also why they setup petrol stations on reservations and sell fags because they buy them without tax and then they dont' have to charge tax (though the government wants to change that bit) so obviously most people that can will go there to buy petrol and fags as then they save loads of money and all that money spent goes right to the pockets of the tribe.

I dont' know if you heard btw, but one of the Native American tribes recently bought the Hard Rock Cafe franchise. So I would believe that that would mean the Hard Rock Cafe is now tax free as well and all profits will go to support that tribe.

Probably would depend on the person. The ones I knew though liked their life as it is now. Don't think they would want to go back to living in huts and not having electric, etc.

Native Americans are very cool. Hopefully as they gain more financial power they will start weilding more power in general with the American government. Seeing a tribe acquire something as massive as the Hard Rock Cafe is one step towards tribes having more power. I know it is just a restaurant, but it is an iconic symbol of America that you find in several places around the world and it is really cool in my opinion that it is now owned by a tribe and not just by a group of white business men.

 

That sounds prommising

I have some friends who run a native american style shop. When i asked them about the resevations, one said it was bad but could be worse and the other said it was horrible! which one off these is more accurate???

 

LMFAO!!

I love it

 

really depends on the res ... i'd go with the bad but could be worse ... but some can be quite horrible as there is a lot of crime mainly from drunken behaviour, etc.

as i said before ... the majority of indians do not choose to live on the reservations - there must be a reason, right?