Chit Chat and All That...

[SarahMLFlemmer]

Y'all WILD!

 

[Strawberryblonde]

This is why we don't play with henna while drinking. Please enjoy @Guywithapug xD lol

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You really have been having fun @Moni97! At least they'll fade in time if they don't quite turn out like you wanted lol.

 

[UKBloke]

All the homes we built were set on a permanent foundation, then wooden sub flooring setting on 10x2 floor joist. When that was complete, we took the biggest log and sawed it in half using it for the starter logs. They get bolted to the flooring system. Then the first logs are laid on top of the starter logs and the saddle notches are then scribed in and then cut out to sit tight on the starter logs.

Any type of foundation will work as long as it is able to support the weight.

The important thing is that the flooring at the gable ends are doubled and the 10x2 nailed together. The gable ends carry all the weight of a log home.

Elmer

Hug em.

Check out this wooden framed house, E. Looks like the builder misplaced his plumb-line and spirit level lol.

 

[Moni97]

Looks like you were having a blast, fully support this

Keep us posted for part 2 when you get drunk and do piercings.

Same friend has a tattoo gun. Stay tuned for part two and I have been trying to live life the best I can @Strawberryblonde

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Check out this wooden framed house, E. Looks like the builder misplaced his plumb-line and spirit level lol.

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Looks like too much LSD while drawing the plans.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Looks like too much LSD while drawing the plans.

Hi Elmer, enjoy your new project! Sounds great. Remember to wear ear protection, mind your back, and drink Jameson after work.

Take care @Elmer B Fuddled and all my friends here. I miss you guys.

I am doing fine (touch wood).

 

[Daniel Lion]

@Damocles, hey buddy.

I always enjoy your posts and your sense of humor. I was reading a post that you wrote to a guy member named George about tinnitus, being struck down in your youth and many being robbed of much of life's experiences, joy, and even rights of passage (paraphrasing a bit here, but I understood what you said).

I just wanted you to know, as a 55-year-old dude, and being struck down at 47 or 48, I am fully aware and empathetic to all my younger brothers and sisters who struggle with tinnitus. I have always known and been aware of the relationship between age and any chronic suffering and my heart goes out to you and all of the young comrades in our ranks.

I wanted to say this back then but didn't, does this make any sense?

Hope you are good,
Daniel

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

OK @aura, here's the latest question, only because enquiring minds want an answer. Whilst having the TV on, I see this very strange ad come on. I don't pay much attention to TV ads, all a bunch of crap. But this one made me go WTF. The ad was for Organic Tampons, what the hell does that mean???

 

[aura]

This is why we don't play with henna while drinking. Please enjoy @Guywithapug xD lol

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"Wifey" lol.

Also, cute muffs

OK @aura, here's the latest question, only because enquiring minds want an answer. Whilst having the TV on, I see this very strange ad come on. I don't pay much attention to TV ads, all a bunch of crap. But this one made me go WTF. The ad was for Organic Tampons, what the hell does that mean???

I have a response to this. Kinda... inappropriate. But then again, it wouldn't be the first time. And it is Chit Chat and All That after all.

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Also works for explaining piercing tinnitus and ear pain.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

"Wifey" lol.

Also, cute muffs

I have a response to this. Kinda... inappropriate. But then again, it wouldn't be the first time. And it is Chit Chat and All That after all.

Also works for explaining piercing tinnitus and ear pain.

So you have no answer for this? First I thought they were edible but then realised why? We need an answer to this mystery.

 

[Daniel Lion]

So you have no answer for this? First I thought they were edible but then realised why? We need an answer to this mystery.

Hi @Elmer B Fuddled, do you recall Prince Charles hankering for Camilla's tampon? He was on the forefront of recycling and green living. Perhaps this could help answer your question.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Hi @Elmer B Fuddled, do you recall Prince Charles hankering for Camilla's tampon? He was on the forefront of recycling and green living. Perhaps this could help answer your question.

Are you sure about Charming Charlie wanting Camilla's tampon for recycling? I have a different thought on that. Remember it's the "Royal" Family.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Logs are all peeled, ready for drying, if it would stop raining.

 

[Damocles]

Anyone got any good psychological thriller movie recommendations? Or how about books in a similar genre?

Not an exhaustive list, but what I could conjure after a night of pondering the question:

• A Simple Plan
• Before I Go to Sleep
  
• Concrete Plans
  
• Dead Man's Shoes
  
• Disturbia
  
• Eden Lake
  
• Harry Brown
  
• Hush (2008)
  
• Hush (2016)
  
• In Fear
  
• Kill List
  
• The Lighthouse (2016)
  
• Pandorum
  
• Panic Room
  
• Red Eye
  
• The Grey
  
• The Hole (2001)
  
• TransSiberian

 

[Damocles]

Yesterday when my fever had mostly resolved the spike seemed to clear up. Today, however, it's back in full force. I feel like this unpredictability makes tinnitus uniquely diabolical, like it's playing games with me lol

Tinnitus: The Game

 

[SamRosemary]

Not an exhaustive list, but what I could conjure after a night of pondering the question:

• A Simple Plan
• Before I Go to Sleep
  
• Concrete Plans
  
• Dead Man's Shoes
  
• Disturbia
  
• Eden Lake
  
• Harry Brown
  
• Hush (2008)
  
• Hush (2016)
  
• In Fear
  
• Kill List
  
• The Lighthouse (2016)
  
• Pandorum
  
• Panic Room
  
• Red Eye
  
• The Grey
  
• The Hole (2001)
  
• TransSiberian

Ouu, thanks!

There's definitely a few in there I haven't seen. It's hard making a list, eh? I've seen so many movies, but to sit down and remember - I can't, haha.

 

[Damocles]

I was reading a post that you wrote to a member about tinnitus, being struck down in your youth and many being robbed of much of life's experiences, joy, and even rights of passage (paraphrasing a bit here, but I understood what you said).

I just wanted you to know, as a 55-year-old dude, and being struck down at 47 or 48, I am fully aware and empathetic to all my younger brothers and sisters who struggle with tinnitus. I have always known and been aware of the relationship between age and any chronic suffering and my heart goes out to you and all of the young comrades in our ranks.

Thank you Daniel.

Although, there was no need for you to explain your position to me. I've always known you were one of the sensible ones. You provide comfort to those of us who are struggling, without minimising anything, and I love you for that.

It's true of course, that being robbed of your youth by severe tinnitus and hyperacusis, while continuing to be tortured by them - like me, @Brian Newman, @Stacken77, @KoolKat, @Foamearplugssuck, @Contrast (and a whole boatload of others I don't remember, know, or have the energy to list) - adds a whole extra dimension of emotional turmoil to the physical suffering we all know too well.

But I want to clarify, I am not making myself the arbiter of suffering here and I'm not trying to make a competition out of it.

There are such a wide variety of circumstances which only serve to complement the cruelty of this affliction we share.

Take @aura and @Hamsti (the latter, who I'm quite worried about at the moment) for example. They're Mums. They both have daughters whom they love, but will struggle to be around for as they grow up. @Hamsti's daughter's crying was killing her. Just take a moment to think about that. Her own baby daughter, whom she loves, was posing a threat to her health. I cannot even begin to imagine the level of mental and emotional pain that incurs.

Just two examples there. But there are so many more, that it becomes too bleak to give any further thought.

And so we shouldn't be arguing. We should be agreeing, all of us. Agreeing that: tinnitus is disgusting and needs to be eradicated.

But that's not what happens, as we see, day in, day out.

The argument I had with that member you mentioned. Truth be told, it has nothing to do with them. It's not personal. It's the ideology they push. We have a whole armies worth of people, on our own team, chanting this same mantra "Tinnitus is no big deal. Your suffering is all in the mind. Your pain is self-inflicted", and discrediting us.

And I get it. They consider themselves good people and they want to help. So they do what they can, and that's to tell the people suffering there's nothing to fear. Again, because that's all they can do, and telling people there's nothing to fear sort of works; it makes everyone feel better.

But it's a sticking plaster solution. It is very very short term. And in the long term, actually makes things a lot worse.

You might remember these from back in 2020.

I consider the people who spread the "power of the mind" bullshit on tinnitus support forums to be no better than the people who sold these. The only difference being, the guys who sold the necklaces got money, and the people who sell the psychobabble self-gaslighting kits, get feel good vibes.

In the long run, telling people "in 99% of cases tinnitus becomes easy to live with" and anything else they want to hear, just gives them a false sense of security and causes them to drop the guard they should really be keeping up. It also pours water over the flame of urgency (for a cure) so many people have lost their lives to fuel.

So yeah, Jack and Jeremy can go to bed feeling good about themselves tonight; because today they made some guy or girl just starting out on their tinnitus journey feel better. Meanwhile another young man who cannot leave his bedroom, and another Mum who can no longer hold her child, will have ended their lives, because "tinnitus ain't so bad", and they were just "the 0.1%" anyway.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Thank you Daniel.

Although, there was no need for you to explain your position to me. I've always known you were one of the sensible ones. You provide comfort to those of us who are struggling, without minimising anything, and I love you for that.

It's true of course, that being robbed of your youth by severe tinnitus and hyperacusis, while continuing to be tortured by them - like me, @Brian Newman, @Stacken77, @KoolKat, @Foamearplugssuck, @Contrast (and a whole boatload of others I don't remember, know, or have the energy to list) - adds a whole extra dimension of emotional turmoil to the physical suffering we all know too well.

But I want to clarify, I am not making myself the arbiter of suffering here and I'm not trying to make a competition out of it.

There are such a wide variety of circumstances which only serve to complement the cruelty of this affliction we share.

Take @aura and @Hamsti (the latter, who I'm quite worried about at the moment) for example. They're Mums. They both have daughters whom they love, but will struggle to be around for as they grow up. @Hamsti's daughter's crying was killing her. Just take a moment to think about that. Her own baby daughter, whom she loves, was posing a threat to her health. I cannot even begin to imagine the level of mental and emotional pain that incurs.

Just two examples there. But there are so many more, that it becomes too bleak to give any further thought.

And so we shouldn't be arguing. We should be agreeing, all of us. Agreeing that: tinnitus is disgusting and needs to be eradicated.

But that's not what happens, as we see, day in, day out.

The argument I had with that member you mentioned. Truth be told, it has nothing to do with them. It's not personal. It's the ideology they push. We have a whole armies worth of people, on our own team, chanting this same mantra "Tinnitus is no big deal. Your suffering is all in the mind. Your pain is self-inflicted", and discrediting us.

And I get it. They consider themselves good people and they want to help. So they do what they can, and that's to tell the people suffering there's nothing to fear. Again, because that's all they can do, and telling people there's nothing to fear sort of works; it makes everyone feel better.

But it's a sticking plaster solution. It is very very short term. And in the long term, actually makes things a lot worse.

You might remember these from back in 2020.

I consider the people who spread the "power of the mind" bullshit on tinnitus support forums to be no better than the people who sold these. The only difference being, the guys who sold the necklaces got money, and the people who sell the psychobabble self-gaslighting kits, get feel good vibes.

In the long run, telling people "in 99% of cases tinnitus becomes easy to live with" and anything else they want to hear, just gives them a false sense of security and causes them to drop the guard they should really be keeping up. It also pours water over the flame of urgency (for a cure) so many people have lost their lives to fuel.

So yeah, Jack and Jeremy can go to bed feeling good about themselves tonight; because today they made some guy or girl just starting out on their tinnitus journey feel better. Meanwhile another young man who cannot leave his bedroom, and another Mum who can no longer hold her child, will have ended their lives, because "tinnitus ain't so bad", and they were just "the 0.1%" anyway.

@Damocles, you have politely nailed it. Your explanation and inside view is remarkable. If all would read this, I'm sure that 99.9% would agree to this writing. You've done well Pilgrim.

Elmer Bfuddled

 

[Damocles]

For today's 184th Grand National, my money was once again on @Wrfortiscue!

And guess what...

He finished!

13th...

That's the last year you're getting my £15, @Wrfortiscue.

The last year.

 

[tpj]

For today's 184th Grand National, my money was once again on @Wrfortiscue!

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And guess what...

He finished!

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13th...

That's the last year you're getting my £15, @Wrfortiscue.

The last year.

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Thanks @Damocles. Is there nowhere I can escape from that... thing?

 

[Jcb]

Wow... that owl really knows how to master a bullfighter pose!

Well he's actually doing a ole pose of the flamenco dance, I don't think he agrees with bullfighting

Thank you Daniel.

Although, there was no need for you to explain your position to me. I've always known you were one of the sensible ones. You provide comfort to those of us who are struggling, without minimising anything, and I love you for that.

It's true of course, that being robbed of your youth by severe tinnitus and hyperacusis, while continuing to be tortured by them - like me, @Brian Newman, @Stacken77, @KoolKat, @Foamearplugssuck, @Contrast (and a whole boatload of others I don't remember, know, or have the energy to list) - adds a whole extra dimension of emotional turmoil to the physical suffering we all know too well.

But I want to clarify, I am not making myself the arbiter of suffering here and I'm not trying to make a competition out of it.

There are such a wide variety of circumstances which only serve to complement the cruelty of this affliction we share.

Take @aura and @Hamsti (the latter, who I'm quite worried about at the moment) for example. They're Mums. They both have daughters whom they love, but will struggle to be around for as they grow up. @Hamsti's daughter's crying was killing her. Just take a moment to think about that. Her own baby daughter, whom she loves, was posing a threat to her health. I cannot even begin to imagine the level of mental and emotional pain that incurs.

Just two examples there. But there are so many more, that it becomes too bleak to give any further thought.

And so we shouldn't be arguing. We should be agreeing, all of us. Agreeing that: tinnitus is disgusting and needs to be eradicated.

But that's not what happens, as we see, day in, day out.

The argument I had with that member you mentioned. Truth be told, it has nothing to do with them. It's not personal. It's the ideology they push. We have a whole armies worth of people, on our own team, chanting this same mantra "Tinnitus is no big deal. Your suffering is all in the mind. Your pain is self-inflicted", and discrediting us.

And I get it. They consider themselves good people and they want to help. So they do what they can, and that's to tell the people suffering there's nothing to fear. Again, because that's all they can do, and telling people there's nothing to fear sort of works; it makes everyone feel better.

But it's a sticking plaster solution. It is very very short term. And in the long term, actually makes things a lot worse.

You might remember these from back in 2020.

I consider the people who spread the "power of the mind" bullshit on tinnitus support forums to be no better than the people who sold these. The only difference being, the guys who sold the necklaces got money, and the people who sell the psychobabble self-gaslighting kits, get feel good vibes.

In the long run, telling people "in 99% of cases tinnitus becomes easy to live with" and anything else they want to hear, just gives them a false sense of security and causes them to drop the guard they should really be keeping up. It also pours water over the flame of urgency (for a cure) so many people have lost their lives to fuel.

So yeah, Jack and Jeremy can go to bed feeling good about themselves tonight; because today they made some guy or girl just starting out on their tinnitus journey feel better. Meanwhile another young man who cannot leave his bedroom, and another Mum who can no longer hold her child, will have ended their lives, because "tinnitus ain't so bad", and they were just "the 0.1%" anyway.

You are a good guy... well put man.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Well he's actually doing a ole pose of the flamenco dance, I don't think he agrees with bullfighting

You are a good guy... well put man.

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Is that the cleaning lady @aura? Certainly looks like it. Beware lads.

 

[Leila]

Hello @Elmer B Fuddled!

Sorry, it has taken me so long to get back to you and let you know how amazingly great your corn bread recipe turned out to be. We had it for Easter tea and, as suggested by you, kept it simple as far as spreads were concerned. Just a little butter and honey or marmalade. It was gone before I knew it and everybody was, "C'mon, Leila, we know you usually make an extra loaf to freeze, so go and get it already!" And I was, "Sorry, folks, I was told it doesn't freeze well, so this really is it..."

Thank you very much once again for sharing your recipe with me, @Elmer B Fuddled, it made this year's Easter tea a deliciously special get-together

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Hello @Elmer B Fuddled!

Sorry, it has taken me so long to get back to you and let you know how amazingly great your corn bread recipe turned out to be. We had it for Easter tea and, as suggested by you, kept it simple as far as spreads were concerned. Just a little butter and honey or marmalade. It was gone before I knew it and everybody was, "C'mon, Leila, we know you usually make an extra loaf to freeze, so go and get it already!" And I was, "Sorry, folks, I was told it doesn't freeze well, so this really is it..."

Thank you very much once again for sharing your recipe with me, @Elmer B Fuddled, it made this year's Easter tea a deliciously special get-together

That's perfect. Granny would have been proud.

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

Somewhere up this mountain there's a lake. 3 and a half miles in all up hill.

Then a lake.

A long walk but well worth it.

 

[Deamon22]

Hey guys, has anyone been to an Indoor Hockey Game with foam earplugs? Is it doable?

 

[Jcb]

Is that my fave Aussie terror/trouble maker I see @Star64. I hope you are doing as good as can be mate

Hey guys, has anyone been to an Indoor Hockey Game with foam earplugs? Is it doable?

I'm no sports fan really mate, but I'm guessing it will be loud, especially with it being indoors and how those sport "enthusiasts" get rowdy and angry very easily at games...

 

[Deamon22]

I'm no sports fan really mate, but I'm guessing it will be loud, especially with it being indoors and how those sport "enthusiasts" get rowdy and angry very easily at games...

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I skipped the game. I think I would have been fine with foam earplugs, but in the end not worth the risk. Whatever, there will be other events Thanks for the advice

 

[Damocles]

I wish I could live here (Autocamp Catskills) forever.

Pleased to hear you've found some sanctuary and are destressing.

If you like it so much, why don't you see if you can get a job there?

Then you can get paid to eat: egg and cheese on everything bagels, apple cider donuts, granola cereals with oat milk, and earl grey teas with lavender, while you talk tinnitus, all the time.

 

[Juan]

There seems to be a revival of bookstores. They're back! Just got a photography book I was looking for, and cheaper than on the Internet. It was so nice to buy a book in a physical store!