Published on 12, July, 2020
The world seems grim right now with Covid, Brexit, endless atrocities, and my cold, uncaring birth family are going to the extreme to prove they don't give two hoots about me.
Is there anything nice we can discuss? e.g. I'm so happy that All Creatures Great and Small and The Great British Bake Off are coming back in the next few weeks. Also Strictly Come Dancing. Lots of silly shows to distract us.
Maybe this is a thread for people who have had enough, to come and talk about lighter, happier subjects.
Running a home is a very lonely and thankless task though. We don't get any 'job appraisals' where our bosses tell us how well we're doing. We don't have any managers or colleagues to turn to if things go wrong or just to chat to.
We're generally looked down on as lazy and pointless if we stay at home with children. Hidden away from public eyes who don't see the loneliness, exhaustion and fear of looking after little children day in day out. We have to be on duty 24/7 otherwise a child could get ill or injured. We can't even go to the loo in private. Even when out with our children, the public judges how good a mother we are and comments on our skills and berates us if we show any tiredness or irritability.
Not a fun role in any way, I'd rather be out enjoying an interesting job. Talking to other adults, using my brain, free from worry. Then I get told I'm selfish for not staying at home with my children. Women just can't win!
These instinctive choices often serve us well KikiCat.
Particularly the theological ones. Most of my really bad life choices were not instinctive. But that is the nature of pernicious evil... The show itself is far less scary than you would expect, but like the majotrity of television if it isn't actually hurtful to the soul, it's a bit of a waste of your time, and the commuincation is all "one way", with YOU as the recipient.
And T.V. can be massively addictive, taking as many hours out of your real "god given" life as a well controlled heroin habit! Just say no and go and do the ironing. If you are male and have not tried Ironing, it's a secret the women have been keepiing from us for ages. I haven;t doen any for quite a while now, but it's a great thing to do. you start with a mess, and at teh end tehre is order, and YOU made it happen. The process allows one time to legitimately enjoy a piece of music, or your own thoughts, without interruption because the activity itself makes a positive contribution to everyones lives. (yeah, as a bloke you'll soon run out of your own ironing, if you want an opportunity in the context of a busy family to take a bit of time to get baked and really listen to Dark Side of the Moon... Then you'll need to do their ironing too. And guess what? They'll be glad to let you. The army taught me both how to Iron your clothes and also how to kill you quickly at a distance of 25 strides.
Guess which turned out to be the more useful skill?
Yet still feminists discard the role as "unworthy"... Amazing! To actually suceed in running a home, you have to sucessfully excercise a great deal of skill and control.
Sorry, I've just read a powerfully provoking book entitled "this perfect day" by Someone called Ira Levin, and it's shaken up my perosonal "bag of values" again. that sort of thing makes me generally overly talkative. Sadly the tasks I should be doing, do not include Ironing. BUt there vaccuming to be done, that feels like weilding power and making change, and makes a universally positive difference!
I always avoided Lucifer as I thought it was about the devil and would be scary.
Yes, animals are far less complicated than humans. I don't understand most humans tbh.
Same here! I don't know what it's like to have a dad...
Although it is a bit darker in places, a smiliar programme if you like Lucifer and run out of episodes is, "The Mentalist". The lead character, one Patrick Jane is a wonderfully smartypants sort of character.
Hey listen give me a call
I’m new here, do you want to tell me how to talk in polish in private chat? ;-)
Don’t be silly, we are all good here
I am sorry, but I do not know what I said that upset you so I better stop talking
have a good night
how are your anyway?
we’ll be correct in your English when you join foru like thar
maybe it's my english, but I thought both are correct
difference is one suggests that one indetifies himself with and the other does not
I’ve been to the hell and back to find out it. So disrespectful
I’m autistic, wth?
All of them not all of us?
all of them?
that's stereotyping
Are you autistic too?
czesc.
but let's stick to english here
in polish we can have a private chat