2023 End of Year Random Thoughts

In 2023, two major wars have started, and they are still going on. One is in Ukraine and other one is in Gaza. I hope no new wars to start in 2024 and the current wars hopefully will end soon.

@FanAmp

 There are more than 30 conflicts taking place at the present time. Unfortunately, we don't hear much about them because they don't impact our daily lives. But I can guarantee you those involved in these disputes have lost their loved ones, their homes & any sense of normalcy. International law is laughed at & corruption is rampant.

If you are over 50, this may be of interest to you.

During my annual checkup, I asked my doc why I feel my hands slightly clenched & resting on my chest while I awake in the morning. He told me it's a sense of comfort & a feeling of protection. As we age we revert back to a sense that we are back in our Mom's womb.

Crazy, huh???

I just watched 2 commercials that made me think WTF?

A Honda dealer was promoting the fact they would be open on New Year's Day. Do people really go shopping for a car on New Year's Day? I guess they must because the dealer just paid some nice cabbage in the advertising costs.

The other company was Rooms To Go. They were informing viewers that no interest would be charged until 2028 for their purchases. 2028??? If you haven't paid off your furniture purchase in 4 years, maybe now isn't the time to buy new furnishings.

Ya think??

I think that's the whole idea. To incentivize people to get it paid off.

Dolphins punter Jake Bailey got engaged to his girlfriend Bailey Medeiros this week.

Yup, her name will become Bailey Bailey.

If you cropdust somebody with that evil kind of sinister fart puff and poopy smoke , and that person goes into a coughing fit , and has a pre-existing medical condition , and they die from it , can you be charged with anything ?

As I get one day closer to the age of 60, I have learned to FINALLY accept the fact that if I can't control it, let it go.

It's funny how if you were in public with holes in your pants when I was a child, they thought your family was poor. These days holes in your pants are a fashion statement.

Can I just once walk into a business and not see cups, jars, bowls, or something with the word "TIPS" on it? 

Will people if they are wrong or make a mistake just acknowledge it and move on with life instead of trying to argue with you for fifteen minutes about how they are right?

How come wars start over religion but never end because of it? 

facts

@Daddy_Freddie

 Don't mind the tip jars because I tip who I want to to tip. Totally agree on your wars/religion comment.

A friend of ours in Michigan wants to go on an iguana hunt & fish for peacock bass with a guide down here in SFLA. I can set him up for the peacock bass with a great guide but I've never heard of an iguana hunt. I know there are people who will help get these pesky critters out of you backyard but this is a coordinated hunt.

Better yet, you can purchase a "Iguana Cook Book" written by good ole boy Big Daddy Chuck.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Here's an Amazon review of Big Daddy Chuck's iguana cookbook...

"I want this book removed from Amazon. Iguanas make great pets you might as well have a hunting and cooking your pet dog and cat, hamster, etc.."

Both my parents are in heaven but I could never see my Mom with another man other than my Dad. But I could see my Dad with another woman other than my Mom.

I realize it's a double standard but I believe there are others in this forum that feel the same way.

Having worked near The Village in NYC for almost a decade, I'm easily enamored by head shops.  A new shop opened in our conservative town & I had to visit it. Nice small clean shop & I bought 2 roach clips for $5 a piece. Before leaving, I mentioned to the chic behind the counter about having trouble getting screens out of pipe. Easy solution...boil the pipe & the screen comes dislodged along with a nice amount of THC. This reminded me of the head shop I first visited in SFLA in 74.

In the spring of 74, I learned about Spring Break in Fort. Lauderdale. I walked into a head shop on A1A to look around for something new/different. I saw a tiny harmonica & the guy came over to tell how the instrument was used & it wouldn't be for playing music. He proceeds to tell me about using it on the opposite sex while performing oral on your partner. He said the soothing vibration properly used would bring immediate climax to your lady. I started to leave & he said "5 bucks buddy, you can't go wrong." He made a sale & tried to sell be a corresponding chain but I told him I didn't need it.

That weekend I got my 1st chance to use it. At first the lady thought it was kinky until I hit her G-spot. She clamped her legs so tight around my neck, I almost swallowed the damn harmonica. I went back to the head shop on the beach the following weekend & the dude remembered me saying "Did you come back for the chain?"

He knew exactly what happened to me.

It would be utopia if we cared about each other all year long & not just on special holidays. Here's a very simple thing you can do for your fellow man.

Every time you hear fire engine alarms or police sirens or an ambulance coming, stop and say 3 quick prayers.

First say a prayer for the people in trouble who need assistance. The 2nd prayer is for the safety of our first responders as they race to to those in need. Lastly, a prayer for all the families involved.

Imagine doing it & telling others to do the same. You'll never know if you or a loved would ever need prayers from people they don't even know.

In life, I'll take street smarts over book smarts.

Street smarts has helped keep me alive. An algebra book, not so much. 

The phone is the new dick cuz any chance they get motherfuckers be playing with it 

people don’t know how to talk and have conversations anymore . It’s weird as fuck to me .

Growing up my Mom had a small statue of baby Jesus on top of the fridge & this is where the mystery begins.

There were 4 of us growing up with my brother being the oldest, then my sister (she's a speech therapist who taught Sidney Poitier's daughter how to roll her R's), me & my little sister. During the summer we would go in & out of the apartment all day long getting baseball gloves or skate keys or something to drink. One night after dinner (yeah, we ate dinner together back then), Moms wanted us to fess up as to who kept turning the baby Jesus statue towards the wall. She told us it was very disrespectful & she wanted it to stop.

The next day she had the same discussion with us after dinner because the statue was again facing the wall. And until someone fessed up, none of us were going out after dinner. I convinced my little sister to admit that she was doing it so we could all go out to play. Nah, Mom's wasn't picking up what I was putting down because my sister was too small to reach the top of the fridge. So we were all stuck in the apartment until my father came home from bowling & the mystery was solved.

Pops opened the fridge  for a can of Tab which had to be the worst soft drink ever created. Then we all saw it...

When the refrigerator door was closed, the statue vibrated and moved slightly. Close the door again & again it moved. By the end of the day with 4 kids opening/closing the refrigerator door, the statue continued to turn until it was facing the wall right around dinner time.

Mystery solved....

@Midnight1

 Shaggy and Scooby were most definitely stoners and weren't doing any damn super sleuthing. I struggle to remember is those two ever contributed anything to solving a mystery that wasn't accidental.

There's a guy on YouTube from somewhere in South Florida who's business is taking out iguanas with a high powered pellet rifle in places like school grounds and gold courses. Some big ones sometimes.

I'm blown away by the fact that you smoke weed, bro. Screens? Are you still using a metal pipe? We need to change that.

@StumpTownStu

 Stu, I have a ceramic one hitter that is my favorite but this afternoon I rolled a few blunts for those elongated sessions of relaxation. The one hitter is great when the ponies leave the gate & head down the stretch.

Been smoking weed since I was 15, stopped throughout my working career & picked it back up when we returned to SFLA in 2006. Most of the stuff I've shared in this thread has been with a nice buzz. It's relaxing & puts me in a reflective sense of sharing stuff I've experienced. Like when I'd go to the dog track & box 135. I played those numbers ever since a truck almost ran me off the road on I-95, The last thing I saw was the truck's license plate ...ACE-135. 

Miami Beach had budgeted 50k for iguana hunters in 2021 & raised it to 200k last year in their budget. They harvest these fuckers & sell the ground up meat to charter boats for chum or to the many Caribbean folks who have settled in SFLA.

If you are looking to help others before the end of the year, I highly recommend donating to your local Meals On Wheels program. Volunteers pack meals for delivery to home bound seniors over the age of 60. I've delivered meals & the smiles of recipients will knock your socks off.

If you don't have time to volunteer (meals are delivered 3 times a week including enough for the weekend), consider writing a check to help the program in your neck of the woods.

“There's nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There's nothing weak about looking out for others. There's nothing weak about being honorable. You're not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect.” —Barack Obama, 2019

I can't believe you don't like eggs, man. I get it. They're a little weird. They're so good though and a great source of protein.

I've been stitched up a number of times in my life & most have been absorbable which are absorbed naturally by the body as the wound heals. 

This morning I had the monofilament sutures removed from a recent surgery & it hurt like a bastard. There were 16 stitches & each one removed hurt like a mofo. Every time the doc removed one, my legs reacted with a brief spasm. 

Glad that shit is over with for now.

Yeah, if a would is to big or in a spot where they really need to pull you together tightly to hold, i.e. spots with not a lot of skin, etc, to grab, they still have to go old school.