EmilyD

Penny....using the underline function like that (sometimes you use asterisks instead of underline), as well as breaking down someone's post and responding sentence by sentence reveals you.

Why do you feel it necessary to have - what is this now, your twelfth puppet? Why can't you just be yourself on forums? Why keep trying to hide behind sock puppets?

I understand why someone would want to play the sock puppet game with one or two of them, but at least twelve personalities here, and more than that on the other site, is an awful lot of personalities to keep up with. You lose track of who you are supposed to be so often that it's laughable when you come back here again and again thinking no one knows what you're doing. Maybe you should have a more detailed journal to keep track of which personality does what style of writing??

Big Bass

The truth.

albertk

caught again Penny
Is Byron helping out with the sock puppets or are you working solo?

EmilyD

It must be that....I can't imagine how anyone can keep track of so many different aliases!!! And he (Byron) did that on the other site, too. Either that, or she's doing a pisspoor job keeping track of them all. 😏

EmilyD

Wow! I never heard that! I've heard of the zinc spark, but I LOVE it being called the spark of life!!!!!

Thanks for planting that beautiful image in my mind! 👍🙏🙏🙏

I'm interested in what you have to say about the soul entering the body...

albertk

Check out EddieL. LOL

Mikeyavelli

That happens when you hear Nina Simone singing Trouble In Mind.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Gotta hear it to appreciate it.

https://youtu.be/QeKaLADxNQg

And of course when you’re listening to her your feeling~~

https://youtu.be/oHRNrgDIJfo

robertv3

As for me I am often a "book learned" type of person; however, I have some practical skills or traits, and wish I had more practical skills. We need more than one kind of person, so "book learned" and "un-book-learned with practical skills" are both ok and useful.

One practical skill which I'm proud of is that I can bring down a big tree in a crowded place without damaging property nor injuring anyone. Most people either cannot or will not do it. The most recent one I brought down would have cost thousands of dollars to have done professionally (I did it for free) and they would have had to remove a carport to get to it, and even then they might have caused some property damage (even if they put the carport back right).

robertv3

Thank you for the feedback.

Sometimes I am too verbose.

(Addendum: But still, it often is worthwhile to explain a thing thoroughly. Sometimes people oversimplify too much. There are times when oversimplification, and/or lack of understanding, lead to disaster or misery.)

Rose42

Don’t change your writing style to suit others. IMO its not too verbose and it makes it clear where you stand

robertv3

So _now_ I'm being criticized for NOT being smart, or for NOT graduating from some kind of school.

But, what I had said was: "Possibly one thing it's exceptional in is having more mass shootings and/or more deaths by guns, in civilian life, than other countries have." where "it" refers to the U.S. Keep that quoted sentence in mind, because that's what you were replying to (or attempting to reply to).

Here's some backup: "Of the most brutal are probably school shootings, on the list of school shootings by country, the US surely comes to the first place. Also, the US being at the top of world’s mass shooting by percentage (33%) compared to the population percentage it covers (5%) ..." ( https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-countries-with-the-most-mass-shootings-in-the-world-666161/ )

And all I had alleged was "Possibly..." and "...and/or...". It looks like there's something to it, anyway, regarding mass shootings, at least, as seen in the above quote. I didn't bother to look up "deaths by guns, in civilian life" recently.

So, my sentence is fine. It's your erroneous reading of it which has a problem. Where I referred to mass shootings "and/or" to deaths by guns in civilian life, you replied sarcastically _as_though_ I had instead referred to "homicide rates" which obviously is not the same thing. And even if I were more mistaken, it was just an exploratory comment anyway, starting with "Possibly". You are just primed to insult somebody no matter how reasonable they are.

Does your misconstruing mean that you are "not very smart" or that you should be questioned about whether you did "ever graduate from any school anywhere"?

And is being "smart" or educated supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing this time? You folks flip-flop so much on them, how is one to keep track of what's currently "in" and approved, or "out" and disapproved?

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"And is being "smart" or educated supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing this time? You folks flip-flop so much on them, how is one to keep track of what's currently "in" and approved, or "out" and disapproved?" - robertv3

"And is being "smart" or educated supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing this time?" - robertv3

Who are "You folks"?

"education" comes in many flavors.

And turns out different products.

Mikeyavelli

Thanks for those.
I've been to the tracks that rumbled by Nina Simone 's house, but I forgot the name of the small town she lived in.
There's a slower track of Trouble in Mind that Nina did. If I can find it I'll post it for you.
Dr Hepcat singing Hattie Green is the beginning of rock and roll. That's soul too, as much as Percy Sledge or Sam Cook.
I used to be affiliated with the music industry. I got to know a few of the stars.

American Vet

Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway — 1.888
Serbia — 0.381
France — 0.347
Macedonia — 0.337
Albania — 0.206
Slovakia — 0.185
Switzerland — 0.142
Finland — 0.132
Belgium — 0.128
Czech Republic — 0.123
United States — 0.089
Austria — 0.068
Netherlands — 0.051
Canada — 0.032
England — 0.027
Germany — 0.023
Russia — 0.012
Italy — 0.009