The Gwampy Thread

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

.... i know enough to know that everyone else in the world would know that. and i like how exasperated your avatar looks right now... but... no way i would know that. i'm... very strange.

[reyler]

Kinda wondering now which avatar was giving you the stinkeye.

[bad company]

Must be why her avatar is snarling at you

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's a general pinciple

Edited January 5, 2012 by cindy

[reyler]

Pin Missile?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

typo chat?

[reyler]

Pin Missile is a garbage attack anyway. I don't know why they were so determined to make bug-type so worthless the first time around.

[GrandpaG]

I remember being scared by Dark Shadows. It was on in the afternoon after I got home from school. As I remember it was just another boring soap opera before the vampire thing. Took it to overnight fame. Of course, back then we only had CBS, NBC and ABC to choose from unless you lived in a major city that might have PBS. Where I lived it was mainly CBS. My grandparents had no electricity and used an out house until I was probably ten. Pitcher pump for kitchen water. Wood stove in the living room for heat. Yes. I remember Dark Shadows. My mom and dad had electricity AND a television. And a phone (on a party line, of course). We had it good. But, visiting grandpa and grandma was still always a special treat. They both loved me.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i remember it very much the same way.

 

except mom and me lived with grandma, and we had indoor plumbing, though the remains of the outhouse were still out back. and we had a gas boiler, and radiators, though we were often out of gas.

 

i bet you're not very much older than me at all, if you were scared of dark shadows after school.

 

were you as annoyed by the watergate hearings as i was?

[GrandpaG]

  On 1/8/2012 at 10:07 PM, cindy said:

i remember it very much the same way.

 

except mom and me lived with grandma, and we had indoor plumbing, though the remains of the outhouse were still out back. and we had a gas boiler, and radiators, though we were often out of gas.

 

i bet you're not very much older than me at all, if you were scared of dark shadows after school.

 

were you as annoyed by the watergate hearings as i was?

 

 

 

I'll be 58 this April Fool's Day (thus First Fool of Fiddlesticks).

 

I wasn't much into politics when Watergate took place. Come to think of it, I still don't take the whole political scene very seriously. Tremendous over use of taxpayer's money IMO. A good dictator could probably do as good much cheaper. Until he got his butt blown away by some goody two shoes democratic country that is. (just realized that some people might disagree with those thoughts).

 

Wifey needs the phone. See everybody next week (good lord willing and the creek don't rise).

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i was about 8 for watergate, and i got in a lot of trouble at my conservative school parroting my mom's... not conservative feelings. she wanted him executed.

[reyler]

For spying on his opponents? Everyone does that, he was just sloppy. Now we have Facebook to make it easy for the Common Man.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it was a very new idea, that the president could be like any common criminal. it was the thing that made everyone so jaded that we all think everyone does it now.

 

maybe they did then. but we didn't all know it.

 

it was a crime. it murdered our innocence and our ability to believe in things better than ourselves.

 

hard to see it that way from this side, but i do remember looking up to people. stupid as that was looking back on it i guess. but... it was a good thing also.

[reyler]

I suppose that makes sense. Hereditary monarchy had been known for a thousand years at least to be capable of scumminess, but they weren't freely elected by their constituents.

 

It is difficult to understand, though, the mindset that says that a person who has in whatever way obtained a position of power and authority must of a certainty be deserving of it.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

not of a certainty but... there was a certain level of discretion involved, and... school children especially were raised to respect authoritah. to not assume everything from the top down was a lie. maybe the grownups knew better but until then... well. doesn't matter now.

[reyler]

It doesn't help that part of the Amerikan character has always involved a bit of a pushback against authority, though the nature of that pushback has varied wildly over the years. I don't think the immediate and unqualifying distrust people have when anyone in authority speaks these days is any healthier than blind obedience, though.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

extremes are not usually good. the whole thing seems like a set up. just an easier way to manipulate the masses.

 

i'm a bit paranoid tho.

[reyler]

That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. My boss seems to have this outlook where he believes everyone in the world is out to take advantage of and cheat someone else. I can't think that way - I mean, what would the point be in engaging in society at that point?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's post apocalyptic thinking. rule by fear. surprisingly effective. i wouldn't have predicted this outcome, but i guess lots of other people did.

[reyler]

No, it's called him being a cynical bastard. I've been dicked over pretty much constantly throughout my life, but I have managed not to interpret this to mean that dicking people over is the natural inclination of existence in general.

[GrandpaG]

Was she referring to "Dick" Nixon?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

tricky. id have bought a used car from that man tho.

[reyler]

Maybe, but he'd have sold it to you as new.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's in the job description. at least you know what you're walking into with used car salesmen.

[reyler]

Certain death?