PinkCouture

There are definitely people that are profiting from this site. Again, us three are not one of them As for signing-up, I don't think it is possible b/c that would require a higher profit split

Profiting doing what? Search engine optimization? :-D

It involves the ads that are on our site.

BTW, toilet paper is very important. I have used leaves to wipe myself before (sorry for the TMI) and it is NOT something I want to do ever again!!!

^ Nice! Where were you traveling to? For work, pleasure, or a bit of both?

I am doing alright. Busy with work & etc. It is subjective b/c whether or not I am "back" depends on how one would define it

Sorry for late reply, I simply lost track I was traveling around Asia for about 7 months....It was all pleasure

So what's you're definition of "back" in this instance then

Where did you visit in Asia?

Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. I was going to go off to India and Siri Lanka after that but Mentally i was knackered and ready to come home. So thats next on my list. Along with Africa

^ Have you considered visiting North Asia like Japan, S. Korea, China, HK, Taiwan, etc?

Africa sounds cool, esp South Africa or North Africa

^ Have you considered visiting North Asia like Japan, S. Korea, China, HK, Taiwan, etc?

Africa sounds cool, esp South Africa or North Africa

I have, in fact wonderful teaching opportunities in Taiwan. So will see, Would like to do Japan but very expensive. China is on my list too but very hard to travel around apparently cuz of the language barrier

Invisible hello to you too

This was a few years back. He invited me to a sailing trip to Canada but I couldn't make it. His trips were so dangerous that he had to make preparations with his will and insurance before each trip..

What a guy! I´d love to go to Canada - though not on a sailing trip, but into the wild woods there... damn

e.g. Spending half your working life as an expert in a narrow field & function, and waking up one morning finding out that your skills are now de-valued or worse, as redundant as a clock-maker. Knowledge workers have been proletarianized long ago. The knowledge-based economy tends to impose a tyranny on one's thoughts & priorities during the working day. There's others, as well.

I understand now. We were discussing similar thing with fl... nowadays, people know everything (or at least more than before) and, at the same time, nothing at all. They are specialized in one thing, but have no idea about the others. I´m glad it´s not really like that here still, but it is heading that way.

The average standard of living back then was about 1/2 to 1/4th of what the average person in the West has now.

Some of the things that comes out immediately for me are:

1. Lack of information in the 50s

2. much higher need to perform chores & manual labor

3. high level of community solidarity and claims of a "social structure" that was probably mostly due to the "balanced countervailing forces" of the time between unions, private industry, and the government which helped produce income equality. The economy was, as a residue of the war, far more dominated by vertically integrated super-corporations than today. eg. General Motors employed some 400,000 people in the 50s. And the war enhanced national solidarity as did the common enemy - communism and the Soviet Union.

4. lower education level, manufacturing based economy. Pre-computer age paper pushing was a common means of employment. So people went through life with lower mental stresses but high physical ones.

So some Old people claim that the 50s were better, but I believe that it comes, partially, from defects in memory. They remember only the good things, and marginalize what was bad or inferior. Their mental conceptions may have been more appropriate for happiness than what we have in today's over-complex modernity.

It´s normal that people tend to remember only the good things... that´s a way our mind is dealing with ugly memories. As you know, I love chores and I love manual work... I´m not that much into this computer era, I´d rather live somewhere with no net connection, no phones, no pcs... everything is so fast now, so quick, so perplexed. I do not need all the information media is giving me. I do not want them.

Every era has its pros and cons... it depends on what you prefer.

I see people as idiosyncratic 'mental models'. They have thought patterns that are immediately discernible. Sometimes my own models are indecipherable to them and I am, on occasion, likewise confused. Such it is :=D But interpersonal conflict is wonderful in the way that it can bring forth a fresh opportunity to expand one's vocabulary of conceptual patterns.

When you talk about emotions coming later, I and just about everybody else is the same way. One can't function in society if they behave like a bag of emotions out there in the open.

But many people do behave like that

Actually, I really value toilet paper, lol even more when I´m in woods

Funny. There is no commodity so precious in society as the last few squares of toilet paper

That´s just SO true

Although the suburbs is away from the city, the city life still influence people's behaviors such as being impatient, the occasional snottiness and lack of concern for the environment.

As for my comment regarding the middle-class being more screwed, most drug-related and domestic crimes are committed by the [white] middle-class. We rarely hear about it b/c it is not something most people want to hear considering we live in white-dominated society.

In response to your long post: I think we sometimes need a change of environment to keep us balance, focus and sane, so I understand what you meant by enjoying life in nature.

If you ever get a chance, you should go to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. It is very beautiful there, and it is one of the rare places I felt in touch w/ nature. It is naturally spirited and pristine

Visiting Canada´s nature is my big dream

Yes, we really need nature - that´s why we should respect it. Funny that people rarely do so they just do not understand. My only trouble is that I would like to change that "sometimes" to "always".

Is there a high crime-level where you live?

Hey there Pinks, how are you doing?

Hello there Herve

I am doing ok. Busy, busy, busy. How have you been? What are you up to these day?

Still working at the same place, only they've kicked me up to a mid-management position. Better pay, more headaches.

Currently single again.

I have, in fact wonderful teaching opportunities in Taiwan. So will see, Would like to do Japan but very expensive. China is on my list too but very hard to travel around apparently cuz of the language barrier

Because of globalization you would be surprised how many people in China can speak & understand English

Invisible hello to you too

LOL...thank you. How have you been? BTW, love your avatar and all of your creations

Still working at the same place, only they've kicked me up to a mid-management position. Better pay, more headaches.

Currently single again.

One of the drawbacks of getting paid more is you do more

Oww...no lady friend?

I recently became single

Visiting Canada´s nature is my big dream

Yes, we really need nature - that´s why we should respect it. Funny that people rarely do so they just do not understand. My only trouble is that I would like to change that "sometimes" to "always".

Is there a high crime-level where you live?

LOL...not really. Although we did have a child molester living down the street few years ago

I remember when a black family moved into the neighborhood the neighbors were on high alert. I think some of them prepared their guns. Now that I think of it, there was an increase of gun shots at the nearby shooting range

Still working at the same place, only they've kicked me up to a mid-management position. Better pay, more headaches.

Currently single again.

One of the drawbacks of getting paid more is you do more

Oww...no lady friend?

I recently became single

Sorry to hear that Pinks.

Still not much luck with the ladies either. It becomes harder and harder to find people who are single and around my age as well, most of the folks my age are settling down (if they aren't already).

LOL...not really. Although we did have a child molester living down the street few years ago

I remember when a black family moved into the neighborhood the neighbors were on high alert. I think some of them prepared their guns. Now that I think of it, there was an increase of gun shots at the nearby shooting range

A child molester? Ergh. What happened to him??

Did they have any reasons to do so? or is it pure dread from something they are not used to? We do not have much black people here... but we have issues with Romans (gypsies) that are living in the outskirts of villages and cities - in a close society that is called "osada". They are very inadaptable, lazy and generally there is very high criminal level in their surrounding. It´s a long story... but this is the main reason why people here are very insecure when it comes to gypsies although those living in cities are just like any other Slovak citizens - the sad thing is, there are less of these "normal" guys and more of these "inadaptable" guys who create a very bad image of these people.

I don´t know if you have such problems... the only experience I had with black people were always great. Not that I have met many of them but those I did were lovely. Once I met a guy called Warry (I do not know how to spell his name, it´s pronounced like uary), a black man from France. Damn was he a linguist... he spoke French (naturally), English, Spanish, Italian, and two African dialects and God knows which else his parents were from Africa. He helped me to get rid of my block (I couldn´t speak English!!) and since then I have no problem speak it anywhere and anytime very educated, witty and funny... and interested in Slovakia. He really made an impress

Invisible hello to you too

LOL...thank you. How have you been? BTW, love your avatar and all of your creations

Thank you

I'm pretty well

I have, in fact wonderful teaching opportunities in Taiwan. So will see, Would like to do Japan but very expensive. China is on my list too but very hard to travel around apparently cuz of the language barrier

Because of globalization you would be surprised how many people in China can speak & understand English

Really, i've heard otherwise. So thats interesting to hear

I was told the chinese can be quite stubborn in that area

What a guy! I

BTW, toilet paper is very important. I have used leaves to wipe myself before (sorry for the TMI) and it is NOT something I want to do ever again!!!

ouch!

Have you read On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt? If not, you have to read it! There is another book, I cannot recall the name of at this moment, about journalism and how it is important to scrutinize the content b/c most of is..."bullshit"

"Eating ants for protein"...lol

No, I haven't but it sounds interesting.

And pink, I've never lived in a high crime area and have never fully understood the fascination with home defense and firearms among some Americans. I had an oldster gloat to me about his weapons, and I couldn't help but wonder if it was, in fact, born out of genuine need or rather some vague sense of pessimistic paranoia...:-D

Sorry to hear that Pinks.

Still not much luck with the ladies either. It becomes harder and harder to find people who are single and around my age as well, most of the folks my age are settling down (if they aren't already).

It is what it is. I will be ok eventually *sigh*

I know what you mean by it getting hard to find people our age that are still single. Most of them are either taken, engaged, or married w/ children However, I know a few people who have found love on dating sites. Have you tried that yet?