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The tears are extra salty.Quote: Lonely nation: 2 in 3 Americans feel more alone than ever before, many admit to crying for first time in years
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While I was a weeper in my twenties ... well, histrionics were tres chic in the '60's ... I seemed to have gone dry after that.
Sixteen years ago, in the most intense part of radiation/chemo, I was at home, and, as a thunderstorm came up, I felt a catharsis coming on ... at last, I thought, i'll have a good cry, and feel a lot better ... just as I teetered on the edge of pathos, a Thai talking lizard (tookay) bellowed his nocturnal mating call [^] which can, and did, sound a lot like "fcuk you" 
So, I just crawled back to my neuroses, unpurged, reminding myself that "those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."
Tookay: don't try this at home: the powerful, hard to escape from, bite carries a risk of severe infection: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Glad you pulled through 16 years ago.
And that tookay looks like a komodo that's no longer a juvenile! 
EDIT: The second last link is a tokay, a type of gecko. I was referring to the last link!
modified 29-Apr-21 15:43pm.
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Bill's post mentions 2/3 while yours has 31% always/often/some of the time for the US, so which is it? 
The Netherlands is at the bottom of the graph 
But then of course I'm in the wrong statistic, so it doesn't really matter 
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Sander Rossel wrote: so which is it?
Exactly.
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I have noticed as I have gotten older I have become a bit of a softy. I don't think it has anything to do with COVID. I think it is more that I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger. I think I live deeper too.
But then again that might just be alcohol talking.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger
Amen !
Perhaps there's a pendulum-swing effect where the histrionic ripens into ... on the outer levels ... less emotional display ? While the habitually less effusive ripen into more outer lability, more expressiveness ?
I think we need to distinguish sentiment from empathy, and, for any given individual, there are such complex factors that shape temperament, generalizations are weak.
imho, any way we get to compassion is a blessing.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Quote: rnbergren wrote:
I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger
Amen !
C'mon guys, don't drink the Kool-Aid: it's the testosterone level going down  
Mircea
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Definitely the case for me. I bought a copy of the movie Up[^] a few months back. It's become one of my favorite movies, and there are a couple spots where I tear up, even after 4 or 5 viewings.
I'm a sentimental sod, and have definite issues about parenting, fatherhood and children. Up hits all those buttons.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Do cows have hooves instead of feet because they lactose?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's a moot point. Have you any udder suggestion so that I can milk this pun a bit fodder than I already have?
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Now you're making fun of cows?!?!?
You are so intolerant...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You better steer clear.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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How long do you think we can keep milking these puns?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Until the cows come home!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Wait a second - if they are not home - how are we milking them?" 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Haven't you herd? we go to them, in cattle cars.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm developing a beef with the two of you.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Let's take the bull by the horns and discuss this until the cows come home.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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List the distinct uses for a colon in C++.
Motivated by currently writing a function that had better take all of them into account! 
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Now why would I be hesitating to click on that link?
EDIT: Curiosity killed the cat. But it could have been worse!
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Greg Utas wrote: Now why would I be hesitating to click on that link?
Answer I'd have given:
Hesitant? Perhaps not enough roughage?
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