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Calvin
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I've never used the green stuff, and have drank very rarely. My brother-in-law and his wife are as of now raging alcoholics and are not admitting to
it, so they don't think they need help and get angry at people that suggest they do. I don't want them to hit bottom before they realize what's going
on, but I don't know what else will do it.
Hi there.
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Hairiest, Poly? Interesting choice of words, sounds like my dad should try it. 
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Quote: Originally posted by Calvin  |
Trying to be funny? No. It sounds like you didn't really make a decision to quit, you made the decision to try to quit. If you really want to stop,
decide that you aren't going to have anymore, ever. And then focus on the fact that there is no pain in withdrawal, just a restless, uneasy feeling.
After I reconciled that those things were true in my mind it was a snap. |
Calvin! You've given me a gift! The right thing at the right time! And something I can use every day! Thank You! 
[Edited on 1-12-11 by punknaynowned]
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polydigm
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| Quote: Originally posted by Calvin | | ... they don't think they need help and get angry at people that suggest they do. I don't want them to hit bottom before they realize what's going on,
but I don't know what else will do it. |
I feel your pain there mate. I've been through that with a couple of
people, it ain't easy.
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polydigm
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It's a commonly used slang term in Australia and England at least, I can't speak for America. "It was a
hairy situation, I nearly didn't make it."
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| Quote: Originally posted by polydigm | | It's a commonly used slang term in Australia and England at least, I can't speak for America. "It was a
hairy situation, I nearly didn't make it." |
"Looks like you made it!"  
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polydigm
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Well, it has been
nearly 27 years now, but thanks for the fanfare anyway.
Good luck with yours. If nothing else, when you succeed, you will end up feeling better about yourself and that's priceless.
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Lost a long post.
Anyway I've started on a set of cable knit gloves for my sister, but I'm quitting because the pattern in the book doesn't work. It must be a nightmare
to correct every single pattern, there's so many numbers you can't easily look up, but it's very frustrating.
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Calvin
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| Quote: Originally posted by punknaynowned | | Quote: Originally posted by Calvin |
Trying to be funny? No. It sounds like you didn't really make a decision to quit, you made the decision to try to quit. If you really want to stop,
decide that you aren't going to have anymore, ever. And then focus on the fact that there is no pain in withdrawal, just a restless, uneasy feeling.
After I reconciled that those things were true in my mind it was a snap. |
Calvin! You've given me a gift! The right thing at the right time! And something I can use every day! Thank You!
[Edited on 1-12-11 by punknaynowned] |
Now you must be joking.
Hi there.
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punknaynowned
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Nope. See the pm or u2u I sent you here.
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Hairy as Australian,GB slang, but in Holland we also use our hair in our language when it is a hairy thing.
It was a hair(thickness) close. 't scheelde maar een HAARTJE.
And in Holland Slang we extend it to
it was as close as a hair(thickness) from an elephantstail (In Dutch it rhymes)
Het scheelde maar een haartje van een olifantenstaartje.
Even in language we are closer to eachother than we think.
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We use 'hairy' in amer-english to mean the same things. Like 'scary', like 'near' as Geoff and Ed used it.
An expression I heard once when someone asked 'how are you' was
'As fine as a frog's hair'. This was meant in a different way, I think. 'Fine' can mean 'quality' or 'good' or 'thin', 'tiny'.
But frogs don't have hair...
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Kermit does
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BBP
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That depends on the hand inside him.
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So, Bonny, are you having a go at your Dad's hair "situation".
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Well, I could knit him a wig. I got a shade of brown that matches his old colour (which, btw, I've never seen, I only recall him as being grey). Could
knit some more for myself too, since I'm getting very snowy myself and I'm very tired of meeting old friends I haven't seen in ages only for them to
tell me "Wow, you've really gone grey!"
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speaking of thinning strands ( I know it's a stretch) yesterday, I went to the Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City.
YES! That one!
They make a big deal about so many people playing there: The Beatles to FZ, Count Basie to Hall & Oates. The upstairs ballroom does have wooden
floors but the structure is all concrete, except the roof. The sound id not great. Now they do play music there but as a background to it's primary
use.
The Cowtown Ballroom is now the Cowtown Mallroom. It's a two-story flea market! Records and players, lamps and lunchboxes, artifacts and nostalgia
trash, it's all there and prices are going up. It started about a year ago to gather a larger group of active sellers and now it hums with activity.
I got a hardbound copy of The Martian Chronicles and a box of girl scout cookies.
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It's been St Nicholas, had and gave lots of presents. Most notably a home-knitted toy Shaun the Sheep. Shaun's a little thin on top in my version too,
although he has a mullet on the show.
I'd love to visit Cowtown someday, sounds like my kind of place!
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polydigm
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I've just finished my last school reports for the year so I'm floating a few centimetres above the ground. It's just baby sitting from here on in.
Next week is the last week of the year and there will only be year 8s and 9s left and they're having a special activities week. I get to take a group
of four students around an eighteen hole par 54 course which are all par 3 holes on Monday and an eighteen hole par 60 course which has 6 par 4 holes
and 12 par 3 holes on Wednesday. And they pay me for this?
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Ah... the last week of school... We usually got a movie OD. Usually a Python in English class, and my French 3rd year teacher showed us Leon.
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