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09 Jan 2026, 2:41 pm

Someone at the clubhouse said that The Monkees were not a real band. I told him that his opinion is not my reality.


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09 Jan 2026, 3:12 pm

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I only went to the bog but thank you

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09 Jan 2026, 3:18 pm

Why is it that males around the world get to wear the cool costumes while females have to wear frilly dresses?


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09 Jan 2026, 5:53 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
Someone at the clubhouse said that The Monkees were not a real band. I told him that his opinion is not my reality.

First, I like the new avatar. :)
Second, The Monkees were as much a real band as several bands from the 1960s. They all could play instrument. Mike Nesmith wrote songs. Studio musicians played on some of their albums, but does anyone think The Beach Boys played all the instruments on Pet Sounds? I remember hear they weren't a real band in the late sixties. When they played concerts, and on their later albums, they played their own instruments.

In the early sixties, Phil Spector use to fabricate new groups, and sometimes the group of people on the record were not the same people that toured. The Crystals were an example of that. Darlene Love floated from group to group, The Blossoms, Bobby Soxx and the Blue Jeans, plus as solo artist. But then Spector recorded a few songs (He's a Rebel, and He's Sure the Boy I Love) with The Blossoms and released them as The Crystals, and it wasn't that there were four woman already touring as The Crystals.

So that is what's on my mind right now, after reading CockneyRebel's post. I don't recall what I was going to type when I came here, but when I read CockneyRebel's post, the etch-a-sketch flipped over, gave a shake, and replace it with "The Monkeys weren't a real band." Poppy cock.

(LOL Now I'm wondering where the term Poppy cock came from?)


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09 Jan 2026, 5:59 pm

poppycock noun
pop·​py·​cock ˈpä-pē-ˌkäk
: empty talk or writing : nonsense

Etymology
Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung


And it is one word, not two.
I like the literal Dutch meaning, if I read that correctly - soft dung. :lmao:


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09 Jan 2026, 7:50 pm

I'm just afraid of losing what little support I have now ... which isn't much.


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10 Jan 2026, 3:03 am

Currently being in a deceptive state of thinking 'this is it!!'

It's not. :roll:

Yes, my own brain doesn't beat me up.
I had to be the one to do it myself.


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10 Jan 2026, 6:33 am

I'm toying with the idea of getting myself a secret early Easter egg and eating it in bed


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10 Jan 2026, 10:22 am

I remember when the cordless phone was revolutionary


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10 Jan 2026, 10:29 am

cordless kettles even better


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10 Jan 2026, 3:29 pm

The power of story telling is actually mind-blowing


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10 Jan 2026, 4:49 pm

This old man came rolling home


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10 Jan 2026, 10:08 pm

I've priced everything that I plan to sell tomorrow.


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10 Jan 2026, 10:28 pm

If it rains on Tuesday, if the roads are even a little wet, I don't eat for a month. That's how pathetic my life is.



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10 Jan 2026, 10:51 pm

I think the reasonable response to "what do plantains taste like?" is "would you like to try a piece?"



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11 Jan 2026, 12:32 am

If my early home has a vibe, let's just say whatever my own mother tried, just epically failed.

She expects a jolly, loud and musical crap that those with sensory seeking and extroverted people tend to vibe with like with parties.


Instead I register that as more chaos.

I was expecting something, really; a tradition of sorts.
Waiting that there's something I can just say "this is what my family do" -- and found nothing.


What, she thinks those jewels that she gotten off from her friends or some crap she brought is something I can pass onto anyone? Pff. No. I sense no importance whatsoever in it. There's no story behind anything my household has. Nothing.

Yes, yes, she traveled and all that as soon as she hits 'old enough to work'. It could've been more interesting.

But what did she brought home about that?
Nothing.

And the, say, 1k+ relatives on that one village isles away?
I dunno. It's more like she's avoiding that somehow. They felt more like a backup plan in worse case scenarios than something that could front as "my household's".


Oh, and my paternal side of stuff?
They're utterly mundane. Only stuff I saw was that they're lucky and tend to incline themselves in white collar aspects of stuff. That's it, really. I could claim they're a family of medical professionals; I meant nurses and caregivers, not doctors. The rest are either landlords or business owners.

Which is somewhat fine.
Better than nothing to be honest. Closest thing to 'normal', really, since this is something common within the country's households.

But they're not within my immediate family. We ain't so close.
My own dad dropped the whole thing before that ever came true for him.

And the only thing he passes to me were health issues. :roll:



So if I look at my parents and their relationship from an early age...
And sense their 'vibe' or whatever...

It's rather tense. Chaotic.
There is no order underneath all that.

I don't see coordination, synching, or anything of the sort.
Just this stupid uneven dynamic, where there's one breadwinner, pulling their straps for what's basically 2 households.
Unfortunately common within this country's household.

Only more lacking communication. Only more financial feuds. Only more insecurities. Only more chaos.
Hah.

If I have an unselfish wish, then I wish it all ends with me, then.


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