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I don't like holidays period. It's not the sentiment. It's the disruption in routine. The more I think about it, I'm probably "on the spectrum", even  though I don't know what that means. Daylight savings too. It's just a completely unnecessary psycho-physiological trauma inflicted on the entire nation. Trump's got to make it stop.

Now I know why those guys were standing in the middle of the intersection in town...it was the poppy thing. I hate that. I never have any cash on me when I'm working. That just shame you at that stop sign. It's a horrible 40 seconds.

I've been trying to grow poppies for years but I always lose interest so I've given up. I think you have to keep the seeds in the refrigerator for a month before you plant them or something. Anyhow, there's a story about them. Something about Flanders, which I believe is in Belgium. Oddly, I was looking at that "find-a-grave" or something like that and saw that like five of my great uncles from the same family on the Irish side died in the same week in Flanders in 1917. Jesus Christ. What a miserable ass life they must have led to get roped into something like that.  The worst part is that even if they would have lived they probably would have died withing months anyhow from like "consumption" or the flu or plague. People back then were just crawling with pestilence because they had zero understanding of pathogens. Anyhow, the poppies apparently benefited from the constant, pointless shelling during four years of uninterrupted fruitless stalemate and open-ditch latrines/slash/mass-graves. An inspiring thought to be sure. I think I was more interested in the medicinal angle anyhow.

If I had lived in Europe I suppose I would have emigrated asap too. Too many small countries crammed into the same land mass. There's no way not to go to war. I would have hopped on the first available banana boat and got the fck out of Dodge. I think my grandfather split because they wanted to force him into the army and send him to Ethiopia or something. The irony that he fled to Detroit is priceless. It's like these guys at work. They're all right off the boat but they have a skills that are marketable in any developed country no matter what language is happening.

Youre a nurse. You should know

I’ve never referred to any body part as a nether region.

I’ve never referred to any body part as a nether region.

Its common terminology.

The whole thing was that Henry the 8th was sick of beheading his wives because the Catholic Church forbade divorce so he converted to Protestant. That's according to my best recollection but it's probably loosely accurate.

By all accounts, Henry the Eighth was a big fat lecher that was shooting blanks and blaming his wives. He was a pig.  I took a class on medieval history that I can't remember and pretty much the bullet point is that as some kind of misguided social experiment, the Europeans gave up bathing for 1200 years to see what would happen  and Bubonic Plague was the outcome. The Plague was a big hitter for human evolution.