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Thanks Balin - I'm the skinny one in the sunglasses - my brother is 18 months younger than me.You look well preserved!! It must be the vodka.
Age is just a number and mind over matter - I don't mind and it doesn't matter haha !
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Age is just a number and mind over matter - I don't mind and it doesn't matter haha !
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I know nothing about cameras and photography and mostly use my phone but they have tiny lenses and image sensors so don't let enough light in in nearly dark conditions - so trying to suss out my Wi-Fi and bluetooth on my Canon B500 but it's a bit much for me - I really need showing how to use it by a photographer.
I just try and frame and light my shots best I can but then you lose "the moment" and the spontaneity haha !
I mostly just use a cheapie Samsung - A13 5G - 50 MP - Have got a 1999 Fuji Finepix S-602 Zoom bridge which is easy to use and a Canon B500 with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on it but it's too fiddly to use for me all the time.
I like my 25 year old Fuji with hot-shoe, optical viewfinder - 6x optical zoom 1/4000 sec - 15 min exposure and 1 cm super macro - it's been dropped in the sea, dropped and banged off walls and it still works great - even got the computer/Tv leads for it plus a mains adapter - brilliant bomb-proof kit.
The modern 1.6 volt Ni-Zn Nickel Zinc rechargeable AA batteries are brilliant and last for ages.
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I am trying to build my essential oil collection up but it's a slow process.
Times are hard, I'm retired and have always done herbalism for free as a hobby - I did the wrong science degrees and chose the wrong careers - oh well.
Doing copywriting and parapolitics plus being an International Hi-Fi executive was lucrative but burnt me out.
I do bespoke fragrances, candles and soaps etc and I need a few hundred essential oils but they're very expensive and a lot of the citrus oils etc expire in 6-12 months and it can take months just for one oil delivery.
I am doing the final bespoke frags for Christmas then I'm having a good rest.
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Thanks for the thumbs up Tathlum - healing people is very rewarding - I've done Herbalism and Phytopharmacology to O level, A level, OND, HND and degree level plus Aromatherapy, Shiatsu, Sports Remedial Massage, Physiotherapy, Anatomy, Physiology and Reflexology and it's not enough - it's a big subject - especially perfumery - it's like Computers or Languages - it's endless haha !
That's an impressive resume! Healing someone else must be very rewarding. Don't trust big pharma and I know very little about herbalism but seems a more natural alternative.
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Thanks Tathlum I've not hurt anybody or got sued in 35 years so I must be doing something right.
There is stuff that big Pharma don't want you to know because it'll affect profits and esoteric knowledge that used to be in medical and public libraries but is now deemed too dangerous to posses by the powers that be.
I love digging so I have some of that knowledge but the politicians and bigwigs want to dumb us down and indoctrinate us so we are easier to control.
It's all Sabbatean Frankfurt School, The Kalergi Plan and Hegelian dialectic and Communism/Satanism - it is so predictable to me.
Right - no more politics lol
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I'm so glad I lived in France and discovered coticules for my antique straights and am so glad I met an octogenarian Japanese Sensei in a 19th Century forge in Macau, China with no electricity 30 odd years ago because I think I saw the light after that and didn't waste as much time going round and round in circles trying to do the scientific method I was taught at Technical College when all the time getting an edge was an Art and a mindset that somehow gradually developed because I wanted to be self-sufficient.
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Merry or Happy Christmas on your side of the pond!!
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Thank you Balin - I lived in Mesa, Arizona and Kokomo, Indiana and saw another thirty-odd States and Counties on biz for 3-4 days at a time - loved it all - but that was 30-odd years ago.
The Best of luck there come January and I dearly hope things stabilise in 2025 and don't go even more crazy for you, your family and your Countrymen.
I'm a crazy old hippy ex-pat Russian and normal people are not generally sycophantic narcissistic politicians thank goodness Balin!
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Thank You and Good luck Flanders and Balin - I'm an all to infrequent Catholic but I pray for you both and wish you all the best luck for the future.
Thank you sir!! I am just outside of Toronto and Canadian politics are in flux now with people calling for our PM's resignation. Lol same old same old.
I may be an ex-pat soon!! I really want to retire abroad. My wife is the hippy in our relationship
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The British House of Commons is a mess as well Balin and there's no beacons of hope or great statesmen with experience and good judgment - it's more than a shame because there is a lot at stake.
Democracy in Ancient Greece was never universal or fair.
My definition of a hippy is no wars for the bankers every 75 years (time to FIAT failure) but not a pacifist either so I really get your drift - I'd love to skedaddle but alas I'm too old and too poor !
Democracy in Ancient Greece was never universal or fair.
My definition of a hippy is no wars for the bankers every 75 years (time to FIAT failure) but not a pacifist either so I really get your drift - I'd love to skedaddle but alas I'm too old and too poor !
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Does anybody like Cigarette Lighters ?
A guy on here spotted my chunky brass one so I replied.
It's a movie lighter - so it can be seen - from the 2005 Keanu Reeves film - Constantine. I think the second one is just coming out shortly.
Bigger than normal zippos, seven times the weight and built like a brick lavatory with massive hinges plus it has seals so the lighter gasoline fuel lasts 2-3 weeks !
Being solid brass it weighs over 13.5 ounces so can't drop it on tiled floors or on bare feet haha !
I've been smoker since my teens so still have a few lighters even though I've literally given thousands away and gifted antique 18 carat solid gold lighters, titanium EDC's, Mother of Pearl ones, Silver and Lapis Lazuli lighters etc.
I'm gonna give up smoking and will just give 'em all away.
Best of luck with that! I still want a smoke 20 years after quitting, it’s a powerful addiction. I still a bunch of lighters somewhere, I found them annoying to keep working. They were always running out of fuel or needing a new flint at the worst possible time, I think they were designed that way on purpose!
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Yep Thanks Flanders it's deffo a hard habit to break; but worth it.
I gave up for ten years then met an ex in a Working Mens club in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and she was smoking my previous brand - Embassy Regal King Size and she offered me one after I had a couple of dozen Stolichnaya's and got back on the Merry go round - this time I'm more determined though because two close mates have the big "C" and only by the Grace of God etc...