Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?
Random Thoughts.....What are you thinking?
Well I am definitely not going down any rabbit hole. My current job wants to get me security clearance :) I'll be a good clown fo life!
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A good clown sounds like you are running for Congress...
fonewear said: »
Once you go down the clown rabbit hole it leads to this:
Way to try to merge topics, Foney.
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Bismarck.Alyora said: »
Well I am definitely not going down any rabbit hole. My current job wants to get me security clearance :) I'll be a good clown fo life!
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fonewear said: »
A good clown sounds like you are running for Congress...
I'm not sure exactly what constitutes a "good clown," but I'm pretty sure the ones in Congress do not qualify as the good kind.
No balloons, no candy, rarely smiling, and if they do, run.
I'm reading up on the clown killer...(John Wayne Gacy)he could have used some of your Psycho therapy !
Just backread a bit and have to say that marrying at such a young age was not common unless it was absolutely necessary (lots of people dying to a plague etc and you needed to repopulate)
Having difficulty finding actual ages for Italy but in England at kinda the same time:
Of course it was a bit earlier with nobles but 13 is a bit early
Having difficulty finding actual ages for Italy but in England at kinda the same time:
Quote:
In Yorkshire in the 14th and 15th centuries, the age range for most brides was between 18 and 22 years and the age of the grooms was similar; rural Yorkshire women tended to marry in their late teens to early twenties while their urban counterparts married in their early to middle twenties. In the 15th century, the average Italian bride was 18 and married a groom 10–12 years her senior. An unmarried Tuscan woman 21 years of age would be seen as past marriageable age, the benchmark for which was 19 years, and easily 97 percent of Florentine women were married by the age of 25 years while 21 years was the average age of a contemporary English bride.
The average age at first marriage had gradually risen again by late sixteenth century; the population had stabilized and availability of jobs and land had lessened. In the last decades of the century the age at marriage had climbed to averages of 25 for women and 27 for men in England and the Low Countries as more people married later or remained unmarried due to lack of money or resources and a decline in living standards, and these averages remained high for nearly two centuries and averages across Northwestern Europe had done likewise.
The average age at first marriage had gradually risen again by late sixteenth century; the population had stabilized and availability of jobs and land had lessened. In the last decades of the century the age at marriage had climbed to averages of 25 for women and 27 for men in England and the Low Countries as more people married later or remained unmarried due to lack of money or resources and a decline in living standards, and these averages remained high for nearly two centuries and averages across Northwestern Europe had done likewise.
Of course it was a bit earlier with nobles but 13 is a bit early
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fonewear said: »
I'm reading up on the clown killer...(John Wayne Gacy)he could have used some of your Psycho therapy !
...he could have used hit in the head with a pipe until he was comatose and then left for some hungry stray dogs.
I used to watch Bozo the clown and think. "At what point do you tell your school guidance counselor I want to be a clown...with a straight face" lol
Candlejack said: »
The only time the clowns in congress qualify as good clowns is if they're democrats. Never trust a republican as far as you can throw him or her.
I wouldn't really trust either of them, to be safe.
fonewear said: »
I used to watch Bozo the clown and think. "At what point do you tell your school guidance counselor I want to be a clown...with a straight face" lol
...you're not old enough to have watched Bozo and thought about a guidance counselor. Even in syndication.
I don't think anyone around here except maybe Nik and Chanti are...
At most you asked your Kindergarten teacher how to be a clown, and she just said, "keep at what you're doing already, you'll get there!"
That is true I wasn't around in the 60s but they did rerun the show at some point...
fonewear said: »
That is true I wasn't around in the 60s but they did rerun the show at some point...
I vaguely remember seeing it in syndication in the mid 80s. I couldn't have been more than 3 (almost 4) because I remember where it was and we left that house when my parents divorced and I was about 4 when that happened.
Tis true, I'm 34 and I know who Bozo is and watched reruns when I was younger.
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I'm just glad clowns aren't on TV...turns on Real Housewives...it's too late !
Bismarck.Alyora said: »
Tis true, I'm 34 and I know who Bozo is and watched reruns when I was younger.
Yus. This.
I remember watching it in black and white on our crappy old knob-channeled television.
I, too, am 34.
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*click click click*
Meh, two things.
We have some so taboo issues in society that people have no outlet for them like pedophilia and suicide, though hardly equal. Some of us have been at the suicidal brink, and you are in this weird spot where you don't want to unload on friends, you don't want to say the s-word, but you also do. Frankly, right then, you really want someone to ask what's wrong.
I remember years ago, I was in a WoW FB group that was a lot like the conversations that go on here in P&R and Random Thoughts. Someone posted an article mocking this guy that had fallen in love with a dolphin and written a book about it. There were jokes everywhere but I really just could only feel bad for the guy. We are wired the way we are and it's just lucky that mine and your peculiarities are more socially acceptable than his.
None of this is to defend attraction to children, or even bestiality, but only to say that I feel bad for the people who are wired that way. I know I couldn't change my quirks, even if they were socially repulsive (repress? maybe--hopefully, change? probably not).
We have some so taboo issues in society that people have no outlet for them like pedophilia and suicide, though hardly equal. Some of us have been at the suicidal brink, and you are in this weird spot where you don't want to unload on friends, you don't want to say the s-word, but you also do. Frankly, right then, you really want someone to ask what's wrong.
I remember years ago, I was in a WoW FB group that was a lot like the conversations that go on here in P&R and Random Thoughts. Someone posted an article mocking this guy that had fallen in love with a dolphin and written a book about it. There were jokes everywhere but I really just could only feel bad for the guy. We are wired the way we are and it's just lucky that mine and your peculiarities are more socially acceptable than his.
None of this is to defend attraction to children, or even bestiality, but only to say that I feel bad for the people who are wired that way. I know I couldn't change my quirks, even if they were socially repulsive (repress? maybe--hopefully, change? probably not).
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I stopped reading at "falling in love with a dolphin"
Was it you Fone? Are you that guy?
Bismarck.Alyora said: »
Was it you Fone? Are you that guy?
We all know I'm in love with a feminist that goes by the name "Bill"
Besides dolphins aren't my type they are too...needy...
Candlejack said: »
While I'm a firm believer that P&R stuff should remain in P&R, there's a new bombshell out of D.C this morning. The FBI has recommended no charges be filed against Hillary Clinton.
Wait for it...
Yep, played mmo's too long. Reading about a movie, girl named Eva, read it as Evasion.
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...ghazi.
Candlejack said: »
While I'm a firm believer that P&R stuff should remain in P&R, there's a new bombshell out of D.C this morning. The FBI has recommended no charges be filed against Hillary Clinton.
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