Interesting facts about you

When I was growing up, not far away, at the wooded end of a regular suburban street there was simple plain building set into the woods surrounded by a parking lot (always empty when we went there) that was a company that supplied things to science classrooms around the country. One thing this company put together for classrooms was various rock samples, for Geology classes I guess. Some Saturdays my Dad would take my brothers and I there to a secret treasure place he knew about (because he supplied things from his company to them). This was a group of unassuming piles of rocks beside the building, their "waste" rock piles, where they dumped what they didn't want to use for those collections. Chunks of Mica (that you could peel off in sheets), rose quartz, gray rocks studded with garnet jewels, various fossils, amethyst, barite rose, petrified wood, feldspars, gypsum, jaspar, shiny black obsidian, bright chunky squarish silver galena and fool's gold are some of the wonderful finds we collected searching in those rubble mounds. These things were real treasure to us kids, and we all had collections. And of course, we were all motivated to learn to identify our finds...

I have a box of rocks, crystals, and minerals that I've collected from various places I've been. Quartz, Fluorite, feldspar, Molybdenite, Mimetite, Ammonite, Huebnerite, a bunch of others. Really, anything that caught my eye. I also have a few nickel-iron meteorites. I think of these rocks as beautifully condensed mathematics.

In terms of complexity, minerals seem to be the Universe's trial run before working on biologicals.

Someday I'd like to put them all in a display case, but for now, they live in a drawer along with some nice ties.

This one time at Bible camp I took a shit so big that it clogged one of the few toilets on the property and caused a massive overflow. I incubated that son of a bitch for about 5 days before crapping out what felt like a small child.

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This one time at Bible camp I took a shit so big that it clogged one of the few toilets on the property and caused a massive overflow. I incubated that son of a bitch for about 5 days before crapping out what felt like a small child.

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Familiar feeling. Yesterday I used some enema. The unloading procedure was quite light still but in the past...

I think I took shit once in a week when I was in army [that gig was not due to my free will]. Memorable moments.

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i too went to bible camp

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My condolences.

McDonalds was opened in 1990 in Moscow.

http://i.imgur.com/3lqQvXT.jpg

I was there at Summer of that year. There was a long queue to enter in which I stayed for ~2 hours.
I liked there: the coctail, hamburger, potato free, ice cream. When I visit Moscow I get a breakfast at McDonalds on Tverskaya street. McDonalds has acceptable meal, if not to eat it often.
They have cafes in my town for several years. But I never visited them still, much due to political aversion to USA and the smell near them.

Poetic @Sol

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McDonalds was opened in 1990 in Moscow.

http://i.imgur.com/3lqQvXT.jpg

I was there at Summer of that year. There was a long queue to enter in which I stayed for ~2 hours.
I liked there: the coctail, hamburger, potato free, ice cream. When I visit Moscow I get a breakfast at McDonalds on Tverskaya street. McDonalds has acceptable meal, if not to eat it often.
They have cafes in my town for several years. But I never visited them still, much due to political aversion to USA and the smell near them.

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Mcdonalds has the most unaccepable meals imo. So unaccepable and unhealthy that they should be paying us to eat it, not the inverse. Each time I eat it, I had stomach acidity 15 min later or less. I think its due the stuff they add to preserve their food, also it tastes like chlorine.

Last time I ate their food was because an LIE invited me for lunch and I didn't want to be rude by rejecting it, he recently had digestive problems, It was no surprise.

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So unaccepable that everytime I ate them, I had stomach acidity 15 min later or less.

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Try another meal there. Coctails, for example.
I had no such, but that was some years before. The quality could drop after time or to be worse in some places than in others.

What I like. McDonalds has the standards which guarantee: 1) not bad taste (for many ones), 2) high calorie (useful in traveling), 3) safe, no poisoning (not as everyday meal), 4) cheap, 5) similar food anywhere, 6) clean place, 7) stable to exist and to work.
In a traveling food networks are better than random cafes and food sellers. It's possibly to find better - but this needs the research in every new place you'd visit, better the recent research. McDonalds is wide spreaded, so even if you'd prefered another network - the good chance McDondalds will be there, while the others - mb not, or McDonalds will be situated closer or in more comfortable places or has better working hours. For example, the mentioned above cafe opens at ~6:00 - just after Metro starts, so you mb sure when you go from the train station on Metro - that cafe works like years before; it's close to the city center where is situated the most you'd need or can go further in any direction.

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Mcdonalds has the most unaccepable meals imo...

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In Germany there is an old joke.
I have to retranslate it.

Fast food in German turns into Nearly food in English, because the german word fast means nearly in English.
The meaning of that joke is regualar food is better. Better taste and usually it's healthier.

I guess my first meal at McDonalds was back in 1989, the last time I ate something from that vendor was in last year, I guess.

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Try another meal there. Coctails, for example.
I had no such, but that was some years before. The quality could drop after time or to be worse in some places than in others.

What I like. McDonalds has the standards which guarantee: 1) not bad taste (for many ones), 2) high calorie (useful in traveling), 3) safe, no poisoning (not as everyday meal), 4) cheap, 5) similar food anywhere, 6) clean place, 7) stable to exist and to work.
In a traveling food networks are better than random cafes and food sellers. It's possibly to find better - but this needs the research in every new place you'd visit, better the recent research. McDonalds is wide spreaded, so even if you'd prefered another network - the good chance McDondalds will be there, while the others - mb not, or McDonalds will be situated closer or in more comfortable places or has better working hours. For example, the mentioned above cafe opens at ~6:00 - just after Metro starts, so you mb sure when you go from the train station on Metro - that cafe works like years before; it's close to the city center where is situated the most you'd need or can go further in any direction.

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Mc donalds in my country is not really cheap. It costs like any other regular meal and any other meal is better for sure. Even if its from another fast food chain,
for example KFC tastes better and probably is less poisonous (at least doesn't cause me stomach ache). SUBWAY is actually healthy.
If I'm going to eat an hamburger I'd chose Carls Jr/ Hardees over McDonalds even when the beef also tastes a bit like chlorine.

Everything in Mc donalds except ice cream tastes to chlorine and provokes me stomach ache, even the coffee, so I wouldn't try anything else from them in any nearly future lol

Interesting. I eat at McDonalds occasionally. I usually just drive through to get a pop or a latte, but when I get food there, I try to stick to the 'healthier' menu options. Compared to other fast food restaurants where I'm from, it is prob the cheapest, especially with their dollar menu. If there are other fast food places around, it definitely wouldnt be where I'd choose to go, but good when you're traveling with a whole bunch of people and kids. We used to stop at least once at one on vacations. I get their bacon ranch salad with grilled chicken, a grilled ranch snack wrap with a yogurt parfait, an Artisan Grilled Chicken, or a McChicken, no fries. Their strawberry banana smoothie is pretty good too, imo. Sometimes I get their double chocolate muffin toppers if I'm craving something chocolatey. I rarely get their cheeseburgers or fries unless I'm sick or something and want salty food. Maybe once a year, if that. If I'm wanting a cheeseburger & fries, I'd go elsewhere. It always makes me feel terrible eating McDonald's cheeseburgers and especially their fries, in ways no other fast food place does. Their breakfast foods seem almost as bad, imo. It will pretty much ruin my whole day eating something like that from there.

The only foods I won't eat:

1. Bland dry food. (cereal without milk)
2. Annoying to chew food. (raw carrots)
2. A combination of two processed American items eaten at the same time. (ex: oreos and kraft cheese)

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The only foods I won't eat:

1. Bland dry food. (cereal without milk)
2. Annoying to chew food. (raw carrots)
2. A combination of two processed American items eaten at the same time. (ex: oreos and kraft cheese)

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You’re like a parrot

I have the ability to eat so much McDonald’s (now). But when I was in my teens, I couldn’t eat their beef products without vomiting or having painful diarrhea right afterwards (Google “pink slime”).

Somehow I can handle it now. I can literally binge on several meals worth of McDonalds in one sitting. I once went through a phase where I’d eat 5 or 6 burgers in a row or the equivalent. One time I bought 100 chicken nuggets and ate them during the course of half a day. But it’s bad for you lol so I avoid doing it. Now that I think about it I was pretty fat during this phase (a couple years ago).

Edit: Also I know McDonalds is cheap in the US but it’s expensive in countries I’ve lived in...

This conversation makes me want to tell my boyfriend to stay at his own place tonight so I can get 100 chicken McNuggets and eat them alone.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbylBYJM8sE

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ESE, SEI, SEE

In between the years of highschool and now, I have taken up writing. A lot of it is trash, I'd be a better director for movies, but I've probably written at least a million words.

I also compose music.

None of it is published, they're all more or less rants, and of quality unbecomming for public consumption, as its more personal to me. For example, my recent neoclasical parody of a psalm I wrote the score to. It follows a nonstandard key, and is definitely in one of the lesser used modes.

I still compare and contrast myself with the communist I met who hated music. I did as well shun art for a while, when I was in middleschool, but then I had to deal with the hypocrisy of being a musician, so I dropped that.

I was <5 yo kid on a celebration of Labor Day (1 May). We went in a column full of flags, flowers, political notes, etc.
Our town was visited sometimes by foreigners from other socialistic countries, which studed here, had deals of production, trading, culture, were tourists, etc. Also they could to take part in celebrations.

A man from Hungarian People's Republic has come to me and gifted his badge.

http://i.imgur.com/OGBhqPW.jpg

It's an award badge which was given for labor achievements.

The possible link with Hungary will appear later in my destiny. On the territory where I live exist descendants of different ethnoses, including nomadic ones. Some people by the appearance may remind the ones living in different countries of today. And the girl to which I got the love feelings in the school associated for me with hungarians.

@Freya

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I was <5 yo kid on a celebration of Labor Day (1 May). We went in a column full of flags, flowers, political notes, etc.
Our town was visited sometimes by foreigners from other socialistic countries, which studed here, had deals of production, trading, culture, were tourists, etc. Also they could to take part in celebrations.

A man from Hungarian People's Republic has come to me and gifted his badge.

http://i.imgur.com/OGBhqPW.jpg

It's an award badge which was given for labor achievements.

The possible link with Hungary will appear later in my destiny. On the territory where I live exist descendants of different ethnoses, including nomadic ones. Some people by the appearance may remind the ones living in different countries of today. And the girl to which I got the love feelings in the school associated for me with hungarians.

@Freya

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Why did you mention me in this post?

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Why did you mention me in this post?

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As I thought you live or was born in Hungary.

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As I thought you live or was born in Hungery.

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No, I'm from Slovakia.

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No, I'm from Slovakia.

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at least, not so far :)

I'm Hungery.

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I used to convince attractive guys (strangers) to give me the shirt they were wearing. No one ever said, "no". It all started as a joke, in a club. I asked some guy if I could have his shirt and he took it off and handed it to me. After that my female friends would point out a guy whose shirt they wanted me to get. I would take them home, wash them, then put them in a storage box. I gave them all away to goodwill a few years ago.

Is that Fe? It took a bit of manipulation to get them from some guys but others just handed them over.

I graduated tech school top of my class. My grades were higher than the males. Only one other woman made it all the way through with me. I never looked for a career in it though. I lost interest.

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Gamma Fi

There are a bunch of Dagaz symbols ranging from small to huge in the natural lines of my right hand. One source claimed it meant cosmic consciousness. Anyway, it looks like a bunch of butterflies.

There are also naturally two small hearts side by side and a heart rising above them.

Next to the hearts is what looks like a flame and below this formation is a small window symbol.

There are also two life lines on my right hand.

My grand grand mother was born in the US, near New York. My grandad's family used to live there for a few years at the beginning of the 20th century. They had gone there during the I. World War in an attempt to escape the destruction of Austria-Hungaria empire we were a part of. They had to come back after relatively short time, because they ran out of money. My grand grand mother was 3 months old when she left the US. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if they stayed there.

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No, I'm from Slovakia.

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I found some evidence that my great-grandfather was slovenian. His birth certificate said Austrian, but it was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire at the time and it covered a lot of different ethnicities. We still aren't sure, but it is interesting. His parents came to the U.S. in the late 1800s.

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I found some evidence that my great-grandfather was slovenian. His birth certificate said Austrian, but it was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire at the time and it covered a lot of different ethnicities. We still aren't sure, but it is interesting. His parents came to the U.S. in the late 1800s.

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You know that Slovenia and Slovakia are two different countries and people from Slovakia are Slovaks not Slovenians. This is why I hate to be from a country that has a population of 5 million. People constantly think that I'm from Slovenia, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia or that I made it up and my country doesn't exist. LOL, fml (Not that it would be your fault for not knowning, most people don't know, it's just tiring that I have to explain myself all the time).

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You know that Slovenia and Slovakia are two different countries and people from Slovakia are Slovaks not Slovenians. This is why I hate to be from a country that has a population of 5 million. People constantly think that I'm from Slovenia, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia or that I made it up and my country doesn't exist. LOL, fml (Not that it would be your fault for not knowning, most people don't know, it's just tiring that I have to explain myself all the time).

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oh yes, do know that :) I just thought the shared history with Austria-Hungary was interesting.

My maternal grandfather was from Male Prilepy, Austro-Hungary. Immigrated to the States on a boat loaded with a bunch of other poor, funny-language-speaking foreigners. To get in, he had to prove he had $10 and wasn't feeble-minded. I think he won the money gambling on the boat. I don't know how he passed the "feeble-minded" test.

I think he was either LIE or SLE, because he worked here as an engineer for Bendix-Westinghouse and had a lot of patents.

Here's a picture of him shortly after he got off the boat. Arrow, under the flag. https://i.imgur.com/7DAGSRH.jpg

And here's a picture of my Czech grandmother on a family outing. ESI, second row, black hair, round glasses. https://i.imgur.com/oiDkYY8.jpg

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You know that Slovenia and Slovakia are two different countries

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Kind of...I mean...they are different but kind of the same

I literally have an ILE business partner.

I do not carry a phone with myself.
And do not own a smartphone still. As see them as expensive and useless toys, big and weighty to carry, with huge possibilties to spy and steal personal info, with weak batteries to often recharge in regular usage, etc. Sometimes I look which new models appear and their specifications. I notice they've removed since ~2014 the possibility to replace batteries while it's useful as 1 battery lasts not so long and this removes the possibility to turn off the thing. That there are no small and light weighted models with good traits in low price ranges. That the common quality of smarts seems so awful that they are not designed to work ok more than 5 years, have weird software, significant issues even at top price ranges. At now I'm inclined to buy Galaxy S5 if I'll decide to watch this new technology for the fun, as this model should fit to minimum quality and has replacable battery.

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I'm Hungery.

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take a gulyash

I love cartoons, I could spend days just watching them. I use The Simpsons as an antidepressant and I remember dialogues from most of the episodes, I've seen the whole 30 series about 10-times. Whenever I feel upset, depressed, anxious, sad, I just watch few episodes of Simpsons and I feel good again.

Regular Show is great as well, it's surreal, funny and the overall vibe is very phlegmatic and easy going. It's about two slackers who'd do anything to avoid work and usually end up causing some sort of a supernatural disaster because of their extreme laziness. I relate to them way too much, lol.

I also like Adventure Time, but it can be too surrealistic sometimes and Finn actually gets on my nerves with his epic heroism. He's basically flawless, people like this don't exist and even if they did...they would get on everyone's nerves I bet.

Rick & Morty is epic as well with its existential depression dressed in surreal worlds and jokes.

I've been rewatching BoJack Horseman on Netflix as well, and it's extremely emotional and deep. Totally love it and the main character's so real it brings chills.

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My DNA test results showed no trace of the ethnicity of my surname.

Due to familial problems, I once went through a season of believing I was switched in the hospital at birth. I later gave up the notion after much research and individually questioning my parents.

When I write poetry, I always make it adhere to some metrical form. Anything less is bitching out. Or so I often think.