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What is a word or term that instantly causes you to lose respect for someone when you hear it?

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

slag!

Is it only me or has the arena of political discussion on Facebook turn brutally and verbally ...

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I think we are frightened. I certainly am and fear leads to anger and illness and all sorts of problems I don't think it is the fault of any one on facebook, especially, it is just that all of us are uncertain of our future and that is a recipe for depression. When you have political leaders who are mostly caring about themselves, their own offshore accounts etc, and not capable of looking after their electorate we are just going to get more and more of this unrest - I see it also with Donald Trump and I don't really understand why we are giving out to any of these self- centred politicians. I do know its got inside me and i have spent a fair few days in tears feeling utterly defeated.

What if you are the GOD ?

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I would be laughing all the time it would really cheer me up and I would only tell my one and only friend but I dont drink alcohol so that puts paid to the water into wine trick but I suppose I could do wine into water ...

Do You have a Personal Saying Or Quote About Things Or Your Life?

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I say often ---- "and so it goes----!" plus "oh dear same old! same old!"

Is it only me or has the arena of political discussion on Facebook turn brutally and verbally ...

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Its hard to know as i only have my 'real' friends I know in my real life on facebook - I am fan of Corbyn and like all the posts that tell me about him and I hate reading the Tories on any social media but it dies seem to point up how uneducated so many peopel are both generally and politically.

Been out for a wander on a lovely Saturday afternoon on the Isle of Wight

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

OOOOOhhhhh!!!! beautiful I love that lacy blue one - all I have seen this year is cabbage white./

Coffee for the wicked. ☕☕☕

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

i'd love to see myself as 'wicked ' I ma often seen as such a good girl but I do drink coffee as often as i` can

What do you think about the GDR?

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I was in Germany for two years and lived in Berlin - then Niederfischbach near Siegen. I loved it we were only allowed to go to the east on certain days and had our passports stamped so that we couldnt stay overnight I was living in a tent on a campsite and many of the older people came over to visit their family from whom they had been separated but could only stay a short time - I asked one of the older women what it as like and she said it was pretty equal really some things were worse some betterI was impressed by all the beautiful countryside but rather alarmed at the size of your ants.ours are really small.

Ok I'm new here . Just going to feel around and see how this works.

jacpod comments on Jul 22, 2018:

hallo! I hope you like it here - I find it quite good fun as well as almost having that window on the world .

New Law Declares Israel a Jewish Nation-State with Hebrew as Sole National Language | Democracy Now!

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

I have a fair amount of contempt for Israelis except the Chassidic guys who seem to be wanting a level playing field but I am horrified by what the Jews have done there especially given that they know what its like to go through that horror - I have a friend who is Jewish who lives in England and doesnt like the arrogance of the Israelis.

I've been blocked from this site because I'm from a very religious country , Iraq, to update you ...

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

I wish you all the best and hope that you get what you want and need if there is anything we can do please tell us.

You create a religion.

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Asterix and Obelisk - because they are so crazy and funny together they would share main character as they go together so well!

Turn Back Time?

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

No I did as much as I wanted and am still doing it Even with the abuse I have had a good life now 70 , bit achy probably in need of a hip replacement some time soon - but not so bad considering - I have done a lot ,learned a lot cried a lot and laughed a lot and overall its been fun and educational.

I spent the night wrestling with my conscience.

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Aaahhh!

First garden tomatoes.

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Mine are still green and stamps foot -Its not fair!

Debated on which group this picture should be in, gardening, photography or pet pictures.

jacpod comments on Jul 21, 2018:

I never thought I would say this to anyone but what a beautiful irridescent bug we have really ugly bugs here except for ladybirds but havent seen one of them this year either.

Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

How much longer can he hang on in there?

This likely would have avoided the shit storm we're in.

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I love this !

Is it irresponsible to have more that 3 children knowing what we know about our future Earth?

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I don't know I think each of us has to decide that for ourselves I have two children but only because one died .I have five grandchildren,

Human nature question around the "greater good".

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

None; I think I am good enough to be saving my self and It isnt known yet whether I have in fact saved enough lives already - I think I am happy just to go on living for myself and see what pans out .

Things i didnt know [youtu.be]

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I dont understand this at all - anyone here help me out?

Best thing in my Facebook Newsfeed today

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

Its weird to get so many awful politicians all around the world all at one time we must be living in really hard times- we have the May-bot and some awful tory dreadfuls like Rees Mogg , then Trump who even tries to eclipse a 90 yr old Queen of a foreign power putin who is pulling strings behind the scenes Iain Paisley jnr. who does absolutely nothing, seriously, we do have a rather nice Irish Taoiseach but then we have Kim Jong un etc etc. sad days!

I have to give kudos to the VA in my area and their commitment to mental health care.

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

well done you!!

Do you believe in magic???

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I love being a witch who drinks coffee and becomes human - and so it is written - Ahh Coffeee!!!

Corybn, Sanders, and the Left: [counterpunch.org]

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

Dont really understnad it but glad you posted it - I'll take it in small chunks. Hopefully I'll click on sometime soon.

Are atheists criticising the wrong things about religion?

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I don't really do 'shoulds' and really have no reason to criticise religion - whatever floats your boat - go for it ! Religion has no place in my life at all, except when I get mad or sad about all the holocausts but for me alone it never enters my head- I have never had a religion.

What is your Mantra?

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

My mantra consists of putting my fingers in my ears and shouting LA-LA-LA-LA! My alternative is I am I and you are you and if by chance we meet it is beautiful. and if not , it cannot be helped.

What would you do if some of your Facebook friends were constantly posting those corny Hallmark ...

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I have often wondered if there were courses you could go on that helped you chill out on all these unpleasant things I think because I was an abused child I do a lot of fingers in my ears moments when everything gets too much but that doesnt work for the written word - You could unfriend them and if they pull you on it say - "oh I am so sorry. I had too many friends and had to do a bit of pruning! in order to stay sane!'

Empathy For Human Beings - Supporting Each Other

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I am going to spoil the party here a bit !Sorry! She was absolutely right It is one of the 3 core conditions (Carl Rogers ) for personal growth to take place and I live in sheltered accommodation amongst people who are seriously bitter - I dont know how they would get to anywhere like warmth empathy or congruence and I find my society is becoming shattered and scattered - So given that the above is the place to aim at sometimes I think we havent the personal tools to survive with dignity. (And I have been researching peoples inhumanity to people on the holocaust thread so maybe just on my own downer at the moment) I do feel that I had a society in the forties up to the eighties and then it disappeared. My government has no dignity

A few days ago while servicing me baling tractor, I discovered a nest of garden bees had set up shop...

jacpod comments on Jul 20, 2018:

I have only seen on bee this year maybe it was too hot for them - It was seriously furious with me and intent on driving me out of its territory - I took the hint!

So if there’s no god with a master plan for us all...why are we here?

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Maybe it s like being in detention at school; we have to learn to do/behave better - My son watched that film over and over (the breakfast club)

Good afternoon my fellow coffee drinkers, I am new here.☕☕☕

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

I go to the local shop at 8 a.m. every morning and get my fix, when I get back my friend has usually made me another one and we do the 'newspaper daily pub quiz' together. I also have a sign on my door saying "give me coffee and no one gets hurt"!

I needed to put this down.

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

sad but nice story ,surely you have much love in you to keep up with this amount of caring, good on you!

Good morning gardeners, day 22 trip to the garden, zucchini still giving ans a few yellow squash.

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

courgettes and pumpkins ? nice they look good enough to eat (LOL)

.... W T H ? ...

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Borg -who? who didnt do it - what is it and aww forget it!

What is Reality?

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Whatever passes for reality for you.

Do You have a Personal Saying Or Quote About Things Or Your Life?

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Never throw- up into the oncoming wind, Dont count your chickens it will take all day! Doesn't matter what anyone thinks about you, thats their business not yours

Hello friends, I need to vent, and this is a place where I can do that safely, I hope.

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

I like all your thoughts on thi s one I will also try the silence sounds good!

beautiful enamel by one of my FB ...

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

beautiful!

Anyone else here come from an abusive family?

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Yes my family were all abusive my mother bi-polar mainly manic my father unreachable and depressed from his war years and sexually abusive . I had very bad dissociative Identity disorder .I am now in my later years and feeling a lot better but I dont fit into my society in any way, shape or form - and even though I am a person centred counsellor it feels like something I do in a vacuum and that there are too many vacuums. I really don't 'get ' people especially their limitations.

My form of ptsd.

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

OO! Ouch! chilling! I cant imagine the hurt and fear and anger and the wrench of it all - really truly sorry!

I love this lilie

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

I have one exactly the same but white and someone I garden for has the same in orange (Orange Lilies quite the thing in these parts for the protestant william of orange marches)

Well, well! What do I have here? Looks like tomato seedlings! ?

jacpod comments on Jul 19, 2018:

havent a baldie sorry!

How many places have you lived in your lifetime?

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

70 y.o lived in London, Hampshire Shropshire Liverpool Manchester Lancashire Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Berlin

I've been experiencing this for awhile now, and have known that depression has had the better of me ...

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

I have been mildly depressed lately mostly through being completely washed out - (a lot to do with hay fever I think ) Thi sis the hottest summer ever and we have hay /grass fields at the bottom of our turning, my eyes have been streaming every morning i go out . I have been taking all kinds of remedies but not much relief so far !

Well, therapy appointment is in the books.

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

'limp dishrag smokes weed ' sounds like a good title for some writing especially if you do get round to smoking it !

Just out of curiosity.

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

nice thoughts to ponder - I am a 'constant gardener ' I think other people garden for many reasons and my partner is not a gardener but will help with construction projects - I think I might be a 'chancer' gardener because I experiment a lot and it doesn't always turn out well . This year has been quite a disaster for us with a hosepipe ban and maybe our hottest months ever when we are really used to constant rain and dont quite know how to cope . .

Sunflower sure has a lot of bees.??? (not my photo)

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

wow I would be scared stiff we dont get that sort of event in the uk.

Feeling a bit better today, appointments at the end of month,

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

well done you I hope all goes weller and weller for you!

I picked the first red tomatoes of the season, today.

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

Mine are still all green and still quite small but we are having a very unusual heatwave.

I thought this was pretty good advice.

jacpod comments on Jul 18, 2018:

good read thank you!

We got our first bloom on our Strawberry tree. And a beautiful butterfly.

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

wow to that butterfly, sure knows its a good looker

Can any of you experts identify this vine for me?

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

it looks like convulvulus to me need to get rid of if it is,

I’m no gardening wizz, I’m looking for advice on roses, some were dead in garden after my father...

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Well rotted Horse manure is good for roses also lots of water, planters need quite a lot of watering - we are in a hosepipe ban here in Northern Ireland at the moment so its excruciating work getting round all the gardens lifting the full watering can

Tomatoes are coming on strong.

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

like very much! we have a hosepipe ban its so hot and set to get hotter -and still not got one ripe tomato.

Ah, gardening at its finest.

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Linda youre doing an ace job!

I've an ethical question .

jacpod comments on Jul 17, 2018:

cant put in my two-penworth as I have never seen an oleander tree or a peach pomegranate or grpaefruit tree.

WHAT'S YOUR POSITION ON ABORTION ?