I won't go into detail.

I've just done nearly everything around the house to fill my time that I possibly can, and now I'm just idly surfing the net...

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)

16. at least it's a cute one...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:42 PM

Dec 2021

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Irish_Dem

(81,259 posts)

21. Good one.

Reply to Claire Oh Nette (Reply #16)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:46 PM

Dec 2021

I never get the cute illnesses.

cilla4progress

(26,525 posts)

17. Haha me 2!

Reply to Claire Oh Nette (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:42 PM

Dec 2021

I just retired from one of my jobs and now - as I feared - ...what is it about the devil and idle hands?

Good thing I'm a pagan and don't "believe"!

Aristus

(72,179 posts)

20. The neighborhood sure is quiet here during the day.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #17)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:46 PM

Dec 2021

Everybody is at work...

Except me...

cilla4progress

(26,525 posts)

30. Haha!

Reply to Aristus (Reply #20)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 09:06 PM

Dec 2021

I remember when my kid was little and I worked part-time... the stores are pretty empty and easy to navigate at 10 am!

So I feel you!

You take care, Aristus.

Irish_Dem

(81,259 posts)

9. I'm so bored I started watching WWII movies.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:34 PM

Dec 2021

I found out I actually really enjoy them.

I think I have seen every battle fought in the Pacific.
PS John Wayne single handedly won most of those battles.

Aristus

(72,179 posts)

12. The kind of WWII movies made during WWII?

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:36 PM

Dec 2021

John Wayne won all of those, because the word had not yet got out that he weaseled his way out of serving.

Irish_Dem

(81,259 posts)

19. Figures John Wayne didn't serve. He sure acts the big military wheel.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:45 PM

Dec 2021

But I think the real military brass at the time, gave some actors a pass on serving.
It was thought making movies for propaganda or morale purposes was better than getting sent to combat.

My dad was career Air Force and I grew up next to aircraft hangers and runways.
So it is neat watching the Navy movies, the ships are so neat. And their planes land on the water.
That is so fun to see.

Aristus

(72,179 posts)

24. John Ford, who served as a director for morale-boosting documentaries during the war,

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #19)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:48 PM

Dec 2021

never forgave John Wayne for chickening out. When, after the war, Ford and Wayne were filming "They Were Expendable", Ford filmed a scene in which Wayne has to salute a superior officer, and demanded over forty takes, to rub it in that Wayne had never served.

Irish_Dem

(81,259 posts)

26. Wow I never knew that.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #24)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:56 PM

Dec 2021

I have never been a John Wayne fan. Guess I knew there was something not right about him.

My uncle was in the Navy, he was killed when his ship was sunk by the enemy at Guadalcanal. My dad flew combat in three wars.

From watching the movies about the Pacific in WWII, I never realized we could easily have lost that war.
The Japanese naval fleet was vastly superior to ours. And what we did have was damaged at Pearl Harbor.
It appears that we won by sheer determination, bravery, very smart naval leadership, and luck.

Boomerproud

(9,291 posts)

34. Your uncle's sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #26)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:19 PM

Dec 2021

Irish_Dem

(81,259 posts)

35. Thanks. We miss him at every family reunion.

Reply to Boomerproud (Reply #34)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:57 PM

Dec 2021

Everyone raises a glass to him.

rsdsharp

(12,002 posts)

29. The word got out. He was booed off the stage when he appeared before

Reply to Aristus (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 05:49 PM

Dec 2021

wounded soldiers, sailors and marines at Hawaii during WWII. William Manchester wrote about it. He was then a marine recovering from his wounds.

“After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there. The hospital was packed, the halls lined with beds. Between Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Marine Corps was being bled white."

"Each evening, Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit:10-gallon hat, bandanna, checkered shirt, two pistols, chaps, boots and spurs. He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, "Hi ya, guys!" He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing."

True Dough

(26,665 posts)

11. My favorite lounger

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:35 PM

Dec 2021

Are you tickled?

TexasTowelie

(127,341 posts)

13. I'm currently in the spin cycle.

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Tue Dec 14, 2021, 04:36 PM

Dec 2021

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Oh well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
They call me the launderer, yeah the launderer
I spin around around around

What a heavy load I carry...