I'm getting old. I can't make the throw from deep-center anymore...

[Aristus]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by MerryBlooms (a host of the The DU Lounge forum).

I wrote out an entire medical-themed OP to post in GD. Then, regardless of how innocuous the subject matter may have been, I thought about the howling hysterical hate-hyenas in GD who have made sort of a second career slamming me against the walls of my own threads, and decided not to post it.

Sometimes, for the sake of a quiet life, one backs down...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ah, my dear Aristus...

I've been there too...

Sometimes one needs to back down, to take care of oneself, to stay still...

I would rather say, not that you're getting old, but that you're wise...

When we're lucky, very lucky, wisdom comes with age.

[Skittles]

2. YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK SOME HOWLING HYSTERICAL HATE-HYENA ASS, ARISTUS?

YOU KNOW I WOULD DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET

[Aristus]

3. You may have your way with them, Skittles.

I'll watch from the sidelines, and thank you very sincerely for your ass-kicking abilities...

[Shampoobra]

4. Maybe you just need a refresher course?

The Korum YMCA is on 43rd, across the street from Les Schwab. It's on the 410 bus line.

[Aristus]

6. So you're a local, huh?

Whereabouts?



Welcome to DU!

[Shampoobra]

8. South Hill! I remember some photos you once posted of the valley

I've lived here (mostly on the hill, occasionally in the valley) off and on for most of my life. When you posted your pics, I saw the town in a better light. I had never realized how idyllic the place was, until then. (Too close to the forest to see the trees?)

My parents moved from Los Angeles to Tacoma before I was born, to escape what they saw as a rising crime rate there. (Both were originally from this area, though.) Then they moved from Tacoma to our little town when I was a toddler, for the same reason.

It still hasn't lost its charm. I've found you can talk to the police here without them automatically assuming you might be a criminal. (They don't change their stance the second they hear your voice, as if they're getting ready to unsnap their holster. Tacoma cops, on the other hand, seem to think they work in a war zone.)

[Aristus]

9. Well, hey, neighbor!

[Shampoobra]

10. And (unless I'm confusing your screen name for someone else's)...

...I seem to remember you putting your big brain on a national TV show a few years ago.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. If I posted everything I started to, I'd have three times my current post count.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

[Aristus]

7. Author and Vietnam Veteran Robert Mason once wrote:

"Cowardice is the better part of discretion."

He was writing about himself, tongue-in-cheek, but I feel that way on this issue...