What Fifty Year Old Man Works in a Fast Food Joint

[Anonymous]

Gerraty_47, I did not mean you are living in the past like the Flynn handle puppeteers.



It wasn't a bad post, especially compared to the drivil we usually get from the dinosaur flamers. And I have been saying, the focus should be on the post, not who posted it. So, I take back about fifty percent of what I wrote.

You Sir, are a gentleman.  And so is Gerraty_47.



I admire that.  

So do I cw_.

[Dove]

It's distressing to see how many so-called adults are still participating in this obvious government-funded study on American gullibility.

You must be lost, pal.

To my recollection nobody in this thread has even mentioned voting.

 

[Garraty_47]

You must be lost, pal.

To my recollection nobody in this thread has even mentioned voting.

 

Sssshhhhh... don't call attention to it.

It's close enough to being the P-word that I almost didn't hit the Submit button.



Or are you *trying* to get me in trouble? Brat!



**EDIT**

<embarrassed cough>



Fuck me, this isn't the sub I thought it was.

None of this happened. I was never here.

[cw_]

[Dove]

 

Sssshhhhh... don't call attention to it.

It's close enough to being the P-word that I almost didn't hit the Submit button.



Or are you *trying* to get me in trouble? Brat!



**EDIT**

<embarrassed cough>



Fuck me, this isn't the sub I thought it was.

None of this happened. I was never here.

 That was too good to pass up lol



 Well done sir!

[Flynn]

Vitriol. No. The blame lies with me. How were you ever supposed to know that the perennial flower you once knew, grew razor sharp thorns that sometimes trickled blood from the heart? You couldn't have known. We have been strangers for soo long that even the mountains wouldn't have opened up to let us pass--to finally meet one another. You were correct in your memories. There was once a time when everything was green pastures with a hue of pink bubble gum cascading down the corners of my view. Those times are not lost, but perhaps put away like a good book encrusted with dust just waiting to be opened once more.



We all have our favorite memories, Vitriol. Whether it be a brush of soft lips that graze a blushed cheek on a Winter morning. The whisper of a kind voice that echoes into a very secluded chamber of a closed heart. Or perhaps, reading words that takes one back to a time when melancholy was only an ethereal thought in the lonely night. Holding onto the memories that make us who we are is being human. Only outsiders of the unhuman factor could turn this mystical and mysterious dew dropping of a gift off. Keep those memories my dear Vitriol and you will never be truly alone.



To change is the way of every living being that has a heartbeat. Nothing, even the eternal beauty of a newborn soul stays the same and innocent. Time does cast its particular shadow over all of nature's grandest masterpieces. So to admit that the clock of destiny plays not a part in what we feel or think is for the unwise man that thinks he alone can stop what already has been in motion even before the deepest ocean was born. It's a fools errand.



I like your spoken word, "...the kinder gentler lens..." If looking out through a telescope seeped in hope, then how could you ever be not known as a helper and an enabler of good things? Living through a looking glass mired in one's own torrid ecstasy of physical and mental pain benefits no one. It unleashes the inner ghoul that finds a way to usurp the enlightened and positive strides already made by men who came before you. Change is not death. We die only when we cannot change for the greater good.



We are all creatures of folly, do not be soo hard on yourself. That is our nature as untamed beasts that roam, looking for the very sweet nectar of who and what we really are. A boisterous laugh perfectly aimed at one's self isn't something that will injure you my dear Vitriol. As you stated, it's a win. Only by knowing that there is victory even in times of rampant thuggery by the theives of light makes you more insighful knowing that not all things end with a silent and emaciated sigh.



Oh, Vitriol. I had forgiven you even before you thought and wrote and alluded to me being a shell of who I once was. I had forgiven you before you were even conceived in your mother's safe warm womb. There was no infraction made and no healing needed. Like when the rain just falls, does the rain question why it's falling? Or does it just fall giving life to which it touches? Like the rain, we too fall in a frenzy of controlled splashes that cascade over those whose lives we've made anew. Keep your misty memories close to your beating heart, hold on dearly to them, they are yours that way they cannot ever be blown away by the purple winds of gradual change.



I am glad that you say to me, "Always be yourself." For, if I am not myself, then who am I? I am happy when you say, "whoever that may be." Because, being that which you remember gives me angelic joy. I rejoice and it has the scent of a warm Summer morning sitting patiently, holding the hand of a serene lake.



Goodbye, Vitriol. Can you feel it too? Can you feel mother nature gently caressing all my fears away with her tendrils of grace and undying love that encapsulates me from myself?

[Garraty_47]

Flynn:



Don't be so quick to show unkindness to the thorns; they evolved to keep grasping talons paws and hands away from the rose and without roses the world would be much the poorer. Even thorns themselves have a perilous beauty, a warning that can also fascinate. Thorns without a blossom to protect may seem cruel, but a rose without thorns is foolishly vulnerable.



Change is indeed universal; not even internet personas are immune to it.

If I appear not to have changed overmuch it's only because I've done so in ways that aren't obvious simply by reading words on a screen. My vocabulary hasn't altered significantly except the words I've learned to actually pronounce properly after only seeing them on pages of books; however that isn't relevant in this context. My writing "style" has changed but not in obvious or drastic fashion; for one example I now make a conscious effort to *not* toss in a comma every time a sentence might contain a pause when read aloud. I was reeeally bad about that all the way up to a few years ago and still have to be constantly on guard against backsliding.



Whatever transformations I've undergone are predominantly attitudinal and therefore haven't severely affected the way I type, aside from the glaringly obvious:



The lack of aggression and vitriol; the latter once so enmeshed with my adopted 'net persona that it was my default nym everywhere I went.



But to this day that persona isn't entirely banished... dormant is as good a word for it as any.

Often I can feel it straining to reemerge and I do allow it out to play occasionally, but never fully unleashed because it was an unruly beast and likely wouldn't be easy to subdue again.



We aren't truly so different despite the apparent distance between the paths we took.

You chose to cultivate your thorns and I endeavored to blunt my fangs but in the end those are only methods by which to achieve a goal; the fundamental goal for each of us and every other sentient being was and is adaptation.



Without adaptation or evolution or whatever you want to call it the inevitable result is stagnation.

Personally I view stagnation as worse than death; a living death; a death that never ends.

Screw that for a game of silly buggers.



Will I miss the acrobatic and whimsical Flynn?

Sometimes. Of course sometimes.

Do I fault you or anyone merely for evolving?

No. Of course not.



So don't be a stranger and by all means, bring your thorns with you next time.

A sting or three and a bit of minor blood loss is a fair price for enjoying the fragrance of an exquisite blossom in a world increasingly filled with ashes and decay.

[Anonymous]

All the guys behind the Flynn handle are way over fifty and have no life. Look at this one here trying to poach Vitty to the Poark and Poofer forum known ss BF.



Get a job Flynns and support your damned kids.

[Garraty_47]

Look at this one here trying to poach Vitty to the Poark and Poofer forum known ss BF.

I'll start to believe that when non-members can read what must be (in my opinion) the most interesting subforum on that site.



I don't like joining forums that make you register just to see what the hell is going on.

I suppose it reminds me too much of Pelosi saying shit like: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it".

What kind of fuckery is that? No thanks.

[Dove]

Look at this one here trying to poach Vitty to the Poark and Poofer forum known ss BF.

I'll start to believe that when non-members can read what must be (in my opinion) the most interesting subforum on that site.



I don't like joining forums that make you register just to see what the hell is going on.

I suppose it reminds me too much of Pelosi saying shit like: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it".

What kind of fuckery is that? No thanks.

 I think BF conceals the meltdown board as to not spook possible new people. Which ends up spooking possible new people because they can't see it.



 I do also think Plynn is seeking to enlist you. The fact that you and I are friendly had him bitching yesterday,  and it's kinda funny because he just assumes we don't know each other and haven't ever talked on a one on one basis like ever. Lol.



 It's so weird to me that Plynn carries on as if I'm some new addition to this "community" and that he is the only person who has ever interacted with me on an off board basis. He complained about me addressing you over here as if I'm just now starting to notice you exist and I want to manipulate you into my nefarious plots or something.  Give you some "poor me" rants.  Like I'm trying to suck up to you.   ac_dance



 It's pretty funny    



 And since everything Plynn accuses others of is a confession,  that is entirely what he is attempting to do. But his posts here are a fun read at least.

[Anonymous]

Vit, there is nothing to see in BF's busiest sub. Poofer's chest thumping, his Flynn alt patting himself on the back and Poark's ugliness.

[Garraty_47]

 I think BF conceals the meltdown board as to not spook possible new people. Which ends up spooking possible new people because they can't see it.

I think the colloquial term for it is:

"Punching yourself in the dick"



I don't get the appeal but I hear some people are really into that kind of stuff and I don't judge.

 I do also think Plynn is seeking to enlist you. The fact that you and I are friendly had him bitching yesterday,  and it's kinda funny because he just assumes we don't know each other and haven't ever talked on a one on one basis like ever. Lol.

Well we haven't...

...if you don't count multiple forums over a score of years, various social media platforms, etc.



Other than that we're complete strangers. LoL

[Garraty_47]

Vit, there is nothing to see in BF's busiest sub. Poofer's chest thumping, his Flynn alt patting himself on the back and Poark's ugliness.

That would certainly explain the hesitance in exposing the general public to its contents. /shrug



But I still don't see how that's better than an unpleasant surprise for the ones who take the chance.

No wonder people keep saying they're so churlish and angry over there... it must be all the disappointment sloshing around.

[Dove]

 I think BF conceals the meltdown board as to not spook possible new people. Which ends up spooking possible new people because they can't see it.

I think the colloquial term for it is:

"Punching yourself in the dick"



I don't get the appeal but I hear some people are really into that kind of stuff and I don't judge.

 I do also think Plynn is seeking to enlist you. The fact that you and I are friendly had him bitching yesterday,  and it's kinda funny because he just assumes we don't know each other and haven't ever talked on a one on one basis like ever. Lol.

Well we haven't...

...if you don't count multiple forums over a score of years, various social media platforms, etc.



Other than that we're complete strangers. LoL

 We totally just met here on Fleas board.  In this dimension.



 Turtles all the way down lol.

[Garraty_47]

 Turtles all the way down lol.

Just watch out for the snappers; they'll have your leg off faster than you can say:

"That's one ugly son of a b..."