Perhaps. And a large helping of the *Evil West* trying to keep us poor and hungry. Same shit, different century.

I honestly have no idea. He seems to want to bring back the old USSR with himself as the power behind the throne. I personally think that so many people seem to remember the old CCCP with fondness because everybody had jobs, housing and [supposedly] food all provided by the government. I know a few East Germans that…

Oddly enough, Yale - New Haven Hospital patient food services makes some of the best damned fried chicken I have ever had. Their food is seriously good - worlds better than any other hospital food I can remember being fed. You can even get butter, sugar, *spices* ... they really learned that if patients can look…

What was the old SovUnion joke - There is no News in the Truth, and no Truth in the News .... [the 2 leading newspapers in the USSR were Pravda [Truth] and Izvestiya [News] ]

First thing that popped into my mind was a rehash of all the failed 5 year plans, the winter famines, the whole Soviet era posturing. I guess I am too much a child of the Cold War to really forget all of them.

I played MMRPGs and started with Everquest 1. You had to pick a binding spot, where you popped alive *naked and unarmed* and you had to run back to wherever you died to get your stuff. And when you died, you lost XP ... someone in my guild bound next to where a guard he did not have rep with normally stood, fell…

Female, born in 1961, brother born in 1959. When school was out, or it was a weekend we were fed breakfast and kicked out to go play and told to come home when it was getting dark. I was walking to kindergarden at the age of 5 unaccompanied. A random pack of us kids bombed around together with no supervision, grazing…

My husband and I don't fight with each other, we go online and play MMORPGs and kill other people. The family that slays together, stays together.

Riding shotgun with an old school [late 1970s] rally driver was pucker ... I have slammed a car into the rail avoiding a moron merging into me on a standard highway doing 70 and honestly unless you roll or get t-boned it really isn't that bad once the actual slam on the side is finished.

This. I have issues wrapping my mind around people who let their kids get away with eating nothing but chicken fingers/nuggets, fries, pizza and PBJ sandwiches [or whatever] - we grew up eating pretty much anything that didn't eat us first. I feel guilty because I refuse to eat okra, eggplant, zucchini, kale and…

I have always liked phosphemes [those phantom lights and images you see when your eyes are shut] and have noticed that for a short time [maybe half an hour or so] I will see vague images in my phosphemes of whatever I was just doing in game before logging off and going to bed. Usually it is something like the iso-view…

It is a bit lacking [ I like shredded carrots, garbonzo beans, kernals of corn, maybe some green peas, some garlic croutons, spinach ... maybe some blue cheese crumbles] but if it is what she likes, big meh - let her have it.

Hm, next time I am near one I will have to give them a try, I love sweet potato tempura.

Well, any kale I have had when raw had the same sort of solid papery and resiliant texture that a tyvec envelope has. And when cooked [I have had it stir fried, in soup and steamed by people telling me that I just never had it prepared correctly, same as okra which is solid slime or oozy slime] it is either still…

I hate keyboard drawers so I put the stuff on the keyboard drawer. Never gets in the way, and I can access it easily when I need to.

Like a friend we refer to as swayve and de-boner [with a good southern twang added] Couples and good friends can have way too much fun with words =)

Hm, that looks more chartreuse to me.

Sorry, I grew up starting at 5 years old in a small town in south western NY state [google Perry NY ...] And I can categorically state that unless it could be obtained frozen or canned, it was not available in the veggie section. My brother and I were probably the only kids that had any sort of aquatic life form that…

I cheat, I grew up bilingual English and French.

Nonfancy way of referring to more or less polenta. Corn/Maize/Indian Meal mush. Grits are made of a white corn meal not yellow, but it is effectively the same.