odeon's ask away-thread

[Jack]

  ^ Raising forty flavors of Celtic hell!   

[Semicolon]

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

I'm anti-leprechaun.

    You're on the shit list now, buddy!   

Kick him in the shins.

I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.

  Are you still doing this?  Do you think I could do it? 

Your hunger would give you something to post about.

Parts and Odeon I agree whole heartedly with you.  However, a turned-on phone is a necessity for me when out because of PA and the PR's health issues.  In sensitive places it's on vibrate and between my breasts, so instead of a ring tone nearby people are treated to me screaming, jumping up and scrabbling in my bra.  But no ring tone.

  I'm sure the onlookers appreciate the jiggle.     

At least it's not on vibrate in sensitive places in sensitive places.

You're encouraging sin, CBC. Repent.

  ^ Raising forty flavors of Celtic hell!   

There aren't forty flavors in Celtic cuisine.

['andersom']

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

[odeon]

How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

It was originally an insult by Lit, yes, as I am Finnish by birth. It stuck.

So it was just because you're Finnish by birth?

Are Moomins the only Finnish thing of any import?

Yes, I think it's why, but you'd have to ask Lit.

I can't think of other typically Finnish things to use in insults off the top of my head, so I guess moomins are unique in that respect.

[odeon]

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

I'm afraid I don't. I would love to add one, though, but the money is needed elsewhere.

[odeon]

I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.

  Are you still doing this?  Do you think I could do it? 

No, no fast days for me at the moment.

[odeon]

These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

  But before cellphones, one would have to wait for hours near a landline waiting for a call from
   a doctor or someone else one really needed to talk to.  I hated that!  Didn't you, or was it worth it? 

It was sometimes a bother, but OTOH, since people didn't have mobiles, that kind of arrangement was unusual. You'd agree on a time instead.

[odeon]

These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.

  Next thing you know, they'll have websites where people can leave you messages
  at any time of the day or night, and expect you to write back to them.  That will be really annoying. 

OMG, you're right. Let's ban the interwebz.

[odeon]

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy.

['andersom']

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy.

As long as it is cold, it is fine.

[odeon]

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy.

As long as it is cold, it is fine.

I don't mind warm, actually. The difference in temperature is not what does it for me.

['andersom']

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy.

As long as it is cold, it is fine.

I don't mind warm, actually. The difference in temperature is not what does it for me.

As a toddler, my mother would bathe me and my younger brother in the same tub. She'd get him out to dry first, for safety reasons. When she would come back to pick me out of the tub, most of the times she would find me sitting in a tub filled with cold water, and me panting: "Zo kan je zo lekker ah-ah-adem halen ". (This way breathing is so so so good)

[odeon]

It's a trick used in a sauna as well. A scoop with water is very helpful to those who have trouble breathing in a hot sauna.

[Semicolon]

Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward.

That's one of the best things about it.

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.

  Next thing you know, they'll have websites where people can leave you messages
  at any time of the day or night, and expect you to write back to them.  That will be really annoying. 

OMG, you're right. Let's ban the interwebz.

We would have to access the mysterious "IRL".

[odeon]

"IRL"?