My apologies to the Patrons. I’m on the last lap of a giant job and I’m not keeping up with my Patron Posts (and a few other things.)
Closing in on it, though!
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Helmets are safety devices. In case you hit your head, right?
Seatbelts are safety devices. In case you crash your vehicle.
But parachutes… those are safety devices up until the point they become the reason you’re up in the plane. I mean, if you’re an air force test pilot- your parachute is a safety device. But if you’re a skydiver, isn’t it your vehicle? It’s your tool, your equipment… it’s your ride.
Parachutes are interesting.
It sounds like a Facebook thing, but really- how much can you change by taking one word out of any random sentence?
Or what can you change by adding a word? Especially nouns. Man, nouns are a mess. One noun, more or less, can cause fights.
Of course, we’re people living in the 21st century. We’ll fight over nouns, verbs, even pronouns.
If you stop to consider both sides (do they even allow that any more?) it’s not really the nouns and verbs and all, it’s the meanings (or multiple possible meanings) behind the words and how we choose to accept or deflect them.
And now that we’re getting back to the gag at hand, the critical word was ‘feelings’. In today’s world, feelings are very important to consider. Things do get started and get stopped because of Feelings.
But if you leave out the ‘feelings’ and stop that sentence at ‘hurt’… it takes on a bodily injury tone that puts feelings into another context
I was posting a comment to a friend when Facebook went Flooey. Figuring that it probably happened more often than I would know about, I shut it off and went back to work.
It was a couple of days later that I saw all the “Using Twitter To Find Out About Facebook Being Down” posts.
I’m not very good at this social media stuff.
Look, it’s Mr. Ziggy Foote, from The Wukilars. He’s so helpful. If he were any more helpful, he might have noticed that Mal was around and let him keep his feet on the ground.
Isn’t psychology fun?
The closest thing I’ve ever done to Kayak Fu would be boatball, which I think I’ve discussed here.
It involves a water polo ball, a couple of floats for goals, and a lot of people with whitewater kayaks who would rather be on a river with a gradient, but alas, we live in Memphis, and the rivers here don’t ‘do’ rapids. We put a lot of long miles on our vehicles, to get to the whitewater from Memphis… but you make your own whitewater in boatball.
Boatball is a sort of sandlot version of kayak polo, I think. We had a kayak polo team visit one day and bring actual goals and things and they knew rules and had skills. It was all very exciting but it was like the neighborhood kids playing rough-house style football being visited by the local pro team. Just not the same game.
One of the few rules we have is “when hands go in for the ball, paddles come out.” So I don’t think anyone has lost digits over the years. Good rule.
One of the non-rules is “don’t grab anybody’s loops” You don’t have to have that rule, you just have to know that if you just have to grab another person’s boat and haul back on the grab-loop, your hand is fair game, depending on the disposition of the other player and the speed of his paddle blade.
I’ve been really useless at getting Lin‘s Saturday cartoons up here.
I have lots of excuses, but you guys don’t need those. You need more of Lin’s cartoons!
Oh, look! You got one today!
The other kind of Fu has more leeway for jumping and twisting and flipping and punching. Definitely more leeway for kicking.
Kayak Fu is trickier to do.
I’ll let you know when I’ve got the really good Kayak Fu moves worked out.
Sorry about the title, there- I’m not usually one for spelling words with initial Ks, and I don’t think I’ve ever eaten at the Kozy Korner Diner, nor taken my clothes to Krosstown Kleaners (That one’s real. Baffles me.) But if you spell it ‘Canine Cartoons’, you lose the classic Warner Bros/Disney animation feel to it.
