Carl Halling

@CarlHalling (3617)

United Kingdom • Age 69

Joined myLot 18 years ago

Hi it's Carl, Stay Around Awhile... Photo from 2008

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Carl Halling's Discussions

Have you ever written something for a site, and then lost it?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 5 Apr 12

What I mean is...have you ever carefully composed a piece of writing, tried to post it to a site, and then found the site has gone bye bye for a while? I just tried to write a movie review at a site where I've already written...

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Confused...Calling all Writers/Word Processors!

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 7 Mar 12

I know nothing about word processing, other than I have WordPad, and use rtf (Rich Text Format) for writing my essays or whatever. I am trying to discover a way of aestheticising what I write by making all the lines the same...

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Do you sometimes feel a little shy while shopping?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 30 Sep 11

In my time, I've existed as a shop assistant. But of course, far more often a shopper. So I know both worlds. However, there are times especially in big stores, when I became aware I am not in my domain, but someone else's....

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Have you ever encountered the famous blue screen (of death) on your computer?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 6 Sep 11

I recently did; something to do with a bad pool caller. I've tried to find advice on the net as to how to go about fixing it. I phoned my computer dealer, and they helped me, and offered more, but I'm out of warranty, so would...

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Is it possible to love family even though you don't see them for a long time?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 27 Aug 11

My reply is: Of course. I mean: we all do this to a degree. I have family members I love I've not seen for a long time (sometimes a very long time). But then, what is a long time? For some, not seeing their parents for a week is a...

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Has a computer ever made you so angry you are almost berserk?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 23 Aug 11

My computer crashed the other day, so I'm using an old one of my dad's, but it's so slow and inefficient, it's turning me quite literally rabid. How about you, has your computer ever sent you into paroxysms of pure demented rage?

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What would you do if you got a sudden maddening rash?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 26 Jul 11

Many of us get them; especially in hot weather. For those who play sports it can be an occupational hazard, those maddening, red, itchy patches, sometimes in the most embarassing places. What would you do if one suddenly flared...

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Do You Think Older People Should Dress Their Age or "Young"?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 16 Jun 11

Older people dress in all sorts of ways. But I've noticed two distinct type of older guy. You get the older guy who may have been as wild as they come in his youth, but who favours a classical look in middle age: short hair, maybe...

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Do You Sometimes Listen to a Song and then Wish You Had Not?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 5 Jun 11

I ask because this sometimes happens to me. Like recently. I was listening to a song about a man withdrawing from drugs. And although it was a brilliant, exciting song, there was a point it made me feel bad, not because of the...

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Do you torment yourself over bad decisions you make?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 2 Jun 11

I mean, we all make them don't we, and with the best intentions, only to shoot ourselves in the foot, or wall ourselves into a personal nightmare. What do you do when you make a decision that backfires on you badly...just view it...

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Do you hate being wakened up when you've only just fallen asleep?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 29 May 11

It's strange. Because if a dream wakes me up, I'm OK with it, I say: "Fair play!" And if I can't get back to sleep, I just get up and go to work on my PC. And if I get wakened after several hours deep sleep, as happened a few days...

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Does success in life make a person sweeter or more bitter?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 26 May 11

Well; some successful people seem remarkably sweet, don't they. They are so generous with their charm, smiles, finance and so on. I've met some famous people for example who have been incredibly gracious. And the charity of the...

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Do Destructive Thoughts Have Power Over You?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 24 Apr 11

Strange question, perhaps. We all have a variety of thoughts. Most are fairly positive to neutral. When we are angry, our thoughts can be negative. This is normal. But there are times when negative thoughts can come into our heads...

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Do you ever suffer from sore eyes, and what do you do?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 15 Apr 11

I'm a sufferer, although it's thankfully rare. I have highly sensitive eyes, and cannot play ducks and drakes with them. For example, if I get something in my eye and poke at it too long, I'll be left with sore and red eyes. A...

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Do you get annoyed when people hang up the phone before you?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 1 Mar 11

You're talking to someone on the phone, or perhaps in person. Or in Instant Message if it's on the net. Then they nervously make like they want to go; their voice suggests they are restless and eager to depart; or if in person...

conversation

phone

telephone

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Do you sometimes have to bite your tongue with your family?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 27 Feb 11

Our family knows us so well. Do you sometimes feel they know us too well, and that they ask things, and say things that you wouldn't allow a non-family member to say or do? But: you let them do it because you love them and can't...

family

honest

open

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Do you find it strange when someone laughs when you haven't made a joke?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 27 Feb 11

You are talking with someone...and you say something serious, and they burst out laughing. Or for no reason, they laugh at the top of their voice. Not maliciously. They are not laughing at you. It just seems inappropriate to you...

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Do you come to My Lot to cheer yourself up?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 26 Dec 10

I do. Sometimes, when I'm down, I'll come to My Lot and post a response to a discussion; and it'll help to cheer me up, because I've done something creative. What I like about My Lot is that once you've created a discussion or...

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Do you think it's good the internet has so much music?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 26 Dec 10

Let's face it; there's a lot of music on the internet. Through such fabulous sites as Spotify, and of course You Tube, you can listen to a quantity of music that you could only dream of hearing in the pre-internet age. Then,...

internet

music

you tube

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Has Hip Hop/R&B Replaced Rock as the Dominant Music of Youth?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 11 Apr 10

Sometime in the 1950s, Rock and Roll or Rock became the supreme dominant music of young people, replacing Jazz as such and ushering in the 1960s Youth-Rock cultural revolution. Has the same thing happened to Rock; I mean, has it...

hip hop

pop

rock

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