Denmarkguy

@Denmarkguy (1845)

United States • Age 64

Joined myLot 17 years ago

Well, it beats "working" for a living...

Denmarkguy's Responses

Can I have my smoothie?

mimpi @mimpi1911 (25464) • India 12 Nov 09

In some bizarre proceedings, I had some more bizarre experience of ordering a smoothie and having tough time really getting to sip it. That was a smoothie day and I craved for it like anything. But the waiter intervened and asked...

discount card

marketing

smoothie

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Denmarkguy No stories to share (other than when pushy telephone sales people call, I ask if they can hold and then place the receiver in a drawer till they go away), but this sales person was clearly "over the top." Sure, maybe she was making a bonus on every signup--...

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Best Responses???

froggieslover @froggieslover (3069) • United States 31 Jul 09

I just went through my unresolved discussions and marked down the best responses, although there is a part of me that feels bad because I hate zeroing in on one person because 99% of the time there is more than one good answer....

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Denmarkguy Yeah, there's often more than one I could mark as a best response. I'm always puzzled by those who start a discussion... and I look at it perhaps no more than four hours after it was started, and they have already picked a "best response?" Four HOURS? I...

1 Aug 09

I think he is a real loser....wat do u think??

keep_onwatch @keep_onwatch (2680) • India 1 Aug 09

I know this lady as my mom's colleague and she looks very pretty. She used to talk always just about one thing and that's her husband. She even confessed she loved him more than her kids. She used to tell that in these 16 years of...

betrayal

love

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Denmarkguy That's a very strange and sad story. Makes me wonder if they met each other very young, and were each other's ONLY boyfriend/girlfriend... and the "lure" of never having been with anyone else became too much for him? People do such strange stuff-- it sounds...

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Divorce and Kids...

twoey68 @twoey68 (13627) • United States 1 Aug 09

Many couples end up divorced these days and usually the ones to suffer the most are the kids. Most times they are caught between the parents in a kind of tug of war. Sometimes the parents move far apart and the kids only get to...

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Denmarkguy My parents divorced when I was 10, and I went to live with my mom, at a new place she got. However, the two places were only about two miles apart, and I could ride back and forth between their houses, on my bike. A couple of years later, my mom met...

1 Aug 09

6 months

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85146) • Shingle Springs, California 31 Jul 09

The nice counselor lady says that after 6 months in a relationship, that is when a person's less desirable character traits start coming out in the open. How many people have been in that situation where they were involved with...

relationships change after 6 months

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Denmarkguy Maybe it varies a little from person to person, how long they can maintain a "good" facade... and conversely, it depends on how long each person keeps their "blinders of infatuation" on. I think the underlying IDEA is good, but the time varies. My first ex...

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Have you seen this nut?

JenInTN @JenInTN (27514) • United States 18 Jul 09

I was flipping through the channels and came across a show called Bite Me with Dr. Mike. This guy is crazy! He travels around the world and lets different thing bite him or infect himself with curable inflictions for the show. Is...

educational

travel channel

weird

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Denmarkguy Jen, seriously? I look at something like that and just sigh... I'm sure that-- in his world-- he believes he's doing something "worthwhile," and perhaps even scientific/noble. Maybe I'm just old and cynical, but I can't shake the feeling that he's just...

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The Magic of Listening.

Pose123 @Pose123 (21635) • Canada 25 Jul 09

Are you a good listener? Most people prefer to talk than to listen and we feel good when we are able to give other people advice. Sometimes however,it is our friend who needs to talk, to get things out of his/her system. When...

advice

listen

talk

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Denmarkguy Nice topic! As I recall, there's some old saying about there being a "good reason" why we have TWO ears and just ONE mouth... and perhaps they should be used proportionately. As you say, most people prefer to talk... and I have often been told that I am...

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What appliance or gadget can you not live without??

Azaerus @Azaerus (820) • Philippines 24 Jul 09

Oh boy!!everybody gotta love the kind of technology we're having today..But if something happens and everything will be taken away from you and you have the choice to choose only two appliance or gadgets to be left,what will you...

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Denmarkguy Good question! I'd choose two very different items. One would be a very "low-tech" appliance... my automatic coffee maker. I like my coffee in the morning, and I just couldn't see life feeling right if I had to get up and make old-time "campfire coffee,"...

25 Jul 09

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Beauty is Ageless

jsitko @jsitko (1169) • United States 24 Jul 09

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Is this just a saying to make us feel better? What is beauty to you? Do you feel that you will be less beautiful when you get older? I do not think that people lose their beauty. Just...

ageless beauty

beauty

beauty from within

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Denmarkguy I think we sometimes focus too much on beauty as purely a "standard" physical appearance thing-- that is, we measure and compare it against a "perfect" 21-year old. Which is a bit like saying that a perfectly maintained "vintage car" isn't beautiful, because...

25 Jul 09

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Have you ever nearly missed a plane, train or bus?

maximax8 @maximax8 (31046) • United Kingdom 25 Jul 09

I had a really awful journey to Stansted Airport. London underground wasn't running well and then my train went slowly. I arrived just in time to quickly check in then board the plane. There wasn't anytime to get any currency....

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Denmarkguy Sounds stressful and nervousmaking-- but you DID make it, in the end! I have had many "near misses," as well as some actual "misses." Most of them have been related to international flights arriving late and my connections being a tight squeeze. The...

25 Jul 09

some of these names and avatars are just plain scarey

Sweetchariot @Sweetchariot (1718) • United States 24 Jul 09

Have you hesitated on becoming someone's mylot friend, because the name they use is so darn scarey?...or their avatar is eerie? I know that sounds pretty stuffy, and I don't mean to be..however, I think there is alot to be said in...

avatars

screen names

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Denmarkguy Mine's just the same name I have used for email and discussion boards for about 15 years. I think it's fairly "neutral," all in all. The picture is just a piece of scenery from the town where I live. You're right though-- some of the names people choose are...

25 Jul 09

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Are They For Real? Too Much Trouble To Be Bothered

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 23 Jul 09

The other day I got a letter addressed to my deceased grandmother and mother. It was from my electric company ConEd. The letter informed me that when the account was closed, that there were extra funds in it and therefore a refund...

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Denmarkguy It sounds bizarre, but I imagine this sort of paperwork is automatically initiated by a computer that doesn't care whether the amount in question is ten cents or a thousand dollars. No, I haven't been approached about anything like you explain here. The...

24 Jul 09

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Quality discussions vs wanting others to feel you are just here for t friendship

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 24 Jul 09

I went over the myLot guidelines, that is the part about quality discussions. Now I have no idea what quality means, but I have a good idea that it is not something trivial. Yet I see a lot of triviality here, simple questions,...

qualty vs friendshp

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Denmarkguy I guess it somewhat has to do with whose perspective you're considering. There is-- in my opinion-- no such thing as a site that makes EVERYone happy. Ultimately, it's up the site owner/founder to choose the "direction" of their site. I've been part of a...

24 Jul 09

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Words floating around in your head, waiting to get out...and causing insomnia!

fruitcakeliz @fruitcakeliz (2638) • United States 19 Jul 09

what inspires you to write? With me, it seems like sometimes i just have these thoughts and words floating aruond in my head, and the only way to get them out is by writing them down. For me this usually comes in the form of...

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Denmarkguy Nice words! I guess I have gotten to a point in life where I don't really keep a "regular" schedule, anymore. Because I work from home, I'm really not all that dependent on watching the clock.... so I keep weird hours, and it's not that unusual for me to...

20 Jul 09

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Does Reading Make You Sleepy?

Payout @payout (3794) • United States 18 Jul 09

I like to read now and then but Most of the time I don't even bother because I notice that reading just makes me tired. I open and book read a couple of pages then I just start getting tired.. Eventually I will just close the...

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Denmarkguy Reading does tend to put me to sleep. But I think that's because I rarely have time to pick up a book till I go to bed, at the end of a long day. I *think* I'm going to spend some time reading, but in no time at all, I'm asleep, and with the light still...

19 Jul 09

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