cachalot

@cachalot (60)

Australia • Age 85

Joined myLot 15 years ago

Prioritise, prioritise, prioritise

Comments (14)

cachalot's Comments

Laughter is the best medicine

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 18 Jan 11

Laughter is the best medicine, they say. Is laughter that much innocent as it sounds? Why do we laugh at the failures of others? Slipping on a banana peel if you fall down on a thoroughfare, there will be very few people to help...

laughter

medicine

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cachalot It seems SIMPLYD and atleya, that not all laughter is good medicine. Probably the healthiest kind of laughter would be laughing at really funny jokes or telling a joke on yourself (my mother always used to say: "Confident people tell jokes about themselves")....

18 Jan 11

Don't worry about old age--it doesn't last long

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 8 Jan 11

A freind sent me the above statement earlier today. I believe that in the West old age and the elderly is seen by many as an irrelevance and incovenience that is best ignored about until such time as we no longer can. But in many...

growing old

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cachalot hi catdla1. I am one of those elderly people (I want to be up-front about it). I totally agree with you that old age is somethings that happens to other people, not ourselves. Most of those I went to school with are certainly looking their age, but not me. And...

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Who believe the world is going to end in May?

magrylouyu @magrylouyu (1627) • United States 30 Dec 10

So, they say the world is going to end 12/21/12. But they are also now saying based on the bible it's going to end 5/21/11. That marks 7,000 years since Noah's Ark. People who believe will be taken and those who dont believe in...

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cachalot Well, sjlskl, this is about the most intelligent comment in this discussion, from my point of view. If what you say is true (and I'm not saying it's not true - I don't know), then perhaps THIS is where climate change on Earth is coming from, not the notion...

30 Dec 10

Spam, the product....

buggles64 @buggles64 (2709) • United States 30 Dec 10

Wow! It makes sense that those that live in Hawaii and are natives of the state have shorter life spans than other states. The Hawaiian Islands are the biggest consumers of this little product. They actually eat it as a delicacy...

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cachalot I think all the Allies during WWII had a fairly rich diet of spam. My father (he didn't go to the War), had bouts of spam eating. My mother had very bad hip and back problems, and every so often she had to travel to Melbourne (the capital city in Victoria,...

30 Dec 10

Seriously, do you know of anybody who's afraid of technology?

bounce58 @bounce58 (17385) • Canada 30 Dec 10

I think that technology is everywhere, and I am sure that I would have a hard time doing anything if I were afraid of any technological advancement. Now comes the reason for this discussion. Today I met somebody who I can...

technology

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cachalot When you both say you belong to the older generation, cynthiann and bounce58, I feel certain that I belong to an older generation than you. I recall the days when we did not use calculators in the math classes (there weren't any calculators). But apart from...

30 Dec 10

the best way to get rid of crabs?

chad257 @chad257 (152) • United States 27 Dec 10

what is the best way to get rid of crabs if someone has them?

crabs

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cachalot Yes, Masihi, I thought of crabs the same way as you. My smart - but not so smart - answer was, just throw them back into the sea.

27 Dec 10

What's the worst chore that you just can't stand???

ANIME123 @ANIME123 (2466) • United States 26 Dec 10

Well for me it would have to be washing dishes I just hate that and it's just not once everyday, but two times and they get really piled up and nobody helps me I am like the only sibling that does it and it just gets really...

chores dishes cleaning washing annoying

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cachalot Hello GardenGerty. Other than washing dishes, my other pet hate is also vacuuming, for the same reasons that you mention. My home is a flat, with a lot of furniture. It takes forever to move everything out of the way so that I can get on with the job. If I had...

26 Dec 10

the impact of smoking

cssiduyz @cssiduyz (1053) • Indonesia 11 Dec 10

The positive impact of smoking has not been found in an article or public opinion except profits for producers and the vendors. That there was calls and calls from various parties to avoid such thing as a cigarette. However, until...

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cachalot Hi wonga94. My parents were heavy smokers. They had smoked for years, in the same rooms of the house as my sister and I breathed. Yet there couldn't have been more robust and healthier children than we were. And guess what? We're still two healthy and robust...

17 Dec 10

Where The Place Cheap Book Online?

lotzone @lotzone (45) • Indonesia 16 Dec 10

I need some of books, everybody in here, are you all know the place that sell a book with cheap price. Is important because my money not to much. Someplace with discount or anything and it's must online because I don't want to...

cheap book

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cachalot Hello nicregi. My favorite place to buy books is on eBay. They can be very cheap, and some really good books don't even get any bids. You can use "Buy It Now" if you are nervous about bidding. This way you can still get hold of low-cost books, too. Just make...

17 Dec 10

Are you satisfied when reaching a goal?

rappeter13 @rappeter13 (8608) • Romania 17 Dec 10

I was wondering if people are satisfied when they reach a goal they have hardly fought for? Does the of reaching a milestone or a goal make people feel content and realize that it was worth it to put so much energy in it? Or they...

energy

reaching a goal

satisfaction

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cachalot Hi maezee, I think I know how you feel. Having not reached a goal for a long time does feel depressing. In fact, I haven't even had a goal for a long time, well, not until now. I'm a newcomer to MyLot, and have just set my first goal which is to write 50...

17 Dec 10

How comfortable are you with fixing your computer yourself?

megamatt @megamatt (14291) • United States 12 Dec 10

I would say that I am moderately comfortable. In the fact that if it is something that I know what it is and how to fix it from experience, I can get it done. Anything else, anything that I am even slightly unsure about, its time...

computers

doom it yourself

fixing

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cachalot Killahjem and megamatt, you both are more techie than I am, obviously. I'm very lazy, because if a problem occurs, I go immediately to System Restore. I'm not really fixing anything, but just resetting it to when it didn't have the probem. Consequently, the...

13 Dec 10

Money can be evil

nicregi @nicregi (1934) • Malaysia 13 Dec 10

How many of your believe that money is evil? I certainly does. Simply to earn money, we are actually (well some of us) willing to do anything such as killing, drug and human trafficking. Don't you think that money can essily close...

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cachalot Hello, jpso138. My idea is that because with have reasoning powers, we are able to make choices. This means that we, either consciously or unconsciously, make a decision to be either good or evil. It depends a lot of course on past experiences, paricularly...

13 Dec 10