venerdì 4 ottobre 2024

A boring morning on the blogs.

 It turns out that The Curmudgeon is a sensitive old guy and has to use special toothpaste.


Meanwhile Robert says, "Be vulnerable!"
Maybe Robert needs to use Sensodyne too?

I went to reread Robert's post about being vulnerable, but it seems to have gone. Maybe his latest thinking is, "Be a bit of a bastard." 
All I could find, on his blog, that looked new, was the ten commandments.


"The ten commandments
1. I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. 4. Honor your father and your mother. 5. You shall not kill. 6. You shall not commit adultery. 7. You shall not steal. 8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 9. You shall not covet your neighbors wife. 10. You shall not covet your neighbors goods."

The first thing I noticed was the American spelling (neighbor, honor) and the lack of possessive apostrophes (neighbors goods, neighbors wife). 

Maybe God is American?

As you probably already know, the first three commandments are about sucking up to God. Probably the two most logical commandments are telling you not to steal or kill. Did we really need number 10? Not stealing really covers that one. Again, number 9 is really covered by number 6. Number 8 sounds like an attempt to say, "Be nice to other people." Why doesn't it just say that?

Let me finish by saying, "If you didn't read Peter's or Robert's blog, you missed absolutely nothing."

Well, I suppose you'd know that TC has sensitive teeth and that God writes in American with no possessive apostrophes.

Robert chuckles.



Ciao tutti.

15 commenti:

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

If you'e going to the dental clinic next week I hope that you get the crabby old nurse who smelled of mothballs.

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

I suggested to Robert that his missionary priest was, as you inferred, an idiot for evangelising when he should have just concentrated on humanitarian works.
Maybe that's why he deleted the post.

Anonimo ha detto...

Well, I won't be getting much change from $1300.

RBB

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

??
Root canal?
Crown?
That's a lot of money. Have you got AA Health insurance? You get $200 back if you have it - basically covers the cost of joining.

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Sorry - dental is $450 a year rebate
The coverage cost for us both combined is about $600 a year.
With optometrist, physio, doctors etc claims we generally come out in credit.

Anonimo ha detto...

Go for a kayak.

RBB

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Been there - done that. It was marvellous.

Anonimo ha detto...

You didn't feel too vulnerable in the kayak? Aren't there great whites in the harbour?

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Not when there are orca.

Anonimo ha detto...

I feel vulnerable now, which is good.

RBB

Anonimo ha detto...

Gosh, comments are rolling in!

RBB

Second fiddle ha detto...

So you (TC) pay $600 per annum and are allowed $200 per visit to the dentist with a maximum of $450 per annum. I presume visits to other health care professionals have similar limits. For $50 a month it sounds worth it. What about private hospital stays?

Second fiddle ha detto...

If RBB was afraid of being vulnerable he wouldn't play his fiddle on stage . So being vulnerable works!

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

We have Southern Cross insurance that covers the big stuff so I’m not sure what AA does.
I suggest checking it out on AA health website. For us it works out as a net saving. I’m sure it would be the same with you.

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Typical Catholic circular logic.