Thy Plague Doctor

I have tried to drive once, under the influence of weed.  This was not a good idea. First of all, I struggled to reach the breakneck speed of 25mph down my small road. It was as if G-forces were pulling my face back at this terrifying speed. Secondly, I reached the end of my road and couldn’t trust enough of a gap between cars passing, to move. Ba…[Read more]

How does one abuse tobacco?

I’d say during the first couple dates, you should NEG the cigarette. Give it a compliment that is actually a cricism like “wow usually only slim cigarettes would try wearing such a beautiful dress”. This is really helpful if you want to beat down it’s confidence and increase it’s anxiety. And then the next date toss…[Read more]

Hey Davis, yes a huge number of Vermonters chuff quietly in their own homes. I believe it’s more common than alcohol usage. There have been some efforts to study the impact of legalizing weed – there was an expectation that there would be more driving impairment- so far that hasn’t been supported by numbers, but there isn’t a huge amount of usefu…[Read more]

LOL I thinking they were both smoking hot and pot. I would be very surprised if most of them don’t smoke pot at home. I smelt pot all over the place in Vermont. Although I’ve also been told random drug tests are VERY common at work in the USA.

Very funny Mr Punman. My father was Greek and spoke English with quite a heavy accent. He also liked to use puns, but his particular kind were somewhat unique, as he would base the pun on his accent, ie socks were ‘shocks’ and punned well with any electrical joke.

Reg, my sister-in-laws sister had both the urns containing her mother and mother-in-law respectively. The two sides of their family did not get on.  Consequently, whenever there was a family visit, the correct urn was placed on the mantelpiece and the incorrect one under the bed.  They switched these urns constantly, and never made a m…[Read more]

Unseen, everyone of these Vermont firemen belonged in a firefighter’s calendar. I’m 185 cm (6 foot 1/2 inch) and 80kg (176 pounds) and I was the smallest guy in the room. As an extreme bonus, they were amicable and friendly . It is extremely unattractive…some “too cool for school” bros sitting around doing nothing but insulting/ragging-on each…[Read more]

My preferences are that any bits of my body that can be of any use, should be made available for that purpose. The remaining parts are to be cremated and I do not give a shit what happens to the ashes. Flush them, scatter them, bury them – whatever those still alive want to do with them. I’ve already explained *I* won’t be there to care.

Jake I think Vermont has a farming community bias. We have workers who come to help during the harvest time, but they don’t contribute to the population census as they are transitory. A huge element of those farming communities are family based.

In addition, there are quite a lot of people of mixed race, and I don’t know how these are cha…[Read more]

Burn baby burn.

Southern Vermont has a reasonably present African American community. I wonder if the very northern states are as populated with those immigrants who came in via the southern border or descended from slavery as the southern ones.

Regarding the opioid crisis, most of the drugs seem to come up through our southern border or west across from New…[Read more]

When you drive from Ottaws to NYC…most go via upper New York state. It is depressing land and unfriendly Hicks. To Boston is via NH which is insanely cheap gas for Canadians but otherwise meh. But I always chose via Vermont and took multiple long detours sometimes getting lost. Very beautoful territory all year long. Nothing but super friendly…[Read more]

Vermont only has 650k or so population, so everyone feels their opinion counts.  For the longest time there was a banner across Main St with the words “Hate does not grow well in the rocky soil of Vermont”.

I’m in Vermont. It is apparently the least religious state in America. I know this, because when I first met the insurance commissioner here, he greeted me with, “Welcome to the Godless State!”  And sure enough if you google ‘the godless state usa’, there we are. Vermont.

Still, something like 25% are regular churchgoers. It amazes me because wh…[Read more]

The only advice I ever heard about stock trading is that people seriously under estimate the risk involved (especially long term investments). Day trading is a bit of a different game cause at the end of the day your money is not all in a stock that could go bust the next morning. But the advice was to never put most of your eggs in that basket. I…[Read more]

I had a darling cat who trained us very well to be at her beck and call and do what she wanted, when she wanted, only when she wanted and never take no for an answer. She owed us nothing and would give us nothing unless we gave her precisely what she demanded. A fantastic species really. They evolved in the most genius way. I’ll never own a cat…[Read more]

Saw a display of pumpkin-flavored dog treats!

You can feed a dog absolutely anything, and if you present it like its a special treat, they will take it as a special treat. We stopped buying our dogs “milk bones” as a special treat every other day. We got a different brand of kibble and gave him a couple as though they were “milk bones”. He was…[Read more]