It's A New Day, Throw The Dice.

[Sarg]

Zip, I missed that two or three days off my meds last summer. Remember? I unfortunately went bonkers on here that time. Well, it took me months before I was back to regular bonkers. Gotta remember, any chemical you put in your body on a daily for a length of time will be missed if discontinued. We coffee drinkers are a classic example.

So, I believe there is and can be an impact.

Sarg

 

[Tim Cake]

Is it possible that missing my meds for 1 night could put me back a year mentally? I'm not sayin I missed my meds, I don't know. But it was a rough day yesterday. Got the pipes out last night and blew the shit out of them for 2 hours. It helped.

For Robbie Burns and the haggis?

 

[Zipperhead]

Robbie will be toasted this Friday, my first foray into a pub in 3 years. God give me strength.

 

[Tim Cake]

Maybe a few Mac Ewan's "Scotch Ale" are in order...have fun with the :rolleyes: sheep's stomach!:rolleyes:

 

[Wagon]

Mmmm...oh baby...Haaaaaggis. (homer voice)

 

[Sludge]

Hang in there Zip.
Not having a rough go of it every so often is the time to worry.

 

[Zipperhead]

I am calm again. Only took 36 hours. Time to reflect. I smiled the whole way through, I didn't swear, I was deliberate in my speech. Okay, maybe the message wasn't overly friendly, but I think the main issue was their reaction. Appearantly when a 240 pound guy smiles and say "listen here" people find that intimidating. So what, I'm not allowed to have an opinion because I'm a guy? Or is it because I'm a vet? Is that why people are afraid of me? The army never tought me how to grovel.

 

[Ned]

People just aren't used to being bollocked, nicely or otherwise.
And they're too ready to take offence at the truth.
Aaah bless.......

P.S. And I've noticed that the likes of us often feel uneccessarily guilty because of their chi-chi reaction. Bit more truth in this world wouldn't hurt.

 

[Sarg]

You nailed it, Zip. Because you are a Vet. They're scared to death of us. Any one of us U.S. Vets can go down to his local VA and have the audacity to raise his voice above the forced-respectful tone and he'll find his ass surrounded by VA armed thugs in an instant. Believe me, I know.

That was the beginning of the end for my treatment at the VA. I refused to kowtow. I refused to submit to stupid, silly rules formulated by managers with way too much time on their hands.

Citizens themselves are wimpy, quivering cowards that assert themselves only with joystick in hand. They don't have the guts to fight for their nation, or, like us, face the consequences of the aftermath.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a huge fan of mankind in general. I'd rather be around real people, Veterans, any day.

Sarg

 

[Tim Cake]

I am calm again. Only took 36 hours. Time to reflect. I smiled the whole way through, I didn't swear, I was deliberate in my speech. Okay, maybe the message wasn't overly friendly, but I think the main issue was their reaction. Appearantly when a 240 pound guy smiles and say "listen here" people find that intimidating. So what, I'm not allowed to have an opinion because I'm a guy? Or is it because I'm a vet? Is that why people are afraid of me? The army never tought me how to grovel.

Zip -- I get that shit all the time. I guess society expects us to be corporate sheep. Not in a hell's half-second! Once you have run with the wolf pack you will never return to being a bleating sheep. f*ck 'em if they can't handle the truth. We are who we are and society can just "suck it up".

As usual Sarg, you kick ass!

 

[Wagon]

Same here. Any time you try to make a very strong point....You get labeled as angry- Or even worse here....violent. Violent, they haven't even seen violent.

I was out with a mate last night. Had a little problem at the end with common courtesy and the bartender. And then some idiot tried to tell me I did not understand. I've been a bartender FFS. f*ck off. But I didn't lose my cool. I just said what I felt...."You're rude and your attitude stinks" thats it. And for that everyone gets upset.

I'll say it again......f*cking people!!!

 

[Zipperhead]

That was the beginning of the end for my treatment at the VA. I refused to kowtow. I refused to submit to stupid, silly rules formulated by managers with way too much time on their hands.

Sarg

So the question is Sarg, if I'll never fit in, how the hell do I make it work? I will not be a sheep. But I have to get to the point where I can keep a job. Doesn't seem likely at this point. How do we communicate without causing the sheep to start ringing the alarm bell?