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It depends the podcast and how much I enjoy it.

• If it’s a podcast with a single theme that will be treated across all episodes, say something about Ancient Egypt or Greece for example, I will start at the first episode and slowly move my way up.
• If it’s just people chatting, or something that doesn’t require some kind of progression, I will listen to whatever episode is available.
• But if after an episode or two I think it’s a podcast I think I will particularly appreciate, I will start over from the first episode.

No worries, I just wanted to make sure there was not some mistake. Here is my edited reply:

Two things:

1. why can’t a teen not sleep? At his age, the body needs to sleep because its constantly growing and changing. That would be the first thing I would try to understand and fix. And if it is something the kid is not willing to discuss with his parents, which is ok too, maybe with someone else they can trust.
2. if you have discussed with your son and there is no ambiguity between you I would just make sure that you sleep under separated sheets or whatever (he is not a little baby anymore and the body of a teen boy can react in ways neither you or him would be willing to see happen), provided you made it clear this should not become a habit because sleeping with mom may not be the best way to develop good sleeping habits.

Hope this helps.

(end of the edited reply)

…27 year old mother with a 12 year old kid equals 15

Thx a lot… captain obvious. I wished for the op to answer the question themselves.

100% this.

I think we won’t be able to go through what will happen (already started) at least not without a lot of suffering and violence that will make any past tragedy look like mere child-play. But, hey, we will be able to record it in 4K and get LIkes. Yeah.

Edit: at what age did you have you kid?

Sorry for the edit, I just realized your son and your age and it raised some questions… I will put back my answer once this has been clarified ;)

I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I’m not even American but I’ve read it.

So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.

Anywhere I can go that’s at walking distance (do errands, go to appointments, expo, friends,…) and, like I said, to nowhere in particular just for the enjoyment of going out and walk, wandering in the city (or wherever I happen to be when I’m not home).

It’s also a great way to get surprised and to discover places and meet people you probably would not otherwise ;)

The funny thing is that a few years ago I was chronically (and severely) ill, like in a real real bad shape and I was also severely obese. No exaggerating, I could barely walk a few steps outside of my home without needing the entire day to rest. I decided I had enough of that shit and started to walk daily. I started slow (not much choice here) walking a few steps, but I did it everyday, without worrying about the shame of being frowned upon by people, then I started doing it twice a day, then even more. And I gently started walking for longer sessions too. Nowadays, if I’m still chronically ill (and that won’t get away) I lost a shit ton of weight and I feel so much better despite that illness. And I will feel bad, if I don’t go out at least for a little walk ;)

One of the things i love the most is going in a city i’ve never been before or i barrly know and just lose myself

100%. Note that one can also do that in a city they know: there is a lot of streets and spots to visit ;)

Outside. Every single day, I’ll be walking. Sometimes to go to some specific place, often just to go out and have a nice long walk.

Being bored is not a bad thing. If by being bored you mean ‘not doing something’ and not being ‘busy’ because then it means one can start thinking by oneself. Something that seems to be severely lacking in our so modern and so constantly busy societies.

If you want to know what are my usual activities, beside welcoming boredom, I would say: read, write, paint, go out for a walk (that’s amazing too, for the body as well as the mind), spend time with my spouse, making stuff with my hands.

But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)

It’s a beautifully deep game, and it’s refreshing to be able to pour time into something with staying power that people of every age play all over the world.

So much this :)

Would chess count?

I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won’t go away anytime soon, but I’m always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.

A friend.

I don’t think any country has ‘a view’ on the way to speak their language. I mean, would there be a law, some rules and sanctions against accents?

People may have their own opinion on the matter but that opinion will vary widely from one person to the other.

My opinion, which was already mentioned in another comment, is that anyone making fun on someone speaking a foreign language can (and should) go funk themselves.

We should welcome those kind of efforts instead of mocking them, and we should also be happy to be encouraged to speak more foreign languages ourselves. I say that as I a French that’s poorly speaking a few languages and would love to speak a lot more.

No, but why would I want to watch another of those Americans pretend they’re a super hero saving the world while they only care about shoving their shit deep down our throats and then make us thank them for that?

They don’t care about us, no matter what they say. But maybe that’s not much of a secret? ;)

Not knowing what usually makes you cry and what kind of movies you may enjoy, here are the first movies I know make me cry. Me being a a 50+ years old dude:

• Somewhere in Time
• The bicentennial man
• Love Story.

And those are from Ghibli:

• When Marnie was There
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• From Up on Poppy Hill
• Only Yesterday
• The Red Turtle
• Porco Rosso