To be honest, I didn't know mods got paid, even if a little.
I thought you mods always said it was volunteers work.
It would stand to reason you would get some form of reward considering the amount of work & time is involved in moderating a large forum. But I do recall you (former) mods saying it was volunteering.

No matter what, it is totally rude to just cut people off without any notification or explanation.

Well, if that's how it's gonna be here now this site will sure go down the tubes very fast as well.
Won't take long for the creeps, bots & scammers to figure out there's no one monitoring the site.

I've never seen one episode of it. It always started at 22.30 and I had to go to bed that time in order to feel fit and focused the next day at school.

So Hill Street Blues starting on tv was the sign for me to go to sleep, even though I didn't want to, hihi.

Thank you, Julie!
I used different brushwork for most of this painting. Kind of an experiment.
At first I got frustrated because of it, felt it didn't work for me, yet in the end the parts where I did that worked out really well!

Thank you, Julie!

I've done more work. It's as good as done. I'll go over it to maybe do some finishing touches.

The colour of the light part of the wave has not been altered. Any difference is due to light at time of taking the photo.

The previous one isn't totally finished yet, but I did start a new painting yesterday :)
Back to acrylics, which takes getting used to again.

I'm doing a seascape, started out in another way of painting only to find out it's not really my way of going bout it.
Nevertheless I do feel it's coming along nicely!

NOT done with it yet.

I've also reported all of them and yet came across one of the posts just now regardless.

Well, this part used to be an island but got connected to the next piece of land -which was a peninsula- by landfill.
Then there's bridges which connect to the next peninsula and/or island so it's not like being on an island in the middle of the ocean or something.

If you see The Netherlands in this image, then look at the bottom left you get an idea of what I'm talking about.
All peninsula's and islands that nowadays are connected to one another by bridges, or landfill here and there in the past.

So you don't really notice you're actually on an island.

Where I live you cannot do without a car. Not that I'm completely out in the sticks, but this area only has hamlets, villages, a few small towns.
Relatively lightly populated.
As such public transport is meager. No trains, and every now and then a bus.
These days not even a regular bus connection anymore but more like a taxi service that you have to book at least 1 hour prior to departure.
If no one books, there's no bus.
We should consider ourselves lucky with that as they initially had planned to cancel any form of public transport on the island :o

So if I want to be able to make it out of this village I simply need a car.

Thanks, will do! Back in my own car which isn't as smooth as the Audi, so won't be a problem, hihi.

Little Meggie got neutered Monday.
She's doing really well :)
I'd been in 2 minds about letting her have a litter once but in the end decided against it.

She has to stay indoors for another week, then she can go out and run & play & have fun!

I'd sure as heck get a lot of speeding tickets in such a car, hihi.
When you only put the least little pressure on the accelerator you're already doing 40-50km?! I'm only allowed 30km in the village :p

I now totally get why people with such cars almost always drive too fast!

Tonight's the last episode of Expedition Bigfoot season 6!
They've kind of said they have a big surprise/revelation, like 'finally!'

Last episode they had footage of alleged Bigfoot walking through the woods, captured after Russell had followed it for hours on end.

In tonight's episode the entire team is going back to the one area where Russell picked up its trail.

I cannot wait to see what they've got since they're basically saying -indirectly- that they've done it.

It airs tonight at 10 US NY time, meaning I'll have to add another 6 hrs to it, which would be 4 at night. I'm sound asleep then, hihi.

Tomorrow... then I can watch it!! So excited about it!

I of course meant to say "Me prAying..." and not "Me prEying..."

I was so danged nervous I got it wrong.

Feeling a helluva lot more relaxed :D
The drive back went okay.
I figured that maybe I'd had the car in the wrong gear so I made sure I had it in 1st and yup, dammed thing took off like a lightning bolt, haha.

Feeling nervous --->>

First time in my life driving an Audi, owned by the garage that had to fix my left rear wheel.

I am a good driver, have driven for yonks, various cars, never a problem.
But this Audi... I had to pull up in 1st gear, damn thing nearly quit on me there while I'd barely moved half a meter, hihi.
That happened another 5-6 times until I managed to pull out of the garage driveway onto the road.

Me preying I wouldn't have to come to a full stop and go through that nerve-wrecking scenario again, potentially with a car behind me.

Made it home, but in 10 mins I have to drive the poxy thing back to pick up my own car.
Wish me luck!!

Interesting!
Keep us posted, I for one would sure as heck like to know what the findings are!

It is indeed worrying. Big concern.
We can do something to slow that down or turn it round, but problem is all this stuff is deliberately introduced and implemented at such a slow rate that people don't revolt.
They might feel uncomfortable for a while about certain things, then they settle in with an "oh well, it is what it is" and accept it.
I think that's the innate psychological human way of dealing and adapting to change, once needed to survive and evolve I guess.
Now it's being used against us.

It's also this entire LBGQT stuff. No disrespect to these people, but because of them the ones in power ram changes down our throats that are destructive to our evolution, and possible our existence.

Think of how they now are busy erasing gender identification, also from children's toys. Brainwashing young children to not be a boy or a girl but genderless/neutral.
A very dangerous movement and since governments control what happens at schools, and it's mandatory to send our kids to school, we as parents are rendered powerless to protect our children from this.

I could elaborate as to why this is so dangerous but I don't think most are interested in that.
Suffice it to say it is related to mankind moving out of the obsolete patriarchal into the matriarchal. The ones in power won't have that power in the matriarchal, they do, however, in the patriarchal.
This gender-erasing program is a tactic for them to maintain their position of power (and billions that come with that).
It will be the downfall of mankind though.
We'd lose our footing without any identification and likely willingly accept any chips, nano stuff, body-replacements and so on.

Hi DeRoy!
Personally I feel 3 years is too old.
I've also read/heard say that 1 year old is the max.
But it's your profile, you can do what you want :) Whether it is helpful to have older photos is another.

I think the best rule of thumb would be to make sure the photo you use resembles what you see in the mirror.

That's what people see when you show up for a date as well, not the you of 3 years ago.

First of all, looks like your photo isn't recent. Why not use a recent one?

Comes across as a resume. Or a flyer to campaign for something, not love though.

Feels like you're a nice guy, the kind that freewheels through life without (m)any attachments.
Nothing wrong with that, but not appealing if a woman wants a relationship.

I'm not certain you even want that? Isn't really clear to me --> You also state you're looking for a relationship AND an intimate encounter.
Those two are at odds with each other, to me anyways.

Considering the life-style you describe that makes me think you're more after having a different gal in each town.

Again, nothing wrong with that if that's what you want and suits you.
If that is not what you want you may want to change your profile text.