Jacobe is fine. Healthy, normal.

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  1. hezey

    hezey Well-Known Member

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    ... ... Mr Pekka, whose characteristic pessimism and gloomy perspective were interpreted as serious clinical depression, was led on a nightmare journey through the American psychiatric system. Doctors described Pekka as suffering with Pervasive Negative Anticipation – a belief that everything will turn out for the worst, whether it’s trains arriving late, Finland’s chances at winning any international sports event or even his own prospects to get ahead in life and achieve his dreams.
    “The satisfaction Mr Pekka seemed to get from his pessimism seemed particularly pathological,” reported the doctors.
    “They put me on everything – Lithium, Prozac, St John’s Wort,” said Mr Pekka. “They even told me to sit in front of a big light for an hour a day or I’d become suicidal. I kept telling them this was all pointless and they said that it was exactly that sort of attitude that got me here in the first place.”
    Running out of ideas, his doctors finally resorted to a course of “weapons grade amphetamine”, the only noticeable effect of which was six hours of speedy repetitions of the phrases “mustn’t grumble” and “not too bad, really”.
    It was then that Mr Pekka was referred to a psychotherapist.
    Dr Isaac Horney explored Mr Pekka’s family history and couldn’t believe his ears. “His story of a childhood growing up in a grey little town where it rained every day, gloomy snow-filled streets of identical houses and passionately backing a hockey team who never won, seemed to be typical depressive ideation or false memory. Mr Pekka had six months of therapy but seemed to mainly want to talk about the weather – how miserable and cold it was in winter and later how difficult and hot it was in summer. I felt he wasn’t responding to therapy at all and so I recommended drastic action – namely ECT or shock treatment”.
    “I was all strapped down on the table and they were about to put the rubber bit in my mouth when the psychiatric nurse picked up on my accent,” said Mr Pekka. “I remember her saying ‘Oh my God, I think we’re making a terrible mistake’.” Nurse Alice Sheen was from Upper Peninsula Michigan, and recognized the descriptions. Identifying Mr Pekka as Finnish changed his diagnosis from ‘clinical depression’ to ‘rather quaint and charming’ and he was immediately discharged from hospital, with a selection of brightly coloured leaflets and an “I love California” T-shirt.

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    http://www.finlandforthought.net/2008/12/03/quirkiness-among-finnish-men-is-a-positive-trait/
     
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  2. Mcloud

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    Well done. Bright. Entertaining. Well written too...Not the usual funny Bilesesque/Charlie Farquarson flavoured fare....

    The farther north you go in the US the more normal the people. Even across the border they are now drinkin Tim Hortons and Molsons and Labatts signs everywhere. Players and DuMaurier smokes. Ever had Old Milwaukee in cans and a couple of Marlboros?
    :@drunk: :help:

    Jacobe is fine..prolly just a little S.A.D. seasonal affect disorder. But then again maybe he just needs some new music to give him a lift.

    :D
     
  3. looseleaf

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    God, that was awful...

    Better is the new album from the Kronos Quartet "UNIKO".

    http://www.kronosquartet.org/


    Some called it the "best music to listen during a winter snow storm in Lapland"


    :cheers:


    BTW, Yes, as a matter of fact I did drink two cans of Old Milwaukee once.
    Once. and only once and never again.
    Nope, never smoked cigarettes, nor smoked anything else either....
     
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  4. looseleaf

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    Brooke and Dinah, ahhhhhhhhhhh. They had what it took.
     
  7. looseleaf

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    That's Eartha Kitt and Nate "King" Cole !


    :@prayer:
     
  8. hezey

    hezey Well-Known Member

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    Well what ya know, I guess it is!
    Dang, well, I'll be hornswoggled. Hyuck Hyuck.
     
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  9. looseleaf

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    Yes indeed-di...

    That still is from the 1958 movie "St. Louis Blues".

    The song that Jac linked it to is NOT in the movie !


    Oh My !


    So I guess we'll just have to PRETEND....


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AGW_1r3fY


    :D
     
  10. Jacobe

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    I'm not normal.For me 'normal' people or 'normality' is the sadest and worst thing for some people to aim to.Being yourself is opposite to normal, but that's just the way i see things.
     
  11. looseleaf

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