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Greetings fellow BeatleBiblers. I just wanted to tell you about this astonishing and very cheap way of painting I’ve been taught. It’s called egg tempera, and according to my teacher is predates oil painting. The procedure is easy: you need dry pigments, which come as powder, then add the yolk of an egg and mix them both with vinegar until you obtain the desired consistency –in my case, similar to oil paints. The colors are beautiful, and you can do most things you can do with oil paints. Now I’m working on a portrait of a teenage girl, and the background is very nicely done, if I may say so; but the perspective of painting the face is something that is making me nervous, it’s going to be my first portrait. So that’s all for now.

Annadog40 said
Sometimes I wish I could encounter those people more often. It would be nice to give them some verbal payback. 

Yes!  you can use your @Starr Shine? volcano to burn their mouth or your 40 dogs to bite their mouth 🙂

Linde said
I hate people.

I was at the supermarket, doing groceries with my brother, because it was too much to carry on my own. Anyway, we’re in the queue and another cash register opened. So we walk towards it, a bit in a hurry because it was all pretty heavy. Then this woman behind us starts swearing. We ignore it, but I look behind me and see it’s some stereotype antisocial person with her kids. Anyway, we’re packing our stuff and the idiot drives into my brother with her shopping cart and bumps his head. So my brother yells OUCH. The idiot said ”Should’ve f****d off faster, *some word that can’t be repeated*”. So I got mad, but decided to keep polite and I say ”Well excuse me, but you could’ve had a bit more patience and wait, these groceries are a bit heavy, you see?”

And what do you think she said? She started yelling and yelled ”Shut your f**cking mouth, or I’ll f**cking throw you through the whole shop, you cancerous slut (cancer is a very rude swear word over here)”
No one in the queue said anything, nor did the cashier. They were all just sheepishly staring. I was very mad, but I didn’t want to make a scene. What I actually wanted to do was turn around and say ”Excuse me? What did you say? You’re setting a nice example for your kids here, but go ahead. You’ll be behind bars, not me, you retarded a*****e.”

Instead I started walking and said ”Come on Max (my brother), let’s go. We don’t need a thing like this to ruin our day” Then she yelled a couple more swear words to me and then I couldn’t help myself and yelled ”RETARDED SCUM”

My mom said I should’ve gotten the chef, but what could he have done? Throw all of us out? I didn’t really want to make a scene. These are the kind of people who you’ll bump into one day and who always carry a knife, if you know what I mean.

People like this make me really really mad.

You ask this f**k wit very politely, ‘Did you get your money back?’

She’ll answer “What money?”  

Then you say, ‘From that charm school you went to’

Seriously nice people like yourself sometimes attract people like this. Leaving was the right thing to do. You had your brother with you. It was all huff and puff from this woman….. she didn’t touch you, or have you cornered.  Get out and forget it. You did the first…….now do the latter.

However, I can’t say this strongly enough….. to everyone actually. If someone is mouthing off and building up their own courage trying to intimidate you and crucially does look like hitting you and for whatever reason you can’t get away, or you have to protect some loved one…… don’t let them in close. DON”T stand meekly thinking the best way is to keep my arms down not protect myself and show no  aggression  and maybe they will calm down and this will all go away. It won’t.

Most attacks are over for the victim in 2 or 3 seconds. Even if you see the probably well practised sucker-punch, slap, head butt, or shoot for your legs coming……with your arms by your sides and having let them in your space, there’s nothing you can do in time. It’s over and you’re done.

 Arms up in front of you constantly moving, palms facing the would be attacker as though you’re trying to calm things down…….I call it talking Italian. But claim the centre with your arms. Any attack must come from one or other side.

Imagine two magnets when they get within each other’s magnetic field…… they jump together. If someone attacks you he/she is expecting you to be where you are or that you will back off. All the ranges the attacker has calculated go to pot if you go forward as fast as you can towards a kick or a hook……..

Once you’ve met his/her charge with a step in yourself……….If you don’t know how to punch without chambering then go for eyes or throat fingers pointing. Land with something and then get away……….

I know this sounds pie-in-the-sky or naff but if you’re in real real danger and you’ve got the courage…It’s got to be better than waiting to be hit… When you’re down who’s going to protect your loved one.

In this world I’m afraid everyone needs some understanding of how to protect themselves.

I decided a couple of years ago to learn some practical methods that don’t take years to master. I didn’t want a confusing pocket full of techniques  just a principle to follow and then to rely on simple muscle memory and the courage to go forward.

I found one to one ‘Wing Tsen’ much more useful than golf lessons.