Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Holy cow, this describes how I have felt (to varying extents, fortunately never really extreme, but always there) throughout my life better than anything I have ever before read. From Personality Disorders in Modern Life (Millon, 2nd ed.): THE CONFLICTED AVOIDANT A defining feature of avoidant perso...

Canned tuna has its merits, though. It's funny to me how the tuna in water costs more (at least in my area) than the tuna in oil. You'd think the oil cost more than the water. It probably does, and they know that the stuff not soaked in oil tastes better, so they make even more profit by charging m...

It's actually one of those times when the name everybody just uses isn't actually descriptive, but that's what everybody calls it. At the "cannery" where I worked, the fish came in off the boat into the fresh half of the building, where a machine could quickly behead the fishes en masse an...

Dr. Smeed wrote:Easy misunderstanding. I just worked in Alaska for a summer and played hockey up there.

Was the work in a cannery? I did that in Alaska for two summers, fortunately getting assigned to the side that handled the fish after they had been gutted and frozen.

Here's some good background music by which to read both the post and responses.