Think of things that are so dangerous that you don’t want them and no one in their right mind would want to inflict them on another
– biohazardous waste
– nuclear waste
– war
– old medicines (not the OTC stuff, but stuff you get from a pharmacy)
– chemicals that aren’t safe to put down the drain or break down affecting the water supply after they rot
© 2026 – SoulSequel
15 responses to “What do you do when “lemonade” is not an option?”
Dilute them all with corn syrup, corn, and municipal tap water and call it a great part of well balanced breakfast!!!
Apocalypops! I Love The Taste of Napalm in the Morning!
I hate the taste of anything citrus. I don’t want to eat it. I pulled the lime wedges out of my Moscow Mule drink. Immortal Pirate squeezed them into his beer. Lemonade is a drink only Immortal Pirate would drink and I won’t touch it. Still, I do have to get vitamin C. I get the chewable vitamin C and break it up in pieces I can swallow whole. I am not going to chew anything that tastes like citrus.
I drink tea —– without any lemon. Just iced tea.
@ladybarbara what i was asking what do you do when you can’t make something good out of a situation… it’s an irredeemable thing
@Jear77 Oh!!!! Me personally??? If I cannot make anything good out of a bad situation, I drop it and walk away. If there is an argument, I drop it and walk away. Sometimes, when walking away —— like at a restaurant, when my dinner companion is an objectionable person that I cannot finish a meal with —- I excuse myself, “Excuse me I have to go to the….” I don’t say where I am going. They assume I went to the restroom. I go to the register, pay for the meals, leave a good tip for the waitress that has to explain that I left, and then I leave the restaurant and go home.
My Mom used to get rancid in criticizing conversations and I would pick up my car keys and simply leave. Staying and arguing is not something I want to do. When a past husband wanted a divorce, I start packing and get out of Dodge. I don’t argue the point and do not fight to keep a bad marriage going. Cut it — right there! It is over. Pack and leave. I don’t look back over my shoulder. I start my new life’s adventure. Whatever problem that husband had with me, that he needed a divorce, it is solved. I’m gone. He can stew in the juices of whatever his problem is. It is not my problem.
@Jear77
To answer that we would have to broach the topic of just what IS “irredeemable” — and by what definition?
We tend to apply this term very flippantly, often just meaning something we don’t want to be bothered redeeming.
I hold that it is unto very good effect that the Archetypal God of the Christian faith holds that there are very very very very very few situations (ie, people) who are irredeemable. It sets a wonderful precedent for generating whatever “spirit” or “energy” is necessary to endure things we feel are un-endurable.
@griz not people. Dangerous waste. War based solely on hate on both sides. Something so corrupted it automatically ruins everything it touches
@Jear77
Some things are like that.
And even God’s word allows that some people might choose to be like that and render themselves “irredeemable”.
The only “lemonade” then would be a cautionary beverage — something with a bitter taste, warning against places we should not even start journeying towards.
That is a big part of the reason I keep cautioning against the various victimhood identity groups. Their stated goals are not bad things in and of themselves; but the way they are currently going about them represents dozens of running steps down a path of misery that History has painted a strong caution against.
But I find few people have interest in History, beyond repeating it.
At times I wonder how @immortal_pirate deals with seeing the same things over and over!
I get high.
@Gina Well, that explains a lot…
@Gina
The problem with intoxication is that it wears off; and one’s reality probably hasn’t changed that much while one was off on a soma vacation. (See Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”).
“PUNT”
@immortal_pirate kicking the can down the road is not always a tenable situation
@Jear77 Who said anything about a can? I was referring to people…
Check list of necessary equipment…
1) Duct tape
2) Chloroform
3) Rope
4) Shovel
5) Map of the deserts of Arizona, showing every wash, dry creek bed, gullies, and abandoned mine shafts…
@immortal_pirate ah. people are easier to deal with than the things listed above.
This is more an adage for personal application in dealing with experiences.
But extended outwards to the social level, the same wisdom might apply — make the best of it you can: with recognition that some things we produce really have no viable “best usage” other than hide away somewhere and let someone else deal with it after we’re gone! (Or perhaps another “best usage” is as a cautionary note that one shouldn’t raise up more demons than they can put down!)
But bringing this back into the arena the adage was coined for . . . just WHAT is there experientially that we cannot make something better of?
What are the limits of physical healing? Psychological healing? Spiritual healing?