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  #2655093 12-Feb-2021 10:19
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rb99:

Selected lyrics from one of the great songs of our time (well, early 80s anyway) -


Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high hand stand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel


Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears


Take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth, an amethyst...



Someone's preparing for Valentines Day on Sunday.



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  #2655097 12-Feb-2021 10:33
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Its Valentine's Day on Sunday ? I hadn't realised....

 

Believe it or not, they played it on local radio this morning at 8.14am after I listened to the news at 8.00 and then spent the next 14 minutes listening to interminable adverts and waffling till they actually played an actual song, so i listened extra carefully. Maybe that comes under the 'things that annoy you' thread.

 

And Valentines Day is an invention of the petty bourgeoisie to oppress the working classes and has no part in a modern society, and come the revolution...





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  #2655205 12-Feb-2021 14:38
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Handle9: A certain MP issuing a press release about dropping standards. His press release had grammatical errors.


What is remarkable about that? Every single written document produced in New Zealand has grammatical errors.


 


It amused me. I can't see the point of your comment.



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  #2655474 12-Feb-2021 21:09
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Reading this article about the Waikato Police being first to get the new mufti vehicle....being a Holden Equinox.

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124235068/waikato-polices-notsosecret-weapon-against-speeders 

 

Funny thing is one of them pulled someone over opposite my place in Christchurch 11 days ago!

 

I made the comment of nice mufti vehicle.... the red and blue lights on the body are not even noticeable when off!

 

(And they have Mag wheels these days too - no giving one away by wearing steel wheels like the old days!)

 


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  #2655784 13-Feb-2021 19:27
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I still prefer the Porsche 911s of the Autobahn police with visible markings. ;-)





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  #2655785 13-Feb-2021 19:30
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I lost my phone in the desert last night when I was digging a friends car out. I only realised when I got home last night. I couldn't find it on find my device and I realised it might have fallen out of my pocket and gotten buried.

 

I went back this morning with a rake and found it in 5 minutes. For bonus points we didn't get stuck.


 
 
 

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  #2655844 13-Feb-2021 21:51
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Handle9:

I lost my phone in the desert last night when I was digging a friends car out.

 

 

You know, I was really expecting this dream sequence, digging a car out of the desert in the middle of the night, to continue with...

 

 

I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should dig...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was buried in the desert outside Las Vegas, and a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

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  #2655855 13-Feb-2021 23:11
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Here it's winter, we have -16°C, snow and ... Quattros.





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  #2655899 14-Feb-2021 09:02
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Tinkerisk:

Here it's winter, we have -16°C, snow and ... Quattros.



Having lived in Sweden in winter where apartments had triple glazing and were fully heated and cosy, nothing gave me more joy than watching heavy snow falling and walking in it. The locals mostly hated it but I thought it was quite magical.

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  #2656279 14-Feb-2021 17:56
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Tinkerisk:

 

Here it's winter, we have -16°C, snow and ... Quattros.

 

 

It's a winter wonderland here as well. High of 26 and no rain since October....


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  #2656282 14-Feb-2021 18:26
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Travelling around Te Ika ā Māui (North Island) with our caravan.





Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.


 
 
 

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  #2656357 14-Feb-2021 20:33
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K8Toledo:

 

 

 

 

 

Self explanatory. :)

 

 

https://www.techspot.com/news/88605-internet-usage-surging-new-heights-when-1-terabyte.html

 

 

This should be in the "angry" thread or "stupid headlines" thread but... bandwidth is not the same as allowance. 





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  #2656401 14-Feb-2021 21:47
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freitasm:

 

K8Toledo:

 

 

 

 

 

Self explanatory. :)

 

 

https://www.techspot.com/news/88605-internet-usage-surging-new-heights-when-1-terabyte.html

 

 

This should be in the "angry" thread or "stupid headlines" thread but... bandwidth is not the same as allowance. 

 

 

It made me smile - I thought it was funny. :P 

 

 

 

Btw when I posted that screenshot I hadn't read the article.   I scrolled down just now and saw the main content:

 

 

 

 

 

 

@freitasm - now posted in Stupid Headlines.

 

 


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  #2656546 15-Feb-2021 11:39
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Eva888:
Tinkerisk:

 

Here it's winter, we have -16°C, snow and ... Quattros.

 



Having lived in Sweden in winter where apartments had triple glazing and were fully heated and cosy, nothing gave me more joy than watching heavy snow falling and walking in it. The locals mostly hated it but I thought it was quite magical.

 

I lived in Switzerland for a winter. Yes, I really loved the snow at Xmas. However, by Easter I had come round to the locals' view of it.

 

 


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