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#3299537 21-Oct-2024 17:08

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On a related note...

Something broke there.

You know what will fix it? more guns, 2 men stationed in each and every school with guns.

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#3299546 21-Oct-2024 17:59

caffynz: I didn't think you could check out books for other people as the hold is under their name.

I used to get books for a (bedridden) neighbour but it was some years ago and done on autopilot so I can't remember what it involved. I don't remember any problems with it though.

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#3299734 22-Oct-2024 07:01

neb:

This house listing. The first few photos are sort of OK, but then...

definatley some “hidden gems”, awaiting for a new owner.

Improvements look nice, but you gotta question that sky light photo….that ain’t a picture of a cloud and the photo showing the roof….well….

betcha there’s no insulation or much of too…

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#3299816 22-Oct-2024 11:09

I heard a Jewish comedian joke that "we really don't need this right now."

Explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds: NBC News

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

Several countries have argued over the origins and the final burial place of the divisive figure who led Spanish-funded expeditions from the 1490s onward, opening the way for the European conquest of the Americas.

Many historians have questioned the traditional theory that Columbus came from Genoa, Italy. Other theories range from him being a Spanish Jew or a Greek, to Basque, Portuguese or British.
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In DNA there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.
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#3299867 22-Oct-2024 13:52

I'd take that with a significant grain of salt. Spain at that time was busy pogromming and genociding its Jews out of existence, so why would the very monarchs that created the Edict of Expulsion simultaneously fund and and support an expedition headed by a Jew? It'd be political suicide.

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#3300160 22-Oct-2024 23:02

neb:

I'd take that with a significant grain of salt. Spain at that time was busy pogromming and genociding its Jews out of existence, so why would the very monarchs that created the Edict of Expulsion simultaneously fund and and support an expedition headed by a Jew? It'd be political suicide.

As I understand it, the only reason we now know he was gnetically a Jew is from DNA testing. He is unlikely to have ever told anyone in Spain for obvious reasons, and everyone seems to have assumed he was from Genoa and Italian. It is even possible that he did not know he was genetically Jewish - that appears to have been the case with Eva Braun (Hitler's mistress). Like Eva Braun, he may also not have been curturally Jewish.

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#3300164 22-Oct-2024 23:41

Goosey:

neb:

This house listing. The first few photos are sort of OK, but then...

definatley some “hidden gems”, awaiting for a new owner.

Improvements look nice, but you gotta question that sky light photo….that ain’t a picture of a cloud and the photo showing the roof….well….

betcha there’s no insulation or much of too…

We appear to have the same dining room chandelier - not sure if that's a good or a bad thing... We don't have the gold leaf/gold paint on the ceiling though

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#3300166 22-Oct-2024 23:48

Goosey:

neb:

This house listing. The first few photos are sort of OK, but then...

definatley some “hidden gems”, awaiting for a new owner.

Improvements look nice, but you gotta question that sky light photo….that ain’t a picture of a cloud and the photo showing the roof….well….

I still can't shake the vibes of the sort of establishment that's not allowed to be sited within 250m of a school or church...

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#3300267 23-Oct-2024 10:00

neb:

I still can't shake the vibes of the sort of establishment that's not allowed to be sited within 250m of a school or church...

A vape store?

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#3300326 23-Oct-2024 10:19

cddt:

neb:

I still can't shake the vibes of the sort of establishment that's not allowed to be sited within 250m of a school or church...

A vape store?

Close but no cigar.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3300336 23-Oct-2024 10:28

neb:This house listing. The first few photos are sort of OK, but then...

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