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MadEngineer
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  #2948332 30-Jul-2022 14:53
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Tinkerisk:

 

Reverse car parking at it‘s best. No, it was a man who spent 8 minutes of his lifetime on it. ;-)

 

I've always wondered who the hell needs an automatic parking system in their car? Now I realise, they don't seem to teach that in driving schools anymore.

 

We have a clearly signed "customer only" parking area that we actually use as staff parking.  Of course if a customer chooses to park in our "staff" parking area instead of the usual parking area then so be it.  They just have further to walk.

 

Retail shops next door to us frequently have customers that seem to want to use our staff carpark and due to not knowing the layout of our site frequently end up having to make weird manoeuvres to exit back out the way they came unless they're similarly daft enough to reverse onto a busy four lane road.  It frequently generates enough interest in a few staff to crowd around and watch them from one of the windows, half as entertainment and half as ensuring they don't hit our own cars





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  #2948343 30-Jul-2022 15:13
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Moving down south.

Just inexplicably better. 😁





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  #2948591 31-Jul-2022 15:53
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I spent a large portion of my school holidays in Picton and would love to move down to somewhere in the greater Sounds one day.  It strangely feels like coming home whenever I visit.





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  #2948723 1-Aug-2022 06:32
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Channeling my childhood by driving dodgems against my kids. Doing it in a former Soviet republic was just a bonus.

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  #2948749 1-Aug-2022 08:47
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Trying to get our small fluffy dog to get up and go out to the toilet when it's damp and cold.

 

His groans and ability to increase his dead weight by about a factor of 10 really amuses me. He really lays it on thick. 

 

 

 

Then (around 2 hours later) he'll be absolutely busting and have to go out. And he looks suitably unimpressed about it too. 





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Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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  #2949457 1-Aug-2022 18:10
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Handle9: Channeling my childhood by driving dodgems against my kids. Doing it in a former Soviet republic was just a bonus.

 

 

Is that the version that uses T-34s, Trabis, and Tatras?

  #2949459 1-Aug-2022 18:14
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We have a significant number of bus cancellations each day in Wellington at present (which in itself is nothing to smile about) and today I was in the CBD waiting for my next bus and noticed the realtime display said the next bus, a #24, was cancelled. Sixty seconds later, said #24 arrived. I guess someone forgot to tell the driver...


 
 
 

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  #2949460 1-Aug-2022 18:17
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neb:
Handle9: Channeling my childhood by driving dodgems against my kids. Doing it in a former Soviet republic was just a bonus.


Is that the version that uses T-34s, Trabis, and Tatras?


Nah it’s the version that has khinkali, khachpuri and chacha.

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  #2949476 1-Aug-2022 19:15
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neb: An update on this, I ordered three of them from random different vendors in China at the time this came up and one of them turned up today, part of the long-lost shipments being covered in the Aliexpress thread.

 

 

Second one arrived today, another Yanwen shipment that took three months to get from arrived-in-NZ to the letterbox, and before that a month from hand-over-to-airline to arrived-in-NZ. More thorium, although in a very fancy box with an embossed credit-card style authenticity card:

 

 

 

 

Reassuring that you'ge getting authentic gamma-ray-emitting woo-woo rather than fake woo-woo that does nothing.

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  #2949528 1-Aug-2022 23:11
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My junior has a place at university for aerospace engineering because of "Hubble & Webb" (that impressed him) - who would have thought that? However, he still has a few other degree options. :-)





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  #2949547 2-Aug-2022 08:28
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When the ISS flies over my house

 





Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?


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Got a spam call today from 028 821 2994 offering me a once in a lifetime deal! Adsense company something. Apparently I signed up online. Clearly I was to eager as they hung up on me when I said hang on while I go and get my credit card. Ah crap I could have been rich beyond my dreams.


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I have just learned that the graves of two unknown Roman officers were found on a meadow plot belonging to our family. A once important Roman military road ran through our area. Archelogists are currently securing the find (nope, no gold treasure included) and taking it to the museum for further examination. Such finds are not uncommon in the southern area there. The age is estimated at 200 years a. Chr.





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  #2950506 4-Aug-2022 08:31
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Month-long home exchange arranged in record short time in Palm Springs, SE California, for Nov-Dec.





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  #2950508 4-Aug-2022 08:35
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eracode:

 

Month-long home exchange arranged in record short time in Palm Springs, S California, for Nov-Dec.

 

 

Been there for a few days - a lot of retired folks hence a little bit „too quiet“. ;-)





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