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#2950511 4-Aug-2022 08:37

Tinkerisk:

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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“. ;-)

Then we'll fit right in. 😀

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#2950512 4-Aug-2022 08:41

The look on my son's face when his "new" bike arrived.

Also - how quickly Mainfreight shipped said bike from Nelson.

The look on my face when I inherited my son's old bike (a moderate upgrade from mine), so I can then on-sell my bike to offset costs.

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#2950550 4-Aug-2022 10:15

Bits from GoWireless - free sweeties included...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2950729 4-Aug-2022 17:20

Not that Roman soldiers were enough - I did some digging and found out that the area around my home village used to be a really big deal and up to three whole Roman legions were stationed there around 53 BC before Gaius Julius Caesar made his way across the Rhine. Within 5km visual distance was a military installation of the local adversaries, the Treverians or Treveri (not a Germanic tribe, more like Late Celts). This site has already been excavated.

Germany's oldest city (Trier, >2000 years) once the largest one and the ‚Rome north of the Alps‘ (Augusta Treverorum) is also named after the Treverians, also nearby and this time with a 2.5 million Euro gold treasure. By today's standards, this was a cosmopolitan city at the time. Private metal detectors are strictly forbidden in this city, by the way - for understandable reasons - but I don't know how many garden owners have digged and smiled when planting potatoes in their home garden. Exciting stuff and makes me smile.

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#2950872 5-Aug-2022 10:51

You know what's making me smile this morning?

27 Funny Friday Memes That Anybody With a Job Will Relate To

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#2951145 5-Aug-2022 19:19

Handsomedan:

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.

I wish I knew more about the history of our adopted lab x, she does this weird thing where if she needs to go outside she'll claw at your arm as if she needs your help to open the door. If you dare ignore it she'll add in some whimpering. The puppy eye look has long started by this point along with her lip smacks which I understand to mean she's asking for something. She does the same when we've had too much screen time, possibly simply asking for attention but it's the most uncanny thing ever.

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#2951191 6-Aug-2022 06:23

MadEngineer:

I wish I knew more about the history of our adopted lab x, she does this weird thing where if she needs to go outside she'll claw at your arm as if she needs your help to open the door. If you dare ignore it she'll add in some whimpering. The puppy eye look has long started by this point along with her lip smacks which I understand to mean she's asking for something. She does the same when we've had too much screen time, possibly simply asking for attention but it's the most uncanny thing ever.

My dog (rest his soul) was far simpler and direct. He would walk over to the door, turn to face you and let out a nice little polite bark. If you didn't acknowledge him timely he would give you a second chance. A not so polite, slightly grumpier bark.

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#2951194 6-Aug-2022 07:09

I preordered a Retroid Pocket 3 for miss 10 for Christmas. It’ll be her first gaming device of her own, outside her “school” iPad.

We’ve been playing quite a lot of old games recently and she’s gaming mad. She wants a VR headset but that’s outside the current budget.

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#2951199 6-Aug-2022 08:07

The response from, the rather tall, gold-medal winning high-jumper Hamish Kerr when reporter Abby Wilson from TV One news asked him, somewhat inanely, what is was like standing at the top-step of the podium: “ the air is quite thin up there, it’s quite high up.”

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2951245 6-Aug-2022 11:00

Senecio:

MadEngineer:

I wish I knew more about the history of our adopted lab x, she does this weird thing where if she needs to go outside she'll claw at your arm as if she needs your help to open the door. If you dare ignore it she'll add in some whimpering. The puppy eye look has long started by this point along with her lip smacks which I understand to mean she's asking for something. She does the same when we've had too much screen time, possibly simply asking for attention but it's the most uncanny thing ever.

My dog (rest his soul) was far simpler and direct. He would walk over to the door, turn to face you and let out a nice little polite bark. If you didn't acknowledge him timely he would give you a second chance. A not so polite, slightly grumpier bark.

Our older dog will do this if she wants to go out at night (very rare). The puppy we got now doesn't quite know how to do it yet, so if we ever hear steps during the night one of us has to get up to check. The problem is that she's not really good at planning yet and only goes to the door in the last few seconds before bursting so we always have to be quick... She's only one year old now so she will learn.

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#2951301 6-Aug-2022 12:54

Whenever I feel down, I watch MSNBC. The American TV commercials are hilarious. Most are for medical conditions I never knew existed, offering remedies that promise amazing results along with graphic warnings about all the ways the remedies may kill their users.

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#2951311 6-Aug-2022 14:23

Pharmaceutical advertising in the US is insane. Essentially trying to turn the whole nation into hypochondriacs who go to the doctor insisting something is wrong with them after watching a TV AD.