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  #3353091 12-Mar-2025 11:27
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The "thanks" thread is locked, so posting here instead. A smile for Auckland Airport. I'd booked and paid for parking there, but had to extend it by two days due to the cyclone. They happily did this with no charge.




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  #3353232 12-Mar-2025 15:23
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Haha - we came home 2 days early (so after midnight Friday 7th instead of Saturday 8th afternoon) no discount for early arrival for us.  Looks like we subsidised your parking 🤣





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  #3353254 12-Mar-2025 16:59
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At the Slipknot concert last night - only 8 of the 9 band members were able to make it, but one of the two percissionists that normally play more than made up for it, with his...interesting...antics. 

 

It was like having a circus clown with a baseball bat performing alongside the heaviest gig I have ever been to. 





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  #3354395 16-Mar-2025 13:35
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You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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  #3355077 19-Mar-2025 11:04
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We watch almost all of our TV via Apple TV. I have always found the ‘slightly-enlarged thumbnail’ method of highlighting shows on streaming apps very frustrating. I have good eyesight but really struggle to detect which one has been slightly-enlarged - although the difficulty does vary between different apps.

 

Just stumbled across something I find incredibly useful: In the settings on ATV > Accessibility > Display, you can change the focus setting to ‘high contrast’ which puts a white border around the highlighted app or show. This works not just on ATV+ but also on every streaming app supported by ATV. Small thing maybe but a game-changer for me.

 

 





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  #3356098 21-Mar-2025 18:07
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„Bene qui latuit, bene vixit!“ 🙂





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  #3356136 21-Mar-2025 20:25
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Tinkerisk:

 

„Bene qui latuit, bene vixit!“ 🙂

 

 

And the relevance of that is …… ??





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  #3356143 21-Mar-2025 20:45
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Tinkerisk:

 

„Bene qui latuit, bene vixit!“ 🙂

 

 

Just realised I know this better in its original and more widely accepted form: 

 

Bien qui verhielt sich im Verborgenen, bueno ha vivido!





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  #3356170 22-Mar-2025 05:46
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eracode:

 

Tinkerisk:

 

„Bene qui latuit, bene vixit!“ 🙂

 

 

And the relevance of that is …… ??

 

 

The relevance of it is that it's something (small) that makes me smile - which is exactly the point of this thread.

 

But I can also put it another way: „To live well is to live concealed.“ 😊





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  #3356173 22-Mar-2025 07:40
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Tinkerisk:

 

The relevance of it is that it's something (small) that makes me smile - which is exactly the point of this thread.

 

But I can also put it another way: „To live well is to live concealed.“ 😊

 

 

If you want to get on in life, keep a low profile.

 

 





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  #3356317 22-Mar-2025 14:52
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Finding some chocolate bars in the downstairs cupboard (I bought them about a month ago for movie night, we didn't eat all of them, and then I forgot about them).


 
 
 
 

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  #3356553 23-Mar-2025 16:11
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BBC News - Earrings worth $769,500 recovered by Florida police after alleged thief swallows them

 

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Orlando police have recovered two sets of earrings worth a combined US $769,500 (£597,000) after an alleged thief swallowed them more than two weeks ago.

 

Jaythan Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co. diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26 February, police said.

 

Mr Gilder was monitored by detectives at an Orlando hospital for "more than a dozen days" before the earrings were expelled from his system, according to the Orlando Police Department.

 

Mr Gilder faces charges of robbery with a mask and grand theft in the first degree.

 

Tiffany's has since cleaned the earrings.

 

 

... which reminds me of an old medical joke: when a child swallows a coin, "just wait for change".  🙂





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  #3356617 23-Mar-2025 17:52
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… which might be re-phrased above as “just wait for ringrings”.





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  #3356629 23-Mar-2025 18:52
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The report does mention that the 4th earing was recovered later.


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  #3356646 23-Mar-2025 20:30
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Sideface:

 



 

BBC News - Earrings worth $769,500 recovered by Florida police after alleged thief swallows them

 

today

 


Orlando police have recovered two sets of earrings worth a combined US $769,500 (£597,000) after an alleged thief swallowed them more than two weeks ago.

 

Jaythan Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co. diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26 February, police said.

 

Mr Gilder was monitored by detectives at an Orlando hospital for "more than a dozen days" before the earrings were expelled from his system, according to the Orlando Police Department.

 

Mr Gilder faces charges of robbery with a mask and grand theft in the first degree.

 

Tiffany's has since cleaned the earrings.

 

 

... which reminds me of an old medical joke: when a child swallows a coin, "just wait for change".  🙂

 

 

When queried by reporters about how the wait for the evidence was going, the Orlando Police Department spokesperson said “Well, our detectives are just going through the motions”.





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