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#2955881 18-Aug-2022 08:53

Look for snails hiding in top corners of the box. They move faster than you might think. I collected about 20 snails one night in the middle of the back lawn. Whether they were coming or going from the veg garden either way they'd covered a fair bit of ground since nightfall.

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#2955922 18-Aug-2022 10:26

The three weirdest sounds one can have the joy of experiencing would have to be shagging hedgehogs, coughing sheep and the sound a snail makes on glass should it scrape its shell as it slowly crosses your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

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#2956052 18-Aug-2022 13:54

“You can also change your Qantas App icon to an exclusive green edition to show how sustainable you are.”

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#2956077 18-Aug-2022 15:14

Last evening (Wednesday 17th) there was an article on the TVNZ1 News about a neuro-divergent lady getting a job after a lot of difficulty. Excellent stuff. Her new employer is The Warehouse Group - good on them, there are a number of job types in the IT sector that are well suited to people on the Autism spectrum. Well done them.

But ... look what she was so happy to be working on:

That looks an awful lot like Windows XP to me!
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#2956078 18-Aug-2022 15:16

PolicyGuy: That looks an awful lot like Windows XP to me!

Well, it isn't :)

XP had a large green Start button. That picture appears to be Windows 7.

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#2956082 18-Aug-2022 15:20

jamesrt:
neb: More to the point, how do you deal with them? Blitzem around the base?

We've used snail bait around the base and inside the letterbox before, yes.

And throwing them away when you catch them - they don't run fast!

I suggested to a friend with a snail problem in his garden that he put bottle tops with beer in them at strategic locations in his garden and hope the snails crash into the gateposts or wrap themselves around the clothesline pole.

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#2956083 18-Aug-2022 15:24

PolicyGuy:
Last evening (Wednesday 17th) there was an article on the TVNZ1 News about a neuro-divergent lady getting a job after a lot of difficulty. Excellent stuff. Her new employer is The Warehouse Group - good on them, there are a number of job types in the IT sector that are well suited to people on the Autism spectrum. Well done them.

But ... look what she was so happy to be working on:

That's probably not that unusual. Often people with conditions like that are intimidated by change and prefer to stick with whatever they're comfortable with. Some years ago I was helping someone with a far more debilitating condition who was still using Windows 98 on something like a 14" CRT monitor. She politely declined any offers to move her to something a bit more capable or newer, which after a few further attempts I accepted even if it was painful to watch.

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#2956084 18-Aug-2022 15:26

neb: .
I suggested to a friend with a snail problem in his garden that he put bottle tops with beer in them at strategic locations in his garden and hope the snails crash into the gateposts or wrap themselves around the clothesline pole.

Snails love beer. I used to fill a bucket to a decent depth with home-made beer....and then set the bucket in a hole in the lawn that came to the brim. Snails from all around crawled on in there and drowned. Only issue then was what to do with them all.....

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#2956223 18-Aug-2022 16:43

I really don't want to hear your erinaceal coital exuberances, thanks very much.

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#2956273 18-Aug-2022 16:48

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#2956540 19-Aug-2022 11:58

a) coincidence, b) intentional reference to the Nelson floods, c) or me overreacting?

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#2956794 19-Aug-2022 22:42

Wakrak:
a) coincidence, b) intentional reference to the Nelson floods, c) or me overreacting?

Looks like someone was reminiscing bad LSD trip when they designed that advert..

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#2963134 4-Sep-2022 18:34

That Kremelta vegetable shortening contains no vegetable oil, or vegetable products of any kind, it's coconut oil and some soy lecithin emulsifier.

Should I complain to KremeltaCorp about their misleading advertising?

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#2963146 4-Sep-2022 19:14

neb: That Kremelta vegetable shortening contains no vegetable oil, or vegetable products of any kind, it's coconut oil and some soy lecithin emulsifier. Should I complain to KremeltaCorp about their misleading advertising?

So, out of "animal, vegetable or mineral", which category are you placing coconuts in?

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#2963147 4-Sep-2022 19:16

shk292:
neb: That Kremelta vegetable shortening contains no vegetable oil, or vegetable products of any kind, it's coconut oil and some soy lecithin emulsifier. Should I complain to KremeltaCorp about their misleading advertising?

So, out of "animal, vegetable or mineral", which category are you placing coconuts in?

The same category I'd place it in out of "copper, silver, or gold", it's none of those. It's a fruit. And soybean is a legume.

Neither are vegetables. Or gold.

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