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#3032400 6-Feb-2023 09:15

afe66: Weather the last couple of days in Dunedin...

Today high 35 in my garden, yesterday high 34.7 in garden!!!

Can we swap? Raining again in Auckland.

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#3034792 10-Feb-2023 21:02

Why do cricketers wear long pants (trousers for you English folk, not underwear)?

Might offer some protection and comfort for batters and some fielding positions, but if you're sprinting in as a pace bowler or standing in the outfield for 6 hours in 30 degree heat surely shorts are far more practical and comfortable.

New Zealanders, on average, have one testicle.

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#3034795 10-Feb-2023 21:05

Re: Your signature, "first used to denote something small and insignificant, in the 1920s transferred to the opposite sense in US slang" according to the OED.

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#3034796 10-Feb-2023 21:07

floydbloke:
Why do cricketers wear long pants (trousers for you English folk, not underwear)?

Might offer some protection and comfort for batters and some fielding positions, but if you're sprinting in as a pace bowler or standing in the outfield for 6 hours in 30 degree heat surely shorts are far more practical and comfortable.

Longs are far more comfortable and practical than shorts. They are lightweight and breathable and you get a lot less grazes and cuts. It’s even more so when you’re batting.

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#3034798 10-Feb-2023 21:11

Handle9: Longs are far more comfortable and practical than shorts. They are lightweight and breathable and you get a lot less grazes and cuts. It’s even more so when you’re batting.

It's also more... dignified. Shorts are for those nancy-boys who play rugby :-).

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#3034799 10-Feb-2023 21:13

neb:
Handle9: Longs are far more comfortable and practical than shorts. They are lightweight and breathable and you get a lot less grazes and cuts. It’s even more so when you’re batting.
It's also more... dignified. Shorts are for those nancy-boys who play rugby :-).

Dignity and club cricket are generally mutually exclusive

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#3034801 10-Feb-2023 21:17

Handle9:..

Dignity and club cricket are generally mutually exclusive

Exactly...so get those Stubbies on.

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#3034947 11-Feb-2023 12:09

floydbloke:
Why do cricketers wear long pants (trousers for you English folk, not underwear)?

Might offer some protection and comfort for batters and some fielding positions, but if you're sprinting in as a pace bowler or standing in the outfield for 6 hours in 30 degree heat surely shorts are far more practical and comfortable.

You’d have to be English to understand.

The same reason you can’t wear shorts on a golf course unless you’re wearing long socks.

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#3034948 11-Feb-2023 12:10

The fact that three criminals escaped from a prison transport on a motorway. Body belts and leg irons, people. Very simple.

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#3034988 11-Feb-2023 14:00

Handsomedan:

An ad for anti-vax T-shirts came up in my FB feed today. Reading the comments section, I was somewhat worried for the future of this country.

That is what Ad blockers etc are for, so you don't get to see that rubbish.

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#3035074 11-Feb-2023 16:40

gzt: Random people think they see a rainbow in Pink Floyd's 50th Anniversary logo and...

It's just another brick taken out of the wall. 😄

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#3035080 11-Feb-2023 17:00

Geektastic:

The same reason you can’t wear shorts on a golf course unless you’re wearing long socks.

Thankfully that dress code was left back in the 90s.

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#3035087 11-Feb-2023 17:32

Tinkerisk:
gzt: Random people think they see a rainbow in Pink Floyd's 50th Anniversary logo and...

It's just another brick taken out of the wall. 😄

Speaking of random people seeing rainbows. While driving today, windscreen had a lot of reflection and glare so donned Mr E's Oakley sun glasses. Later looked down at the dash to see the time while coming through the city and notice the digital time is no longer white, it’s distinctly rainbow coloured with blue, purple and yellow. Nothing else on the dash changed colour except the time. So I deduce there is maybe some new AI tech above that creates rainbow colours in honour of the LGBT community, like they did for the Dixon Street pedestrian crossing and which I happened to be driving very close to.

Am wondering, what magic is this. I ask my passenger if they can see the rainbow coloured numbers. No...numbers are definitely white they insist. Am thinking silently they must be colour blind.

Eureka moment, handed them the sunglasses to try and voila...they also saw the rainbow numbers. Still very puzzled as to why.

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#3035092 11-Feb-2023 17:45

Trademe scam ???.

There is a seller on Trademe and as far as I can tell ALL of their Apple listings are way above Apples new price listings, and then the cheeky blighter asks for shipping costs on top.

14" M2 MBP Apple price $3699.00, Same spec machine on Trademe Price $4,317.63 with shipping from $11.50

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#3035094 11-Feb-2023 18:00

Eva888:
Tinkerisk:

It's just another brick taken out of the wall. 😄

Speaking of random people seeing rainbows. While driving today, windscreen had a lot of reflection and glare so donned Mr E's Oakley sun glasses. Later looked down at the dash to see the time while coming through the city and notice the digital time is no longer white, it’s distinctly rainbow coloured with blue, purple and yellow. Nothing else on the dash changed colour except the time. So I deduce there is maybe some new AI tech above that creates rainbow colours in honour of the LGBT community, like they did for the Dixon Street pedestrian crossing and which I happened to be driving very close to.

Am wondering, what magic is this. I ask my passenger if they can see the rainbow coloured numbers. No...numbers are definitely white they insist. Am thinking silently they must be colour blind.

Eureka moment, handed them the sunglasses to try and voila...they also saw the rainbow numbers. Still very puzzled as to why.

Polarising sunglasses. Interacts with the polarised light emitted by LCDs to produce odd effects - tilt your head and the colours change and the display might even go out completely.

Still not sure why it works on OLED displays though...

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