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Post by sprite on Dec 1, 2023 5:49:43 GMT -5
I think they also distribute meals differently. Our first week in Peru was with a local family, and we could NOT get through the lunch we were given. But then the evening meal was basically leftover lunch and some very dry traditional buns. We went to bed hungry that whole week!
We then started eating lunch in the local places where office workers went, and we would split a lunch combo between us.
Today i am puzzled by parking. Our neighbour has several carers, but our street is either permit only, or pay/display. The carers park outside the marked bays, on the double yellows that are also illegal to park on, but enforcement is very rare compared to the parking bays. However, I watched this morning; the carer deliberately parked right on the corner (cutting off visibility for people driving/cycling through that intersection), when there was a lot of space further forward. So the most dangerous place possible is where she chose to stick her car. Why?
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Post by tucano on Dec 2, 2023 12:03:29 GMT -5
We met up with those friends today. It was fun but I'd swear the conversation I had with best friend where she was talking about issues with her husband the other day hadn't happened. I do tend to take people at face value, so again puzzling.
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Post by riverhorse on Dec 3, 2023 7:08:34 GMT -5
Not just puzzled but totally bamboozled by a crochet pattern I'm trying to follow. I simply can't understand the instructions for row 6, either the chart or the stitch by stitch explanation, in neither English nor Dutch and have pulled it back to start again about 10 times. I'm ready to throw it out the window.
It's a pattern from our very own tulip's website, so I've sent her an FB message pleading for help.
I haven't crocheted for months, if not over a year, so was hoping to get my crochet mojo back but this is definitely not helping!
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Post by rikita on Dec 3, 2023 16:58:43 GMT -5
today, while sitting in the bus, i suddenly remembered this person. had their face and their manner of speaking clearly in my mind, and they felt very familiar, like someone i see often - but i couldn't remember who it was. i thought and thought, and came up with a few people that were slightly similar, but not them. thought it'll come back to be suddenly once i stop thinking about it, but by now, a few hours later, i only remember the face vaguely. maybe it was not someone i really know, but someone from a movie or tv show or even a dream?
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Post by tzarine on Dec 5, 2023 14:29:02 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 5, 2023 18:19:39 GMT -5
I'm obviously old because I first learned the meaning of the word "rizz" from an article in the New York Times
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 5, 2023 20:35:37 GMT -5
I'm obviously old because I first learned the meaning of the word "rizz" from an article in the New York Times LC has been using it all year. I remember him coming home from one debating, and how much rizz a mate had, with all the girls flocking to this guy and hanging off his words during the post debate mingling. We tease LC about his lack of rizz. ;-)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 6, 2023 7:08:49 GMT -5
I first heard about Rizz today, from the younger members of my team.
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Post by sprite on Dec 6, 2023 8:50:53 GMT -5
That photo of 'Goblin mode' is making me twitch.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 6, 2023 11:21:10 GMT -5
That photo of 'Goblin mode' is making me twitch. It’s making me think “how did they get that picture of my house” (no, we’re not THAT bad)
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 7, 2023 17:30:53 GMT -5
It's pitch dark out and all the neighborhood kids are still out there playing soccer*. How do you play soccer in the dark?
* football
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Post by sprite on Dec 8, 2023 7:56:01 GMT -5
young eyes?
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 13, 2023 20:44:39 GMT -5
I'm reading one of those "how to travel with just a tiny backpack" articles that I love so much. What puzzled me about it was the sentence "try swapping your outdated drone to a tiny, foldable drone that fits in your carry-on."
It sounded like they were talking about a toothbrush, or something everyone needs to travel with. OK, I'll stop packing that bulky, outdated drone - ?
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Post by tinaja on Dec 14, 2023 14:48:08 GMT -5
The number of people looking for Christmas handouts on FB. A neighbor organises meals for the needy but she gets the participants from the school where I guess social workers know who is struggling. I saw someone asking the neighbor directly for a box (person had moved out of town). I would hate to be put in this situation. Are expectations too high or scammers? There seems to be a lot of organizations that organize these things. I go through them to donate.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 17, 2023 16:47:39 GMT -5
The conspiracy theorists who believe in the whole geo engineered weather stuff - it's been shared again with the massive floods in FNQ.
Why? How is causing millions (at least) of dollars in damage to infrastructure, to agriculture, along with potential lives lost be something these 'evil government bodies' want?
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Post by groo on Dec 18, 2023 0:35:58 GMT -5
Today I was diverted from the main road by police and sent down a very secondary (narrow, winding and gravel) road called "Richards Deviation". There must have been a pretty serious accident ahead as 3 ambulances with lights flashing went by.
But this has set me wondering. Who was Richard? What, precisely, was his deviation that has been memorialised on one of our public roads? Was it something akin to Portnoy's complaint?
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Post by tinaja on Dec 27, 2023 21:32:15 GMT -5
On occasion I watch a tv station with some shows from the 70s. They are in color. I could swear that they used to be in b&w. I know that when we originally watched them they were b&w because we didn't have a color tv. Confused if they have been recently colorized.
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Post by groo on Dec 27, 2023 22:44:21 GMT -5
Before colour TV in Australia we used to watch TV shows made in colour for US and British markets in B&W. On the other hand I've seen colourised prints of Laurel and Hardy movies that were originally shot in B&W.
That hasm't really answered your question, though. I don't think that the market for 1970s reruns would be sufficient to justify colourisation.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 28, 2023 9:00:55 GMT -5
I bet you could find out if you looked the show up in Wikipedia. Everything is in Wikipedia.
We didn't get a color tv until [year that I now have no memory of], so I wouldn't have any idea.
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Post by jimm on Dec 29, 2023 3:11:12 GMT -5
Here is the moment that colour TV arrived in Orstralia.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 29, 2023 7:29:46 GMT -5
That was absolutely demented, thank you
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 29, 2023 19:20:00 GMT -5
Liiisa, I think you’d enjoy Aunty Jack.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 29, 2023 19:39:50 GMT -5
Noted, thank you!
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Post by tinaja on Jan 4, 2024 10:36:14 GMT -5
Did they put regular coffee in my drink yesterday instead of decaf? I drank it around 3pm. I sure did have trouble going to sleep. It would seem pretty easy to space out and use the wrong kind, well if I was behind the counter anyway.
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Post by sprite on Jan 12, 2024 12:33:19 GMT -5
I've just seen an ad for slimfast. It's clearly someone famous but that I don't know, signing at various surprised people about how slimfast is going to help them.
but the celeb in question is really big--not just tall and a bit chunky, but he probably gets a regular 'eat healthy and walk more!!' lecture from his doctor. And all the people he's talking to are not the build that normally goes for meal replacement plans.
is slimfast rebranding?
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Post by whothingie on Jan 12, 2024 13:09:45 GMT -5
Its possibly one of the current plagues hitting us where well known people are being used fraudulently to promote products. Our list includes a number of tv presenters.
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Post by tinaja on Jan 12, 2024 15:29:00 GMT -5
Why my cousin refers to "I" when texting me about plans when her husband is along. It always makes me think that she doesn't have him in the car or that he doesn't get to participate.
Lol. Turns out that he didn't come.
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Post by whothingie on Jan 13, 2024 2:57:29 GMT -5
What has mesmorised my neighbors cat which has sat on alert for the last hour on my path looking into the garden. Didn't move when I opened the door, just gave me a don't distract me look. The little hedge has just been cut and no signs of birds, or mice
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Post by whothingie on Jan 13, 2024 4:10:31 GMT -5
Hedgehog. Don't get many in town, however once it was dusk it ventured out, after the cat had gone home.
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Post by sprite on Jan 16, 2024 9:53:32 GMT -5
every month, we both pay into our account to cover regular bills, and a second payment each to cover the credit card. So how, this month, did we go from having a £300 buffer to being overdrawn by £7??
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