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Post by Queen on Feb 2, 2023 7:35:51 GMT -5
Mark Twain
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Post by tinaja on Feb 2, 2023 11:18:54 GMT -5
I started answering robocalls with "Attorney Generals office". Get the message asswipes?
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Post by sprite on Feb 2, 2023 16:07:03 GMT -5
Last week I was chatting with a book store customer about the new Marina Hyde book, which he'd snapped up before I'd even realised we had it.
This week he returned it, asking if it could be given to the "American lady volunteer" and perhaps with a proposal of marriage. The volunteer he was talking to knew he was referring to me (the other North AMerican is a bloke), but declined on my behalf. For which I am grateful.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 2, 2023 16:45:36 GMT -5
sprite, did you keep the book?
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Post by Queen on Feb 3, 2023 3:04:55 GMT -5
Last week I was chatting with a book store customer about the new Marina Hyde book, which he'd snapped up before I'd even realised we had it. This week he returned it, asking if it could be given to the "American lady volunteer" and perhaps with a proposal of marriage. The volunteer he was talking to knew he was referring to me (the other North AMerican is a bloke), but declined on my behalf. For which I am grateful. I do think dating profiles should include a photograph of the person's bookshelf, or access to their Amazon kindle wish list. I'm not suggesting you should have accepted the proposal but I do think he's on to something.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 3, 2023 6:36:02 GMT -5
A bookshelf and a record collection
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Post by sprite on Feb 3, 2023 8:10:54 GMT -5
The volunteer he was talking to knew he was referring to me (the other North AMerican is a bloke), but declined on my behalf. For which I am grateful. I do think dating profiles should include a photograph of the person's bookshelf, or access to their Amazon kindle wish list. I'm not suggesting you should have accepted the proposal but I do think he's on to something. Most of my music and books are in digital form, but yes, in principle, a good idea. And I sometimes joke that if I ever end up single, I'll be volunteering more hours in more charity book stores, because there are so many interesting men coming through. I did take the book (What Just Happened, Marina Hyde) because I think she's one of the great wordsmiths of our time. Her 'takes' on current events aren't any more insightful than anyone else, but she is gifted with the turn of phrase.
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Post by psw on Feb 3, 2023 10:14:07 GMT -5
A bookshelf and a record collection When Mr.W and I were dating we learned that our record collections were complemetary. We both enjoyed the same music but he tended to purchase instrumentals while I bought more vocals, i.e. symphonies vs operas. We liked the same comedians. All went well.
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Post by Queen on Feb 3, 2023 11:03:00 GMT -5
Ohhhh - taste in comedians could be the ultimate litmus test.
If there isn't at least some overlap he's unlikely to enjoy my jokes, and I make so many.
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Post by tucano on Feb 3, 2023 11:15:15 GMT -5
A bookshelf and a record collection I have very definite music tastes but they are completely different to husband's (if anyone remembers way back to the days of TT he was known for a love of 80s music, and not the cool kind).
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Post by scicaro on Feb 3, 2023 12:41:17 GMT -5
I do think dating profiles should include a photograph of the person's bookshelf, or access to their Amazon kindle wish list. I'm not suggesting you should have accepted the proposal but I do think he's on to something. Most of my music and books are in digital form, but yes, in principle, a good idea. And I sometimes joke that if I ever end up single, I'll be volunteering more hours in more charity book stores, because there are so many interesting men coming through. I did take the book (What Just Happened, Marina Hyde) because I think she's one of the great wordsmiths of our time. Her 'takes' on current events aren't any more insightful than anyone else, but she is gifted with the turn of phrase. One of my friends (husband of oldest friend) has a cool job which includes interviewing authors. He talked to her recently: fb.watch/it07UuqxRN/
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 3, 2023 12:59:03 GMT -5
Oh yeah pero and I definitely don’t have identical taste, but I knew there was something there when we discovered we’d both been at the same show of the prog band Gong in 1979 , and we both still had bumper stickers of the former local radio station WGTB
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Post by tzarine on Feb 3, 2023 13:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Feb 3, 2023 17:13:11 GMT -5
I did take the book (What Just Happened, Marina Hyde) because I think she's one of the great wordsmiths of our time. Her 'takes' on current events aren't any more insightful than anyone else, but she is gifted with the turn of phrase. One of my friends (husband of oldest friend) has a cool job which includes interviewing authors. He talked to her recently: fb.watch/it07UuqxRN/Very cool. Oddly, the next suggested video is Katie Hopkins. Algorithm, wtf.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 3, 2023 18:14:59 GMT -5
Ozzie's question of whether you kept the book made me laugh. I'm also laughing about LC and teenage boys in general. There is a Lunar New Year festival this weekend, with fireworks, and the boys have decided to go and see the fireworks. And that is the extent of the plan. No idea where they will meet up, how they will get there, what time they arrive, it was just 'fireworks, 9pm'
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Post by scicaro on Feb 4, 2023 3:49:03 GMT -5
My teenage boy sent a text the other day about going to a birthday party after school. I assumed it was a spontaneous "let's get a cake etc" kind of thing. Turns out it was very much organised by the relevant parents with a booked venue and food etc. He just just failed to mention it to me 🤷.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 4, 2023 6:42:16 GMT -5
Misspellings of "palate" when the intended meaning is "as a palate cleanser"
"palette cleanser": cleaning the old paint off so you can do a new painting? "pallet cleanser": hosing down those wooden platform things at the warehouse?
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Post by sprite on Feb 4, 2023 16:20:12 GMT -5
a late lunch with friends who have done a lot of living in other countries. lots of laughs at our own expense.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 4, 2023 20:06:53 GMT -5
The conservative media's obsession with the Chinese balloon
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Post by tzarine on Feb 4, 2023 20:59:41 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 4, 2023 22:15:50 GMT -5
Somebody just posted "98 Luftballoons"... hilarious
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Post by sprite on Feb 5, 2023 9:03:59 GMT -5
We visited friends with dogs today. One was allowed, for years, to eat any human food she looked at, but since this couple adopted her, has been put on a healthy-dog-food-only regime.
She was very quietly and steadily begging me for my coffee.
Coffee.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 5, 2023 15:34:37 GMT -5
"i wore these cute little cordies" woman, 20s dead silence from man walking on bleecker street, home of overpriced boutiques tho burberry left the street, the christofle silver remains, as does sisley - home of $400 face creme
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2023 16:55:31 GMT -5
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Post by tinaja on Feb 5, 2023 18:21:10 GMT -5
I thought that the story about it being shot down was a hoax when I saw it on FB. Guess it really did happen? And only after it had crossed most of the country.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 5, 2023 19:28:07 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2023 21:18:19 GMT -5
I read that there were multiple balloon overflights during the Orange Menace's administration, but of course there was no conservative news media clicks to be had from that.
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Post by psw on Feb 5, 2023 21:46:39 GMT -5
They waited to shoot it down until it was over US territorial water, where it would not pose a threat to anyone or anything on the ground. Also that gave a greater chance of recovering it and finding out what it really was.
Biden's instructions to the military were to shoot it down as soon as it was safe to do so.
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Post by tinaja on Feb 6, 2023 12:37:50 GMT -5
SNL had a pretty funny intro on it. If not for knowing the actors, one might have thought part was real. Of course that's all I record it for.
I walk my dog daily on alternating streets. I pick up always. Today I am halfway down the street when an elderly man came out on his porch and was yelling at us about poop pickup She did not poop. It felt like a Seinfeld episode when I yelled back "no poop". Who are these aliens?
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Post by rikita on Feb 6, 2023 16:19:15 GMT -5
at the store i usually go to for groceries, they have some cow figurines decorating the place where the sell cheese, and today there was a mom there with a little kid who was just starting to speak - and they so much reminded me of a. that age, in the way they said "Kuh ... ham" (Kuh haben = have cow = I want to have that cow), and wouldn't let go of the topic, even when they were leaving the shop, still going on about how they want to have that cow ...
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