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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 6, 2023 19:35:24 GMT -5
I think babies are perfectly happy just being held and carried around! Why do you need to massage them? I did used to give LC a basic foot rub/massage as part of his going to sleep routine. Mainly because I'd bath him in the morning instead of at night, as all the things told you to do as it would relax them before bed. But it just didn't work for me. So a quick foot massage it was as a sign to relax and sleep.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 6, 2023 20:04:15 GMT -5
That makes sense
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 7, 2023 5:16:41 GMT -5
Me.
The standard family joke is that I don't like violent movies, but my favourite movies I suggest for family movie night are often rather violent with a high body count.
Tonight we are watching Two Hands. Great movie. A wee bit violent.
Oops
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 7, 2023 9:01:33 GMT -5
Was it here or somewhere else we were talking about Roman remains in Europe and how they are just all over the place?
I knew about the Roman Wall in the carpark in Cologne. But I didn't know about the bit in the basement of C&A, next to the branch of McDonald's!
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 7, 2023 9:21:31 GMT -5
Being asked what the police are like in the US. Honestly I'm sure some of them are perfectly reasonable, but the general impression is that they'll shoot you (or your dog) as soon as look at you, especially if you're brown, "foreign," etc etc.
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Post by riverhorse on Oct 7, 2023 14:02:05 GMT -5
The crazy connection between my ears, my brain and my mouth. I've been in Passau for a mere four hours, but every time I open my mouth to order something or ask for the menu, etc, I can't help massively rolling my 'rrrrrrrrs' and sounding just like a Bavarian.
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Post by sprite on Oct 9, 2023 11:31:45 GMT -5
"All you need to do to enter this month’s draw is make 30 transactions using your XYZ Debit Mastercard® between 9 October and 7 November."
So, 1 a day then?
This is like when Avios told me I could get 1000s of bonus points by basically spending £5000 on an AmEx within 2 months. Honey, if I spent like that, I'd be a much higher tier of Avios client!
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Post by sprite on Oct 9, 2023 13:51:30 GMT -5
Partner has just admitted that he has more photos of monkeys from ONE temple visit than of me from the entire two weeks.
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Post by kneazle on Oct 9, 2023 18:49:09 GMT -5
A mistake on our website has a laxative listed as 'Paris Hilton Laxatives'
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 9, 2023 20:43:31 GMT -5
A mistake on our website has a laxative listed as 'Paris Hilton Laxatives' Can you say what it's actually supposed to read as? That made me guffaw.
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Post by kneazle on Oct 9, 2023 22:02:26 GMT -5
Apparently, there's a code PH which is supposed to stand for Pharmacy Health but there's a mix up so it reads Paris Hilton instead. There's a bunch of pharmacy products - panadol etc but this was the one that was picked up first and is BY FAR the funniest.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 10, 2023 2:22:40 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Oct 10, 2023 9:52:36 GMT -5
I could not smell the facecloth that was reeking out our bathroom, but i COULD smell non-existant shitty diapers at the pharmacy.
I nearly vomited, it was so bad, and I've changed a LOT of shitty diapers.
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Post by Queen on Oct 10, 2023 11:38:55 GMT -5
Some people on facebook who are FURIOUS that somewhere in another country there's a glass recycle bin which has a time limit on when you can deposit your glass.
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Post by scicaro on Oct 10, 2023 14:30:37 GMT -5
Some people on facebook who are FURIOUS that somewhere in another country there's a glass recycle bin which has a time limit on when you can deposit your glass. Was it in Denmark?
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Post by Queen on Oct 10, 2023 15:38:59 GMT -5
Close, a little south of Denmark.
People couldn't believe it was true, or that people obeyed it, and then the inevitable "thank good for FREEDOM" from a certain country - as if the freedom to annoy your neighbours was something to revel in.
So weird.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 10, 2023 16:59:55 GMT -5
Oh, it's about noisy crashing glass! I couldn't figure out what the rationale was.
When I take out the recycling after a certain time of the evening, I put the glass in very slowly and quietly.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 10, 2023 17:23:03 GMT -5
from buy nothing, this book "Happy Never After: why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (and how i flipped the script)" Paperback
giver found happiness or is giving away book cause it didn't work?
there are tons of these self help books from our group
never knew happiness is a fairytail. so im doing something wrong?
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Post by Queen on Oct 11, 2023 2:13:48 GMT -5
Oh, it's about noisy crashing glass! I couldn't figure out what the rationale was. When I take out the recycling after a certain time of the evening, I put the glass in very slowly and quietly. You're smarter than quite a lot of your compatriots... but we knew that.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 11, 2023 5:15:04 GMT -5
Aw heck. Well you know, Golden Rule and all that.
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Post by psw on Oct 11, 2023 14:53:03 GMT -5
The joke's on me!
My old watch died. I ordered one online that I didn't like so I returned it. I have been wearing a bulky diving watch, my spare, until I find a new one. I found one of Mr.W's old watches which wasn't running, which is slimmer and easier to read, so I headed back to the jewelry store to get a new battery.
I told the guy that I knew it was working because when I pulled the pin it ran for a few seconds and stopped. So he opened it up - and it's a wind-up watch! We both had a good laugh! Now I have to remember to wind it every day and must really get my rear into gear to find one I actually like.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 11, 2023 19:06:37 GMT -5
chatting w my young relation in cali some unfortunate autumn fashions
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 11, 2023 20:10:45 GMT -5
Pain au chocolat spelled "Pan o-chocolate" on a menu
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 12, 2023 0:23:35 GMT -5
Close, a little south of Denmark. People couldn't believe it was true, or that people obeyed it, and then the inevitable "thank good for FREEDOM" from a certain country - as if the freedom to annoy your neighbours was something to revel in. So weird. Eh, was it this direction by any chance? Yeah no glass disposal after 7pm here - OR ON SUNDAYS! I, like most foreign-born people, like to moan about this occasionally, but we manage somehow ;-)
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Post by Queen on Oct 12, 2023 2:38:13 GMT -5
lillielangtry yes, your direction... but we have similar rules here and so far people are coping with this tragic loss of the freedom to dump their glass at 6am on Sunday morning! To be fair - I think the furious people perhaps don't realise that the recycling bins are everywhere, and often very close to people's homes. I normally just take a small detour on the way to the supermarket to visit the one near me so I can go every couple of weeks and it's not a big chore.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 12, 2023 5:26:21 GMT -5
Plus also how about we learn to be considerate of other people. I'm so tired of this freedom [to be a troll] BS.
Anyway: there's this political commentator that pero found a tiktok of where she kept getting interrupted by a train blowing its horn in the background, and she reacts to it amusingly, at one point going "Why?!" and so now whenever we hear a train one of us goes "Why?!" and we start laughing.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 12, 2023 5:54:42 GMT -5
lol a loud motorcycle just came by and both of us said "Why?!" in unison and cracked up
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Post by tzarine on Oct 12, 2023 14:20:14 GMT -5
i showed one of the ladies @ the senior center a photo of tzarevich another lady chuckled "hes too young for you"
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Post by tzarine on Oct 12, 2023 19:24:00 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 12, 2023 21:06:25 GMT -5
After our flood last year, the puddle boots made sense.
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