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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 21:28:03 GMT
That's a jewel of a photo, Mossie! Except for the color of your hair, you really haven't changed.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2017 21:37:37 GMT
How wonderful, Mossie! That's a very special picture of you with your children.
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Post by breeze on Feb 18, 2017 21:58:42 GMT
Mossie, very nice photo of you and the kids.
I am getting a chuckle out of people's old photos turning up under "Pet peeves." I mean, my old driver's license photos might qualify as pet peeves, but that's not true of mossie's and htmb's looks back. Very nice, both of you.
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Post by htmb on Feb 19, 2017 1:00:27 GMT
I'm all for it, too. Whatever people choose to do to their hair is fine with me, for the most part. Even MULLETS?!?! When my youngest daughter was four and had a mass of long, strawberry-blond hair, she surprised us by whacking off her lovely tresses just below the ears on both sides of her head. She earned the family nickname of "Billy Ray," and is still called that occasionally today. So, I suppose I have a soft spot even for mullets. I've never understood why hair is such a big deal. Obviously, many people love how their hair looks when they grow it out, or when they color it pink, blue, or green. It's their "identity." Growing up, my father and uncles were outraged with their sons for wanting to wear their hair long, and my high school had a dress code prohibiting long hair on boys. Boys who violated the dress code were paddled in the deans office and sent home tomget a haircut. How stupid was that! Of course, it was all about power and control back then. People who wear their hair a certain way are expressing themselves. Showing off "who they are." I don't have to like how someone looks, but I also don't really care how they look either. Sometimes people who look goofy really are goofballs, but sometimes they're not. I'd prefer to get to know more about the person on the inside, rather than on the exterior. There are too many more important things to worry about in life, in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 5:38:10 GMT
Cédric Villani, France's top mathematician and winner of the Fields medal, could probably get away with his hair but the way he dresses startles people even more. He is always dressed like this although the colour of his scarf/cravat changes every day. www.eurasc.org/images/members/Cedric_Villani.jpg
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Post by tod2 on Feb 19, 2017 7:55:17 GMT
Wonderful photo Mossie. So natural and 'unposed' , if there is such a word, even though you are the only one looking towards the camera.
Kerouac, I liked the progressive ageing of your photos. If Soylent Green comes back on our TV programming, will I be looking for your first photo?
Htmb - You were a lovely looking young lady, hair and all!
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Post by chexbres on Feb 22, 2017 19:20:21 GMT
Villani also has a menagerie of about 500 different spider brooches, which he changes every day. My real estate agent decided to copy the lease (after 3 months) and drop it off to my banker. She probably wanted to see if I really had an appointment that day - I said I did, to make her get with the program, but since she appeared at 15h instead of 10h, I said I had to cancel. Now, my banker has the only copy of my lease, and the agent said that he would probably make me a copy. ...like pulling teeth, around here
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 15:19:07 GMT
2763. Insolent printers.
"You seem to have inserted an ink cartridge that is not made by Epson." "Independent studies have shown that Epson inks and paper are of superior quality than other brands." "Would you like to remove the cartridge and replace it with an Epson cartridge?" "If your document is not printed properly, it might be due to using a non-Epson cartridge."
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 23, 2017 18:27:46 GMT
Not sure if this counts as a pet peeve, so much as an inadvertently discovered profundity hidden in the inner workings of F*ceb**k: "You cannot friend yourself". My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by rikita on Feb 24, 2017 0:23:33 GMT
2764. when i write an article about a group activity, and suggest a few photos i took for the article, but the people in the group that pass it on to the magazine instead supply photos they took, which are by far not as pretty as my photos (and show their children, instead of my own - so again i can't send a copy of the magazine to my mom to show her that her grandchild is "famous") ...
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Post by tod2 on Feb 24, 2017 10:56:43 GMT
Ooooh Rikita, that is such a shame. Well, once bitten twice shy...in other words your next article will only be submitted on the understanding that your photos are used as it is YOUR article after all.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2017 4:06:45 GMT
"You cannot friend yourself". So we can disregard that old wisdom about "being your own best friend" from now on, right?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 17:17:54 GMT
2765. The fact that the countries of the world cannot decide on universal electrical sockets. (and we won't even discuss voltage)
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2017 22:23:40 GMT
(Or which side of the road one drives on!)
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Post by rikita on Feb 26, 2017 0:28:34 GMT
2766. the one day i decide not to watch my calorie intake and eat whatever i feel like - i end up not really feeling like eating many sweets ...
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Post by chexbres on Feb 27, 2017 8:37:11 GMT
2767. Trying to obtain my deposit as well as the other charges associated with my last apartment. It's been exactly 2.5 months, and they are supposed to return the money to my account if there has been no damage (none) by one month's time. Of course, they will claim that the owner lives in South Africa, so is very difficult to reach...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 5:58:55 GMT
2768. People who claim they don't own a television when they own a computer, a tablet or a smartphone.
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Post by rikita on Mar 3, 2017 7:30:08 GMT
well, what i say, in german, is that i don't own a "fernseher" (television set), which is true, as the word refers to a very specific device. doesn't mean i don't watch tv (on the computer or on the projector, which we also own) - what we don't watch is tv in the traditional sense of watching whatever is on a specific station just then ... but that is getting rare ...
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Post by lagatta on Mar 4, 2017 0:49:33 GMT
I didn't have a tv even when I didn't have a computer at home, and we had to share the one we had at the communications department where I was working, or when I had to do the same upon returning to university.
There is a difference between having a computer because you need it for work and having a huge thing that thrones in your sitting room and prevents conversation.
And what I said was a statement of fact. I certainly understand why other people, especially people with children, sport fans etc might think a television is important.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 1:18:19 GMT
Using your computer screen as a viewing device is not having a tv. I never watch news, or broadcasts, or topical anything.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 6:05:04 GMT
Sounds like vegan preaching to me.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 4, 2017 12:20:12 GMT
I'm not telling other people how to live. Why are you doing so?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 12:26:59 GMT
When did I do that? I myself lived without a television for 6 or 7 years and it was no big deal.
I'm just saying that if the thing shows television programmes and movies, it is the same as a television, so there is no call for the inference that not having a television set makes one a superior more refined person in tune with the important things of life and not one of the stupid television watching masses. My own preference for having a separate television screen is that I am usually on the computer at the same time I am watching something on the television screen.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 4, 2017 12:51:40 GMT
Why the fuck do you get the nasties for things have absolutely no impact on your life? Because you were one of the founders of this forum, do you think that gives you the right to gratuitously insult other participants?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 13:24:41 GMT
2769. People who are in a queue at the coffee shop and have no clue as to what they are going to order, dither, ask all kinds of questions and hold up people such as myself who know exactly what I want but have to wait 10 or more minutes to get a cup of f'n coffee!!!
(sometimes the barrista will kindly ask them if they mind taking care of me while they make up their mind)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 16:13:18 GMT
No, I'm simply someone who doesn't have cable. If I could afford the extra $100 a month, I probably would. Has nothing to do with superiority. I'm merely a broke artist.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 4, 2017 16:30:48 GMT
Moi aussi. But it is so much more clever to assume one knows others' lives and motives. If I had the money, I'd buy a newer computer. Which I could also claim as an expense.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 4, 2017 17:03:33 GMT
Cable isn't necessary to watch TV in many parts of the US. We get more than enough channels for free off the air with an antenna on the roof (or in the attic if there's a restriction on antennas) in our two Montana locations and one Florida location. We get all 3 major networks and PBS, plus sub channels for CW, FOX, MeTV (reruns of older sitcoms and dramas), plus Movies! and more PBS... More than enough TV for our tastes.
We used to get cable in Florida for our renters, but dealing with Comcast was making Mr. Kimby miserable, so we cut the cord and offered our renters a $100 refund the first season, and nothing after that. (When you're in Florida for a month of warm winter weather, I HOPE you have better things to do than sit in front of the boob tube!)
Cable (pay TV) started out to be advertising-free, but that has changed. And what used to be "good" channels (Discovery, e.g. which once ran wonderful nature programming) seem to have switched over to all-crime, all the time.
I've got better things to do. But I do like to watch the news morning and evening. ("Like" may be the wrong word, these days!). And there are a few public TV shows I'll watch if I don't have something else to do (Antiques Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, Nature....). Plus my guilty pleasure, Survivor.
I've never missed having cable or satellite, except when our local college football games are shown on ESPN instead of ABC or FOX. But that just gives me an excuse to hang out with neighbors on game day who DO have cable. Sports are best as a social event anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 17:11:32 GMT
Well, you can't get anything without cable here. Our TV went completely digital 5 years ago and there are no "signals" anymore.
This is patently untrue. You can just turn on a tv and let it go on whatever channel: commercials, news, good and bad. If I want to watch something online I have to 1. know what I want to watch 2. know where to find it 3. find it 4. pay for it (optional, sometimes) 5. download or stream it. There is no accidental overdosing on a Law And Order marathon. (Which, after I had my surgeries, was absolute bliss. Ah, the days when I had cable tv but dial-up internet.)
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 4, 2017 17:31:10 GMT
We're all digital in the UK, but it's still broadcast "over the airwaves", as they used to say - the major broadcasters got together on a common platform, which also now covers internet-based catch-up and other services if you've got a smart TV. Cable was never more than a minority interest with us - some of those companies have gone into broadband internet provision plus TV access, and some of the telecoms companies have gone into internet-based TV on their broadband service. And one thing I've learnt since getting a smart TV is that you start to shift much more into on-demand and/or catch-up viewing and much less on what's on at any given moment (especially since there are now so many channels). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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