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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2019 15:51:08 GMT
Is that why he is called The Donald No, it's because anything else he is called is usually too rude to print.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 2, 2019 16:22:49 GMT
I believe wife #1 called him that and it stuck. (She’s European, so sticks extra articles in here and there.)
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Post by Kimby on Jun 2, 2019 16:26:50 GMT
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Post by questa on Jun 2, 2019 22:21:49 GMT
No, it's because anything else he is called is usually too rude to print bjd...you just cracked me up! bigger than a 'snork', not quite a 'coffee all over the keyboard'
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Post by questa on Jun 3, 2019 0:23:56 GMT
Not from a grammar book, just a gut feeling. I can see the flaws already TV doctor "Today we will look at the menopause and it's effect on women" "Some women breeze through menopause with no problems" I think any differences are so subtle as to be simply the speaker's style of using 'the' in a fairly random manner.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 20, 2019 18:12:40 GMT
Wow, the world has really gone upside down.
On tonight's news, it was reported that consumer loans in Germany now have negative interest. On one of the examples shown, a person who borrowed 1000 euros only has to pay back 877.17 over time. Naturally it is a gimmick to get faithful customers, but still!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2019 22:35:53 GMT
I am more and more amazed at what the media think is an important tidbit of information. For example, tonight it was mentioned that the very first mass ever broadcast on television was a mass in Notre Dame for Christmas 1948. True or false, I just can't imagine who gives a fuck.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 8, 2019 13:43:26 GMT
Do Mexican jumping beans still exist or have pesticides and animal rights groups eliminated them?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 18:29:48 GMT
I never thought there was any way that I could ever do bungee jumping, but I just saw a report about it in South Africa where the people fell backwards instead of looking into the abyss. I almost feel that I could do that.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 11, 2019 18:36:56 GMT
From Victoria Falls bridge you get jump off any way you want. When I was doing the overlanding stuff and I persuaded at least four people to bungee jump, I got a free one - but it had to be done naked. Nevertheless, I didn't do it anyway as I was never much interested in persuading people to do stuff. They either did or they didn't.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2019 18:38:28 GMT
Tonight there was another report about bungee jumping in India, and I once again felt that I could consider doing it. Perhaps I should consult a doctor.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 21, 2019 21:06:09 GMT
Waiting to see the outcome of the Canadian legislative elections...
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Post by Kimby on Oct 22, 2019 2:06:06 GMT
Sure hope Justin Trudeau survives the voting. He’s pretty easy on the eyes, for Americans being subjected to the troll in the White House.
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Post by bjd on Oct 22, 2019 9:21:35 GMT
I am happy that Trudeau was re-elected. He did disappoint quite a few people with the pipeline and his dressing-up in India, but he is certainly better than the Conservative candidate. Any Conservative candidate. Not that I am really concerned, of course, because I don't have the right to vote in Canada, although somewhere I read that that was changing.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 22, 2019 16:21:49 GMT
I was happy as well bjd. From reports I have read this morning, 66% of eligible voted, down 2.8% from 2015. I voted in the advance polls as I find it hectic on election day. It will be interesting to see what can be achieved with a minority government but I believe the NDP members will generally vote with Liberal motions that they find reasonable and practical.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 23, 2019 21:10:22 GMT
Glad Trudeau is reelected. Scheer looked like a real atsehole. Anti everything. NDP strikes me as a strange party name. Similar to NSDAP no ? (National socialist DEUTSCH arbeits partei - in short Nazi).
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 24, 2019 9:17:41 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 24, 2019 10:55:41 GMT
I did read that they are to the left of the Liberal Party but not as much as the Bloc Québecois.
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Post by htmb on Oct 24, 2019 18:19:29 GMT
A cold, a very long, high speed train ride, an empty stomach and a glass of wine do not mix very well. I’m guessing my hearing will come back eventually.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 24, 2019 18:32:02 GMT
Is there no food available in Paris?
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Post by htmb on Oct 24, 2019 18:36:17 GMT
Not for people too tired to go down the block to fetch it. My landlord left me a bottle of wine, a bag of popcorn, and a bar of dark chocolate. The first two were dinner, the last will be breakfast.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2019 21:14:10 GMT
I don't think it is possible to see an hourglass without wanting to turn it over.
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Post by questa on Nov 15, 2019 9:40:06 GMT
You are like the skeptic who HAS to check if the WET PAINT really is.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 17, 2019 11:33:34 GMT
I have had my physical workout for the day -- I changed the cover of my duvet (or couette, as we say in France). Whover invented those things should burn in hell.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 17, 2019 12:11:51 GMT
Inhumane way of sleeping, IMO. Blankets are much more adjustable for temperature. And I LIKE having sheets to wash instead of having to remove and replace the sack. I’m not alone:
“ In their book The Smell Of The Continent: The British Discover Europe, authors Richard Mullen and James Munson described the attitude of 19th century British travelers upon encountering duvets in European hotels:
‘ Then there was the detested duvet, known as ‘feather mattresses’, ‘fedder deckers’ or ‘that stuffed, pillow-like thing which is to do duty for blanket and coverlet’. When the Hills, father and son, arrived in France, they found ‘a large down mattress, or bag filled with down. I was not sure whether it was meant for us to lie on it, or it on us.’ Duvets were widely denounced as ‘those stuffy, fluffy, soft slippery coverings which always fall off a German bed when an Englishman tries to sleep in it’.
My first experience with “feather beds” as we called them was on a family trip to Europe in 1967, when I was 13, and my sisters were 12 and 9.
Our whole family shared one hotel room with two beds most nights, which would have been fine as we girls were petite. But each bed had two individual duvets on it, meaning the sister in the middle either shivered blanket-less or fought with a sister on either side for a bit of covers. The eventual solution was to turn the poofs sideways and hope the gap didn’t open up and freeze ones lower torso.
You couldn’t PAY me to furnish my bedroom with a duvet.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 17, 2019 12:34:26 GMT
This contamination spread from Germany to most of the continent.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2019 15:18:58 GMT
"Blankets are much more adjustable for temperature." That's why Ikea sell all sorts of thicknesses, even like the ones we have which are two thin ones you can 'pop' together for winter. It was common, and Mrs M detested it, in the UK to have one very big double/queen/king sized. Don't know if it still is, but she was used to individual ones. This suits me because she could have a thick one whilst I had a thinner one.
I cannot now sleep with the weight required for blankets to keep warm in the winter, plus how often does it seem to happen where you turn over, take the blanket or only one of the blankets, with you and not the sheet? Then you spend the next half hour trying to straighten the bed up in the dark without disturbing your partner. Horses for courses but I'm a duvet man.
When I strip the bed for washing, the cover turns inside out. I wash it like that then when putting it back on I reach inside, grab the far corners and the corners of the duvet, pull back and through and voila, finished. Just like probably 95% of people. The covers were good for playing ghosts with, with the kids as well.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 17, 2019 15:30:34 GMT
Those of us in cold climates use electric blankets, with dual controls. No extra weight, no disputes between bed partners about what degree of warmth they need for sleeping.
To each his own.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 17, 2019 15:33:04 GMT
And I would not WASH the cover inside out. I’d want to have the “dirty side” most exposed to the friction and suds in the washer. But maybe turn it inside out in the dryer.
However, the top sheet we use requires no turning to be highly functional.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2019 15:47:13 GMT
You could be right. But I trust my washing machine to wash well enough especially if it is just a thin cotton cover. Does that mean you turn clothes inside out if you been sweating a lot so the inside gets washed better? I'll have to monitor this. I've just assumed my covers will be washed ok.
We don't have enough electric capacity in Spain for electric blankets but I do wish we had.
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