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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 8, 2019 17:11:18 GMT
Congratulations to your daughters Whatagain...you done good raising three lovely clever girls.....
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 14, 2019 13:35:17 GMT
When I drop food on the floor, I don't put it back on the plate. I put it directly in my mouth.
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Post by htmb on Sept 14, 2019 14:44:33 GMT
Made me remember: This morning, on the metro, the nice young man across from me reached into his wallet and pulled out a 2 euro coin for the very aged woman beggar walking down the center aisle. As he put his wallet away, something dropped onto the floor. He caught it with his foot, thinking it was a rolling coin. It wasn’t. Instead, it appeared to be some sort of candy or throat lozenge. Unwrapped. He quickly bent down, picked it up from under his foot, on the floor of the metro, and popped it into his mouth.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 14, 2019 15:28:50 GMT
Five second rule?
My favorite is the parent who picks up their infant’s dropped binky (pacifier) pops it in their own mouth to suck the germs off, and gives it back to the baby.
Ugh.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 14, 2019 15:56:51 GMT
That's how we build up our immune systems.
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Post by mossie on Sept 14, 2019 18:07:32 GMT
An old saying " you must eat a peck of dirt before you die"
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Post by questa on Sept 15, 2019 3:21:39 GMT
Saw a cook at a small private hospital drop a fried egg on the floor. He flipped it up and added it to the big platter of eggs, gave me a wink and said, "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over."
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 16, 2019 18:35:45 GMT
My little dog isn't well. Been sick, doesn't want to eat and just mooching about with ears down and tail between her legs.
But the strange thing is daughter's beagle who lives next door and visits several times a day. He's coming over but won't come in. Just stands outside the open door. Can he smell that she isn't right?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 16, 2019 18:59:53 GMT
It has been proven that dogs can detect all sorts of illnesses in humans, so it would be normal to be able to do so with other dogs. Are you taking your dog to the vet?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 16, 2019 19:03:08 GMT
Not yet. We’ll see how she is in the morning and do the usual trick of scrambled eggs which seems to work.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 17, 2019 15:56:32 GMT
And how is the little doggie this morning, Mick?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 17, 2019 16:37:59 GMT
Hope Molly is better Mick xxx
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 17, 2019 17:07:03 GMT
Much better today thank you. Eating normally.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2019 17:27:23 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2019 17:47:22 GMT
Good news! If only animals could tell us what is wrong. "I have a case of gastro today, just leave me alone."
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Post by Kimby on Sept 17, 2019 20:04:04 GMT
“I ate a sock/lizard/rock and my tummy hurts”
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 17, 2019 20:33:32 GMT
That is so true. Right now she’s a little angel asleep on the sofa.
When I take her for a walk she’s the biggest scavenger second only to daughter’s beagle. Doesn’t necessarily have to be edible...,
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Post by Kimby on Sept 17, 2019 22:36:39 GMT
Does a dog even KNOW what’s edible? Before they’ve eaten it, I mean?
They love rotting dead fish, tossed baby diapers, and digging for treasure in the kitty’s litter box. (Can’t blame the Muslims for thinking dogs are filthy beasts.)
And then they jump in your lap and try to “kiss” you!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2019 3:34:41 GMT
I think that dogs have highly variable intelligence about what is edible. Some of them will indeed try to swallow anything but most are quite selective. There might be one of those cases of seeking out mineral supplements or whatever in unlikely places.
The animal world will always confound us. I was watching a nature show a couple of days ago which showed a male giraffe going around and getting the lady giraffes to pee in his mouth. This is apparently how they find out which one is ready to breed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2019 3:44:15 GMT
To semi-quote Phoebe from Friends, those male giraffes must be very bendy!
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Post by questa on Sept 18, 2019 4:03:38 GMT
The giraffes think humans are odd. We have to go through a saliva-exchanging, tongue-wrestling activity before mating.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2019 7:01:28 GMT
I read that the very first Cook's tours in the 19th century were to Egypt and Palestine.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2019 15:15:31 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2019 15:21:55 GMT
Errr... why did you think I mentioned it? It is the biggest collapse in travel agent history.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2019 15:22:51 GMT
Because there are many facts thrown out in this thread.
Why do you think I can read your mind?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2019 15:32:29 GMT
Well, it's the biggest news everywhere in Europe today. You can be excused for living in the wilds.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2019 18:04:07 GMT
I was in the middle of composing a devastating reply to the above when I received a visitor.
This is just to let you know that you dodged a bullet.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2019 19:13:20 GMT
On the news tonight they said that 160,000 Brits were stranded as well as 150,000 Germans. Only 10,000 French, because Thomas Cook was not a major operator in France. EU regulations guarantee the repatriations. Good thing this happened before Brexit.
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Post by bjd on Sept 24, 2019 6:31:38 GMT
I heard on the news that Cook's customers who took package tours would be reimbursed but not those who bought only the flight.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 24, 2019 16:32:45 GMT
Monopoly has made a new version about Bruxelles. Our Mannenken Pis is shown but has had to put on a swimsuit. It was considered offensive to see him naked. For the record, Manneken means small man (kid) and pis ... yes, just one more s in English. Isn"t it more disgusting to have a kid peeing in his swimsuit ? Puritanism is often about hypocrisis. www.lesoir.be/249418/article/2019-09-24/un-monopoly-special-bruxelles-mis-en-vente
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