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Post by patricklondon on Jan 9, 2024 13:46:35 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 9, 2024 13:49:30 GMT
Yes, I saw that video today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2024 18:59:05 GMT
Saw it last night & relived all those Disney cartoon inspired fantasies of living at one with lovable wild creatures.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2024 6:26:46 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2024 6:32:16 GMT
They're almost the same thing.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 9, 2024 13:16:09 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 9, 2024 13:49:29 GMT
...er....
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 9, 2024 18:02:56 GMT
This is not a news article -- it's a complete movie plot!
Question: will "Angus Man" replace "Florida Man" in the public's affections?
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 3, 2024 9:51:11 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2024 16:55:38 GMT
All that education didn't go to waste!
However, WHY couldn't Cambridge FIX the lock instead of removing it?
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Post by whatagain on Mar 4, 2024 15:47:24 GMT
We have no locks indoors. Just imagine you are in your bathtub and fall unconscious you have drowned before anyone can enter. Safer without.
Plus as we say in French chat echaude craint l’eau froide. Cat who was burnt with hot water is afraid of cold water.
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Post by bjd on Mar 4, 2024 16:27:19 GMT
Probably a good idea not to have locks indoors. A couple of weeks ago our son was here with his family. Our just-turned 3 year-old granddaughter locked herself in the toilet and her parents were outside the door explaining to her how to turn the lock and open the door.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 16:45:39 GMT
That's why just about all bathroom/toilet doors have a little hole in them on the outside so you can use a screwdriver to open the lock if necessary. We had to do that once at my office when a colleague brought her young son to work. He was told not to lock the door, but...
This brings to mind all of the kids who lock themselves in a car and are unable to follow their parents' instructions on how to unlock the door. I suppose this no longer happens with modern cars.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 4, 2024 18:05:46 GMT
However, WHY couldn't Cambridge FIX the lock instead of removing it? No doubt it is of an old style that is hard to source plus then there is the bureaucracy needed to go through to purchase one - after having at least three quotes etc. I bet some person just with a screwdriver took it off unofficially and will now lose his/her job because of not going through proper procedures - ridiculous as it sounds to us but in this day and age, you never know. That's why just about all bathroom/toilet doors have a little hole in them on the outside so you can use a screwdriver to open the lock if necessary. We had to do that once at my office when a colleague brought her young son to work. He was told not to lock the door, but... Just about all modern public toilets no doubt but not old ones? Never retrofitted? This brings to mind all of the kids who lock themselves in a car and are unable to follow their parents' instructions on how to unlock the door. I suppose this no longer happens with modern cars. All the cars I've had since the mid-nineties with central locking have a button somewhere on the dashboard to lock the doors from inside. Most cars will automatically lock their doors as you exceed about 5km/h but I was grateful to the manufacturers that when just getting in you can lock the doors without driving off - especially when I was with my daughter who was nearly kidnapped.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 18:18:25 GMT
But one can assume that 99% of the time, the driver now has the electronic key in his pocket and can unlock the car with a simple push on the button.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 4, 2024 19:16:22 GMT
True enough. But then that would also be the case with old cars and open it with the key. I bet there's more than you'd expect who leave the keys in when they nip out for something, be it now or then, otherwise nobody would be locked in.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 23, 2024 11:29:26 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 18:51:49 GMT
I wonder if his parents have trouble getting a sitter.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 26, 2024 20:01:22 GMT
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