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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2023 12:20:47 GMT
Welsh toasters play Bread of Heaven.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 26, 2023 15:51:42 GMT
They have electricity in Wales now?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2023 19:22:38 GMT
~?~
Does this belong in "headlines I don't understand" ?
Do you mean those things you put bread in and push down a lever and the bread pops back up when it's toasted?
Or do you mean toastmasters, or some such people?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 26, 2023 20:00:29 GMT
I know that the toasters of my (American) childhood completely engulfed the slices of bread., no matter which way you put it in.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 27, 2023 5:43:01 GMT
Toasters Bixa. Bread in, toast out. Wonderful machine and multi-purpose. Best thing since sliced bread.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 27, 2023 14:42:49 GMT
The Kimby’s were enjoying Season 5 of Yellowstone when it abruptly ended, mid season. The DVD cover didn’t warn us that it was only HALF of the final season. And furthermore, due to writers and actors strikes, the filming of the final episodes hasn’t even begun and who knows when it will? Winter may intervene in the meantime.
And since we wait for the DVD, it could be two years before we find out if Jamie kills Beth or Beth kills Jamie or neither or both….
But what if they don’t ever resume filming? Could happen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 27, 2023 17:22:17 GMT
There have been a number of series that never ended because they were cancelled before the end.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 29, 2023 9:47:43 GMT
OnlyMark, I like your toaster but I dont like your bread....mine has to be brown wholewheat with a sprinkle of seeds. White sliced here is like eating polystyrene or cotton wool.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 29, 2023 13:17:46 GMT
I know SA bread. This is not like it. Also brown whole wheat as toast is not to my taste. I made a lot of bread in Zambia as there was a German baker who appeared once a week and it was first come, first served, so often we missed out on the really good stuff. I could get decent enough flour to make up for it though.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 31, 2023 12:01:49 GMT
I understand well enough that technology moves on but for an old mechanic like me there are basic items I want that I can't get now, or at least not locally, when it used to be a staple item in every garage/DIY shop, even large supermarkets. I want a 12V inline fuse and holder. Called at a large DIY chain, a large Carrefour and a car parts place. Was told at the car shop you can't get them anymore.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2023 13:48:55 GMT
What does Amazon have to say about the subject?
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 31, 2023 16:16:32 GMT
Tried to get a letter delivered to the house in Spain this year and the postwoman had to return it to the office a 15 minute drive away because, she said, she couldn't find the house. In all the years here we have had three deliveries (furniture) of which we had to meet all of them at a local petrol station because they had the same problem - no matter I give directions and even a GPS coordinate. Could I get it delivered to an Amazon box thing somewhere? Yes, but it's in the same place the DIY and car parts place is, 35 minute drive away. No too important though because I have a workaround.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2023 20:26:43 GMT
My delivery problem is that my address is identical to that of a house down the street. Luckily, I live only three doors from the cross street and the twin address house is the second door after that street. That means if a delivery driver phones or texts me, I can stand in front of my house & wave him over.
All of the numbers in this whole town seem to be jumbled, some areas more than others. In truth, the other house with my number has more right to it in terms of logical sequence. My house is one of four built by the same builder, apparently all the same time. But the "big house" has a front door facing the street perpendicular to the other three. In a burst of ego, the other three houses were given numbers proceeding from the big house, rather than being in sequence with our own street.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 31, 2023 20:51:33 GMT
That sounds err... Mexican.
My house just has a name and a street. Unfortunately the street has the same name for about 5km. But everyone in the village a couple of km away knows the house because we bought it from a man who was well known in the village. It is set back from the road on a gravel track and when the postwoman was told where it was, she said she's not allowed to go along gravel tracks, only tarmac.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2023 20:54:38 GMT
That is a problem in a lot of countries and not just "third world" ones. I don't know if things have now changed in Japan, but the street numbers were assigned in the order of building construction, so the street numbers could run along the lines of 5, 18, 4, 25, 26, 80, 13, etc. And in places like Egypt or Pakistan, the addresses often contain information like "behind the petrol station" or "next to the butcher shop."
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Post by mich64 on Aug 1, 2023 3:43:56 GMT
I could tell so many stories of how people describe their addresses in rural areas when part of my job in the early years was calling people to get directions for our couriers to deliver to the door. The most memorable was after taking detailed directions, left here, right there, around here, down the path and then finally she said "you cannot miss us, there is a pig's head on the front lawn".
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2023 5:53:16 GMT
That takes the cake! Did it become a catch-phrase around your work, Mich?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 1, 2023 6:19:25 GMT
If you've not heard of them, the Dabbawalas of Mumbai/Bombay have a reputation of on time and accurate deliveries. They deliver lunch boxes from homes to a place of work. Their systems have been studied by many of the major delivery companies and they are astoundingly accurate with what they do. Maybe worth a three minute read out of interest - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala#:~:text=At%20each%20station%2C%20boxes%20are,for%20delivery%20requests%20through%20SMS.
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Post by bjd on Aug 1, 2023 7:25:22 GMT
Those guys were featured in an Indian movie, The Lunchbox, in 2013.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2023 8:24:43 GMT
Yes, it was an excellent movie.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 1, 2023 17:23:18 GMT
Did it become a catch-phrase around your work, Mich? The courier was quite appreciative, it made finding the house very easy he said and obviously something I will never forget! During those days there were so many unnamed roads coupled with no numbers, it made it quite challenging to get directions. What a change in 35 years, now all roads are named, signs posted and each property is assigned a numbered address stake that is to be placed at the end of the driveway. It did take quite a few years for rural people to start using their new addresses instead of the P.O. Box number for their delivery address. Now we can get takeout food delivered to our dock by sea-doo that is equipped with GPS.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2023 18:05:45 GMT
I sent a postcard from Vietnam to a friend in extremely rural France with just the name of the hamlet and the postal code of the nearest town. He told me that he received it but he has a real address now with a street name and number. Duly noted.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 1, 2023 20:14:02 GMT
Voyager 2 was launched about 1978 and is now some 12 billion miles out in space yet still in contact with NASA. Or rather it was. They sent a wrong signal which turned the antenna away from Earth and they’ve lost contact. Not quite personal I know.
They are going to bombard the area where they think it is with messages in the hope that one will hit. If not, it will reset itself in October. 12 billion miles away. Amazing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2023 21:07:43 GMT
Times really have changed, Mich! I don't think people change, though, so some of those rural people probably are still referring to things around them in the old way. My grandmother would give me directions in her town with phrases such as, "Turn right at the old Dougherty place." Eh? This referred to some house that belonged to people who died before I was born.
Mick, that probably is personal in the sense that it made all of us think, "What if I was traveling in a spacecraft and that happened?" That's something that could actually happen within our lifetimes.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 2, 2023 13:43:19 GMT
Tried to get a letter delivered to the house in Spain this year and the postwoman had to return it to the office a 15 minute drive away because, she said, she couldn't find the house. In all the years here we have had three deliveries (furniture) of which we had to meet all of them at a local petrol station because they had the same problem - no matter I give directions and even a GPS coordinate. Could I get it delivered to an Amazon box thing somewhere? Yes, but it's in the same place the DIY and car parts place is, 35 minute drive away. No too important though because I have a workaround. I have the same issue at my house in Italy. Half the time the mailman can't even find it by the address and, like you, I have to meet people at the church a short drive away and have them follow me up to the house. Doesn't help that they changed the comune's frazione boundaries and the postal address now points to a hamlet several kms away rather than the one a couple of hundred meters away.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2023 15:12:08 GMT
In some rural areas of France (like where a great aunt and uncle lived in deepest Moselle), the postal system solved the problem (for itself at least) by creating clusters of postal boxes along the main road near some of the more isolated hamlets. They were never more than a few hundred metres from the houses, but as we all know, past a certain age this can still be a problem, albeit mostly for hermits who don't get along with their neighbours.
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Post by htmb on Aug 4, 2023 14:58:02 GMT
I’m very frustrated with the medical establishment. I was referred to an allergist because, six weeks after I’d had a tick bite, I had an allergic reaction after eating pork (mentioned somewhere on anyport back in mid-March). After telling the allergist I suspected Alpha-gal, an allergy related to Lone Star tick bites, she said, "Oh, it can’t be that." After I glared at her a bit she finally agreed to do the test. Results came back positive, (and quite high) for both Alpha-gal (carbohydrate-related) as well as an allergy to mammal proteins.
In a follow-up appointment the allergist said, "Oh, it might be a false positive result because you haven’t yet gone into full anaphylaxis." After more glaring, and a few pointed questions, she agreed to note the allergy in my file so, in case of an emergency event, I wouldn’t be given some mammal product such as heparin (made from pork).
Next, I visited my primary care doctor for my annual check-up and mentioned symptoms I’d had while traveling that I thought might have been related to my then vegan diet (to avoid mammal, which is hidden in a lot of products, because of the allergy). At one point, I was having difficulty walking without slightly staggering and was also experiencing some vertigo. As soon as I added fish and eggs back to my diet the staggering stopped, and the vertigo gradually subsided over the course of a few weeks. I told my doctor I thought I might have a B12 deficiency and she said, "Oh, it couldn’t be that." She added a B12 test request to the other (annual) blood work I was having done and, big surprise, my B12 levels were so low I’m now having to take a month of B12 injections to get the levels built back up.
This morning I received a call from the dermatology clinic because the allergist had referred me for skin testing. I had mentioned to her I’d become highly reactive to lanolin (it’s from sheep, duh). I had declined the referral, but she submitted it anyway. If I wanted to know if I was allergic to lanolin, all I need to do is use a lotion or paper product containing lanolin to give me my answer. I declined the testing once again.
What’s wrong with these people? They are so rigid, don’t listen and are so freaking annoying. I’d change doctors, but there isn’t a better option in my area.
NOTE: i started to move this rant to a different thread, but couldn’t decide which one was best. I’m open to suggestions.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2023 21:03:27 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 4, 2023 21:38:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2023 23:10:31 GMT
What’s wrong with these people? They are so rigid, don’t listen and are so freaking annoying. I'll just quote Mossie ~ "Quacks!"
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