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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 3, 2021 20:08:25 GMT
I'm sure that this sort of thing is happening hundrends of thousands of times every day all over the world. Millions of people don't do what they know they should do because other urges and sentiments overpower them.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 4, 2021 7:11:37 GMT
You have my sympathy bjd in that situation. Feel happy that you protected yourself. You looked after the most important person - YOU. And know that although many of us would like to guide other family and friends, we cannot live their lives for them. You did everything 100% correct in my book.
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Post by bjd on Feb 4, 2021 7:38:06 GMT
Thanks Tod, but you are confusing me with htmb. Ah those people who can't think of anything better than initials as forum names!
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Post by tod2 on Feb 4, 2021 11:47:27 GMT
Oh gosh so I am! Hope she sees it though.
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Post by htmb on Feb 4, 2021 13:40:58 GMT
I did....thanks.
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Post by htmb on Feb 4, 2021 14:48:40 GMT
Bjd, it’s a good thing I don’t use my own initials since that would be even more confusing. Sister’s results are in and she’d covid negative. It’s a relief. Hopefully, she’ll try to be more careful in the future.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2021 15:54:46 GMT
Thank goodness for the negative result! While I’m very sympathetic to my sister’s plight, I’m also a bit peeved. It’s difficult for me to sit back and watch someone make what I believe to be poor choices. It's admirable that you're able to keep your reaction down to "a bit peeved", although an excellent way to preserve your sanity. What is so immensely frustrating about your sister's decisions & those of thousands of other people is that they're based on cherry-picking the facts. They're not denying the fact of the virus, but arrange things in their minds so that their possibly dangerous actions seem plausible and defensible.
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Post by htmb on Feb 4, 2021 16:30:56 GMT
Yes, that’s very true, Bixa. It’s like a novice driver, who has never driven in a big city, claiming to have excellent luck and rationalizing that all will be okay if you’ll just let them drive in New York City rush hour traffic. For the month before my sister’s drive to Florida I tried to get her to look at the statistics and understand that our levels of covid were several times higher than local levels in her rural area of the northeast.
Anyway, thanks all for listening to me babble.
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Post by lugg on Feb 4, 2021 19:19:27 GMT
Anyway, thanks all for listening to me babble. I hear you htmb. I am certain I would feel the same.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 4, 2021 20:06:44 GMT
While I’m very sympathetic to my sister’s plight, I’m also a bit peeved. It’s difficult for me to sit back and watch someone make what I believe to be poor choices. However, those choices aren’t mine to make. While I do think we all need to live our lives as best we can, I also think we need to try to choose wisely when making decisions. At least she didn’t catch covid while on the Florida part of the trip, or somewhere mid-country. For that I’m grateful. htmb I do not fault your feelings on this at all and share with you on being peeved with how some make choices without regard to the reality and severity to their risky behaviours. We are all far from perfect and it is impossible not to make the occasional poor choice, I just wish people would think more of how their choices could affect others.
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2021 1:24:12 GMT
Tomorrow I will be getting my hair cut professionally for the first time since Paris, almost 16 17 months ago. Even though I’ve whacked at it a few times, it’s still very long. I’ll be so happy to get it cut.
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Post by bjd on Mar 11, 2021 7:30:26 GMT
Hairdressers have been open in France since after the first lockdown last April. They just can't fill all the chairs and you have to wear a mask.
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2021 12:33:29 GMT
Similar to here in Florida, but I haven’t wanted to risk it so have avoided most indoor situations.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 12, 2021 21:45:52 GMT
Today I opened a forgotten drawer and discovered about 80 old audio cassettes. I put them in a bag and took them down to the bin. Afterwards I read that Lou Ottens, the inventor of the audio cassette, died today at age 94. More than 100 billion audio cassettes were fabricated from the 1960s to the 1980s. I wonder how many are still left in the world after my disposal.
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Post by htmb on Mar 12, 2021 21:56:05 GMT
I have four old audio cassettes. I think my three older children were recorded having a cute, memorable conversation on one when they were ages 3 and 6, but I no longer have a cassette player. I need to see if I can check one out from either the library or my old school. If I can find the conversation, I can have it turned into a digital file.
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Post by bjd on Mar 13, 2021 7:44:40 GMT
The problem is that they are not recyclable. We threw tons of them out a few years ago.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 13, 2021 8:41:05 GMT
Millions of people don't do what they know they should do because other urges and sentiments overpower them. Coincidence how I came on this page to make a comment and K2 has mentioned something at the heart of what I was going to say. Don't know how many of you have been following the abduction and murder of a young woman walking home one evening by a serving police officer - www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56331948There are a couple of things at least that I don't get about this. Besides the curiosity I have of the details of how the police clicked on to him and how they determined where the body was - I can imagine the shock they'd have when tracking where she had walked by cctv and other cameras (one was a doorbell camera and I possibly a dash cam on a bus) - realising she was last seen near a couple of houses on the street and asking, who lives in them, only to be told "Hang on a minute..... it's a policeman...." But, the reports are he joined the Met Police in September 2018, no matter he would have been 45 or 46 when he did which is unusual due to the age, but unless things have dramatically changed, you serve two years on probation which takes him to Sept 2020 - and now he's armed and in the "Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was uniformed patrols, mainly at a range of embassies in the capital." - armed? After just coming out his probation? Jeez..... I had firearms training and it took about eight years until I worked my way in to a position to go on a course where I was trusted to be issued with one. The main point though is him, outside where he lives, abducting and killing a young woman then driving miles away to dump her body - and then going home. Yes, there are reports of him exposing himself in the days previous, maybe twice, and it being said he's been off sick at times and acting strangely - maybe it'll all come down to him having a growth on his brain or something - but the compulsion he had to commit the crime must have been so great it over ruled the knowledge he had, as part of his job never mind for a normal person, the ease and I do mean ease, of how with the amount of cameras of all sorts, plus the number plate tracking technology for paying the fees to use a car in London and otherwise, how easy it is to track someone - also phone signals etc. But bloody hell fire, how on earth did he think he'd get away with it. I really doubt that was part of his thinking. Gave little or no thought to it at all. Maybe what he did was on the spur of the moment and it didn't cross his mind. The urge, the necessity in his mind, to do this deed over-road any rational thoughts he must have had, or didn't have. No doubt if there is no medical reason the pushed him to do this, he'll plead that the death was an accident, but I suspect his motivation wasn't to kill, but to abduct and sexually assault - and only then did he have a thought about how he could cover it up and the conclusion he came to was to get rid of the witness/victim. As an adjunct to all that though, what stops you from committing a crime? Any crime. No need to do so? Fear of being caught? Fear of the punishment? Update to clarify - I'm wrong thinking he abducted her outside/near where he lives. Lugg has mentioned so later. Due to lack of details I can only think he took her whilst in his car and that's what's been the factor to tracing him.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 13, 2021 9:05:40 GMT
A mouse entered my room at 2 am. Followed by my nr 1 mouse killer cat. He blocked the mouse in a corner and was able to catch it. The mouse was very cute and unharmed yet. I locked the cat in and went downstairs to release the mouse in the garden. I am a hero four the mice. I am a moron who wakes up everybody in the middle of the night for the whole family.
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2021 9:14:41 GMT
I know that feeling Whatagain - fortunately I've had a respite over the winter but as soon as the field mice start breeding again I will be back at it.
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2021 9:23:18 GMT
Mark - I don't think he lived in London - her body was found in Kent fairly close to where he lives or have I misunderstood what you were saying ?
Absolutely it seems very odd his late start and then his meteoric rise. Maybe he is ill - he certainly has required hospital treatment at least twice since his arrest - self inflicted head injuries. One thing that really annoys me is the numerous press reports that refer to Sarah Everard as just Everard - its distasteful and disrespectful.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 13, 2021 9:44:28 GMT
lugg, she disappeared in Clapham, he lives in Deal, Kent? Her body was found in woodland near Ashford, Kent. It's about 60 miles away on the M20 between Ashford and Clapham? Yes, I may have got some of the details wrong about where he lived. It must have been whilst he was driving past her then.
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2021 9:55:30 GMT
Yes, whatever it is awful.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 13, 2021 10:06:26 GMT
I am a hero for the mice. Good for you, whatagain. I am only equipped for killing them, which would not be my first choice. But they play a mean game with me. After a mouse episode, I set out at least 4 traps in my upstairs room. If they stay untouched for about 4-6 months, I remove 3 of the traps, leaving just one in place. Every single time, the very last trap rapidly attracts a mouse for some reason, which I discover after about 3 days when it starts stinking (my own personal covid test). And then four traps get put in place again... It never ends.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 13, 2021 12:02:19 GMT
You guys are talking about mice. Wait until the droppings in your store cupboard reveal those little buggers are RATS! Yes, I found those oblong poo traces on the shelf, then in a plastic container, then flour, and other edibles all knawed with holes. I did not notice it straight away as it was only the last two shelves. How are they getting there?? I sent our handyman into the roof above the ceiling on top of the cupboard. He discovered a gap between the wall and the wooden cupboard so plugged it and since then we have had no more rats.
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2021 12:38:35 GMT
very last trap rapidly attracts a mouse for some reason, which I discover after about 3 days when it starts stinking (my own personal covid test). And then four traps get put in place again... It never ends Are you sure it is a covid test...sounds more like a cat scan to me!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 13, 2021 14:22:09 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Mar 13, 2021 16:06:34 GMT
There was a dead rat outside our door this morning too. Not a big one but a rat nonetheless. Killed by our valiant cats.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 13, 2021 16:18:21 GMT
They brought it for your breakfast.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2021 16:32:36 GMT
I set out at least 4 traps in my upstairs room. If they stay untouched for about 4-6 months, I remove 3 of the traps, leaving just one in place. Every single time, the very last trap rapidly attracts a mouse for some reason, which I discover after about 3 days when it starts stinking (my own personal covid test). And then four traps get put in place again... It never ends. I know I have asked this before, but why in the name of all logic won't you poison the damned things & get rid of them all at one time? !!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 13, 2021 16:42:25 GMT
I have used poison in the past, but they appear to be immune to it. Only traps work, or those awful glue pads where they die in agony trying to pull free.
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