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Post by lugg on Mar 31, 2021 8:21:54 GMT
I don't know that one Whatagain but some others are,
Early to bed , early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise ( not sure if it works if you are female or other)
and one my Dad always used to say was,
First up , best dressed. ( I think related to poverty which he experienced for sure as a child)
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Post by lugg on Mar 31, 2021 8:24:50 GMT
The sickening part is they say the dogs are used for illegal dog-fighting, even the little ones. Yes that is said to be the case too , but its not the full story here - the price of pets have rocketed during lockdown, but I guess as lockdown ends things may return to normal , and lots of pets will need re-homing. Someone I vaguely know has a cat that goes out , one day last week it came home in a collar that they had not put on it!
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 8:58:20 GMT
Did the cat have jingle bells on the collar?Cats kill a lot of native animals here and maybe the person who collared the cat was trying to save the small fauna.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 31, 2021 9:33:55 GMT
All my cats have jingle bells. Even so they kill a few mice mostly.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 31, 2021 9:51:42 GMT
This thing about waking up early giving you more hours in the day to accomplish things..... Well, nobody else is up so I can't contact anyone and get a reply. Can't go shopping. Can't go to a museum. Too early (for me) to exercise. Can't disturb the neighbours above and below with vacuuming, clattering pots about, listening to music/TV. Too early to start cooking lunch or dinner and I don't want a big cooked breakfast anyway. Buses and trains might not be running or you are hitting the expensive commuter times.
My brain takes a while now to get going so I can't write something intelligent. (Might be peculiar to some countries like often in an apartment in Germany but..) the heating isn't on in the cold months until maybe 7am or later. I get tired in the afternoon so need a snooze so lose the hours there instead of doing stuff. If I don't have a snooze I go to bed early, so don't gain any hours there either.
All in all, I do get up early, but not too early and there is no benefit to me to get up at half past god know when - I still only have the same hours in the day being productive and/or awake. N.B. Mrs M wakes up for work at 6.30am. I do get up then and make her coffee in bed until she arises to start her morning routine half an hour later and I get stuff out of the fridge for her to make her lunch. I don't go back to bed. But when I'm alone, I'll get up somewhere between 6am and 9am depending on toilet needs.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 31, 2021 10:13:28 GMT
I'm such a lucky girl. Mr.Tod is the one who wakes up early....5.30-6am and draws the curtains forcing me to wake up as the sunlight streaks into the room. I try to doze but if I do a loud ringing of a teaspoon in a cup on a tray next to me, tells me "Pour the tea"! I can lie back on my pillows now and watch the birds arriving for bread crumbs and fruit on the birdfeeder. Quite a pleasant way to greet the day....except for that darn teaspoon! I get up around 8am most days.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2021 13:40:50 GMT
(taken from the Image Bank so that I could add the video) I can’t even begin to make sense of her hair. Thank you, htmb. Given the other comments, I began to think I was the only one who focused on it. This elegant gentleman will happily explain to you everything you need to know about beaver tail dreadlocks, a traditional Polish style.
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Post by bjd on Mar 31, 2021 14:50:53 GMT
That is so gross I don't even want to look at it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2021 14:58:09 GMT
And there is far worse in the video.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 31, 2021 16:22:32 GMT
I will watch it at a time when I have just not had the most delightful dinner.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 31, 2021 16:27:37 GMT
I happened across a couple of guys in Amsterdam who seemed to be initiating a dogfighting session beneath a railway bridge. I hailed the police (once out of their sight). This is definitely illegal in the Netherlands, but alas is still a "practice" in many countries.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 31, 2021 19:09:50 GMT
Great to read you Lagatta. I almost forgot to say that anything can happen in Nl, such an uncivilized place... Did i say that Amsterdam used to be the capital of zoophile porn ? Illegal only since a few years.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 23:12:00 GMT
The only expression that I know for that in English is the silly one: "The early bird catches the worm." As though the worm was going somewhere! My kids used to say 'the early bird catches the worm but the early cat catches the bird'.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2021 23:23:21 GMT
The only expression that I know for that in English is the silly one: "The early bird catches the worm." As though the worm was going somewhere! Actually ~ the worm is going somewhere. The expression alludes to the fact that early in the morning, when it's cool out and the dew is still on the ground, the earthworms are close to the surface or even out on top of the ground. Thus the early bird can get the worm with minimum effort. As the day warms, the worms retreat further underground, where the lie-abed birds have no chance of getting them.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 1, 2021 0:25:47 GMT
Also after rainstorms. My early cat Renzo often caught mice.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 1, 2021 3:38:09 GMT
"The future belongs to early risers."
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Post by whatagain on Apr 1, 2021 8:20:02 GMT
I know the story of the worm, the bird and the cat. The cat sees a bird and is getting ready to jump, catch it and eat it. Then it sees the worm. The cat thinks 'aha. The bird has seen the worm. I will wait. It will eat the worm, i will have more to eat afterwards.' The bird has seen that the worm goes towards a salad. It thinks 'aha, the worm wants to eat the fresh salad. I will wait, it will be more delicious afterwards'. But then comes a storm. It rains like hell. The salad goes away with torrential rain, the worm drowns, the bird flies away. The cat eats nothing. Morality ? The longer the preambles, the wetter the pussy becomes...
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Post by tod2 on Apr 1, 2021 12:49:15 GMT
I am probably one of a few that likes scrolling down to the "Today's birthdays" - for not reason really. Can you imagine finding a member who turned 106 today and was born in 1915!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 1, 2021 13:20:43 GMT
Did you, tod? Some members joined with false birthdays (ahem K2) to fool identity thieves. Maybe also to get compliments on their youthful goof looks “for their age”.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 1, 2021 14:26:33 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2021 15:12:06 GMT
I think the birthday thing used to be so admins could weed out anyone under thirteen years old. Probably it finally dawned on Proboards that 13-yr-olds are old enough to know how to fib about their birth years. I just clicked on the profiles on this page & obviously some of us were quite forthcoming (I listed everything except my blood type), and others of us appear to barely exist (Mark).
Somewhat related: one of the blanks we can choose to fill in is "gender". I may be completely wrong about this, but isn't "gender" for grammatical terms, but for living beings the proper term would be "sex"? (& yes, I know I could look it up)
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Post by bjd on Apr 1, 2021 15:24:31 GMT
Like other words, "gender" has probably moved from grammar to sexual identity. People who define themselves as gender-fluid are not talking about verb tenses.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 1, 2021 15:52:39 GMT
Anyway, I just like looking at who has a special day - false or otherwise.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 1, 2021 16:00:01 GMT
It took me a really long time to figure out how to state my gender in my profile (probably because I am stupid).
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 1, 2021 16:16:47 GMT
and others of us appear to barely exist (Mark). I have a lot to hide. Some mornings I do feel as though I barely exist.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 1, 2021 16:43:25 GMT
Some of us define ourselves through verb tenses...
I'm not remotely "gender-fluid"...
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Post by lugg on Apr 1, 2021 18:44:07 GMT
Did the cat have jingle bells on the collar?Cats kill a lot of native animals here and maybe the person who collared the cat was trying to save the small fauna No idea Questa re the bells but I think the owners felt it was more of an attempt to adopt their cat. I have no idea what I have on my profile - must have a look one day.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 2, 2021 4:17:15 GMT
I just checked mine, complete bollocks
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 2, 2021 5:19:41 GMT
Maybe my profile should show I'm back in Sarajevo from yesterday afternoon.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2021 6:13:53 GMT
You wouldn't have wanted to miss the France-Bosnia football match.
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