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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2020 18:47:54 GMT
Yes, that was mentioned in the articles about it. Maybe we will now have some new wars where more people die from disease than combat.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 12, 2020 19:16:58 GMT
I just learned that the cicadas in my head (tinnitus) may be the result of painkillers I took for my sore shoulder some years back. Or from antibiotics for the UTIs that menopause seems to encourage. No cure. Actually it’s probably neither of those. The ringing and buzzing is the brain’s effort to fill the void where missing frequencies used to be heard. Here’s the latest therapy: www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/electric-shocks-tongue-can-quiet-chronic-ringing-ears
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Post by questa on Oct 13, 2020 7:03:25 GMT
(and all for sand and rocks, not even any oil!) Afghanistan has huge mineral deposits, specially those used in IT production "The major mineral resources include chromium, copper, gold, iron ore, lead and zinc, lithium, marble, precious and semiprecious stones, sulfur and talc among many other minerals. The energy resources consist of natural gas and petroleum." wiki."
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2020 19:41:07 GMT
That might hold true for the 20th and 21st centuries, but it does not explain all of the fighting for the previous 500 years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 14, 2020 16:39:46 GMT
Morticians generally use anal and/or vaginal plugs on cadavers to prevent smelly leakage, since internal pressure increases as the days go by.
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Post by questa on Oct 15, 2020 10:06:32 GMT
And for the gentlemen of style...a dressing is placed around the Old Fella, then a length of firm bandage to reduce leakage. The finished product is completed with a tidy bow.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 25, 2020 21:07:36 GMT
The Sahara is the same size as the United States.
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Post by htmb on Oct 25, 2020 21:33:59 GMT
Well, that boggles the mind.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 7, 2020 13:37:33 GMT
Marie Curie's papers from the 1890's are so radioactive that they cannot be read and are kept permanently in a lead lined box.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2020 15:08:45 GMT
Yikes! I wonder how long they lay around and were handled by people before it was discovered that they were dangerous.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 16, 2020 19:37:23 GMT
30% of the cowboys in the early days were black freed slaves. Hollywood erased them.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 17, 2020 16:51:22 GMT
I can't make curry like an Indian……….
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Post by Biddy on Nov 19, 2020 2:13:29 GMT
I learned that the term Pennsylvania Dutch was a bastardization of the term Pennsylvania Deutsche.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 27, 2020 10:14:18 GMT
The #1 accident involving mobile phones is NOT cracking or breaking the screen. That is only #2. #1 is dropping them into the toilet.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 28, 2020 3:25:41 GMT
Which i did at least twice. Last time when i dislodged my elbow. I was so weak my phone simply slipped away from my remaining hand whilst i was calling hospital. I also swam once with it. The trick is to not touch it, not restart, let it dry for over a day and then restart.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2020 4:06:08 GMT
The other day I went with my landlady and her husband and daughter to buy a water saver toilet for the downstairs bathroom. At the store I said that the round kind would be better than the oval, as the bathroom is so tiny. We all stood around and discussed whether or not the little round one was adequate for an adult butt until finally my landlord sat on it to test it. He pronounced it fine, but his wife said he needed to take out his phone and sit there a while in order to make an informed judgment.
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Post by questa on Dec 3, 2020 0:38:23 GMT
The trick is to not touch it, not restart, let it dry for over a day and then restart. I have heard that you should bury the phone in rice for a couple of days.It will dry out the phone.Change rice if it seems too damp.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2020 3:29:16 GMT
I have heard that, too. The other day I washed a glass eye dropper. After regular drying for a day, I could still see water trapped inside. I was going to throw it away, but remembered that rice/phone tip so shoved the eye dropper into a canister of brown rice. It dried!
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Post by questa on Dec 4, 2020 1:14:17 GMT
Brilliant!
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 7, 2020 22:02:11 GMT
Clint Eastwood is 90.
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Post by htmb on Dec 14, 2020 4:25:24 GMT
I’ve just learned on the news that one of those metal monoliths has appeared down the street. I suppose I’ll be seeing aliens next. If I disappear, you’ll all know why.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2020 5:05:30 GMT
Now, now ~ they just want to talk to you.
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Post by htmb on Dec 14, 2020 5:19:26 GMT
Hmmm. Ours doesn’t look as nice in the video I saw. Must be a more inferior class of aliens.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2020 5:31:17 GMT
There goes the neighbourhood.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2020 5:43:46 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 15, 2020 20:37:10 GMT
Long, long, long before global warming was the St Lucia flood of 1287 which killed over 50,000 in the Netherlands .
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Post by tod2 on Dec 16, 2020 16:36:53 GMT
Mick, You mean there were actually 50,000 people there in 1287? You don't mean 50?!
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 16, 2020 16:58:46 GMT
In fact it might have been as many as 80,000.
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Post by htmb on Dec 20, 2020 20:56:35 GMT
I suppose, in some ways, it might be a good time to rent or buy in New York City. I’ve just learned that my daughter’s old Lower Manhattan apartment building, which was at capacity last spring, is now approximately 30% full. The small apartment she rented for three years has been empty since she moved out last summer, and the advertised rent has been reduced several times in the interim.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 20, 2020 21:10:04 GMT
That's pretty amazing for NYC. I wonder if they have offered to lower the rent for tenants who threaten to leave.
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