MrsDoyle

I wonder if supermarkets aren’t careful about keeping it chilled. I always take milk from the back of the cabinet.

This “door is too warm for milk” thing is crazy. I keep milk on a door shelf because it’s the only place with enough height. Also it never goes off there, even past the use-by date.

Jethro Tull are still going? Bloody hell.

BBC News - Woman covertly filmed for ‘humiliating’ social media content - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdxpqg22q34o

Video version of the original story. He comes across as a creep.

Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy vs the then president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

From Wiki: “In place of traditional campaign rallies, [Zelenskyy] conducted stand-up comedy routines across Ukraine with his production company Kvartal 95.”

So I guess that counts…

Cape Horn is the southern tip of South America. The southern tip of Africa is the Cape of Good Hope.

Why would I need more than that?

Exactly - we have what the billionaires never will: we have enough.

Oh that looks very useful!! Thank you. I have an old laptop I can experiment on.

Thanks! That’s very encouraging. I’ve never worked in IT but I’m comfortable tinkering. It’s learning the basics of something brand new to me that will be challenging. I just have to get a grip on the concept.

I mean I definitely know the difference between WiFi and internet, but I’ve never set up a server and have no idea how to even start.

Ugh. I remember meeting people back in the early 1980s who’d done EST training. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training They spoke about letting go of old assumptions about right and wrong, ethics, all that. One guy had decided to go into making pornography, because it was an easy way to make a lot of money. Greed seems to lie at the root of most capitalist dystopia. Some people can ever have enough money/power.

I was told our dog had gone to live on a farm. For a long time afterwards I pestered to be allowed to visit the dog on said farm, and was told it would be too upsetting for him. “He wouldn’t understand.”

Years later I found out the dog had run away, gotten into a field, and killed a sheep. He was identified by the farmer, and someone official came to our house and took him away to be shot.

I wish they had just told me he’d been run over.

My late dog, a rescue greyhound, was a big chucklehead with low impulse control. The first few walks with him on the lead were a nightmare. What worked was turning the leash into a brake. If he pulled on it, I stopped. When he stopped pulling, I carried on. It took about a fortnight of twice-daily walks for him to understand (he was really not very bright), but in the end it clicked. He became the master of putting the most exquisitely gentle pressure on the leash to try and hurry me along without turning on the “brakes”.

Also, any can that is domed - something inside is making gas that is pushing on the metal. Not good. Very, very bad.

Carrot in a Box

A friend has a pair of Raybans she bought 25 years ago. One day last year she dropped them and they were run over by a trailer with a boat on it. She was pretty upset until she realised they weren’t damaged, not even scuffed. I witnessed this, it was incredible. Worth the expense, I would say.

I was in a fender bender a few years ago where the other party insisted on getting the police involved because of injury - the passenger slumped dramatically to the ground complaining of whiplash. The officer who attended said, “You don’t have whiplash.” And explained to her the concept of crumple zones in modern cars absorbing forces from impact. Then he declared it a no-fault accident (it was actually my fault).

I’m currently in the midst of throwing money at a problem - car’s brakes corroded after I didn’t drive for three months due to Reasons. I’m desperate to get back behind the wheel - a backlog of car-centric jobs has piled up.

I remember when he first threw his toys out of the pram over a wind farm visible from one of his Scottish golf courses. He’s lost all his battles here, hah!

Wind farms aren’t ideal given all the infrastructure needed, but they are certainly preferable to a war.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo