The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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It's quite common in Brazil. There is a large Japanese community in the country, especially in Sao Paulo. Some of the restaurants there advertise it, although it's not cheap, but you can guarantee to find at least one Japanese family there if you visit one.
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'Morning,
15c from a low of 9c, seaweed 20c
2cm of rain overnight, the predicted downfall for today seems to have been shifted to Thursday.
Going to wizz a bag of stuff to the Doggy Charity Shop which will be open while the rest of the world is closed.
One wonders if the Krauts will be open today and Thursday.
Or the Pharmacia.
One will find out.
15c from a low of 9c, seaweed 20c
2cm of rain overnight, the predicted downfall for today seems to have been shifted to Thursday.
Going to wizz a bag of stuff to the Doggy Charity Shop which will be open while the rest of the world is closed.
One wonders if the Krauts will be open today and Thursday.
Or the Pharmacia.
One will find out.
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Malvernian-Hope you and Mrs. M are recovering from the dreaded lurg
Happy belated to the doggies. Hope you got extra treats
Happy belated to the doggies. Hope you got extra treats
We have them here. Like PHXPhlyer, we have had morning fog for the past three days. I was out on my walk yesterday, enjoying the silence and the enveloping fog, when one of those Herberts went roaring up the main street, which was several blocks over. This was at 6.30 am. Quite a few people must have been thrown out of bed with the noise. I am hoping that the rozzers from the local nick heard him (how could they not as they are just dowe the hill) and dealt with him accordingly. It is illegal here to play music loudly in your car. Should not be able to hear it from 50 yds (?) away. I have never heard of a case of this being enforced though. Now there is some untapped revenue for the city along with people who run red lights. I saw three incidents driving home yesterday.We have idiots in cars where all you can hear is the 'doof-doof' even from several cars away in traffic
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Our family tradition was that the Christmas tree remained outside until Christmas Eve, when it would be brought inside and the 'girls' began to decorate it. The younger members (grandchildren) were excluded from the task and were sent to bed before the results were obvious, and first saw the tree (and the decorations of the house) after breakfast on Christmas Day.
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What a miserable family! Young kids get such huge enjoyment out of decorating the tree.
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Now one wonders
“ Goblin mode”, a slang term that captures post-pandemic rejection of a return to normal life, is Oxford University Press’s word of the year.
The term is defined as “a type of behaviour that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy”.
“ Goblin mode”, a slang term that captures post-pandemic rejection of a return to normal life, is Oxford University Press’s word of the year.
The term is defined as “a type of behaviour that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy”.
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Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:58 pmNow one wonders
“ Goblin mode”, a slang term that captures post-pandemic rejection of a return to normal life, is Oxford University Press’s word of the year.
The term is defined as “a type of behaviour that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy”.
Sounds about right!
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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Tree? We dreamed of having a real tree. For three months before Christmas we kids had to scavinge rubbish bins up and down t'street, collecting used lollipop sticks, and they were rare in autumn in Leicester. Glued 'em together using scrapings off the monkey-puzzle tree. Made a sort of tree shape and decorated it with the foil caps off milk bottles. Aye, times were hard but we survived. You tell the youth of today that!
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Sheer luxury, back in day, our dad would flog us all before midnight on Christmas Eve, after a plate of cold gruel, and he would send out mother, after midnight, fresh from her job as a 48 out of 24 hours washerwoman, to steal a twig from the council park on which the family bauble would be hung to be viewed once on Christmas day, before he flogged us all again before we all went down for our Christmas shift at coal pit.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:22 pmOur family tradition was that the Christmas tree remained outside until Christmas Eve, when it would be brought inside and the 'girls' began to decorate it. The younger members (grandchildren) were excluded from the task and were sent to bed before the results were obvious, and first saw the tree (and the decorations of the house) after breakfast on Christmas Day.
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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TGA wrote:Sheer luxury, back in day, our dad would flog us all before midnight on Christmas Eve, after a plate of cold gruelAye, but it made you into the man you are today
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Just ordered big plate of cod and chips tomorrow night down the Hotel Maritime. Chef Aaron is from Manchester.
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Off to Malaga to Clinico Hospital . Appointment with consultant to discuss radiology treatment.
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Ibbie, best wishes for the appointment.
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From me, likewise.
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Can Wodders see the party that’s going on on the other side of the Med, or is the Stygian darkness of Iberia preventing him from observing?
Meanwhile bloody cold in the Royal Borough
Good luck Ibbie
Meanwhile bloody cold in the Royal Borough
Good luck Ibbie
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Ok OFSO and TGA; Come on you two now and admit it!!!!
You're really Yorkshiremen!
You're really Yorkshiremen!
You only live twice. Once when you're born. Once when you've looked death in the face.
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All the best, Ibbie.
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Morning,
15c from a low of 10c pointer stuck at 19c.
Scattered, no chemtrails.
Hope an equitable plan sorted *Ibbie* think it should be done by now.
Nothing *Woody* poor viz last night, certainly not an Africa night.
I think the match finished too late, Africa sightings are for about an hour just after sunset, then the light goes.
Several errands to do today, with another National holiday tomorrow.
15c from a low of 10c pointer stuck at 19c.
Scattered, no chemtrails.
Hope an equitable plan sorted *Ibbie* think it should be done by now.
Nothing *Woody* poor viz last night, certainly not an Africa night.
I think the match finished too late, Africa sightings are for about an hour just after sunset, then the light goes.
Several errands to do today, with another National holiday tomorrow.
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Just a bit of snow for you.
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Back again; just completed a mammoth read-in after ten days' absence courtesy of Derby Royal Hospital - see sicknote thread. Ricardian, thanks for the two entries in 'jokes' for my attention; unfortunately they timed out before I could get to them... pity - they were probably up to your usual quality!
Anyway, glad to be back.
Anyway, glad to be back.