I was ok letting someone else take care of the baby for a night.you need your own time :)
I was surprised there was filming yet again on Clapham common. I wouldn't mind but they use the cafe to store all the cameras and audio gear, which takes up about 6 tables that then cannot be used by customers.
The show is called "Date me date my dog" which is apparently on Sky Living, so it is not even a show that interests me.
Are they paying them at least? BTW, that show sounds like crap.
my microwave of 25 years packed up.
my microwave of 25 years
That's almost "forever" in microwave years.
smokester, congratulations on your microwave longevity. We have an old clunker that we inherited 12 years ago from its second owner. It's still faithfully heating coffee and the occasional frozen meal.
I bet Smokester spread his xmas bugs around
The moral bankruptcy of some people.
Get em, XT! . I hope your able to catch it. Remember to wipe everything it's touched with bleach.
I didn't go to college. I can apply other places but the bagel shop is a sure thing, and it's close.
I didn't go to college. I can apply other places but the bagel shop is a sure thing, and it's close.
its still so dark and warm
" you look like a little kid"
I survived it on 5 hrs sleep ;D ;D
how awful my cookies turned out….what a waste.so bad for you.
I was knee deep in poo, yes, real poo last night as one of my client's waste pipe got blocked. I couldn't clear it and now Dyno-rod have told me there's a clay bung stuck halfway down. Now I have to cut through a solid oak floor just so they can get down and excavate.where there's blame ;)
They paid £975,000 3 months ago for this place and took out a drain survey beforehand. The survey apparently didn't pick out the obstruction.
£975,000 to have to crap in a bucket for 2 days. That surely is a surprise.
I just applied for a mangement position with them. I didnt know either.hope all go's well
Today Virgin sent me a cheque for £210. YIPPEE!!
:o Never ever happened something like that to me. Good for you!
I played their minds, and they fell right in.
You're dangerous! I'll have that in mind. ;D
how old is your daughter?
A conversation I had with my daughter:
Daughter: Mom, sometimes I think your mean and sometimes I think you're the best mom in the world.
Me: Really? And when do you think I'm the best mom in the world?
Daughter: Mmmnn... Every 2 months... For about 5 mins.
I laughed. It wasn't funny though.
Did this happen right after you said "no" to something?
The mouse on the other hand isn't working well.
Has it sobered up yet?
my tutor liked my college work
Well 15 yr olds are easy to impress. Ba Dum Dum. lolshe's a little older i assure you ;D ;D
Luckliy a guy said he would take the dog
no its not, while I was calling animal control another dog owner went around asking people if they wanted a dog. Luckliy a guy said he would take the dog, I just hope that he's nice person and that the dog will have a good life with him.
I was going to ask if the person who offered to take the dog in also, by chance, ran an ethnic food restaurant.
Not today but yesterday I fell asleep straight after dinner and had to go to bed an hour later. I have never done that before in my entire life and usually I'll nod off but wake around 10pm and be up until 1am.
I'm getting fed up with all this getting old malarky.
What time do you usually have dinner?
GET OFF MAH LAWN!!!!
A friend of mine called today. I hadn't heard from him in a few years. He told me a joke.
Q: Why do chicken coops have two doors?
A: Because if they had four, they'd be a sedan.
Accent on which word?
It's a play on automobile terms. Don't they have coupes and sedans in Britain? Do you mean you call them coup-ays instead of coops?
Chalfont St. Giles is rhyming slang.
dog fight at the park today between two pitbulls. one wanted to play and the other one wanted to fight. the guy had to beat the other pit until she let go of his dog.
and then later another guy walking his pit off the leash let his dog run over to our dog group which is a group of small dogs. his dog wouldn't listen when he called her, she didn't seem aggressive but i know if a dog senses your scared or nervous , it can cause them to strike. I know not all pitbulls are bad and that any dog can attack for any reason, they are just animals. it just sucked. I'm not sure what I would do if another dog attacked mine. I think me and my dog will be taking a little break from the park for a while.
What for, "tiles"?Google says piles :o
do ugly boobs even exist ?
do ugly boobs even exist ?
what's all that about?..
I don't get it...was it an ugly boob?It wasn't a bad boob, it was perky enough and had a decent sized nipple. I think it was the way she was walking around with a boob all out and not really seeming to care. At the time it was incredibly shocking.
Day before yesterday, the Tesco Express fridges had all broken.
my dog found a water bug and killed it. I took it from him and gave him a peanut butter cookie. I shouldnt be surprised he likes to catch and eat ants and spiders. I'll probably give him a small piece of lamb tonight.
note cute but your dog was probably just protecting its territory.
How did you convince your dog to stop going into your neighbours farm?
how much getting a kid into school takes out of you!;D ;D so true
I am never getting a pet dog.they change your life for the better ???
^ You would think he would have more sense then to do it where he might be recognised.
Weather great here in the North east sun shining, waiting for brick to come on saying it's 98F where he is and he has the air conditioning on high
Ditto. (Well almost, Saturday evening)
::) really....
The weather really caught me off guard today. My phone app had said it was 13c all week but today it was so hot is was setting the tile adhesive I was using in half the time.
Wasted two 20kg bags as it set in the tub in 15 minutes.
I tried unticking "Leave words uncensored" and yet "Thatcher" was still there. ;D
And that thing is indeed expensive! Beh, we should never trust the forecast.
What surprised me today... My 3 yrs old niece asking me when and where I was going to make my birthday party. And offering her own house for the celebration.
Is it soon, XT? I wanted to send flowers.
May 13th. The Big 5-0 is approaching so fast is going to feel like a car crash! :D
So your birthday was 2 days ago? Happy belated best wishes.
You must have a few years yet before you hit fiddy?
Pfft! Less than one. :)
Well you 15 or 20 years left before you look fifty.
:o Errr...no.
I vaguely remember 50.
Have you read "Lamb" by Christopher Moore? Quite a lot of detail on the 33. (Loads more than in the stodgy biographies)
My daughter has passed the 4th stage in the Math Olimpiads. For what I hear only about 20 kids in the whole province have done it. If she passes the next stage she's going to the nationals. What surprises me is how difficult the problems are. :-[
I told her: Kiddo, you really have to practise now.
She answered me with the Spanish equivalent of: Keep dreaming, you crazy old lady!!
My son's SAT result for math was in the top 1% of the country. His school is now saying he can do GCSE in math 2 years early, possibly A-level math in year 11, and advance modules when he reaches 6th form.
When he's rich I'll visit you all!!
Looks like your investment in your "retirement plan" is paying off. :D
WOW, smokester jr. !!
IDK about the UK but you don't get rich in my country for being good at math. :(
My daughter has passed the 4th stage in the Math Olimpiads. For what I hear only about 20 kids in the whole province have done it. If she passes the next stage she's going to the nationals. What surprises me is how difficult the problems are. :-[
No wonder I couldn't find this post. I misspelled "Olympiads".
My daughter passed the Regional stage and now she will go to the Nationals!!!! Only about 30 kids in her age level in the whole country. WOW. I'm so proud.
Let me rant about something related to that. I'll start telling the Nationals is a 3 days event in Mar del Plata in late October (spring here) so you understand.
When my kid competed in an earlier stage I spoke to the vice-director about registration and accomodation arrangements (that exam was held in another city). One day I knocked on their door and the vice-director wasn't in. When I tried to tell the director why I was there she stopped me (quite coldly, I must say, and she didn't even let me cross the door) and explained she didn't have anything to do with the Math Olympics or the organization or whatever. Pretty much "don't bother me and get the golly out". But I didn't think twice about that. Until the day the vice-director told me my daughter has passed the exam and "Carmen might want to go to Mar del Plata". OMG, I saw red. Of course she wants to go! She thinks she can have it both ways. I feel like flamethrow (is that a word?) that woman's bureaucratic ass. And do you know who prepared my daughter for her exams: A teacher paid by a non-profit organization and myself. Mostly myself. Un-bless'ed believable. If I find out she intends someone paying for her trip I'm going to go berserk.
Sorry for the rant. I feel a bit better now. :D
That aside: congrats to your daughter and onwards and upwards!!!
It's nice to see what loving parents can achieve in nurturing successful children.
Today one of the neighborhood cats decided to play while I was cutting the lavender. She started striking at the plants with her paws. I finally got a small branch from a bush I'd trimmed and snaked it along the ground. She was jumping and pawing at it like cats do. She's so funny. Everyone in the neighborhood knows and loves her. She wears a bell so you can hear her coming.
My daughter passed the Regional stage and now she will go to the Nationals!!!!
She got a "Mention" at the Nationals. That means she must have scored in the top ten. :o :o
You must be so proud! And of course you're now off the hook having to help her with schoolwork. :D
I managed to get through my labs without flipping out.
On the plus side I've stopped losing weight.
I stopped drinking alcohol August 4th.
I'm retired and I've worn out my drinkin n smokin parts.
Meh, I'm still warming them up.
And avoiding my liver function tests like the plague!! :D
<sarcasm>A mistake by a referee in a world-cup rugby game</sarcasm>
....Damned group A Streptococci.
Back in the days when I actually kissed women...
hope she gets better soon. :)
Presumabubble wives don't count?
... when they stop being women and start beingbenevolentdictators.
Don't bother. It's a busy time of year.
Shame on you.
::) Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;D ;D
Your hawg?
That sucks. Are Harleys popular in the UK?
I don't think I ever lasted more than 10 minutes at over 100 MPH on my Harley Sportster. Helmet tries to lift, bugs hurt, crosswinds make it hairy. Wouldn't want a crotch rocket.
"bikers' balls" you have to develop over time
You can actually drink from a beer bottle without using your hands - hold it in your teeth. It takes a bit of practice, but you can get used to it.
Where's the challenge in that?
I'll bet she was GreatWizard.
Got home ok around 5pm, but about an hour later someone stole my bike.
Not the best kind of surprises.
Another surprise and perhaps some good karma for my grand gesture with the flights, is that the police found my bike yesterday!!
So bike theft has been legalized?
How bored I am.:o :o
if it's unpaid.
:o :o
you be watching Jeremy Kyle next
"The Mullionaire"
Well you could have told us.
That's OK for me, but what about the rest of the troops!
someone I had done a large favor for repaid it by acting like a richard.
His writing leaves something to be desired ;D ;D
The amount of sleep I got. I haven't slept that long for a long while now.
swop for my 15 year old daughter :o :o :o :o
man and a van both ways ;D ;D ;D ;D
I finally broke the 210lb barrier this morning, weighing in at 209.4 this morning.
I was 251lb back on Aug 16th so I'm feeling great.
I'm often forgetting little details and stuff so I have a computer program that regularly alerts me to things that need to be done.
You could always set the "head slap" feature on her. Also, I warn against ever mentioning "upgrading".
That My Grandson Can Also Walk Backwards :)
Health insurance terminated for lack of income.
I'm going to die.
Tooting? You must know Wolfie Smith.
Posh Ice, the in thing
he was democratically voted in.
what surprises me more is the fact a politician who ran for office has actually actioned his promises :o has caused more protests than the majority who don't ???
Anyway off the subject of politics.
Today I was surprised I made it out of bed as I ripped all my muscles in the lower right hand side of my back yesterday at work.
Had a heated argument with HR manager at work who said, as I had seen the training video it was my fault.
Mmmmmmmmm this riled me and I stated that we had no risk assessment folder in the area no weights of parts we have to life, no lifting tackle,parts arrive on wrong trolley wheels/in wrong boxes.
But what got me going the most was he statement that "this happens on a regular basis in the area I work in"
So my retort was simple "Why hasn't the management then actioned a full risk assessment and acted accordingly"
I was then asked to leave the top office.
He came to see me later and apologised as he could see that all I had stated was correct and that a Manager had lied to him stating" he had fully done risk assessments and made available in the work area)
I even (thank you my work mate) had to get a lift home as I was on my bike.
I now await the chaos that will ensue at the back to work interview and the Riddor that will follow ,especially as i cannot even put my socks on so doubtful I will go to work for a while :-\
sorry about the long "get it off my chest post" :)
I could sue myself, of course. A friend of mine actually did that. He was awarded £80,000 from his own company.I am Shocked. ??? ???
he was democratically voted in.
The "demos" voted overwhelmingly for his opponent. An arcane law that was intended to mollify slaveowners resulted in his obtaining the position despite the 3 million Americans who expressed a preference for Hillary Clinton who threw the popular plebescite in her favor.
His obliviousness to that fact, to the many Americans who didn't vote for him, and his disregard for the fact that the position of President is not like Emperor or CEO of a private corporation, is more likely than not, going to result in his removal from office when the GOP dominated legislature determines that he has outlived his usefulness. He is an international embarrassment and I'm ashamed to have to explain that I didn't vote for him to my friends abroad.
I hope you feel better soon. Having wrenched muscles in one's back is no fun.
Well, the bit of the demos that voted did.
Democracy really doesn't work, to be honest, and someone that is determined (let's call this type of person a "politician") can subvert it to their own ends regardless of safeguards. However you decide it works, someone can figure out a way around it.
Fundamentally my issue with it has always been if 51% of the population want to victimise/ kill/ enslave the other 49%, then it is democratic for them so to do. Democracy can be really unpleasant for the loser.
... although, as Churchill said, all other forms of government are worse.
You won't be able to impeach him if he disbands the Judiciary.
I don't think that the bulk of the US citizenry has quite come to terms with the power that you have given your President if he has the will to use it. e.g. His remarks about the judge that had the cheek to stand up to him - "so-called judge" indeed - have the power to discredit that judge, and when he turns his twitter feed onto something, it gets torched, because ...
.. lest ye forget, he still has millions of supporters that love what he is doing.
(Thought experiment: What would you do if he actually did throw Hilary into jail? It is about the only election promise that he hasn't yet followed through on)
PS - sometimes I miss folk like GW for conversations of this nature.
The trouble is that someone noticed (lets call him "The Founding Fathers", as a non-emotive neutral name for him) the potential existence of the tyranny of the majority (51% wants, 51% gets) and decided to try to ensure that this couldn't easily occur. He was as guilty of gerrymandering as any of his successors..
A lot of smaht folks came along after him, and co-opted variations of his ideas to ensure that their opponents couldn't easily win, but if used correctly it more nearly ensures fairness. In the text that you linked you don't really need the exotic example at the end, the initial two divisions illustrate the point exactly - if "fairness" is your aim, then "fairness" is pretty achievable, but you need to know who is red and who is blue, and where they live - that whole infographic fails when you don't KNOW the split.
The fact is that there is no "fair" way of representing a diverse group of people, so all pretence of "fairness" is discarded, and instead we choose representatives, and they lie, cheat, wheedle, steal, connive and confuse in order to get their own way because they must win
If we are charitable (let's not deal with the possibility of self-serving "politicians", as they just muddy the water - let's assume that they are all selfless altruists), we could say that each of them want to win because they truly believe that they are the best hope for humanity, and thus any means of getting them into power is fair, as the result of them winning is that humanity is "saved™" (or if - heaven forfend - they lose, then the world is doomed to eternal hellfire and ashes). The trouble is that some - if not all - of them are mistaken, and the ends don't justify the means. This is a hard pill to swallow, and to be honest I don't ever recall a single politician that understood this. The nearest I have seen is people that failed because they couldn't quite wrangle the last ounce of power from the system, and they were finally defeated by the intransigent (and by definition "wrong") opposition.
Gerrymandering is just one of the tools used by these self-believing folk to ensure that the world has the chance to be saved by them.
Interestingly I think that your current President seems to honestly believe that he knows the makeup of the country - on the one hand there are people that like him, understand him, and believe in him (good guys), and on the other hand there are crooks, illegals, democrats, the liberal media and other folk that don't have the best interests of the country at heart (bad guys). He apparently sees it as his duty to root out and expel/ imprison/ ridicule/ destroy everyone in the second category. This is as near a perfect example of the tyranny of the majority as one could hope to see, and I honestly think that he will do everything in his power to trample anyone that he sees as being a bad guy.
Incidentally I don't think that he is "controlled" in the same way the previous Republican President was.
Well don't look at me, I don't know how they got there.
It surprised me when I discovered you could buy aspirin with codeine over the counter in the UK. I bought a bottle several years ago and brought it home but then forgot about it. It's stashed away in the medicine cabinet somewhere.
Paracetamol is acetaminophen, aka Tylenol. It upsets my stomach and is known to cause liver damage in large doses. I don't take it, but you can get it readily here. Why is it restricted in the UK?
I chew it before swallowing, but I don't mind the flavor, so I suspect that helps. It isn't given to babies or small children because of the potential danger of Rye's syndrome.
That's interesting. Here, you have to sign in with a chemist to buy Sudafed and I'm pretty sure there are restrictions of 2 packages.
Goldie, I know constipation can be caused by opiates, including codeine, but I had no idea naproxen caused it also. I am convinced that my father's death was due to naproxen. He had terrible pain from arthritis and practically lived on the stuff. A few years after his sudden death in his early 70's, I discovered that this drug was associated with heart failure. I'm convinced that this led to his heart attack and sudden death.
I have been taken naproxen regularly (1 or 2 pills a day) recently for tendinitis and I've started breaking out in hives. Weeeee. Stopped the past few days and it's subsiding. Yet another medicine I've placed on my "only when absolutely needed" list.
I have been taken naproxen regularly (1 or 2 pills a day) recently for tendinitis and I've started breaking out in hives. Weeeee. Stopped the past few days and it's subsiding. Yet another medicine I've placed on my "only when absolutely needed" list.
Why are real life surprises always so shitty? Like Ding! Check didn't get deposited! Ding! Mom killed car on freeway, or Ding! Surprise rotting corpse!
At least in a video game you'd get a chance at some gold or jewelry.
This is a thing I am weird about. I use belkin power strips. They don't run off a ups or anything fancy, but they are each insured for 25k. I've heard it's a madam to redeem, but that lawyers can get you the money. I even keep the stupid upc packaging card to prove I bought em.
That being said, do you have homeowners/renters insurance? Do you have a list of serial numbers?