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How about early enough in 2000 to force Florida to use a saner ballot layout?
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The little one's school hired out a whole screening at a local cinema today so that his year could go and see How To Train Your Dragon.
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So, what exactly is that instalment about?
Well, live action remake of the first one
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Could we try 2013 or 2014? I'd put those two in my playlist.Sorry for not dropping in more often, lately. As an American, things here are pretty traumatic.
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So next his school will be giving actual dragon training lessons?
There's water dragons on the nearby river, perhaps I should watch this as well?
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I'll ask my TARDIS, oh wait I moved out of there last month.
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There’s Klingons off the starboard bow,
Starboard bow,
Starboard bow…
Phew. Thought for a moment you would get that one stuck in my head.
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Don't tempt me to add it to my "to be covered, with butchered lyrics" list.
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Don't tell the foreigners. They think bearded dragons are exotic, instead of just dirt common lizards you find in your backyard. Who knows what they'll think of water dragons.
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They'll probably think the same thing they think about most Aussie wild life, "How will it try to kill me?". Water dragons are about the size of a small house cat, maybe Cat Killer has some suggestions? Dunno if they are as trainable as house cats.
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Witcher 3 is fucking off do side quests.
The main quest line only exists to open up the next set of opportunities to ignore it. /s Witcher 1 isn't for everyone: to me it's systems are both underdeveloped and overcomplicated while the tone is... unredeemed. Witcher 2 seems like a tech demo for 3: I found it cramped and short. Big recommend for the Witcher 3 DLC Blood and Wine BTW. But YMMV, I certainly won't forget 1 and 2.
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Tonight I was a little bit disappointed to learn that Reet Petite wasn't actually about a very small Geordie.
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Perhaps my personal phrase association weight system is calibrated more scatological than is considered decorous, but that phrase strikes me as what a Southern Belle, or perhaps a tipsy dowager might say upon cutting the cheese. "Oh, my heavens, was that my little Reet Petite?"
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So a very small Geordie letting loose with a very small bottom burp would be a Reet Petite and their little Reet Petite.
Gotta love the title of this image https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/my-little-pony-farting-is-magic
Gotta love the title of this image https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/my-little-pony-farting-is-magic
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The other half just got some scissors off Amazon.
Which, of course, came in a blister pack that meant that you needed to already have scissors to be able to get at them.
Which, of course, came in a blister pack that meant that you needed to already have scissors to be able to get at them.
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Yeah, there was a meme going around about how difficult and dangerous it was getting Milwaukee power tool batteries out of their blister packs. I'm lucky I didn't slice myself.
From https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/how-do-you-open-milwaukee-battery-packages.448098/
And also, this guy:
View: https://www.tiktok.com/@jakeofall/video/7457326538745269547
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It's getting stupid with how hard things are to open these days. Attempt to open up a plastic bag and chances are you'll just voilently rip the thing in half and spread it's contents across the floor, unless you use a knife or scissors, and sometimes even then. The glue is stronger than the plastic.
My favourite one was a particular brand of bottled iced tea. At one point the caps where always screwed on so tight you could not remove them. I had to cut the top off the bottles and pour the liquid into some other container.
Cutting open this shit causes more micro plastics, often directly into whatever food was in the package.
My favourite one was a particular brand of bottled iced tea. At one point the caps where always screwed on so tight you could not remove them. I had to cut the top off the bottles and pour the liquid into some other container.
Cutting open this shit causes more micro plastics, often directly into whatever food was in the package.
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As soon as I officially retire - as opposed to farting around on ”projects” that have yet to see a return - I’m going to start on an “earworm” playlist that I’ll have them play at my funeral.
Its good to be remembered!
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I don’t know if the wider world has the newer - but not that new - type “product safety” bottle seal for beverages that we have here in “the best fucking country in the world yee haw™®©“, but no doubt it’ll make its way around the world, if we didn’t take the design from elsewhere in the first place.
Im talking about the “plastic-and-foil” design wherein a plastic half circle is folded flat on a circular plastic-and-foil seal; one is supposed to unscrew the cap, lift the flap, and grab the flap towards the edge of the seal to lift it off the rim of the bottle.
when they first came out, it worked well, and I said “oh that’s neat”.
Now, the glue affixing the seal to the bottle is so strong, I invariably rip the tab off the seal and have to go get a knife.
That is assuming the tab is actually large enough that I can grip it well enough to pull strongly on it; these days I’m keeping pliers in the kitchen for the smaller bottles, plus the more traditional plastic bottle caps with the tearaway ring (though it’s a rare thing in my purchases - no bottled water/soda in my usual shopping).
I'm guessing the CEOs of these companies have staff for opening things.
Im talking about the “plastic-and-foil” design wherein a plastic half circle is folded flat on a circular plastic-and-foil seal; one is supposed to unscrew the cap, lift the flap, and grab the flap towards the edge of the seal to lift it off the rim of the bottle.
when they first came out, it worked well, and I said “oh that’s neat”.
Now, the glue affixing the seal to the bottle is so strong, I invariably rip the tab off the seal and have to go get a knife.
That is assuming the tab is actually large enough that I can grip it well enough to pull strongly on it; these days I’m keeping pliers in the kitchen for the smaller bottles, plus the more traditional plastic bottle caps with the tearaway ring (though it’s a rare thing in my purchases - no bottled water/soda in my usual shopping).
I'm guessing the CEOs of these companies have staff for opening things.
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My incomplete wake list, in no particular order:
Boingo: No One Lives Forever, Dead Man's Party, It Only Makes Me Laugh ('88 live version)
Dropkick Murphies: Going Out in Style, Until The Next Time, The Auld Triangle
They Might Be Giants: Dead, Birdhouse in Your Soul
Israel Kamakawiwoole: OTR/Wonderful World
Flogging Molly: If I Ever Leave This World Alive, Drunken Lullabies
Steve Goodman: Go Cubs Go
Prince: Let's Go Crazy
Harry Belafonte: Day-O. (Hey, why not?)
Gomez: Hamoa Beach
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Diga Diga Doo, So Long-Farewell-Goodbye
Sting: Something the Boy Said, Ghost Story
Grateful Dead: Truckin'
Mariachi El Bronx: Everything Twice
Mumford and Sons: Little Lion Man
The Beatles: Fixing a Hole
Frank Turner: Get Better, Little Changes, Live Fast Die Old
Dire Straits: The Bug
La Santa Cecilia: La Negra
The Toasters: Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
Harry Connick, Jr: With Imagination
Joe Walsh: Life of Illusion
Van Morrison: Moondance
Mad Caddies: Just One More
Peter Gabriel: Solsbury Hill
Randy Newman: Can't Keep a Good Man Down
Nick Cave: We Call Upon the Author
Beans on Toast: Another Year
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Had that here in Australia for a long time. Yet another thing my long and strong fingernails are useful for. Though yeah, just cut it open is easiest. I tend to keep my nails blunt, so they are not so useful for cutting. Found out long ago blunt finger nails helps out with my friends not suddenly bleeding when within reach of me. Though it did add a touch of realism to the fight scene in drama class at high school. Half of us are bleeding slightly, why is the drama teacher applauding so hard?
They invented post-it notes coz some guy came up with a glue that was otherwise useless. It can barely glue a tiny bit of paper to your monitor. Put THAT guy on THIS problem.
If they are really that worried about “product safety”, they would have much less nasty chemicals and micro plastics in everything.
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I just got my first electricity bill for my new home. Think I need to Look on a Less Bright Side of Life, or turn the heater down.
And don't call me Shirley!
So I've been spending time sorting through the rather huge music collection I inherited from a friend. All sorts of stuff in there. I switched to using Mixxx for this sort of thing, it's an open source program for pro DJs to perform live or feed into a radio station, and what I'm trying to do is basic amateur DJ stuff. I want to make a radio station for one person to listen to. me, myself, and I. OK, three people. Maybe four, onefang is allowed to listen as well.
Mixxx has an Auto DJ mode, where you put your music into "crates", and the Auto DJ randomly plays from the crates. You can configure it to do fancy beat matching and stuff, but I just need a one second pause between songs, which it can do to. Being able to sort things into multiple crates and colour them is very helpful for this job.
So to replace using my 4G internet to listen to Groove Salad on Soma FM over the Internet, I have enough music in this collection to just have similar music playing locally all day. I just need to sort it all out. Lots of music and even musicians I have never heard of, or heard of but have no clue what they play.
It's great for sleeping through. So I have sleep music, not wake music. Well OK, there's plenty in that collection that'll WAKE YOU UP!!!
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I played a classical guitar rendition of Whistle Stop from Disney's Robin Hood at my mother in law's.
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Hahaha!
Exactly.
(It wasn't disrespectful, it was an inside joke she had with her daughter)
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My neighbours tell me they can't hear my music. Now that I'm settled in this new home, and don't have to move again, I'll get back to learning MIDI keyboard. Think I'll relearn flute as well, I suspect that helped with my asthma last time. I may have to play REALLY LOUDLY to annoy them. Since my musician name is Untalenz, it's a given that I'll be playing really badly.
Flutes are not cheap, though I did see a cheap trombone at the local Aldi supermarket. If it was a flute I would have bought it. For those that don't know Aldi supermarkets have a set of aisles with all sorts of random cheap stuff in them. I bought a VR headset there once.
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