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Post by Debbie on Sept 2, 2019 9:57:19 GMT -5
Happy Labor Day to all! Hope no one here has to work today...
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 2, 2019 9:58:24 GMT -5
Work? Work? Oh, yes, I remember that!
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Post by Ben on Sept 2, 2019 12:39:57 GMT -5
Happy Labor Day to all! Hope no one here has to work today...  |
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Post by frodi on Sept 2, 2019 13:38:11 GMT -5
No work for me. I had an appointment with my cardiologist.  Not happy news. Back for more tests and consults next month. |
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Post by Stan on Sept 2, 2019 14:03:13 GMT -5
Daughter, brother, sister, & sister-in-law all decided that the party was at my house today. Looks like work to me.
(It's 100 in the plains and 80 at my house).
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Post by Dan on Sept 2, 2019 14:08:38 GMT -5
I did paperwork...  |
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Post by glennfrommars on Sept 2, 2019 21:17:32 GMT -5
I slept till 10:30, then had a Breakfast Beer. Most work I did all day was go buy a mattress set to replace the one I took to Mom's after she died and the hospital bed was gone. Had to carry it upstairs so grand daughter Avie will have a place to sleep if Dorian ever gets up the coast before Thanksgiving.
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 3, 2019 12:18:17 GMT -5
We were enjoying time at the cottage. Weather wasn’t great yesterday but it was OK enough.
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Post by mank on Sept 5, 2019 6:54:37 GMT -5
When is the Fantasy Football draft? I posted this in the sports area too. The league is set to auto-draft but it hasn't happened yet and the first game is tonight.
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Post by kellylorraine on Sept 5, 2019 8:36:22 GMT -5
Sorry. It was set to auto-draft, but with only 7 teams, it didn't do it and I wasn't paying attention to the date. I just created an 8th team so the draft will happen "shortly" (it doesn't say exactly when). It is set up to retroactively apply the stats to the first week.
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 7, 2019 17:31:04 GMT -5
Bianca Andreescu becomes the first Canadian to win a Tennis Major title defeating none other than Serena Williams in straight sets 6-3 and 7-5! Congratulations! An amazing accomplishment for a 19 year old in her first Major Final appearance and the first woman to win a Major in their first chance. She broke a buncha records anyway and I am very proud of her!!
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 8, 2019 8:07:38 GMT -5
A week ago we were discussing what happens if a batsman gets hit with the ball during a cricket match. Men who play this game use what is known as a 'box' to protect their meat and two veg. (Called a cup by west ponders?). England captain Joe Root took one right in the unmentionables, and this is what his box looked like after he had extricated it from his clothing.  Full report and video here. |
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Post by Jim on Sept 8, 2019 10:18:50 GMT -5
The link redirects back here.
Also, here, the box is usually the puss.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 8, 2019 10:36:53 GMT -5
Hmmm, try this link instead.Sigh, that link works but the video doesn't. Hang on. Try this one but it's BBC so it may not work over your way. I suspect the problem is that the original footage is Sky, so the BBC will only have a UK licence. |
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Post by Juli on Sept 8, 2019 14:59:41 GMT -5
I found it on YouTube It's in slo-mo, so it doesn't look like there was much force.
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 8, 2019 16:08:40 GMT -5
A week ago we were discussing what happens if a batsman gets hit with the ball during a cricket match. Men who play this game use what is known as a 'box' to protect their meat and two veg. (Called a cup by west ponders?). England captain Joe Root took one right in the unmentionables, and this is what his box looked like after he had extricated it from his clothing. Full report and video here.One of my customers (they are a distributor of sporting goods accessories) sells a “protective cup” as they are formally known. Theirs is tested for impacts up to 100 MPH or so. |
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 9, 2019 3:59:50 GMT -5
It's in slo-mo, so it doesn't look like there was much force. Theirs is tested for impacts up to 100 MPH or so. That delivery was measured at 87.3 mph. |
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Post by Jim on Sept 10, 2019 8:44:36 GMT -5
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 10, 2019 9:43:32 GMT -5
That's what happens when your Google admins don't speak English. |
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Post by mank on Sept 10, 2019 11:02:59 GMT -5
Malcolm,
The Facebook censoring is funny. My wife, who is an extraordinary baker, posted a picture a few weeks ago of a cake she make. The cake is called "Crack Cake" because it is addictive. The cake is made from wine and cinnamon and is one of the best damn cakes I have ever tasted. Anyone that I know that has tasted this cake wants more and goes on and on about it. Facebook, in their ultimate wisdom, took done the picture and the post and said it contained inappropriate material. It was a picture of a freaking cake.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 10, 2019 11:12:20 GMT -5
Yes, but mank, it used the word 'crack'. Google seem to think that if any word has 'naughty' connotations, it is to be banned, even if the actual use of it is harmless, such as Jim's faggots. If you don't have English as your first language, you will be unaware of all the variations of meaning of some words.
To be fair to Google, in your example, I assume you were intending to mean that it was addictive as crack cocaine, and I could see why they objected to that.
Perhaps your missus could take a leaf out of Wallace & Grommit's book and call it "Cracking cake"?
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Post by kellylorraine on Sept 10, 2019 11:31:37 GMT -5
I was reading something the other day where an elementary school's filter changed "Tit" to "Breast" everywhere. So "Constitution" became "Consbreastution"
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Post by Juli on Sept 10, 2019 13:25:08 GMT -5
There was one filter that turned "ass" to "butt", assassin became buttbuttin, classic became clbuttic. Another turned "hard on" to "stick", so Chardonnay became Csticknay.
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Post by graham on Sept 10, 2019 18:10:52 GMT -5
I once had a discussion on a forum about the author of such classic Sci Fi stories as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" whose name was rendered as "Philip K Masculine Area"...!
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 10, 2019 20:14:39 GMT -5
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 10, 2019 21:28:41 GMT -5
The headline for this video is very mis-leading. It says “Watch a Hypersonic sled travel at (over) 10,000 km/h” It should say “watch a flash of light and the smoke from a hypersonic sled going past at (over) 10,000 km/h.” It’s so fast you never actually see the sled and there is even a slow motion version and you still can’t see it! |
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Post by stevenjmcd on Sept 10, 2019 21:51:56 GMT -5
At least in the States...
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Post by Debbie on Sept 11, 2019 6:59:25 GMT -5
18 years ago today. Let us never forget...
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Post by Jim on Sept 11, 2019 8:31:21 GMT -5
I was once a member of a forum that would block out words like cock. So, Cocker Spaniel would show as ****r Spaniel.
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Post by mank on Sept 16, 2019 7:56:05 GMT -5
Man, Ric Ocasek is dead. I was into the Cars big time back in the day. Their first album came out during the first year I was in college.
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Not happy news. Back for more tests and consults next month. 
