Interesting that the moral of that is "trust your instincts, not your intellect". My mum's a fan, so I sometimes watch when she's around. The handling of the undercurrent of brutality and general police misbehaviour is interesting. Everyone seems to be a bit furtive about it, like they know it's not right, but nobody protests - either because they're doing it or because they know a protest would be a waste of time.zoobyshoe said:
Remember I am up in NYC, Jim, that would be frostburgers * , or burger-cicles. But good idea, though, given I have FINALLY cleaned up my apt.jim hardy said:
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It was a card with two pages, first one just said " Happy Valentine's Day" , second page had their names. I run into them from time to time, will just thank them for it .Evo said:
"Burg" is the German word for "castle". I suspect a connection. Or it might have to do with "Bürger", which means "citizen", originally "burgāri" for "defender of the castle". How ever you turn it, you end up in a castle.WWGD said:
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The alternative isn't better: imagine you'd have to BBQ Hamborouhgs. But I have a strong feeling, that -borough (or the American ending -burg) is of the same origin. As I said: You cannot escape the castle!WWGD said:
How much would I need to pay in Germany for the lastnames BaconBurger and/or Bacon-Cheese Burger?fresh_42 said:
Well then I'd do lobster tails under the oven broiler. I was intimidated at first but they're real easy just use plenty of genuine butter and some fresh lime, Key Lime if you can get it . Surely you can in NYC if i was able to in Idaho. Kroger/Fred-Meyer had frozen tails but one had to ask the nice lady at seafood counter.WWGD said:
Would probably be easier in the US. They change last names here only in very special cases. However the real danger is the possibility that you get sued in the US by McDonald's and co. Maybe it works if you're fast enough and sue them first.WWGD said:
A subcommittee of the flat Earth society?zoobyshoe said:
New Zealand is a lie. I mean, have you ever actually seen a kiwi?zoobyshoe said:
What's the current counting? As I was young, the Americas counted as one. I think they count two nowadays? And Eurasia is still counted as two, I guess, although it is one. Or are you talking about that newly discovered piece of crust under New Caledonia? And what about the part of NZ that doesn't belong to the Australian plate. Does it count extra? So before you deny the eighth, which are the seven (currently)?zoobyshoe said:
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Pun intended?WWGD said:
No. The new continent is clearly the product of the lying liberal media and liberal science in collusion together to prevent me from becoming a billionaire with all their 8th continent regulations against 7 continent progress. Can't get anything done.WWGD said:
Never! Very unfair!Ibix said:
I inherited a geological mess!fresh_42 said:
Just to be clear, are you denying that Zealandia exists, or complaining that it has cool things you haven't seen? Or both?zoobyshoe said:
The tone of the 8th continent is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such — I do get good ratings, you have to admit that — the tone is such hatred.Ibix said:
What I found disturbing was, that before this strange day in January, which might well be called the new D-day, I always said, that even me with my poor English active vocabulary and restricted means could held one of his speeches right from the spot without any preparations. Now that is disturbing!Ibix said:
But he always appears like ...zoobyshoe said:
I read this morning that California was supposed to get 10 trillion gallons of rain over the next week. [ref]zoobyshoe said:
I get 3.54 inch.OmCheeto said:
Excellent!fresh_42 said:
Yeah, it started to rain maybe a couple hours after I posted that, and it lasted well into the night. The sun came out this morning, but now it is raining off and on again. This is really good news with regard to our terrible, long drought, though the short term flooding is bad news.OmCheeto said:
Da... I missed the time interval ... I was so busy changing gallons in ##km^3##, ##cm## in inches and the American trillion in a European billion that I have forgotten this essential part.OmCheeto said:
Background on Massive Winter Storms
Beginning on Christmas Eve, 1861, and continuing into early 1862, an extreme series of storms lasting 45 days struck California. The storms caused severe flooding, turning the Sacramento Valley into an inland sea, forcing the State Capital to be moved from Sacramento to San Francisco for a time, and requiring Governor Leland Stanford to take a rowboat to his inauguration. William Brewer, author of “Up and down California,” wrote on January 19, 1862, “The great central valley of the state is under water—the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys—a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least twenty miles wide, or probably three to three and a half millions of acres!” In southern California lakes were formed in the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin. The Santa Ana River tripled its highest-ever estimated discharge, cutting arroyos into the southern California landscape and obliterating the ironically named Agua Mansa (Smooth Water), then the largest community between New Mexico and Los Angeles. The storms wiped out nearly a third of the taxable land in California, leaving the State bankrupt.
The 1861-62 series of storms were probably the largest and longest California storms on record. However, geological evidence suggests that earlier, prehistoric floods were likely even bigger. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that such extreme storms could not happen again. However, despite the historical and prehistorical evidence for extreme winter storms on the West Coast, the potential for these extreme events has not attracted public concern, as have hurricanes. The storms of 1861-62 happened long before living memory, and the hazards associated with such extreme winter storms have not tested modern infrastructure nor the preparedness of the emergency management community.
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Not really, I only read for the hundredth time within the last weeks a thread title with a double-slit in it ... Time to get it fixed.jim hardy said:
Announcing the release of version 1.01 of The Universe. This is a bug-fix only release.fresh_42 said:
It resulted in two separate threads in different forums, I think ;).fresh_42 said:
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I asked women which gel they use under the shower. 99% answered Get-The-Hell-Outta-Here.WWGD said:
Trump? He's just playing a pretty close Welsh Open final ...WWGD said:
I went a bit further. But when they told me the brand, I asked them for pics to prove it , they always refused :(.fresh_42 said:I asked women which gel they use under the shower. 99% answered Get-The-Hell-Outta-Here.
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