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[Borek]

They must be squeezing through holes that look way too small for them. I have seen one few days ago on my front yard, where to my best knowledge there are no gaps in the fence other than a slit about an inch and a half high below the gate. I live in the middle of the residential area, all houses have fences, it had to pass many yards and fences before getting here.

 

[Ibix]

Youtube seems to have some evidence backing up my memory that hedgehogs are pretty good climbers, so up-and-over is a possibility for how they get in and out.

 

[fresh_42]

I would be surprised if it was restricted to the garden. They normally walk up to a few kilometers per night and the number of slugs in your garden might not be high enough either.

 

[Hawksteinman]

I've recently been thinking about the question 'what is time?'

I still have no idea how to answer it :(

 

[WWGD]

I have this strange friend-acquaintance ( sort of in-between) who confuses the hell out of me in that he will say things that are either crealy idiotic or trite, or really isightful deep ones. I guess we all do at times, but this guy's comments somehow are fat in both tails. I had never met or heard of someone like this in this regard.

 

[WWGD]

They must be squeezing through holes that look way too small for them. I have seen one few days ago on my front yard, where to my best knowledge there are no gaps in the fence other than a slit about an inch and a half high below the gate. I live in the middle of the residential area, all houses have fences, it had to pass many yards and fences before getting here.

A slit? Quantum hedgehogs squeezing in?

 

[WWGD]

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Haha, I just made a comment here about someone like that. A curious, smart inquisitive person without a formal education to be discriminating and think more clearly, and use for reference something beyond " They said" , " They believe" , etc.

 

[Borek]

A slit? Quantum hedgehogs squeezing in?

Blame my English. Slit, gap, slot, opening, hole, they don't have exact equivalents in Polish, even if we too have several words covering the same meanings (szczelina, szpara, dziura, otwór).

That being said, some animals appear to be able to tunnel through barriers, so yes, QM is probably at work here.

 

[WWGD]

Blame my English. Slit, gap, slot, opening, hole, they don't have exact equivalents in Polish, even if we too have several words covering the same meanings (szczelina, szpara, dziura, otwór).

That being said, some animals appear to be able to tunnel through barriers, so yes, QM is probably at work here.

Hey, no problem, you helped set up one of my horrible puns, none of which goes with neither szczelina, szpara, dziura, nor otwor. Have a Fart on me! EDIT: And you know more English than I will ever know Polish, so you're winning on that account, by far(t). EDIT2: Common, Borek, you got to be able to find English words that mean something weird/funny in Polish.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, look at this:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article111732917.html

 

[fresh_42]

I have this strange friend-acquaintance ( sort of in-between) who confuses the hell out of me in that he will say things that are either crealy idiotic or trite, or really isightful deep ones. I guess we all do at times, but this guy's comments somehow are fat in both tails. I had never met or heard of someone like this in this regard.

I know a German director, Christoph Schlingensief, who would have fitted in this description. He was highly intelligent, but his spectators greeted themselves by: "Well, what's been the most horrible this time?"

 

[WWGD]

I know a German director, Christoph Schlingensief, who would have fitted in this description. He was highly intelligent, but his spectators greeted themselves by: "Well, what's been the most horrible this time?"

I would think these are people who are smart but without formal training. For whatever its defficiencies, formal training often forces one to provide support for arguments and challenges ones views.

 

[fresh_42]

I would think these are people who are smart but without formal training. For whatever its defficiencies, formal training often forces one to provide support for arguments and challenges ones views.

A burden artist don't have to carry.

 

[WWGD]

Why wasn't it called " Dr Whom"? I have heard the explanation for the difference between who and whom, but it matters so little to me that I have never absorbed it.

 

[jim hardy]

For whatever its defficiencies, formal training often forces one to provide support for arguments and challenges ones views.

It teaches disciplined and rigorous thinking.
Genius I'd say is the ability to mix disciplined thought with free form wool-gathering when figuring out problems.

old jim

 

[WWGD]

It teaches disciplined and rigorous thinking.
Genius I'd say is the ability to mix disciplined thought with free form wool-gathering when figuring out problems.

old jim

It who (whom?) (Owl call ;) Ref. my previous post ).

 

[jim hardy]

It who (whom?)

no verb ?
But then i omitted object...

It teaches one ...

 

[OmCheeto]

...free form wool-gathering...

?

Is this something your non-internety neighbors do?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Just went out with a torch to see if the hedgehog was active (shortly after dark) and saw two very cute baby hedgehogs (about the size of a tennis ball) near the nest. They had the sense to go back to the nest but didn't seem very concerned at having a torch shone on them.
Now we will have to be careful not only to avoid stepping on an adult hedgehog, but also on babies, which could be much harder to see in our long grass!

 

[OCR]

Is this something your non-internety neighbors do?

Do you need some help with Google ?

 

[OmCheeto]

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Do you need some help with Google ?

I don't think so. Without the quote marks, it just gives me links where the words are randomly used, which is not what I was looking for.
I wanted an exact match.

If you would like to know more about how to use the Google search engine, the following page is quite useful: Google Search Help

 

[OCR]

My God... I didn't think even you could break Google !

 

[fresh_42]

Just went out with a torch to see if the hedgehog was active (shortly after dark) and saw two very cute baby hedgehogs (about the size of a tennis ball) near the nest. They had the sense to go back to the nest but didn't seem very concerned at having a torch shone on them.
Now we will have to be careful not only to avoid stepping on an adult hedgehog, but also on babies, which could be much harder to see in our long grass!

Just in case:

 

[WWGD]

Can you believe it? This guy with last name Nast chose to call his kid 'James'. James Nast, or, for short, Jim Nast. Yes, there is a Jim in my building , but he does not work out. There are also people with names like Andrew Andrews, William Williams, Robert Roberts...

 

[Ibix]

A friend of the family used to be a pediatric nurse, and said one of the things they were encouraged to do was to reflect on parents' choice of names before they registered the birth. She said she failed to persuade Mr & Mrs Lamb that "Shaun" was a bad idea (poor lad...), but did manage to get Mr & Mrs Trickey not to call their son Richard.

 

[WWGD]

A friend of the family used to be a pediatric nurse, and said one of the things they were encouraged to do was to reflect on parents' choice of names before they registered the birth. She said she failed to persuade Mr & Mrs Lamb that "Shaun" was a bad idea (poor lad...), but did manage to get Mr & Mrs Trickey not to call their son Richard.

Wish they had talked with Mr/Mrs. Hyman, before they decided to name their daughter...Misty. Misty Hyman .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Hyman

 

[Enigman]

Drinking red bull may make me more motivated but increases the number of D'oh moments I have in a day.

 

[Borg]

Drinking red bull may make me more motivated but increases the number of D'oh moments I have in a day.

Maybe it has doh-pamine in it.

 

[fresh_42]

I have to reconsider my favorite sports. I seriously read "Why is first TD law different for chemical reactors" and asked myself. What the heck is a touchdown law?

 

[WWGD]

Having trouble feeling sympathy for people who have had their Wallets/Phones/PDAs stolen from...their back pockets. Why, in a crowded city, does anyone keep valuables in their back pocket, giving easy access to thieves?

 

[WWGD]

Seems like McDonald's has not learned its lesson regarding dealing with "squatters". I was there today, and security was using the same heavy-handed approach that had contributed to ugly scenes, confrontations between " squatters" and security, where police, and even other customers became involved.

 

[Borek]

 

[WWGD]

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Vacation pics, Borek ;) ?

 

[WWGD]

Kind of weird how sometimes, when you are texting, it is not clear whether the exchange is over or the other party expects a reply. Maybe we should borrow ideas from truckers and say something like 10-4, to show exchange is over.

 

[OmCheeto]

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Took me a second or two.
But once you see it.

 

[fresh_42]

Vacation pics, Borek ;) ?

Hopefully not!

 

[WWGD]

Hopefully not!

Not sure I see what you and Om Cheeto are seeing.

 

[fresh_42]

Not sure I see what you and Om Cheeto are seeing.

We see that Eratosthenes was wrong. I would add Columbus, too, but this cretin didn't know where he was anyway.

 

[WWGD]

We see that Eratosthenes was wrong. I would add Columbus, too, but this cretin didn't know where he was anyway.

...Or the Flat Earth Society was, is, right! ;).

 

[Astronuc]

Is this anyway to run a railroad?!

Waiting for a Train: Epic CSX Traffic Jam Sows Chaos From Coal to French Fries
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/waiting-for-a-train-epic-csx-traffic-jam-sows-chaos-from-coal-to-french-fries/ar-AAqygi1

The freight-train ride from Chicago to Colesburg, Tenn., usually takes a few days. Earlier this month, though, the ride was 18 days, 13 hours and 57 minutes, logs show.

A measurement of freight-yard delays called dwell time averaged 53.5 hours in Nashville in the latest week for which CSX has released figures, up 63% from a year earlier. Dwell time has more than doubled since April.

CSX took an Alabama-bound metals shipment to New Orleans, where it was handed off to a Union Pacific Corp. train and then headed west before turning around and eventually reaching Alabama, according to Mr. Wilmot.

 

[fresh_42]

Why did the Beatles sing ˈdæns and not 'dɑːns?

 

[WWGD]

Why did the Beatles sing ˈdæns and not 'dɑːns?

When, Where, how?

 

[WWGD]

I have noticed strangers who walk in direction opposite to mine, stare directly, blankly at me ( pretty sure they do it to many others) and then look away. I find it really annoying, so I will start doing it to others tomorrow ;).

 

[fresh_42]

When, Where, how?

1964, A Hard Day's Night, Twickenham Studios, London, England, UK, That was my question.

 

[fresh_42]

I have noticed strangers who walk in direction opposite to mine, stare directly, blankly at me ( pretty sure they do it to many others) and then look away. I find it really annoying, so I will start doing it to others tomorrow ;).

Make sure her boyfriend isn't stronger than you!

 

[WWGD]

Make sure her boyfriend isn't stronger than you!

Its usually not women, and I don't think it is on purpose, just annoying: " What the #@$ are you looking/staring at?"

 

[WWGD]

1964, A Hard Day's Night, Twickenham Studios, London, England, UK, That was my question.

Liverpool accent?

 

[jim hardy]

Its usually not women, and I don't think it is on purpose, just annoying: " What the #@$ are you looking/staring at?"

Try flashing a quick smile and say "Howdy" .

 

[WWGD]

Try flashing a quick smile and say "Howdy" .

Yes, I am not quite there (yet?), though, yes, that is the best approach. Sometimes my mood is not good-enough for that.

 

[WWGD]

Anyone know where Zoobyshoe is? Haven't heard (read) of him for a while.