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Started by timpate, September 20, 2010, 06:56:24 PM

Juan

I see that Millineals no longer eat cereal.  It seems that having to clean the bowl and spoon after eating is just too much trouble.  Pop Tarts, etc., don't require cleanup.
Maybe that's not stupid after all.

popple

Cereal doesn't get as many likes on social media as a breakfast sammich and a latte.



Quote from: popple on March 05, 2016, 04:20:55 PM
Cereal doesn't get as many likes on social media as a breakfast sammich and a latte.
Did you know the topic that gets you the most likes is "...days sober"?
That and my new mustache.


analog kid

Louis Armstrong's music will be 100 years old in three years.

pate

No6, Nos2, erm, mandom?

ErrrrR...andom>?

Nefer/nether.

Nein, CUPS!

Not Sure...

http://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/minor-arcana/suit-of-cups/nine-of-cups/

(check bona fides/fidos)

Therrest isha gurberr-ush.


JENX

Quote from: coaster on March 04, 2016, 03:24:02 PM
It is absolutely beautiful outside. Spring is here for Nebraska. I appreciate good weather and I hope you folks do too. I bought two big bags of sunflower seeds, and the yard is full of squirrels and birds. It really is quite something. I'm gonna go for a walk and shake off this drunken stupor.

bird poop and squirl crap. perfect for the green green grass that summer may bring  :D

just remember when yr drunk next weekend, the grass isn't somewhere u want to be doing any lying down in to do yr drunk star gazing in.


popple

Meerkat Expert Cleared of Assault in Zoo Love Triangle



QuoteLONDON â€" A former meerkat expert at London Zoo was cleared Tuesday of assaulting a monkey handler in a love spat over a llama-keeper.

albrecht

I filled some bird-feeders a week and a half ago. Still no birds, except some big fat doves that are too big to eat from them and are tempting me to be a poacher. Yet, went over to a relative's house nearby and she had tons of birds. She buys her bird seed from a high-end place. I guest saw a 'generic' birdseed for sale at the grocery store. But it seems to look the same, to me. I guess birds are snobs? Or...how will the birds "know" that I have filled my feeders (I haven't used for a year or more since was sick of cleaning up bird poop.) But moved them and filled. Do they id by sight? Smell? "Talking" to each other?

onan

Quote from: albrecht on March 06, 2016, 04:01:05 PM
I filled some bird-feeders a week and a half ago. Still no birds, except some big fat doves that are too big to eat from them and are tempting me to be a poacher. Yet, went over to a relative's house nearby and she had tons of birds. She buys her bird seed from a high-end place. I guest saw a 'generic' birdseed for sale at the grocery store. But it seems to look the same, to me. I guess birds are snobs? Or...how will the birds "know" that I have filled my feeders (I haven't used for a year or more since was sick of cleaning up bird poop.) But moved them and filled. Do they id by sight? Smell? "Talking" to each other?

Your relative must be a democrat ;).

It could be a myriad of things as to why the birds do not come to your property. For a few years when in college the grouds keeper placed pieces of water hose in the grass, it fooled the birds for a couple seasons (I am supposing the birds thought they saw snakes.)

Now I live right off the water, my house gets every bird that flies through the county. The two empty lots next to mine, not one bird.

albrecht

Quote from: onan on March 06, 2016, 04:06:17 PM
Your relative must be a democrat ;).

It could be a myriad of things as to why the birds do not come to your property. For a few years when in college the grouds keeper placed pieces of water hose in the grass, it fooled the birds for a couple seasons (I am supposing the birds thought they saw snakes.)

Now I live right off the water, my house gets every bird that flies through the county. The two empty lots next to mine, not one bird.
Oh, you have no idea how big a Democrat. She is a Billary supporter and very "I am woman, hear me roar" type of supporter- even does the annoying calls that interrupt your dinner for her. This weekend she blamed my differing politics for "listening to those crazy radio programs." Haha.

Re: birds. It is weird. I really do wonder how they 'find' feeders. I do have a neighbor who lets their cat patrol outside. I chase it away but it is not like I can 24/7 be monitoring and don't want a feud with a cat lady. So that could be issue. Or just that I haven't filled them in quite some time. Funny thing is....a few years back I was bitching about birds (I think) eating my tomatoes. I'm guessing once they fruit the birds will be back and I will be ruing wondering about birds!  ;)




popple

Walking while texting can be deadly, study shows

QuoteA 10-percent spike in pedestrian fatalities in the first six months of last year - the largest year-to-year increase in such deaths in four decades - may well be fueled by America's increasing distraction with mobile devices.



Quote from: popple on March 08, 2016, 02:33:14 PM
A 10-percent spike in pedestrian fatalities in the first six months of last year - the largest year-to-year increase in such deaths in four decades - may well be fueled by America's increasing distraction with mobile devices.

That is not weeding out the herd nearly fast enough

whoozit

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 08, 2016, 07:25:34 PM
That is not weeding out the herd nearly fast enough
We no longer let the herd thin itself out. 

albrecht

Quote from: whoozit on March 08, 2016, 08:01:52 PM
We no longer let the herd thin itself out.
Nope, my City Council is spending millions on new walkways, bridges across roads, etc. And also there is a phenomena, that none-dare-mention, of people who seems to not understand simple things like cross streets at intersections in the crosswalk, when prompted by the signal, and look both ways, often, I will say it, they seem to be of the immigrant variety. Increasing numbers of auto-pedestrian accidents.

GravitySucks

Quote from: whoozit on March 08, 2016, 08:01:52 PM
We no longer let the herd thin itself out.

FRIKKIN mandatory seat belt laws.

albrecht

Quote from: GravitySucks on March 08, 2016, 08:06:03 PM
FRIKKIN mandatory seat belt laws.
Remember when they passed the first ones? I know they say "slippery slope" is faulty logic but remember? Originally it was for children, and then not going to be a ticket-able offense for which you could be stopped- but only if stopped for another violation, then it expanded to you can be stopped and ticketed (and cops would even hangout at intersections or strip malls to see people without them,) and then applicable to everyone, even in the back, and ticket-able. Revenue generation and not allowing herd thinning.

Quote from: albrecht on March 08, 2016, 08:05:34 PM
Nope, my City Council is spending millions on new walkways, bridges across roads, etc. And also there is a phenomena, that none-dare-mention, of people who seems to not understand simple things like cross streets at intersections in the crosswalk, when prompted by the signal, and look both ways, often, I will say it, they seem to be of the immigrant variety. Increasing numbers of auto-pedestrian accidents.

Well, driving is White Privilege, and the rules you mention are Micro-Aggressions that don't respect their customs. 

albrecht

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 08, 2016, 08:14:09 PM
Well, driving is White Privilege, and the rules you mention are Micro-Aggressions that don't respect their customs.
You have no idea how correct you are in that post. Our police chief is having outreach on the issue and much hand-wringing on how to redesign streets (odd traffic circles, weird traffic flow solutions, more cross walks, extra lanes for bikes and walkers, over-passes, even weirdo paint jobs on the street to 'alert' drivers, etc) to solve a "problem" that most people, at least citizens, are taught as children: don't jay-walk, cross at intersections, look both ways, walk your bike across a street, etc. But those simple solutions don't cost money and we must 'accommodate' those with different opinions on traffic safety.

Ciardelo

Quote from: GravitySucks on March 08, 2016, 08:06:03 PM
FRIKKIN mandatory seat belt laws.
I blame the donor-cycle helmet laws too.  >:(

Quote from: albrecht on March 08, 2016, 08:28:15 PM
You have no idea how correct you are in that post. Our police chief is having outreach on the issue and much hand-wringing on how to redesign streets (odd traffic circles, weird traffic flow solutions, more cross walks, extra lanes for bikes and walkers, over-passes, even weirdo paint jobs on the street to 'alert' drivers, etc) to solve a "problem" that most people, at least citizens, are taught as children: don't jay-walk, cross at intersections, look both ways, walk your bike across a street, etc. But those simple solutions don't cost money and we must 'accommodate' those with different opinions on traffic safety.

Well, I do live near Berkeley.  This stuff is 'common knowledge' around here.

Sounds like you need a new city government.  A few tickets for J-walking, riding bikes on sidewalks, etc, is really all it would take.  What won't work is pandering to this stuff.



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