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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Maladict

Europe will never be cleared of World War munitions, and there's no reason why it should be. 

Sheilbh

Finding the whole monkeypox discourse exhausting and enraging in equal measures :bleeding:
Let's bomb Russia!

grumbler

"The problem is that because of the unexploded ordnance firefighting units cannot penetrate into the fire but can only act on its edges."

Actually, the ordnance is only dangerous near the edges.  Where the fire has been well-established, the bombs that are there have already gone off.  It's the newly-afire areas that are dangerous.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Josquius

Confirmed on Holland - restaurants and tourist facing stuff indeed take normal cards.

Anything more normal public facing like supermarkets probably doesn't.

Had an angry Chinese guy at a soft play telling me he doesn't accept credit cards for not having maestro.

Still. The trains remain excellent.
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The Larch


Admiral Yi

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is now $1.02 billion.

Josquius

Quote from: The Larch on July 27, 2022, 03:35:34 AMWhat's a soft play?

Place for kids to play with lots of spongy shapes to climb on, padded walls, ball pits etc...
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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

Hypostases are much cooler.

The Minsky Moment

In 1950, Vin Scully was in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers to call a spring training game against the As.  Connie Mack was the opposing manager.

In 2016, Scully was in the booth to call games pitched by a young rookie, Juilio Urias. 

Connie Mack was born in 1863.  Urias was born in 1996.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

grumbler

Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2022, 08:38:47 AM

^_^

 :secret:  Jesus never drove a car, shopped at a Walmart, or posted memes on the internet, either.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

The Minsky Moment

And he definitely did not conceal carry.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Eddie Teach

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 27, 2022, 11:16:43 AMIn 1950, Vin Scully was in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers to call a spring training game against the As.  Connie Mack was the opposing manager.

In 2016, Scully was in the booth to call games pitched by a young rookie, Juilio Urias. 

Connie Mack was born in 1863.  Urias was born in 1996.

Damn octogenarians keeping our jerbs.  <_<
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Grey Fox

I didn't look this up but did English exist in any form when Jesus was alive?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Admiral Yi

No.  English didn't start forming until the Saxons invaded England.