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Getting close to wildlife - but not in a good way:
 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bear-rossland-home-invasion-wildlife-survival-black-bear-1.7225763

11 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Had a period of eyelid inspection one afternoon and woke up feeling even worse. Must admit it’s something i don’t usually do as I always seem to feel worse for it.

Napping affects me in the same way. I reckon it takes me as much time to get myself straight after a nap as the time I’ve napped for. My wife will happily fall asleep for 15 minutes or so on the couch in the evening. One of our sons used to stretch out and sleep on the couch for half an hour almost every day after school. I never could do anything like that.

Both my dad and my father-in-law could take 5 minute naps. Dad said he’d learned that in the forces during WW2 - if you had nothing else to do, you napped because you often weren’t sure when you might next have the opportunity.

6 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

1948, the year my brother was born. 

 

Jamie

Some of us don’t need to cite brothers.

7 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

ION I'm addicted to Wordl, now that I've got the hang of it, it took only a few minutes to get today's word.

Try Quordle. (There are also several other varieties of the basic game.)

8 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I am having an eye test later that involves dilated pupils. 

That conjures up something Monty Python-esque. Billy Bunter and friends at 100 paces?

2 hours ago, ChrisN said:

 

My mother always said that when she was young, in the 1920s in rural Hertfordshire, the rule was that you should only eat pork when there was an 'R' in the month.

Is there not the same rule for oysters?

6 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Quite common nowadays with our multi religious society. 

And with our inattention to grammar!

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

… identifying the neoantigens … creating a mRNA vaccine-like treatment specific for a patient …

 

Those are the clever bits!

59 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear can thoroughly recommend climbing in the bin and treading it down - works wonders, but don't do it until the bin is nearly full, otherwise climbing out again is, er, "interesting".  Ask a Bear how he knows.

… and make sure you steady yourself (and the bin) by holding on to something separate from the bin.

5 hours ago, AndyID said:

Should people in the South of England by kettles on defurred terms?

They should compare three different makes before buying. Having done that, peoples’ buying decisions show remarkable consistency. 10% chose the first one they evaluate, 25% choose the second, but the majority pick de furred one.

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

A short ride on the MER will affirm that! In some places not so much curves as corners.  I tend not to photograph on them as it looks so ridiculous, this is the best I can find for now.

 

 

 

That’s not a corner, this is a corner:

https://ngtrains.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bendy.jpg

(That’s a 2-6-6-2 Mallet!).                     

5 hours ago, Hroth said:

Postperson just ambled past, chunnering to themselves....

 

On reflection, they must have a bluetooth headset.

 

Simples!

 

First time I experienced anything like that was in Glasgow airport, after an overnight flight from Canada. Standing in an airport toilet, the guy at the next urinal started chatting away very conversationally. In my sleep-deprived state, it took me a few seconds to sort out what was happening. I’d never seen a hands-free phone before.

36 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

That joke probably won’t work in North America, where that thing is often called a “boo-ey”.

1 hour ago, polybear said:

And no T0ssers to tolerate either - even though I had this uncontrollable urge to choke the living sh1t out of them....

“Uncontrollable”? - when do you get out?

11 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

However I've just attached a purchase cost to each item - and I've frightened myself.

Yes, bad move! I thought about doing that in the spreadsheet I’ve created. A very quick mental ballpark calculation put me right off the idea.

30 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Now, if that plate was a 65' turntable (or bigger) then those would be considered reasonable samples.

They’re each half of a cake as sold by the bakery.

We have friends coming into town this week, and they will have dinner with us one evening. My wife has decided dessert will be based around cakes from one or more of the artisanal bakeries in town. This has, of course, meant that research is required on the current (and currant) offerings of these bakeries. Here are samples of the products of two of them:

We have another sample to try later today (well, three at a time would have been a little gauche!), plus another bakery to visit before making a final choice. 

The National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs are getting towards the final. Because of the huge geographical distances between some teams, the regular season schedule isn’t exactly balanced home and away. So, on the way to the final, the playoffs are organized into two geographical groups - Eastern and Western “conferences” and the winners of these conferences play each other in the final. There is a trophy awarded to the winner of each conference before the final.
 

The Florida Panthers have just won the Eastern conference and the trophy for this was at the rink to be presented. The team followed a traditional superstition - none of the players would touch the trophy. The coach (manager) emphasized to them not to do so. The superstition is that if anyone touches the conference trophy, that team will lose the overall final. 

Early on, some Barry engines had no number on them - cab, bufferbeam, chalked or painted. One method of identifying was to collect as many numbers as possible from motion and any other numbered parts and go with the most common. 🫤

19 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

… for the first lime in my life am considering not bothering to vote. 

But remember - if you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the results.

28 minutes ago, BoD said:

Does anyone else keep lots of off cuts of wood just in case?  

Of course! I’ve even got two collections - “indoor” wood and “outdoor” wood. 

2 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

And if the GWR provided a station, Nowhere Road.

They wrote a song about that:

https://youtu.be/SAho7YBvitc?si=xVycvcdaLW3vgj1v

11 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Ah - choo!

 

Fear not - rain is on the way for the weekend. At least it is here and from the projected rainfall images you might see more of it than we will.

 

We had rain earlier today! Doesn’t seem to have had much of an effect.

10 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

I lost my mojo about two years ago, do you know who stocks it, or do you have to buy it online from somewhere like China? 🤔

 

 

    Mojo:

    NOUN 1.  a charm or amulet thought to have magic powers

I believe you can buy one from a voodoo queen.

No, it’s not snowing - the cottonwood seeds are flying.