Isolated Blurt Thread

[Mandy57]

I will hold your sister in my prayers.

 

[trysail]

The 5 Most Common Bicycle-Automobile Collisions

( If you've never had the "pleasure" of being passed by 4,000 pounds ( 2 tons) of steel traveling at 60 miles per hour 12 inches away, you'll never understand why bicyclists are scared to death of idiots driving automobiles. Some of you shouldn't have licenses. Please keep an eye out for us. )

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/images/ride_smart_1.jpg

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/images/ride_smart_2.jpg

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/images/ride_smart_3.jpg

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/images/ride_smart_4.jpg

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/images/ride_smart_5.jpg

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[TheeGoatPig]

Woohoo! I got paid today!

 

[trysail]

The Smelly Brain
Scent information is processed in the olfactory bulbs,
highlighted in red below. Sense of smell is stronger
for some organisms, and these organisms tend to
have larger olfactory bulbs. The surface area of the
olfactory bulbs of bloodhounds — dogs renowned
for their incredible sense of smell — is 38 times
greater than that of humans. Below, a comparison
of the olfactory power* of different animals, as
compared to man.
http://media.npr.org/news/graphics/2011/05/gr-olfactory-300.gif
Notes
* This relative smelling ability was calculated by
comparing the number of genes that code for
olfactory receptors found in each animal.

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http://www.npr.org/2011/05/20/136473969/the-nose-knows

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I know it's a crime to kill a mockingbird, but is it a crime to hate the little snots?

 

[Wandering Star]

I miss him inside of me.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I think I'm just a little too self destructive.

 

[_Lynn_]

We are not "those people" -- we are people.

 

[The_Fool]

Okay, I am not liking the Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey near as much as the Wild Turkey one.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Two dreams in one weekend telling me to stay away from the same woman. Maybe I should have a chat with her about that?

 

[impressive]

Okay, I am not liking the Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey near as much as the Wild Turkey one.

Wild Turkey

 

[impressive]

I am failing in every area of my life. And I don't know what to do about any of it.

Rewrite the rules. Change the game.

 

[Dianthus]

I used to think that open and honest communication was key to maintaining/repairing relationships that were important to me.

 

[trysail]

LOL— Does it look like there's a chance of thunderstorms? Those ol' weather forecasting folk at the NWS have got their behinds very well-covered.


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[EveAnna]

Talking about the weather - Why is it so cold? It's supposed to be Spring and I've still got the central heating on. I need a holiday in the sun.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Why can't I go to the gym and simply work out without obsessing over people that don't care about me?

 

[oggbashan]

The builders are back.

They're removing the render around the house, which is 70 - 80 years old, before repairing the cracks underneath and applying new render.

Two Kango hammers working flat out and my 5 month old grandson is still sleeping peacefully despite the noise and vibration.

There will be a large bill at the end of this work, but that should be the final major work on this house. Only internal decoration should be needed after this.

We've:

Added an ensuite bathroom, replaced the kitchen after moving the external door and demolishing the coal store, rebuilt the side porch, refitted the bathroom and downstairs cloakroom, replaced the 1939 wooden conservatory with a larger modern one, overhauled the roof including removing a chimney from roof to the ground, removed the balcony and replaced it with a larger one, added off-street parking, rewired, replumbed and replaced all the thirty-year-old aluminium double-glazed windows with modern plastic.

That's enough!

 

[trysail]

The builders are back.

They're removing the render around the house, which is 70 - 80 years old, before repairing the cracks underneath and applying new render.

Damnit, Og, you're in the wrong thread.


render a first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.




You made me look the word up; I have never encountered that sense of the word before.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My emotions are wreaking havoc on my brain.

 

[oggbashan]

Damnit, Og, you're in the wrong thread.


render a first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.


You made me look the word up; I have never encountered that sense of the word before.

For our house, render means a half-inch thick coat of fine mortar applied to the external brickwork and then painted. It can be scored with lines to make it look like stonework, but ours was originally a plain flat surface.

It was common on 1930s Art Deco style houses. Its flaw is that it cracks after many years and lets water through, loosening its adherence to the brickwork. Our house has many external cracks, none of which went through both layers of the cavity wall, but were damaging the external layer.

As the render is removed, the work is exposing ancient settlement cracks that need repairing before the new coating can be applied.

Other 1930s houses in England had pebble-dash finish. A render is applied and then gravel is embedded into the wet mortar. When new it is an effective protective layer but after 50 years or so it needs repair or replacement. Most modern builders don't like the hours of work required to produce a good pebble-dash coat, and patching almost always looks like a patch because it is difficult to get exactly the same colour and distribution of the gravel.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

It is as if she knows I am going to say something stupid to her, and is avoiding me to prevent it...

 

[_Lynn_]

I knew this break wouldn't be long enough. The first week is winding down with little accomplished.

 

[cloudy]

omg...double chuks are...AWESOME!!! (and I'm actually coordinated enough to do them!)

Here's a video of folks that train with me, and at about 1:20 there's a little bitty girl doing double chuks...that's what I've been working on - and I got a HUGE compliment from my instructor....there's a hook kick sort of near the end, and she said "Your hook kick was the prettiest I've seen from anyone in a long time."

so, yeah...tired, but I'm in a damn good mood.

 

[kimbalee]

omg...double chuks are...AWESOME!!! (and I'm actually coordinated enough to do them!)

Here's a video of folks that train with me, and at about 1:20 there's a little bitty girl doing double chuks...that's what I've been working on - and I got a HUGE compliment from my instructor....there's a hook kick sort of near the end, and she said "Your hook kick was the prettiest I've seen from anyone in a long time."

so, yeah...tired, but I'm in a damn good mood.

thanks for the link, cloudy. that little girl is fierce! good luck with it, it looks very dangerous.

 

[oggbashan]

omg...double chuks are...AWESOME!!! (and I'm actually coordinated enough to do them!)

Here's a video of folks that train with me, and at about 1:20 there's a little bitty girl doing double chuks...that's what I've been working on - and I got a HUGE compliment from my instructor....there's a hook kick sort of near the end, and she said "Your hook kick was the prettiest I've seen from anyone in a long time."

so, yeah...tired, but I'm in a damn good mood.

I've never used chuks, nor almost any Asian fighting skills, but the girl with chucks reminds me of what I used to do with 18th century Naval cutlasses. Cutlass swinging was a pre-WWI sport. I think at one time it was considered for the 1908 Olympics. The last time I saw practitioners was at a 1960s Royal Tournament. You couldn't have it as a normal sport because those cutlasses were razor sharp, heavy, and any mistake could mean losing a limb.

I learned quarterstaff (as in Robin Hood and Little John) when in the Boy Scouts. Again, it was far more dangerous than the formal sports now because there were really no rules at all except please don't kill your opponent...