July 15, 20223 yr comment_2883237 17 hours ago, Cancer said: Daughter finally got her learners' permit today. Congratulations on this. Eldest boy finally got his license last week. It was not easy to get a road test appointment; they're booked up 90 days in advance. Hopefully things are less constipated in your vicinity. If you're eventually going to add her to your insurance you may want to start budgeting for it now.
July 15, 20223 yr comment_2883239 Girls make for a smaller insurance hit than boys. Also, she's 25, and there's a huge step down in insurance costs that comes at that age. Our annoyance at this point is that the state privatized driver's road testing a few years back. And, of course, they did so stupidly. Here in the Big City, essentially no drivers' ed outfit will pass you on your first road test. They make sure you don't. That way they sell you more lessons and another test. If you want a chance to be able to pass on the first try, then you do the test from an outfit in some smaller town at least two hours away by car. Happily, we have relatives now living a safe distance out of the Big City and can get to a less corrupt drivers' ed outfit there.
July 16, 20223 yr comment_2883263 With my daughter's condition, there are a lot of 'normal' experiences she's just never going to have. Driving is one of them.
August 28, 20222 yr comment_2888093 It is mildly amusing that Arson is labeled as a Civil Skill in one particular RPG system.
August 28, 20222 yr comment_2888135 How many of us on first seeing David Bowie's 'Boys Keep Swinging' official video thought his backing singers are not good looking before the big reveal ?
September 1, 20222 yr comment_2888661 Just saw a great Youtube comment. Was looking at Joe Pesci in Casino and the comment was posted 'Imagine this version of Joe Pesci in Home Alone'
September 2, 20222 yr comment_2888752 Just a heads up Von D-Man has posted a question in Company Questions
September 13, 20222 yr comment_2889986 Mightybec is posting in the Champions forum. Lock up your sheep !
September 15, 20222 yr comment_2890183 Mae'n brydgell ac mae'r brochgim stwd Yn gimblo a gyrian yn y mhello: Pob cólomrws yn féddabwd, A'r hoch oma'n chwibruo.
September 15, 20222 yr comment_2890211 It looks Welsh to me but you don't get coherence from the translation.
September 15, 20222 yr comment_2890215 It's from an attempt to render the opening verse of Jabberwocky into Welsh.
September 15, 20222 yr comment_2890235 It was this then:- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. It is difficult enough to understand in English
September 15, 20222 yr comment_2890250 Yes, since there are at least two not real words on each English line.
September 26, 20222 yr comment_2891519 Quote Solar System Objects Count Classification 8 Planets 211 Planetary Satellites (includes satellites of Earth and dwarf planet Pluto) 619,150 numbered 613,844 unnumbered 1,232,994 Asteroids (includes KBOs and TNOs) 535 numbered 3,291 unnumbered 3,826 Comets (includes fragments) Last updated: 2022-09-23 10:07:01 UTC
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