Cygnia Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Eating out may be bad for your ears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Professional distance runner outpaces two bears while training in Maine woods So according to the article, the guy does the one thing that is guaranteed to trigger the predator instinct; he runs. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Eating out may be bad for your ears It's not my ears that worry me. **Looks down. Sighs.** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 It's not my ears that worry me. **Looks down. Sighs.** The husband has Meineire's. He already has to wear a hearing aid. But sodium can trigger a vertigo attack. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 The husband has Meineire's. He already has to wear a hearing aid. But sodium can trigger a vertigo attack. :-/ Sorry to hear that. Salt and I never had any problems so that seems especially awful to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Professional distance runner outpaces two bears while training in Maine woods Those bears are now being laughed at by their brethren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 The husband has Meineire's. He already has to wear a hearing aid. But sodium can trigger a vertigo attack. :-/ Hmm, my mother has complained of dizziness when she has had too much salt in the past. (though she only gets too much salt really from outside food, she doesn't add salt, and usually avoids high sodium food). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Eating out may be bad for your ears I do have to admit I don't really like eating out (or shopping at Wal-Mart*) because of noise. *Never shop there the Saturday before Christmas. The noise did cause me to have a near-freakout. Afterwards, at lunch I ate 2 slices of pizza in about a minute and a half out of nervousness and had hiccups the rest of the weekend. And at one point at Wal-Mart, the dope in front of me, decided to stop right in the middle of the aisle, I took the long way around because I was literally almost ready to start pushing him out of the way from panic. Not doing that again. (and I've only gone to Wal-Mart about 3 times in the decade since) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Those bears are now being laughed at by their brethren. The bears probably got what they wanted. They wanted him to go away, and he did. In the real world, bears just want us pesky humans to leave them alone and let them be bears. (Although if there are enough humans around, bears are perfectly fine with rooting around their camps or garbage looking for food, which in the long run is pretty bad for the bears -- if Yogi really were "smarter than the average bear", he wouldn't be so obsessed with pickanick baskets). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 The bears probably got what they wanted. They wanted him to go away, and he did. In the real world, bears just want us pesky humans to leave them alone and let them be bears. (Although if there are enough humans around, bears are perfectly fine with rooting around their camps or garbage looking for food, which in the long run is pretty bad for the bears -- if Yogi really were "smarter than the average bear", he wouldn't be so obsessed with pickanick baskets). My interpretation --and maybe it's just me-- is that Yogi isn't actually smarter than the average bear. In fact, there are plenty of indications that Boo-Boo is actually smarter. It's a delicious confection of ironic texts and subtexts that mine comedy from the chasm that yawns between Yogi's understanding of the world, and the world as it actually is. Also, Yogi is always falling into Old Faithful, and that stuff's comedy gold. Nolgroth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 The WRONG WAY to get rid of bees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Burning down your garage while trying to remove bees is silly. Burning down your garage to remove spiders, however, is justifiable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 My interpretation --and maybe it's just me-- is that Yogi isn't actually smarter than the average bear. In fact, there are plenty of indications that Boo-Boo is actually smarter. It's a delicious confection of ironic texts and subtexts that mine comedy from the chasm that yawns between Yogi's understanding of the world, and the world as it actually is. The most memorable short for me is the time Yogi went all the way to Chicago thinking that a headline "Bears battle Giants today" meant Bearkind was at war with Giantkind and he had to join the fight. Turns out, of course, that it was a football game.... (This was about fifteen years before the NFL would really take its place as an American national obsession.) That episode could not be made today without some really expensive trademark licensing. In the 1950s nobody cared, now they're paranoid about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Police Shoot Unarmed Joker and Harley Quinn Cosplayers at Australian Sex Party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Weather records for precipitation going both ways In a thread that's been deleted, long ago, I said: "The atmosphere is a kind of oscillator. When you put more energy into an oscillator is that you increase the amplitude of oscillation, not that you change the equilibrium state." Yes, the amplitude of oscillations has been increasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Competition? Nah. "So while the report is correct that things like utility pole attachment reform is important for fiber deployment, it fails to mention that cities that have attempted to do so have been sued by Comcast, Charter and AT&T to try and slow competitive threats. Similarly, while the report is quick to emphasize the importance of "reducing barriers to copper retirement," it fails to mention that AT&T and Verizon's version of this involves severing the taxpayer-subsizied DSL connectionsof millions of users (many elderly), and just shoving them toward notably-more expensive wireless (assuming it's even available)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 Steam, the online game distribution service that holds a near-monopoly on PC game downloads, just had their annual Summer Sale that ended July 5. On July 6, they turned around and banned more than 40,000 users -- most of whom had been previously banned on other accounts, but had taken the sale as an opportunity to buy back their game collections under new names. The usual causes for a Steam ban are cheating on a large scale and inappropriate sale of in-game content like weaponry. Some games have a flourishing black market where people can pay cash for items that really should be earned in play or purchased from the publisher (through Steam). Then there are, of course, the usual questions about piracy which has caused PC game studios to take advantage of the relative security offered by the Steam portal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 Possible link between eating venison and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 Possible link between eating venison and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease "Mother, thou art avenged!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Police Shoot Unarmed Joker and Harley Quinn Cosplayers at Australian Sex Party Maybe the "gun" was pump action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Meanwhile, what can you check in at the airport ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40577923 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Consider this an antidote to the usual Florida stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40572378 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Connecticut moves to ban civil forfeiture without conviction One down... Sociotard, Hermit and Nolgroth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted July 13, 2017 Report Share Posted July 13, 2017 Competition? Nah. Right here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted July 13, 2017 Report Share Posted July 13, 2017 Can there be anything greater than a serious news report with a real groaner of a pun for a headline? Calibri in spotlight as Fontgate could leave Pakistan sans Sharif Pattern Ghost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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