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Nearly Sane

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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1925 on: March 27, 2025, 09:00:54 PM »
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1926 on: March 27, 2025, 09:15:46 PM »
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1927 on: April 07, 2025, 10:28:20 AM »
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1928 on: April 07, 2025, 10:57:07 AM »
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1929 on: April 07, 2025, 01:49:31 PM »
Quote from: Aruntraveller on April 07, 2025, 10:28:20 AM
I'm not thinking about any posters on here. At all. In no way. No siree. Absolutely not.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/07/the-one-change-that-worked-i-quit-fighting-about-politics-with-my-friends-and-family
I think that we have for a variety of reasons lost some of the art of civil discourse, and note i don't mean by that simply polite discourse, I mean being able to say fairly tough stuff without losing the ability to see that the general aims might be similar. And often it's hardest when you have the magnification of small differences.

I was out on Saturday with a couple of friends, and their partners, I've know the friends for well over 40 years. We have never been exactly aligned politically, and yet that friendship has endured some tough arguments, and being on different end of picket lines and protests. In some way now we are more aligned because of a feeling of a general malaise in politics but the base understanding of out aims are what has kept us as friends. The article does read to me a bit smug, and a bit defeatist at the same time in that it doesn't progress how to have discussion, it just avoids it.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1930 on: April 10, 2025, 07:48:27 AM »
Liked this
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1931 on: April 26, 2025, 09:31:03 PM »
Got into running last summer. At that time I could hardly run 3k. Today I ran my first half marathon, a local one. Managed 1:48:47 in the end. Was aiming for 1:45 but the last few hills sapped my strength. Still not up to the full snickers, but it's on my list.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1932 on: April 27, 2025, 08:37:23 AM »
Quote from: ad_orientem on April 26, 2025, 09:31:03 PM
Got into running last summer. At that time I could hardly run 3k. Today I ran my first half marathon, a local one. Managed 1:48:47 in the end. Was aiming for 1:45 but the last few hills sapped my strength. Still not up to the full snickers, but it's on my list.

Good for you. :)
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1933 on: April 27, 2025, 03:55:51 PM »
My sister sent me this, it made me giggle.

Notice posted at a conference:

For anyone who as children and doesn’t know it, there is a day care centre on the 1st floor.

Notice in a farmer’s field:

The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges!

In a London department store:

Bargain Basement upstairs …

Outside a second-hand shop:

We exchange anything from bicycles, books, to buttons. Why not bring your wife along and get a better bargain?

 
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« Reply #1934 on: May 03, 2025, 11:18:46 AM »
Rather jolly
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1935 on: May 13, 2025, 04:53:05 PM »
Memories
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« Reply #1936 on: May 16, 2025, 05:15:20 PM »
Memories are all you'll have of your teeth and your waist if you eat many of them.
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« Reply #1937 on: May 16, 2025, 05:28:34 PM »
"Phew!" time.
Yesterday, I spilled some cider on my laptop - not much, but some went on the keyboard. This is not considered best practice. I mopped it up as well as i could, and thought I'd got away with it, because it seemed to be behaving itself, but this morning I got a "battery low" warning, even though it was plugged in. I checked, and the little power light wasn't on. An hour or so later, the battery went. Shit! I thought I was facing a couple of weeks computerless, and  maybe having to buy a new one. However, I've just got back from big Tesco and plugged it in, more in hope than expectation, and Hoorah and Huzzah! It's working again!
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1938 on: May 16, 2025, 06:38:31 PM »
Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate is my favourite.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1939 on: May 19, 2025, 06:27:18 PM »
So dear friends, I love raspberries.

I haven't had any since last year. I picked up a punnet at the weekend and shared it with my beloved.

It turns out I am now allergic to them.

An allergy of a gastrointestinal nature.

I am not impressed by this at all.

Why?

(Perhaps Gonners can explain just how this fits into God's plan for me)  >:(
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1940 on: May 19, 2025, 06:47:12 PM »
Quote from: Aruntraveller on May 19, 2025, 06:27:18 PM
So dear friends, I love raspberries.

I haven't had any since last year. I picked up a punnet at the weekend and shared it with my beloved.

It turns out I am now allergic to them.

An allergy of a gastrointestinal nature.

I am not impressed by this at all.

Why?

(Perhaps Gonners can explain just how this fits into God's plan for me)  >:(

I like raspberries too, but although I never had a problem with them when I was younger these days they don't like me. My mother also had a problem with raspberries as she aged.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1941 on: May 22, 2025, 08:09:15 PM »
Ah, more memories
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1942 on: May 22, 2025, 09:25:18 PM »
Quote from: Aruntraveller on May 19, 2025, 06:27:18 PM
So dear friends, I love raspberries.

I haven't had any since last year. I picked up a punnet at the weekend and shared it with my beloved.

It turns out I am now allergic to them.

An allergy of a gastrointestinal nature.

I am not impressed by this at all.

Why?

(Perhaps Gonners can explain just how this fits into God's plan for me)  >:(

Dear Arun,

Eh! How the frack should I know, just be thankful you are part of THE Great Plan, or, OR, you need to go and find your Authentic self ( top shelf ASDA, self service aisle :o ) or and it is more likely Quantum, apparently there is a lot of it going round, just mention Quantum to your Doctor and remember, shit happens 8)

Gonnagle.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1943 on: May 23, 2025, 10:05:42 AM »
So, Mrs. O. and I have been on a new food plan - Wildfit - for just coming up on 10 weeks now. It's not been hard, but it's been boring (no sugars, no carbs, no caffeine, no additiives...) relying on seasonal vegetables and meat proteins.

But, 10 weeks in, having started at a slightly, but not massively, overweight 13st 4, I'm down to just around 11 stone. I've not been hungry, I am rapidly becoming sick of spinach, but... if you've got any weight to lose, it's a system I'd highly recommend.

Mrs. O.'s weight-loss hasn't been as significant, but she had less to lose, but her skin problems have cleared up significantly.

O.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1944 on: May 25, 2025, 08:53:59 PM »
I've had a comment on Facebook liked by Paul McGann, the eighth Doctor! It was in Doctor Who fan group. I also once had a post commented on by Francis Wheen.
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