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AngerDanger said:
Well, that was a short five minutes. :rolleyes:

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What did you cancel or is this you?
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Zenithal said:
Not looking forward to wiring this kit together.
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LizKat said:
What kit? not something meant to retaliate against mourning doves waking you with their cooing, I hope... :eek:
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Back 3 or 4 decades ago, people would buy Heathkit radio kits to assemble. I think they are still available for purchase. Am I warm? :)
 
Huntn said:
Back 3 or 4 decades ago, people would buy Heathkit radio kits to assemble. I think they are still available for purchase. Am I warm? :)
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I definitely did put one of those Heathkit shortwave sets together! Remember you could get postcards back if you wrote into the address offered up by a shortwave sender? I got a magazine rapped upside my head though from my mom when a card from Radio Moscow turned up in the post one day. LOL they probably had a signal you could receive in your dental fillings if you faced the right direction.
 
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LizKat said:
I definitely did put one of those Heathkit shortwave sets together! Remember you could get postcards back if you wrote into the address offered up by a shortwave sender? I got a magazine rapped upside my head though from my mom when a card from Radio Moscow turned up in the post one day. LOL they probably had a signal you could receive in your dental fillings if you faced the right direction.
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I've heard about this before from older people, albeit not Americans. I've read towards the latter half of the USSR when it was on its way out, smaller stations in the Bloc popped up and would make sleight jokes to poke fun at the "Masters" and because of the nuances of the native language in those countries, the Russians didn't really pick up on it. This is what I've heard and read, and I don't know if it's true but maybe @Scepticalscribe could pop in and give her thoughts, as I believe she taught Russian history for a number of years.
 
One of those winged bastards bit me on the sole portion of my heel. I was wondering why it felt like I'd stepped on a marble all day long walking around. No itchiness obviously due to the thickness of skin there, but still feels strange to walk on what feels like a small glass marble.
 
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I’m finding it very difficult to tune into any political based news and we still have 15 months left before the election. It’s the same depressing show every day. :(
 
Huntn said:
I’m finding it very difficult to tune into any political based news and we still have 15 months left before the election. It’s the same depressing show every day. :(
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Could be worse!
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The first time I saw Boris was maybe in 2007 on a British entertainment show and I thought he was full of it then. Anyway, set up some mosquito traps and set the timers for the light zappers. Which didn't get much use this summer since most of it was fairly mild.
 
LizKat said:
Given The Don and BoJo, it's amazing the planet stays in orbit.

How is it that we even manage to find such people?!
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EDIT: sorry, didn't realize this wasn't PRSI.

OK, so on my mind: penance for mentioning their names.
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Humanity has always been attracted to slow moving train wrecks.
 
LizKat said:
You may be right. Would be a great topic for that other subforum.

On my mind: why are Japanese chopsticks very pointed and Chinese ones not so much.
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Because the Yakuza needed something sharp and ordinary when they met up against Triads in public places. Honestly, no idea. I bought a few pair of stainless steel chopsticks a long time ago when I was a bachelor and picked up Japanese and Chinese a lot.
 
Zenithal said:
Humanity has always been attracted to slow moving train wrecks.
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Only in certain times, contexts and places.

But, not always, and certainly not this human (except when I wear my hats as an historian, or political analyst, when it becomes a matter of cold, clinical, theoretically objective - but appalled - enquiry).

LizKat said:
You may be right. Would be a great topic for that other subforum.

On my mind: why are Japanese chopsticks very pointed and Chinese ones not so much.
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Now, that sounds fascinating.
 
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So much free time tomorrow. Shall spend it watching old episodes of Countdown and sterilizing some of the kids' toys and steam clean some parts of the house that don't get much use.
 
Zenithal said:
Because the Yakuza needed something sharp and ordinary when they met up against Triads in public places. Honestly, no idea. I bought a few pair of stainless steel chopsticks a long time ago when I was a bachelor and picked up Japanese and Chinese a lot.
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Dining out of course I use whatever style chopsticks are provided. At home though I have both types, and tend to use Chinese ones if the dish is something like fried rice: the larger ends make the rice somewhat easier to manage.

From all I have ever read about chopsticks though, the articles talk mostly about how the styles differ and not why they evolved that way.

With sauced dishes and larger pieces of vegetable, I do like to use the Japanese chopsticks that have circumferential grooves near the ends. They will stop a selected bit of food from sliding away after it's been picked up. Somewhere I read that children's chopsticks are sometimes made that way. I'm gonna stay a kid to end of my days. :)
 
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