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Frannyy
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F. is a person from I have a Forename and also, a, Suriname
My interests come in waves.
My interests tend to be other things
Non omnes qui habent citharam sunt citharoedi.
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Devil's Tower | PDN Photo of the Day
Rated • 1 review • photography • pdnphotooftheday.com
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madrosemamas reviews - StumbleUpon
Rated • 2 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com
This provides an interesting parental challenge:
The decent thing to do would be to apologise to your daughter for threatening her and accusing her of lying. Of course this will then present the obvious problem of providing an explanation to her on how you came to know the truth.
Telling her that inanimate objects in your house, and especially in the toilet, move by themselves, as if agitated by the ghostly hand of the probably incontinent, and now sadly deceased, previous tenant, will unleash a morbid fear of the bathroom. Predictable consequences include sleepless nights and bed wetting. This last one for two reasons: she'll be terrified AND she won't want to go to the loo, at night, in the dark, by herself... where the toilet paper moves by itself.
Alternatively, your daughter may conclude, possibly rightly, that you are losing the plot. In fear for her own life she will call social services, who at first will not notice anything wrong. Undeterred, your daughter will procede with plan B: dirty protest. So, in addition to a wet mattress, you will also have to scrub faeces off the walls in case social services make another one of those unannounced visits.
If you don't apologise or make up some bogus explanation instead, you're a bad mother and we will judge you harshly.
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Eighteen Surprising Uses for the Dishwasher -...
Rated • 2 reviews • divinecaroline.com
no.
Only ONE (unsurprising) use for dishwashers,
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Image Gallery
Rated • 2 reviews • travel, adventure • heartofdarkness.com.au
Rupert and I were in the same University SCUBA Diving Club. After Uni I joined the corporate world. Rupert joined the corporate world, too, but then found that the balance lay too much in favour of 'corporate' and too little in the favour of 'World'. So he took his car and drove away. This is one man's quest to drive his favourite 4x4 around the planet. Check out the interesting photos, the route and list of countries.
In an email he also reminded me of a particular embarrassing diving episode. The club were diving the wreck of the James Egan Layne in Plymouth. I was used to the appalling visibility of the murky Sussex coast where I had just trained as a novice, you see (or don't see, as the case may be), and being suddenly confronted with what I would then have classed as optically clear water below me, I got a frightening case of vertigo. I could clearly see the wreck some 20m below and decided that the best place for me was back in the dive boat.
Apparently I executed the most impressive boat re-entry he'd ever seen: I practically leapt out of the water like a terrified member of the Exocoetidae and into the RIB still fully kitted-up, with air cylinder and weight-belt offering no apparent impediment to flight (all very heavy gear you normally take off in the water).
I returned to the wreck in the afternoon when the visibility was much worse. Everything was fine. Call me weird, go on.
This reminds me of a dive during which Rupert thought he was about to die, not because he felt unwell but because his dive computer told him so. A coast guard helicopter was summoned and a perfectly healthy Rupert was winched out of the salty blue and airlifted to a hyperbaric chamber in a nearby city. After he sat in there for a few hours he was sent home. By public transport. In his diving gear. Ahhh good times.
Now, go to his site, thumb it up and generate traffic. Who knows he might find additional sponsorship and extend his trip. Lucky man.
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BBC - Earth News - Supercharged heart pumps blood up a...
Rated • 1 review • nature • bbc.co.uk
Giraffes have high blood pressure, says giraffe expert.
Photo: J.J. Taylor
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David Mitchell's SoapBox: TV Rudeness & ChannelFlip
Rated • 1 review • television • channelflip.com
David Mitchell on rudeness on TV.
He has metaphors. I like it. -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/in_pictures/im...
Isn't this lovely? I live on the other side.
I've not done too badly in my life so far. I am privileged and lucky enough to have a job I enjoy and that I live, in fact have lived for the past 17 years, on the coast. I consider myself lucky to have sea-views from my house.
When I lived on the south coast I had permanent sea-views. Here in the North-West of England I am treated to an ever changing landscape. I live on an estuary which is about 11 miles long and 5 miles wide. In the past it used to be navigable, but now it is silted up. Even so, it fills up twice a day when the sea comes in, and on a spring tide it actually is quite spectacular.
Unbelievable as it sounds there are people who would be quite unhappy with this. This is a little story about excess.
Most stories involving taxi drivers, at least here in the UK, start with the cabbie saying something like: "oi, you nevah guess 'oo I 'ad in my cab the ovver day". But not with the firm of cars my company uses. It is more likely that it is the customers who end up saying to each other "you never guess who my chauffeur was the other day"; just like I am doing now.
Most of these drivers are learned men, they have a wealth of experience, stories to tell, many are university graduates, most are already retired, like Alan, the man who took me to the airport. He had a north-eastern accent, so I asked him how long he had been in this part of England. "35 years" came the answer, which in itself was a little surprise. It is interesting how significantly accents here change even over short distances, but appear to be immutable over long periods of time. Half a lifetime of living among Scousers had done nothing to dent this Geordie's accent. When I pointed this out to him he told me he'd actually lived abroad a lot. He was a retired engineer who for many years specialised in marine surveys, sailing up and down mapping out the sea bed, taking samples etc. He told me he spent 3 years living in Doha. "What were you doing there, were you building a port?" I asked.
No.
The Emir of Qatar, who had his palace on Doha bay, was unhappy that at low tide the surfacing coral and sea bed would give the bay a brownish hue. He much preferred the blue seen at high tide. So, unbelievably, for 3 solid years he had the bay dredged. The coral had been ripped out and the seabed lowered by 45ft over the entire bay, all 2 miles of it so that there would always be enough water and look blue.
For most people, who are unhappy with the view from their house and who have the means to do something about it, the solution would be to move somewhere else. This man, on the other hand, changed the view.
My wife has been to Doha many times, so I asked her what the bay was like.
"Lovely", she said.
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Duel from Once Apon A Time In The West
Rated • 1 review • video • youtube.com
The previous post reminded me of this.
It is without a shadow of a doubt the best
duel scene ever devised and filmed.
No slow-mo crap, no drawn out battles.
Just 6 minutes of tension and then, bang!,
resolution in a fraction of a second.
If you disagree with me don't bother writing to tell me;
if I had any respect for you I will lose it instantly.
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Trippicists reviews - StumbleUpon
Rated • 12 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com
Ha!
(It's a line form the ¡Three Amigos!. You have to say it while doing the appropriate pelvic thrust)
