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How do we dance?
When the world keeps turning
How do we sleep
When our beds are burning?
When the world keeps turning
How do we sleep
When our beds are burning?
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Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread of Their Own 2019
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One of my distant ancestors may have had one of those coins.
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Yes, but what is that in inches or some other normal English unit of measure?
It's a counter kind of morning.
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Old post, but PoF was (is?) the Walmart of online dating sites. When I was still doing the dating thing, I found PoF had more than their fair share of "simple country girls". Lots of "My kids come first", "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best", "No cheaters!", grandmothers in their late 30s and early 40s, etc.
I usually had my PoF profile hidden, and my account on hold, only looking at it every so often, like how someone would visit People of Walmart. I have no idea what Match (where I met my wife!) and OkCupid are like now. There'd probably be nobody over 40 in my town on Tinder.
In other news, I have this big bump under my cheek and I don't know if it's a mosquito bite or the early stages of a giant zit. I really, really want to squeeze on the thing, but we're going to a wedding next weekend, and it's a white tie affair -- gotta' look good.
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Thanks for the TMI. On a more serious note, though, there have recently been a number of cases of mosquito-borne Eastern Equine Encephalitis locally, and a 13 year old girl even died from it. Public health officials considered the threat bad enough that they proceeded with an aerial spray throughout the county, despite frost only being a couple of weeks away.
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My inner urbanist is fuming right now. There's (almost) no utility poles in the middle of traffic lanes in the US, but I see them all the time blocking sidewalks and corner ramps.
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Classic coordination failure. And yes, you are 100% correct about poles interfering with sidewalk pedestrian flow and corner ramps. When I used to run CDBG I used to ask for a list of proposed corner ramp installations from DPW to review and made them include pole relocation in the scope of work if there was one that interfered with accessibility.
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Great song with a solid base line which makes memorable. Though it's about what was happening in Australia, it a great social awareness/social justice song.
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I know the husband of the family-he told us on a weekly call about it yesterday. 
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article235890217.html
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article235890217.htmlMD Planner
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That's wild. It's big news down here. I talked to some Beaufort Sheriff's Deputies and said it was the most they'd ever seen at one time.I know the husband of the family-he told us on a weekly call about it yesterday.
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Y'all are not fans of doctor pimple popper? Disclaimer, I have never seen the show and have no desire to do so.
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No way. I love popping my own, but it grosses the bejeezus out of me if I watch someone else do it.
In other news, "bejeezus" made it past the spell checker.
Nope. Can't even watch the commercials. Peter Griffin-type question: would you rather watch (1) two minutes of pus gore from Doctor Pimple Popper, or (2) six minutes of back-to-back ASPCA, Shriners, and St. Jude Hospital commercials?
Anybody watch 90 Day Fiance? That's some quality television right there.
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Yeah, we got something like that.
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Cheektowaga says "hold my Genny Cream Ale."
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My ex fiancee looked at my phone and noticed I was still on POF. In fairness, I hadn't looked at since we had gotten engaged. It hadn't occurred to me to delete it because it wasn't relevant to me anymore. Needless to say, it got deleted pretty quick. Ironically, we broke up later and now I get back on the on it. POF is a mixed bag. I had gotten several dates from it. I liked because it had a lot local women on it.
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Not nearly so bad as a tree or house in the middle of the road (you guys win) but this stretch of road just seems like a drunk-driver-meets-power-pole power outage waiting to happen.
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My then-girlfriend now-wife watched me delete my match.com account when we were several months into our relationship. I was kind of reluctant to do it, because the account was free for life (I was a "charter member", but didn't use the account in earnest until there was a critical mass years later), and I worked hard to hone my profile. Also, what if we broke up?
Anyhow, I'm one of those Match success stories.
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A wild-ass guess -- was that road a former interurban right-of-way?
In the San Fernando Valley, they don't bother with poles or trees in the middle of the road.
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Front page news on CNN - "A town in North Carolina is being told to not wash any clothes for five days".
The town is flushing excess iron from the water lines. For towns with small public works budgets, this is extraordinarily common. We have at least one that has to do this when they flush. I have no idea why this is national news.
The town is flushing excess iron from the water lines. For towns with small public works budgets, this is extraordinarily common. We have at least one that has to do this when they flush. I have no idea why this is national news.
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It's not news. It's outrage porn. Flushing water lines = discolored water = OMG FLINT = "newsworthy". At least it's a break from all-Trump-all-the-time news coverage.
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I don't think so, it's too far outside of the Pacific Electric Railway territory. My best guess is that the big ag operation there wanted electric service, but didn't want the poles on their property. because the poles start at the northern end of the property and then move over to the side of the road just a little ways down.
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I started looking online for tires and alas, coupons from Firestone. How did they know?
I've played that in a little garage band project I was involved with. Love the song.
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omg I had to use my son's doedorant this morning and now I smell like a 15 year old trying to impress the ladies - need a do-over
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That article is truly abhorrent and offensive! Wow! I barely know what to say but let's start by cutting it down to the quick....
Did we really just read that? Overlooking for the moment the gravely flawed initial premise that Papifts are the best dish, as opposed to the plainly obvious choice of Jacobites....in what universe is boiling considered haute cuisine? And disguising it with salt and pepper? I mean why not just pour ketchup all over your filet mignon while you're at it! Good God! The 17th century was truly a barbarous time.
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I read a crazy thing the other day that bland British food has its roots in aristocrats abandoning spices when they got cheap enough for the masses to have them as well. Maillard reactions ore for the poor, i guess, the rich need to boil their food.
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My youngest daughter's school has spirit week this week and today was decade day. They can dress like any decade that they wanted. She choose the early 90's, which I guess is like the 60's for me. Both are the decade prior to us both of us being born, respectively. She is wearing a unbuttoned flannel shirt over a Metallica t-shirt, blue jeans with an accidental hole, pair of converse, and a knit beanie hat. She wears the 90's grunge look better than I did.
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I drooled a bit.... man I love steak.
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A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.
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Summer vacation thoughts: Outer Banks vs Hilton Head Island?
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I think the Outer Banks are more scenic but, save for a few tiny spots like Oracoke or Manteo, it's rather limited in terms of things to do other than enjoying the beach. With kids, I'd rather go to Hilton Head as there's a bit more civilization and opportunities to keep the kids entertained. Plus, you can easily take a day trip into Savannah or Charleston. Hilton Head is also a couple hours from Conagree National Park - it's a smaller park but has some very cool, eerie trails and one of the largest concentration of "champion trees" (very old or very tall trees) in the world.
Back in NC, there are a few communities further south from the Outer Banks that I always find more appealing: Carolina Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Topsail Island and Surf City are all near Wilmington and have fantastic beaches. Surf City and Topsail are the quieter of those choices.
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Be honest. Brutally so.
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Honestly, she didn't. All that mess really didn't scare me that much. What really made me mad/turned me off from the whole thing was her last text. I rode along with EMS on Saturday and we had to respond to a middle school football game. I texted to ask if she was at the game, mostly so I could tell her what was going on so if anyone asked she could let them know. Her daughter cheers for one of the teams that was there so I knew she was.
3 hours later she finally texted back to ask if I helped the little boy at the game. Uh, yeah. That's why I asked if you were there?! Well I replied to her and said "yeah, were you there?" and the response I got was
. That was it. That emoji. Nothing else. Like WTF am I supposed to infer from that? Ugh. Made me mad.
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We love Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island just outside of Charleston which is about 20 minutes without traffic. We generally stay at Wild Dunes. Bella loves the Children's Museum of the Low Country, the South Carolina Aquarium, Patriot's Point/USS Yorktown, Boone Hall Plantation, and Fort Sumter. Plus all the eating she did.
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I was wondering if someone would catch that!
If you read the whole thing, you'd think it was written in all seriousness, consixering the florid 18th century language, and what we think was the mindset of the era. I love how the essay implies that Americans already eat babies.