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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 2, 2018 10:51:35 GMT -5
Anybody else disappointed in the finale to Dark?
It was getting a tad tedious over the last couple of episodes, but I figured there would be an excellent payoff, and... well... there wasn't.
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Post by Mormel on Jan 2, 2018 17:58:28 GMT -5
Started watching bird webcams again; this video was uploaded by another viewer, who caught this pair of bald eagles in a marital spat over decorating their aerie. The larger bird is the female, as is common among birds of prey. We usually see bird couples under more harmonious circumstances in nature documentaries and the like, so it's interesting to see a squabble like this highlighted.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 17:08:13 GMT -5
This has been bothering me for so long ... how Members here remembers reading comic books, 20, 30, 40, and even 50 years ago is beyond belief. I rarely post there and I do that for a sure reason but I've find it mind-boggling for members here to remember these things!
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Post by brutalis on Jan 4, 2018 17:24:12 GMT -5
This has been bothering me for so long ... how Members here remembers reading comic books, 20, 30, 40, and even 50 years ago is beyond belief. I rarely post there and I do that for a sure reason but I've find it mind-boggling for members here to remember these things! Speaking for myself I have just always had a good memory for books/comics/movies/television I have read or seen. Not certain as to the why or how. Comics for certain because growing up I was only allowed a limited # so I was really reading and re-reading so I could trade with neighbors/cousins to get new unread comics in to my brain. Now as I am older while I may not remember the full story/etc it is the covers which stand out most in my recollections of what I have bought over the years. And as Alzheimer's runs in my family I do believe it is a part of that condition's "symptoms" as I seem to remember more of my youth these days in a clarity I had not had during my 30's/40's. Especially as I can get halfway to work and go DOH I left my lunch on the kitchen counter but I am singing cartoon songs that I remember in my head on the drive to work. I must be proof to the old proverb of aging: there is very little difference between being age 8 or being age 80. You pee yourself, you dribble drinks, you don't finish meals, you forget important things and remember the dumbest. Ain't life as the Grand Old Poohbah such fun?!?
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Post by brutalis on Jan 5, 2018 8:38:15 GMT -5
You all stay safe and healthy out there in CCF land please. This week has been chaos unleashed in Phoenix at all our hospitals. Everywhere is overflowing with sick folks, early flu outbreak and injuries and such. The last 2 days my hospital is full to bursting. We have 555 rooms. We have had over 600 patients every day and are expecting the same through this weekend. Do the math folks. Means we have 50+ patients more than we can handle. It is happening at EVERY hospital here in town. We are utilizing out of the box thinking and converted some empty offices into patient rooms. Setting up beds with curtains on the unit hallway's pending discharges to move them into rooms and even one hospital on the east side set up a triage tent in their parking lot for easing the load on their Emergency Department. It is ugly out there! So do your over the counter medicine's and keep in touch with your own personal physician and try to stay healthy and away from the hospital's!!!!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 5, 2018 10:17:03 GMT -5
This has been bothering me for so long ... how Members here remembers reading comic books, 20, 30, 40, and even 50 years ago is beyond belief. I rarely post there and I do that for a sure reason but I've find it mind-boggling for members here to remember these things! I think I have a better visual than auditory memory. I can still remember when and where I saw and bought certain comics, books, record albums. Like brutalis, I seem to recall the long ago past better than the recent past, though. I also find that when I write about an incident in the past, like buying a comic, for example, the act of writing helps to unlock details I didn't recall at first as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 10:40:34 GMT -5
This has been bothering me for so long ... how Members here remembers reading comic books, 20, 30, 40, and even 50 years ago is beyond belief. I rarely post there and I do that for a sure reason but I've find it mind-boggling for members here to remember these things! I think I have a better visual than auditory memory. I can still remember when and where I saw and bought certain comics, books, record albums. Like brutalis , I seem to recall the long ago past better than the recent past, though. I also find that when I write about an incident in the past, like buying a comic, for example, the act of writing helps to unlock details I didn't recall at first as well. Understood what you are saying this and when I first encounter these "Threads" and I'm still amazed of members here making these lists and recalling these books after all these years and that's why I don't recall certain books at all. I have to see pictures of them and those pictures will jar my memory and that's why I can contribute to it. I'm a little bit like you ... I can recall old television programs better than the current ones and that's why I prefer old TV Shows better than the ones of today. Those threads fascinated me and that's why I read them and find out what members has to share there.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 5, 2018 12:52:04 GMT -5
We're on the cusp of hitting 700 members, 5,000 threads, and 250,000 posts, possibly all this week.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 6, 2018 7:16:30 GMT -5
Winter weather is really wreaking havoc all over right now. We're without water for the 2nd time in the past 3 days; on Thursday, it took them more than 14 hours to get it restored, and with the "real-feel" temps right now at -15 degrees, I'm not terribly confident it will be back up and running any time soon. This is stressing my wife out tremendously, as she normally gets the laundry done on Saturdays and there is a sink full of dishes that we didn't do last night so that we could hang out with our daughters.
For all our members and friends in areas affected by this, please stay safe, stay warm, keep your pets indoors if possible, and if you are out and see someone who looks like they need help, particularly the homeless, consider stopping and giving them a hand. Your action could literally be the difference between life and death for them.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 6, 2018 7:32:14 GMT -5
Sorry, Cap. It just shows you that whatever you're going through , there's always someone doing worse. After 2 days of blizzard weather and 11 degree temps, I came home yesterday really sick with chills. I had to call in sick, which I didn't wanna do. But I'm 34 years in the Post office and I'm not a young guy anymore. I hope your water situation is resolved and God gives you favor.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 6, 2018 9:20:47 GMT -5
Sorry, Cap. It just shows you that whatever you're going through , there's always someone doing worse. After 2 days of blizzard weather and 11 degree temps, I came home yesterday really sick with chills. I had to call in sick, which I didn't wanna do. But I'm 34 years in the Post office and I'm not a young guy anymore. I hope your water situation is resolved and God gives you favor. Thanks. This is a minor inconvenience, annoying but nothing serious. I have heat, shelter, and food, and if I really need to take a shower or do a load of clothes, I can go to my sister's house (she lives about 20-25 minutes away) and take care of it there. God gives me His favor every day, even though I'm the last person on earth who deserves it, which is pretty much the point of it. Sorry to hear you've been sick. It's just that time of year, and although we want to be strong and act like we did when we were younger, sometimes we have to admit that time waits for no man. Rest up, get some chicken noodle soup, and hopefully you'll be back out on your route soon.
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Post by Søren on Jan 6, 2018 12:29:47 GMT -5
I been hearing about the US weather in the news. Hope you all stay safe.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 6, 2018 12:37:14 GMT -5
It's an abnormally hot and dry winter here in the Western U.S. Which means water will be short and the fire seasons will be bad.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 6, 2018 13:24:33 GMT -5
Winter weather is really wreaking havoc all over right now. We're without water for the 2nd time in the past 3 days; on Thursday, it took them more than 14 hours to get it restored, and with the "real-feel" temps right now at -15 degrees, I'm not terribly confident it will be back up and running any time soon. This is stressing my wife out tremendously, as she normally gets the laundry done on Saturdays and there is a sink full of dishes that we didn't do last night so that we could hang out with our daughters. For all our members and friends in areas affected by this, please stay safe, stay warm, keep your pets indoors if possible, and if you are out and see someone who looks like they need help, particularly the homeless, consider stopping and giving them a hand. Your action could literally be the difference between life and death for them. Sorry to hear this, Cap, but the weather report for Pittsburgh (that's your neck of the woods, right?) says some relief is on the way, with a heat wave on the way: 25 tomorrow, above freezing the rest of the week, 55 on Thursday. Those in southerly climes may think that 25 is cold, but it's a day at the beach in July after a stretch like the Northeast and Midwest have been going through since Christmas. You have the right attitude. Someone always has it worse.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 13:35:46 GMT -5
Winter weather is really wreaking havoc all over right now. We're without water for the 2nd time in the past 3 days; on Thursday, it took them more than 14 hours to get it restored, and with the "real-feel" temps right now at -15 degrees, I'm not terribly confident it will be back up and running any time soon. This is stressing my wife out tremendously, as she normally gets the laundry done on Saturdays and there is a sink full of dishes that we didn't do last night so that we could hang out with our daughters. For all our members and friends in areas affected by this, please stay safe, stay warm, keep your pets indoors if possible, and if you are out and see someone who looks like they need help, particularly the homeless, consider stopping and giving them a hand. Your action could literally be the difference between life and death for them. Sorry to hear this, Cap, but the weather report for Pittsburgh (that's your neck of the woods, right?) says some relief is on the way, with a heat wave on the way: 25 tomorrow, above freezing the rest of the week, 55 on Thursday. Those in southerly climes may think that 25 is cold, but it's a day at the beach in July after a stretch like the Northeast and Midwest have been going through since Christmas. You have the right attitude. Someone always has it worse. It's so cold here right now, the temperature could rise 25 degrees and it will still be freezing. Tomorrow we are supposed to get a warm up, to right arounf 32 and then get rain and snow so everything will freeze and be treacherous for the next 2 days. But here's food for thought-as cold as it had been *and its been record setting cold) the average yearly temperatures are still rising, so it's a lot warmer somehwere else and sometime else in the process. -M
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