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Oct 25, 2019 04:37 AM
(Oct 24, 2019 05:12 PM)confused2 Wrote: I've just found out that my life has been wasted - I should have been doing this:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812
" After months of training, the rats learned not only how to make the ratmobile move but also how to change direction, researchers wrote in the journal Behavioural Brain Research."
You're right. I'm sure these critters are doing a fine job in their own non-caped crusader way, but a ratmobile needs a Ratman.
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Leigha
Nov 23, 2019 12:02 AM
About to sit outside to listen to music and have a glass of wine until bats started flying around. I don’t like bats.
So now I’m inside ...but safe lol
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Nov 28, 2019 01:49 AM
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I've had a bit of an epiphany recently. Back to Greta Thunburg and bugs in bottles. For the bugs in the bottle there is no too soon to understand the situation of being a bug in a bottle - only too late. So my plan is to have one Greta day a week which is spent speaking in a slightly a psycho monotone while adding insulation to chez C2 and stuffing newspaper into draughty rat holes as and when they appear.
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Magical Realist
Nov 28, 2019 04:25 AM
Happy Turkey Day Everyone!
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Nov 28, 2019 04:06 PM
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(Nov 28, 2019 04:25 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Happy Turkey Day Everyone!
Likewise to all. Have a good one, MR. It's some kind of emotion, anyway. 
Gotta' run, run, run.
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Magical Realist
Nov 28, 2019 09:05 PM
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(Nov 28, 2019 04:06 PM)C C Wrote: (Nov 28, 2019 04:25 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Happy Turkey Day Everyone!
Likewise to all. Have a good one, MR. It's some kind of emotion, anyway.
Gotta' run, run, run.
Catch that turkey CC! 
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confused2
Nov 29, 2019 12:42 AM
Is this turkey thing like "Harvest home" but with turkeys (possibly turkey harvest home if your turkeys are season dependant) or something else?
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Leigha
Nov 29, 2019 05:12 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it. I had a great day, and hope you did too. 
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Magical Realist
Nov 29, 2019 04:17 PM
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(Nov 29, 2019 12:42 AM)confused2 Wrote: Is this turkey thing like "Harvest home" but with turkeys (possibly turkey harvest home if your turkeys are season dependant) or something else?
What's "Harvest home"? An Autumn celebration? That's what Thanksgiving is. Celebrating the romanticized dining of the first Pilgrims with the Native Americans, before we killed them and stole their land.
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Nov 30, 2019 08:01 AM
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(Nov 28, 2019 09:05 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: (Nov 28, 2019 04:06 PM)C C Wrote: (Nov 28, 2019 04:25 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Happy Turkey Day Everyone!
Likewise to all. Have a good one, MR. It's some kind of emotion, anyway.
Gotta' run, run, run.
Catch that turkey CC!
LOL. At least more hope with a gobbler probably than with a guinea fowl. At some Poultry Grabs in the old days they occasionally released those from a tower to the gathered crowds below -- along with the usual turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, etc. Weeks later some of them were probably still roaming wild on neighborhood lawns of the towns. The dogs couldn't even catch them.
When the movie Jesse James was filmed in parts of Missouri back in 1938, one family that owned property used for a set also had scores and scores of guineas on it. Either the producer Darryl F. Zanuck or the director Henry King got tired of their constant noise and bought all of them -- presumably having them taken to slaughter.
(Nov 29, 2019 12:42 AM)confused2 Wrote: Is this turkey thing like "Harvest home" but with turkeys (possibly turkey harvest home if your turkeys are season dependant) or something else?
Yah, "Thanksgiving" has older roots in that "global" tradition. Brazil even has Dia de Acao de Gracas on the fourth Thursday of November like the US, but it's actually only observed by a small part of the population. They do raise turkeys down there, apparently, but when Christmas rolls around it's the infamous Doctor Moreau monstrosity called the Chester that has become the bird of choice.
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