| Pages:
1
2
3
..
355 |
polydigm
King Kong Status
Posts: 2198
Registered: 1-4-2006
Location: Horse Tray Ya
Member Is Offline
Mood: Inspired
|
|
Anything noteworthy happen to you today?
Around about 6:45 PM today the power went, at least in our street. It didn't come back on until 9:00PM. Now, I know a little over two hours isn't that
long but when it happens just before you start organising dinner and the natural light is rapidly fading and one of your sons is desperate to finish
some overdue assignment etc, etc, ... Anyway, we missed Earth Hour the other day, so we made up for it tonight. It's scary just how dependent we are
on electricity.
|
|
|
scallopino
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1321
Registered: 19-11-2005
Location: Melbourne, Austria
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Yeah. The same thing happened all over Victoria. I had officially my worst public transport experience ever, which is saying a lot. After waiting 40
minutes for a train from Clayton where my university is, one finally came but said on it (instead of its destination) "Data Version 8.1". The station
master had no idea where this train was going. I got on it anyway. The driver made no announcement and all passengers didn't know where it was going
either. It was the MYSTERY TRAIN.
I'm just realised i'm too tired to relate the rest of this story. Sorry...
[Edited on 2-4-2008 by scallopino]
|
|
|
BBP
Super Administrator
Posts: 8167
Registered: 3-10-2005
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cheerful yet relaxed
|
|
We had a power failure just a few days ago, only for a few minutes. Sucked, but fortunately I was up already for my round.
Today I went to visit a friend and did a lot of stoopid things. I need sleep.
|
|
|
Badchild
Apostrophe Status
Posts: 209
Registered: 13-3-2008
Location: in france
Member Is Offline
Mood: 45 years and bearded
|
|
I ate chineze. Now i'm sleepy!
|
|
|
DED
Administrator
Posts: 1139
Registered: 16-3-2006
Location: NL
Member Is Offline
Mood: a happy upgrader feeling
|
|
Found out this morning on the toilet that we were out of toilet paper. What a suprise that always is. Fortenately our host takes care of
everything......... I must not forget to buy some new rolls, altough I think There is not much paper left in the shops after the disaster in Groningen
stadium yesterday.
The soccer game groningen - Ajax should be played. After that game we should have known if our own PSV is the 2008 champion. But we had not taken into
account that toiletpaper burns. 
Groningen Hooligans throw rolls of toiletpaper towards the grass as huge serpentines. Al the tribunes, and part of the field were covered in
toiletpaper. One fool lighted that up and in no time the gras and pvc seats were burning in a cloud of smoke. The only fire extinguishers around were
buckets of water for the first quarter of an hour.
It all ends up with - no game- 30 injured people some upto now hospitalised and a lot of confusion........
Sometimes its better that you are out of toilet paper
Awful movies about this on youtube (search arguments groningen ajax will lead to several)
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED]
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED]
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED]
|
|
|
scallopino
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1321
Registered: 19-11-2005
Location: Melbourne, Austria
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by DED
Found out this morning on the toilet that we were out of toilet paper. What a suprise that always is. Fortenately our host takes care of
everything......... I must not forget to buy some new rolls, altough I think There is not much paper left in the shops after the disaster in Groningen
stadium yesterday.
The soccer game groningen - Ajax should be played. After that game we should have known if our own PSV is the 2008 champion. But we had not taken into
account that toiletpaper burns.
Groningen Hooligans throw rolls of toiletpaper towards the grass as huge serpentines. Al the tribunes, and part of the field were covered in
toiletpaper. One fool lighted that up and in no time the gras and pvc seats were burning in a cloud of smoke. The only fire extinguishers around were
buckets of water for the first quarter of an hour.
It all ends up with - no game- 30 injured people some upto now hospitalised and a lot of confusion........
Sometimes its better that you are out of toilet paper
Awful movies about this on youtube (search arguments groningen ajax will lead to several)
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED]
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED]
[Edited on 14-4-2008 by DED] |
That is very funny and very awful.
|
|
|
Badchild
Apostrophe Status
Posts: 209
Registered: 13-3-2008
Location: in france
Member Is Offline
Mood: 45 years and bearded
|
|
Football is so....FUN!
|
|
|
BBP
Super Administrator
Posts: 8167
Registered: 3-10-2005
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cheerful yet relaxed
|
|
Hit town today for B-day shopping.
PSV is not champion yet, but there are huge football-shape lampoons hanging around in town. Could be fun if they'd turn 2nd!
|
|
|
Badchild
Apostrophe Status
Posts: 209
Registered: 13-3-2008
Location: in france
Member Is Offline
Mood: 45 years and bearded
|
|
I'm going to the Ophtalmologist for the first time in my life....Now i know that i'm 45 years old and retched....i'll be needing reading glasses me
thinks.
|
|
|
DED
Administrator
Posts: 1139
Registered: 16-3-2006
Location: NL
Member Is Offline
Mood: a happy upgrader feeling
|
|
Sorry I cannot read this without my reading glasses, what were you saying?
No kidding
When I was 46 I could read anything small big and worse copies
when I was 47 I bought my first reading glasses ampl. 1
Now I'm using during the day ampl. 2 and in the evening ampl. 3
When I repair old tape junk I even use sometimes 2 glasses and a magnifier.
It is the price we have to pay.
|
|
|
scallopino
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1321
Registered: 19-11-2005
Location: Melbourne, Austria
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
I've had more eye problems than I can poke a stick at. I've been to the opthalmologists and optometrists and etc. hundreds of times I reckon. My
eyesight is bad and getting worse, and i'm only 21. I have to wear two different types of glasses because there is no one lense that can do enough
magic for me.
For some reason the glasses i have now get really dirty really easy and it's a complete bitch to clean them, and the cleaning liquid that came with
just seems to make it worse.
|
|
|
BBP
Super Administrator
Posts: 8167
Registered: 3-10-2005
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cheerful yet relaxed
|
|
That sounds dreadful... Is lasering an option?
|
|
|
scallopino
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1321
Registered: 19-11-2005
Location: Melbourne, Austria
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
I don't know BBP. Actually I do know. I remember the optometrist saying that glasses will work ok for a few more years, maybe ten years, and then i'll
have to get surgery. I guess it will be laser surgery.
It makes me wonder about all those people in past centuries who had to stop doing tasks when their eyes went before glasses were available.
|
|
|
DED
Administrator
Posts: 1139
Registered: 16-3-2006
Location: NL
Member Is Offline
Mood: a happy upgrader feeling
|
|
Life expectation was much shorter at that time
45 was a normal age for most people.
Glasses (lenses to approve sight) were used since 1250 in Europe and maybe before that in Arabia and China.
|
|
|
scallopino
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1321
Registered: 19-11-2005
Location: Melbourne, Austria
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by DED
Life expectation was much shorter at that time
45 was a normal age for most people.
Glasses (lenses to approve sight) were used since 1250 in Europe and maybe before that in Arabia and China. |
Good point, and only the people who could afford glasses would have been able to read anyway.
|
|
|
Badchild
Apostrophe Status
Posts: 209
Registered: 13-3-2008
Location: in france
Member Is Offline
Mood: 45 years and bearded
|
|
I just got back from 4 days in Paris....What a great City!
|
|
|
BBP
Super Administrator
Posts: 8167
Registered: 3-10-2005
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cheerful yet relaxed
|
|
Fun! It's been ages since I last was in Paris. Shot some nice pics there too, of my favourite fountain (I always forget the name somehow).
Today the magazine with my picture rolled in! Scan coming up!
|
|
|
DED
Administrator
Posts: 1139
Registered: 16-3-2006
Location: NL
Member Is Offline
Mood: a happy upgrader feeling
|
|
Yeah I love Paris. Esp since I have been (1998) in the Crazy Horse
That experience I will never forget and also the drive with a french guy around the place 'létoile twice in rushhour. The guy was crazy. and a lot
more off course.
Yester day the metal lid of one of BBP's organs fell on my foot
!@#$%^&*( $%^&*() $%^&*()
that hurts
|
|
|
BBP
Super Administrator
Posts: 8167
Registered: 3-10-2005
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cheerful yet relaxed
|
|
Today my tire exploded on my newspaper round.
|
|
|
punknaynowned
Frank Zappa Status
Posts: 1283
Registered: 29-8-2006
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by DED
Yeah I love Paris. Esp since I have been (1998) in the Crazy Horse
That experience I will never forget and also the drive with a french guy around the place 'létoile twice in rushhour. The guy was crazy. and a lot
more off course.
Yester day the metal lid of one of BBP's organs fell on my foot
!@#$%^&*( $%^&*() $%^&*()
that hurts |
Ouch!
I hate injuring a foot.
Always worse than a hand somehow.
I can get a lot more done with one hand on two feet, than I can get done with two hands on only one foot.
Never been to Paris. Someday. Who knows, maybe next year./
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2
3
..
355 |
![[*]](images/davis/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
