OT: Coolest sound ever - golf ball on frozen lake

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 9:30:05 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tev4frpwdg98l@glass>:

Which suggests you have not.

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 9:30:37 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tev5bndwdg98l@glass>:

God forbid!

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Is that Bulgarian?

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Ah, I see what you did there. Very clever.

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I see them before they see me, you see British pigs ain't too clever.

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Of course you can. What you meant to ask is MAY we? [Quote from my primary school teacher]

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And stupid. Promote the intelligent ones to detectives surely? And it goes a long way to explaining why only 7% of reported crimes are solved.

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:23:21 PM MST, "%" wrote [e-mail]>:

Things are a bit backward around these parts.

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:24:14 PM MST, "%" wrote [e-mail]>:

We have those here.

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:24:46 PM MST, "%" wrote [e-mail]>:

Will you share it?

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:28:37 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tffhzrbwdg98l@glass>:

Ha!

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:32:27 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tffodhjwdg98l@glass>:

A first, I am sure.

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:33:08 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tffpidbwdg98l@glass>:

What is their max IQ?

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:33:45 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tffqj0vwdg98l@glass>:

I used that with my kids. They looked up the terms in dictionaries to show their usage was acceptable.

It was about then I sold them to the circus. :)

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On Nov 1, 2020 at 4:35:18 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tffs4ugwdg98l@glass>:

It is... mind boggling.

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Everything is mind boggling to them.

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Are you a bot?

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When I was at primary school, where most people spoke without much accent, a friend had a Glaswegian accent. The teacher actually brought in a speech therapist to make him speak "correctly"!

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I also had a daft English teacher who would shout my name while I was in the middle of a conversation with a friend during class. I would always instinctively say "what?" which caused her to say "don't be cheeky!"

At a parents evening, she apparently burst into tears because she "didn't know how to make me behave in class"!

I just never found English interesting at all. WTF was the point in reading Shakespeare? It was in a foreign language!

I have 6 computers, ranging from 2 years old to 12 years old. They're all running 24/7 on science projects. Black holes, dark matter, curing cancer, that sort of thing. The graphics cards are fun, they can go many times faster than a CPU, given a simple task to do which requires massively parallel computations, such as sifting through a lot of telescope data. For the dark matter searching, I have cards which can complete a batch of data in 37 seconds, whereas a CPU of the same era takes 2 hours.

But nowhere near the cancer death rate, and absolutely nowhere near the population growth rate. So not exactly the end of the world. But closing everything down will cause the end of the world. You can't just stop and sit at home. Let people take their own precautions and civilisation can continue.

Fallout 4 is not online. It's a huge 3D adventure game with some fighting in it aswell as collecting stuff, doing quests for people you meet, and building towns. And what I like is there's no set order to do things in, you just wander around, complete quests for money or other rewards, then go do something else.

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On Nov 2, 2020 at 2:02:27 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0tg3edtlwdg98l@glass>:

In the US they have been heavily infiltrated by white supremacists and other far right ideologies. I am sure this makes it very challenging for the good cops -- and I do think there are plenty of those.