Happy New Years

[rowan]

I just made that up actually. But I'm sure it must be a lot.

[Galfon]

I'm sure the number is very large - especially the sub-ant group, but bears also sh!t in the woods!.
They are extremely voracious for good reason in the Autumn,and won't be waiting for a starting-gun at the equinox to get stuck in..

[rowan]

According to this the average person consumes 453 to 907 grams of insects by accident every year! https://animals.howstuffworks.com/insec ... y-year.htm

Bon appetit!

[rowan]

Upon further reading I have discovered that the food and liquids authorities actually allow for a certain amount of insects and mouse poop in processed foods, just so long as it does not exceed the limits. 925 insect fragments are allowed in just 10 grams of ground thyme, for instance, while 100 grams of canned asparagus may include 40 thrips, a kind of tiny winged insect. No more than 1 mg of mammalian excrement per pound of food is permitted

[rowan]

Severed fingers, condoms, tampons, knives, razors, frogs and cockroaches are also known to pop up in ones food from time time, usually in either frozen foods or fast foods.

[Galfon]

yum yum..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-45432054
( or sh!t 'appens. )

[rowan]

3 more days to autumn. Mashallah!

[Galfon]

Your well off the pace dood - leaves, apples, chestnuts - the lot, it's been happening for weeks in many lands.
Do you have your Mashthingy's toasted ?..

[rowan]

No, not yet. You're mistaking me for someone who lives inside the Arctic circle, I think. Might go to the beach and have a swim though.

[rowan]

Almost Autumn

[Galfon]

Rowan-cum-lately!...real-time is where it's at these days

[rowan]

So spring arrived 5 minutes ago. Still hot in the day, but getting cooler at nights. Just turned the fan off.

[Galfon]

UK on yellow alert...storms, dangerous winds and maybe bananas falling from the sky.12'C is still comfortable.

[rowan]

UK on yellow alert...storms, dangerous winds and maybe bananas falling from the sky.12'C is still comfortable.

Sounds like a recipe for extremely slippery road surfaces.

& perhaps a giant creme brulee. Have the custard ready!

[rowan]

Right on cue the temperatures have plummeted into the high teens this week though they are expected to climb back into the twenties by the end of the week We should have at least another month of balmy temperatures ahead of us. I've even gone swimming in early November here.

[rowan]

So we have some strange new neighbors upstairs. They dance/stomp around from about three to four am, chant and scream wildly, torture dogs and drop a bowling ball on the floor right above my bedroom. We think they're part of some Satanic cult or something, and are planning to call the cops on them tonight if they don't heed the nice request we posted on their front door to keep the noise down. It's only a few months ago that we got another bunch of weirdos kicked out for playing gay sex games all night, which also involved dancing/stomping around and dropping a bowling ball on the floor right above my bedroom This neighborhood's really going downhill.

[Galfon]

I've always recommended never to rent a basement appartment under a bowling venue that also offers party night bookings...this type of thing can always happen.

[rowan]

Sound advice. Cheers. But for the moment the problem appears to have been solved. Not sure if it was our polite note about the noise, or one of the other neighbors taking a sterner approach (thought I heard someone up there telling them off around midnight), but I wasn't woken up last night by the sound of dancing/stomping, screaming, chanting, yelping dogs and crashing bowling balls for a change

[Galfon]

Take care with the 'polite note' thing to an unknown party.
People have been known to just suddenly disappear following things like this.
Bonfire 'night' is bad enough now with what seems like a week's worth of incessant bangs.Not sure what it's about now tbh, now Parliamenting is mostly online these days.

[Galfon]

Happy Solstice ("point at which the sun [seems to] stand still," )...i.e days finally begin to lengthen again (NH)
Of course, evenings start getting later after 13th Dec and mornings only start getting earlier after 31st, because of the planet's tilty and eliptical characteristics, but seems like a good excuse for an extra scoop or two.
In the SH you can have a naked run-around or whatever, for your summer solstice.

[Lizard]

Happy New Years mudder fockers.

[Galfon]

Albert Square (Manc. version) tonight.Fireworks good, crowd very diverse and well mannered.
Settling in hotel overlooking the great wall with bottles of Doom, Runaway & Palefire ready to glug.
Mrs G has her fizz....To Cockwombles & Spunktrumpets everywhere, may 2019 bring wondrous things and if not, lots of ok stuff.

[Sandydragon]

Happy New Year everyone.

[morepork]

After taking the young senioritas on a tour of proper old school drinking bars around Philly, sampling the delights of gin martinis, penicillin, old fashions, and other real drinks, fending off the advances of drunken locals, and getting them home safely, all I want to do is settle in with a fire and watch apocalypse now or maybe glengarry glennross, polishing off the left over preload piss. You think I am allowed to do this? Am I fuck. Their mother lambasts me for setting them loose and the wife, who was as enthusiastic party to said revelry, has turned on me. How do I continue to lightly imbibe and keep my body from mental and physical collapse?

[Galfon]

'Not to sit with a tear or a frown, but paddle your own canoe' is always sound advice.
Keeping enough control of the MP time/space co-ordinates to ensure the essential satiations should keep the collapso's on hold. You'll never win on the other thing so it's just damage limitation.