Refreshed (Happy Holidays To Everyone)
At the edge of the horizon beginning with the crack of dawn, there is a single moment, when time spans eternity, and life begins anew. Each day, in every life the world is clean, free of strife,...
View ArticleThe times they are a changing.
Would you believe that today I spotted a mother pushing her young child in a pushchair. Nothing unusual there you might say. But this particular mother was talking to her child, and even more worrying...
View Article100 years of RADIO
On 29. Oktober 1923, the first regular radio show went on air in Berlin. And thank you, Federal Post, for supporting with your transmitting equipment AND lowering the monthly charge from 60 to 2...
View ArticleWhat's the worst coffee worldwide?
Maybe a nice topic. I got meanwhile some experience with different coffees, although I'm not more a daily coffee drinker. And I got still the opinion, that instant coffee is not that worse as many...
View ArticleGeneral myths and "urban legends" on product quality
This is still an interesting topic to me, because until today, my impressions never changed. And I (and my father) got some experience of many years. Short story: Thirty years ago (31), my father and...
View ArticleOumuamua
Loungers: dawn your tinfoil fedoras! Have to say one of my favorite books is “Rendezvous with Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke and that immediately came to mind when this was first reported. How cool would it...
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BBC article: Teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
Usually when I discover someone like this, they're probably a member...but he's so hardcore, I don't think he has a computer. The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s Callum John Grubb is only 19 but...
View ArticleLunch, Anybody?
Searched around, couldn't find one. Here's a thread to post about lunch! Sandwiches, soups, salads, even leftovers from last night's dinner! What's on the menu for your midday meal? Today, I turned...
View ArticleIs it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?
Just a hunch or observation. For ME whether here or ebay, it has become harder to find a good home for our pre loved threads and hides.
View ArticleYou know you are getting old when:
There are thousands of jokes on the internet about this, like your back goes out more times than you do, but do you have any anecdotes that have made you walk away thinking: "I must be getting old?"...
View ArticleThe 80s, myth and reality?
Sadly, I'm born in 1984. And I'm very interested in how the 80s really were, especially in the US. How was it really, for the masses? Feel, atmosphere, popculture and all that?
View ArticleClean Jokes
I was just thinking that many a time I have gone into a bar and heard some of the funniest jokes there. Perhaps it is a bit indelicate of me to assume that we can do the same here but I will posit...
View ArticleChristmas Music
Okay. Let's have it. Post your Christmas Music. Good, Bad, and Ugly. Even if you think that Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey are the same person. They are really two different people. Even if all of my...
View ArticleExperimenting on foods.
Try this: A slice of bread with sugar-beet-syrup and sugar/cinnamon-mix (50/50) on top. Much better to me, than with nut-nougatcream!
View ArticleAny Hebrew speakers in the Lounge?
Bought a hat on eBay last week. A wide brimmed, high crown Borsalino in black, lovely hat. It came with a plastic hardshell hat case. Seller also in England, but either the case or most likely case and...
View Article"But I'm content with my life."
Today, when I came back from garden market, next to our secondary railroad, I had a great talk with another guy from our smalltown. When I walked to garden market, he came from there with a big...
View ArticleChores That You Really Hate(d)
Whether it was from our childhood or present day "Honey Do's" we all have or have had that one chore that we really hated. The one from my childhood was vacuuming, especially when you had to lug that...
View ArticleSo trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Have you ever typed a rather long response, carefully re-read it, checking for grammar and spelling mistakes, clicked submit............and then lost it, and you didn't store it previously? Nowadays. I...
View ArticleWhich funny videos are you watching?
Pizza Cat - Simon's Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsOYg5gpS0s
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