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So much depends on the circumstance. If I'm meeting a friend and we take turns to pay, or they are celebrating, I'll typically choose the same sort of thing I'd normally eat. If a friend is paying to mark an occasion I'll tone down my order a bit if I know they aren't awash with cash - I can...

As a child I burned really badly if I wasn't careful. One time when the sunburn started to weep I needed my parents to help me get out of bed because I was stuck to the sheets. These days I burn a lot less, but wear something to protect my head now my hair isn't thick enough to do the job any more.

Running, then wrecking. So far today I've pulled down a wall with a nasty undersized door in it, preserving most of the wood that made up the structure of the frame. The trim around the frame is nasty wood covered with more coats of paint than I can be bothered to strip away for what's unlikely...

How many can go older than this? For "used a floppy disk" was it 3.5", 5.25", 8"? What about using a cassette for loading and saving computer files? I remember accessing BBS services before the internet was really a thing, with the cover of a rotary phone removed so that the computer modem...

Were PDAs worthy of the name around in the 80s? I remember them being popular in the 90s and early 2000s, just trying to remember when things like the Apple Newton came out. I remember the 80s being the season of the fil-o-fax, proudly wielded by people who were less important than they liked to...

I find it hard to imagine anyone lived through the 80s without owning at least some cassettes or CDs. I remember having a pager for a short time - it was related to the job I had. I didn't stay long because I got a better job, so the pager went away. I also remember seeing people at...

In theory I'd have thought it wouldn't specifically promote the church itself, as long as the school was equally willing to hand out information for comparable events from mosques, synagogues, temples etc. My guess is that the people who would howl the loudest at a school refusing to hand out...

If a dog makes a noise that sounds like someone is being murdered I wonder why the owner thinks it's a good idea to keep it in an apartment.

That part of it is at least nominally neutral, although the next part about how "in the short term that means putting Donald Trump back in the White House" is anything but.

This sounds like typical dominionist garbage, the kind of thing I've come to expect from "Christian TV". If non-profit status is dependent on not endorsing political candidates they should certainly be sanctioned for breaking that term. I'm not familiar with the specific legislation so can't...

I got a run in yesterday unexpectedly. The forecast was for rain for most of the day but then it shifted - it was still very humid but the rain stopped for long enough to get out and run. Nothing particularly hard - fast repeats until my pulse pushed into my aerobic zone - but good to get a bit...

Maybe to see if you'll confess to something. If they pulled you over because a tail light was out and you confess to fleeing a robbery they can solve a crime without even trying. I don't suppose that happens very often but there are some pretty stupid criminals out there.

You can't always tell someone's home country if they arrive with no paperwork. If they arrive on a boat that isn't even seaworthy it's impossible to know where they set sail from, where they came from, what countries they passed through on the way and so on. Why Rwanda? Who knows. Maybe there's...

Thanks - it's been slower than I'd hoped but we're mostly back to normal. We're due rain tomorrow but maybe a bit of sunshine on Tuesday. Perhaps I can get a run in then.

I'm not sure medical qualifications are needed to determine that particular biological reality. I suspect you could grab just about anyone off the street and if they have one or more working eyes they could determine biological reality in 99% or more of cases.

Only light exercise for me for the last few days thanks to a nasty tummy bug that just won't quite let go. I've been doing some gentle running but some days even that feels like it's too much. And now the forecast is for rain for most of the week so I probably won't get to do anything meaningful...

Death isn't so bad, it's just the thought of feelng so stiff the morning after that's the trouble. More seriously, I think the process has more potential to be frightening than the end result of it all. It's also reasonable to be concerned about the people we leave behind.

Exactly. Even the rather vague terms like "people assigned female at birth" doesn't work because they are people observed female at birth. It's not like the doctor recording the birth just randomly picks a gender and assigns it to the child, they observe the child and record what is observed.

Seriously? You took that away from my post? Jesus said that even he doesn't know the exact time of the end, so it's safe to conclude that any mere mortal who thinks they know is blowing smoke. Let's face it, we're not going to know more about Jesus' return than Jesus, right? The Bible gives us...

How many times has it been accurately predicted according to Bible prophecy? None. How many times has it been inaccurately predicted according to Bible prophecy? Who knows. Why do people believe them? Probably for the same reasons people believe the nutjobs in any other field. When Jesus...