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Post by tzarine on Feb 8, 2024 10:45:28 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 9, 2024 16:57:03 GMT 2
I am reminded of what my mum and dad always said - “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2024 22:35:07 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2024 3:21:39 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 14, 2024 16:15:29 GMT 2
Some words pass me by, I know what they mean and I think no more on it. On of these was Sarcophagus, a stone coffin or such like. But then I came across Sarcopenia, and then Sarcophagy, Sarcophagy the practise of eating meat, from Sarcophagus flesh-eating. It appears that a certain type of limestone (sarkophagos lithos) speeds decomposition. Quite the opposite of the preservative properties that I associate with Sarcophagi. BTB Sarcasm implied flesh-stripping, excoriation. Sarcopenia, a tyoe if muscle loss that can occur in old age, which brings me to the bigger thing that I learned today. As I understand it undernutrition is used to imply a lack of nutrients even if there is a sufficiency of dietary calories. The article seems to refer to the UK but the study in PubMed linked to seems to be more general in scope. The direction of travel is stark. Whether it is chicken or egg, increasing loss of independence correlates with increasing lack of adequate nutrition.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2024 23:09:30 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 16, 2024 2:17:52 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 24, 2024 9:31:05 GMT 2
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 24, 2024 19:20:01 GMT 2
slow, back in the day certain cultures had burial practices where the body was placed in the flesh-eating sarcophagus... then a couple of years later they collected the bones and placed them in an ossuary for permanent burial...
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 25, 2024 1:00:40 GMT 2
My chiming clock may need replacing batteries, its chiming sounds twangy
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 25, 2024 8:44:53 GMT 2
slow, back in the day certain cultures had burial practices where the body was placed in the flesh-eating sarcophagus... then a couple of years later they collected the bones and placed them in an ossuary for permanent burial... I had wondered, but feared to ask, about bone cleaning practices. BTB I knew "Yorick": His and other family members Testimonies are archived at the JHI in Warsaw. From the bombing to the Uprising, it is not an easy read (English Translation)
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 25, 2024 9:15:31 GMT 2
Courtesy of Channel 4: Episode 2 of "New Zealand by Train (Northern Explorer)". It was a bit weird which may stem from it being a NZ/German co-production. It was all a bit "educational" I could almost hear the clacking of the 16mm school projector as I watched exotica from the Empire/Commonwealth/Dominions in primary school. But it was informative and almost everything in it was, for me, a learning experience as the camera journeyed form Auckland's yachts to Wellington' ferry port.
ETA: Apparently the bit in between the termini is called "Middle Earth".
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Post by tzarine on Feb 27, 2024 7:51:48 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 27, 2024 12:22:00 GMT 2
The offending word was central to a nursery rhyme, tongue twister, still common post WWII.
Really offensive is the sweep's murder of the London tongue
RE: Watership Down
Seen on a board outside a butchers:
Ypu've read the book. You've seen the film. Now eat the cast.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 28, 2024 8:13:01 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 6, 2024 6:25:20 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 8, 2024 10:02:18 GMT 2
About John of Montecorvino 1247 – 1328), first (only?) Archbishop of Peking (Dadu?). He translated the Christian New Testament and the Psalms into the Uyghur language, that being the common tongue of the ruling class (Kublai's Yuan Dynasty). He arrived before the return of the Polo family and died in Peking. ETA underscore on the link
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2024 5:01:58 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2024 18:28:28 GMT 2
Komorebi 木漏れ日 (pronounced kō-mō-leh-bē). Literally, “sunlight leaking through trees,” this word describes the beauty and wonder of rays of light dappling
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 12, 2024 20:41:10 GMT 2
that it's indeed a very simple lipoma.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 13, 2024 7:53:12 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 14, 2024 8:23:56 GMT 2
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Post by shrjeff on Mar 14, 2024 8:38:24 GMT 2
a few years ago we did a bordeaux river cruise and selected an excursion to a truffle farm... we had truffles in various preparations and concluded that it's a variation on the emperor's new clothes: if the fancy chef judge on tv doesn't detect it when the cook was seen shaving in lots, then the judge's palate is suspect - so they claim to taste it... i call b.s.! and a michelin starred restaurant can shave a bit on scrambled eggs and charge dozens of sterling for it!
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Post by tzarine on Mar 14, 2024 17:06:46 GMT 2
shrjeff
i concur - emperor's new clothes have been gifted truffle mustard, truffle oil the taste does nothing for me
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Post by Voy on Mar 14, 2024 23:27:35 GMT 2
I just reaffirmed my hatred of heat. over 85....yuck - and add humidity and I'm dead
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Post by tzarine on Mar 16, 2024 0:54:27 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 16, 2024 23:33:52 GMT 2
some people think i need this:
A Workshop for Shame and Sexual Energy
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 17, 2024 8:38:05 GMT 2
Shades of Wilhelm Reich, his life, downfall, and Orgone machines.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 19, 2024 23:46:25 GMT 2
Catherine the Great called the Qianlong Emperor "mon voisin chinois aux petits yeux" ("my Chinese neighbour with small eyes")
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Post by Voy on Mar 20, 2024 1:45:38 GMT 2
that after a really hard day, a day off - not leaving the house, catching up on chores ( mending and paying bills ) , and having TWO naps ...is really great !
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