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Post by tzarine on Jan 13, 2019 2:50:15 GMT 2
El hábito no hace al monje. means The habit does not make the monk
or Don’t judge a book by its cover.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 13, 2019 10:21:36 GMT 2
I have learnt what I already knew, this is a nice place to be. I shall name this place "PotterVille".
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 16, 2019 12:07:49 GMT 2
1) That you can purchase a set of blueprints and instructions for you very own DIY perpetual motion machine for just US$49. 2) That someone is dumb enough to think that anyone is sufficient stupid to buy it. 3) That dumb and stupid will inherit the Earth.
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Post by Voy on Jan 16, 2019 16:54:32 GMT 2
Oh dear, looks like the chunk of earth that is America has already been inherited.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 17, 2019 8:06:54 GMT 2
that cucumbers, cilantro, rice wine vineagar & sesame oil is a good combination
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Post by Ethel Mertz on Jan 17, 2019 8:11:06 GMT 2
I agree
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2019 3:40:53 GMT 2
Mono-no aware is the ephemeral nature of beauty – the quietly elated, bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can last
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Post by tzarine on Aug 12, 2019 22:26:35 GMT 2
some potholders are just too thin owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 13, 2019 22:38:22 GMT 2
some thin potholders are better than some thick ones that still let the heat through. hoping you are not badly hurt, txarine.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 14, 2019 19:10:06 GMT 2
thanks, annie just a minor burn
another couple divorced right before their youngest leaves for uni one of tzarevich's elementary school mates i was teaching the younger brother chinese for fun. he was really promising.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 14, 2019 22:56:14 GMT 2
What did I learn today? That I can still get riled up and fired up.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 15, 2019 2:55:31 GMT 2
some parents are quite stupid: "Hello families. My daughter will share room at the froshquad. What remedy is available if both girls are afraid of heights and neither will feel safe taking the top bunk?"
maybe have them get over their fear before you let them out of the house and your sight? let the girls figure it out? let them duel for the lower bunk?
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Post by tzarine on Sept 16, 2019 16:53:23 GMT 2
Se os invejosos pagassem impostos, havia muita gente ruinada!
translation: If there was a tax on jealousy, a lot of people would be bankrupt!
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Post by rikita on Sept 21, 2019 10:23:28 GMT 2
learned about a website where i can sort the population by different statistics from marketing polls, so i can look for example how many people in berlin of a specific income group own dogs and or think security is important or have been overseas in the last twelve months.
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Post by rikita on Sept 29, 2019 22:47:43 GMT 2
probably nothing new to most people, but i only tried it for the first time today - learned how to link to another youtube video in a youtube video (made a video just for the purpose of trying that out, with some cat fotos: youtu.be/ZqbMQudqqUU) ...
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Post by tzarine on Sept 29, 2019 23:56:38 GMT 2
being pretty is not the most important thing to teach your young daughters one shouldn't obsess about looks by posting photos of how hot you were 30 years ago
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Post by Netsuke on Sept 30, 2019 5:33:17 GMT 2
probably nothing new to most people, but i only tried it for the first time today - learned how to link to another youtube video in a youtube video (made a video just for the purpose of trying that out, with some cat fotos: youtu.be/ZqbMQudqqUU) ... I don't know how to link videos so you're ahead of me there. I "liked" your video.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 3, 2019 17:03:23 GMT 2
the origins of the word Dude (thanks, bbc)
Before there was ‘bro’, there was ‘dude’: that informal address that slaps you on the back with one hand, gives you a White Russian with the other, and says, ‘hey, I woke up at noon too, man’. For the past 20 years, Jeff Bridge’s portrayal of The Dude in the Coen Brothers’ film The Big Lebowski (1998) has epitomised the seductive spirit of dudeness. Dishevelled, stoned and disorientated, The Dude’s laid-back attitude is difficult to square with the artsy origin of the word itself, which seems to have entered popular discourse in the early 1880s as shorthand for foppishly turned-out male followers of the Aesthetic Movement – a short-lived artistic vogue that championed superficial fashion and decadent beauty (‘art for art’s sake’) and was associated with ostentatiously-attired artists such as James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
It’s thought that ‘dude’ is an abbreviation of ‘Doodle’ in ‘Yankee Doodle’, and probably refers to the new-fangled ‘dandy’ that the song describes. Originally sung in the late 18th Century by British soldiers keen to lampoon the American colonists with whom they were at war, the ditty, by the end of the 19th Century, had been embraced in the US as a patriotic anthem.
By then, an indigenous species of fastidiously over-styled popinjays had emerged in America to rival the British dandy, and it is to this new breed of primly dressed aesthetes that the term ‘dude’ was attached. Over time, the silk cravats and tapered trousers, varnished shoes and stripy vests worn by such proponents of the trend as Evander Berry Wall (the New York City socialite who was dubbed ‘King of the Dudes’) would be stripped away, leaving little more than a countercultural attitude to define what it means to be a Dude (or an El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing).
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Post by tzarine on Oct 24, 2019 1:57:18 GMT 2
asscher is the name of a cut of diamond
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Post by tzarine on Nov 1, 2019 17:10:58 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Nov 1, 2019 19:36:43 GMT 2
a new phrase from the weather forecast:leaf management !! ( for tomorrow when the high winds die down )..I guess there are too many people with leaf=blowers to say raking anymore. sheeesh.
here at the cabin I just let the wind do the work -and the rest can stay there over the winter and rot.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 3, 2019 20:02:45 GMT 2
some people should not reproduce children are not accessories to be adorned w expensive clothing
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Post by tzarine on Jan 19, 2020 2:55:39 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 19, 2020 4:52:38 GMT 2
My Father taught me to never believe everything you read, and my Mother taught me to always count your change before putting it in your purse! I'd say Dad was spot on! I don't believe a word of it, it's a load of bollocks! Australia may be down the list at 34th? spot did they say? Pffffft! I'd rather live in Australia than any of the listed "Top 10 Greatest Passports"! I mean, REALLY?!? Huh? UAE can't visit Israel and vv; Taiwan has problems with big, bad, China; The part of the world around some of those Euro countries are always fighting with themselves at some time; Some are too close to the Ruskies; Vanuatu is on just about every cruise ship's itinerary; AND, I wouldn't want to live in any of them!
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2020 8:06:32 GMT 2
Georgians usually make Churchkhela in Autumn when the primary ingredients, grapes and nuts, are harvested. It is a string of walnut halves that have been dipped in grape juice called Tatara or Phelamushi (grape juice thickened with flour), and dried in the sun.
& churchkhela is delicious!
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 28, 2020 9:54:42 GMT 2
yes, I got to try that, tzarine. it is indeed delicious.
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Post by rikita on Feb 2, 2020 1:36:02 GMT 2
in january, 10 people were killed in traffic accidents in berlin - two were cyclists (in both cases they kept the traffic rules). not sure if all the rest were pedestrians or if there were some car drivers, too, but i know at least two were pedestrians and were elderly, today we went to a vigil/demonstration for a 83 year old who died after being hit by a car around the corner from here ...
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 2, 2020 11:24:57 GMT 2
hugs, rikita. I remember the conversations about cycling in London when I lived in the UK. It seems whatever the rules may be, the bigger one will always win against the smaller one.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 6, 2020 21:10:34 GMT 2
more hugs, riki
დილა მშვიდობისა is good morning in georgian
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2020 22:09:37 GMT 2
these are boys names in my neighborhood: hogan grayson hampton
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