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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 22, 2016 14:33:33 GMT 2
Francois Hollands is the least popular president since the French fifth republic came into being in the 50s. Finally he announced he wouldn't run for president next year - and his popularity has increased by 4%.
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 22, 2016 17:54:40 GMT 2
this could be a bit hilarious if it weren't desperately scary.(thinking of the French situation in the current global political climate.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 23, 2016 11:26:33 GMT 2
A headline in today's Guardian:
"Good news! You probably won't be killed by a sex robot."
But that "probably" is a bit disturbing.
Oh, and there's that story of that Frenchwoman who is in love with a robot she designed and 3D printed herself. She refuses to say whether they have actual sex. Refusing to say something usually means Yes.
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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 23, 2016 13:19:28 GMT 2
Isaac Asimov -
"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 23, 2016 14:08:43 GMT 2
I had an odd conversation queueing up at the Waitrose café.
Woman: Is that item free? Baz: No, you have to pay for it. Woman staring at me as if I'm mad: I mean is it gluten free? Baz in turn staring at its label: Yes. She bought something else.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 24, 2016 19:06:24 GMT 2
According to a professor at Reims University the average glass of champagne has 1 million bubbles. Am I alone in finding this bit of research very suspect?
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 26, 2016 4:33:32 GMT 2
Finally - something to report. Turned on the computer, typed "the meeting pot" in the address line and the second site said 05 Dec 1940 - GOVERNMENT IN THE MEETING POT. - Trove. GOVERNMENT IN THE MEETING POT - Really? Government in the meeting pot
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 26, 2016 18:27:57 GMT 2
Another dubious bit of research. Some Swedish academics with too much time on their hands have estimated that hotel cleaners spend 2 million hours a year folding the end of toilet paper rolls into an arrow shape.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 27, 2016 14:05:25 GMT 2
Dead Pigs in the streets, not that unusual but always odd.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 27, 2016 19:08:01 GMT 2
Beaucaire, a town in southern France near Nimes, has named a street: rue de Brexit. The mayor says it is to honour those people in Britain who voted to leave the EU. However it turns out the street is in an industrial zone and as people have pointed out it is a circular street that leads nowhere.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 28, 2016 14:01:43 GMT 2
The river Frome passes through Chipping Sodbury. This morning I was surprised to see - about 400 metres from our house - a car sitting in the river.
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Post by Voy on Dec 28, 2016 15:11:00 GMT 2
a few days ago, Baz posted : "Francois Hollands is the least popular president since the French fifth republic came into being in the 50s. Finally he announced he wouldn't run for president next year - and his popularity has increased by 4%." In todays news there was an article that this gives Chis Christie ( Gov of NJ ) something to aim for !
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 28, 2016 16:01:32 GMT 2
How can you be sure it was seated, beyond it having seats?
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 28, 2016 18:58:33 GMT 2
William Hill (bookmakers) have said that if you had had a treble bet of £1 on Leicester being football champions, Britain voting to leave the EU and Trump being voted president you would have won £4.5 million.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 28, 2016 19:48:31 GMT 2
How can you be sure it was seated, beyond it having seats? Because there were no legs visible.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 28, 2016 20:15:13 GMT 2
Just standing in deep water, or lying down in a puddle.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 28, 2016 20:17:41 GMT 2
Definitely or ly
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 30, 2016 19:12:48 GMT 2
After Obama visited Kenya in 2015 one mother named her baby Airforceone.
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 30, 2016 23:38:17 GMT 2
Seen in Coles supermarket yesterday. I just had to buy one.
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Post by rikita on Dec 31, 2016 2:26:14 GMT 2
saw something just like this a year or two ago in the garbage can in front of my house ... wonder if i will see it again this year ...
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 31, 2016 10:29:18 GMT 2
I saw some fumitory flowering.
That is an oddity in this season, methinks.
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 31, 2016 14:11:07 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 31, 2016 14:16:00 GMT 2
For my part, I have seen (only the top of the head of) a man seemingly absorbed in checking the back of the terraced houses here, from the back alley. Hopefully, it is not sign of upcoming burglary.
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Post by rikita on Dec 31, 2016 14:20:49 GMT 2
probably not all that odd - in germany, the amount of public holidays varies by region, bavaria having the most. in a recent survey people were asked what they thought of the idea of making it the same amount (the number they have in bavaria) in the whole country. the region where most people were against that idea was bavaria ...
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 31, 2016 14:28:17 GMT 2
Ooo, that's a difficult question (even if your link worked). Checking that page: it seems that there are other fumitories that grow in Spain, I would have to check them all! It is at least possible, as it looks to me like the fumitories I have seen in the UK. A charming plant, very common here.
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 31, 2016 16:19:57 GMT 2
ah. how odd... umh... only check them if you feel like it. this is just to give you an inkling of its possible uses.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 1, 2017 14:43:00 GMT 2
I knew there was a bit of Spain (Llivia) entirely within France. Today I discovered there is a bit of Italy (Campione d'Italia) within Switzerland.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jan 1, 2017 15:31:55 GMT 2
Spent a holiday with some mates abroad. One had a chat up line whereby he'd approach a girl and ask if she had any English in her. When she replied she didn't he'd say, "Would you like some?"
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 2, 2017 18:50:50 GMT 2
Derby Council suspended all garbage collection for a fortnight over Christmas and New Year. Bearing in mind that at best there is only one collection a week this means it will be 3 weeks between collections. Some jobsworth at the council has said that people must not dump their food rubbish out in the street; instead they should store it in their freezer.
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Post by sophie on Jan 2, 2017 18:54:20 GMT 2
Baz, out in our neck of the world, we routinely put meat and fish scraps in the freezer until right before garbage pick up as bears and raccoons will (or will try) to get into it.
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