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HELP. More books are on their way.
Wednesday, 20-Nov-19 17:05:33 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I'm a fool. I bought and read the first two volumes of the Ranma ½ manga because it was super cheap on sale and I was curious. I think I like it?
Tuesday, 19-Nov-19 19:34:26 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony I forgot the sub-plot that everyone is a gamer because of phone game they play while on the toilet. ( a disgusting habit that should die ).
And everyone is a social media connoisseur because everyone is browsing Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, or 4Chan ( Yes, They know ! ) while in boring boardroom meetings.
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@scribus To be honest: my regular comics contain more tiddies per page than Ranma ½, like Rat Queens or Saga
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Why are lasers so expensive? I just want a 5500mW laser engraver without spending about 100€.
Monday, 18-Nov-19 20:01:17 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan made me think of https://youtu.be/Bh7bYNAHXxw?t=24
Also I am afraid that you can not even find a 3000 mW laser engraver marchine without spending at least the better part of a 100
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@drinkingpony There are full machines available that have a 40W CO2 laser for about 300€. Maybe I think about getting a 500mW laser for 30€ but it doesn't have a power supply (12V) but I guess I have one somewhere in the attic.
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Sometimes, when I get a Twitter follower, and I check their profile, I just know they are about to regret their decision. Catholic Mom, white lady boomer, you are about to get TrIgGeReD.
Sunday, 17-Nov-19 22:45:15 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony I'm glad none of that shows up on my dashboard, however discovering new content through tags or the "explore" page was a huge gamble as well. Twitter is not exempt of that too. I was browsing the VR tag and there were an uncomfortable amount of porn. I'm avoiding looking for new stuff in social media.
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@adiwan Wait, isn't it about the 1 year anniversary of the Tumblr Porn Ban ? ( man time goes REALLY slow doesn't it ? ) ... Howcome it is even on there ?
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@drinkingpony Life finds a way... also (automated) content filtering isn't flawless and manual review is costly. Honestly I haven't tried to discover new content on tumblr for a long time (longer than 2 years).
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Minute 37 and the cringe begins.
Friday, 15-Nov-19 18:47:08 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony The MLP episode of The Toys That Made Us on Netflix. There was only a brief segment about the male demographic of MLP fans. It was a bit cringy. Could have been definitely be worse. I flinched only twice during that.
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@adiwan I think I flinched twice while reading your explanation. They put anything on Netflix these days don't they ?
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Thankfully the cringe was very short. I expected it to be worse.
Friday, 15-Nov-19 18:51:14 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I'm barely prepared to cringe 45 minutes with the MLP episode of The Toys That Made Us. Any time "bronies" are mentioned it is hard for me not to cringe. Compulsively retracting all my muscles in disgust.
Friday, 15-Nov-19 18:15:06 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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A new episode of The Mandalorian and The Toys That Made Us has a new season out today. Much to binge.
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I want a AMD 3950X CPU
Thursday, 14-Nov-19 19:10:28 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I wanna know if there are double AM4 socket motherboards yet.
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@drinkingpony As far as I know only the server and expensive workstation CPUs have multi-socket motherboards.
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@adiwan Yeah, I know. But I still want it.
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I'm preparing my CNC router for a minor upgrade. I plan to attach a plastic canvas cover for the rails and the threaded rod such that the crap I cut doesn't land on them. It's not an expensive upgrade or a technical improvement but more an improvement for maintenance and convenience. I was cutting some clear plastic (polystyrene) and that stuff was magically drawn to the lubricated rails and threaded rod. I had to wipe everything off and lubricate again.
Tuesday, 12-Nov-19 19:59:32 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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By now it's a tradition to change the "Han shoots first" scene with each new release. I was once on the purist side of the fandom who wanted the unaltered scene but now I've grown out of that attitude and just watch the drama from the outside with no emotional investment.
Tuesday, 12-Nov-19 19:28:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Stuff I need to ask an actual German:
What is the difference between "Haferkleie" and "Haferflocken"Tuesday, 12-Nov-19 15:08:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony So... Baby oil is made from babies?
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@adiwan Oh come on, we both played that flash game back in 1999 or something.
Google do not fail me now...
Well I hope google bumps uglies with a cactus, duckduckgo gave me the thing I wanted in one ( misspelled ) try http://rainbowdash.net/url/875310
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@adiwan It's in the name isn't it ?
Is menthol powder made from menthol ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I want to buy art from an artist (Joshua Wright https://joshuawrightart.bigcartel.com/ ) but always when I receive the Patreon notification email that his art is available it's already sold out.
Monday, 11-Nov-19 19:01:49 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Ferragus ? Histoire des treize ? What ? I am so confused.
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@adiwan He has a NAME ?!?
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Rick & Morty is back!
Monday, 11-Nov-19 14:49:44 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I just had the new She-Ra explained to me by a die-hard fan of the old series
Essentially she thinks it is like taking a beloved franchise that she feels she has supported thoughout the years, by buying merch and all. Someone got their hands on that IP because essentially you can not 'make' a new IP work in the modern oversaturated world. Then added so many new borderline cringe modern 'themes' to it till it pretty much only resembled the beloved She-Ra only in name. I mean For Fox's Sake (I choose to believe she actually said 'For Fox's Sake') they put a first draft D&D character into the show for crying out loud.
Imagine your grandmother learned you how to make granny's apple pie, and then 20 years later she asks you to make her some apple pie just like how she used to like it. Only to have a conversation not even 5 seconds after gramma tasting it about "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU TOOK OUT THE ASBESTOS ?!?"
Strange woman, but made some sense.
I only know 1 person who likes new She-Ra.Sunday, 10-Nov-19 19:07:30 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony I find most people who complain about "what they've done to my beloved (X)" are upset that (X) is anything more than a 22-minute syndicated toy advert now. "My Little Pony, but with a PLOT and ACTION and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!? Clutch my pearls for me, I'm so weak..."
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@scribus Bad example. I liked the original MLP, G2 too, G3 however can go straight to the trash IMHO. Oh and if anyone remembers G3.5. Stop doing that. Thanks :)
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@drinkingpony Yeah, I knew it wouldn't make the best example, but for some reason it felt oddly topical...
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"Dolemite is my name" is great.
Saturday, 09-Nov-19 12:38:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Disney+ is starting end of March next year in Germany. Gonna put on my eye patch and put a fake accent. Arrrrr.
Friday, 08-Nov-19 10:41:07 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan It won't even have the Mickey Mouse Breakfast Club ! I call hax !
Eyepatches are fancier than streaming services, Arrr.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony To be honest: I'd be willing to pay for it just for the convenience sake but that limitation of access makes it very hard.
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@adiwan I would be willing to pay for a LOT of conveniences. But things like "Oh yeah, you are not going to get that specific thing you wanted" ( like with the whole F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Netflix thing, since they were on, and then off, and then on again, and made a couple shows unavailible since they were bad in current era ) or "we are going to split the market in order to give more choice to you, the consumer. Oh do not worry about paying more, that is the price of progress baby" / "We are going to break the monopoly by screaming at it really hard with 'our' monopoly" ( Such as with Steam vs Epic or Netflix vs HBO-Go vs Peacock vs Amazon Prime vs HBO Now vs CBS All Access vs YourMomTV )
Oh hey guess what, I found my old Jolly Roger Tricorne with matching outfit.
I look, fancy :DJonathan Chouinard likes this.
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It seems like that anything that remotely benefits the general populous in the USA is seen as socialist or communist by somebody in power with financial (self-)interest.
Thursday, 07-Nov-19 10:52:57 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Aye comrade!
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@adiwan Well now I am just reminded of that time this happened http://rainbowdash.net/url/875298 , haha :D
( The backstory to this is even more hilarious )
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@drinkingpony I don't see anything wrong there. This is a beaaaautiful rendition.
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I hate when food goes bad before the expiration date.
Wednesday, 06-Nov-19 17:16:04 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony It was a spread cheese (with herbs) that was half hard and half liquid and it tasted/smelled like a blue cheese. Totally not it's supposed to be.
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@adiwan It's ohkay, I forgive you. You probably did not kno....
Wait, spread-cheese ? Never trust a cheese that can be convinced to do your bidding with a breadknife.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I sometimes eat mo(u)ld cheese like Brie or Camembert. I eat spread cheese more likely at the morning because I have sometimes problems swallowing chunkier stuff on the bread.
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The great thing about having vacation is that you can binge a new season when it is getting dropped. I watched all of She-Ra Season 4 today. Would I binge it if I had a normal work day: yes.
Tuesday, 05-Nov-19 17:14:56 UTC from web- Scribus and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@scribus How about Earth Worm Jim ?
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@drinkingpony Groovy!
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@scribus Well that could be either of two Jim's I know really, But I think it was not Carrey in the cartoon of the 90's
{googles} It was Rob Paulsen. And he has Animaniacs TBA for 2020. Hmm. Either awesome or cringe time for cartoon fans.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Bought jasmin tea. It's not my cup of tea.
Monday, 04-Nov-19 17:50:30 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Regarding the mysterious packet that I didn't order and is at the customs office: I cannot get it because I lack a confirmation of purchase. So I will never know what exactly was in there. It'll haunt me until death.
Monday, 04-Nov-19 08:41:52 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Orrrr, you could just lie your way into seeing the contents and then getting the right reciept... Or not if you do not think the content is worth it.
But I know you are not comfortable with that.
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@drinkingpony The customs office will send it back. I'd like to know what this random person from Donguang China has sent me. Lying and commit a fraud is not worth my time and the risk.
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@adiwan Its not lying and committing fraud if you genuinely thought it was the thing you provide the reciept for.
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Today at the flea market was frustrating. Everywhere I looked FIFA games. One seller had all FIFA games from 2006 onwards to 2015. I don't understand the dedication for this.
Sunday, 03-Nov-19 22:00:48 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony It needs a lot of self-hate to buy a sports game and doing it repeatedly.
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@adiwan Fans are gonna fan, untill something happens that makes them not want to be a fan anymore.
I remember reading about some guy who had made a MCU-Wall, containing the DVD cover for every Marvel Superhero movie ever released, complaining about how he did not really like one particular movie but was still deadset on getting the thing for his wall since else his collection would be incomplete ( this was years ago )
Extreme fans gonna extreme fan I guess.
Hell, kinda reminds me of this 2 hour long thing of some guy who was harassing a movie critic on Discord for a debate for his opinion on a movie was SO WRONG he simply had to correct the narrative, or at least attempt to, it was a total fail and is probably one of the best examples of how to learn from other people's mistakes ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/875292 ) Its quite humorous at times, but I am not sure if I can recommend it unless if you got 2 hours to waste.
( Such as when on CCTV monitor duty at work at night)
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@drinkingpony Oh, right, the punchline. At one point this guy ( the one who repeatedly went "DEBATE ME ! DEBATE ME !" ) had to admit that the movie just was not that defendable, or even good. But then he said "But you are still going to get the blueray/dvd right" and was promptly laughed at in a "Haha, but why tho ? We dislike/hate the movie"
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Star wars news : Cnet made an article called "Star Wars has never been better, thanks to Disney". But if you read it there is an entire section of the article that do nothing but praise things that either just came out or are still in the pipeline.
Then you read the comments and the most upvoted one just JUMPS at the opportunity to say "Oh [editor], I just love your article. [ ... ] I just love how all the toxic comments prove your point"
Meanwhile all I can think of is. The failure of Solo. The total halt of Star Wars Story movies. Creative freedom was being called to a complete halt by LucasArts. Toy Sales are down the drain. Galaxy's edge is effectively 'empty'. Ryan Johnson did not get his trilogy. D&D told no to Star Wars in favour of Netflix. Rise of Skywalker is STILL being worked on. And I am not even going to touch the whole 'Star Wars Adventures' thing while making Leia a 'woke woman'
But wait, I think it is a Disney Shill Plant, after all, it is Cnet. And who owns Cnet ?Saturday, 02-Nov-19 18:21:42 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Solo was mediocre at best, but lets agree to disagree. You are right regarding being too close to TLJ though. But then again we are pretty much talking about the mother of all cataclysmic events that drove the fandom in twain.
If the people were not so split on TLJ like they were, then things like 'fandom fattigue' never got invented and we probably would not have much negative stuff to say about Solo.
Well, other than the directors of Solo being fired at 90% completion of the movie over 'creative differences' and the thing going out of budget by several dozen millions. The 'news' that comes out later to patch up that hole seems awfully convenient to say the least where actors speak out against the fired directors.
But hey, those are in the same category of people that said that Alden Ehrenreich needed on site coaching how to be more like Han Solo. I call out Nepotism. I reckon you would not have had this problem if you hired Ross Marquand ( I am kidding, a bit )Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I have a soft spot for the film. I cannot help myself. Probably you have some films that are not very excelling but you like them nonetheless.
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@adiwan Ehmm, no ? I have a list of terribly bad good movies ( Machette, Iron Sky, Kung Fury, Hobo With a Shotgun, Sharknado, Surf Nazi's Must Die, Hercules in New York, Poultrygeist : Night of the Chicken Dead, Batman ( Clooney ) & Robin, Face/Off ) that are filled with "haha, oh my, I can not believe they did that, haha"
I can only guess that is what you mean with 'not very excelling but like them nontheless"
I also have a list of Terrible Terrible movies ( Troll 2, Birdemic, Laserblast, Cool Cat saves the kids, the frEd movies, The Last Airbender ( M Knight ) foodfight ) that make me point at the screen and make horror faces like that one scene from Body Snatchers, you know the one.
I mean, unless if I tone down 'like' to 'could watch it again instead of playing video games'. Then you get movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Police Academy, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Naked Gun, Die Hard ( Best Xmas movie ), Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Liar Liar, and Wreck it RalphJonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Aaaaand my CNC is dead. It coughed up magic smoke. A resistor blew up while trying to troubleshoot the problem of the non-moving and squealing Z Axis. It turned out to be a coil that squealed. The motor was conveniently behind the mainboard so I misinterpreted that as a faulty motor. I bought stepper motors for nothing. I can reuse them for something else. Like making a 3D printer from scratch but it won't be anytime soon.
I contacted Amazon support and they offer a refund. So I bought a new one. The marketplace seller was uncooperative and didn't answered after a week of silence.
I just ordered a replacement that is slightly cheaper from another seller.Saturday, 02-Nov-19 17:04:52 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan At least that story had a good enough ending, even if it took a week for Amazon to step in and pimpslap someone who deserved a pimpslap.
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@drinkingpony It was an Amazon Marketplace item and only shipped by Amazon. So I had to contact the seller first and the seller had two days to reply. I waited a few days longer and contacted Amazon and they solved it immediately.
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Just got mail from the customs office for an item I can't remember. I tried to cross reference with my emails with the given shipper information but I cannot find what it is exactly. In the content description are only vague notes like "PCB" or "Development Board" but so far I got everything I ordered.
Saturday, 02-Nov-19 12:42:39 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan We all have a friend that recieved something double, for some reason all of the times I heard my friends 'brag' about it it was about rather powerful video cards.
Probably going back at least 10 years or so.
Maybe it is your lucky day. Ehmm, actually, I do not even halfway think that a PCB could cost that much unless if the name of the device is rather unknown, obscure, or less than legal.
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@drinkingpony Haha. No death ray. The most perplexing fact is that it was sent on October 30th. A few days ago, from China via express shipment. I looked at my bank account and nothing was out of the expected. The last thing I ordered from China were 3D printer board (that I've received) and a plushie for a relative's birthday (that I've also received). The customs office letter says that I have to bring a bill, purchase contract, or something that verifies its value and transaction. If I do nothing until the end of next week it'll be sent back. My curiosity is big enough to go to the customs office and see what it is.
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"But the Oxford definition is THUS!" "Ah! But Webster says YOU are DUMB!" "oh-ho? Well, Encyclopedia Brittanica says YOUR MOM!!"
Friday, 01-Nov-19 16:43:21 UTC from web-
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@scribus Last time I trusted a book I ended up summoning Cthulhu in power armour...
Never again. Books are evil, the more words the eviller.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Tried watching "Hazbin Hotel" but I turned off the video after 8 minutes. As much as I appreciate the hard work it does not resonate with me. Up to that time it was as "hyperactive" as the internet and that turned me off. There was always something happening without any second to take a breath.
Thursday, 31-Oct-19 16:49:55 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Because of a man vandalizing a church door a long time ago I have today a holiday, which conveniently extends my vacation by one day.
Thursday, 31-Oct-19 16:39:36 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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The popcorn I bough is the worst. About 1/5th of all kernels don't pop. It was even more expensive than the popcorn I usually bought.
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