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What do you think of your neighbors?
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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Mine are all in laws, I get along with them fine. It's not like they are real close anyways, not like city living.
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How much ya Wrench?
by Sinister- 4 replies
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Who remembers that old SNL skit? Any other wrench turners in here? If so what have you worked on lately? Professional and shade tree welcome 🙂 I had to take this corroded Fuse Panel and rebuild it using this... Finished product, my fingers hurt for days.
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For kicks
by Lann- 2 followers
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What do you do for kicks? Small or big. Why do i ask? It seems sometimes something might feel missing, or things simply feeling way too everyday ordinary. So, what do you do about it?
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Retirement and $
by Lann- 2 followers
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Today the swedish system builts on retirement at age 65, and i imagine that once(if) i get there it will have moved a few years up. I also estimate income will drop to about 50% of ones salary while working, assuming i work up til then. So preparing finacially for retirement is a must. That will likely include stocks and/or funds. Are there anyone else who look into these type of areas, like stocks and the market, and strategies preparing for retirement?
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Ireland: what can you tell me about it?
by Spinnaker1981- 1 follower
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Ok, has most of you know, I am a Pharmacist in Portugal. A couple of days ago I was offered a position in Ireland as a Pharmacist in one of their pharmacy networks. I know the weather is not the same as in Portugal and I know the pay is very good compared to what we get payed in Portugal. I have been doing some research (technical and registration) and I have been doing some research on prices as well, but there is nothing like local knowledge. I do plan on going there beforehand, but that is also just a small glimpse of what might be to come. Anyone around here, with more knowledge of the country than me, to enlighten me on what I a…
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What is this?
by Lann- 3 followers
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I see its a spider, but does anyone know what kind?
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9/11
by Pb76- 10 replies
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Never forget It’s now 18 years, can you remember where you were when the news broke? how did you feel? How did it change your life?
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I'm 20.
by Schema_Slix- 3 followers
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Far from an adult though. I am under no obligation to grow up!
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Where in the world have you been? 1 2
by Squirrel- 3 followers
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After some shoutbox discussions of seeing where people have been to I thought I’d create a thread where we can share where we’ve been. https://map1.maploco.com/visited-countries/ This site doesn’t seem too bad in terms of ads and you can get a screenshot of the world map showing how far you’ve travelled. I definitely need to get out of Europe!
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Caption Competition
by CatManDoza- 15 replies
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Thought I'd start a bit of fun with a caption competiton. This is in no way stolen from Uncle's thread over on GTAF (ok maybe it is), but though it could be a good laugh if enough people fancy it. I'll start off with a picture from my collection, but I openly encourage anyone to PM me their pics for future use. THey can be from GTA, RDR, or anything else that tickles your tastebuds. I'll run it myself and pick a winner, this way everyone that wants to have a go can, no one needs to sit out to be a voter. Will post a new picture each Monday, and announce the winner for the previous week on either a Saturday or a Sunday, time permitting. This openin…
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I've been playing PS for a long time now and I've come across some incredibly odd and deranged names of our gaming peers over the years. I can't recall ALL of the ones that had me scratching my head or bursting out laughing - but here's a few standouts worth mentioning: - iEatAss4Cash (PS3) - UnicornMeatSauce (PS4) - FluffyTigerNuts (PS4) And no, I did not make these up. That said, what are some fucked up names you've seen? Totally for fun.
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Things done different 1 2
by Lann- 3 followers
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We had visitors from New Zealand for christmas. They were surprised that we always have our babies take their naps outside. Summertime we put a net over the stroller, wintertime tuck them down so all you see if their face. I guess it might be due to them having alot of dangerous animals or something. But the babies sleep alot better outside. Have you ever came across something your people do that others find weird?
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How to profit
by Lann- 2 followers
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If you were asked that during the next year turn $50K into $60K legally, how would you attempt it?
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You are banned! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 38 replies
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Thought I would start up a game I have played on a few forums before called ‘You are banned!’. Don’t panic if you read this while on holiday Hatch, just a bit of fun. You simply ban the person who last posted for whatever reason comes into your head. You cannot dispute a ban, all bans are final, you are banned until you ban someone else! There is no post before this one for me to ban someone so I just have to sit here and wait until I get banned...
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Smoke alarms
by Lann- 1 follower
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My son had a homework counting and testing the smoke alarms in the home. We counted 10 working fine and two in need of new batteries. Do you have any?
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So @pete_95973 started this off in the chatbox and I think it's an interesting thing to think about... Cats, hyenas and pigs were mentioned. Also otters and a specific dog breed - mini pinscher - were brought up. I'm surprised no-one mentioned camels or asses(pun intended) a.k.a donkeys! Camels keep spitting, looking at folks indifferently while chewing and even ignore people. Donkeys can be stubborn as f***. Also certain types of eagles - "sharing" is definitely not in their vocabulary.
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Was it something your parents told you to make you behave? Something your mates told you as a joke?
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Spring/Summer to do list?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what is on your to do list once the warm weather gets here (it's not to far away)? Mine is Put new roof on garage Fix roof on barn Build Alpaca items store and website (if you come to USA @Danielle be sure to swing by) Begin total restoration of GMC Yukon Several trees need taken out Build new bridge at the wedding chapel Convert boat trailer into a car trailer Plus all the weekly, daily shit like mowing....
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Parrots
by JustHatched- 20 replies
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Seems me and @Paulie have a common interest but anyone is free to chime in Tell me about this Conure you have Paulie I currently have an African Grey (will post pic when I take one) but have had a Green Cheek Conure (best of all the birds I have had), Quaker Parrots, c*ckatiels, and Budgies
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What sites do you use to create Decals
by al_ka_seltzer- 6 replies
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I use vectorizer.io to convert JPEGS & svgomg if I need to lose more kb. I here some use Inkscape to trace images, but having tried it I found it a nightmare. There are some awesome Decals out there, but whats the best system for you?
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T shirt logos
by JustHatched- 4 replies
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If you wear T Shirts, and those with printing on them do you prefer large print in the front or the back of the shirt. I only ask my mother keeps buying my shirts with big Metallica logos on the front, and while I love Metallica and the shirts look cool I don't have the hear to tell her I will never wear them cuz I do not like having stuff on the front of my shirts. Feels like I am wearing a sheet of plywood on my chest.
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Going to Disney World
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Figured since @pete_95973 and @djw180 posted where they are going I would also @WasHatched and his high school band were invited to play at Disney at the end of March, I am going with him. We'll be there for 8 days. I am a chaperone for a bunch of kids, fun fun....
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I know you have similar issues with your kitty too
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Totally ripping off the title of Pete's recent thread, but anyway .. Me and my wife have just booked a Caribbean cruise, kind of a joint 50th birthday special holiday. Unfortunately we will not be there whilst the England Cricket team are touring, so I have no idea of what to do to pass the time. We'll be visiting Barbados, St Maarten, British Virgin Islands, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, St Vincent, Antigua, St Lucia and Grenada. At the end of March. Any recomendations of things to see or avoid?
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Travelling to Italy - any suggestions?
by pete_95973- 1 follower
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I am getting married in April and just 3 days after the wedding my new wife and I will be off to Italy for our honeymoon. Neither of us have ever been. Neither of us have even been to Europe. We will be spending 4 days and 3 nights in Rome. Our hotel and room has a view of the Colosseum! Then we will take a train to Florence and spend two nights there in a beautiful Villa. Then from there we take a train to Venice where we will spend our final 3 nights. So far the only thing we have planned officially is that we booked a Vatican and Colosseum tour with one of the companies that allows you to skip the lines and have your own english speaking tour guide. With th…
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233Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
@LimeGreenLegend I remember watching some of Threads when at school, maybe a year or so after it was released, as part of an English project on nuclear weapons. I didn't live in Sheffield then, which I seem to recall making it seem more distant and as teenagers we kind of dismissed it with a "this can't happen to us" type of attitude. I do intend watching it at some point, I noticed it on iplayer, probably not this weekend.- 1
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