MrsDoyle

Yup, myPhonak. They’d better be mine, given the cost!

Thanks for the info!

Not even just the hereditary peers - there are also the 26 Anglican bishops, and the politically appointed lords, eg Mandelson. Senators for life, basically.

there’s always lunch ideas for tomorrow

Exactly. The missing ingredients are going on my shopping list.

It’s 1:30am where I am, and now I want one of your tacos. How could you do this to me? I don’t even have most of the ingredients in the house.

Too late for me. But thanks for telling me my computer wasn’t good enough for Win 11 and forcing me to install Linux. It was a breeze, and computing is fun again.

I read about Ruby Bridges when I was a child in NZ, it made a huge impression on me.

https://uppercrust.co.uk/menu/

Love a well-packed baguette.

They’ve wrapped their entire sense of identity in working, their role at work

Speaking as an actual boomer, that is true of the men of my generation in particular. Many of them have zero hobbies or interests outside work, to the extent that retirement can kill them through depression. Their wives raised their children and run their social lives for them, and they often don’t even have their own friends. So if their wife dies or leaves, they have to get another one or face the emptiness. These same men usually harbour huge resentment against women in general, blame us for ruining everything with our feminist nonsense. I’ve spent more than 50 years of my adult life dealing with these arseholes. My male friends are mostly much younger.

I’ve also just moved to Linux (my first computer ran on MS-DOS) and it was easy peasy. Moving my data over was taking a while, so I stepped out to brings the bins in. Slipped on ice and am now in hospital, recovering from surgery to a wrecked knee. Looks like I’ll have plenty of time to move the data when I get home.

Just now posted about him, what a car crash of a guy.

This fellow for starters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

His family and their church were super strict about everything, he had lots of similar stories.

Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt called for careful consideration of the way forward to protect Samoa from religious extremism and violence.

Anecdotal for sure, but someone I know was brought up Catholic in Samoa. Aged about five he was caught in the heinous sin of playing football on the Sabbath. His punishment was kneeling on concrete for hours holding a Bible in each outstretched arm. I doubt there’s worse “religious extremism and violence” going on than torturing a child for playing.

That looks very appetising, especially the raw fish. I love all the fresh bright colours.

What worries me is that these Boko Haram arses have kidnapped lots of children and young women over the years - I fear some could be killed in these strikes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nigeria-mass-abduction-boko-haram-girls-kidnapped-reports-isis/

I was completely underwhelmed by Times Square. For a start, it isn’t really a square? It just seemed to be a street, and not an interesting street. Big billboards yes, but so what. Recently I visited Tokyo, and took a look at the Shibuya Scramble. That’s more like what I expected Times Square to be.

(Not my pic.)

Ooooh, ok. I didn’t think a silly hat would have such a dramatic effect.

He’s wearing a T-shirt, I think in an accident his helmet snagging would be the least of his worries.

I’m about to pull the plug on Windows because MS says I need to replace my PC to install Win 11. Nothing wrong with my PC at all, it runs fine. So I’ve flashed a usb stick, checked the Linux distro will run ok, backed up my data and am ready to go. Just have to get a day free of distraction…

I got my first PC in 1983 I think it was. Second-hand, running MS-DOS. I’ve done a lot of computing since then, at work as well as home, almost always Windows. I’ve had Linux on an ancient laptop for a few years, various distros. I like to tinker, so that aspect of Linux doesn’t put me off at all.