The General Chat Thread (2024)

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
So I can't fix the chook door
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Buying a soldering iron will hopefully help you.
An ordinary table lamp is what I let my Mom have. The purpose being to light it in the kitchen, when she is in there, so that my Dad can see the light and find her. Sort of signaling she is in that room.
As they are both deaf (from early in their childhoood onwards), they do rely on light signals both for the doorbell and the alarmclock ( back in the days prior to retirement). Plus my Dad's sight is rather bad, I'd say 25% on 1 eye for now.
So, we will let ghe lamp do 8ts task and see if it helps.
My Dad feels lost and bad when he thinks my Mom is out. She is rarely out, she may go to the store or pharmacy 3,4 x a week, but 90% of the time she is home.

I visited my parents this morning, and my Mom was angry again at my Dad. He woke her up at 2 am, grabbing her by her hand in panic of imagined burglers intruding. There were none. He played it out in his mind.

Like a peacekeeper, i tried to explain he is sick. Zo both of them. I doubt it was successful. But I went on to organize the next 3 medical terms, my Dad's lab and therapy and dentist appointments, and measured his blood pressure. Then left.

I reflected on whether another lamp, perhaps a nightlamp would be beneficial for my Dad' night fears...but it would interfere with my Mom's sleep. Don't know.
 
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My eldest has just got his results and now has BSc after his name. I'm so so soooo proud of him. It was a really tough course and they battered them from start to finish. Most of the people he started with left because it was too much. But he's a determined thing and he refused to be defeated by it.

There were points when it nearly broke him and they were IMO outstandingly rude to him during his viva. They seem to treat it like an opportunity to try and break you, to tear down your work.

Anyway. He made it.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
and more than a little relieved!
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
My eldest has just got his results and now has BSc after his name.
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Congratulations to you and your eldest!
as for the viva voce, back in my day it was only used when there was a borderline case between a 2:1 and a 1st.
Professors who use that to boost their egos or belittle students should probably be made to do National Service :laugh:
 
karadekoolaid said:
Congratulations to you and your eldest!
as for the viva voce, back in my day it was only used when there was a borderline case between a 2:1 and a 1st.
Professors who use that to boost their egos or belittle students should probably be made to do National Service :laugh:
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You have got an amazing sense of humour.
Laughed so much at that 😆
 
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This ones for TastyReuben. As I had a tiny bit of left over mixture from something else I was doing and you know - waste not want not, I decided to fry it.
The pics for you TR because the idea of frying on a gas hob and the cleaning up afterwards did not appeal to you one bit, me neither!
These are my frying towels catching any disobedient fats and saving me much cleaning, well worth the minute it takes to put them round a pan.
I do the same on the induction hob in Spain with 3 dedicated tea towels, works well.

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Ugh, we’re entering a solid week of extreme heat warnings, with daily highs in the 90’s and heat indexes at or just above 100F (38C). :heat:🥵 🫠
 
TastyReuben said:
Ugh, we’re entering a solid week of extreme heat warnings, with daily highs in the 90’s and heat indexes at or just above 100F (38C). :heat:🥵 🫠
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We've been having that for weeks. Got a reprieve last week with pretty much solid rain, but that caused its on set of problems.

But, there's no such thing as global warming you know...
 
medtran49 said:
But, there's no such thing as global warming you know...
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You know, when I was a kid in the 70’s, we’d see news reports and hear warnings in science class about how if we didn’t change our ways, the planet would be flooded or the temps would rise to intolerable levels, but it was always like 150 years off, so it was in one ear and out the other.

Now it’s, “Oh, guess what? We’re predicting a blizzard for June, with a lightning-encased upside-down tornado. Take shelter (for all the good it’ll do you)!”

I fully expect all those SyFy Channel hilarious disaster movie mashups to actually become reality - sharknado this week, gatorcane next month, topped off by a spiderquake before the end of summer.
 
TastyReuben said:
You know, when I was a kid in the 70’s, we’d see news reports and hear warnings in science class about how if we didn’t change our ways, the planet would be flooded or the temps would rise to intolerable levels, but it was always like 150 years off, so it was in one ear and out the other.

Now it’s, “Oh, guess what? We’re predicting a blizzard for June, with a lightning-encased upside-down tornado. Take shelter (for all the good it’ll do you)!”

I fully expect all those SyFy Channel hilarious disaster movie mashups to actually become reality - sharknado this week, gatorcane next month, topped off by a spiderquake before the end of summer.
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Yep 👍
I like the climate climate experts comments I heard the other day-
"Human beings will be the first species to not try and save itself because it costs too much"
 
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