I've just been watching Mary Beard's new TV series on "Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit". She described exactly that implement - as a Roman land mine! (except in their case, it was a sandal rather than a trainer).
So, you get a lot of ancient Romans round your way?
:) Well we are fortunate that the Romans did build a road in the vicinity, Richard, which meant subsequent road builders had a way of working out how to build quite a few straight ones... Not everywhere in London was that fortunate though *wrinkle brow sympathetically*
Certainly as a weapon of unexpected incapacitation I can recommend even the more modern version of the Roman landmine. Yeeees.
:)
If I didn't mention it before, that sounds really nasty and painful. At least I had the advantage of the finger being ... what's the word? Euthanized? No, not that. Anesthetized. That's it. ... before it was hacked up by a crazed little woman with a magnifier on her head.
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*gather round David's nail with Gary and Zalster*
It is looking a lot better, isn't it. I knew that extending it outwards idea would work.
:)
Extending it outwards is sometimes the cause of more trouble than it solves. It gets in the way of doing whatever it is I'm trying to get it out of the way of doing with the other fingers. I said before that I'm starting to type with it, but I find that it's still a bit sensitive to do that full time, or even half the time. It also definitely does not like to argue with a recalcitrant cable box remote. This afternoon, I put a bandage on it for the first time since last Friday, just because I was crabby and being driven crabbier and afraid I might get overly careless with it in my frustration. That lasted about three hours, until I came home and washed a frying pan before cooking dinner in it, and a few other things before putting them in the dishwasher.
(Why, you ask, do I wash things before putting them in the dishwasher? Because the dishwasher doesn't remove the cooked-on egg or whatever else it is.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
This is supposed to be a bar & bistro isn't it? I only ask because it's looking more like a doctors waiting room, and a canteen these days :-)))
Right, now that's sorted, I'll have a large G&T please and don't bother with the T.
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which meant subsequent road builders had a way of working out how to build quite a few straight ones..
Ah well that meant lots of blokes on top of hills waving flags at each other. This link gives a good insight Roman highways although many were called Streets. The problem was that the Romans peed off the local Britons because prior to that lot invading, all the lanes and tracks followed the lines of the hedges around the fields. Bunging these straight roads through everything will nilly did not go down too well. And HS2 is doing it all over again.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
You did - here I got so distracted by the sustained needling you were subjected to, I forgot to say anything :)
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crazed little woman with a magnifier on her head
*traumatised blink* That's horrible.
I reckon it wouldn't require much magnification before the rest of her started to look very small *cast eyes at no one in particular* Makes you wonder why they go into the profession really...
Bunging these straight roads through everything will nilly did not go down too well.
Trying to take a short cut through a hedge whilst wearing just a toga and sandals poses some not insignificant problems. [/voice of experience] I'm not sure how well a fashion rethink would have gone down if one had been posed by the locals, but I bet no one even tried.
Oh. That's a shame. I don't have a dishwasher so can't comment about eggs.
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Trying to take a short cut through a hedge whilst wearing just a toga and sandals poses some not insignificant problems. [/voice of experience] I'm not sure how well a fashion rethink would have gone down if one had been posed by the locals, but I bet no one even tried.
Ah well you see Annie, it wasn't like an Episode of Chelmsford 123,
they usually marched a platoon of armoured soldiers through where they wanted to go
But being a logical sort of people (Well as much as Italians can ever be e.g. Pisa) they thought that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line. Which rather buggered up the intention of the Devils Highway continuing on from Bath to Cardiff, when the advance scout party ended up doing the breast stroke in the Bristol channel.
Dishwashers??? You have to scrape all the food of the plates first, and give them a good rinsing beforehand, then you have to stack the thing. Often they come out damp and you have to dry them anyway. It's a damn sight quicker to wash up properly in the first place. That invention must rate as one of the biggest waste of space and money of the 20th Century! Next month we are having a brand new fitted kitchen costing quite a few thousand pounds, with all built in appliances. We could have had a slim dishwasher, but we said no, not interested.
But then again most men think they already have a dishwasher, It's made by Wolverhampton Industrial Fabrication Engineering Ltd.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Because the dishwasher doesn't remove the cooked-on egg or whatever else it is.)
Mine does as do most modern dishwashers.
The problem is mostly with spatulas, or turners, or flippers, or whatever you choose to call them.
My current machine is a GE and it is a piece of junk compared to the couple of Kenmores that preceded it.
Chris, even if you don't use it yourself, just having the thing in place gives a multiple return if you or your heirs decide to sell the place. Or at least it does over here.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I reckon it wouldn't require much magnification before the rest of her started to look very small *cast eyes at no one in particular* Makes you wonder why they go into the profession really...
Well David, that dermatologist specialises in treating the following rashes :
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Aetna EPO
Aetna HMO
Aetna Managed Choice POS
Aetna Open Choice PPO
Aetna POS
Aetna PPO
BCBS Behavioral Health
BCBSIL Blue Advantage HMO
BCBSIL Blue Precision
BCBSIL EPO
BCBSIL HMO Illinois
BCBSIL PPO
Cigna Behavioral Health
Cigna EPO
Cigna HMO
Cigna Open Access HMO
Cigna POS
Cigna PPO
Cigna-Healthspring
Corvel Worker's Comp
Coventry (First Health)
Coventry PPO
Coventry-HMO
Coventry-POS
Great West HMO
Great West POS
Great West PPO
Great West/One Health Open Acc
Healthlink (Unicare) HMO
Healthlink (Unicare) POS
Healthlink (Unicare) PPO
HFN PPO
HFN Worker's Comp
Humana Choice (MA)
Humana Choice Care
Humana Choice PPO (MA)
Humana Gold Choice PFFS (MA)
Humana HMO
Humana POS
Humana PPO
Humana PPO (MA)
Interplan(Chandler/Pref Plan)
Land of Lincoln
Lifesynch-Behavioral Health
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicare Assignment
Multiplan PPO
Preferred Network
Private Health Care System PPO
Unicare (Healthlink) HMO
Unicare (Healthlink) POS
Unicare (Healthlink) PPO
United HC Behavioral Health
United HealthCare (MA) AARP
United Healthcare Choice
United Healthcare Choice Plus
United Healthcare EPO
United Healthcare HMO
United Healthcare POS
United Healthcare PPO
Viant (Beech St/CAPP Care)
.... so the magnifier is for the reading of fine print then ? :-))))
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Chris, even if you don't use it yourself, just having the thing in place gives a multiple return if you or your heirs decide to sell the place. Or at least it does over here.
Over here there are simple ways to faciliate the sale of a house. Firstly you ask a sensible price and be prepared to negotiate. Next you have a new bathroom as people have a natural aversion to washing and bathing in other peoples secondhand appliances.
A new kitchen is not always a good move, particularly with a dishwasher. It gives the impression that the owners are too lazy to do the washing up, and if so what other corners of home maintenance have they not bothered with. In any case people prefer to choose their own brands of appliances. Lastly always decorate in neutral colours so that other peoples furniture will fit in, and have a large mirror in the rooms to make the space look larger.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: I've just been
)
If I didn't mention it before, that sounds really nasty and painful. At least I had the advantage of the finger being ... what's the word? Euthanized? No, not that. Anesthetized. That's it. ... before it was hacked up by a crazed little woman with a magnifier on her head.
Extending it outwards is sometimes the cause of more trouble than it solves. It gets in the way of doing whatever it is I'm trying to get it out of the way of doing with the other fingers. I said before that I'm starting to type with it, but I find that it's still a bit sensitive to do that full time, or even half the time. It also definitely does not like to argue with a recalcitrant cable box remote. This afternoon, I put a bandage on it for the first time since last Friday, just because I was crabby and being driven crabbier and afraid I might get overly careless with it in my frustration. That lasted about three hours, until I came home and washed a frying pan before cooking dinner in it, and a few other things before putting them in the dishwasher.
(Why, you ask, do I wash things before putting them in the dishwasher? Because the dishwasher doesn't remove the cooked-on egg or whatever else it is.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: Because the dishwasher
)
Mine does as do most modern dishwashers.
This is supposed to be a bar
)
This is supposed to be a bar & bistro isn't it? I only ask because it's looking more like a doctors waiting room, and a canteen these days :-)))
Right, now that's sorted, I'll have a large G&T please and don't bother with the T.
Ah well that meant lots of blokes on top of hills waving flags at each other. This link gives a good insight Roman highways although many were called Streets. The problem was that the Romans peed off the local Britons because prior to that lot invading, all the lanes and tracks followed the lines of the hedges around the fields. Bunging these straight roads through everything will nilly did not go down too well. And HS2 is doing it all over again.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I'm still trying to work out
)
I'm still trying to work out the matter of The Fungal Finger, before I move onto The Festering Foot. Is there a Doctor In The House ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
@David RE: If I didn't
)
@David
You did - here I got so distracted by the sustained needling you were subjected to, I forgot to say anything :)
*traumatised blink* That's horrible.
I reckon it wouldn't require much magnification before the rest of her started to look very small *cast eyes at no one in particular* Makes you wonder why they go into the profession really...
:)
@Chris
Trying to take a short cut through a hedge whilst wearing just a toga and sandals poses some not insignificant problems. [/voice of experience] I'm not sure how well a fashion rethink would have gone down if one had been posed by the locals, but I bet no one even tried.
Oh. That's a shame. I don't have a dishwasher so can't comment about eggs.
edit: hope everyone's having a nice day :)
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RE: Trying to take a short
)
Ah well you see Annie, it wasn't like an Episode of Chelmsford 123,
they usually marched a platoon of armoured soldiers through where they wanted to go
But being a logical sort of people (Well as much as Italians can ever be e.g. Pisa) they thought that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line. Which rather buggered up the intention of the Devils Highway continuing on from Bath to Cardiff, when the advance scout party ended up doing the breast stroke in the Bristol channel.
Dishwashers??? You have to scrape all the food of the plates first, and give them a good rinsing beforehand, then you have to stack the thing. Often they come out damp and you have to dry them anyway. It's a damn sight quicker to wash up properly in the first place. That invention must rate as one of the biggest waste of space and money of the 20th Century! Next month we are having a brand new fitted kitchen costing quite a few thousand pounds, with all built in appliances. We could have had a slim dishwasher, but we said no, not interested.
But then again most men think they already have a dishwasher, It's made by Wolverhampton Industrial Fabrication Engineering Ltd.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: Because the
)
The problem is mostly with spatulas, or turners, or flippers, or whatever you choose to call them.
My current machine is a GE and it is a piece of junk compared to the couple of Kenmores that preceded it.
Chris, even if you don't use it yourself, just having the thing in place gives a multiple return if you or your heirs decide to sell the place. Or at least it does over here.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: crazed little
)
Imagine this person wearing one of these.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Well David, that
)
Well David, that dermatologist specialises in treating the following rashes :
.... so the magnifier is for the reading of fine print then ? :-))))
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Chris, even if you
)
Over here there are simple ways to faciliate the sale of a house. Firstly you ask a sensible price and be prepared to negotiate. Next you have a new bathroom as people have a natural aversion to washing and bathing in other peoples secondhand appliances.
A new kitchen is not always a good move, particularly with a dishwasher. It gives the impression that the owners are too lazy to do the washing up, and if so what other corners of home maintenance have they not bothered with. In any case people prefer to choose their own brands of appliances. Lastly always decorate in neutral colours so that other peoples furniture will fit in, and have a large mirror in the rooms to make the space look larger.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now