Do i have the power to end a thread? ^^

What if his brain cells need it waaaaay sooner than that?

Hmmmmm?

You could do it instead.

My mouth is not big enough.

And there's the dog-breath.

...and they have really big teeth....

You could try. A life is at stake.

Life is sheep.

Very sheep indeed. Thanks for the concern.


BTW, a friend of mine is working in Dubbo right now. I looked it up. It looks like my hometown -- largely inoffensive, largely dull.

(Speaking of sheep. And she emailed about working a horsie race thing yesterday.)

I just had the damn fire brigade here!!!

I was microwaving some fish...and I overdid it.

Sadly, you can't stop them from coming once the alarm has gone off.

I rang and told them there was no fire...so only one truck and three guys came.

Instead of two trucks and a mob of guys, which is what usually happens.

I so bet that doesn't make the charge less.

$400 at least down the drain.


I used to have family in Dubbo...stayed there as a kid with them.

That's awful. We pay for our fire brigade through our taxes, and only businesses are usually hooked up via a smoke alarm - we just ring 'em. $400 for burning some food is terrible...

Wow. Bad system, that. They don't generally respond to alarms in private buildings here, tho.




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...microwaving fish?

It works pretty well. You don't lose money for burning toast or anything - and if there is a fire, it's all paid for by the miniscule contribution from taxes.

Much of the firefighting for hundreds of miles in any direction from the city I live in is done by volunteer townies. Equipment runs up some costs, naturally.

There was a movement in Minnesota a few years back (if I'm remembering rightly) to make official the unofficial policy of not arresting drunken volunteer firefighters on their way to a fire, the logic being that there would be no one available to fight fires in the middle of winter in Minnesota if you had to do it sober and for no pay. Not sure what ever came of that...

Apropos of nothing internal to the thread or to A2K, except insofar as it probably should kill the thread but most certainly won't, I am passing along an observation that does not originate from me but whose originator I am completely unable to recall. I am not even certain what sphere of my interaction with the world this observation comes from. I could certainly start a list of who I am certain it is not, but I am afraid, even through a lengthy and arduous process of elimination, that I would not be able to winnow it down to a useful roster.

At any rate, here goes.

The anus is a remarkable device. It can expel gas while retaining liquid against the forces of pressure and gravity. I have no idea how it accomplishes this, though I know, from the act of consciously assisting the process at times of great intestinal distress, that there is some sort of mechanical sorting that takes place. Quite astonishing, I think.




I am now noting that if you read the first paragraph in this post, that there is some linguistic foreshadowing of the subject matter of the third -- or, as a poorly rendered Irish accent might have it, the "t'ird."

I know.

The gods punished me for microwaving fish.



My building is an apartment building....hence is wired like a public building.

We don't have that many apartment buildings....

I did.

And there is.

Only professional fire fighters here. That movement in Minnesota makesw plenty of sense. Fight for drunken fire fighters, that's what I say.



Would you care to precisely define this here? And that did jespah do to merit this post?



Seems harsh that they get called out and you're forced to pay just because you happen to live in an apartment building.

Helfino.

No. The word is not in proper usage here. I took a couple of seconds to search my mind (that's about all it takes to conduct a search of the most commonly used files; I have limited storage), didn't find it, and so inserted the word "linguistic." More pertaining to the particular movement and shadings of word and imagery selection, but I didn't stick with the literature major and so I don't have a word ready to sum that up.

And jespah? Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. I hope it does not appear that my "anus" comments were directed solely (or at all) in jespah's direction. Or, to be cheeky about it, and without being too corny, I might rejoin with, "Why did Hillary climb Everest?"*


I wish it would just make its mind up whether this is going to turn into a storm or not. I might lug myself out of my dysenteric daze to finish raking the leaves if it didn't look like the skies might open up in five minutes and leave me standing out like a tool with my tool in the falling rain.




*Answer: because I'm an egomaniacal twat with nothing better to do with my time and money than to lure others into risking their lives taking me into an impossible situation with absolutely no practical benefits to anyone outside my immediate personal circle.

You're extremely eloquent for a pooch.

Actually I think "lingustic" was able to do an adequate job - probably not much else in conversational speech. I've been reading a bit of philosophy of language lately so wondered if it could be analysed.