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- Gardener21
I've painted the front, from tatty to fabulous of the new For Carnoustie charity shop, which was opened today by my wee girl Charlotte.
- We have a children’s book called Mr Pines Fabulous Signs and these posts always make me think how you are the sign guy. :)monospaced
- Mixed Up Signs (not Fabulois). It’s so cool how you have made your mark in your community.monospaced
- niceutopian
- +1canoe
- stoplying15
Back from a dizzying week of travel through Europe. Paris is amazing, the Eiffel Tower is so impressive in person and the Montmartre neighborhood is super cool. There's something so pleasing to the eye about a city where most of the buildings are the same height.
The sights in Rome were fantastic but there were so many people in the city, it was tough to walk around. The food was incredible! Sicily and the Valley of the Temples at golden hour impressed. The outdoor market in Palermo was a great experience. Highly recommend.
And we loved Amsterdam. The canals, tulips, windmills and stroopwaffels were great. And it made so much sense that Amsterdam has a supermarket in the airport - so smart! So many bicyclists but hardly any helmets. Love the tap on/ tap off of the trams.
We squeezed every ounce out of each city we visited, ate all of the local food, tried to speak the languages and tried to show our boys what each place was like so that they could come back and visit when they're older.- Pics or..._niko
- I was sceptical when you mentioned how long you would be spending in each city. But if your goal was to do it for the churren and give them the poo-poo platter.palimpsest
- Then I'm game!palimpsest
- Awesome! Do they still have the skatepark under the Eiffel tower?canoe
- What ages on the kids? I plan to do something similar with mine, but the youngest needs a few years (2)robotinc
- @canoe - not sure. We viewed from the Trocadero, so we weren't that close.
@robotinc 13 and 11stoplying - Where would you go back? Rome can be overwhelming at the wrong time of the year, like the Vatican was too packed.canoe
- stoplying1
^ This was our schedule that my wife put together - she's a beautiful beast when it comes to travel...
Newark > Frankfurt 5 hour layover in Frankfurt
Frankfurt > Paris arrived at 1pm, slept in hotel until 4 pm then hit the Louvre. Next day saw Eiffel tower and visited Montemartre.
Paris > Rome - arrived around 8pm, had dinner then hit the main sites next day (Colosseum, Trebi, Spanish Steps) then fly to Palermo that night
Rome > Palermo one night in Palermo, one night in Agrigento on south coast of Sicily.
Palermo > Amsterdam for three nights with an early morning flight home.
I need a vacation from that vacation.- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- If the waif setup this schedule, it would be grounds for divorce.
notlying.palimpsest
- PonyBoy3
Avoid self-injection. <3
- stoplying13
Some pics from our trip
- lovely. where is the location of that blasphemous pizza?_niko
- Ha! Manhattan Pizza Restaurant in Agrigento, Sicily!stoplying
- "Blasphemous"?
You shut your whore mouth, _niko, that looks glorious.Continuity - haha as I wrote that I was thinking I'd absolutely crush that pizza! But funny about all the snobby pizza aficionados in N. America with their EVOO and san marz_niko
- Marzano tomatoes and dough that must be chilled for 25 days and have the pizza blessed by a Napolinese priest and get 58 certifications to be authentic..._niko
- ...meanwhile in Sicily this. lol_niko
- Trump monuments in D.C.? I couldn't resist.
Nice pics! #5 is beautiful. But that pizza has got to go. Looks like Scooby n Shaggy recipe.bezoar - Nice! Break up your posts so we can upvote more than once :-)Squiddy
- dat crustgarbage
- NGL, that pizza is busy, but I know a bubble when I see it.garbage
- Paris is gorgeous! And, no worries, this pizza looks fantastic!OBBTKN
- Is that an entire frankfurter on the pizza? Salute!mort_
- Hard boiled eggs though.palimpsest
- There's really no pleasing some people.Continuity
- How much iron was in the pizza wurstel?
Did it turn it into a compass?Nairn - Nice!sea_sea
- OBBTKN0
We don't have any summer travel plans this year; my wife has changed jobs, and the calendar is a bit strange.
So, as soon as my clients slow down (July and August), I'm going to get back to the drawing and comic projects I had on hold, along with some courses and books I have pending.
Everything slower, more deliberate, and with renewed enthusiasm.
A far cry from the madness that the next three months will be—the busiest of the year in terms of work. Let's see how I manage to juggle it with cycling and weight training. Without that, I don't think I'll be able to burn off the sugar that's been worrying me lately. Age doesn't forgive.
Mens sana in corpore sano... ha! The eternal struggle against nature and its desire to get rid of us.
Note: I need to finish cooking this ramen because the day is slipping away...
</Saturday morning reflection>
- @Continuity, if you're reading this, let me know what you think of the soup, oh, master of ramen <3OBBTKN
- Will do, once I see it and know what's in it and how it was made.Continuity
- Ok. Pics in ~4 hours :)OBBTKN
- sea_sea13
Damn, Trent Reznor is destroying that Coachella stage. That stage design and production is pure fire.
- Holy shit, that was amazing! The Nine Inch Noize album based on this is coming next week!NBQ00
- Ps: The woman on stage singing with them was Trent's wife MariqueenNBQ00
- Y’all are both there? Sounds amazing! NIN always kills it, and it’s so good to hear they still are. I haven’t seen them since 2010 or so.monospaced
- Watch the entire show here: https://youtu.be/Nlr…NBQ00
- Fucking great show. Was not expecting Memorabilia. The Choreography was creepy cool!bezoar
- Some of the best shows ever!YakuZoku
- Wow. Memoriabilia.monospaced
- @mono I did Couchella from home xD watching it live on YT was mind blowing.sea_sea
- The whole production was insane. I had no idea what was going on at first. I guess it's a collab with Boys Noize. I'm now ready for the tour ty. lolsea_sea
- The tour is over, you must've missed the past year with NIN/ Boys Noize. Coachella was the final :) not sure if anytime soon again.NBQ00
- sea_sea, actually they're performing again at this coming Coachella weekend. Curious if the set list will be different and if live stream againNBQ00
- jagara12
Any Hungarians here? Congrats on getting rid of Viktor Orbán. The pebble in the shoe of the EU.
A win for democracy, if the new government lives up to expectations, that is.
- and one in the eye for poo-tinhans_glib
- We used to have at least one but he left because of he who shall not be named.palimpsest
- *pours one outpalimpsest
- We miss you sted.Continuity
- RIPYakuZoku
- Dicks out for sted.palimpsest
- Reach Around Part Deuxutopian
- mg3310
Really feeling what a nightmare health insurance is in America at present. I'm looking for a new job. My contract role is up in mid May, so trying to line something up so I'm not out of work for too long.
I get my insurance currently through my contract employer. It's okay but still close to $1,600 for a family of four for medical, vision, and dental.
I get contacted by a new contract recruiter for an appealing role, give them my minimum hourly rate, then ask about health insurance. They don't even offer it.
So like why keep me on the phone when I tell you it's a dealbreaker? My wife's company insurance sucks and would cost even more.
That health insurance must pretty much be tied to employment is beyond ridiculous.
Thanks Republicans!
- Get out of this asapOBBTKN
- My wife and I are both contract with no employer paid plans. You don’t want to know what it costs us out of pocket.monospaced
- sorry for ignorance, but 1,600$ a month?HAL9001
- that is fucking insane. I wish you the absolute best dude. Being Canadian feels pretty lucky right now....exador1
- They $4.1k a month for a family of 4.monospaced
- *trymonospaced
- $1600 a month is good. Thats $400 a week and about standard for premiums.monospaced
- good god monogarbage
- same mg33 - family of 3 is ~$1700 monthly through healthcare.gov.whatthefunk
- I'm so glad to be on the verge of a vaguely social state that doesn't have $400 a week in health charges. That's fucking crazy money. Get it together, America xNairn
- Our shit is broken here in the UK. The NHS is hugely inefficient and underfunded but I don't worry for my kid's health because I need to pay out such huge sumsNairn
- The place you work pays for your health insurance?? Strewth! Never heard of that! Expensive down under but we pay own private health insurance.sab
- Yep I'm your whingeing pom from central casting re AU health insurance premiums, but this is madness. I'm stunned by what mono said.MrT
- checks health insurance here in Aus.. yep, $530AUD a month for family of 4.. MURCA YOU SO BROKENautoflavour
- thats $378 USDautoflavour
- and we only got that because our doctors berated us for being almost 50 and not having it.. we have been on medicare the entire timeautoflavour
- All the money that the orange fuckwit is wasting on bombs/rockets/war could be spent fixing the US health system to be cheaper and fairer.sab
- it probably goes down now that u have a doctore as presidentneverscared
- lol neverscared_niko
- Hope you find a new gig very soon, mgstoplying
- garbage3
So am I blocked from i.hassie, or am I accidentally blocking it?
One way I remember accessing it now gives me a code screen with "access denied"
The lander page is blank.
- why do you need i.hassie? hassie.com is what you're after, no?hans_glib
- hasn't worked for me for weeks.kingsteven
- haasie.com or hassie.com?skinny_puppy
- @hans it was the only way I could get it to work early on. I then had skinnypuppy's link as bookmark tab, and it stopped working about a month ago.garbage
- @skinny cheersgarbage
- a(a)h. thankskingsteven
- @skinny - hey, I noticed the typo earlier so checked and I was getting an xml error on haasie.com. Soz, was busy or would've mentioned.Nairn
- Also, https://www.haasie.c… borks. Perhaps intentional, but fyi in case.Nairn
- @nairn That's the one I was getting on one of my bookmarks when the bunny went away. All good now.garbage
- Thanks, seems I done a rookie mistake and am not supporting WWW. Will fixskinny_puppy
- @skinny Keep doing the good work! I was just confused, because what I had automated stopped working, had me thinking..garbage
- .."Did I do something wrong?" in more than one way flolgarbage
- When I tried to use it for the first time, took me a bit to realize it was spelled AA not SS as well. lolAkagiyama
- < and when the incorrect domain resolves it eats 'ha' completions in the browser address bar forever re-enforcing the idea it once worked.kingsteven
- Nairn4
I've probably already said this, but I'm always bemused by English addresses and how particular our provincial kin are with them.
I sent a package out earlier to a client and checked with him his address, defaulting to the Royal Mail one on a package he sent me - it has four lines, but he insisted on a full six line version.
I checked his address on Google maps prior and he lives in a literal hamlet in the middle of nowhere.
There's no way his postman is going to require the extra lines, because there's literally eight houses in his entire postcode.
I, living in London, need basically two lines: my street with building number, and my postcode. That's it. I'm surrounded by literally tens of thousands of other addresses and yet mail always comes through.
But no, I absolutely must have 'the Haverings' or whatever and Lower Bumpkiss in there to, otherwise it's going to be delivered to a fucking sheep, or somesuch, in his mind.
- haha, some people love all that. I can kind of understand if you live in a genuinely interesting pad and the name is part of village history or whateverFax_Benson
- but people who self-title their ugly new-buildFax_Benson
- there's a few rural areas here (particularly around the border) where postcode is useless, one code used for 10 miles of road.kingsteven
- there were no postcodes in the south outside Dublin until 10 years ago and the idea An Post could deliver to any colloquial address became a bit of a meme.kingsteven
- so there was always a bit of resistance to the postcodes (im not sure if political or farmer brain), An Post introduced post codes in the 2010s, which iskingsteven
- per property codes. and then several years of folks in co. fermanagh and the like realising they were physically incompatible with the digital worldkingsteven
- lol, lost track of my point there... royal mail postcodes are for sorting, not delivery. so they're often next to useless in rural areaskingsteven
- but yeah, there must be some tradition or pride. several times i've googled a colloquial address only to find its the only property with that post code.kingsteven
- just do what he askedrobthelad
- Ah, so that's why i checked in with him and then made a light hearted observation here. Thanks, rob. Always with your finger on the pulse.Nairn
- I can guarantee postcode or not, since I’m Oxfordshire I either write a small poem for address or my Amazon boxes go to a sheep.maikel
- For context, my road name now is ‘high st’ - so each crap hamlet has one, including the one where I livemaikel
- One man challenges the system...
https://www.thejourn…Centigrade
- BonSeff2
Oye yuuuuka yuuuuu
god f'n dammit that shit is gonna live rent free in my head. thanks
- You what, now?Continuity
- The grafician goat song?YakuZoku
- the romania song.pango
- The Balkan revengeOBBTKN
