Exploited Cretins
Please do not recommend Exploding Kittens to anyone, ever, not even ironically. Not even if you hate them. It is terrible in every way.
Feeling a physical present: Ten summer games and gadgets
Bored of summer yet? I'm guessing that you, just like everyone else, assumed that as a lecturer, I get the summer off. No chance. Yet on the days I do escape this hellhole of forthcoming teenage subjugation, I am keeping myself busy – during unpredictable lightning storms, or sweltering and unseasonable conditions – playing with …
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Monday 17th August 2015 13:57 GMT Gavin Chester
Re: Ferrets
To be fair they are no worse than other pets, they soon learn that human skin isn't as tough as ferret skin, so it's more a kin to play fighting, ours generally don't play bite hard enough to break our skin, but could do harm if really scared.
Do they smell, sort of, leave any animal in its mess for a while and it gets bad, ours are cleaned out twice a day and its fine on all but the hottest days, but like any animal (cat/dog) you will generally notice the smell if you go into a house with animals if its not your own pet.
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Monday 17th August 2015 13:38 GMT Camilla Smythe
Re: How much? That one will be a gift that continues to give...
I think you may find that Lucy is not a contraction of Lucien but the big give away is that the Ferrets are running about on the floor trying to avoid the flashing suppository rather than being in their native habitat looking to latch onto other balls.
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Monday 17th August 2015 14:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Ten summer Games when summer's 2/3 over?
You remind me of the People From Away (like me) coming to our state and complaining (which I don't) that there aren't any decent <insert ethnic adjective> restaurants in <insert any number of our cities>, unlike in <insert complainant's densely populated city in a densely populated region>.
(I know, you just wanted to do the hemispherist joke, but you reminded me of annoying people, which made me grumpy and so you got a downvote anyway).
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Tuesday 18th August 2015 12:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Ten summer Games when summer's 2/3 over?
the hemispherist joke
Joke? I was deadly serious. Localised dead tree publishing for tech organs went out of the window a quarter of a century ago and yet journalists are still using terms such as "summer" and "tomorrow" which are almost meaningless in global publishing.
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Tuesday 18th August 2015 13:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Ten summer Games when summer's 2/3 over?
Why not look on the bright side? If it's winter where you are at present then it won't be long till summer comes.
I'm not sure if your comment was meant for me but if so I can honestly say that winter here is by far the better season.
Winter here is blue skies, little or no rain, 23 Celsius average and low humidity. Just perfect.
Summer, OTOH, is mid 30s, >90% humidity, gloomy skies, mozzies, snakes, cyclones and floods.
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Wednesday 19th August 2015 05:09 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: Ten summer Games when summer's 2/3 over?
It's even dafter down here in the lower half of the planet: it's still winter. Bloody hemispherists.
Oh, stop complaining. You'll get summer eventually. Probably.
You don't hear us whinging about having to turn the monitor upside-down just to read your comments, do you?
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Monday 17th August 2015 13:43 GMT Ugotta B. Kiddingme
Jam Trance Plus?
Pfft! Radio Shack made a primitive form of that in the 1970's called the Light Organ. As I recall, you could get it fully assembled or in a DIY kit.
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Monday 17th August 2015 15:05 GMT MrT
Give in early and save the stress.
I bought myself some LEGO about 30 years ago, because I liked the look of it ("Spaceship! SPACESHIP!!!") and when I went to pay the woman on the till said something like "Birthday time, eh? I love buying presents for the kids...".
Just buy it. No excuses. \m/
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