The Kardashian (thanks for the spelling), now that’s a good name for the 21% rum style ginger, wormwood and molasses porter I’m hydrating with today.
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Though I’m generally silent on Chinese matters (I do have my residency status to preserve) it was a refreshing surprise for a Hong Kong Judge to rule that Glory to Hong is not a song inciting disorder.
As Hong Kong Basic Law is founded on English Common Law - I do keep a close eye on it.
I am still holding a bet that River Elegy won’t be shown in the next 10 years. It was a 20 year bet so halfway there.
Here’s a summary of it which will be more useful than just watching it blind. Oh, and I thoroughly recommend Chinese Characters for anyone interested in the culture and literature of the Middle Kingdom.
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@SquirrelSmash I know that feeling all too well. As soon as I arrive at a place that I feel could potentially get busy or crowded I find myself looking for an escape route out of there to somewhere quieter.
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Yep, I definitely have that response.
Partly as I do have anxiety which requires SSRIs and I grew up in an area where it was possible to walk the dog for hours without seeing another human.
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We’ve got the fam coming over today, and I got the mixing queue done early. Here’s hoping for NO extreme weather.
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Well, it is short notice to help. Cloud seeding and rain-dancing may help but, I put my effort into moving a typhoon to Taiwan and being of minimal effect in HK and Singapore for my lovelies. So I am shagged out after such a a long squawk.
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Everything is on the table at this point, as we’ve been getting hammered by deluge style rainfalls as of late.
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I’ve been having light drizzle and a scorching maximum of 19c here for weeks while Europe burns.
At such short notice, I think detonating a Daisy Cutter or tactical nuke south of where you are is the best option to staving-off the rain.
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Receiving an email regarding a book I want in my library.
The Book of Jasher is one of the Lost Books from the Old Testament (the Book of the Kings of Israel etc. are referenced in Chronicles and Judges. They also name many works with the ‘so much more is recorded in…’ reference).
Now, this text is a forgery but a key one in 19thC false Biblical works.
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Old SNL w Betty White
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Watching the only one as mad as me when it comes to drinks::
Funny when he attempted cans I had while being a tad mollified:
think I played taxi jousting that day.
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Well, don’t know whether to laugh or cry with this one:
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I dunno man, in my eyes … scooter vs. ambulance … ambulance wins. I’d give you 2:1 odds on that.
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I’ll look at the odds later. Somehow my computer decided to play Tom Mullica’s magic tricks:
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Obvious the gay icon who is Derren Brown refined it:
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Both excellent squirrel, and Derren didn’t seem that happy to me. From your postings I must say the staring competition was my favourite
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Well the finals of the World Stare Out are a beloved sport. Although it was better before advertising and sponsorship took hold:
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Well Derren tends to be rather dry when performing. I can understand, as I did a 1/8,000,000,000 trick as a farewell class for my students on my leaving Pearson and Wall Street. That was utterly draining and required obscene levels of concentration.
It ended with a sealed playing card which was laminated in front of 9 students and then placed in the safe 6 weeks before the English Corner. At the end I had a student cut the card open and asked them to peel it apart: I had hidden a summary of their answers and then pulled the ENIGMA punchline where the cards all students had contained a hidden message on the cards they bought to the class. Obviously I fitted in a few quick tricks to make all laugh. I rested for two weeks after that.
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Had some MASSIVE lightning strikes last night right before the family left, and BOOM, the CCTV system dropped it’s feed. Could view over the LAN, but nothing on the monitor, or through the HDMI replicator on the 65". Uh Oh. ALL protected by commercial grade surge suppression to boot.
After fighting with it, looks like the HDMI replicator TOOK the hit for the team. A LOT cheaper than the NVR. 
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