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Jolly good. I'm off to the Bastille Day feux d'artifice on the canal.

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"Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad"
Cat killer jailed for 16 years in San Jose, California - BBC News
Over the top, or justified?
Methinks the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

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I actually don't think it is over the top - it would be if it was just one cat maybe, but 18!! And not just killed, tortured too. Totally sick, and for most people, their pets are part of the family. A killer of a family member should be put away for a long time, IMO

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Its only 9 months and some change for each count so seems reasonable to me.

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Sun and Mail Online under fire over nude Jodie Whittaker pictures. The Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star also published photos

And people still buy/read the trash. :rolleyes:

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Don't people know how to Google anymore? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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People that torture and kill animals for kicks are sometimes the people that turn into murderers, maybe locking this guy up means saving someone's life.

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True, true.

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I totally agree - I lived next door to a really spiteful, nasty boy when I was a kid. Every pet they had either ran away or just plain disappeared! But he was always doing horrible things to those pets before they did. Even his Mum was scared stiff of him. He turned into a girlfriend beater, then a wife beater and the last time I heard of him, he was in prison for nearly killing someone. Glad I am 1000s of miles from him!

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So, I can't believe I gave myself and my OH a full month between closing on a house and moving day - tomorrow, no wait - TODAY!! Yet, even with all the best intentions of sorting through every box and being ruthless and being packed way in advance of the moving day, here we are at 3.30 AM! Still packing!:(

The sorting and getting rid of stuff has gone by the wayside, things are just being thrown into boxes with hardly a glance. And I think we will have to get the movers back next week to move more stuff as we can't get to some things in the garage until after other things have been moved. I haven't even had a chance to clean the kitchen in the new place (why do people not clean when they move out?), so everything in the kitchen is staying put until I get a chance to clean next week - arghhh. Thank god for Pandora!! Also, I am glad we had a break Sunday to go to The Who concert - which was brilliant!! :thumbsup:

Anyway, back to the packing - a stiff drink will be waiting for me at the end of today - if I didn't need to drive later I would have one now ;)

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Even Southern Europe is on fire

Pictures

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75 years working as an aircraft mechanic at American Airlines and still working.

Newsroom - Age is Just a Number - American Airlines Group, Inc.

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I was going to say that's just plane daft but I won't now. ;)

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Swiss Citizenship isn't easy then.

Switzerland puzzles over citizenship test after lifelong resident fails

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What an interesting process they have. My Canadian born spouse has Swiss citizenship and she has never lived a day there.

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Ahh - the day after moving is here - what a day it was!!! I was still packing boxes when the movers turned up, I was totally ashamed of the state of the sofa when they lifted the cushions - I hadn't even thought about cleaning it as we were actually thinking of leaving it behind as it is fairly wreaked!! :eek:

So as I packed, the tape had hardly been attached and the box was whisked away into the truck! Then everything - well nearly everything - was on the truck and they were away. At the other end, even though I had clearly labelled every box and piece of furniture, I was still asked where everything went! And some things that shouldn't have been picked up were, like a huge box full of packing peanuts, which I actually needed back at the old place!

Still finally it was over, everyone was exhausted, but we have moved into our first house together and I am really excited!:thumbsup: I hope to be less exhausted for our leaving party Saturday!

Weirdly, we had to go back to old place last night to sleep!! Also, there is still a van load of stuff there - good job we have the place until end of July, it will take that long to clean the new kitchen, move things around and get everything finally over to new place.

Needless to say, I am not going to rush to move again!!!

Thanks for the kind words sent to me from you all, this forum has a great bunch of people on it :starsmile:

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Apparently median rent for a 1 bedroom in Vancouver is now $2,090 per month.

Median rent for 1-bedroom hits $2,090 in Vancouver: rental site | CTV Vancouver News

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How do you get 50 Canadians out of a swimming pool?

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How do you get the other 36,643,876 Canadians out of your swimming pool?

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BC is rasing the disability and assistance rates. Not by much but at least its a start.

Assistance rates had not been raised in 10 years.

Disability was raised $50 or so earlier this year.

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Went out this morning to a flat tire on the car, a screw stuck in it.

Luckily I wasn't working today, however it's going to be tricky work-wise.

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I get quite a few of those (due to old pallets and stuff stored near my parking spot), but luckily they're cheap to fix. As long as they're in the tread and not the sidewall prospects are good. I've fixed a few that are right on the cusp of the sidewall, and almost all of those have held too. What hurt was the day after I bought the van I drove over a bottle and had to buy a new tire right away. :( I carry a kit like this in the little jack compartment:
https://www.princessauto.com/en/deta...it/A-p8107922e
Because my van is a pain to jack up I usually get the electric impact wrench out and use it on the jack and the wheel.

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I think this issue will be right on the cusp of fixable. Looking to see if there is a tire place close by.

I tried to put the spare on, but goodness the nut things holding the tire on won't budge, or maybe I am too weak, who knows..:rofl:

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Standard procedure is to blame whoever last put the nuts on with an impact a little too hard. Stomping on the wrench with your foot works sometimes, but those little wrenches make it easy to come off and round the nut.
This is the case for CAA; I cough up for a gold card membership every year and don't use my emergency service calls, but I have them if I need them. The joke; "I only belong to one German organisation, The Otto Club", is of dubious value, but I use it anyway.

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This week I got a note from the newspaper office giving three days notice of late delivery (today and tomorrow) due to unforeseen circumstances.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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It was the tire place that put them on new a couple years ago...With the help of a hammer, I got the nuts off and spare on.

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:p


Bad news, tire isn't fixable and the other rear tire is splitting.

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The Weather Network warns of thunderstorms and Hail up to the size of a toonie.

That's some change in the weather. :hysterical:

To coin a phrase. :scarper:

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high cost of living and more people living in condos with strata's, the aquarium hobby seems to be slowly dying here.

Vancouver needs 24/7 transit.

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Headed past this sign heading up to Washington- we were going to stop as we wanted to somewhere lively but then decided not to...:(

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Tim Roth. I would, would you?

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Now that is an awesome sign...

Despite it's name, looks like a nice little town from googling it.

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Umm. No.

:lol:

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Which one?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...einBritain.jpg or more recently?

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This would be a dream aquarium, if I ever had a house and money...:lol:

FS: 2 feet plus BLOOD RED Asian Arowana (Very Nice!!!)

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Would what?

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"Eats everything". No thanks.

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Well anything that fits in it's mouth. Best to be a species only tank, or large tank mates like freshwater sting rays.