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I dislike 24 hour blood pressure monitors. They're not 'weighty' but they still feel as if your head is being tugged down and the tube gets in the way. If you're out and it beeps you get funny looks.

But the night time is the worst. The action is reduced to hourly from every 30 minutes but last time I remember 'anticipating' it and waking up 10 minutes before it went and taking another 10-15 minutes to fall back asleep and waking 35 minutes later...and repeat through the night.

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Idiots !!!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada...-ont-1.3828016

I bet they used Gov funded roads to get there and how many will throw away their passports and drive licence

Hamilton -- A band of masked vandals describing themselves as "ungovernables" roamed through a stretch of an Ontario city hurling rocks at small businesses and causing up to $100,000 in damage, local police said Sunday.
Cafes, stores and vehicles along a roughly one-kilometre stretch of road in Hamilton took the brunt of the damage as between 20 and 30 people marched along the route on Saturday night.

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So that's where that was. I heard it on the radio but in my half awake state I didn't catch where.

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Ugh. Skin and gristle. I just hate the idea on eating wings - so I don't.

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Ahhh, well roasted chicken skin. A delicacy as is crunchy crackly roasted pig skin on pork and gammon roasts.

Like many I thought that chicken wings and legs were overpriced when compared to white meat... but now I've changed my mind, a bit messy but tasty nonetheless if you stick to the salt and pepper crispy variety and forget the saucy barbeque stuff.

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Strange event, any ideas?
Two critical after Salisbury substance 'exposure' - BBC News

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The plit thockens

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sergei-skripal

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Karma for the Minions in the photo.

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Was the Grauniadesque typo deliberate?

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Yes. A family habit since I was a child. :nod:

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Ah good. I wouldn't want to cast nastursiums.

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:lol:
It took the stepkids a long time to work out Chilled Greez although wicken chings was an easier one.

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:lol:

Men in hazmat suits...decontamination procedures....that's not usual for two people found "apparently" passed out, drunk, drugged, whatever...is it?

The guardian report carried a reminder about the guy who drank Polonium laced tea - something that may have been a danger to others the way administered.

This guy is known to security services. Maybe my imagination has gone to hyper mode but isn't it feasible that there's been some kind of observation or tip off leading to that sort of response?

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The stuff they took is highly dangerous - the first responders even here have been warned about how to deal with it.
https://www.fentanylsafety.com/

Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate narcotic, a prescription drug used primarily for cancer patients in severe pain. It is roughly 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine.

More... http://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/...rfentanil.aspx hopefully it was Fentanyl and not Carfentanil, which is approximately 100 times more toxic than fentanyl and 10,000 times more toxic than morphine

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My thoughts exactly. :sick:

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Yes, and a potentially useful murder weapon, but what I'm thinking is that one or two people of the appearance of having passed out - the woman who came across them said she assumed they were homeless - wouldn't normally trigger the sort of response which sounds fairly immediate, like they already knew.

That's why I wondered if the security services had previously got wind of something.

I see in the paper today the woman was apparently his daughter, visiting from Russia.

Using my finely tuned wild imagination :lol: I see a plot kickstarted by Russian security services being made aware of the daughter's planned visit to her father who, according to earlier reports, had been given a new identity, so they wouldn't necessarily know of his whereabouts.

An ideal opportunity for retribution of the kind previously administered...poison tipped umbrellas, Polonium in tea, that sort of thing.

There's an interesting list of mysterious deaths in the guardian today
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nked-uk-deaths

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I'm with you. Consider the published accounts.

Quote: 'British police said two people, a 66-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, had been found unconscious on a bench in a shopping centre on Sunday in the southern English city of Salisbury'.

Now forgive my ignorance but this must be an everyday occurrence in any major city. No doubt the first reaction would have been to call police and ambulance.

So at which point does an everyday scene of drug overdose trigger a response by the gentlemen in yellow Hazmat suits?

No doubt the man had ID on his person, so did the police discover some hidden accreditation of belonging to the ex-spy network, did they do a routine search to see who he was and if they did were they surprised by the Men in Black telling them to back off?

A curious tale and more intellectually fulfilling than watching Trump deny he was ever there, wherever that was.

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Don't knock it until you've tried it!

I didn't like the idea either, but it's not a lot different to eating a drumstick with crispy skin - you are not eating gristle, you eat the meat and skin. They are actually quite tasty!

:)

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Bliss to get the wretched BPM off this morning. Couldn't even have a lie-in to make up for the lack of sleep as I had to return it to the hospital for 8.00am.

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And much better without the pointy bits too :nod:

Whenever I do my own I snip them off.

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I overcome my revulsion by marinating them in oil and spices then wrapping them in bacon and baking them.

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There is a condo down the hall that has now been flooded 3 times in 6 months.

Flood as in pipes breaking from above in the walls and flooding the unit.

I have lived in 3 buildings now that were built in the last 5 years and the amount of issues they have had, well I would never buy a condo in Vancouver-Fraser Valley, the work seems shoddy.

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OH I have tried them and was grossed out. I won't eat drumsticks either unless I've taken the meat off first. I know, picky, picky.

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Would this be x-ray related by any chance?

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Not really. I just see anatomy when I see meat and I don't rate sinew and cartilage as a food.

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A good wing has a lot of muscle.

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Ditto. I hate eating skin and fat...or anything greasy. Can’t stand fiddling about with bones or gnawing them either. :lol:

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Mister Rogers special on PBS tonight. Bringing me back to childhood...

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Did you have to point to the doll when testifying or was it just therapy? ;)

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Gas is on the rise. 20 cent increase in 2 weeks and still climbing.

Metro Vancouver gas prices hit $1.50 per litre, nearing all-time record - British Columbia - CBC News

Even my scooter will be pricey to fill....91 gas normally is 20 cents more then regular. I bet it gets to 12/ week by summer for the scooter.

Scooter was a good idea.

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It sounds like it was. You might want to think about getting your full motorbike license. You could step up to a 125cc or 150cc and the extra power it would make all the difference with your riding experience.

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I am going to try for the M license this spring/summer.

I didnt want to invest much last summer as I wanted to see if it was a viable year round mode of transport and for the most part it is.

A couple of days where I had to use a car share.

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Wow crazy lady what was she thinking !! The men would have just gone crazy with uncontrollable sexual desires

Iran sentences ‘Girl of Enghelab Street’ to 24 months for removing headscarf in public | National Post

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There's a picture of my old house in the Guardian:eek:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...property#img-2

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Ooo. Sounds good.

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Sure beats our Canadian

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...erial-edit.jpg

or US equivalents

https://natesjobsearch.files.wordpre...icer-areas.jpg

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Yikes. 23k water bill.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada...ource=facebook

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It's a bit late by then.

It does sound very extreme though. When I had my duplex I got a call from the water company telling me that there was currently an increased use of water suggesting a leak or worse over the last few days. They obviously "caught" it quicker than for this guy.

I don't remember details now but it suggested the bill might go very much higher if not checked.

I checked with the tenants...nothing inside and my handyman went over. Apparently someone had turned on the outside tap and not turned it off. No visible water as there was snow and the attached hose was under snow.

The water company had a policy of offering a credit in such a situation and the credit meant I didn't have to pay more than about $50 extra.

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Microsoft Surface 3 (warranty expired last year)

I Had a issue after my last update, frozen screen on start up Duh !! So I took me a drive to Yorkdale and visited the nice people at Microsoft

2 hours later after having a nice lunch and looking at stuff we can’t afford in Jimmy choo and Chanel we returned

I asked if they would be able to format it and make it like new, all was done, fixed and like new again and all for free, no charge.....that’s great service IMO