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Offline KD

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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17040 on: December 03, 2020, 07:43:49 am »
Quote from: blur911 on December 01, 2020, 10:01:53 am
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has collapsed.   Remaining steel cables snapped



Wow, that would be a hell of a thing to rig back online.   :o
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17041 on: December 03, 2020, 11:29:47 am »
Quote from: KD on December 03, 2020, 07:43:49 am
Quote from: blur911 on December 01, 2020, 10:01:53 am
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has collapsed.   Remaining steel cables snapped



Wow, that would be a hell of a thing to rig back online.   :o

The crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlVFHxqzUdc
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17042 on: December 03, 2020, 05:39:45 pm »
Holy :censor: that's crazy!  :o
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17043 on: December 03, 2020, 05:50:49 pm »
Quote from: KD on December 03, 2020, 05:39:45 pm
Holy :censor: that's crazy!  :o

Quite the crash.
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17044 on: December 08, 2020, 12:53:36 pm »
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« Reply #17045 on: December 08, 2020, 01:01:42 pm »
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17046 on: December 11, 2020, 06:58:49 pm »
Why is it common in Canada to say "mileage" when referring to an odometer reading which is in KM? Why not kilometrage (pronounced as mirage maybe), and what's the deal with it in QC?
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« Reply #17047 on: December 11, 2020, 07:20:54 pm »
^^ Just carried that term over from the old system my guess? Plus flows off of the tongue better than kilometrage. F' knows.  ;D
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« Reply #17048 on: December 11, 2020, 07:44:07 pm »
^^^ Gets more extreme when we still use Horsepower units in today's EVs  :D
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17049 on: December 11, 2020, 08:40:20 pm »
Quote from: Seafoam on December 11, 2020, 07:20:54 pm
^^ Just carried that term over from the old system my guess? Plus flows off of the tongue better than kilometrage. F' knows.  ;D

I agree; mileage much easier to say.
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17050 on: December 12, 2020, 02:50:24 pm »
I wonder what caused the collapse.  So sad for all involved.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/construction-collapse-dead-london-recovery-1.5839151
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17051 on: December 12, 2020, 03:00:50 pm »
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17052 on: December 13, 2020, 12:18:38 am »
RIP Charlie Pride

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/charley-pride-country-star-obit-1.5839380

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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17053 on: December 13, 2020, 05:47:44 pm »
Had 5 parcel deliveries to the house between today and yesterday.  Sign of the times.   :P
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17054 on: December 13, 2020, 05:51:03 pm »
Quote from: KD on December 13, 2020, 05:47:44 pm
Had 5 parcel deliveries to the house between today and yesterday.  Sign of the times.   :P
Amazon’s deliver driver is coming to our Christmas party  :rofl2: :rofl:
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17055 on: December 13, 2020, 06:29:13 pm »
Quote from: Airbalancer on December 13, 2020, 05:51:03 pm
Quote from: KD on December 13, 2020, 05:47:44 pm
Had 5 parcel deliveries to the house between today and yesterday.  Sign of the times.   :P
Amazon’s deliver driver is coming to our Christmas party  :rofl2: :rofl:

Haha, my wife's on a first-name basis with a few of them. 
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17056 on: December 15, 2020, 09:26:35 pm »
Pee Wee, Rodney Dangerfield and David Lee Roth. The chaos of this combo is off the charts. - Twitter comment.



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« Reply #17057 on: December 15, 2020, 10:20:57 pm »
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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17058 on: December 15, 2020, 10:52:26 pm »
Quote from: Bubba on December 15, 2020, 09:26:35 pm
Pee Wee, Rodney Dangerfield and David Lee Roth. The chaos of this combo is off the charts. - Twitter comment.





I'll see your Peewee, Dangerfield and DLR and raise you a Chewbacca, Gary Coleman and Ron Jeremy, with finger guns ;D

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Re: Tweet Thread
« Reply #17059 on: December 17, 2020, 10:30:03 am »
Quote from: OliverD on December 08, 2020, 12:53:36 pm


Severe brain damage?? Did his wife catch him with his secretary?? I cannot imagine a world where that trade makes sense.
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