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QuarkMartial posted:"Does the penguin...enjoy that?" "Well," he responded after getting snapped at by the penguin, "they put up with it." Which to us read as, "Hell loving no they don't enjoy it." Although your story sounds like abuse, the penguin biting the poo poo out of the dude is sort of what they do. We went to an aquarium in The Hague last year where they had a live penguin feeding. It was also breeding season so the... studs? I don't know what you call a male breeding penguin... the studs were pretty pissed off/horny/territorial and wanted to bring food home to their honeys. So the keeper is pulling out fish from his satchel and the penguins are loving raking his hands and forearms with their serrated beaks; blood's coming out. One of the little kids next to me starts making worried Dutch sounds because this dude is taking hit after hit. After about two dozen small-scale penguin attacks, the keeper starts grabbing the beaks before they can get to him, shaking their heads gently and then giving a bad-child lecture with his finger in the air. One of the penguins takes extreme umbrage to this, so he holds that penguin's beak shut the entire rest of the time while handing out the fish. By the time they were done, he was bleeding pretty heavily from both arms and leaving a trail behind in the sand. It definitely changed my perception of penguins from being roly-poly sea friends to angry little birds with razor-sharp beaks. At the Biodome and my local zoo, the keepers stay way further away from the birds when they are feeding them.
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Cage posted:Pickle chat? I could eat an entire jar of pickles. I would eat nothing but pickles if the salt intake wouldn't kill me. Baby dills are my jam oh YEAH. I tried making salt brine pickles recently but I must not have started with the right kind of cucumber or something because they just became slightly crunchier at best, not pickle-y cucumbers.
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Cage posted:Like the natural fermentation kind? We tried that once before, they were good but yeah more cucumber than a pickle. Yeah, basically. I think I might try a different technique. Vinegar?
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slidebite posted:I was thinking that sort of thing, but I don't think it's standard in windows nor do I know what the receiver has for software. There's a password/encryption component to the ZIP standard but it's extremely weak, so there are competing standards from third-party tools. The table of contents (filenames listing) is almost never encrypted.
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Bozo the Clown's old Lincoln Continental MkV is up for sale on Bring a Trailer. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-lincoln-mark-v-5/ You know you want to pay homage to his legacy by riding around in this fine Ford.
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Black88GTA posted:lmao, jesus christ You'll never find a smoother V8, though. It's sort of like when you have an easy drinking beer that's 0.9% ABV. Hey, those are also American.
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Grakkus posted:I'm in Naples at the moment and the pizzas I've eaten in the last two days have totally changed my outlook on pizza, it's the best I've had in my life and some of the best food I've tasted in general. I'm going to Pepe In Grani on Sunday and I'm so excited.. I feel like I must have stayed in the wrong parts of Naples since I didn't really enjoy it. Rome had phenomenal everything, though.
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Powershift posted:How many miles of adapters do you figure it would take to put these bad boys to use? Pick 'em up and drop them off at my place. You want USB? I'm already reverse-engineering and converting two Japanese keyboards (to work with different Japanese machines), that can't be any more difficult. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:26 on May 18, 2019 |
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Dagen H posted:He was an amazing man. His parents emigrated from Italy to Quebec in the 1920s, and he was fluent in Italian, French, and English. Was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association for over 75 years (began his apprenticeship at age 14). Moved to Akron and then Mansfield, where he began a whirlwind romance with newly-widowed Grandma, and married her in '78. Was tirelessly devoted to her until her death in 2012. He took me in as his own, but the care he gave her meant more to me than anything (Dad feels the same way, hence the tears). He wasn't my real grandfather, but for over 40 years, he was Grandpa to me. RIP. Sounds like a hell of a life. I'm sorry to hear.
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