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I am completely hooked on the Great British Baking show, ('m not sure I'm getting the name right) I'm not much of a cook, and I love how they slip in little science-y details about proving and gluten, while making these fascinating baked goods. Plus I always love all the contestants - they are a bre...

I'm late to the thread (I should probably change my name from stoppingby to showinguplate) but I feel this place is welcoming. I'm so grateful to read that. I have spent more than 8 years of my life running this website, and that's the most important thing I care about here. Thank you. :whisper: I ...

I'm late to the thread (I should probably change my name from stoppingby to showinguplate) but I feel this place is welcoming. I'm an infrequent poster, mainly because I enjoy reading posts more than writing them, but I rarely get offended by anyone's response, and if I do, I just remind myself of a...

No offense to Mrs. Seim, lord knows she has enough to deal with, but she always seems oddly proportioned in the photos. For example, in a past photo her head seemed weirdly small compared to her body, in this last photo, her torso seems strangely elongated, perhaps some sort of really bad angle, or ...

kate520 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:15 pm

Update: Stern and the dogs are safe with friends, elsewhere. Horses were evacuated earlier.

Hold FEMA Camp 17 1/2 in your tots.

I'm glad he is safe! I always enjoyed his posts. (and I wish he would come back.)

Signature verification is a stupid way of checking anything these days. My mother had an artful and beautiful signature such that you could scan 10 documents with it and not one of them would be even one pixel different from another. Mine is decent but can vary slightly. And many people just have s...

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Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:50 pm

stoppingby wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:49 pm

Today is the day I regret having given up cable. I miss my CNN wall-to-wall coverage.

Somewhere (here or on the net) I read that CNN is offering election news free - no cable.

That would be spectacular! Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!

Today is the day I regret having given up cable. I miss my CNN wall-to-wall coverage.

i105.jpg I actually came here to post that, but you ninja'd me! I laughed out loud when I saw that on Facebook. I had my game face on walking into the polling station. (Of course, it only lasted thirty seconds, 'cause half of the line were my neighbors, and it became, hi Sandy, how is Bob doing?" t...

I voted. There was actually a line, which was unusual. Since I live in a blue precinct in a red district, I'm kind of hopeful this is a good sign.

Thanks for answering pipistrelle and nmgirl. I tried googling, but ended up on a couple of websites that....deeply disturbed me.

Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online Sadly, this does not surprise me and was kinda what I was expecting. Yoga and yoga studios are a common recurring image in that community. Really? What in the world do they have against yoga?

What that two-to-the tenth fraction does show is that Elizabeth Warren's family was here, in America, for the American Revolution, and possibly even earlier. It's nice to know there's a candidate who is probably qualified for DAR membership. In years to come, such candidates will be very scarce. I ...

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Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:47 pm

That’s three.
Three more: Great Smoky Mountains.
Five: not for 5 more years

I fantasize of retiring to the smokies. I love it there!

A few miles further down the road, is Cairo, Illinois. In the 1960s, the city filled the municipal swimming pool with cement rather than integrate it. I don't think there is any coincidence why Trump is there. Cairo is now predominantly African-American, although it does have a really racist histor...

I didn't notice the misspelling. I did notice there were only 6 Forever Stamps... Must be quite small of a device to weigh so little that $3.00 postage be enough. Now we know it isn't a false flag operation by liberals. They didn't spell Schultz correctly. Us urban liberal faux intellectual weenies...

Playing devil's advocate... if you had a gun and fired a couple shots that you knew weren't going to hit the creep, you might have scared him into not doing that again. Considering my lack of hand-eye coordination and generalized clumsiness, I would have probably been more likely to accidentally sh...

I live in an area that would be considered a high-crime section of town. About 5:30 am Sunday morning, i was awakened by a strange noise. I thought I picture had fallen off a wall. The power was out. By the time I got to the front of the house, I heard smashing, and banging against my front door and...

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Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:17 pm

Pardon my cynicism, but I suspect that after the midterms there will be another very compelling and important reason that it will be a Bad Thing for any members of this forum to mildly criticize Democratic politicians.

Once again I'm late to the party, but I generally agree with Mike Dunford and Mayjido on this. And thanks to Mike Dunford for including the response by the Cherokee Nation representative - whether one agrees or disagrees with their position, its important that their voice is included and respected, ...

I have a diagnosis - extramedullary plasmacytoma. Of all the possibilities, this sounds like one of the most treatable. I start chemotherapy Friday. Since the chemo will suppress the immune system, I also will be taking an antiviral, and have to avoid crowds. So there is at least one benefit to alr...

I'm currently watching Broadchurch on netflix. Its an incredibly well-written murder mystery set in a small town in Great Britain. I love the lead female investigator, who hates her supervisor (who is the male lead). Best line so far from her: "get away from me before I piss into a cup and throw it...

Musk is already at it again, calling the SEC the "Shortseller Enrichment Commission" on twitter, and generally behaving like an ass. How does this guy have the time to run a company? I would think being such a douchebag would take up all his time. (edited out link because Tek ninja'd me above) But, ...

Apparently, there are parking lots full of Teslas scattered across the country. Speculation is either they don't have buyers, or they are all in need of repairs, or possibly, that its proof of Musk's claims of delivery problems (which is puzzling. How did the cars get there, if there are no car carr...

In regards to the settlement, I wonder if the plunging stock price was a painful wake up call? In one of the blogs I read a few weeks ago about Tesla, the author pointed out that Musk had presumably borrowed against his Tesla stock to fund his other projects, such as SpaceX, the Boring Company, that...