Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

[Oxymoron]

[Dude]

And he surfaces!

[Big Orangutan]

After many years of suffering, Sir Terry Pratchett has finally conked it.

[Dude]

Had to put another hen down thanks to pecking. After talking to my friend, he thinks it's a nutritional deficiency, it does coincide with a switch in food. So I'll race into town tomorrow for the CO-OP feed and maybe a supplement to keep them from eating themselves until the switch takes effect.

I hope the ducks turn out to be a bit smarter, cause this is pretty disgusting.

Now I get why people trim the beaks.

[timmy]

Life is brutal in rural Manitoba.

[thejester]

[extremely manitoba voice] oh you've got a bit of pecking eh

[Big Orangutan]

I hope the ducks turn out to be a bit smarter, cause this is pretty disgusting.

Now I get why people trim the beaks.

Don't build your hopes up too high...

[adr]

Don't build your hopes up too high...

that was amazing thx for posting

[Dude]

I hope the ducks turn out to be a bit smarter, cause this is pretty disgusting.

Now I get why people trim the beaks.

Don't build your hopes up too high...

Well I don't see suicide by its own beak in there so thats a plus.

[Bounty]

Got off work an hour early today because of an unexploded 2000lb bomb in the station behind the office. War - it's the shitty gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks Hitler!

[timmy]

Jesus christ, seventy years later and you guys still haven't cleaned up properly. And I hear you're still sorting our shit from the one before that.

[Oxymoron]

The research center in my city, where over ten thousand peiple work and where there used to be nuclear reactors, is built on an old artillery training field.

There's an explosive ordnance removal team permanently stationed there, and they are called for an actual ordnance-removal job on average once every one or two weeks.


Also, still in my hometown, I personally witnessed a neighborood being cordoned off because they found an old bomb while digging the foundations of a new appartment building on the site of an old caserne.

[Bounty]

Jesus christ, seventy years later and you guys still haven't cleaned up properly. And I hear you're still sorting our shit from the one before that.

WWI ordnance is mostly found near the coast, what with the trenches having been there.

Inland it's usually around train stations. The station here was bombed pretty badly by both sides in '44. According to historians there are likely a few more active bombs in the ground and there's talk of a 4000lb'er somewhere near where I work but they don't tend to come up unless there's construction.

Fun fact: farmers in West-Flanders have pre-arranged pickup points for the grenades and shells that come out of the ground every year, and the army periodically does the rounds to pick it up. Like a high-stakes version of a garbage truck round.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I will likely lose my health insurance because the income I reported to the IRS did not match the projected 2015 income I used for my application on the marketplace. I cannot afford a $218.56 monthly premium, so I will be forced to not have insurance and pay a fee to cancle before October and a 10% of my yearly income to the IRS. Fuck Obama's half-assed plan to fix a system by making it suck even more capitalistic dick.

[Bounty]

How will that make you lose your coverage?

[Oxymoron]

The US are a strange place...

(Gainesville, Florida, August 2014. Part of the Gators' stadium)

[Oxymoron]

How will that make you lose your coverage?

Yeah, how does that make sense?

[Agent Bert Macklin]

How will that make you lose your coverage?

The subsidy I was receiving is being revoked and I have to pay $200+/month for insurance. I cannot afford that. So I will not have insurance.

[RogueIce]

The US are a strange place...

(Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 2014. Part of the Gators' stadium)

Fort Lauderdale isn't even close to Gainesville, where the UF Stadium is.

[The Spartan]

Somebody tried to kill me on the road this morning. I'm still a little shaky from it.

[Dude]

What the hell?

No injuries I trust?

[Oxymoron]

The US are a strange place...

(Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 2014. Part of the Gators' stadium)

Fort Lauderdale isn't even close to Gainesville, where the UF Stadium is.

Shit, I'm so fucking used to discussing about Ft Lauderdale with my datemate I got confused. My fucking bad.

We have always been at war with Estasia.

[The Spartan]

What the hell?

No injuries I trust?

No, no injuries. It was at a merge point and the person in question, rather than merging where it was safe, raced ahead of everyone and tried to move into the space I was then occupying so he could be in front. I had to swerve into the oncoming lane to avoid being hit. There was no oncoming traffic, thank fuck, or I would had to let him hit me.

[timmy]

Get yourself a dash cam.

[Oxymoron]

Things I intend to buy for my car at some point:

- a dashcam
- a Heads Up Display (linked to a gps)