CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Bucket1]

Just now, Marty said:

Greetings, Mr B!  

All good down under? 

Hello Marty
 

It’s all good here. I could see both version of the Cure  

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

Hello young Albert

It's sad that you and Dugh are missing out on the Cure

Talking of The Cure...

[Bucket1]

Insert funny line based on The Cure song titles ending with Let’s Go to Bed...

 

I will have to owe you that, time for sleep here

[Albert1434]

Sleep well dear Bucket

[clochette]

27 minutes ago, Marty said:

Good afternoon, ma fée!

Hope all's well in Picardy.  

All is well here. Freezing but the sun is shining and the sky bright blue. I've just dragged myself out of my warm bed to go to the fishmonger and now I'm warming up with a big cup of hot cocoa. 

How are things in the green country?

[Albert1434]

Scientists teach pigs how to play a video game, and pigs are good at it

[Albert1434]

Aloha Gary

[Headstall]

3 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Gary

Aloha, Albert.  

[Headstall]

Happy Friday, all!  Black and white landscape Friday...

[Timothy M.]

17 hours ago, Marty said:

Also, because I'm now over 70, I have to renew my driving licence every three years.

It's the same in Denmark, but unfortunately that's not always enough to catch unsafe elderly drivers. Not that they are common, but it's scary to meet them.

Many years ago, just after I got my driver's licence, I encountered an old lady who committed three gross traffic violations within a short time. First she drove out in front of me in a roundabout (didn't even look to check if someone was coming), then she ran a red light, probably because the traffic signal was new and she had gone past that crossing for fifty years with right of way. It sure was a big surprise for the guy driving out from the side road.  

Finally, at the next traffic light she turned the corner right in front of a pedestrian, who was on a zebra crossing with a green walk signal. He had to jump back to avoid being hit.  After that I lost sight of her, but I still feel bad about not reporting her to the police. But at the time I thought they wouldn't listen to a driver who had gotten their licence one month earlier.

Edited February 12, 2021 by Timothy M.

[clochette]

11 minutes ago, Timothy M. said:

It's the same in Denmark, but unfortunately that's not always enough to catch unsafe elderly drivers. Not that they are common, but it's scary to meet them.

Unfortunately it's not the case in France. 

When I had my car accident, the old lady (over 80yo!) who drove into me be not stopping at a stop sign said "oh I'm sorry but usually there's no one at this time and day" and from the state of her car I wasn't the first to literally cross path with her...

Many old people have trouble with roundabouts. Not long ago a grandpa stopped in the middle of one to let me, "good thing" it was a small one on our little town. I was shocked, moving my arms around trying to let him know it was dangerous and to move on  he seemed to humph when I didn't accept "his offer"

At least a sight check should be mandatory. Before he started to lose his mind my grandpa was still driving... his sight was probably at 50%. The car knew the way, he'd say...

Edited February 12, 2021 by clochette

[Albert1434]

Well we finally got now a list to get the  vaccine 

Edited February 12, 2021 by Albert1434

[Marty]

2 hours ago, Bucket1 said:

Insert funny line based on The Cure song titles ending with Let’s Go to Bed...

 

I will have to owe you that, time for sleep here

Sweet dreams, Mr B!

Spoiler

 

I hope that one plays for everyone.

[Marty]

2 hours ago, clochette said:

All is well here. Freezing but the sun is shining and the sky bright blue. I've just dragged myself out of my warm bed to go to the fishmonger and now I'm warming up with a big cup of hot cocoa. 

How are things in the green country?

Similar, although maybe just a wee bit warmer than you're experiencing. Just in from the garden, where it was 2°C/36°F, although it felt more like -7°C/19°F at times in the stiff breeze.

The Irish Met Office reckon that it will become noticeably warmer over the weekend, with daytime temperatures possibly getting as high as 13°C/55°F. The downside to that is that there's likely to be a good bit of rain. It's actually been quite pleasant working outside this week - once I had wrapped myself up well.

Edited February 12, 2021 by Marty
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[Albert1434]

Hope your feeling well Dughlas

[Marty]

2 hours ago, clochette said:

At least a sight check should be mandatory. Before he started to lose his mind my grandpa was still driving... his sight was probably at 50%. The car knew the way, he'd say...

The official Driving Licence Medical Report Form that my doctor had to fill in had one section where the doctor had to say whether I need to wear corrective lenses while driving (spectacles, in other words). He also asked me to read the letters on an eye test chart from across the room, to make sure my distance vision was okay. Something similar to the following:

 

 

[Albert1434]

I never heard about this wow

How Lucille Ball Heard Spies Through Her Dental Fillings. In 1974 Lucille Ball told TV host Dick Cavett that during World War II she picked up radio broadcasts through her dental fillings as she was driving home from the MGM studios through Coldwater Canyon. The phenomena subsided as she continued driving. When it happened again a week later she told MGM security because the signals seemed to be Morse code. She stated that the FBI located the source of the signals, an underground Japanese radio station.

 

 

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Well we finally got now a list to get the  vaccine 

Good. We got a call this afternoon from one of the local hospitals and mum has an appt on Tues the 23rd to get her injection. I have to wait because SC does not recognize any health issues as priority. If I was home in PA my kidney disease would qualify me to get the vaccine.

Edited February 12, 2021 by dughlas

[dughlas]

4 hours ago, Headstall said:

Happy Friday, all!  Black and white landscape Friday...

Darn! He was wearing a plaid shirt when he left the house this morning. 

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Hope your feeling well Dughlas

I am doing okay. My head aches but not as badly as it did last evening. Thank you your kind thoughts. 

[Marty]

4 hours ago, Headstall said:

Happy Friday, all!  Black and white landscape Friday...

Happy Friday to you as well, bro!

I'm not sure about landscaping... Looks to me as though he's also in need of a touch of manscaping...

 

[Headstall]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

Similar, although maybe just a wee bit warmer than you're experiencing. Just in from the garden, where it was 2°C/36°F, although it felt more like -7°C/19°F at times in the stiff breeze.

The Irish Met Office reckon that it will become noticeably warmer over the weekend, with daytime temperatures possibly getting as high as 13°C/55°F. The downside to that is that there's likely to be a good bit of rain. It's actually been quite pleasant working outside this week - once I had wrapped myself up well.

-21 here... bitter cold. Too cold to do much outside. 

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

-21 here... bitter cold. Too cold to do much outside. 

Brrrr....

That reminds me of when my youngest sister worked as a nanny in Canada for a year, some time back in the late 1970's...

I got a letter from her one time that had the following in it:

The weather's not too bad today. It's -30 degrees. It was below -40 a couple of days back.

Those would have been Fahrenheit temperatures at the time. Although, interestingly, -40F is also -40C.  

[Albert1434]

Aloha Page

[Page Scrawler]

15 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Page

Hey, Albert.  How are you and Steve?