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    Happy to report “lad” is still in common use in the UK, typical usage “young lad” it’s pretty much interchangeable with “youth” (Saxon origin) curiously “youth” and “young” don’t seem to have a common origin, yet each defines the other
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    Kurt saw every meal as a splotch opportunity
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    the penguin surreptitiously got its revenge
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    not necessarily straight..
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    for no reason whatever here’s a pic of Cristiano Ronaldo’s statue in Funchal, his hometown, which er.. seems to have received much admiration and here’s another angle
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    Yes, autocorrect is malevolent Actually, no that’s wrong - autocorrect is pure evil👿 It’s probably scheming already with A.I. Together they’ll make the HAL 9000 computer look like Santa Clause
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    right, so it was a pier on a quayside
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    “Wigan Pier” also means the area, just to add confusion but this is an early 20th century (pre 1920) postcard pic of the legendary “coal tipper” structure as you can see the structure was bigger than the “modern” reconstruction but the site and quayside are essentially the same Still doesn’t clear up which is the best word to use for the damned thing Even the postcard printers weren’t sure, putting the word “Pier” in quotation marks
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    quay, wharf, pier, jetty - all kinda similar, but different… I guess I’ve never really figured out the differences properly This is George Orwell’s famous Wigan Pier, but I reckon old Georgie boy got it wrong cuz to me it looks like a quay pretty disappointing really This pic’s a tad more interesting with some local lads having a bit of a frolic
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    Spiders

    Zombie replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    when will I ever learn??
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    and for those who prefer happy endings… It blinked. I screamed. It ran.
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    👨 Kill it! 👽 Noooooo! 👨 OK, circus attraction.
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    and then there’s desolation a state of complete emptiness or destruction. like the mess left behind after a penguin party…
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    ʻOumuamua you may remember it but would space scientists prefer to forget it…?
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    Spiders

    Zombie replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    hopefully the invertebrates were
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    Sadly modern reality is that true conversation (that’s physical and face to face) is an increasingly rare communication mode. It got ridiculous in a previous work role when colleagues, sitting just feet apart, were sending each other emails instead of putting down that pie/pizza/doughnut and walking the yard or so to have an actual conversation
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    Spiders

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    Spiders

    Zombie replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    …which are “common in the southern and western United States“ but Encyclopaedia Britannica’s T&C don’t actually guarantee they’re not also happily nesting in other parts of the US (including behind your cupboards)
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    meaning is always about context + intent “that baker’s got great buns” could be just a compliment about his luscious bread rolls 🥖
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    Spiders

    Zombie replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    yes but those nests are everywhere including behind those cupboards in your kitchen and under your bed
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    as far as I can see there’s no option on this site (and likely GA and others too) to access multi-chapter stories in a single file (eg pdf) which means each chapter would have to be opened+copied individually then pasted over to a wp file in order to create a single story file “book” - quite tedious and time consuming if you have a lot of favourites, unless there’s a better way?
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    https://tedlouis.com @Paqman alerted in the CRVBOY thread that the “tedlouis” gay story website is going to disappear soon. The home page contains this message: “While my site will technically go away, some long-time friends of mine have been busy working on an archive of all the stories on my site. The archive will be available to all of my site's readers. I will post more info as I receive it.” It’s good that there seems to be a rescue plan underway by the site’s readers for this particular gay story website, but other websites may not be so lucky eg if the domain holder is elderly, suddenly dies or becomes seriously ill when it may then be too late to launch any rescue plan
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    did you mean https://tedlouis.com? *another victim of autocorrect? * The home page (above link) says: “While my site will technically go away, some long-time friends of mine have been busy working on an archive of all the stories on my site. The archive will be available to all of my site's readers. I will post more info as I receive it.” Not sure if this means the site will only be accessible by existing “readers”
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    Last year (13 March 2022) at the age of 85, Dame Shirley Bassey sang a live performance of her most famous song “Diamonds Are Forever“. And she’s right. Except under extreme conditions diamonds are and will last forever. But websites aren’t and won’t. Every experienced web user will have clicked on site links only to find the site’s gone, replaced by a stark message from a cyber squatter trying to flog the domain and all the contents have presumably just been deleted. In the recent Lounge thread on CRVBOY.org @Carlos Hazdayposted “the site's a one-man show, and the webmaster faced some health issues” which suggests that this gay story site, and all the other ones like it, could be at risk and at some point end up as a“domain for sale” with all the stories deleted. Obviously where the authors have themselves died there would then be no way to recover those stories (unless they had been published which, of course, most aren’t). It’s a bit of a worry that our gay literary legacy, which perhaps we take for granted, could just start disappearing. Not “are forever” but gone forever. Or have I missed something? Perhaps the bigger sites (GA? Nifty?) have a backup plan to preserve the best?
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    Spiders

    Zombie replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    timeline in link… 300 Million Years Ago The First Spider is Spotted And what did Rentokil do?? Absolutely NOTHING!!
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