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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: July 04, 2023, 02:49:26 AM »
Glad you're both OK.
@Regen: Healthy food sucks. The whole point of eating at a festival is to get the deliciously lethal fried foods. I can never resist eating fattening stuff, when they're available. For example, a month ago my sister came from USA on vacation, and she got me about 1.5-2kg of various delicious chocolates. I ate them in 5 days, and that's me controlling myself. The only way I can lose weight is to deny myself access to any of that.
@Dina: That's great about your job. To be honest,  it blows my mind that you have such high standards for teaching positions, and it bodes well for your country's future. Here, you're a TA until you get your PhD, then you're job is safe for life. At least in public universities.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: July 01, 2023, 06:42:58 PM »
Hello weirdlings :)
Sorry I haven't been on, I missed you guys.
How's everyone doing?  Myself, I have a couple of mulberry trees (one white, one black) that yield about 26 kg/week each from mid-april to the beginning of June. The white ones are so sweet, if you eat a cookie afterwards it tastes bland. So naturally I ate (directly from the tree) whenever I got hungry, and gained 6.5 kgs LOL.
Its apple season now though, so I'm using that to get rid of that extra weight.
@Regen: I know that struggle, I gain weight easily as well. I made a few changes to my diet a few years ago, and now I'm only 12 kg overweight instead of 35. :D But these 12 kg are horrible. I lose 3, gain 10, lose 7, etc etc. And I have a very physical job as well, which helps a lot. You, though, are screwed :D You have to take the hard road.
PS: Thanks for the PM :)

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: December 18, 2022, 05:40:35 PM »
Nooooooooo... Penalties..

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: December 15, 2022, 09:10:54 AM »
Your match was amazing. I always enjoy watching Messi in action, and Alvarez's first goal was just awesome :D , All Arabs were cheering for Morocoo, but France scored an early goal and Morocco couldn't keep up, losing 2-0. While I was cheering for Morocco, I'm kinda glad that they lost, because it would've made a one-sided final with you crushing them. Unfortunately you're going to contend with France now, that match is going to be epic!

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: December 14, 2022, 05:06:55 PM »
Go Argentina! You have a good chance now. This was the first match that I watched this WC. I'll watch Morocco VS France tonight :D

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: December 01, 2022, 05:54:06 PM »
@Dina: Congratz :D you do know that I'm rooting for Argentina, right? Since playing Fifa World Cup 98 on my pc. :D
I liked Cinder Spires too BTW.
@Regen: Ummmm.. Polish, Russian, Japanese and Spanish... How is your brain not melting? Lol.
about Spanish, maybe watch Spanish movies with Spanish subtitles? That's what I plan on doing when progressing enough in French. I recommend a 2006 Spanish movie called Pan's Labyrinth or "El laberinto del fauno" it's the only Spanish movie I know, but I loved it, and the language sounded simple to my ears (distinct words, not jumbled). It's a bit dark, but I remember loving it.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: November 30, 2022, 04:39:14 PM »
@Dina: I'm sorry to hear that. You have nothing to worry about. I'm sure you'll ace your presentation and keep your.... Tenure? What you said sounds like it.
Well, Argentina won VS Mexico, so that's good news at least :D
@Regen: I imagine learning arabic is like attempting to learn English script from the start. I don't know how duolingo teaches Arabic, but they're supposed to give you the letters separated then joined, for every word. Also the accents, which are much more integral to correct pronunciations than French. Now that I think about it, he should've had a 1 year lead. Lol

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: November 26, 2022, 08:50:29 AM »
Hello people, sorry I haven't been online in a while. Been pretty busy.
About 8 months ago while I was playing online, I got into a friendly argument with a french friend of mine about languages, he said Arabic sounds like a braying camel that's choking on a... ehm :D
I said that French is a language that God made exclusively for women and not to be spoken by any self respecting man, anyway, things escalated (in a fun way) and we had a bet on which of us would be able to carry a conversation in the other's language first. A 3rd party suggested I give the french guy a 6 month lead, as Arabic is a completely foreign language to a French/English speaker, while French is relatively familiar to an English speaker.
Anyway, the 6 months were up, and as of two months ago, I've been grinding on Duolingo
 @Regen: My cows are great :) I also got a litter of 7 puppies, and again their mother got mastitis, and stopped feeding them, so I've been doing that with a monster recipe of boiled sweet potatoes, milk, whey an flour. They're absolutely adorable, but they make me walk very slowly around the farm so that I don't step on any of them. The rhythm is: leg forward, no more than 5 cm off the ground, sweep puppy away with the outside of my foot, place my foot, put the other leg forward and repeat.
@Dina: Is that show where they spent half the episode mowing the grass, the other half kicking the ball and the third half showing the surprise of other players and spectators? The episode ending  mid-kick and the goal is scored in the next episode? :D I absolutely loved/hated it as a kid.
go :D
Anyway, how is everyone doing? how's the family, Regen? And Dina: Your hubby doing ok?
I haven't watched any games yet, sadly. But hopefully I'll get to watch France vs Denmark (I hope France loses so I can taunt my french friend, but it's unlikely. :(

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 19, 2022, 07:08:43 AM »
I watched The Lord of The Rings before I read the books, and I was an adolescent. It was a magical experience, literally. They were sold on DVDs that I bought and took with me to the farm where I was working summers, to play on an ancient pentium II PC, and I introduced all of my coworkers to the world of foreign movies with a bang. To see farmers who usually sleep 2 hours after sunset stay awake until the ungodly hour of 11 - gasp- just to finish a movie. :D The hobbit was a disappointment (I'd read LOTR and the Silmarillion by then) but I still enjoyed them. I'm hesitant to watch anything that won't measure up.
anyway, today is going to be a good day. I feel it :D

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 17, 2022, 08:27:54 AM »
MAEN all :) Pyra has good days and bad days, her immune system is weak, understandably, but these last two days were good. I took a video of her and the dogs chasing each other around yesterday. :D
Hmm, both of you are dropping hints about shows that I haven't watched. I'm interested in league of super pets. Lol
@Regen: Love your new sig. Rofl :D

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 11, 2022, 10:25:37 PM »
Hello everyone, I hope you're doing well. Regen :are you and your family fully recovered?
Dina: All good on your end?
I apologize for the long absence. I finally made the decision and put down the dog. Was a little hard, since I liked him a lot, but I managed to ease his suffering. Right after that, we had an unseasonal heat wave for 9 days, with temp reaching as high as 42 at morning and 28 at night, the result of which was that my oldest cow, Heidi, went into premature labor. I usually make sure my cows avoid such heat in the last 6 weeks of their pregnancy by scheduling births for the beginning of July at max, or better yet, middle to end of October. We got hit by the wave while Heidi was 1 month from her scheduled birth, and the heat stress was too much. The little calf should've been 35-42 kg at the regular birth date, but in this case, she was only 17 kg. She proceeded to lose another 2 kg because she was sickly, and her first 3 days were in the end of the heatwave. After 10 very difficult days of bottle feeding, medication, saline IV, showers every hour to lower her body temp when she got too hot and raising her temp when she went into shock, she finally pulled through. Which was a pleasant surprise; as I didn't expect her to live. Yesterday was the first day that she fully fed from her mother. Today she was playing with my dogs, chasing each other (she's still limping a bit from all the injections, and falls on her butt whenever she tries to move backwards, which looks very cute :D). She's actually still smaller than the dogs. I celebrated today with a BBQ. :D
I decided to call her Pyra ^^

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: September 21, 2022, 07:36:22 PM »
Thanks Dina. The wheels aren't practical for this situation, as I said. His hind legs are tucked all the way forward, looking like this >. He doesn't need them anyway, as I saw him walking. Anyway, I'll watch for a few more days before I make up my mind.
About your hubby's computer, a temporary solution is to turn off updates. In Network settings, set your home network as a "Metered connection", which indicates to windows that the connection has a limited bandwidth quota, and thus won't use it to update.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: September 21, 2022, 09:56:14 AM »
Thanks Regen. Hope all of you get well soon.
As I said, the hind legs are completely stiff, turning inward towards the stomach at an acute angle. He balanced on the two hind legs and hobbled along. And this is a stray, even if I could make something like that, it'll remove it, or the other strays will beat him up. Likewise I can't bring him into the farm. My dogs would destroy him.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: September 21, 2022, 08:02:07 AM »
Hello ladies..It's been a while. I've been following the posts but haven't had the energy to reply myself, so here's a little concentrated reply:
@Regen: I hope you and your husband are better now. Are MiniRegenbogen and MicroRegenbogen okay?
@Dina: These baked goodies look awesome. I love baking stuff (pizza from scratch with a heavy sweet dough and stuffed crust is my favorite) and I love buying them. Bakeries are my weakness; whenever I pass one by and they have just finished baking something I have to buy some from what ever it is.
I'm glad things are improving at your work, but how is your computer holding up?

So there's this thing that's bothering me a lot. There's  this absolutely lovely stray dog in my village, very friendly to everyone. I always played with him a bit whenever I passed by. He was kinda adopted by the whole street. About a month ago I saw that he got crippled. Apparently he took a nap under one of the government contractors vehicles and they ran him over. He couldn't use his back legs anymore. I wanted to put him down using the extra strength tranq that I use for surgery on my cows (3 ml will put a 700 cow to sleep for 4-6 hours) , but at the time I only had 2 ml left, and I wasn't sure they'll be enough. I finally managed to get a new bottle about 10 days ago, but by then I saw the dog actually walking on two legs, with his back legs stiff and unmoving. He managed to walk, not crawl, and he seems to find enough food. So I let him be. A few days later the man who kinda adopted him came by to buy some milk and we talked a bit, he says the dog is in a lot of pain and whines a lot at night. Now I'm a little unsure what to do. Should I let him go on? He seems to manage, but I don't want him to suffer. Any thoughts?

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: September 06, 2022, 10:11:12 PM »
Well, big supermarkets are a relatively new thing here (in the past 20 years), and most of these do close at 10, or 9. But local stores don't usually close until midnight. Some go further, and in the city there's at least one store open 24/7 in each street.

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