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My birthday yields: "Florida man tries to break into jail to see his friends, and gets caught on the razor wire."
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40 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:..in the trees....on the wrong fairway....water hazards....
Golfers like us want to make sure we get as many strokes for our money as possible! Why only get 68 stokes when, for the same money, you can get 120 strokes?
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We will, we will Mock YOU!
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What are your bets to when we hit 1,000 pages on this thread?
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21 minutes ago, gurn said:
could be a touch of dyslexia, as the individual numbers in the total are fine, just in bad order
Yes, or it might be what I suffer from sometime, that's typelexia. The word I had most trouble typing was "results", where I got the "ul" reversed to "lu". I didn't go over so well on a report card when I was trying to say, "You're daughter could have better results if....." and, I reversed it. Sigh.... My last trip, so far, to the Principal's office!
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Apparently Austin Matthews has tested positive for COVID-19.
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8 hours ago, skolozsy2 said:
Plays video games 16 hours a day, lives at home, and pays no rent...a real contributor to society.
It is too bad that people who are forced to be at home, do not use, at least some of their time, to learn new skills online. At no time in history have the general populace had the ability to learn almost anything at anytime from anywhere. It's like they have been shown that over there in their room is a big chest filled with gold and precious stones, but they are too lazy to get off the couch and go to open it. Sigh.........
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1 hour ago, kingofsurrey said:
Clearly trump is after the moonshine / banjo voters
A scene from Deliverance comes to mind!
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9 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:
Edmonton and Stoon both seem to be about right, but the one in Manitoba is nowhere near Winnipeg and the Ontario and Quebec locations are both in the middle of nowhere....
I think, in Canada, they are putting a place holder dot in about the centre of each province.
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When the COVID-19 hits, and you have time on your hands, this is what you do.
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Back on page 869 I wrote about a book I was reading where a pandemic occurred in Honduras. Here is a bit of it:
" Well in that year (2015 - 2016) about half of the members of group involved in the exploration began to get patches of ugly sores that wouldn't go away. They were eventually found to have a parasite called "Leishmaniasis" that is ugly, very hard to get rid of, actually mates with other strains and thus mutates, and has been around since the dinosaurs! It apparently is contacted through barn rats AND sand flies. Because of global warning these guys, barn rats and sand flies, are now into the southern states and growing in the Easterly and Northerly directions. The book goes into great detail about pandemics, and how hard viruses are to manufacturer, and even mentions Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Health (NIH)."
What I was trying to point out is that pandemics are really hard to get rid of, apparently these guys who got this virus never got rid of it, their bodies just learned how to handle it. My wife picked up a parasite in India at the age of 21, in 1973. She almost died, but they were able to save her. She spent the next 44 years having many stomach issues and ulcerative colitus. When the pain became too great, they operated on her stomach, only to find, on Nov 9, 2017, that she had stage 4 stomach cancer. She passed away 33 days later. The doctors thought it may have started in the bile duct. When I googled "bile duct cancer", I found out that it was prevalent with South East Asians, or US soldiers stationed in the South East, and it came from a parasite. That little bug__r had stayed around for 44 years. Let's not fool with this COVID-19 guy.
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11 hours ago, kingofsurrey said:Treatment is the answer. Keep them alive with safe drugs until they are ready for treatment.
Have a look at what Portugal has done with their (now, nonexistant) drug problem. Make ALL drugs legal. The 1920's taught us that prohibition does not work!
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2 hours ago, kingofsurrey said:
In May, the province recorded 170 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths
I was just thinking that we have never seen an age breakdown of these deaths. How many of these were over 60 or 70? To a young person who thinks that they do not have to follow a few simple rules about COVID-19 prevention because it doesn't affect his age group, I reply, that we (the boomers) try to do as much as possible about drug deaths, but yet they are not in our age group. The whole village has to help the villagers.
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Us Presidents That Have Died in Office
Elected Name or President Date of Death Cause of Death By who
1840 William H Harrison Apr 4, 1841 Pneumonia
1848 Zachary Taylor July 9, 1850 Bilious diarrhea or Bilious cholera
1860 Abraham Lincoln Apr 15, 1865 Assassination John Wilkes Booth
1880 James A. Garfield Sep 19, 1881 Assassination Charles J. Guiteau1900 William McKinley Sep 14, 1901 Assassination Leon Czolgosz
1920 Warren G. Harding Aug 2, 1923 Heart Attack ?
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt Ap12, 1945 Cerebral Hemorrhage
1960 John F. Kennedy Nov 22, 1963 Assassination Lee Harvey Oswald + ?
What about the next two Presidents who were elected in a year ending in “0” ?
1980 Ronald Reagan Mar 30, 1981 Attempted Assassination, John Hinkley Jr.
2000 George W. Bush May 10, 2005 Attempted Assassination, by Vladimir Arutyunian, in Tbilisi, Georgia. He threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade toward the podium. The grenade had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief was wrapped tightly around it, preventing the safety lever from detaching.Interesting, 4 died of assassinations, 4 died of natural causes, 2 had attempted assassinations. All of this list, except for Zachary Taylor were elected in a year ending in “0”. It’s absolutely a fluke, I know. Lists can be cherry-picked from anything. A lot more presidents had Attempted Assassinations done to them. But both of the presidential candidates are well into their 70's.
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15 minutes ago, coastal.view said:
you are putting my name on a quote
when you are not quoting me ?
exactly why ?
I'm sorry, I thought I used the quote from "TreMac", but looking at it, it was your copy of TreMac's quote, so it came out as you. Very sorry.
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19 minutes ago, coastal.view said:
Personally I hope they keep the borders closed to the public for a loooong ass time.
My first reaction is to say, "Yah, right on!". But having spent yesterday golfing with a Victoria cab driver, I learned how much the tourism in Victoria, and Vancouver, and Whistler etc, depends upon the US tourists. If I deny the border from opening, I am thinking more of myself (I never go there anyhow!!) than of the people who depend upon tourists for a living.
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30 minutes ago, stawns said:
they have the advantage of being able to completely isolate
Yeah, we should have shut down Vancouver Island the same way. LOL !
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17 minutes ago, The Lock said:
Then again, I might still be able to look at somewhere like New Zealand which doesn't even have cases now apparently.
Just reading on the rugby web sites that New Zealand's Super rugby competition will resume this week, with NO crowd restrictions. The competition is among 5 New Zealand teams, no outside teams. They are expecting crowds of up to 35,000 to attend. New Zealand's population estimated in June, 2019 as 4,917,000 is similar to BC's population.
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3 hours ago, Jaimito said:
To answer your question, the overall theme is nationalism and return to glory.
Thank you so much for the enlightening history lesson!
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Can anyone tell me why China, with all that land and all those people, has to grab Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet?
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58 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:
Dr. Bonnie "gets it".
I think we should name her St. Bonnie !
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19 minutes ago, kingofsurrey said:
Fraser insitute did well off publishing school ratings largely based on these exams.
Weird thing..... schools on the west side of vancouver tended to do better on exams. Private schools that had entrance exams for new students also did a better on the exams . Weird heh ?
Don't get me into the private school vs public school debate. I've looked a "clouds" from both sides now... having taught at public schools and private schools over the past 50 years. The private schools were a joy to teach at, but boy was the difference really slanted. Small classes, few discipline problems, homework assigned, 2 hour prep every night 5 times a week, compulsory tutoring or Sunday leave taken away if you were falling behind. But it was not for me. I didn't want to be teaching somebody from another city, or province, or country, I wanted to be teaching in the environment I was living in. So about 92% of my teaching was public schools. Then I taught on the East side of Vancouver in the 70's for 4 years, and at 11 other schools on the island since 1974. I've never taught at the any of the schools on Vancouver's west side, but I am sure that it was very different.
As far as the Fraser Institute, let's just say, they have an agenda.
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46 minutes ago, kingofsurrey said:
Most importantly teachers were compared to each other in the school / district / province based on their students exam scores.... So teachers were relentless in driving students to perform on these exams.
I'll give you an example of an exam I took in about 1985. I was teaching part time, and working for a computer company part time. The kids were complaining about having to write exams as no one ever has to do this after they leave school. So I told them about my exam the next day. It was a 2 hour oral exam in front of 3 very knowledgeable people. 12 people were to take this exam at different times. One would "pass" and get 100%, the other 11 would fail and get 0%. The "exam" was for a computer contract and was worth $400,000 over three years. They were looking at 12 vendors, but only 1 would be awarded the contract. I prepared for that exam the same way I had prepared for all of my exams since grade 9, reviewing what our company offered, what the others offered, what questions would I be asked, and how would I answer them, etc.. I passed, and we got the contract. I, of course, only got a commission, but it was a nice sale. Every sales person has to do the same thing: know your product, without having to go and look it up, know the competition, and so on. My student's life would be filled with exams. I had to take an Insurance exam, with a pass mark of 75%, others take Real Estate exams, I've tutored people needing help in mathematics to pass their armed forces exam, their CGA, their commercial diving exam, and so on. I did not care how my students did against other schools, I did care that the students knew how to prepare and write exams.
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14 hours ago, kingofsurrey said:
Most school kids typically start shutting down in May or early june in a normal school year.
It depends on the grade level and subject area. I, as most senior level Math teachers did, really liked having a Math12 Provincial. I thought it kept the students going and keen, and reviewing their year's work, much better. We coupled that with in school finals for the other secondary grades. If you want to get into the argument about final exams for Math 12, I'm willing to expand my views on this. I usually play really nicely in the sand box when a reasonable debate is going on.
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Impressive knowledge Sean!