@AndyD interesting. A quick google search brings up some questionable things they did in the U.S., hopefully the UK operations are better.

@Daniel I was in a local jewellers a fortnight ago and was shown a fabulous tanzanite ring. £13,000 I kid you not, stunning rich blue, large of course. It's gone (no not me) but they still have some earrings... https://bradleysthejewellers.com/search?q=tanzanite*&type=product

@dolmansaxlil yeah, it could work with two, but would not be as much fun.

Sounds like Texas.

Darn I suspect the staff of The Onion has been leading Alex Jones to believe they want him to front their acquisition just for laughs.

I'm thinking that you may have picked up a draft of a thread that you started sometime in the past and forgot about. This platform keeps a draft copy of whatever threads and posts you started but didn't actually post. If you start a thread but don't finish posting it, that draft will be saved and a colored bubble will appear the lower left hand corner. Hover over it with your mouse (laptop - not sure how to do that on tablet or phone) and it will show "New Topic". On a related note... If you start a Quick Reply in thread A but migrate away from it to read thread B, you'll find your unposted post is still there if you go back to thread A. You can erase it or finish it up and Quick Reply. Finally, if you open a full edit screen, type something in and then Hide it, the draft gets saved and colored bubble will appear in the lower left hand corner of the screen. If you're on a laptop and you hover over it, it will tell you "Replying to (topic name)". You can just click on it and it will take you back to the thread and you can either finish up and Submit the post or Discard it. If anyone needs screenshots, please give a holler and I'll put together a Tips and Tricks post on how drafts are handled.

Thank you

Cindy - "Part of the problem is that folks just dont understand the reasons they are struggling because the reasons are complex." I believe this may be a large part of "how did this happen?" - that Republicans have gotten good at providing simple reasons... no matter that those reasons aren't true, they resonate with voters... Seems to me that I remember Hillary having a plan and policy for everything, but it took more than a few words to explain.

Done!

Amusing, I think. Especially the part where Musk and Ramswarthy scratch such others’ eyes out. I intend to point and laugh.

@AdagioM it's apparently a company that makes artificial colors for beverages. Obviously a non-stick end product, but their process uses ammonia, and a large pressurized storage vessel exploded.

Terrific article that makes me want to see the whole collection.

@Mik said in Back from Detroit: Jim's was still excellent in 2010. I'm glad to hear that. Big Al

@Steve-Miller said in The Department of Government Efficiency: I find it amusing that there are two people in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency.

@AdagioM We own a mobile home together in a well established, very nice, and very well managed mobile home park. Our mobile home is estimated to be worth over $200,000 by Zillow, and even though I think this figure is ridiculous, we bought it five years ago and prices have gone into the stratosphere since the pandemic. The title is recorded in such a way that we'd both have to agree to a sale or one of us could sue the other, the asset would be held by the court, then sold off with the proceeds being divided between us according to terms decided by the court, in a process that would take a year. I have no interest in either option. It's true that his behavior often amounts to what my indomitable late sister once described as a kind of metaphorical predation. It's just he lacks the intellect that would be required to overcome my instinct for survival and ability to defend myself. He has never been able to beat me in a fight. The best example of this dynamic is he put my name on the title conjoined with "or." Maybe a year later he just announced that he wanted me to leave meaning move out. I asked him if I could stay. He said yes. He did the same thing a few months later. I ignored him. He did it a third time and I took his name off the title. He, his mother, and his sister panicked. I told him I'd add his name to the title conjoined with "and" and that he would pay the fees involved. That is exactly what happened. He can do whatever he wants but I will remain adamant about not giving up what I have achieved after the instability and humiliation of being "just a renter" as they used to derisively say in Hawaii, especially given the astronomical cost of rent in this state. We don't own the land so we.have to pay a pretty much nominal monthly rent. A 2 bedroom apartment would rent for twice the price. He was the love of my life but became extremely narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled after loosing his last job in Hawaii and then spending the night screaming and crying. He was still loving then but over a period of weeks he withdrew into his thoughts and feelings to a pathological degree. The worst part of it is he's much too intelligent to not know that these drugs are weakening his body and shortening his life.

Lol!

@CHAS said in Piano updates: You are my hero. Aww thank you! What a kind thing to say! My mind leaves the room whenever I touch a musical instrument in the company of other people. Yeah me too though!

@wtg said in Beekeepers. And appliance store.: @Big_Al Gift link! don't know if it will ask for you to sign up, or if you can just read... I was able to read the gift link. Thanks! That looks like a business I'd like to patronize if it was in my area. That styrofoam recycling operation is ingenious. Big Al

Wow, makes my right knee and left foot hurt to read that.