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| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:06AM +1000 >Unlike most snakes that will slither away if they >hear or smell you coming, those mean bastards will chase >you if you get too close. Same with the brown snakes here. And they're top 3 most venomous in the world. But I've only been chased by one once. Mainly, we see pythons and tree snakes, which are both not venomous. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:08AM +1000 >Hawaii won't allow any non native animals in. They might kill off >the natural ones there. That's happened before in other >countries. But you're all for that. At least in Australia. You said we should let the feral dogs take over and let them wipe out native animals. >> Well okay, I did not know that. I'd like to see hummingbirds on this rock. That would be so awesome. Please don't use the "B" word i.e., "brown tree snake." My guess is that sooner or later, they'll be here. I hate snakes! >I read once, many years ago, that Hawaii has no snakes. >Is that still true? What's St. Patrick in Hawaiian? |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 18 04:46PM -0400 On 5/16/2020 12:00 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote: > <johnkuthern@gmail.com> wrote: >> Poor thing flew past me as I was sitting out back having a last Cuppa Plus looking for the hummingbird feeder, which I did not have it out yet! It actually flew up and put it's little beak into a screw home in the deck before giving up and flying away! :-( So I immediately went back in, found the hummingbird feeder, and made up a fresh batch of hummingbird juice. One cup of sugar to five cups of water, heated on the stove until all the sugar was dissolved, then put it in a washed out big glass bottle, put some in the washed out feeder and put it out. >> Can you spell Global WARMING? I normally don't see any hummingbirds into well into Summer! And it's only May 15! Global warming has nothing to do with hummingbird migration patterns. They don't have tiny calendars tucked under their rapidly beating wings. > It is 1 (one) part sugar to 4 (four) parts water. > Your recipe of 5 cups water is making the solution too weak. > Janet US Absolutely, Janet. The standard recipe is 1/2 c. sugar to 2 cups just boiling water. I measure the sugar into the mason jar and then add the hot water to it. Stir until it is dissolved. Cover and let it cool to room temp (or refrigerate - I always have a second jar in the fridge. :) DO NOT ever pour hot sugar water into a hummingbird feeder. What's he trying to do, burn their tongues off? Jill |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:56AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 16:46:35 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote: >>> Can you spell Global WARMING? I normally don't see any hummingbirds into well into Summer! And it's only May 15! >Global warming has nothing to do with hummingbird migration patterns. >They don't have tiny calendars tucked under their rapidly beating wings. Global warming affects everything. |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 18 04:57PM -0400 On 5/16/2020 3:49 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote: > fall by flying non-stop over ocean water. What you are feeding is the > equivalent of a diet drink. > Janet US Kudos, Janet US, very well written! :) He thinks he's somehow being benevolent by putting up a feeder full of diluted "diet" sugar water. I hope he has neighbors with feeders who care more about them. The birds are smart enough to seek out the better feeders (and the flowers). Hummingbirds are fascinating. I know quite a bit about them and they show up at my feeder all the time. Cool thing about them, the beating of their wings sounds like the light saber in 'Star Wars'. Slight change in pitch when they move but that's what it reminds me of. Oh, and they chirp, too. Very soft chirps between sips. I know a hell of a lot more about hummingbirds than Kuthe ever dreamed of. Jill <---avid bird watcher |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:59AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 16:57:57 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote: >Hummingbirds are fascinating. I know quite a bit about them and they >show up at my feeder all the time. Cool thing about them, the beating >of their wings sounds like the light saber in 'Star Wars'. The frame of reference of an American :) |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 18 05:21PM -0400 >> So they'd better not be overweight? > One thing for sure, hummingbirds are never 'obese.' I don't even know that > any of them tip the scales at much more than an ounce. Bruce is trying to work some silly thing about obese Americans into a hummingbird discussion. Hummingbirds do not tip those scales. They showed up at my feeder at the beginning of April. They migrated from Florida and perhaps even further south. They're here to stay until October or November. They're expending an extreme amount of energy during the day sipping nectar/sugar water (not Kuthe's "juice"). Not because they're still migrating. They've arrived and they're nesting. They are busy establishing relationships and building little tiny nests and will madte and lay little tiny eggs. :) Hummingbirds save energy during the night because they go into a state of torpor. They go back to their nest when the sun sets. Their body temps drop and in a state of torpor you can't wake them up. When the sun comes up their bodies warm and they gradually come out of it. Then they have to go right back to work, looking for nutrition from flowers and tiny insects and at least a feeder that doesn't contain some cheap, diluted "diet soda". Jill |
| Hank Rogers <Nospam@invalid.com>: May 18 04:41PM -0500 Bruce wrote: >> Global warming has nothing to do with hummingbird migration patterns. >> They don't have tiny calendars tucked under their rapidly beating wings. > Global warming affects everything. It runs the cuppa plus. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:01AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 07:40:14 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >> then folding it up and sticking it into my pocket and carrying it around >> for the rest of the day... possibly re-using it grossed me out. >At the risk of being called "racist", a lot of Asians love the utility value of carrying a hankie but the idea of blowing dirty material from one's nose into their beloved handkerchief and then carrying it with them as if nothing has happened will evoke some pretty strong feelings - mostly horror and disgust. Yeah, Asians prefer to take a nose dump on the pavement. Hawaiians especially. Have you ever looked at a Hawaiian pavement? |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:02AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 11:05:31 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" >nose to get what's hanging there to only fling that into the air and then wipe >your fingers on your or pants. >Now, tell us which is the most disgusting sounding. Ah, you're describing the Chinese practice. |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 18 01:08PM -0700 On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 3:02:39 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > >your fingers on your or pants. > >Now, tell us which is the most disgusting sounding. > Ah, you're describing the Chinese practice. I've seen plenty, sad to say, mainlanders of all different races do that disgusting gesture. Winter seems to be the most active season for that. UGH. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:17AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 13:08:14 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" >> Ah, you're describing the Chinese practice. >I've seen plenty, sad to say, mainlanders of all different races do that >disgusting gesture. Winter seems to be the most active season for that. I'm sure all races do it, but if it was an Olympic sport, the Chinese would win. |
| Nellie <julie.nils@gmail.com>: May 18 02:12PM -0700 Dave Smith Said: While Chinese may recoil at the thought of stuffing a wad of snotty cloth into to their pockets they have a reputation for grossing out others by spitting everywhere. I was in China in 2016 and while I did see spitting in the streets, there were no spitting signs in every public/tourist venue. There were fines attached to spitting at the airport for one. Lots of trouble for you if you spit in Tiannamen Square, the Summer Palace or at the wall. I should mention (ob food), that the food was out of this world fabulous. The breakfast buffets are way better than even the famed Scandinavian breakfasts. Awful country as far as politics and human rights violations, but a great place to visit. Nellie |
| Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 18 05:41PM -0400 On 2020-05-18 5:12 p.m., Nellie wrote: > was out of this world fabulous. The > breakfast buffets are way better than even > the famed Scandinavian breakfasts. Wow. That says a lot. It's been more than 20 years since my first trip to Denmark and I still remember what an incredible experience the breakfast buffet was. That was where I discovered Vienbrot. I was a little disappointed on my third trip when we stayed at the same hotel as we had 7 a few years later and found the reduced menu and, worse, the lower quality. On one trip to Denmark we had flown to Hamburg and stayed our first night in Lubeck and had the best breakfast buffet I have ever had. We also had an exceptionally good one in Garmishe-Partenkircken in Bavaria. My good buddy is a retired airline pilot who flew to China many times. He has told me many times about the great food there. > Awful country as far as politics and human > rights violations, but a great place to visit. We knew a woman who was there on business in the 1980s. She was impressed with a lot of things, but she was thoroughly disgusted by the spitting. She talked of being in nice restaurants and how there were slimy stains of saliva and mucous from people spitting on the floors and the walls. Around here people are disgusted by people spitting on the street and into gutters. It is just unimaginable that someone would spit on an interior wall or floor. |
| John Kuthe <johnkuthern@gmail.com>: May 18 02:24PM -0700 And I figured out a great way to get around Youtube's fucking ads! 1. Play Youtube on my WinXP box! 2. Select contiguous entire ALBUMS!! I 'Tracked to the Dead Boys "Young, Loud and Snotty", part oif the Heartbreakers "LAMF" and Iggy and The Stooges "Funhouse"! And nary a fucking ad in any of 'em! And NO stopping and asking "Are you still watching?" as Youtube thinks WinXP went away BUT IT DIDN'T! :-) And I never stumbled on Da 'Track once! 20-20-20mins with short breaks in between. 3 fans on me and the temp is not bad! 64F! :-) John Kuthe... |
| GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com>: May 18 02:36PM -0700 John Kuthe wrote: > I 'Tracked to the Dead Boys "Young, Loud and Snotty", part oif the Heartbreakers "LAMF" and Iggy and The Stooges "Funhouse"! And nary a fucking ad in any of 'em! > And NO stopping and asking "Are you still watching?" as Youtube thinks WinXP went away BUT IT DIDN'T! :-) > And I never stumbled on Da 'Track once! 20-20-20mins with short breaks in between. 3 fans on me and the temp is not bad! 64F! :-) Did you kill any hummingbirds today by feeding them your stoopid "hot diet sugar mix"...??? -- Best Greg |
| graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca>: May 18 02:21PM -0600 On 2020-05-18 1:36 p.m., Dave Smith wrote: > kid from getting hurt. Saying "no" with a smack on the butt is a good > way to stop something from happening right away, and, hopefully, the > word "no" will be something useful in the future. Why stop there? Why not beat the little buggers black and blue, or use a cane until you draw blood! That'll teach 'em!! |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 18 01:45PM -0700 On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 3:21:13 PM UTC-5, graham wrote: > Why not beat the little buggers black and blue, or use a cane until you > draw blood! > That'll teach 'em!! At the risk of sounding like an ogre, I've seen a few who needed to be beat until black and blue. |
| Lucretia Borgia <lucretiaborgia@fl.it>: May 18 05:56PM -0300 >child by his father when he made piano mistakes. That one >is still up for debate though but probably contributed to >his eventual deafness in his 20's. The nuns at the convent school I went to age 5 boxed our ears. Hurt and deafened then for about half an hour and although my hearing is intact I reckon that's why I have awful tinnitus. |
| Taxed and Spent <nospamplease@nonospam.com>: May 18 02:05PM -0700 On 5/18/2020 12:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote: > smuggling 20 handguns into Canada. The prosecutor was asking for a > sentence of 5 years. His lawyer suggested 4 years. The judge gave him > 3.5 years. With credit for time served he will be out in 14 months. Now they don't even hold them after arrest. There are guys that were five or six times in one evening, being let loose right after each arrest. |
| Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 18 05:28PM -0400 On 2020-05-18 5:05 p.m., Taxed and Spent wrote: >> 3.5 years. With credit for time served he will be out in 14 months. > Now they don't even hold them after arrest. There are guys that were > five or six times in one evening, being let loose right after each arrest. It is more than a little frustrating here because of the handgun issue. Handguns are legal here, but are very strictly limited. You can get a license to buy one but if you want to shoot with it you have to join a recognized club to get a permit that will allow you to transport it, trigger locked an in a locked case between your residence and the club, nowhere else. There are no concealed or open permits here. You cannot walk around with a loaded handgun. Yet, places like Toronto see one or two handgun murders every week, all committed by young gang members who are apparently unaware that carry a gun around and shooting people is illegal. It is amazing how many times these guys get arrested and end also facing charges for breach of parole, breach of bail conditions, breach of firearms prohibition.... and they get a bail hearing? One would home that if a criminal is out on parole or bail and gets picked up for murder they would go straight back to jail. Instead, they impose even stricter conditions on the law abiding gun owners. |
| Silvar Beitel <silverbeetle@charter.net>: May 18 02:01PM -0700 > > Crab and asparagus quiche. It was excellent, IIDSSM. > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/MbfcipZXqKtuPrpw5 > Boy, does that look goooooood!!! Thanks. Standard Betty Crocker pastry crust with some cracked pepper thrown in (par-baked), 12 oz. fresh asparagus, 8 oz. decent lump crab meat, 4 oz. shredded Gruyere (half on the bottom, half on top toward the end of baking), some sauteed onions and red bell peppers, some Old Bay and Dijon, 3 eggs (4 might have been better, but I was lucky what I did use fit) and 1 1/4 cups cream. 350 degrees F, 60 minutes. This time of year I go into full "101 Ways to Use Up Asparagus" mode. :-) -- Silvar Beitel |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 18 02:05PM -0700 On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 4:01:54 PM UTC-5, Silvar Beitel wrote: > This time of year I go into full "101 Ways to Use Up Asparagus" mode. :-) Ha! I don't blame you, fresh will soon be gone. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:10AM +1000 On Mon, 18 May 2020 14:12:29 -0400, Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com> wrote: >> Hope you have a great day. :-D >Thank you. I got the mail, did the grocery shopping, and arrived home >for salacious fun. What, you're not mowing on your birthday? |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 19 06:05AM +1000 >Of course I don't believe that. I was just throwing back the >same silly comment that Bruce made above that Trump would >"kill another 100,000 people if it got him re-elected." Oh good. But Trump wouldn't hesitate, I'm sure. He only cares about one person. I'm surprised you can't see that. |
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