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Sounds like the arctic and antarctic naming convention but with less bears.
... and less cloths?
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Oh, he's just trolling. He spends most of his day running the Facebook pages for several Joss Whedon and Alton Brown fanclubs. He's not just a member, he's also the president!
So has anyone figured out why freehold hates everything good and loves everything bad?
Wow That is mind blowing. he is one heck of a troll.
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Wow That is mind blowing. he is one heck of a troll.Oh, he's just trolling. He spends most of his day running the Facebook pages for several Joss Whedon and Alton Brown fanclubs. He's not just a member, he's also the president!
So has anyone figured out why freehold hates everything good and loves everything bad?If that blew your mind, just wait until you find out that he is a bicycle thief who's never even been to New York!
He does like "adult anime" though.
Well yeah that last one is a given.
(Also the Beastlands and Ysgard both kind of sucked. Just sayin'. Kah-meh-hah-meh-hah~!)It helps if you think of Ysgard as Valhalla. It's the plane of "get drunk, feast constantly, and brawl to the death all day, party all night, and no consequences because everyone gets resurrected and fully healed every dawn".
Then remember it's primarily occupied by (even more than celestials) dwarves and barbarians on its first layer, giants and dragons on its second, and the two are constantly fighting - mostly for the fun of fighting.
Well, yes. It was pretty blatant. But it still kinda sucks.
Like, as the representative CG fantasy land of, "here's what you should enjoy, if you're CG" it's just... why.
Well, it's not. Ysgard is the "between CG and CN" plane.
The CG plane is Arborea: the plane of the eladrin Court of Stars, the elven afterlife of Arvandor, the Seelie Court of the Fey, and Mount Olympus.
You know that somehow I'd totally forgotten about Aborea?
It's weird, though, I kind of thought the whole lore thing about the giants being conquered by the elves... you know what, nevermind. That's cool.
:)
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Hence, PS feels both artificial and patchwork, but that artificialness can feel... kind of hollow.
On the other hand, Golarion feels patchwork, but that patchwork feels less artificial, not because it is less, but because it's brimming to the bursting with an over-all creative vision and energy. Golarion doesn't care about balance, it cares about genres, and it thus is a genre-first creative endeavor that, once it has its ideas set down to allow you to make stories, it then goes back to create a semi-coherent narrative around them, and never runs out of steam.
And I feel exactly other way around - Golarion is much more artificial and forced than Planescape.
On the other hand I am not that much fan of Great Wheel itself, because it feels too ordered and too neat either. My favorite cosmology is the one from Malazan Book Of The Fallen with wild tangle of many supernatural realms, including multiple unknown ones, and that doesn't even starts to include other worlds.
Oh, they're both artificial, but the forced elements of Planescape, for me, come in the wheel, it's combination of the extreme symmetry, several central elements to the setting that were left with deeply unsatisfactory conclusions or reasoning, and very specific apparent losses of creativity in elements that are supposed to be central.
But I wish to stress that I'm not saying it's bad. Just less satisfying than some other elements. It probably also has a lot to do with that "undynamic" veneer it pushes pretty hard as such a central component to the setting. It's one of the reasons I really liked FR's advancing timeline, or Eberron's feel of being on the cusp of great changes. Change could happen in both settings. In PS, notsomuch.
Golarion doesn't alter the timeline much, as-printed. But it does allow for major changes to occur, and describes how those might suss out at the end of every AP, and even presumes some of those actually happen and integrates it into the setting. These things change the world, even when they're not world-changing.
PS, on the other hand, literally undergoes world-changing events... without changing the world. And that's fine, it's just... the same.
(I will say that I have similar problems with FR's presentation, at times - world-changing events such that entire races and continents switch around and are lost, and yet there are still mostly the same countries in the same areas. Hm.)
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Ferrets!Hello, everyone.Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
In my pants!?
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Or is that just badgers?
Keeping badgers in your trousers would require a) enormous kekkers and b) an equally enormous pain threshold.
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I liked the patchwork nature of Planescape, personally - it did kind of make sense if you consider how much of the multiverse could be changed at the whim of enormously powerful entities. Sigil (and all the factions therein) was particularly cool.
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Keeping badgers in your trousers would require a) enormous kekkers and b) an equally enormous pain threshold.Ferrets!Hello, everyone.Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
In my pants!?
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Or is that just badgers?
I think it's bad for your manhood.
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I think it's bad for your manhood.Keeping badgers in your trousers would require a) enormous kekkers and b) an equally enormous pain threshold.Ferrets!Hello, everyone.Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
In my pants!?
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Or is that just badgers?
I don't think that would have any effect on my beard... O wait you meant...
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Ferret legging is a british past time
Imagine it done with badgers. That are bigger and have a foul temper.
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I pulled Dr Boom!!!
Now I just have to figure out what Magnetic does...
I think Magnetic combines the mech with the magnetic properties, like the void terror that consumes the creatures next to it, adds its stats to its own. Except I think the abilities of the mech get added too.
I'm excited about this new release of Hearthstone. I've always loved mech mage and now they've gotten more support =)
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We arrived at my mother-in-law's house at four this morning, got three whole hours of sleep, and now we get to go unload the truck all day.
I am hoping I get a as burst of adrenaline from the excitement. My primary objective is to at least get the kids bunkbeds rebuilt and made so they can sleep on them tonight. I'm planning to send WW's dad to the hardware store for screws that aren't stripped.
All I need is to get a very large coffee on the way.
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We arrived at my mother-in-law's house at four this morning, got three whole hours of sleep, and now we get to go unload the truck all day.
I am hoping I get a as burst of adrenaline from the excitement. My primary objective is to at least get the kids bunkbeds rebuilt and made so they can sleep on them tonight. I'm planning to send WW's dad to the hardware store for screws that aren't stripped.
All I need is to get a very large coffee on the way.
You know what to do.
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Oh really? *raises an eyebrow at Kjeldorn*
or was it for Other purposes?
*Sniffs at Kjeldorn suspiciously*
*Give a tooth chattering smile and sweats profusely*
Kjeldorn, what does your stable do with the foals? Does your stable have space for more horses? Or do you sell the foals away?
Yes we have spare space for them, though having 3 little babies does require some extra space (ie large enough stalls for mommy and baby to sleep in, a few extra pens so the other breeding mares can get accustomed to the new members of the horse-herd - not really a problem now they've been fully accepted - and such).
Normally a foal is a kind of a "you order one, to get one" kind of thing. Our breeding-mares are all (sometimes former) competition horses (4 dressagers, 7 harness racers and 2 Shetlanders), which are offered up for breeding about ever three years (staggered, so as not to have all of them with foal all the time but, some with foal (hopefully) every year).
We also have 4 breeding stallions (1 dressagers, 2 harness racers and 1 Shetlander).
Then its up to the buyer to pick the horse with the haracteristics he looking for, and combining it with its male counterpart (almost always through insemination) to create a foal with (hopefully) the desired characteristics. We'll then look after them for their first year, doing most of the initial handling training and preparing them for their new "life" away from mommy and their herd.
We actually usually take the foal on two trips to their new home, where they stay there for a week or two, to get some early acclimation to their new surroundings.
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Oh really? *raises an eyebrow at Kjeldorn*
or was it for Other purposes?
*Sniffs at Kjeldorn suspiciously*
*Give a tooth chattering smile and sweats profusely*
Kjeldorn, what does your stable do with the foals? Does your stable have space for more horses? Or do you sell the foals away?
Yes we have spare space for them, though having 3 little babies does require some extra space (ie large enough stalls for mommy and baby to sleep in, a few extra pens so the other breeding mares can get accustomed to the new members of the horse-herd - not really a problem now they've been fully accepted - and such).
Normally a foal is a kind of a "you order one, to get one" kind of thing. Our breeding-mares are all (sometimes former) competition horses (4 dressagers, 7 harness racers and 2 Shetlanders), which are offered up for breeding about ever three years (staggered, so as not to have all of them with foal all the time but, some with foal (hopefully) every year).
We also have 4 breeding stallions (1 dressagers, 2 harness racers and 1 Shetlander).
Then its up to the buyer to pick the horse with the haracteristics he looking for, and combining it with its male counterpart (almost always through insemination) to create a foal with (hopefully) the desired characteristics. We'll then look after them for their first year, doing most of the initial handling training and preparing them for their new "life" away from mommy and their herd.
We actually usually take the foal on two trips to their new home, where they stay there for a week or two, to get some early acclimation to their new surroundings.
So basically you artificially inseminated those mares with sperm, rather then put the mares and the stallions in the same field.
I mean sure if the stallion was like 200km away, its impractical to ship the stallion, rather then the sperm over.
So the buyer basically "ordered" his foals, by matching what sperm goes into which mare, and so he's waiting for them to be weaned, so he can collect his foals?
Because usually a way to check if animals are stressed or not is to see if they're breeding, and I personally thought a stable was a bit small for a horse to be in, and they would be happier in open fields?
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Two hours of interstate driving followed by 6 hours of slopping around in mud with another two and a half hours of interstate driving.
That's my day.
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Magnetic is link banding in MTG and Is it just me or are most of the cards this set trash? (or really its how banding should of worked)
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Two hours of interstate driving followed by 6 hours of slopping around in mud with another two and a half hours of interstate driving.
That's my day.
Where to today?
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Waitaminnit -- Hearthstone tried to fix banding??
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Waitaminnit -- Hearthstone tried to fix banding??
They are doing it pretty close to how I would of done banding.
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THE AC IS NOT WORKING.
The property manager has promised to send someone over today.
Which is good, because it's supposed to hit 97.
On the plus side, there's a nice breeze outside, so if I want to cool down, I can go out in the yard.
Still no coffee except at the Circle K down the street, and I am not that desperate yet.
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So basically you artificially inseminated those mares with sperm, rather then put the mares and the stallions in the same field.I mean sure if the stallion was like 200km away, its impractical to ship the stallion, rather then the sperm over.
So the buyer basically "ordered" his foals, by matching what sperm goes into which mare, and so he's waiting for them to be weaned, so he can collect his foals?
Because usually a way to check if animals are stressed or not is to see if they're breeding, and I personally thought a stable was a bit small for a horse to be in, and they would be happier in open fields?
Oh the horses have a lot of room to horse around on. We have 8 large and 5 small pens out back behind the stable itself. The stable stalls are just for the horse to sleep in at night and to feed in (to avoid feeding trough trouble - horses do eat out of the trough based on hierarchy in the herd).
Natural breeding is practised only rarely, as it requires extra space, time and care.
You see, even if a mare's in heat, she might not accept the rather headless advances from just any stallion, which in turn can result in injuries to either party.
If you want to have the mating done 'au naturel' its best to introduce mare and stallion a couple of weeks ahead of time, have them be accustomed to each others presence (usually by having them in a couple of small pens right next to each other), then once they seem ready, have the two of them get together in a single small pen to see if nature is ready to take its course.
Regarding the foals, yea you are essentially right.
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Where to today?Two hours of interstate driving followed by 6 hours of slopping around in mud with another two and a half hours of interstate driving.
That's my day.
Lake Geneva, of course.
I just finally figured out how long it took to drive here.
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You know what to do.
*Looks at the IV bag and shrugs*
*Unzips pants and pull them down, and start lubing up the IV tube*
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So basically you artificially inseminated those mares with sperm, rather then put the mares and the stallions in the same field.I mean sure if the stallion was like 200km away, its impractical to ship the stallion, rather then the sperm over.
So the buyer basically "ordered" his foals, by matching what sperm goes into which mare, and so he's waiting for them to be weaned, so he can collect his foals?
Because usually a way to check if animals are stressed or not is to see if they're breeding, and I personally thought a stable was a bit small for a horse to be in, and they would be happier in open fields?
Oh the horses have a lot of room to horse around on. We have 8 large and 5 small pens out back behind the stable itself. The stable stalls are just for the horse to sleep in at night and to feed in (to avoid feeding trough trouble - horses do eat out of the trough based on hierarchy in the herd).
Natural breeding is practised only rarely, as it requires extra space, time and care.
You see, even if a mare's in heat, she might not accept the rather headless advances from just any stallion, which in turn can result in injuries to either party.
If you want to have the mating done 'au naturel' its best to introduce mare and stallion a couple of weeks ahead of time, have them be accustomed to each others presence (usually by having them in a couple of small pens right next to each other), then once they seem ready, have the two of them get together in a single small pen to see if nature is ready to take its course.Regarding the foals, yea you are essentially right.
Whats the success rate on artificial insemination? I mean paying $3,000 for prize sperm that didn't give you a foal isn't going to make you very happy...
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THE AC IS NOT WORKING.
The property manager has promised to send someone over today.
Which is good, because it's supposed to hit 97.
On the plus side, there's a nice breeze outside, so if I want to cool down, I can go out in the yard.Still no coffee except at the Circle K down the street, and I am not that desperate yet.
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You know what to do.*Looks at the IV bag and shrugs*
*Unzips pants and pull them down, and start lubing up the IV tube*
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I found the local coffee roaster!
Even better: they make breakfast sandwiches on homemade beer biscuits with homemade breakfast sausage.
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THE AC IS NOT WORKING.
The property manager has promised to send someone over today.
Which is good, because it's supposed to hit 97.
On the plus side, there's a nice breeze outside, so if I want to cool down, I can go out in the yard.Still no coffee except at the Circle K down the street, and I am not that desperate yet.
whats wrong with the Circle K?
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I found the local coffee roaster!
Even better: they make breakfast sandwiches on homemade beer biscuits with homemade breakfast sausage.
coooooool
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As an aside, quick Fawtl poll:
How far away is "down the street" where you live? Is it something within visual distance? Less than a mile away? Can you walk it or would you have to drive? Is it bikeable/skateable? Or something else?
Around here "down the street" is anything walkable, usually within 3 short blocks or 1 long one.
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Down the street is a few blocks to a half mile.
Walking distance is 8 miles.
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As an aside, quick Fawtl poll:
How far away is "down the street" where you live? Is it something within visual distance? Less than a mile away? Can you walk it or would you have to drive? Is it bikeable/skateable? Or something else?
Around here "down the street" is anything walkable, usually within 3 short blocks or 1 long one.
So, that's definitely cultural/how you were raised. I grew up in a backpacking family, so "down the street" translates to "relatively close" is usually maybe under 1 mile walking distance, or maybe under 2 miles driving.
Definitely a lot more than 3 blocks.
On the other hand, Shiro or NobodysWife would be more in line with you: Solano avenue is 3 long blocks away (maybe 1/2 mile or so), and is definitely "down the street", but the top of Solano (a full mile) isn't.
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I mentioned to Treppa, the other day, that I was 'down the road' from a Gardens.... which is 1-2 miles away. So walking distance, but not the optimum amount.
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The golfers are bringing their A game today, that last one landed 3 feet away, while I had my head down cutting blocks.
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In my current digs, "down the street" is 4/10 of a mile, easy walk. Takes one straight to the . . . *ahem* . . . beating heart of high society living . . . .
. . . in this podunk, backwater, no-horse town.
Three gas stations, four restaurants, one grocery store. We even have a laundromat/car wash combo.
Believe me -- it's even less exciting than it sounds. :D
It’s variable, here, depending on context, but I hear and use it most often to refer to something within a short (1-5) minute drive. If I say our neighbors are “down the street” it’s within walking distance, and that essentially holds true for any living area (though you may be really unhappy about it, depending on how hot it is). For anything else I refer to driving.
We neither have bikes nor bike paths (and when we do they’re... I just... why would you do that?) but would likely expand “down the street” to our nearest shopping plaza - I mean, hey, we start to feel fiesty, we’ll walk there anyway, though that’s likely to be our “thing” for the day (not because it’s so suuuuper far, per se, nor because it takes the whole day, but because it’s just kind of awkward and extremely exhausting in the heat).
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As an aside, quick Fawtl poll:
How far away is "down the street" where you live? Is it something within visual distance? Less than a mile away? Can you walk it or would you have to drive? Is it bikeable/skateable? Or something else?
Around here "down the street" is anything walkable, usually within 3 short blocks or 1 long one.
In my neck of the woods, that definitely depends on the size of your town, and whether you're talking about something inside of town limits at all.
In Peoria, metro area of about 300k people (ie half the size of Madison's metro area, or 3% of Chicago's), you're talking within "a few blocks" (4-6, maybe), possibly up to a mile depending on which road you're talking about, but usually the former. This also holds true for the other equivalent towns in the area (Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Decatur, etc).
You get in the small towns, and you're usually talking within 2-4 blocks. Then again, some of those small towns are only 4-6 blocks long, if that. In Guthrie, IL, for example, it's only 2 blocks long east-west and 0 blocks north-south. It's effectively a grain elevator and a handful of houses on either side of the intersection, but only on the east-west road, so "down the road" or "down the street" basically mean "in the next town over".
Now, the next statement is one I heard all the time growing up. "Oh, yeah, the Chandlers live just down the road from the old McGuillicutty place." This could mean it's the next farm house down the road (anything from 500 feet to half a mile or so) from where the McGuillicutty's used to live in 1965, or it could be as far as 2-3 miles away.
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Down the street is a few blocks to a half mile.
Walking distance is 8 miles.
Your walking distance and what the rest of the Midwest consider walking distance are not the same thing. In this respect, you are a freak of nature.
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Your walking distance and what the rest of the Midwest consider walking distance are not the same thing. In this respect, you are a freak of nature.Down the street is a few blocks to a half mile.
Walking distance is 8 miles.
Addendum: unless you are walking beans or detassling corn, in which case it's about time for your morning break, or on a particularly rough day, time for lunch.
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So has anyone figured out why freehold hates everything good and loves everything bad?
Like I would probably agree with most everything bizzaro freehold says. He reminds me of the Simpsons halloween episode where bart has an evil twin but then it turns out bart was the evil twin all along.
I think it just comes down to a really really variant set of preferences, and likely at least in part growing up in a significantly different family culture than a lot of the rest of us.
On the other hand, he likes Final Fantasy 6, so he's not a total loss.
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As an aside, quick Fawtl poll:
How far away is "down the street" where you live? Is it something within visual distance? Less than a mile away? Can you walk it or would you have to drive? Is it bikeable/skateable? Or something else?
Around here "down the street" is anything walkable, usually within 3 short blocks or 1 long one.
For me it means one of two things.
If I'm saying it at home, it means outside our residential district and down to one of the two nearest major intersections. One is a little strip market with a Publix, a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a pizza delivery place, a Great Clips haircuts, and a couple other things, and across the street from that is a Walgreens or a dentist's office, depending on direction. It's technically within walking distance from home but I've only done it once and wouldn't care to do so again - the trip back is all uphill and fairly steep.
The other direction is longer, I'd say outside of walking distance but easily drivable in two or three minutes, and leads to a gas station with a Subway, a McDonald's, and a Food City.
(For reference, as an aside, anything within our housing district is "around the corner", inherently a shorter distance than "down the street" in almost every case ;) )
If I'm saying it from work, I generally do mean walking distance, and thus anything on the same blocks as my office. This includes a WalMart, a GameStop, a Dollar Tree, a small mall with several restaurants, a Chinese place, an Applebee's, an Office Depot, a Starbucks, a Mexican restaurant, a Chick-Fil-A, a Mongolian Barbecue restaurant, a Little Caesar's, my local FLGS (Epikos!), and an Ollie's Outlet Store, as well as several other places I never have reason to visit, such as a furniture outlet store, a cake bakery, and a fitness/gym equipment outlet store.
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To me, 'down the street' means 'down to the end of the street you're on', which is normally no longer than a couple of hundred yards.
'Down the road' can mean anything from half a mile to five miles, depending on the road.
Anything beyond that is much many farness and cannot be comprehended at all.
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Whats the success rate on artificial insemination? I mean paying $3,000 for prize sperm that didn't give you a foal isn't going to make you very happy...
I don't actually have any numbers on that...
But my guess would be around 3 out 4 attempt are succesful.As for the cost, well it depends, though I only rarely hear numbers above the $1750-2500 range + the cost of the inseminator (unless you're certified to do so yourself).
Though when you buy sperm, you usually get enough for 2-3 tries and the local inseminator usually charges full price* (insemination costs) for the first try to inseminate and half on any subsequent tries.
As an aside, quick Fawtl poll:
How far away is "down the street" where you live? Is it something within visual distance? Less than a mile away? Can you walk it or would you have to drive? Is it bikeable/skateable? Or something else?
Around here "down the street" is anything walkable, usually within 3 short blocks or 1 long one.
Up here North it depend on if your talking city "down the street" or rural "down the street".
City "down the street" would roughly be around half a mile, while rural "down the street" would be anything up to a mile and a half roughly.
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Your walking distance and what the rest of the Midwest consider walking distance are not the same thing. In this respect, you are a freak of nature.Down the street is a few blocks to a half mile.
Walking distance is 8 miles.
I used to have to walk 8 miles into town to hang out with girls.
Worth it!