And to both of them: that worked?
From the live matches I've seen, flail is a perfectly reasonable weapon if you want to wrap it around your opponents weapon and turn the thing into an armored wrestling match.
Which, if you are the larger stronger farmboy with less training in the art of the sword than your noble opponent, may be a fairly good idea.
So far, I've only got one thing to say about House of the Dragon, and that is that Matt Smith's character is an absolute mad lad for going into a joust with an open-faced helmet.
Actually, also, to the other guy: bringing a flail to a duel? What were you thinking?
And to both of them: that worked?
had to spar against someone with a flail like weapon once.
Good luck figuring out where that's going to go and with just how much force.
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Ah, but once you get past the dangly bit, they're stymied.
That is true in many situations, of course.
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Where will it end? Un-padded mail coifs? Studded leather armor? Back scabbards? For shame.
Cleavage plate!
Reverse grip dual-wielding longswords!
Flaming axes!
This is what the people want.
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We just pulled the trigger on plane tickets to see my family for Christmas. I managed to get what seems like a heck of a deal (I've been hunting airfare since September) and simultaneously ridiculously expensive.
Trying not to hyperventilate.
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And in the same breath, as I told Eve, we are going to Currier and Ives the eff out of this Christmas. We are making lobster pierogi for Christmas Eve, we are baking ALL THE THINGS, and the kids will build snow forts along the wall of the barn. I will reap the benefits of all those cords of wood I hauled and stacked this summer.
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To remove a bat. (4 out of 5 successes and the "failure" was it flew onto my T shirt so i walked outside)
Attempt 1. Open window. Turn on light.
If they don't get the hint..
Take a carboard box.
Cut a small hole in it
Turn off light
Hold cardboard box up against wall as high as you can.
Turn on the light
If the bat is flying clockwise or counter clockwise (as opposed to OHMY GOD!) direction, turn the hole towards the bat.
The bat is now in an open, TOO BRIGHT! place with a weird giant that can command the power of the sun. There is a nice dark safe place right there, and they will happily land on the box and scurry in there.
Slide top of box under the bat, cover hole (NOT with your hand but really the bat shouldn't try to get out at that point , place box outside, open.
You can also wait for the bat to land and try to plop a bucket or box or tupperware over them. In a clean open room I'd make that an otpion. If you have a lot of clutter, good luck waiting for them to land on an open runway and not in your boots.
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hi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
test test test
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To remove a bat. (4 out of 5 successes and the "failure" was it flew onto my T shirt so i walked outside)
Attempt 1. Open window. Turn on light.
If they don't get the hint..
Take a carboard box.
Cut a small hole in it
Turn off light
Hold cardboard box up against wall as high as you can.
Turn on the light
If the bat is flying clockwise or counter clockwise (as opposed to OHMY GOD!) direction, turn the hole towards the bat.
The bat is now in an open, TOO BRIGHT! place with a weird giant that can command the power of the sun. There is a nice dark safe place right there, and they will happily land on the box and scurry in there.
Slide top of box under the bat, cover hole (NOT with your hand but really the bat shouldn't try to get out at that point , place box outside, open.
You can also wait for the bat to land and try to plop a bucket or box or tupperware over them. In a clean open room I'd make that an otpion. If you have a lot of clutter, good luck waiting for them to land on an open runway and not in your boots.
THANK YOU!
I volunteer once a week for a local wildlife phone line and occasionally have to talk people through containment over the phone (or, every so often, go out to their house and do it myself). This procedure was not covered in my training.
We aren't all youngsters anymore.
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Why do all the clocks say 7:30 but my phone says 6:30... Doh!!
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Of course, the one day this year I decide to sleep in is the one day that completely cancels it out.
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I volunteer once a week for a local wildlife phone line and occasionally have to talk people through containment over the phone (or, every so often, go out to their house and do it myself). This procedure was not covered in my training.
the textbook procedure, bat calmly sitting there
what the bat is doing while the person is calling :) (ugh. forgot about the downer ending)
There's a similar trick for raccoons caught in a dumpster/compactor. Normally you just toss in a stick or a board and they can climb out on it. If they don't get the hint, I used to hop in the dumpster, put down a garbage can, poke them with a stick (sorry!) they run away from the crazy human into a nice safe garbage can. Pick up can dump raccoon over the side.
I did have an incident where a young raccoon thought it would be a good idea, instead of hiding in the trash can, to hide "behind that tree over there" and ran behind my leg . She adorably peeked around my leg, looked at me, hid behind my leg. Peeked up. nope still there... hid.... never wanted to awww and EEEEEEP at the same time before...
Is that an apocalyptic observation or is there just some law that is going into effect?
hi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
Hello again, Aeglos!
Have we missed apple-wine season? (I imagine it was a few weeks back)
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Is that an apocalyptic observation or is there just some law that is going into effect?In certain circles where posters are unfamiliar with how the US government works, there's a massive misinformation campaign that the government is switching to permanent daylight savings time. Or permanent standard time. They haven't quite got their stories straight. But they're absolutely certain that the government has lied to them, either way.
In reality, nothing has changed
Congress Cant Reach Consensus.
Not likely to pass this year and the bill dies when this Congress adjourns.
What's more cryptic to me is that Arizona is one of the two states that don't observe Daylight Savings Time. So TOZ's post is a mystery to me...
EDIT: Ah! Since all the states around them change and they don't, sometimes they're in Mountain time, and sometimes in Central. Or some such. Now I get it! (Don't know whether they make it all the way to Pacific, and our game just started up again.)
All I know is central time is the best time.
It's just good science.
There's a donut hole in Arizona (The Hopi reservation) that does not observe DST. It is completely surrounded by the donut of the Navajo Nation, which does observe DST.
At the Arizona border of the Navajo Nation, you go back into 'Does Not Observe' territory.
Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone. To the east, New Mexico is in the Mountain Time Zone, but observes DST. To the north, Utah is in the Mountain Time Zone, but observes DST.
To the northwest, Nevada is in the Pacific Time Zone but observes DST. To the west California is in the Pacific Time Zone, but observes DST.
So, most Arizona clocks are congruent with California/Pacific Time during the summer, but are congruent with Mountain Time during the winter, except if you're in the Navajo Nation. There is a 100-mile stretch of highway where you change time zones 6 times.
Indiana had a similar set up as AZ for years, only they "bounced" between Eastern and Central, though they were officially always on EST. The exceptions were several counties along the Illinois border that just stuck with whatever Illinois was doing.
About fifteen or so years ago they decided to observe DST again and are in the Eastern time zone at this point, with the exception of the counties around Chicago and down in the southwest corner. Those counties decided to go into the Central time zone.
hi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
AEGLOS HOW ARE YOU
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Voted early over the weekend. Yay.
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Not that I'm opinionated or anything, but software devs who make software updates add a desktop icon on every update should be beaten with a rubber hose.
Zoom updates? Suddenly I have a Zoom desktop icon. Discord updates? Suddenly I have a Discord desktop icon. ALL of our internal software adds desktop icons every time it updates, leading to a desktop littered with little- or never-used application shortcuts.
If I didn't put a shortcut on my desktop when I installed you, don't you dare put a shortcut on my desktop without my permission whenever you update...
concerning bats: do you know these retangular glue cards you can stick at your window to cstch flies? A friend once found a dead bat sticking to one in a seldom used room :-(
hi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
Hello again, Aeglos!
Have we missed apple-wine season? (I imagine it was a few weeks back)
Hi Limey,
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AEGLOS HOW ARE YOUhi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
Hi there,
still crawling on, like one should. Kids are growing. Wife is now for 3 weeks in a reconvalescense clinc (that was still a opnfn point from cancer treatment of2020) but she is well and healthy - which leaves me with no one to talk to - which lead me to posting in FAWTL :-D| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Is that an apocalyptic observation or is there just some law that is going into effect?In certain circles where posters are unfamiliar with how the US government works, there's a massive misinformation campaign that the government is switching to permanent daylight savings time. Or permanent standard time. They haven't quite got their stories straight. But they're absolutely certain that the government has lied to them, either way.
In reality, nothing has changed
Congress Cant Reach Consensus.
Not likely to pass this year and the bill dies when this Congress adjourns.
What's more cryptic to me is that Arizona is one of the two states that don't observe Daylight Savings Time. So TOZ's post is a mystery to me...
EDIT: Ah! Since all the states around them change and they don't, sometimes they're in Mountain time, and sometimes in Central. Or some such. Now I get it! (Don't know whether they make it all the way to Pacific, and our game just started up again.)
here in the European Union they held a online referendum if DST should be abolished wich resulted in 98% voting to get rid of it, now they discuss for years what to do with this and don‘t know how to proceed
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are 5 psts in a row already a Blitz ?
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are 5 psts in a row already a Blitz ?
Nah; that's more, "NobodysHome woke up grumpy and his oatmeal was lumpy so there he goes..."
Not that I'm opinionated or anything, but software devs who make software updates add a desktop icon on every update should be beaten with a rubber hose.
Zoom updates? Suddenly I have a Zoom desktop icon. Discord updates? Suddenly I have a Discord desktop icon. ALL of our internal software adds desktop icons every time it updates, leading to a desktop littered with little- or never-used application shortcuts.
If I didn't put a shortcut on my desktop when I installed you, don't you dare put a shortcut on my desktop without my permission whenever you update...
But father, I made the desktop icon so easy for you to find...
AEGLOS HOW ARE YOUhi everyone,
still some familiar faces around, i see
how are you all?
only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D
Hi there,
still crawling on, like one should. Kids are growing. Wife is now for 3 weeks in a reconvalescense clinc (that was still a opnfn point from cancer treatment of2020) but she is well and healthy - which leaves me with no one to talk to - which lead me to posting in FAWTL :-D
So glad that she is healing. So sorry this happened to you all.
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Ways to feel better on a post-DST shift Monday in November:
(1) Including today, there are 55 days left in the year.
(2) There are 8 weekends, giving me 16 days off.
(3) I have Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Week, and Christmas week, giving me another 11 days off.
In other words, as of tomorrow I will have half of the rest of the year off from work.
Not a bad gig.
Ways to feel better on a post-DST shift Monday in November:
(1) Including today, there are 55 days left in the year.
(2) There are 8 weekends, giving me 16 days off.
(3) I have Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Week, and Christmas week, giving me another 11 days off.In other words, as of tomorrow I will have half of the rest of the year off from work.
Not a bad gig.
....
Just got a water bill of over $500 (more than double the usual). Alarmed, I checked our water use and it's almost doubled.
So we have a leak.
There is nothing so relaxing as:
(1) Checking the water meter and confirming that yes, you do indeed have a leak. You're not a water hog.
(2) Turning off all your fixtures and seeing the water use drop to 0. The leak is in something easy to fix, like a dishwasher or a toilet.
Now there's the fun while everyone else is out of the house of turning on the fixtures one at a time until I find the culprit. Given that the studio toilet was making weird noises just last week, I already have my primary suspect, but I'm obsessive-compulsive so I'm working my way from the front of the house to the back, 10 minutes at at time, and it'll be another half hour before my suspicions are confirmed.
But if it *is* that toilet, it'll be the fourth new valve I've put in since 2008. That would be pretty appalling.
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Just got a water bill of over $500 (more than double the usual). Alarmed, I checked our water use and it's almost doubled.
So we have a leak.
There is nothing so relaxing as:
(1) Checking the water meter and confirming that yes, you do indeed have a leak. You're not a water hog.
(2) Turning off all your fixtures and seeing the water use drop to 0. The leak is in something easy to fix, like a dishwasher or a toilet.Now there's the fun while everyone else is out of the house of turning on the fixtures one at a time until I find the culprit. Given that the studio toilet was making weird noises just last week, I already have my primary suspect, but I'm obsessive-compulsive so I'm working my way from the front of the house to the back, 10 minutes at at time, and it'll be another half hour before my suspicions are confirmed.
But if it *is* that toilet, it'll be the fourth new valve I've put in since 2008. That would be pretty appalling.
well, the big question is:where did the water go? Just down the toilet, is good news, but a leak in the wrong place godd do serious damage like mould in the walls
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OK. Wow. Yes, it is indeed the toilet valve. I have *TWO* spare valves lying around because the thing has gone bad so often.
But this time I got to actually measure the waste.
177 gallons per day. More than my entire family uses. For a simple, barely audible toilet leak.
Holy cow, that's a lot of water.
...well, the big question is:where did the water go? Just down the toilet, is good news, but a leak in the wrong place godd do serious damage like mould in the walls
I live in California. If you ever want to experience desert conditions without the heat, come here. It can rain for an hour, you can go outside 10 minutes later, and the ground will be dry to the touch.
If the water hadn't been going down the drain, I still don't think mold would have been an issue unless I'd given it a couple more months.
It turns out my bill wasn't nearly as bad as I thought: They had applied my July payment twice, meaning I only paid $50 in August, so $200 of the $500 bill was from previous months.
Which makes me wonder how they plan to encourage water conservation when nearly doubling your use only increases your bill by 50%, and the fine for gross overuse is only $500/month.
Admittedly, I know the math -- residential use is a tiny drop in the bucket of overall water use, so there's no reason to get too punitive with residential water waste. On the other hand, the sliding scale of fees practically encourages overuse...
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Wait, so you're telling me that the system designed by bureaucrats, trust fund babies, and privately controlled utility companies is unbalanced in favor of the super wealthy, wasteful, and business owning upper class?! Color me SHOCKED!
Believe it or not, EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District) is still a government-run organization, and they typically do a very good job.
You're thinking of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), aka the poster child for why privatization of public companies is a catastrophically bad idea...
EDIT: What saddens me is that I was researching the topic some years ago and no less august a journal than the Harvard Business Review published an article that basically said, "Profit and the public good are rarely in alignment, so it is against the public interest to privatize public services without strict and careful regulation."
And of course, nobody listened. Because profit.
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Wait, so you're telling me that the system designed by bureaucrats, trust fund babies, and privately controlled utility companies is unbalanced in favor of the super wealthy, wasteful, and business owning upper class?! Color me SHOCKED!Believe it or not, EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District) is still a government-run organization, and they typically do a very good job.
You're thinking of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), aka the poster child for why privatization of public companies is a catastrophically bad idea...
EDIT: What saddens me is that I was researching the topic some years ago and no less august a journal than the Harvard Business Review published an article that basically said, "Profit and the public good are rarely in alignment, so it is against the public interest to privatize public services without strict and careful regulation."
And of course, nobody listened. Because profit.
The Ferengi have been in control of all of our utilities here in Texas for so long that I'm surprised they haven't found a way to make us pay a monthly fee for air.
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The Ferengi have been in control of all of our utilities here in Texas for so long that I'm surprised they haven't found a way to make us pay a monthly fee for air.Wait, so you're telling me that the system designed by bureaucrats, trust fund babies, and privately controlled utility companies is unbalanced in favor of the super wealthy, wasteful, and business owning upper class?! Color me SHOCKED!Believe it or not, EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District) is still a government-run organization, and they typically do a very good job.
You're thinking of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), aka the poster child for why privatization of public companies is a catastrophically bad idea...
EDIT: What saddens me is that I was researching the topic some years ago and no less august a journal than the Harvard Business Review published an article that basically said, "Profit and the public good are rarely in alignment, so it is against the public interest to privatize public services without strict and careful regulation."
And of course, nobody listened. Because profit.
The articles I've read about Californians moving to Texas to get away from our ludicrous taxes have all said something similar: The utility bills in Texas are so high that you really don't save a ton as a Texas homeowner vs. a California homeowner.
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There are few things that get my adrenaline flowing any more, but GothBard's in what is likely her final interview of 2022 (game companies typically shut down hiring through the holiday season), and we just had a major rain cell move in.
Losing power during an interview would suck. Especially since we're in the Berkeley/Albany "just say 'No' to cell towers" region so our cell phone reception is crap.
Crossing my fingers in more ways than one... which is painful at my age.
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I didde thinke that mine lyghte fittynge wast high enow to allowe mee to practyce ye ii handed sworde indoors withoute mysshap, but certes, twas not soe.
Tynkle, tynkle, crash, sodane darknesse.
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I have voted.
[Insert well earned political rant here]