The say anything, what's on your mind thread

[BonnieShels]

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not sure where it is. geysir might be the best one to ask.

I've asked the man himself and he has zero recollection.

[DeLorean]

Not to worry, you snooze you lose.

[KrisLetang]

As many of you know, SkStu was reported missing several weeks ago by the RCMP. There were rumors that he intended to run for Canadian Parliament, was trying to save polar bears from global warming, or had moved to Hawaii to become a professional ukulele player. However, he may have been found by a man off for his afternoon constitutional in far away Wales. Reports indicate that Stu was slowly making his way to Skellig Michael to converse with the hermit know as Noely's Guitar, who was reported missing by Foot.ie Authorities years ago and never found. He was said to be seen in Cardiff buying a cape last week, hoping to enter Ireland once his visa issues played out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4566084/Rambler-photographs-naked-feral-looking-man-Wales.html

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

ITV News: [Leo Varadkar] "son of an Indian father and an English nurse."

His mother was born in Dungarvan.

I'm used to the English media claiming Colin Farrell, Conor McGregor, U2 et al. as their own but now they're starting with the mothers of politicians or people who worked at England at some point in their lives?

[tetsujin1979]

They're not wrong, she did work as a nurse in England

[OwlsFan]

Was watching a trailer for a series called THE LOCH on TV and in it a detective says "There is a DANGEROUS serial killer out there". I was just wondering what sort of other type of serial killer there is. A harmless one perhaps ?

[Eminence Grise]

Glad this day is over. Had to take a pet to the vet today to be put to sleep. 9 year old cat, he took ill on Monday and went downhill rapidly. Mrs Grise and I stayed with him while the sedative took effect, then it was all over in seconds with a massive shot of GA. We pretty much knew Wednesday morning what was coming after the third antibiotic failed, and the vets let us take him home for that night but still.... Knew I'd miss him - he had tons of personality and presence - just didn't think I'd be this miserable.

[tetsujin1979]

sorry to hear that EG. We don't deserve our pets.

[Eminence Grise]

Too true, Tets, too true. This chap had such an amazing bond with Mrs Grise that I often wondered whether he was part human or she's part cat. We have two other cats and one of them is absolutely lost in grief.

[BonnieShels]

I dread the day our dog goes. She's 11. So we've a while yet. But I do not envy you EG.

Condolences.

[Eminence Grise]

Thanks, Bonnie - give her an extra long pat every chance you get.

[BonnieShels]

It's funny you say that. I get a small pang of anxiety some mornings when I leave the house without going into the kitchen. This morning was one of those mornings

[KrisLetang]

What kind of dog is it Bonnie? Our family German Shepherd made it to 12 a few years back until his hips went...sad thing was he was 100% "mentally". Just stopped eating and couldn't get around. But still wanted to play. Huge dog. My sister rescued him when he was a puppy when she was in college. He was pretty well known in the town I grew up in...I would go home and walk him and people would stop their cars and talk to him and ignore me!

[passinginterest]

Glad this day is over. Had to take a pet to the vet today to be put to sleep. 9 year old cat, he took ill on Monday and went downhill rapidly. Mrs Grise and I stayed with him while the sedative took effect, then it was all over in seconds with a massive shot of GA. We pretty much knew Wednesday morning what was coming after the third antibiotic failed, and the vets let us take him home for that night but still.... Knew I'd miss him - he had tons of personality and presence - just didn't think I'd be this miserable.

Sorry to hear that EG went through very similar with our older cat in November. Went from a little limp to paralysis within a week, cancelled a trip away and spent a fortune on an MRI to discover a spinal tumour and no hope for recovery. We adopted her as soon as we bought our house and had her over 8 years. It really is a huge shock to the system, watching the injection take effect and saying goodbye was heartbreaking.

[BonnieShels]

What kind of dog is it Bonnie? Our family German Shepherd made it to 12 a few years back until his hips went...sad thing was he was 100% "mentally". Just stopped eating and couldn't get around. But still wanted to play. Huge dog. My sister rescued him when he was a puppy when she was in college. He was pretty well known in the town I grew up in...I would go home and walk him and people would stop their cars and talk to him and ignore me!

She's a Tibetan Spaniel. Though doesn't have a pug nose thankfully Still looks like a puppy.

[KrisLetang]

Ugh. Read this article about Bali tourists being tricked into eating dog:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/06/20/tourists-to-bali-are-fed-dog-meat-unwittingly-australian-investigation-discovers.html

[DeLorean]

Glad this day is over. Had to take a pet to the vet today to be put to sleep. 9 year old cat, he took ill on Monday and went downhill rapidly. Mrs Grise and I stayed with him while the sedative took effect, then it was all over in seconds with a massive shot of GA. We pretty much knew Wednesday morning what was coming after the third antibiotic failed, and the vets let us take him home for that night but still.... Knew I'd miss him - he had tons of personality and presence - just didn't think I'd be this miserable.

While we're sharing cat grief, one of mine passed in March. He was only about three and seemingly perfectly normal. I got up for work and fed him and his buddy, same as any other morning, everything completely normal. Just as I was about to walk out the front door I heard a bit of commotion coming from the kitchen/living room. I went back in and the other cat ran nervously past me. I went into the living room and the now deceased cat was on the floor in distress. As I picked him up I knew straight away he was a goner, and basically the life just drained out of him in my arms.

The mad thing is, the exact same thing happened with our previous cat a few years earlier. In that case I was watching TV in the bedroom of my then bungalow, heard a bang in the kitchen so I went to check it out (mainly to give out to the little devil) when I saw her gasping for breath on the floor in front of the sink. I lifted her up and ran back into the bedroom to get my girlfriend to ring the vet but it was way too late, died in my arms just like the other one. She wasn't even a year old.

We never really found out what happened, for years we actually had it in our heads that she must have misjudged a jump from the top of the press to the kitchen counter or something, which would have explained the bang anyway. With what has happened since though we're thinking it must have been some sort of sudden death syndrome. Apparently the two cats were related so it might have been some hereditary defect maybe.

Giving our frustration (on top of everything else) at it happening a second time, we had an autopsy carried out on the more recent cat. The vet was as flabbergasted as ourselves and emphasised how unusual it is. That said, I suppose not many people bring their cats to the vet after they die, so it would make sense that they wouldn't hear of it very often. The autopsy didn't really show much, he said his heart looked perfectly healthy so he concluded it must have been brain-related, some over-electrical activity or something.

It's seriously gutting when it happens though, like your own, he was a big character and was actually more dog-like in a lot of ways - he would actually run across the estate to you when you'd pull up in the car and that kind of thing. We've since taken in a newbie from the animal shelter, she's been through a tough time of it having been dragged along by a car resulting in a serious leg operation. We were warned that it might take a very long time for her to gel with our remaining tom cat and it was fairly tense initially, but they're brilliant around each other now a very short time later.

It was a little cringy but the animal shelter crowd actually took a photo of us with our new cat and put it up on their Facebook page. A friend of mine saw it and edited the photo with all these grim reaper symbols around it, given our history as suspected cat killers! He only sent it on to me privately of course but it was actually pretty funny, in a dark humour kind of way.

That was a lot longer than I had intended but I hope ye're getting over your little fella anyway. Time is a good healer I must say and I would highly recommend a rebound replacement. :o

[KrisLetang]

I wonder what over electrical activity could mean. He just got too excited? And how much does a cat autopsy cost?

[DeLorean]

Yeah I wasn't sure about the electricty thing either, it was more a process of elimination suggestion on his part as opposed to a definite finding. Don't think it was anything to do with his excitement levels though, more a defect of some sort.

Think it was €50. Not much too it really! If we really wanted to get to the bottom of it they could have sent the organs off for further examination/tests and that which would have probably cost a lot more, but we left it at that.

[Eminence Grise]

Sounds genetic alright DeLorean. Terrible you had to go through it twice. I know exactly what you mean by a cat that's more like a dog - described our chap to a T! Fair play to you for choosing a cat with such needs - so often they're the ones that get overlooked in shelters, but have so much to give their servants, I mean owners.

[KrisLetang]

Have you ever seen "Cats" on Broadway Eminence? It ran forever, stopped, and is back now. Like a bad rash.

[Eminence Grise]

Not a live performance. Have you ever read Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats on which it's based? I have a fondness for Jennyanydots and loved Macavity the Mystery Cat from the first day I read it in primary school, though, personally, I've never met a cat that is such a contrarian as The Rum Tum Tugger.

[KrisLetang]

Is it really based on a book? I didn't know that.

[KrisLetang]

So Banksy is (maybe) Massive Attack member Robert Del Naja? Wild stuff there.

[Eminence Grise]

Is it really based on a book? I didn't know that.

Yeah, it's a collection of poetry written by TS Eliot for his godchildren. Whimsical and playful, and worth a read - even for anybody not that much into poetry.

[Charlie Darwin]

So Banksy is (maybe) Massive Attack member Robert Del Naja? Wild stuff there.
That rumour has been going around for at least 20 years. Every artist in Bristol has been proven to be Banksy at some point.

[KrisLetang]

Seems to have taken up a little steam tho Charlie you randy man.

Why do they charge for sauces at Crackbird? I'm a bit put off by that.

[Charlie Darwin]

They charge us nothing. We make Mexico pay for it.

[BonnieShels]

Seems to have taken up a little steam tho Charlie you randy man.

Why do they charge for sauces at Crackbird? I'm a bit put off by that.

Wait til you try their Szechuan sauce

[Acornvilla]

That rumour has been going around for at least 20 years. Every artist in Bristol has been proven to be Banksy at some point.
Neil Buchanan is my personal favourite, Banksy.

[KrisLetang]

Lindsay Lohan on the beach. Ew. She looks like one of you guys! She used to be cute.

http://pagesix.com/2017/07/25/lindsay-lohan-soaks-up-the-sun-and-more-star-snaps/#1

[Charlie Darwin]

You're a weird guy, Crosby.

[OwlsFan]

I drive a lot between Dublin and Galway and I generally travel around the 120kph speed limit. A fair few cars overtake me which is to be expected but what is striking though is that the vast majority of those are primarily Audis aided and abetted by Mercs and BMWs. Now, nearly every car can exceed the speed limit if the driver wishes but is there something in the psyche of the driver of a "performance car" that he must exceed the speed limit and overtake the little people in the non-Audis etc motors ?

[NeverFeltBetter]

I've found that too, but the 120K limit is always treated as a general guideline instead of law in my experience.

[nigel-harps1954]

For what it's worth, I think the speed limits on the motorways are total nonsense and should be raised. I'm a driver that doesn't break the speed limit, I'll sit on 80 in an 80 zone where others will zoom on at 100, and I like to think of myself as a careful enough kind of driver, but the motorways really do annoy me. There's no reason why they shouldn't be 140 in my opinion, at least in the more open stretches of road.

Also, minimum speed limits should be brought in. If you can fail your driving test for going too slow, why then is it perfectly okay for someone to drive 50 km/h in a 100 km/h area?

[KrisLetang]

I like this one for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqlmE2u1HBc

[KrisLetang]

I know there are a bunch of vegetarians on here, I thought this was interesting linking going veggie to depression. I read a bunch of the articles, and they all say that they ALSO found that depressed people might be more likely to go vegetarian in general, so they are already depressed.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/vegetarian-depression-meat-study/

Edit: Could it be people get depressed over not being able to have bacon? I think that's the only meat I couldn't give up.

[nigel-harps1954]

I just had a great burger.

[tetsujin1979]

Last night, in the middle of nowhere in Colorado I hit a 500lb elk with my rental car. The elk's dead and the car is totaled, but thanks to the help of some kind passers-by I'm fine, and the rental company are sending me a replacement car later today.

[nigel-harps1954]

Last night, in the middle of nowhere in Colorado I hit a 500lb elk with my rental car. The elk's dead and the car is totaled, but thanks to the help of some kind passers-by I'm fine, and the rental company are sending me a replacement car later today.

Are you going to tell your insurance company?

[tetsujin1979]

The rental insurance covers it, not my personal insurance

[nigel-harps1954]

I'm almost annoyed at that reply. The other thread should really have taken off and become a foot.ie classic.

[Fizzer]

Totalled? Do you mean written off? Is it obligatory to speak like an American when in America? 500llbs come on! what was the weight in stones?

[tetsujin1979]

Yep, the entire engine block was mangled. The windshield cracked but didn't shatter, apart from a section in front of the passenger seat.
500lbs is about 35 stone, or 237kg in new money.
Apart from the glass, and the airbag deploying, if you were looking in the car itself you wouldn't know it had been in an accident.

Incidentally, I've leg pressed 220 kilos in the gym, could probably do 240, or as I'm going to call it in future, one elk

[Kingdom]

How did you not see a 500pound elk?

[Kingdom]

I hope Trevor Deely's family get closer in the very immediate future.

[tetsujin1979]

How did you not see a 500pound elk? it was dark, just after 8pm, I was on a local road so very little in the way of street light, and a truck coming the opposite direction had dazzled me a little with its headlights. Genuinely didn't see it until it was right in front of the car

[KrisLetang]

Where do you consider to be the middle of nowhere in CO? Are you going to Boulder? I went to CU. Boulder is great.

This happens with Deer a lot obviously, but an Elk crash can definitely kill you. One time in Yellowstone it started to snow just as we set up camp and you couldn't really see anything...a big moose was running from something and charged right through our camp site...It would have sucked to get run over by it. Also saw a grizzly in the river eating a fish...Grizzly sighting are pretty rare.

It's sad that the Elk died, a lot of times they just jump up and are fine. Deer too. Especially in Stag season. They just look at you and mosey back into the woods.

[Fizzer]

Just had a quick google of Boulder there Crosby,it does seem lovely.isnt that where Mindy was from in Mork and Mindy?

[KrisLetang]

Yeah, the house is on a nice quiet street...the owners were friendly and would let people up to take pictures. That show is slightly before my time so i didn't actually recognize it the way I would the Full House house. (No way they could have fit all those people there when uncle Jessie and Rebecca were living upstairs.)

If you are ever in Altadena, outside of Pasadena (not Beverly Hills) and a 90210 fan, the Walsh house is very recognizable too. I don't think the owners really like people visiting though.