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May 7, 2024 4:22:25 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

May 5, 2024 5:24:00 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

Here in Britain Milton Keynes has excellent roads: the roads/road signs/traffic lights all work perfectly and it is a highly organized system.

I haven't been to MK for a while - a few years - but will be going there in the next few weeks.

And I went to Milton Keynes with my sister yesterday!

We did a load of shopping and ate out for lunch there. I bought myself six pairs of earrings: they are gorgeous. I also bought myself three pairs of trousers. I am very happy with my purchases! Oh: I also have a new smart phone! It's all good.

Ive only been there once, very briefly in 1982 OH knew someone who lived there in a street that looked like it had escaped from the lego factory. It had coloured houses and a weird road layout with loads of roundabouts !

I expect its changed an awful lot since then.

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May 7, 2024 3:02:25 GMT -5 jen said:

May 5, 2024 13:38:17 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Over here the current joke is to use our roads to practice putting. Every road has 18 holes.

Yesterday I travelled along the old part of the dualled A46 between Newark and Leicester. I was glad I had crusie control as there was one spot of maybe 5 miles in which the speed limit was 40mph where they are repairing the road. Without the control it would be hard to keep to that as there were no works going on and the road was clear. There were speed cameras all along in several places. They reduce the speed for safety but, as the traffic starts to bunch up, I find it more dangerous as I spend more time looking at the dash to avoid getting flashed rather than concentrating on what is a tricky situation.

I now have adaptive cruise control for the first time. It's great.

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The Random & Off-Topic Thread May 7, 2024 12:33:51 GMT -5 cassie and kjay like this

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May 7, 2024 7:05:02 GMT -5 cassie said:

May 7, 2024 4:22:25 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

And I went to Milton Keynes with my sister yesterday!

We did a load of shopping and ate out for lunch there. I bought myself six pairs of earrings: they are gorgeous. I also bought myself three pairs of trousers. I am very happy with my purchases! Oh: I also have a new smart phone! It's all good.

Ive only been there once, very briefly in 1982 OH knew someone who lived there in a street that looked like it had escaped from the lego factory. It had coloured houses and a weird road layout with loads of roundabouts !

I expect its changed an awful lot since then.

Nope, it still looks like toytown.

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May 7, 2024 23:47:23 GMT -5 TestDummyCO said:

May 7, 2024 12:32:36 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

I now have adaptive cruise control for the first time. It's great.

I use it all the time.

I find it particularly good when I am tired after a long day at work, and I have 70 miles to get back home. I just dial in 60mph, and sit behind a lorry. Their max is 55mph, and I wander home on the inside lane, with no worries of judging when to overtake, or when to pull in. It's also really economical at that speed.

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May 7, 2024 4:22:25 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

May 5, 2024 5:24:00 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

Here in Britain Milton Keynes has excellent roads: the roads/road signs/traffic lights all work perfectly and it is a highly organized system.

I haven't been to MK for a while - a few years - but will be going there in the next few weeks.

And I went to Milton Keynes with my sister yesterday!

We did a load of shopping and ate out for lunch there. I bought myself six pairs of earrings: they are gorgeous. I also bought myself three pairs of trousers. I am very happy with my purchases! Oh: I also have a new smart phone! It's all good.

I have never been there. Milton Keynes is one of the 'New Towns' though so has no old road networks to contend with. I would expect it to be better in that respect.

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May 8, 2024 2:18:50 GMT -5 jen said:

May 7, 2024 4:22:25 GMT -5 Popcorn&Candy said:

And I went to Milton Keynes with my sister yesterday!

We did a load of shopping and ate out for lunch there. I bought myself six pairs of earrings: they are gorgeous. I also bought myself three pairs of trousers. I am very happy with my purchases! Oh: I also have a new smart phone! It's all good.

I have never been there. Milton Keynes is one of the 'New Towns' though so has no old road networks to contend with. I would expect it to be better in that respect.

it depends on how much you enjoy roundabouts.

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May 8, 2024 6:58:41 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

May 8, 2024 2:18:50 GMT -5 jen said:

I have never been there. Milton Keynes is one of the 'New Towns' though so has no old road networks to contend with. I would expect it to be better in that respect.

it depends on how much you enjoy roundabouts.

Did someone say "roundabouts"?

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May 8, 2024 7:00:16 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

May 8, 2024 6:58:41 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

it depends on how much you enjoy roundabouts.

Did someone say "roundabouts"?

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DeAragao reported on the history of roundabouts. It is thought that one-way circular intersections were invented by a French architect, Eugene Henard, in 1877. (5) During the same period, the American architect William Eno was also proposing his plan for small circles to alleviate traffic congestion in New York City.

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The guy discovered something obvious: yet also genius. A guy I now know to have invented modern traffic control.

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My supervisor and I was discussing bath taking the other night. I prefer to take baths cuz I like the soak to ease my aches. However, getting in and out of the tub anymore has become a challenge. She said it's too bad they can't come up with a chair you can sit on in the tub that can lower you into the water and bring you back up when you're done. I thought man what an idea!

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Jun 24, 2024 12:39:09 GMT -5 MaryContrary said:

My supervisor and I was discussing bath taking the other night. I prefer to take baths cuz I like the soak to ease my aches. However, getting in and out of the tub anymore has become a challenge. She said it's too bad they can't come up with a chair you can sit on in the tub that can lower you into the water and bring you back up when you're done. I thought man what an idea!

My mum had one. Nice but they get really scuzzy where they sit in the tub so you have to have someone strong enough to lift the whole thing out regularly and clean the tub out.

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Jun 24, 2024 12:45:41 GMT -5 cassie said:

Jun 24, 2024 12:39:09 GMT -5 MaryContrary said:

My supervisor and I was discussing bath taking the other night. I prefer to take baths cuz I like the soak to ease my aches. However, getting in and out of the tub anymore has become a challenge. She said it's too bad they can't come up with a chair you can sit on in the tub that can lower you into the water and bring you back up when you're done. I thought man what an idea!

My mum had one. Nice but they get really scuzzy where they sit in the tub so you have to have someone strong enough to lift the whole thing out regularly and clean the tub out.

Yeah, she said she has these bars that hook on the sides of the tub and you screw them down but IDK about that.

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Jun 24, 2024 13:59:00 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Do you mean like a ducking stool for witches?

You can get electric bath seats now. They are not rare. All the care homes have them.

We've never heard of them here. I just looked at Amazon. $400!!

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Jun 24, 2024 16:34:22 GMT -5 MaryContrary said:

Jun 24, 2024 13:59:00 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Do you mean like a ducking stool for witches?

You can get electric bath seats now. They are not rare. All the care homes have them.

We've never heard of them here. I just looked at Amazon. $400!!

For a life changing piece of kit, I would call that cheap.

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MaryContrary Honored Member Posts: 965	The Random & Off-Topic Thread Jun 24, 2024 21:26:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MaryContrary on Jun 24, 2024 21:26:32 GMT -5 i wonder how it would manage with a 200 pound woman on it. lol!
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Jul 3, 2024 17:42:06 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Why would you find yourself here?

Even though I'm not afraid of heights, and there appears to be enough room to maneuver, I could never do that. That portion of the rock looks like it could slide off the side of the mountain.

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Jul 3, 2024 20:46:05 GMT -5 TestDummyCO said:

Jul 3, 2024 17:42:06 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Why would you find yourself here?

Even though I'm not afraid of heights, and there appears to be enough room to maneuver, I could never do that. That portion of the rock looks like it could slide off the side of the mountain.

Enough room to maneuver? Are you crazy?

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Jul 4, 2024 0:27:58 GMT -5 alsr said:

Jul 3, 2024 17:42:06 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Why would you find yourself here?

yeah, why? she probably want to jum off the cliff.

One little sneeze and you wouldn't have to jump.

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Jul 3, 2024 17:42:06 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Why would you find yourself here?

The first thing I think is how would I get there?

The next is that the slab looks like it is about to slide off the face.

Next I know I don't have the head for heights.

After that I remember that in similar but less extreme situations in the past I have always had the feeling of being pushed away from the face into the abyss.

My final thought is that I would put a doll on a tiny ledge by a proper path and take a photo of it

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Jul 3, 2024 20:46:05 GMT -5 TestDummyCO said:

That portion of the rock looks like it could slide off the side of the mountain.

It was my thoughts too. I wonder about that as the first ice / snow and melt could end up with it being forced off.

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Got an email from the Social Security Administration. They're changing our website now so had to go into the old account and create a new one that is now at Login.gov for those of us in the US. We just had to change websites for the city I'm in for our water bills. It's such a pain!

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Jul 12, 2024 14:13:27 GMT -5 MaryContrary said:

Got an email from the Social Security Administration. They're changing our website now so had to go into the old account and create a new one that is now at Login.gov for those of us in the US. We just had to change websites for the city I'm in for our water bills. It's such a pain!

That sort of thing really makes me feel for the people who cannot cope. Our water and government sites seem stable enough, although there are many govenment addresses for the different departments, but changing electricity supplier is a pain.

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The nursing staff and office people must get paid handsomely to throw out an expensive glasslock microwave container. This was in the trash (not a thing wrong with it) and it's not the first time I've found them in the trash. I'm gonna start digging them out and if they're ok they're coming home with me and getting cleaned up and I'll use the damn things. LOL!

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