So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Dm101]

Cats????!!!!

Cows and pigs are asking for it, venison stew is awesome, but cat is off the menu!

Being from The Bronx, I'm sure I've eaten Cat a few times sold as "Chicken".
But given the choice, I would never hunt and eat any "Cat"...eeugh.

 

[Touchofevil]

People who wear shorts and a t-shirt and then complain that the room is too cold.

 

[GHT]

Greta-Cat tells me that when it comes her time to go to be with her sister in kitty-heaven, she wants a pyramid at least.... What I'm not telling her is that some of her ashes will be combined with a pinch of her sister's to be turned into an artificial gemstone and set in cufflinks for the Big Cat....

When our rescue cat, China-Doll, expired a couple of years ago my wife bought a huge four foot high plant holder. China is buried in it. The rose that's planted there is called: "Sweet Memories."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I may have brought this up before but after watching Netflix is it asking for too much to put the freaking settings back to normal???

Because when I want to watch something I can't figure out how to work the TV when this happens.

 

[Zombie_61]

I may have brought this up before but after watching Netflix is it asking for too much to put the freaking settings back to normal???

Because when I want to watch something I can't figure out how to work the TV when this happens.

We had the same problem with a Blu-Ray player that was allegedly one of Panasonic's "high end" models. Our TV would automatically switch back to the cable/satellite signal input as soon as we turned off the DVD player we had previously been using, but we had to tell it to switch back by pushing a few buttons every time we turned off the Blu-Ray player. We haven't experienced that with Netflix though; when we're done and select "exit" the TV goes back to the cable/satellite signal automatically. Maybe there's a setting on your TV (or on Netflix) that will correct this?

 

[Lean'n'mean]

wherever we end up going.

6 ft under by the sound of it.

 

[GHT]

6 ft under by the sound of it.

Even when they are six feet under some of the departed still have the ability to laugh at it all.

 

[Edward]

I have the remains of the late Miss Keesa in a brass Chinese box on my bureau, and when I go she'll go with me, wherever we end up going.

Marlene's ashes are currently in a resin468 urn; we looked at all sorts of models, but the one that jumped out at us was a resin, stylised-rending of a small, black cat curled up asleep, just exactly like her. I like the idea of taking her ashes (and those of other cats to come) with me when I go too. Paradoxically, the closer I step along this long, weary road to the grave, the more I become somewhat indifferent to the notion of an afterlife (my choice of religious belief does indeed promote one, but I'm entirely happy to leave the details thereof until it comes the tiem rather than to speculate). If my cats weren't going to be there, I don't much see the point of one at all.

Cats????!!!!

Cows and pigs are asking for it, venison stew is awesome, but cat is off the menu!

I've always said that - aside from endangered species - there are only two species I would never east - cats and dogs. Cats because they are people, dogs because, well... I'm less of dog person, but I just can't imagine eating a dog being hygienic. (It's interesting to note that, with the influence of Western popular culture and these becoming animals that are seen as pets, the pats of the world where they were once commonly eaten are fast shedding that habit.) I don't claim this to be rational per se, but I'd sooner eat a human (tht died from natural causes, obvs) than either.

People who wear shorts and a t-shirt and then complain that the room is too cold.

Especially when they live in a block of flats which have centralised heating that we all pay for via our service charges.... grr....

When our rescue cat, China-Doll, expired a couple of years ago my wife bought a huge four foot high plant holder. China is buried in it. The rose that's planted there is called: "Sweet Memories."

That's a nice idea. If we were better with plants, its' something I'd have considered.

I may have brought this up before but after watching Netflix is it asking for too much to put the freaking settings back to normal???

Because when I want to watch something I can't figure out how to work the TV when this happens.

I used to have a DVD player that for whatevr reason played at half the volume of television. The number of times I startled myself by forgetting that and switching back without turning down the volume first....

Even when they are six feet under some of the departed still have the ability to laugh at it all.

My favourite is old Spike Miligan's:

https://news.images.itv.com/image/file/47104/image_update_7cdecf6cb3174070_1339944566_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg

It does carry the motif "I told you I was ill", but in Gaelic. Spike, of course, was a bit of a Gaelic speaker having grown up in Irland and learned the language at school. It was also a compromise brokered with the Church in control of the churchyard in which he is buried; the priest declined to permit it in English, but okayed it if presented in Gaelic.

 

[GHT]

Marlene's ashes are currently in a resin468 urn; we looked at all sorts of models, but the one that jumped out at us was a resin, stylised-rending of a small, black cat curled up asleep, just exactly like her.

I forgot to mention that at the base of the planter is a small figurine of a sleeping cat.

My favourite is old Spike Miligan's:

I did have Spike's grave as a choice but I'm only allowed ten images and as Spike's epitaph was in Gaelic I saved others the need to look it up by choosing a similar message in English.

 

[Edward]

That planter sounds ideal. It's always awful to lose a kitty, but being able to memorialise them definitely helps with the coping mechanisms. I suppose this is why we have funerals and graves for humans too.

 

[GHT]

Exactly so, funerals are closure, whether it's religious or secular, it's not so much for the deceased as for the bereaved.

 

[Zombie_61]

People who wear shorts and a t-shirt and then complain that the room is too cold.

Raining on and off here today with temps in the low 60s (°F), which is cold for most southern Californians. Guy walks out of a local supermarket and into the rain wearing a ball cap, a polo shirt, shorts...and rubber boots. Not appropriately sized rubber boots, mind you, but the "one size fits most" kind with the big wide open shafts so the rain can fall right into the opening and soak his feet.

And while I'm here, when did windshield wiper blades get so expensive? I went to an auto parts store today to get a set for my wife's SUV, and most of them were $20-$30 for a single blade.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Prehaps we should hold a funeral for the Lounge as it appears to be as dead as a doornail of late. No sign of breathing or cerebral activity...Someone bite it's toe to see if it kicks.

 

[Edward]

Exactly so, funerals are closure, whether it's religious or secular, it's not so much for the deceased as for the bereaved.

I lean to the view that they are entirely for the benefit of the bereaved - not that that's a bad thing. Death is inevitable, and its rituals are an important part of dealing with the cycle of life.

Raining on and off here today with temps in the low 60s (°F), which is cold for most southern Californians. Guy walks out of a local supermarket and into the rain wearing a ball cap, a polo shirt, shorts...and rubber boots. Not appropriately sized rubber boots, mind you, but the "one size fits most" kind with the big wide open shafts so the rain can fall right into the opening and soak his feet.

I always smile wryly to myself that welly boots have become fashionable in recent years; I remember being sent to a Scout camp with a pair when I was about fourteen, and strangely even being the only one with dry feet for four days didn't much make up for the vicious mockery I endured.

Prehaps we should hold a funeral for the Lounge as it appears to be as dead as a doornail of late. No sign of breathing or cerebral activity...Someone bite it's toe to see if it kicks.

Probably depends where you look. At any one time there are quite a few active threads (see the 'New Posts' link, I find it's very rare for me to check in and there be less than a page or couple of pages at least of links with new content since I last checked, and I slip past usually once or twice a day.)

 

[MisterCairo]

Salt shortages.

I live 50 minutes' drive from the largest underground salt mine in the world, and Ontario is experiencing a salt shortage. during some of worst winter conditions including freezing rain we've seen in yonks.

 

[GHT]

Prehaps we should hold a funeral for the Lounge as it appears to be as dead as a doornail of late. No sign of breathing or cerebral activity...Someone bite it's toe to see if it kicks.

That's the problem with an international forum. So many different time zones.

 

[MisterCairo]

That's the problem with an international forum. So many different time zones.

Eastern Standard Time, -5 hours from GMT/UT. Bloody daylight savings time of course, a rubbish move we hope to eliminate (here's looking at you , Saskatchewan). Damned clock springs a head an hour this weekend, dammit, dammit, dammit...

 

[Zombie_61]

Eastern Standard Time, -5 hours from GMT/UT. Bloody daylight savings time of course, a rubbish move we hope to eliminate (here's looking at you , Saskatchewan). Damned clock springs a head an hour this weekend, dammit, dammit, dammit...

Don't get me started. During the last election the people here in the state of California voted to discontinue the practice, joining Arizona and Hawaii where the time stays the same year round. But before we can do that the Federal government has to approve it for some stupid reason. The people in the state of Florida voted in favor of the same thing a year or two before we did, and they're still waiting for it to happen.

 

[Edward]

I'd love it myself to stay on the one time year round. I hear rumours of the EU considering a move away from changing the clocks for Summer across the continent, but I'd be surprised if the UK does it. RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) has long campaigned to take the UK away from GMT and, in effect, onto central European time, as they believe the lighter evenings would lead to fewer accidents (and in the deep of Winter it would make no change in the dark mornings anyhow). The traditional objection to any such tinkering was that it would be dark up in the North of Scotland until 10am in Winter, though tbh all the Scots I know would happily trade that for being able to get home in daylight much more of the year. The idea has been floated in Parliament many times, but always shot down to date.

 

[MisterCairo]

Don't get me started. During the last election the people here in the state of California voted to discontinue the practice, joining Arizona and Hawaii where the time stays the same year round. But before we can do that the Federal government has to approve it for some stupid reason. The people in the state of Florida voted in favor of the same thing a year or two before we did, and they're still waiting for it to happen.

You have an ally to the north:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...bye-to-changing-clocks-says-premier-1.5049234