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23 hours ago, gogoblender said:
Wanderstab -> mobility
lol Chattius, that word, wanderstab... sounds like a four level Magic User spell from D and D
gogo
A staff/Stab is when you grap it around two-thirds of its height. A stick/Stock at his often ornamented end.
mobility -> segway chairwheel
My mom had broken hip and shoulder after she was falling. We were looking for an electric chairwheel to boost her mobility. She decided for a segway variant. Insurance took 70% of the costs. Now she is able to use country roads to visit friends. Normally the small front wheels prevented this.
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fry -> Wanderstab (staff for wandering in nature)
I collect mushrooms while walking with the dogs. When I find a nice piece of wood I often carve a Wanderstab on the way home. A walking cane as wiki says is not exactly the same as a Wanderstab. My staves are normally head high because I live in hilly terrain. These nordic walking things are more for flat or easy terrain. With the staff you can check rocky ground for grip, or at water crossing, or to defend against robbers if we go some centuries back :)
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survival -> mushrooms
Granny was 17 and a nurse at eastern frontier at end of WW2. She was fleeing through half europe to come back home. When we were kids she told us how to survive if needed. A big part were mushrooms: tinder fungus for fire making, some wood fungus to make shoes, what could be eaten,...
Guess my interest for nature is cause of her
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practice -> Bauchgefühl
Will translate direct as belly feeling.
Intuition, gut instinct, gut feeling,..
When I was planting saplings for generations to come there were theory with its global warming models, opinions from forest rangers with long practice...
In the end I was listening to my 'Bauchgefühl' because models don't apply perfectly to our micro climate. Practice, there is no practice when trees need a century to get their size and all practice is mainly before global warming.
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merchant marines -> 8 years
Before reunion: A friend signed as a cookie in the merchant marine. Signing for 8 years and you hadn't to do the 18month being drafted into army. I signed 8 years as volunteer firefighter and wouldn't have been drafted. But my sis got a brain cancer and joining army as an officer meant no costs for university and good payment.
The friend no runs an international restaurant with all the recipes he learned at his travels.
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kiev -> war generation
Chicken kiev was created when french chefs were hired by russian nobles. These chefs used only the best parts. I think the old ladies who learned the hard way in war and after war years to make the best out of the few they had might have been the better cooks, I learned all about which herbs could be collected in times of need from my grandma - and hell, what she could make from it was so good.
Kiev, I could reach it with my Diesel car with its 90l tank without refueling. Modern war has no save distances.
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menhir -> chicken
Menhir is old breton for a long stone, the ones Obelix is carrying. In the German comic it is named Hinkelstein. Myths say that the stones could only be moved by a 'Hüne' (giant person) and were named Hünenstein. With time this became a Hühnerstein (hen or chicken stone). And we Hessians have a slang which calls chicken Hinkel.
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creme de menthe -> Obelix
warm beer, boar with mint sauce, ... Thanks God - that you made Britain as an island with lot of water between it and the civilized rest of Europe.
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Found a 11 pound heavy giant puffball at the morning walks with the dogs. Will probably turn into something like a Pilzschnitzel (mushroom-schnitzel) at firefighters. Add potatoes in skin and a sauce from roasted onions and cassis. Tasty sauce is needed because the puffball itself is nearly tasteless. And there were more of these balls, but yet not as big.
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mint -> Minthe
Minthe was beloved by Hades, the King of the Underworld, and became his mistress, but she was transformed into a mint plant by his wife Persephone.
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MUFON -> Mensa
Mensa is short for mensa academica. In Germany it is the university owned cafeteria. And of cause students were often unsatisfied with the lunch:
USA = undefinierbarer Speiseartikel = something to eat and you are absolutly unsure what it is and contains
UFO = Undefinierbares Fleischobjekt = a piece of meat, and nobody (even students in biology) know what it is. Rumours say cheap cangoroo roadkill imported from Australia
Die Farben ändern sich, der Geschmack bleibt. The colour and look of the sauces changes but it had all the taste of chemistry,
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Our second is at university. She and her boyfriend both study medicine and find not much time for shopping, often doing 36 hours shifts. So time is precious and a meat delivery an option. The box contains no frozen stuff and the box reads put in fridge right away. If not, use it up in 36 hours.
In our village a nearby farmer sells seasonal stuff. A small roof above boxes with food and a moneybox so people place the money in. Probably works only in small villages where everyone knows everyone. Beef and such: a food truck from another farmer sells it twice a week for an hour.
For me a meat delivery is a question of 10 metres. The fence where the box would be placed is 30 metres from the house. The garden is behind the sitedoor, potatoe in the clay cellar and meat is stored at the back of the house which is reaching into the hill so cooling produces less costs. So a typical meat done with stuff at home has shorter ways
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earthball -> Versengold
The gods did a party and decided to create a new disc-world. But they drunk too much and got a mess. They decided to crumple it up into a ball and kicked it into space. At the live concert the singer kicks a waterball looking like the earth into the audience.
The Day, on Which the Gods Got Drunk
Eternity can be very long,
Then you pour yourself one,
So have the gods once done.
And while they raised a glass
somewhere far above,
spoke one of them in beery enthusiasm:
'Worthy divine colleagues, we should indeed consider
trying to to create something again,
a beautiful discworld,
and yes, exactly how we like it'
And the other gods were applauding.
That was the day, on which the gods got drunk,
the day, when everything began,
Bottoms up! (Bottoms up!)
Yes, we want to thank you
for all the drunken ideas which came to you.
So they formed the lumps
on the table, between the beer mugs,
and poured clear water into the middle
They created fishes and monkeys
between all the wine carafes
and decorated it with little flowers and stones.
It wouldn't get boring,
nothing and everything was sacred to them;
Every idea was applauded in the gods' game.
So they created and drank,
confident, outdoing themselves,
until the last god fell from his chair.
That was the day, on which the gods got drunk,
the day, when everything began,
Bottoms up! (Bottoms up!)
Yes, we want to thank you
for all the drunken ideas which came to you.
As the first god then woke
and considered the night's work,
he was not pleased with all the chaos.
Hung over, he assessed accurately
that it was a botched world-building.
Even the salt was sprinkled everywhere.
He said: "No more alcohol";
he crumpled everything up, cried "farewell, you little world,
you were nothing but a mistake"
and threw the colorful ball in frustration
from the window into the universe,
towards all the other :eek:ty ideas.
That was the day, on which the gods got drunk,
the day, when everything began,
Bottoms up! (Bottoms up!)
Yes, we want to thank you
for all the drunken ideas which came to you.
That was the day, on which the gods got drunk,
the day, when everything began,
Bottoms up! (Bottoms up!)
Yes, we want to thank you
for all the drunken ideas which came to you.
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Prix -> Erdüberlastungstag / Earth Overshoot Day
It is around these days, when more resources are used than growing back in a year. The price/prix we pay will be seen in future years. New ways and thought are needed. A nearby farmer combines wood, caddle and vegs.
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6 hours ago, gogoblender said:
12 degrees... someone pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze, send me your sun! another four k pwned!
I have a too strong surviving instinct to send you my sun which is probably the same as yours. A sun a few kilometres above Canada will probably destroy the earth with its gravity.
The weather here: Mist in morning,, then a bit sun, then rain, then sun with a rainbow, rain again and now after evening meal and walking with the dogs, a triple rainbow spanning over the valley. 24C, 20l rain per square metre, 4 hours sun in total
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4711 -> railway station
I preferred night trains for business travels. The main railway station (Hauptbahnhof) of Cologne/Köln:
Kölnisch Wasser = Eau de Cologne
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nature -> 578
578 saplings of global warming resistant chestnut and atlas cedar planted last week...
Now I have to hunt Bambi and its family to keep the saplings alive. Where are the wolves and lynx's when you need them.
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stream of thought -> meditation
Thought stream is an USB tool for training meditating. I think it measures the electrodermal-activity. EDA has also been known as skin conductance, galvanic skin response (GSR). A state of meditation keeps it low and the tool shows that it is low. But GSR will always be the Suzuki motorbike for me.
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Electric cars...
Part 1:
There is a ship with 3000 of them burning near the German Bay and it seems noone knows how to fight the fire. Our training was to lift a burning e-car into a container with water and flood it. But on a ship?
Too much water and it may sink and the german bay is a protected nature area. Right now they are only cooling the outside of the ship and hope that it won't sink.
Part 2:
Our oldest moved to a city part where Diesel are not allowed. Currently they park outside and use the bus. They are considering a VW ID-Buzz LWB ER, mainly because the uncle of her husband works as engineer at VW.
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The most beautiful weather:
LANDREGEN, ENDLICH!!!
Steady rain, finally!!!
The ground is so hardened from drought that a heavy rain wouldn't enter it but flowing away. This rain softens the ground slowly. I guess most of you are connected to puplic watersupply. We get our water from our old deep well. It was almost empty. So the rain is very very welcome, even it will take 3 days for the water to enter it. Also I could finally continue my century project: planting some global warming resistant saplings from chestnut and Atlas-cedars where some big oaks were chopped three years ago.
And after the work enjoying the rain with my wife.
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In times of global warning I try to get rid of batteries. Remove them from your TG!!!
If you have no battery the TG can't shoot and tries melee attacks. So you get close for deadly spears and the touch attack used for recharging.
You know, with 5 kids you can't have enough of paranoia. Solar cell, crank, power input, and .... curse .... batteries possible.
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spooky -> Brotato
Currently most played at firefighter station. Advantage is that a game is quite fast. Nice while waiting at the phone for calls:
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
It has a ghost class...
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cold -> undercurrent
There is a little artificial lake near. With the heat and dry we have the water level is way lower now and the dangerous undercurrents caused by cold water from a rivelet moved. They are way closer to the other side of the lake now. We were swimming with the family when we watched girls swimming towards the under currents. Shouting was not working, so I decided to swim towards them for warning. And suddenly there was a torpedo overtaking me...
I must be getting old. I was still considering me an excellent swimmer, even at my age. But my son is now faster and probably has better eyes because he watched nice girls in his age from other side of the lake...
To excuse the girls, the warning signs weren't adapted to the new conditions.
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The Related Word Game - 2017!
in Key Largo Beach Resort and General Discussion
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CCI -> Camping
Our oldest did a one year trip through Europe studying forests. We bought her a Volkswagen Caddy Maxy Tramper 2.0TDi 4motion - name bigger than the mini van. She still uses the car when working mid in forests for some days. On the trip she had a Camping Card International (CCI).
Time goes by, now she has three kids.