Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Mar 17, 2009 9:41:35 am PDT #11148 of 30000
Sue - Mar 17, 2009 9:45:56 am PDT #11149 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Newfoundland also used to have a holiday the Battle of the Boyne, just to be fair to all sides of the Irish conflict. I don't think that's a statutory holiday anymore though.
Newfoundland public holidays. Outside the usual ones:
16 Mar St Patrick's Day.
20 Apr St George's Day.
22 Jun Discovery Day.
13 Jul Orangemen's Day
Scrappy - Mar 17, 2009 9:46:32 am PDT #11150 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I have a busy week or so coming up--a business trip to Minneapolis all next week (which is full of what promises to be kinda stressful meetings), then I get back Friday night. Early Saturday morning, we drive up north to take care of my MiL, who is having surgery next week. The DH stays there, but I get on the train late Sunday to be at work Monday morning. Not terrible, but tiring nonetheless.
However, once I get through that I just found out that I get to go with DH to a schmancy Audi weekend event, being held at this place nest weekend: [link] I am really excited! This is the fanciest hotel I will have ever stayed at--so gorgeous. And they pay for dinner on a boat one night and for a bike trip around Santa Barbara, which sounds really fun.
Trudy Booth - Mar 17, 2009 9:47:23 am PDT #11151 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Do most people wear helmets while skiing, though? Or beginners, anyway?
Not in my experience -- though I've never been a huge skier.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2009 9:48:16 am PDT #11152 of 30000
brillig
Every year here in Utah we have a few people who die on the ski runs from running into trees or whatnot. Trees don't yield.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2009 9:55:44 am PDT #11153 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 9:53:20 am PDT #11154 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
The obvious solution to the wooden menace is to have real trees removed from all ski slopes and replaced by breakaway plastic models.
Emily - Mar 17, 2009 9:54:31 am PDT #11155 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
That is weird that she seemed fine afterward.
Actually not strange (or, rather, not unusual). It was a plot point in Busman's Honeymoon, and also what happened to my grandmother.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 10:02:10 am PDT #11156 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Speaking of models of natural objects. On the way to work this morning, I was going down a road on the fringe of my neighborhood and saw that some vandals apparently busted apart a model deer that has been in somebody's yard for years. Also it appears someone had played mailbox baseball along the road as well. F**k you fake deer killers!
javachik - Mar 17, 2009 10:09:04 am PDT #11157 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Well when I said weird, it's specifically in the context of skiing accidents. Most of the fatal (or near fatal) ski accidents I've known about were most definitely of the "take terrible fall/hit tree/don't get up again" variety.