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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to BenWilson,
righteous
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You're all, um, welcome! :-D
When I was reading it I always found I just had to read one more page....And BTW nzlemming, thanks for the great magnet story. :-)
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Steve, Ben...I was being whimsical!
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to recordari,
IME, they don't, unless you pay them the minimum hourly wage of two lollipops, free access to TV and Nintendo and Icecream
I have a friend whose 4-year-old can be got to do all manner of tasks (unloading the dishwasher, making her bed, picking salad greens for dinner, etc.) by the cash payment of 10c per task, which she carefully saves up for awful bits of tat she wants from the Warehouse. I'm guessing she is perhaps unusually industrious. I reckon she'll be a millionaire before she's 20, providing she gets some pay rises along the way. :-)
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Paul Campbell,
She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child
Beware children bearing gifts.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Islander,
I forget which brilliant NZ nature photographer described watching a heron in a West Coast lake spending 20 minutes unsuccessfully trying to swallow a flounder it had caught. :-)
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On the subject of Teh Force, StarWars fans might enjoy Darths and Droids, a webcomic reimagining the StarWars films as a RPG played by stubborn and sometimes wildly incompetent players. It's very funny, along the same lines as the epically funny DM of the Rings, which did the same thing for Tolkien.
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Islander - you were saying upthread about gulls remembering you if you'd robbed their nest? Apparently crows also carry grudges.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Rich Lock,
The One Who Will Bring Balance to the Load
It's important to separate out your darks. Or everything becomes just shades of grey.
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I have a front-loader that I'm very attached to because it does such a good job of the clothes while not using much water, meaning it's feasible to do warm washes without breaking the bank. It takes just about forever, but obviously it's not my place as a mere human to question when (or if) I will be allowed to have my clothes back. It also has a mysterious and wonderful pause after finishing a cycle before the door unlocks. My flatmates, lacking sufficent reverence, tug at the door ineffectually which only prolongs this part of the ritual. If one is patient and humble, all is well.