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  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Urban_Tribesman said:

    The British do, it seems. We love a plucky loser ! Winning is viewed as being so...low class ! Better to have tried ones best and failed heroically than do something grubby like win.



    Thanks, UT!  I was really hoping I would get a straight answer to that question (well, relatively, anyways).  It really is fascinating to me how the U.S. has this happy ending mantra.  I can't figure out if it makes us immature or visionary - I mean, besides crazy.  Loved your Kipling quote, by the way.  It really hit where it counts.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    Whickwithy said:

    Urban_Tribesman said:

    The British do, it seems. We love a plucky loser ! Winning is viewed as being so...low class ! Better to have tried ones best and failed heroically than do something grubby like win.



    Thanks, UT!  I was really hoping I would get a straight answer to that question (well, relatively, anyways).  It really is fascinating to me how the U.S. has this happy ending mantra.  I can't figure out if it makes us immature or visionary - I mean, besides crazy.  Loved your Kipling quote, by the way.  It really hit where it counts.

    Interesting stuff this two nations separated by a common language. It is not that the Brits don't like to win, we do. It is just that in any competitive endeavour, someone has to lose and if you do not win, you want to show you gave it your best. The journey is just as important as the destination. It what the Brits refer to as character. We never give up. Love your country by the way. Been there many many times. At the last count, we had done 25 states I believe.

    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Urban_Tribesman said:


    Interesting stuff this two nations separated by a common language.



    Yeah, it is.  I can't quite grasp it but it seems there is something there about tragedy which can be learned from and, yet, it also just puts a crimp in things.  I'm so far off in my own little world, though, that I guess it just can't get traction at all.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    What is the difference between fur, hair and wool?
    This has been a recurring topic of conversation on long car journeys for some years and we have yet to come up with the definitive answer.
    We really need to get out more !
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Fur limits its length and hair doesn't?  But, if you say wool is curly, as opposed to hair, then I know some people with wool on their heads.  Seems like a great travelling converstation.  Better than counting telephone poles or "perdiddle/perduddle" (a game in which you look for cars with left llights missing (perdiddle) or right).
    Post edited by Whickwithy at 2014-04-20 08:24:27
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    Whickwithy said:

    Fur limits its length and hair doesn't?  But, if you say wool is curly, as opposed to hair, then I know some people with wool on their heads.  Seems like a great travelling converstation.  Better than counting telephone poles or "perdiddle/perduddle" (a game in which you look for cars with left llights missing (perdiddle) or right).





    My dog (Dakota, black Labrador retriever) has very short hair that does not grow any longer. Does this mean he has fur instead if hair? Wool is generally found on sheep but also Alpacas and Angora rabbits. Why is this not fur?
    A long running question to be sure. Perhaps we should introduce you to I Spy !
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Errr, a great TV show?
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    Has I Spy not crossed over to the USA? Maybe by another name, as you call 'Where's Wally', 'Where's Waldo'?
    One passenger in the car says, 'I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with G'. The other passengers then take it in turn to guess by offering things they can see beginning with G, until one guess correctly. In this case, I was thinking gear stick (gear shift although you may call this stick shift).
    Great for kids. Limited appeal for adults !
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Has anyone else noticed a massive dropoff in spam the spam folder of email accounts?  I use both gmail and Yahoo and the spam in both have just about disappeared.  What a relief!  I always worry something I really want is going to get buried in there.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down KatRobinKatRobin
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    Ok, here's my current dilemma- any tortoise owners out there?! I have two Horsefields, that I had believed to be females, but now they are older it's become apparent that they are both male. The larger one is being v aggressive towards the smaller, it may be a phase as it's that horny time of year again! I don't have the space sadly to segregate them if it continues. Would it be better to keep just one, do tortoises need a mate to be happy, is there any way I can calm them down?! Of all the places I've looked I still haven't found the best answer to this pretty basic question.
    It's upsetting enough that I've had to rename Daisy and Nelly Humphrey and Herbert!!
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    Have you tried googling "aggressive turtle"?  I came up with some interesting articles in that manner.  Same thing with "aggressive horsefield turtle".  It looked interesting, at least, though I'm not sure it will give you a solution.  Blowing pot in their faces might do it.  Used to work for me.  JK, sort of.  I did read, though, that living singly, for a turtle, is just fine for them.  At least, that's what it said.  They won't die off like Parrots being alone.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down KatRobinKatRobin
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    Thanks Whickwithy I'll look that up. Talking of "pot!"' I even tried to deflect Daisy / Humphreys amorous attentions by putting a tortoise ornament in their environment- he kept humping it tho which made the lid loose lol.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    KatRobin said:

    Thanks Whickwithy I'll look that up. Talking of "pot!"' I even tried to deflect Daisy / Humphreys amorous attentions by putting a tortoise ornament in their environment- he kept humping it tho which made the lid loose lol.



    You gave your tortoise a surrogate/sex doll equivalent?  Are there such things as Tortoise sex shops?
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down KatRobinKatRobin
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    Probably....in Amsterdam at any rate. No, I was just using my imagination and trying to spare the little guy the indignity of being bulldozed by the big one. Repeatedly. >:)
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
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    So, you're sure the little one is a guy?  If so, I like the ornament idea.  Hahahaha!  Heck, nowadays, you could probably sell it on the web,  If it works for all species, you could get rich.  If you do, you owe me.


    ;)
    Post edited by Whickwithy at 2014-05-16 21:21:10
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