Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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It even had pictures.

Hard to imagine why they bothered inventing the internet.

It was my first experience of porn, and probably explains my fascination with Lego.

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For reasons I won't go into, I have to spend a couple of hours  sitting in my van in a street in the middle of Leicester.

I'm in a great spot for people watching. I have the De Montfort university on one side, and the Royal hospital on the other.

The rain is lashing down. Propelled  by mischievous gusts if wind, it slaps the faces of the passers by.

On the one side, small groups of student hurry along. Bright young things in 'make a statement' clothes. They laugh and chatter as they go. They don't notice the rain.

On the other side are the hospital patients. Some are wrapped against the cold, some are in dressing gowns. Alone or in small family groups they walk in silence, heads down, faces set in grim lines. Lost in their thoughts, or in the brief comfort of a cigarette. They don't notice the rain either.


Gather your rosebud while you may.....

I took a couple of pictures with my phone. Not very good but they illustrate my point.

I found it quite poignant, but then I find a lot of everyday things poignant. 

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[david3103]

reminds me...

[outragous76]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

such a tuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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While I was out on my bike the other day, I happened across this old Irish Land Rover standing in a field.

You don't see many these days, so I stopped and spent 15 minutes or so chatting to him.

I offered him half of my lunch and he accepted. He offered me half of his, I declined.

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[Karabiner]

Is that a mule or a donkey?

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It's deffo a 4HD

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Is that a mule or a donkey?

He's a mule.

A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.

Mules are sterile btw. It's natures way of preventing cross - species breeding going too far.

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Is that a mule or a donkey?

He's a mule.

A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.

Mules are sterile btw. It's natures way of preventing cross - species breeding going too far.

So why does that prevention mechanism not work with Mallards, who are busy shagging every known species of duck worldwide, to the point of extinction in many cases?

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Is that a mule or a donkey?

He's a mule.

A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.

Mules are sterile btw. It's natures way of preventing cross - species breeding going too far.

So why does that prevention mechanism not work with Mallards, who are busy shagging every known species of duck worldwide, to the point of extinction in many cases?

A mule is a cross between two species, be it birds or horses, the offspring is still called a mule.

Mallards are not mules, ergo, they are not sterile. Presumably though, their cross-species offspring are.

I would be very surprised to learn that mallard mules were fertile. Having said that, it has happened (once) in the bird world when the mule progeny of a Venezuelan Black Hooded Red Siskin x canary turned out to be fertile and was used to introduce the 'red' gene into the canary species, thereby giving us the 'Red factor' canary.

Red factor canaries are still not naturally red, but because they carry the red gene, their plumage has the ability to become red if they eat the right diet. (Much the same as flamingos)

Fanciers add 'Colour food' to the bird seed.

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I was pootling along on my bike in the rain when a kid a mini passed me. Too fast, too close.

It took me almost 20 minuted to catch up with him.....

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Cocktail stick containers.

What, are they designed so that it's impossible to replace the lid?

[Dino]

They normally have a break out in one corner so you don't need to remove the lid.

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They normally have a break out in one corner so you don't need to remove the lid.

You're a God-damn genius boy!

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They normally have a break out in one corner so you don't need to remove the lid.

You're a God-damn genius boy!

Lol great film. Why does the local law enforcer get played this way in so many films/tv? Eg smokey and the bandit, dukes of hazard and some bond movies