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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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May 31, 2009 - 5:21pm |
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maryte wrote:
Whatcha want?
A dark haired beauty about 40 years old with a penchant for bridge, chess, reading and a forgiving nature...
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maryte
Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 5:14pm |
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callum wrote: Very true. So what you getting me?
Whatcha want?
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callum
Location: its wet, windy and chilly....take a guess Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 4:59pm |
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maryte wrote:
True, but if the present is from a six year old, the expectation is far lower than if it's from a 40 year old. Very true. So what you getting me?
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maryte
Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 4:57pm |
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callum wrote: Six year olds generally get adults to buy the presents for them.
True, but if the present is from a six year old, the expectation is far lower than if it's from a 40 year old.
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callum
Location: its wet, windy and chilly....take a guess Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 4:52pm |
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maryte wrote:
Adults (usually) have jobs, so they can buy better presents than six-year-olds. Six year olds generally get adults to buy the presents for them.
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 4:50pm |
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phineas wrote: Sweet kid, but definitely a "Oh, I must have one of those!" situation. Not horribly so, but it was more about the mum than the baby, I think.
Well, as long as the kid comes out OK - and I suppose it's one way to avoid the merry-go-round that is kids parties. 'Round here you have to have a bouncy castle, party tea (don't bother with the lttle sandwiches, pizza/quiche and sausage rolls, they'll have the sugar stuff). Then you have to put more sugar'n'chocolate plus annoyingly squeeky toy in a bag to take home, I'm beginning to see the logic....
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phineas
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May 31, 2009 - 4:24pm |
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hobiejoe wrote: Yup, that's getting a bit weird, IME 4 for the first party, 5 they really get the hang of it, 6 I'm sure she'll be grumbling about the catering. My 5yo is already organising my 3yo's guest list - it consists of one of Charlies friends and six of hers. So far. This kid - child or fashion accessory?
Sweet kid, but definitely a "Oh, I must have one of those!" situation. Not horribly so, but it was more about the mum than the baby, I think.
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maryte
Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 2:14pm |
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triskele wrote: i had a friend in high school who called me paula, the peachiest pessimist! do you have any nicknames related to your cynicism?
Well, not anything specific, but when I connected on Facebook with an old friend from high school, she commented on my descriptor as The Premier Cynical Optimist, saying, "That's the Mary I remember!"
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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May 31, 2009 - 2:11pm |
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jadewahoo wrote: Low flying bird hit a desk top.
possibly!
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jadewahoo
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 1:56pm |
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triskele wrote:discovering a deep purple bruise on the knuckle of my middle finger, right hand, and having NO idea how it got there. ow.
Low flying bird hit a desk top.
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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May 31, 2009 - 1:23pm |
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discovering a deep purple bruise on the knuckle of my middle finger, right hand, and having NO idea how it got there. ow.
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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May 31, 2009 - 1:19pm |
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maryte wrote:It's my most endearing quality... i had a friend in high school who called me paula, the peachiest pessimist! do you have any nicknames related to your cynicism?
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maryte
Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 11:36am |
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fidget wrote:So cynical It's my most endearing quality...
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 11:33am |
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phineas wrote:A couple we know are having a birthday party for their 6-year-old but all the guests are adults. They've done this every year. I sort of understood for the 1st or even the 2nd, but now? I'm just cornfuzed.
Yup, that's getting a bit weird, IME 4 for the first party, 5 they really get the hang of it, 6 I'm sure she'll be grumbling about the catering. My 5yo is already organising my 3yo's guest list - it consists of one of Charlies friends and six of hers. So far. This kid - child or fashion accessory?
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fidget
Location: The dreaming spires Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 11:31am |
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maryte wrote:
Adults (usually) have jobs, so they can buy better presents than six-year-olds. So cynical
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maryte
Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 11:25am |
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phineas wrote:A couple we know are having a birthday party for their 6-year-old but all the guests are adults. They've done this every year. I sort of understood for the 1st or even the 2nd, but now? I'm just cornfuzed.
Adults (usually) have jobs, so they can buy better presents than six-year-olds.
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Manbird
Location: ? ? ? Gender:
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May 31, 2009 - 11:24am |
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phineas wrote:A couple we know are having a birthday party for their 6-year-old but all the guests are adults. They've done this every year. I sort of understood for the 1st or even the 2nd, but now? I'm just cornfuzed.
A little jazz music, some dry martinis, maybe some skinny dipping in the pool after midnight - perfect!
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phineas
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May 31, 2009 - 11:20am |
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A couple we know are having a birthday party for their 6-year-old but all the guests are adults. They've done this every year. I sort of understood for the 1st or even the 2nd, but now? I'm just cornfuzed.
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Welly
Location: Lotusland Gender:
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Apr 28, 2009 - 3:27pm |
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Too much knowledge can exaggerate the danger of a pandemic By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun April 28, 2009 < type="text/javascript"><> < type="text/javascript"><> Amid the uncertainty over whether this swine flu outbreak will expand from a serious Mexican epidemic into the global pandemic long expected by public health authorities, one thing is certain. As events unfold, the public will know more about the viral disease, its progress through human populations, what authorities are doing in response and what individual citizens can do for themselves, their families and their neighbours than at any time in human history. This can be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because knowledge is power and planetary communications systems make it possible for medical experts and those responsible for public health to share and disseminate information more quickly and far more widely. A curse because too much information arriving too quickly without adequate time for placing events in context can amplify public anxiety and, in the worst cases, create panic where instead there should be informed concern, prudent preparation and precaution. For example, without diminishing the seriousness of a global influenza pandemic in medical terms or the fact that every pandemic results in some tragic outcomes for thousands, even millions, of individuals and their families, it's important to put those numbers into context. The media, with their urge to simplify and to focus on immediate events, tend to aggregate raw numbers and to concentrate upon them as a measure of the seriousness and magnitude of the event being covered. Thus we hear constant updates on the number of fatalities from multiple media platforms — newspapers, radio, 24-hour TV news channels that update every hour, websites and bloggers who range from the highly informed to those who are already linking the current events to sunspot activity or suggesting it's an engineered virus released from germ warfare labs. "Eighty-one dead in Mexico; U.S. declares emergency," read one of the headlines Sunday. Yes, 81 dead in Mexico is something to grieve and is cause for public concern. Each one of those dead represents the anguish of a family. Yet, as the aphorism goes, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. It's confusing the statistic for the tragedy that exaggerates fear. We seldom hear daily updates on the numbers of those infected who have recovered, for example. Yet consider the much-cited Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918. It's common for commentary to cite infection rates and total associated fatalities. It's estimated that about 28 per cent of Canadians and Americans contracted the Spanish flu. Worldwide, an estimated 2.5 per cent of the sick died of complications, which made the pandemic one of the most lethal flu outbreaks in recorded history. Certainly it was one that imprinted itself upon human consciousness for several generations. But there's another way to look at those statistics. You might observe, for example, that they mean that even during the worst ravages of the 1918 flu, 97.5 per cent of those infected survived and recovered. Or that 72 per cent of the population — even in the absence of the sophisticated public health planning and infrastructure that Canada and the U.S. have since built — was not infected during the pandemic. So, even if we had a repeat of the 1918 flu, the chances were seven out of 10 that you wouldn't catch it and if you did, the odds were better than nine out of 10 that you'd survive. That was during the worst pandemic of the modern era and one which occurred in the days before the instantaneous communications of radio, television and the Web enabled quick public health responses.
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