Snow flurries just started coming down here. We're at roughly 1300 ft elevation. Ha ha, 75F and sunny yesterday.
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So I get an email from UK today wanting me to give them a donation. I guess they are sending this out fishing for some tax refund money from their fan base. Sorry, that ship sailed for UK
Will someone step up and give in my absence? They sounded desperate
Running shine down highway 9
Will someone step up and give in my absence? They sounded desperate
Running shine down highway 9
Snow is melting faster than that gallon of ice cream I forgot to put back in the freezer.
For the old(er) I will submit my response... You may forward it Sir.
ROTFLCGU (In old(er) lingo; (I will translate) Rolling On The Floor Laughing, Can't Get Up...)
May have to eat it.....All, Sir.
- Good Morning, D-Leagueanites and Lurkers.
- We've got about 52º this morning, My fingers are numbing.
- Lola PP'd. Gave her some treats. She is basking in sunbeams right now and enjoying it very much.
- Haven't seen any White Tails in a couple of weeks. Where have all of them gone? Long time passing.
- I used to cut yards when I was a young boy. I also caddied at PCC. I was really too little to lug that big bag. The older guys would pick on me. That sucked. We got about $2 for 18 holes. My lawnmower was a used Craftsman 2 cycle. I hit an iron pin once and bent the crankshaft and learned how to replace it. My first mechanical experience. It took me about 1/2 hour to make $1.50 doing that. I spent most of my money on baseball cards. Mom gave them to the kid that lived across the street after I left home. His daddy got killed in an accident at the Atomic Plant later.
- That is all.
- Get well soon sickly ones.
- As you were.
- Carry on.
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UK or UK Athletics?
I am getting ready to have one of my favorites for lunch. Fried Spam Sandwich. A day with fried spam is a good day. Toasted bread, lettuce, tomato and mustard for me. And the spam has to be cut thick
Actually, it was the right thing. Learning German that is. I am a big proponent for people who travel and stay any length of time in a foreign country taking the time to show respect by learning the language which is why I think we should not have to push 1 for English (American really) and 2 for Spanish. You're in my country, learn the language if you want to stay.
Just what a Foreigner would say. (Heck, it sounded good...Until deciphered...)
They're off my Christmas forever w/o repentance for BLM support, Beshear support, & paying author of White Fragility to speak. They apologized for getting rid of Confusius Society - which made me puke.
Have some of those so, no need to go out.Good morning from Shawanee, TN. Currently 37°F and cloudy. Warming to 47°F later. Freeze warning tonight with a chance for snow.
I might ride out to Harlan later today. Plan on hitting up Rax and visiting downtown for pictures. May run into a few folks I know. Enjoying myself so far.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Had a Chow mix in the old house and one night I heard him fence fighting with the neighbors dog, or so I thought. When he did not come back in after the barking had stopped I went out to check on him and found him with blood all over him so I looked around the yard and found a dead full grown male racoon. Immediately I thought he (Jake) had to be cut up and hurt bad so, I took him in, washed him in the tub, and only found just a few minor cuts on him. Normally I would have been surprised but, he had been in fights before with 2 pits (not at the same time) and came out on top of both so I knew he was tough but... He had a lot of the Chow fur so he had a lot of skin protection.
ROTFLAHFAICGU! Rolling on the floor laughing And have fallen And I Can't Get Up!
Had an Aunt who was German. Married my Uncle not long after WWII. He fought in the war and then was stationed in Germany for a number of years. After he retired from the Army and went to work for the State Dept. they moved back home (for him) in the early, mid-60s. She spoke fluent English, but when they wanted to carry on a conversation they didn't want others to hear....it was full blown German.
I also think it's rude when they speak their language in your presence, while knowing English.
I can read it, write it, and speak it. Well, that is the words that I know. I am not fluent but, I understand a lot. Not as much as I used to though, last time I was there was Feb 95.
It may be but I pick and choose my battles. One reason or another comes along. My wife speaks English well but certain subjects lend to reverting to her native language. My darling actually knows Spanish well too. Jumped all over a bagger in a market we were in when the punk showed his arse to me without cause. (In spanish of course)(Then he and I had a few choice words. Apologies in English... who'd a thunk it.)
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Last time in Germany I had a girlfriend who was born in Argentina and she spoke 3 languages. Spanish, Italian (her mother), and German. No English so, we conversed in German. I was playing softball one day and we were playing a team of predominately Hispanic players. She starts telling me that they were saying things they would like to do to her and would kick my ass to get to her blah blah blah. I told her to wait until the game was over then, let them have it. They did not know she spoke Spanish because we were speaking German to each other. After the game she lit in to them and they were backtracking and embarrassed to the point where they were apologizing to me as well as her.
I type a lot sometimes as you all are great to allow me to vent. I am not much on talking. I DO say what I need to say, when I need to say it. I talk a lot but not long each time. I may run out of words one day.
I actually thought about that when I saw the Gif. Had to do it.Darn you WC, gave me flashbacks of this Mutt...
Getting dark and windy here in the east. I think we're getting the storms blowing in from Kentucky. Going to drop down to near freezing over the next day. Need to dig out my coat I put away a couple weeks ago.
Bert is not an American name Sir? Danged Foreigners.... 😁
Well, I've been told by multi-lingual people multiple times that they associate people they know with a particular language when they encounter them. So when they do this it's a compartmentalization rather they an intent to exclude. And how do they know who understands which languages? Now when the situation is a group meeting, one language needs to be agreed upon.
I was working on a cap development project in France with a French company - I was the only English-only speaker. We conducted the meeting in English - I was the customer - but at times when discussing an issue, the French were having difficulty fully expressing themselves on it in English. I'd encourage them to switch to French amongst themselves for a period to get it right.
Net, the whole thing is NBD to me.
Crossroads needed before I can focus. (tune in via google)
I'm the same way with Latin and I can cipher Latin languages fairly well given time or practice.
I'm not much of a talker until I'm sitting in floor speaking bourbonese. The only one who could understand would be sitting on the other side of the bottle and speaking the same tongue. ( A long time ago)
"Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a Transformer-based machine learning technique for natural language processing (NLP) pre-training developed by Google. BERT was created and published in 2018 by Jacob Devlin and his colleagues from Google."
Bert is as American as you can get.
You guys brightened up this gloomy ole day. Thank you.
I know that sounds a bit sappy, but with the weather today and the world's bitterness, I needed the lightheartedness of the D this afternoon.
I know that sounds a bit sappy, but with the weather today and the world's bitterness, I needed the lightheartedness of the D this afternoon.
I think Vern is more American."Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a Transformer-based machine learning technique for natural language processing (NLP) pre-training developed by Google. BERT was created and published in 2018 by Jacob Devlin and his colleagues from Google."
Bert is as American as you can get.
That's one tough dog. Marty's only 50-pounds and looks like an American dingo. Tough little guy too but I'd never want him to tangle with racoon.
I gave to UK's Gatton College of Business for about 30 years since I'm an alum. I wanted to give back for the education I received. That donation has stopped and most likely will never start-up again.
The reason I asked is I was General Superintendent for a construction company that was just a few doors south of the termite warriors for 18 yrs.....until I went into business for myself........I was thinking damn......we seem to think along the same lines on most things......wouldn't it be crazy that we had worked just a few hundred feet apart......
There's too many deserving & needy orgs to ever give to UK again. They screwed the pooch multiple times.
I used to agree with this premise until we took our daughter, SIL and their three rascals on a vacation to Belgium and France.........My wife knew some French......I had maybe four phrases down with a hello and good by..........I felt beyond foolish......when I took the Director back for our 35th we were both more versed in "their" languages........and most of the people in those two countries know English.........we are generally poorly educated in foreign languages in this country......
My Maddie (now deceased boxer) once killed a raccoon. One got in the yard and the dogs chased it. As it was climbing a fence to get out, Maddie jumped up and grabbed it by the back of the neck. Broke it's neck with one bite.
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