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I went thrught something similar with my first cat, I was a teenager, I didn't know she was pregnant, she gave birth to 5 kittens in my lining closet, the runt of the litter, she wasn't nursing, her neck was so thin, it looked like a lollypop. I helped her nurse, I held her head until she nurse, my mom helped, she gave her a bottle of milk. I had to pushed the other kittens away so I could help the youngest kitten, weeks later, she got stronger, she was drinking milk from her mommy She even looked like her, I named her Jessica.

I learned today that I can charge my iPhone from my laptop I can charge my iPad too from my laptop I can save electricity

Today I learned how fun it can be to work on my hobbies in the evening. I painted Om Noms onto heart-shaped canvases and heart characters on round canvases.

If you do that you need to power up laptop sooner. So it doesnt "save electricity".you're just robbing peter to pay paul.

Its like siphoning gas out of your car to fuel your lawnmower. You may save time, but you dont save gas. It just means you have to take your car to the gas station a little sooner than normal because you siphoned a gallon out of it for the lawnmower .

Yes. Both Sgt. Schultz and Col. Klink, were played by refugees from the Holocaust.

That I'm a leftover Weasel from WWII. I've always felt as though I was a Weasel trapped in the wrong body. I weaseled my way out of the f*****g pink prison of hell in the January of 2016 when I proudly started wearing hats that look like the Stahlhelm.

Could you show a picture of a Stahlhelm hat please ? if you have the time ?

It just your basic German infantry helmet of WWII that everyone has seen in the movies.

What these guys are wearing:

Today I found out that The Kinks got kicked out of America for acting like a bunch of Cockney Rebels to put it lightly. Here's a video on why The Kinks were banned from America for 4 years.



I knew The Kinks were acting badly but I didn't know they were acting this badly. Whatever....they're still my favourite band. Carry on.

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okay thank you ..thought it was some kinda shiney Pointy topped, pith hat or something. Tonight was told that
was a WW1 thing.

It's the type of helmet that Schultzie wears.

You're thinking of the picklehaube, which was replaced by the stahlhelm.



Pith hats are more typically British, especially in India and Burma. They're ultimately derived from Filipino hats called salacots, via the Spanish.

Just thinking about what Cockney Rebels The Kinks were when they were starting out makes me want to use Mick Avory as an avatar.

Today I learned that WorldRemit.com, a currency conversion service, don't give a damn about people who don't have smartphones. They've just made it impossible for me to convert pounds sterling into dollars without one. And I don't have one.

Today I learned Aspies are a living repository of all sorts of Knowledge .....

Today, I've learned that using a musician for an avatar because his band did some horrible things in a country as a way if rebelling against their manager is not cool. It's also not exactly being a Sweet Pea, either. I'll be using Mick again on his birthday for the right reasons. Doing it the right way could lead to Mick becoming my default avatar. You never know.