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05 May 2025, 6:20 pm

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Today I learned the right way to divide in order to take GST and PST off the dollar.

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06 May 2025, 1:52 am

TIL. that the population decline in Japan is so severe, that there's a large amount of abandoned homes and you can buy a nice dwelling in Japan for under 10k because of this.

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06 May 2025, 3:18 am

Wow is that right

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06 May 2025, 9:13 am

!	Cornflake wrote:
	A little off topic chatter is to be expected here but please, take conversations longer than two or three posts to PM - or start a new thread.

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06 May 2025, 9:27 am

Today I learned:
It is okay to take breaks, make mistakes, and take time to work around and over those things. Everything always works out fine in the end and if it's not fine then it isn't the end. Even then, when it is fine, don't settle! Make it even better :3

(I might be overly optimistic but hearing someone else say similar in class makes me even more certain..)

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06 May 2025, 1:14 pm

Cornflake wrote:

A little off topic chatter is to be expected here but please, take conversations longer than two or three posts to PM - or start a new thread.

Is that a maximum of 3 each or 3 in total?

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07 May 2025, 10:09 am

Total - although it's better expressed as "conversations longer than, say, two or three posts".
It's not a cast on stone ruling - more of a suggestion of being mindful; it's around this point that comments become an off topic conversation.

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07 May 2025, 10:11 am

Yeah I get that and it's duly noted

I call it forum etiquette

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08 May 2025, 11:52 am

"Carry On Camping" had the subtitle "let sleeping bags lie"

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08 May 2025, 12:06 pm

The Rhinoceros Party is back.

If you're gonna vote for a clown, vote for the funniest.

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08 May 2025, 12:07 pm

What's that then

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08 May 2025, 12:16 pm

babybird wrote:

"Carry On Camping" had the subtitle "let sleeping bags lie"

I feel I'm a better person for having learned that.

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08 May 2025, 12:17 pm

Me too :lol:

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09 May 2025, 11:44 pm

I learned that a moose is the same as an elk. Then thirty seconds later I learned that it might not be.

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10 May 2025, 2:41 am

I'm enlightened

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10 May 2025, 3:08 am

I learnt that because of the high acidity in cola and other fizzy drinks, it takes about 15 glasses of water to neutralise the pH in your body to it's preferred level. And that's why excess soda consumption can lead to diseases like osteoporosis.

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