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01 May 2009, 4:19 pm

my fire agate came today in the mails. and its the best one i own, :drunken: :pig:



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01 May 2009, 4:33 pm

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My freezer is broken, so I just had to spend ten minutes sawing through the ice with a vegetable knife to get to something I wanted to eat.

Just after I sat down to eat my meal, the fire alarm went off.


For some reason I wonder why you had to saw your food because the freezer is broken. I would understand it if the oven and stowe was broken...but I probably missed something here again...
But I should know, our freezer broke down some months ago and we lost some food out of it and I didnt realise how dependent you are on a freezer....

I hope the firealarm didnt get off due to the broken freezer and by that put yourself in danger


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01 May 2009, 4:34 pm

Work is kicking my ass today :cry:



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01 May 2009, 5:12 pm

xalepax wrote:
For some reason I wonder why you had to saw your food because the freezer is broken. I would understand it if the oven and stowe was broken...but I probably missed something here again...
But I should know, our freezer broke down some months ago and we lost some food out of it and I didnt realise how dependent you are on a freezer....

I hope the firealarm didnt get off due to the broken freezer and by that put yourself in danger


Oh, looking at what I wrote, it doesn't really reflect what I was trying describe.

What had happened is that the freezer seems to be stuck on the coldest setting it can be, and this has caused the cabinets which hold the food to become filled with and surrounded by ice, and so they are frozen stuck inside the freezer. I needed to pull one of the cabinets out in order to get to the food, so I freed it from the freezer by using a knife to saw through the ice which surrounded it. After that I was able to remove the cabinet.

The fire alarm going off wasn't anything to do with me. One of my flatmates was using some sort of hair altering device which stimulated the smoke detector in his room.



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01 May 2009, 5:26 pm

^I see. Thanks for the explaination, then it all makes much more sense! To prevent the food to be drowned in ice like that would be to defrost it regularly. I usually do that once in a year in wintertime. Then I leave the food in the balcony for some hours while I knife off the ice and let the rest selfmelt. Your freezer seemes to be in high and urgent need of this, maybe even the high ammount of ice prevent it from working properly?


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02 May 2009, 2:54 pm

i pretty much feel like s**t because i drank too much last night. and tomorrow im going to go visit my sister in case grande, oh well atleast i have my new fire agate wich i gotta admit is amazing :D

and now back to my favorite activity. throwing up, i seriousy love vomiting

instant satisfaction combined with a wierd sensation. i love it. :jester:



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02 May 2009, 5:07 pm

Someone on another forum I visit refered to my friend as "chocolate coated jibber jabber".

There, is that random enough?


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04 May 2009, 9:00 am

I went for a walk yesterday, and I saw a stoat.



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04 May 2009, 10:08 am

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A real wild one? Um, if so.... that's quite unique. Even in Scotland, I think. Cool.



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04 May 2009, 10:09 am

earlier on my mum just burst into my room and said
"You could have contacted you friends today and have a social life instead of going on that computer all day! don't come crying to me when you've got no mates!"

Completely out of the blue! she is right though


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04 May 2009, 10:21 am

Erminea wrote:
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A real wild one? Um, if so.... that's quite unique. Even in Scotland, I think. Cool.


Yeah, it was wild. I only saw it for a moment, before it disappeared, but it was definitely a stoat.



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04 May 2009, 10:41 am

i could provide a detailed description of a blowfly that trespassed in my kitchen this afternoon if only the police would listen!! !

i could help them develop an "identtikit" drawing of the offender, but alas, they say they have insufficient resources to track every blowfly down, and compare them to my "identikit" portrait of the offender.

but i will remember him if ever i see him in the street.



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04 May 2009, 12:29 pm

McTell wrote:
Erminea wrote:
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A real wild one? Um, if so.... that's quite unique. Even in Scotland, I think. Cool.


Yeah, it was wild. I only saw it for a moment, before it disappeared, but it was definitely a stoat.


You were lucky, McTell, those suckers are very secretive and avoid (at all cost) human being (other animals not on their diet as well). But being on the topic here, I wonder, you English speaking folks say stoat, ermine and weasel. The weasel is different from the ermine, for one it's smaller, more common or more around. The question is when saying stoat do you mean the ermine or the weasel? Ok, I look it up myself but I have a sense that when folks say stoat they mean the weasel. Needless to say which animal I prefer most.

(off now to eat dinner btw)



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04 May 2009, 2:31 pm

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You were lucky, McTell, those suckers are very secretive and avoid (at all cost) human being (other animals not on their diet as well). But being on the topic here, I wonder, you English speaking folks say stoat, ermine and weasel. The weasel is different from the ermine, for one it's smaller, more common or more around. The question is when saying stoat do you mean the ermine or the weasel? Ok, I look it up myself but I have a sense that when folks say stoat they mean the weasel. Needless to say which animal I prefer most.

(off now to eat dinner btw)


English language Wikipedia takes one to the page headed Ermine if, "Stoat," is typed into the search box. It also starts by saying, "The stoat (Mustela erminea) is a small mammal of the family Mustelidae." So by stoat is meant ermine, and not weasel, which fits with how I knew the word, for I actually hadn't heard of the word ermine (except as a description of fancy cloak trimmings) until I started posting here. Stoat was the only word I had heard of for the animal.

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It was a pretty good walk for seeing wildlife that day. I also saw tadpoles, a group of deer and countless birds.



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04 May 2009, 2:36 pm

Another one bites the dust

Another one ate the dust

Another one sings the dust song


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Random haha

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04 May 2009, 3:06 pm

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yep, random for sure. :D

And thank you, McTell, for making that clear. I blame the confusion I had about it on my English ~ Dutch dictionairy which states....

stoat 0.1 wezel => hermelijn (weasel => ermine) more particularly in it's brown summer fur.

The sites I visited were also not very clear about it but from now on I will never forget it. Stoat is ermine and not weasel. Those two tend to be mentioned in one breath quite often which I think is bollocks for what I said in my previous post. Other things as well.

But enough about that. Thanks again and I really hope I will be able to visit your beautiful country and see it's beautiful nature for myself one day.



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