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20 Jan 2024, 10:06 pm

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Animals eat their own babies sometimes and if there is something wrong with one of them, the mother either eats it or pushes it out of the litter. But hamsters will eat their baby. To this day i wonder if our female dog killed her puppy that was a runt of the litter and wouldn't really nurse because he was found in a pool of blood coming from its face. I also wonder if she was even pushing that puppy away.



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 :D :heart: She even looked like her, I named her Jessica.



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20 Jan 2024, 10:42 pm

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



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20 Jan 2024, 11:18 pm

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.


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21 Jan 2024, 3:48 am

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

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 .



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21 Jan 2024, 3:50 am

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I've found out that John Banner's birthplace is now part of Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bann ... an%20actor.

Banner was born 28 January 1910[2] to Jewish parents in Stanislau, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). He studied for a law degree at the University of Vienna, but decided instead to become an actor.

I've been with Ukraine all along without even knowing it.


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



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21 Jan 2024, 6:22 am

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.


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21 Jan 2024, 2:59 pm

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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 ? :D


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23 Jan 2024, 6:18 pm

Jakki wrote:
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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 ? :D


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

What these guys are wearing:



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23 Jan 2024, 6:54 pm

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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23 Jan 2024, 9:12 pm

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Jakki wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
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 ? :D


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

What these guys are wearing:




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


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23 Jan 2024, 9:39 pm

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Jakki wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
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 ? :D


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

What these guys are wearing:



It's the type of helmet that Schultzie wears. :heart:


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23 Jan 2024, 11:45 pm

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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.


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

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


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24 Jan 2024, 12:35 am

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


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24 Jan 2024, 1:23 am

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.



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24 Jan 2024, 10:52 am

Today I learned Aspies are a living repository of all sorts of Knowledge ..... 8O :D


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24 Jan 2024, 9:04 pm

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.


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