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ok-weezy wrote: Mar 13th, 2024, 5:27 am Sock Packaging!!! I despise all the little plastic things that go through the pairs of socks. I have a six pack of pairs and there are millions of them, they are too tight to socks to cut, and get lodged in the socks when I rip them..! Big problem, I know :(
It's a first world problem, but still annoys me as well.
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Ya, how about that for 1 use plastics!
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On the bright side, that will be the last time those sox are mated
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Catsumi wrote: Mar 13th, 2024, 5:38 pm On the bright side, that will be the last time those sox are mated
I have polygamist socks and they're all the same colour. I'm a very racist person when it comes to sox. :biggrin:

Socks/sox? What is it?
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Babba_not_Gump wrote: Mar 13th, 2024, 6:05 pm
Catsumi wrote: Mar 13th, 2024, 5:38 pm On the bright side, that will be the last time those sox are mated
I have polygamist socks and they're all the same colour. I'm a very racist person when it comes to sox. :biggrin:

Socks/sox? What is it?
Congrats, you have figured out how to beat the dryer, that gulper of sox…socks.

Let me guess, they are all black, right?

So many have referred to Trudeau’s foot coverings as sox that I have adopted the misspelling as well.
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ah, but there is the foot rule, after washing, idk, sometimes the sock just feels like it is on the wrong foot.
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Rumour has it that gasoline prices in the Okanagan could be $2 per/litre (+/- 15 cents) by summer time, ouch.

If so I wonder how many people will be switching to an EV.
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normaM wrote: Mar 14th, 2024, 5:50 am ah, but there is the foot rule, after washing, idk, sometimes the sock just feels like it is on the wrong foot.
It probably is. Did you buy the memory-foam socks Norma?

They remember right from wrong side, and left vs right foot.

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A friend of mine was flying his plane down the Nicola river this week, and because the highway got washed away in 2021 it was moved to the other side of the river, but they left the perfect path to act as an airstrip so he landed...
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Nice little place for pilot to stretch his legs.
That's a beautiful valley, traveled it a few times but not since the flood.
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I wonder how many people get suckered into listening to entire blurp at the beginning of youtube videos about fixing ones hearing or reversing type 2 by adding something to your diet etc… etc
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Glacier wrote: Mar 14th, 2024, 8:40 pm A friend of mine was flying his plane down the Nicola river this week, and because the highway got washed away in 2021 it was moved to the other side of the river, but they left the perfect path to act as an airstrip so he landed...
Looking at the thickness of those wings, I bet a 30 knot wind at ground level would allow him to rise pretty much vertically.
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GordonH wrote: Mar 17th, 2024, 9:25 pm I wonder how many people get suckered into listening to entire blurp at the beginning of youtube videos about fixing ones hearing or reversing type 2 by adding something to your diet etc… etc
I find most of these are just ads to sell you something. I exit them pretty fast.
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Huh, police have been busy lately.

I'm still curious as to what was the cause of the Rutland power outage . . .
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Lady tehMa wrote: Mar 19th, 2024, 8:44 pm Huh, police have been busy lately.

I'm still curious as to what was the cause of the Rutland power outage . . .
I heard a transformer blew up. Birds are coming back so maybe one landed where it shouldn't have.
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