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I wsa thinking Tip, but Twit'll do. 
speramus in juniperus
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Tit OTD, as in the person who did it...
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If you share your hostel room with a bunch of German grannies that - as soon as they enter - turn down the heating, open the windows wide to let the cold in, then ask you if this is ok with you, then you put your camera that got drenched by the rough weather when snapping pictures with, of and for the California Dreamies on the only safe space to let it dry which happens to be the radiator, and then - while you are out (with said dreamies) - that guy from Berlin you already met on the island mountain weeks ago gets the last bunk in said room, closing the windows and turning up the heating to the maximum without removing previously drenched camera from the radiator so said camera gets heated up well touchability, you will find out that surprisingly, after about a week of practically not working at all, your camera starts working again, with minor issues but generally still making decent photos.
That's what you learn when travelling.
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I did a similar clever once. I had adjusted my watch and not secured the winder correctly, thus rendering it non-waterproof. Then I took a shower.
The watch was placed on a small soft pad and then onto the radiator. After a few days it dried out perfectly and works well keeping good time. The standard price for a service including 'strip and clean' is £350; I think I saved a few bob there.
speramus in juniperus
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I once had a six disk DVD player - big bugger it were, it had a rotating platter with six DVD spaces in it and it were dead handy to change disks from the comfort of me armchair.
Then we moved in here, and guess who put it on the windowsill? Nice deep windowsills we have here, a good foot from the edge to the window itself, nice and secure, even if six inches or so or the player hung over the edge. And all was well.
Then it got cooler, and guess who turned the heating on?
And who came down in the morning to find said player looking like it was designed by the master, Dali, himself?
And had to spend ages trying to hack the molten remains apart to work out what disks he had left in it overnight? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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They just announced that OPCW has received the prize. In the UK, Malala Yousafzai was widely tipped which proves you can't trust the bookies. We'll never know how they decide who gets what as the selection process is shrouded in secrecy but personally I'd have liked to see her share the prize. Both are worthy recipients. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Personally I think they throw darts at a newspaper. How else could then Senator Obama get one?
[edit]
He may have been president elect at that time.
modified 11-Oct-13 7:12am.
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That's what my thoughts were too...
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He got it for not being a Bush, not for anything he had achieved. Because that isn't very much.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: He got it for not being a Bush,
Which is an admirable quality.
And by not being Bush he instantly made thousands of people less inclined to blow up America - myself included.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Sadly the good kharma seems to have been short lived.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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I dunno, I still think he is looked on far more favourably outside the US than he is in it, and the US is far more popular than it was under the Bush administration.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I could make a comment here but that is better for the soapbox.
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I agree it sure wasn't for anything he did!
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I was betting on Benzodiazepine, nothings bought us more peace.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I was betting on Benzodiazepine, nothings bought us more peace.
If it's good at bringing peace, maybe it should be prescribed for all members of the NSA and MIx.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, of course. That could well explain it as they'd probably not want to give too many awards of merit to one person. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Just a thought or opinion.
She is brave and what she did needs tremendous amount of courage which most humans are deprived of.
I was happy when she got EU prize of human rights yesterday, because Education is human rights and she was fighting for it.
But Nobel Peace prize ! IMHO and Wikipedia Nobel Peace Prize is given to who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
What she did was not that. Again this is my opinion.
Thanks,
Milind
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Thanks, Milind. I didn't know they had a specific criteria. Perhaps her time will come another year.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It's not so much a specific criteria, it was the phrase used in Alfred Nobel's will when he described the Peace prize. How they interpret that phrase and apply it is totally up to the judging panel, and the full details of their decisions, who the other nominees were, and so on are not made public for 50 years.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Much as that young lady is to be admired, she really is a long way off deserving a Nobel prize. Mind you, I agree they really fouled up when they awarded it to Obama.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Maybe Obama threatened to invade if he didn't get it.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Leslie has been busy as this was posted several times before.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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