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If the wind turns we'll have to evacuate. 
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The fire is under control since eight o'clock.
Four firefighters are at the hospital.
Save a thought for those real heroes of our society!
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modified 24-Jul-16 18:26pm.
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Well if you will holiday in hot countries... 
You should try Wales one year. We don't have forest fires because all the rain just puts them out... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every country suffers Elemental disasters:
Some have fires
Some have floods
Some have hurricanes or typhoons
Some have earthquakes
(The really unlucky get them all )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You forgot the Plague of Locusts!
(Otherwise known as my elder brothers family)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plague of Locusts
Weren't they all mugged by the mosquitos? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nah - they all moved to Scotland years ago!
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You know, Sweden is a really booring country. For good and for bad.
We have extrordinary few elemental disasters. Or any other disasters.
Which of course is a problem in itself, because when the sh*t does hit the fan, no ones prepared, and the blaming circus will start.
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Been to Wales, and it was lovely. Except for Snowdonia we had mostly sun for two weeks.
And great food aswell!
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If you can't see the top of the (mini-) mountain in Holyhead*, it's going to rain.
If you can see it, it's raining.
* My spell-checker doesn't recognise the place, maybe because it's changed so much.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Where are you?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Outside Blanes in Catalonia.
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It seems like the fire is under control now, they've been having thirteen helicopters and aircraft flying around here.
My son was amazingly unimpressed by Dusty Crophoppers twins. 
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He was probably hoping that Thor would drop by and deal with it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Re your update. I am a volunteer firefighter. (Too old and wise to climb on a truck, so I work in command/communications.)
We feel deeply for any injured colleagues anywhere in the world. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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My cousin has been a firefighter almost his whole grown life (soon going into pension).
Until this date without any bigger mishaps, but the knowledge that the next alarm can be the last will always remain in the mind.
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In many parts of the world bushfires have become ever more frequent and intense. We have them every Summer (and in Winter an inquiry) and last year a number of lives were lost. Firefighters work is becoming more dangerous as these fires get worse. Waroona Fires[^]
Glad that you have remained unaffected.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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More than 1,000 at prom for Wisconsin teen choosing to die[^]
She has such a horrible disease. That all these people turned up is... just.... amazing.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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there is good in the world - sometimes you have to look a little harder to find it
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A beautiful, touching story, a nice antidote to the funereal music of the darkling political circus now unfolding its second tent in my troubled native land half-way round the world from where I am now (and, culturally, half-way round some kind of universe).
thanks !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Restored faith in humanity?
We can't be having that!
So I'll add that 80% of them turned up, took a selfie, and then buggered off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I myself wondered just how many of them were there simply for the publicity.
I mean, the girl herself stated she didn't understand why they were looking up to her. It's a brave decision to make, for sure, but when most people denounce others who 'give up, and don't fight', it seems strange to see people and 'celebrities' turn up for something like this.
Call me pessimistic, but I'd wager most there were just opportunistic vermin...
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: That all these people turned up is... just.... amazing.
I agree, it is wonderful. But it is not amazing. Things like this happen very often. You just have to remember that there is more good than bad in this world.
 for raising the level of the Lounge with something worth reading.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I was searching to see if MS had fixed the Godawful mess they'd made of text boundaries in word 2016.
Text results gave me fold after fold of marketing garbage and wumaos, so I switched to images (it's a very, very visible eyesore, after all).
This[^] result was on the second fold.
I'll tell ya, these search engines just keep getting smarter and smarter.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I found that actually to be a great read!
The same eyes that once ignited with passion in casual conversation hollow into an abandoned motel kind of vacancy. The same things that once tasted sweet spilling from your rambling tongue become topics that have you searching for emergency exist before even entering the building.
That summarizes quite well my experience at a social event yesterday.
I asked this guy who I hadn't seen in a while "so, what have you been up to?" He took so long contemplating the question (there are some real deep thinkers in this Anthroposophical community here  ) that I said "never mind, if it's taking that long to come up with an answer, I don't want to hear it."
It felt good to say exactly what I was thinking.
Marc
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