Knives are pretty tame here considering people have guns. Also pretty stupid to draw a knife because it would tempt the other person to draw a gun if they're carrying.
That would hurt your back lugging one of those around though. Far more reasonable to carry a bazooka.
Yeah. It's moving slowly enough and I'm far enough inland that it'll probably rain like crazy here but shouldn't cause wind damage. I'm 100 miles from shore so not in worst danger. They haven't fixed the broken dams and bridges from the big rain storms two years ago though... So not looking forwards to more heavy rain. I'm on high enough ground I should be safe though. Bottled water was already swiped from the shelves in every store by the weekend though. Can't find any anywhere. Got plenty of booze at home though.
... and now hurricane path has changed overnight and it's coming dead on towards me. Perhaps ironically, there is a town near me called Florence that is right in the path of Hurricane Florence. I guess it was meant to be. Still... I'm inland enough it won't be a hurricane when it gets here because it is moving so slowly. Eye won't reach me until the weekend. Tropical storms can be nasty too... Had several of them. City will get flooded again, but shouldn't be bad where I am (floodwise).
Florence was my mum's name - she was a force to be reckoned with as well. Hope you don't get flooded - we don't want to see Milk Float away (one for the oldies). Seriously, I hope it all passes safely. We live in such a relatively stable part of the world, it's hard to imagine the risk of your house blowing away on a frequent basis.
Interesting story I heard on the radio this am. An old doctor's case study. He was called to do a house call in the middle of the night. He arrived at this young man's house and the man revealed he had his penis stuck in the narrow opening of a pint bottle. The doctor tried to get an explanation of how he managed to get his penis inside in the first place but the man at that point was unwilling to talk while he had his penis stuck. So the doctor broke the glass and noticed that the man's penis was singed too. The man then explained what happened. In the middle of the night he needed to pee. Not wanting to get up in the cold and go to the outhouse (he didn't have indoor plumbing), he peed in a bottle. The bottle he chose was an unfortunate one. It already contained potassium and oil. It isn't explained why the man had this in his possession... But potassium is very reactive to air and water so was stored in oil to prevent it reacting. As the man peed in the bottle, his urine made contact with the potassium and caused the potassium to violently react. As part of the reaction his penis got sucked into the bottle with large force (large enough force to suck it through the rather small opening)... The reaction also explained the burns on his penis. The doctor afterwards tried to duplicate the experiment (using his finger not penis) by using a similar bottle with potassium, pouring in urine... And just like the man's penis, the doctors finger got sucked in and singed. So, the moral of this story is don't pee on potassium stored in a bottle.
Thank you. I'm honestly not too concerned, (for myself at least). I'm on top of a hill and the winds wont be hurricane force by the time they reach me. I wonder if anyone in Florence is called Florence that will experience Florence. My biggest concern is getting to work Monday if the place is flooded. Last major flooding all routes to the office was blocked by flood water... And working in a hospital they expect everyone to be there... Even if we're not medical staff.
I do own 3 kayaks... . Don't know if I want to paddle 25 miles to work through polluted flood water. There is a "water treatment plant" a little upriver... I'm sure there will be some nice poo in the water after this... And worse. I probably won't hit the water for a month or so until the rivers are cleaner again.
Nice day here today at the moment. Relatively cool compared to recent temps... Only 85F (think that's about 30C)... Feels a lot better than normal 85f though because of the stiff fresh breeze and unusually low humidity. Beginning to get lots of really heavy cloud cover moving in though to ominously predict the storm that will probably reach us tonight.
I note that Lawro gets all the tough opponents in his prediction league competition on the Beeb. This week he is up against that giant repository of football knowledge and wisdom that is, er..... Mark Wahlberg.
Agree, what's the point of him going head to head with personalities that haven't got an igloo about the teams or the game. Garth Crooks team of the week is another waste of time, he chooses them on Saturday evening when most weeks the best teams are playing Sunday and Monday night. The BBC football dept is overloaded with people getting paid for nothing but trivia, meaningless crap like the above and dreaming up stories that can be peddled about Man Utd.
And just to prove the last point in my previous comment. "Lukaku explains his 'Let It Snow' boxer shorts 14 Sep 2018 From the sectionMan Utd Romelu Lukaku tells Dion Dublin why he was wearing Christmas-themed underpants during Manchester United's 2-0 win over Burnley in September. Watch the full interview on Football Focus on Saturday at 12:00 BST on BBC One."
