“All that excess salt is accumulating in lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Nearly 40 water bodies in the Twin Cities already have more chloride than water quality standards allow, said Trevor Russell, water program director for Friends of the Mississippi River. Another 40 or so will soon become impaired, meaning they don’t fully support aquatic life due to high salt levels.”
That seems like more of a serious problem than simply a rant. I’ve never even thought about effects like that.
Some places are using what amounts to fertilizer. Enjoy your algae blooms!
We use beet juice on ours partially to combat the salt problem.
Mmmmm! Beets!
I am 34 years old. Yesterday I attended a Tai Chi class with a 23 year old friend.
Not one, but two little old ladies asked me if I was her mother.
So… what’s the next step here? Midlife crisis? I can arrange that if necessary.
Encourage them to join the 'Dope, where you can have your way with them.
I couldn’t find the thread on bad translations, so I’ll post this one here, because WTF?
This is on a little globe with helicopter blades that will apparently just hover.
Here it is with all the included spacing/punctuation, etc.
More Interesting: Can Let The Aircraft Automatically
Induced By The Suspension In The Child’swith
Both Hands Above, Interesting.
More Secure: The screw is all software, and it can
make sure that the childrenSecurity
Dammit, why did you bother asking how I want my steak, if the chef can’t be bothered to cook it that way? Just because my sister wants hers medium, doesn’t mean mine should be too.
“No, I’m her grandmother! But thanks for saying I look young!”
Then insist that you’re 73 years old and see how long they buy it. 
Okay. That was just weird.
My internal translator rendered that as Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky
Monday my Internet connection went out. This was eventually traced by my ISP’s tech support to a problem with the modem, so they sent me a replacement, which I received today and which is working just fine. In the course of catching up on three days worth of e-mail (and Trumpery), I get a popup from Outlook asking me to enter the password for my main e-mail account. I did, and a few minutes later it asks the same thing again.
I had changed the password a couple of weeks earlier, so I thought that I might have misremembered the new password and made an error updating the account info in Outlook. I went to my account on the ISP site, opened e-mail management, and found that my main e-mail address was now showing as a random number string.
Eight hours and two escalations later, ISP tech support is still trying to figure out what happened and how they can fix it.
There’s a use for beets? :eek:
I… don’t think that means what you think it does.
Of course not. Except maybe in a nice compost. I’ve always wanted a wormery (true story.)
You can mess with them. Give them warnings for grammatical errors. Shove their posts of to other forums. Revenge is a dish best served to confused old ladies.
They’re easy to make. I have one.
Horse food. Or maybe squirrel food, if you’re an urban squirrel.
WARNING: Do not have anything in your mouth when reading this story.
Spice, maybe your 23yr old friend looks like a kid. And, as far as I am concerned go ahead with the mid-life crisis. I am personally working up to early on-set dementia.
I can see getting out of alot of junk crap-jobs I have to do.
Apparently. You know, because “I paid good money for that.”
:smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
An oldie but a goodie!
Its even better when you know just how MUCH those compressed pellets expand!