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WCDT strips 4156-4160 (16th to 20th December 2019)
Near Lurker:
"Buying a boat" is definitely a middle-class cliche; cf. Us.
BenRG:
Okay, things are starting to approach the territory known as 'mistakes were made' and not necessarily the hilarious sort! I'm not expecting Steve to end up marrying anyone but I am expecting Marten to come to a decision or two about which he should really have consulted with Claire first! Can you say "Double Wedding"? I thought so. Either Marten will wake up with a ring in his pocket or he will bring home Steve, Dora and Tai to insist that Claire must do it because "you're so perfect together"!
I'm starting to wonder if Claire is listed on Tai's 'phone as "Cinnamon Roll, Perfect"! I used to think that they didn't like eachother but now I see that Tai clearly admires Claire's personality and drive!
Meanwhile, I'm wondering just how much stuff Claire will get in gift baskets that she'll never use or even be sure what it's for! Still, at least Bubbles is enjoying the fancy coffee!
awkwardness:
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--- Quote from: thedevilissix on 15 Dec 2019, 07:02 ---If our country can’t have a Naval ship named Boaty McBoatface in spite of popular poll opinion, may I offer it up as an option for Marten and Steve?
I feel that way true justice will be served. 8-)
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I still find it hard to believe that that actually happened and I'm under 40yo.
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It didn’t. They named the ship itself the Sir David Attenborough, but named one of the boats upon it Boaty McBoatface as an appeasement measure :lol:
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I meant that 'Boaty McBoatface' became the most popular name.
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It actually was...click on the "Most Loved Overall" tab
JoeCovenant:
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--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 16 Dec 2019, 10:26 ---
:::Thinks about it...:::
:::gets nowhere:::
...
:::Looks up Phoenix Metro Area on Google Maps:::
Ah! Right! Quasi Desert!!! :)
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Nothing's quasi about it. Sonoran Desert, in fact.
And yes, many people die of drowning in Arizona, but not because of all the backyard pools in our major cities.
There's this thing called "flash flooding" that happens in arid environmenTS like ours.....
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:)
I was using the Kalahari scale!
:)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 16 Dec 2019, 21:19 ---People drown in Arizona because it typically only rains during what they call monsoon season. During that time, quick building strong rain storms can drop a ton of rain in a short time. There are also a lot of crossings in Arizona called 'washes' where the road is either at ground level or close to it in dry riverbeds. You can easily go to an urban center and get caught out, meaning on the way home you might have to cross one or more of these riverbeds. If you misjudge the current or get too cocky, you end up a statistic as your vehicle is washed downstream and shredded.
Quite a bit of the blame is on the Arizona government for not properly building safe crossings. It is a lot easier and cheaper to just put signs out warning about the low water crossings.
I can recall when I was growing up and still living in south Arizona near the Tohono O'odham nation reservation, a couple of times I was almost a statistic. One was when I was 10 or 11 and my aunt came to visit. She took me to Tucson for some reason and on the way back she decided to shoot across a wash in her 65 mustang after she saw a larger truck go through it. The car started drifting to the left from the water pressure and we just barely made it out because she had hit the water fast, ending up in the opposite lane. Another time was when I was with my family in our ltd station wagon about a year later. We had went to town for groceries and I was sitting in the back in the flip up seats. My grandfather was generally pretty good at judging the washes, but we got hit by a small surge as we were going through and the car stalled. The back of the car where I was started taking in water through the semi open rear window. Some of our grocery bags were sucked out and I was lucky I had my little waist seat belt on. Some people on the other side noticed and were able to wade out to hook up our front with a chain, pulling us out.
Rushing water is scary and extremely dangerous. Sadly a lot of people find out only too late.
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Funny you should say that...
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