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Hoover42

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  1. After an embarrassing incident in 2nd grade involving a locker-room shower, it was downhill from there. :)

     

    I skipped PE whenever possible or otherwise refused to participate, and consequently failed every PE class I was forced to sign up for. I even had to take night classes in high-school to make up the lost credits I needed to graduate.

     

    Fortunately, I did manage to get plenty of exercise because of all the walking and bike riding I did.

  2. The posting of personal experiences with Covid is a good thing. We are all in uncharted waters with Covid, hence every scrap of information has value. Perhaps worthy of an independent thread.

    Great idea! It would be nice to have someplace where folks could post their personal experience with a Covid-19 infection

  3. I was in Istanbul and Bodrum less than a month ago and on return, no problems. ?‍♂️

     

    The 'flagging' thing, I think, is an urban myth at the moment. While the US govt flags a country for issues, they don't flag a person. Perhaps in extreme circumstances, but not as per usual.

     

    Turkey has always felt safe to me.

    When in Turkey, did you feel you had to monitor your behavior to avoid any hint of interest in men?

  4. A few years back they started to name winter storms. There was debate amongst meteorologists about whether to do it, what impact it might have and how to rank them.

     

    Is it time to start naming heat waves? With climate change there will be more and more of them, more intense and longer. They are the direct cause of massive destruction (increase in frequency and intensity of forest fires for example) and loss of life (both human and non-human, both directly and indirectly). Not only the fires, but the smoke that fills the sky are all impacting on health in a mass way.

     

    Severe weather warnings go out now. Would naming them help get people in the mind set to prepare for them, as happens now with tropical storms? And recognize them as possibly needing a federal response, rather than only a local or state response.

     

    https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/melbourne-weather-warning/

    NOAA doesn't recognize winter storm names and likely wouldn't recognize heatwave names either.

     

    Who would use this...The Weather Channel?

  5. I always wear a mask when I go outside now, even when I go out for my very early morning, pre-sunrise, walks. I doubt the risk from not wearing a mask is high in that situation, but there have been a number of occasions when a runner will come racing past me from behind with no mask on. Better safe than sorry!

     

    I actually have also become rather fond of the look :)

     

    On another note, mask wearing for me has turned into a compulsion similar to the one I developed when I started wearing a baseball cap many years ago. I got so attached to that hat that it was practically impossible to get me to leave the house at any time of the day or night without it. It took months to break that habit once I decided to do so, and there are so many more reasons to wear a mask these days.

     

    This is going to be tough habit to break for me.

  6. When I moved to San Francisco in the mid 1980s, both the Castro and "Polk Strasse" neighborhoods had a lot of gay bars. I'm not sure when most of the gay bars in the Polk area closed, but even pre-pandemic there was only one left (The Cinch). Back when I lived in the neighborhood we had The Giraffe (video bar with lots of cute guys), QT (I think some considered this a hustler bar but I went because they frequently had great live music), N Touch (seemed to be focused on Asian and White men looking for each other), Polk Gulch, White Swallow, Rendezvous and I'm sure many more I've forgotten. Not that other neighborhoods in San Francisco haven't lost gay bars, but basically the Polk transitioned from a largely gay district to one with no distinct identity.

     

    Edit: I just remembered another one on Polk -- Kimo's. If I'm not mistaken, this one had frequent drag shows.

    I got a hotel room on Polk street during that era just to be able hang around the street trade for a week. :)

  7. That has to be the quietest trimmer I've ever heard. Was it just too far from the mic for the sound to be picked up or is it really that quiet?

    I think the sound was muffled and obscured by the music. I have one of those lawnmower 3 clippers and it is pretty quiet; about the same loudness as a small electric razor.

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