The No Topic Thread

[Nue2thegame]

29 minutes ago, Charlie said:

What to do with it? I have started going through the shelves in my late partner's home office space, and I discovered numerous folders of photographs he had taken over the years in places he had visited. I am not interested in the photos, and I don't think anyone in his family would be interested (he was an architect and they are mostly of buildings that caught his eye), so I bit the bullet and threw all the folders in the trash--the trash bin was so heavy I couldn't lift it, and had to wheel it to the curb. I feel slightly guilty for throwing it away, but someone would have to do it eventually because I don't know what anyone else would do with it. Next I have to start on all the pages he cut out of magazines and newspapers.

When I was younger, I saved all of that thinking it would make it easier for my biographer. Alas, it doesn’t look like I’ll have a biographer and I have little inclination to go back and look at my own stuff. There must be many landfills full of people’s junk, dead and alive. 

[Nue2thegame]

3 hours ago, Thomas_Belgium said:

Do vegans swallow?

It’s only permissible for vegans to swallow another vegan’s. 

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

6 hours ago, Charlie said:

What to do with it? I have started going through the shelves in my late partner's home office space, and I discovered numerous folders of photographs he had taken over the years in places he had visited. I am not interested in the photos, and I don't think anyone in his family would be interested (he was an architect and they are mostly of buildings that caught his eye), so I bit the bullet and threw all the folders in the trash--the trash bin was so heavy I couldn't lift it, and had to wheel it to the curb. I feel slightly guilty for throwing it away, but someone would have to do it eventually because I don't know what anyone else would do with it. Next I have to start on all the pages he cut out of magazines and newspapers.

You could contact a company that can scan all the photographs and store them on the cloud. 

But, personally, I would just dispose of them.  The feeling of freedom from clutter could outweigh the other feelings of indecision.  As for newspapers and magazines, I'm sure the local library already has them all scanned if you ever need to lookup those articles again.

[Thomas_Belgium]

21 hours ago, Nue2thegame said:

It’s only permissible for vegans to swallow another vegan’s. 

 

Oh yes I'm a vegan, squirt squirt.

Bottom swallows & asks "How long are you vegan".

Top answers: "Ten seconds maybe?".

[+ APPLE1]

On 4/17/2026 at 1:11 PM, Charlie said:

What to do with it? I have started going through the shelves in my late partner's home office space, and I discovered numerous folders of photographs he had taken over the years in places he had visited. I am not interested in the photos, and I don't think anyone in his family would be interested (he was an architect and they are mostly of buildings that caught his eye), so I bit the bullet and threw all the folders in the trash--the trash bin was so heavy I couldn't lift it, and had to wheel it to the curb. I feel slightly guilty for throwing it away, but someone would have to do it eventually because I don't know what anyone else would do with it. Next I have to start on all the pages he cut out of magazines and newspapers.

The hell with the papers! The burning question in my mind @Charlie is did you get rid of the snow shovels, or are you still preparing for another brutal Palm Springs winter? 😉 

[+ Charlie]

2 hours ago, APPLE1 said:

The hell with the papers! The burning question in my mind @Charlie is did you get rid of the snow shovels, or are you still preparing for another brutal Palm Springs winter? 😉 

Mike Carey's comment convinced me that it would be foolish to get rid of the snow shovels, so I'm saving them---just in case. (After all, if we do have a blizzard, where does one acquire snow shovels in Palm Springs?)

[mike carey]

Front page of Saturday's SMH, marking the paper's 195th anniversary. Quite the image.

[+ azdr0710]

1 hour ago, mike carey said:

Front page of Saturday's SMH, marking the paper's 195th anniversary. Quite the image.

a subtle, clean, unpretentious photo of the harbor.......saw the caption indicating 2004 as the photo date and wondered where the Opera House was.....ohhhh, there it is........refreshing to see it not front and center, to be honest....... 

[mike carey]

10 hours ago, azdr0710 said:

a subtle, clean, unpretentious photo of the harbor.......saw the caption indicating 2004 as the photo date and wondered where the Opera House was.....ohhhh, there it is........refreshing to see it not front and center, to be honest....... 

The Opera House and the bridge are the iconic images but their prominence obscures that the harbour itself is the real star. I find the bridge in the foreground, the Gladesville Bridge, to be quite spectacular in its own way.

[Luv2play]

I hadn’t realized there was so much water surrounding the suburbs of Sydney. A lot of nice waterfront properties for those lucky to be living there. Is it safe to swim in the water or are there sharks?

[mike carey]

21 hours ago, Luv2play said:

I hadn’t realized there was so much water surrounding the suburbs of Sydney. A lot of nice waterfront properties for those lucky to be living there. Is it safe to swim in the water or are there sharks?

People do swim in the harbour, there are popular beaches and swimming areas, and it is safe, generally, but yes, there are sharks and attacks even deaths are not unknown. As in most things, safe and unsafe are not binary alternatives.

[Thomas_Belgium]

Condoms will get more expensive, I use a lot of condoms (solo). Would you like a review of the condoms I use?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/worlds-top-condom-maker-karex-to-raise-prices-sharply-as-iran-war-strains-supply-chain/ar-AA21omF2

 

[BigDMike]

Little rant....

I wish that when I put a city into RentMasseur...it would sort by people actually listed as their home city...or give me that option.  If I'm searching local, yes you can use "location based" but if I'm traveling to a city and do a search, it'll come up with everyone that not only originates there...but also services that city and that distance could be an hour away.   Kind of annoying.  Would be nice if they added more sort/filter options...

[MikeBiDude]

25 minutes ago, BigDMike said:

I wish that when I put a city into RentMasseur...it would sort by people actually listed as their home city..

10,000 + I wish there was a way to filter out “travel” to a city and only show “home”.