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Did he have it on auto?

Sep 11, 2017 4:54PM PDT

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Not a lot of news there, eh??
Sep 11, 2017 5:08PM PDT

Come over here where we have riots, murders, hurricanes featuring flooding and looting. We also have a president that can't do anything right. I wish we could trade our news for that of legal battles between man and monkeys.

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Hijacked again.
Sep 11, 2017 5:37PM PDT

This was just to checkout the "Speakeasy crew".
Dafydd.

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(NT) "wales"? Who ever heard of "wales"?
Sep 11, 2017 9:59PM PDT
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Not biting again Doug.
Sep 12, 2017 4:50PM PDT

Please use capitals when posting my countries name.
Dafydd.

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Without the cap it's the joke.
Sep 12, 2017 8:43PM PDT

Let me splain. Small country; the most exciting news is about a monkey trial [US history reference]; therefore who ever heard of it?
[Would have been better to ask "What is a wales?"]
Oh, well. I guess intellectual humor doesn't travel well to ... What was that place again?
Besides, I'm the guy who knows about Fluellen, the history of the Marches, what a March IS anyway, Owen Glendower [the real P of W], and like that. You need me!

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Fluellen?
Sep 14, 2017 2:04PM PDT

"You need me"? No I don't think so. Llewelyn Is not pronounced as you wrote. As for marches think Wales/Hereford borders.
Dafydd.

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We discussed that once.
Sep 14, 2017 4:14PM PDT

No doubt Shakespeare mis-heard the Welsh pronunciation. Just the way we Yanks spell Hartford and Clark.
Marches come up often in British history also, usually being fought over.

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You could have said Sue-Ellen.
Sep 14, 2017 4:53PM PDT

At least that would given us Dallas. As to Shakepeare, a Mid Summer Nights Dream according to legend, was when Shakespeare visited (allegedally Clydach) gorge, 3 miles from me.
Was according to legend, where it was written. I think we discussed this before.
Dafydd.

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If we need news.
Sep 11, 2017 7:03PM PDT

Look up the Purple Mattress lawsuits.
Also the KANOA earphone company collapse after they offered to pay for a good review (didn't go well.)

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Foam Mattress
Sep 12, 2017 9:51PM PDT

I agree with this statement by Tuft and Needle.

"whereas other brands are forced to mix and match layers using traditional materials like memory foam and latex. These are then labeled “premium”- a marketing trick used to hide the drawbacks of stacked layers.

Fact: Individual mattress layers compete with each other when stacked. As a result, the specific benefits of each layer are often canceled."


True, the firmest side MUST be on bottom. If you put the less firm side down to use the firmer side, then that entire half of the bed slopes downward toward the heaviest person. Also, all these foam mattresses are too hot, which is why they now are pushing that green looking copper infused version, to wick away the excess heat. Sleep on one means being too hot on bottom, even if still too cool under the cover part. We ended up putting a thick cotton quilt between the bed surface and the bedsheet. Next bed will be back to a spring type. Don't buy foam that's more than 2-3 inches thick and those are on spring beds.

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The Purple Foam Mattress lawsuit.
Sep 12, 2017 10:35PM PDT
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(NT) That the mattress that killed Prince?
Sep 13, 2017 10:43AM PDT
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Just watched a fake news news article.
Sep 13, 2017 10:53AM PDT

This is how such stories start?

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Link about the fake news news generation.
Sep 13, 2017 11:10AM PDT
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Great. I learned about Veles some time ago,
Sep 13, 2017 1:35PM PDT

and then forgot it.
Notice the statement from the new Macedonian régime, starting with "We will undertake an initiative to initiate a global coordinated effort..." That guy could make more money as a PR flack in the US.
Pop quiz: What is the name of the country of Macedonia?
Now, for the dark side. Ordinary people everywhere are prone to knee-jerk reactions to headlines, photos, and first paragraphs. I wonder what story, started by a Mikhail just for his next BMW payment, will tip us all over the edge? See you in the streets.

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My phone is slow today, so I stopped waiting for
Sep 13, 2017 2:20PM PDT

the purple link to come up. Not a concern of mine, because our Tempurpedic is still more than satisfactory, nearing the 20-year warranty mark. We use it as stated in the instructions, and it is comfortable. In those days, before others had got around Tempurpedic's patents, there was only their foam mattress, full price cash. We never regretted it.

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Please don't let Willy see that "phine".
Sep 13, 2017 2:23PM PDT

I'll be the laughing stock of the boardroom.

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Here's the Purple Mattress Lawsuit
Sep 12, 2017 10:11PM PDT
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Just now did a basic Kanoa search.
Sep 13, 2017 2:09PM PDT

Several reviews, including a rave from cnet in January 2016. Also a San Jose Mercury News article, late last month, about its collapse.
Good thing I'm not an early adopter.
A sad tale.

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Here's the video that killed it. Allegedly
Sep 13, 2017 3:20PM PDT

They offered 500 bucks for a positive review.


Somewhere everyone's favorite copyright attorney goes over the wreckage but it's eluding me.

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Come to the valleys.
Sep 12, 2017 4:56PM PDT

I'll take you on a night out that would curl your hair if it isn't already curly. You don't think we have those?
Hurricanes not so much but the rest, yea.
Dafydd.

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My imagination gets the better of me at this
Sep 12, 2017 5:23PM PDT

invitation. I'm a timid soul in older age so I'll pass. All I can think of is the possibility of meeting up with a lot of hard drinking battle scarred men who don't sip tea and speak politely. Not for me...so sireee.

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Not many miners left now Steven.
Sep 12, 2017 5:49PM PDT

But the local pubs would be full of mineworkers and steelworkers. Gambling was rife in the pubs on paydays. People would lose cars/wages etc. then the fights would start
I was never part of this culture.
Dafydd.

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What about "sea coalers"
Sep 13, 2017 2:35AM PDT

anything still wash up on the shore or down from the pits that people scrounge? I don't know of such folks other than from Scottish folk songs but must think Wales to have some people engaged in the same activity. Where I live, the "pubs" are for "yuppies" sipping craft beer. Fights happen in the "after hours" bars but laser sighted 9mm handguns rather than fists are the weapon of choice. If you see a green or red dot appear on your body, you've got no time to waste.

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And don't forget, Dafydd's environs practically
Sep 12, 2017 8:46PM PDT

invented things that go bump in the night.

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Real news from the peninsula.
Sep 12, 2017 9:36PM PDT
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monkey see, monkey do
Sep 13, 2017 2:41PM PDT