Farmerslife

1 hour ago, Homburg said:

How do they imagine that approach will "prevent further spread" of a parasitic disease spread by mosquitos? 

It's a bit of a vicious circle.

When you get infected with the malaria parasite from a mosquito bite, subsequent mosquitos that bite you will, in turn, be infected by the parasite now present in your blood. They will then go on to bite other people and infect them.

 Early detection and treatment should reduce the amount of time infected people continue to spread the parasite. 

I would think if you just used the expression with him that you used in your original post " I think it's great he's free" then that would be enough. 

 If your brother wants a conversation with you on the subject then allow him to instigate it. 

 Good luck to him, it has clearly taken a lot of courage for him to open up about his true feelings.

Given the subject matter, I should add that I remember Mary Hopkin's "Those were the days" 

Appropriate, I think 😄 

Road sweeps with their cart and brushes

The smell of coal when the coal man delivered

Pea soupers

Embassy cigarettes 

Parade magazine 

Scarlet fever

The winter of 63

Tangerines at Christmas time.

England winning the World Cup

The bomb craters on Belmont downs

The spittoon in the public bar of the local and the sound of a direct hit.

Paraffin heaters

Kent having a good cricket team.

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Sure, the search function resembles a drunken monkey flinging metaphorical feces,

I like this line. Though admittedly, I had to wade through the rest of your post to find it.

I love Linda Ronstadt. 

Parkinson's took an angel away.

What's the fuss? 

The royal "we" has been around for a couple of centuries. 

Just to clarify that's "we" not "wee" . That said, the royal "wee" has been around even longer.  

Sorry, I should have highlighted this from the above text

3 minutes ago, Farmerslife said:

After you sign in to your Google Account, you’ll get instructions on how to directly upload a valid ID or enter credit card information. Google will never ask you to provide this type of information in an email.

I found this on a Google search

Update your account to meet age requirements

To manage your own Google Account, you must meet the minimum age requirement for the country associated with your account.

If we have learned that you may not be old enough to manage your own account:

You’ll have 14 days to either set up supervision for your account or verify that you’re old enough to manage your account. During this grace period you can log in and use your account as normal.

If your account is through work, school, or another organization, your account may not be eligible for parental supervision. If that is the case, your account will be disabled immediately. You should contact your admin if you have questions.

If you choose not to set up supervision or verify you’re old enough to manage your account within 14 days, your account will be disabled and your account information will be deleted after 30 days.

Important: If your account is disabled, content you've published will be hidden. For example, YouTube videos you've created won't be visible while your account is disabled. If you re-enable your account it may take up to several days for your content to show up again.

Set up supervision for your account

If you're not old enough to manage your own account, you can have a parent use their Google Account to set up supervision so you can continue using your account. You have 14 days after you entered your birthdate to enable supervision before your account will be disabled. After your account is disabled, you have 30 days to enable supervision before your account will be deleted.

Tip: Supervision can't be set up for a Brand Account. You’ll need to delete or change who manages your Brand Account before you can set up supervision.

Verify you’re old enough to manage your account

If you meet the minimum age requirements, you can use a government ID to verify your age. You may also be able to verify your age with a credit card.

If you use a credit card, any temporary authorization will be fully refunded. If you upload a copy of your ID, your ID will be securely stored, won’t be made public, and will be deleted after your date of birth is successfully verified.

Important: After you sign in to your Google Account, you’ll get instructions on how to directly upload a valid ID or enter credit card information. Google will never ask you to provide this type of information in an email.

Use a government ID

Use a credit card

Check the status of your request

Download data from your account

If you’re waiting for your account to be re-enabled or you can’t re-enable your account, you may be able to download and save account data from some Google Services.

Within the first 14 days, you can sign in to your account and download your data.

If your account has been disabled, you may be able to download and save account data from some Google services.

Delete your Google Account

If you don't want to add supervision or verify your birthdate, you can choose to delete your Google Account before it is disabled.

2 minutes ago, HuskerDo2 said:

I never have to enter my DOB. Just ID and password. Never had a problem.

True. It does look odd but they do seem to be tightening up recently.

I also got the the same message that you did about dormant accounts.

It looks as if you may have entered your date of birth incorrectly or perhaps left it blank.

They have withdrawn your email account until you confirm that you are an adult and not a minor. 

The last time I was in Sin City, I was having a drink in a Nana Plaza bar (purely out of idle curiosity, you understand) which offered me the most extensive bar menu you could imagine.
Beers, spirits, liqueurs, cocktails, soft drinks. All clearly priced. They even listed the price of a Lady Drink and a BJ (whatever that was? ????)
As the BJ was priced at a modest 250 baht , I was tempted to try one but my fellow drinking companion that night, an Anglican vicar, who seemed a lot more acquainted than I with these matters, dissuaded me from ordering one.
  Next time, perhaps.

45 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Where have our signatures gone???

Bob's postman's got them. 

They come in handy when he needs something signed for.

Vacuum tubes - now you're talking!

And let's not forget the Facit calculator. Great fun!

15 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Im partial to a few English style pork pies and a bit of mustard if I can get them M&S 

God, pork pies!

Terrible, terrible, terrible things and I absolutely love them! I would quite cheerfully kill for a pork pie these days.

Long before the advent of PCs and mobile phones, let alone Anki, my father adopted a rather more scattergun approach to extending his vocabulary.  

 On winter nights, when he couldn't work on his beloved garden, he would simply open his dictionary at a random page and alight upon a word he was unfamiliar with and record both it and its meaning to memory.  

Prolixity, Mr.G? Is there a concise version of your OP?

I fear my presence on this thread is but that of an ultracrepidarian. 

I once had the phu yai baan "vouch" for me with the tax office. 

 By way of compensating him for his time and help, I gave him a basket of fresh fruit and vegetables from our farm. He seemed happy enough with that. 

On 6/28/2023 at 7:57 AM, Lacessit said:

You could try planting vegetables which are not prone to insect attack, or grow them where insects can't get at them.  For example, I find it hard to imagine insects attacking chili, garlic and okra.

From my own experience, chillies are particularly prone to fungi and okra is severely plagued by the red cotton bug. 

We only grow garlic in small quantities for personal consumption, so I can't really say, but at one crop a year they're not really viable for us. 

On 3/14/2022 at 4:33 PM, BritManToo said:

After 2 years on Finasteride (5mg every other day) along with Nettle root (1/day), I'm almost cured of prostate problems. Really, 1 month or even 2 isn't long enough time to tell if it's working for you. 

It's been 15 months since you offered me that bit of sound advice. Thank you. 

 As a way of avoiding a surgery that I dreaded, I have carried on with taking the Dutasteride. More in hope than expectation but gradually matters have improved.

 I was skeptical that the medication could actually shrink my prostate but after a year I've reached the holy grail of only getting out of bed once a night and that is without having to consciously monitor my intake of liquid during the later part of the day.

One thing I have noticed, although it took me a while to realise what was happening, is that my bladder, or prostate perhaps, is severely irritated by MSG. Eating out would be followed with a bad night of maybe 4 or 5 visits to the loo.  

 Thankfully I quite enjoy cooking at home so that is not a hardship for me but on the occasions when we eat out I always ask for MSG to be omitted but with mixed success. For some cooks it is just habitual and others will have marinated their food in it anyway but I will soon know later that night how successful my request was. 

 It's worth bearing in mind though as MSG is used so heavily here.  Omitting it might help some others.

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This is written for the benefit of the creditor rather than the debtor but it covers the process quite informatively.

Making your own is fun and, of course, you can put whatever you like on it. Sauerkraut, pilchards, M&Ms for all I care. You're the one who is going to eat it.

I'll admit I usually cheat by buying the bases from Makro. (Thin & Crispy for me, I don't like stodge, but each to their own.)

 After that, it's make my own tomato sauce, add cheese and whatever toppings I fancy, though that doesn't include any of the ones I mentioned above ????.