SOMETHING BIG GOING DOWN TONIGHT (VANITY)

August 2, 2013 | Hostage

[moose07]

Morning T-C.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning!

None of my family has stirred so far. Bill and Tom are having a territorial dispute: Bill’s on the sofa.

[Darksheare]

Yeah.
Especially delayed burst or overhead burst shots.

[GeronL]

“beetroot” “opaque”

That is racist against these here Opaque-Americans! You think all Opaque-Americans like beetroot?

:p

[Tax-chick]

I’ve heard Brits like beetroot. Is that racist? We Americans (is THAT racist?) call them “beets,” the “root” part being understood.

Do Brits call carrots “carrotroot”?

[Anoreth]

They make inflatable ones that fit in a bag and therefore in my car.

Looks like about $500 for a reasonable quality one and then maybe another hundred for paddles and so forth.
Can paddle around the bay down the road from my house and look at birds.

[moose07]

Carrots are Carrots.
The root name is used to separate the Beetroot from the Sugar beet, known as Beet.
Beetroot is the original name of the veg in Europe.
Sugar-beet came along later.
If a Farmer is growing ‘Beet’ you know it’s Sugar-beet.

[moose07]

Have you ever used an inflatable Kayak?
How about a small

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[Anoreth]

No but it can’t be that much different from a regular kayak.
Whatever I get needs to fit both in my tiny house and in my Subaru, which is not actually a truck despite outward appearance.
Plus I move somewhere even smaller like an apartment in the future I still need to store it somewhere.

[moose07]

Okay, but please have a test drive before you buy.
I’ve used them and they eat energy.
They are stable but flex all over the place in any form of swell.
Hopefully things have improved over the last few years.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks, that’s informative.

[Tax-chick]

Okay, that was funny.

[Tax-chick]

but please have a test drive before you buy.

Sounds like extremely good advice to me!

In other news, the last load of campers' (and others') laundry is in the washer. I could have gone to the Friendly Christian Laundromat and done it faster and with less stress, but I didn't think about it until it was too late.

[moose07]

I need to *share* that for a moment or two. :)

[KC_Lion]

Yes, No British Battleships survive today, not even Warspite or Ramillies.

I have a Naval Warfare Capability book that dates from 1986 and it has the Section about the Iowa Class, in the end paragraph it bemoans how the British Got rid of Vanguard as it could very easily had a second life in the 80's and steam and cruise with the Iowa's just like they did together in the 50's.

[moose07]

Sad eh?
They would be worth their weight in gold as a tourist attraction.
Warspite holds a special place in British folklore.
If you look up her antics at Jutland and when she was sent to the breakers yard, you may see why.
Being the flag ship for some of the large profile Admirals helped, but the two above sealed the memory.

[Mad Dawgg]

"That is racist against these here Opaque-Americans! You think all Opaque-Americans like beetroot?"

You seem stressed

so here:

[Tax-chick]

LOL!