Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

I'm rather enjoying the various social media captions for this genuine photo. Not sure what team he plays for.

 

[AndyRM]

The Cardinals.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Cardinals.

The baseball bat could be a cardinal number.

 

[briantrumpet]

@PurplePenguin will be happy to know that I didn't tell Mr Cunliffe that it was just as well he didn't use the word 'ediface' in his Stone Roses panegyric (go on, look it up... you know you have to now).

 

[briantrumpet]

WTAF? What was so wrong about the Sunday evening phone call from the communal payphone??

 

[Pblakeney]

WTAF? What was so wrong about the Sunday evening phone call from the communal payphone??

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When I moved to Canada in my early 20s my only contact with home was snail mail postage and a phone call every 3 months or so.
Freedom!

 

[briantrumpet]

Who knew? 😲

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Göring

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

WTAF? What was so wrong about the Sunday evening phone call from the communal payphone??

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I bang on about this, parenting by my generation and the one above does seem to be a little too 'hands on'. All of my friends seem to need to constantly fill their kids time and track what they are doing constantly (out of a sense that they are doing the right thing). I do worry that long term it inhibits a child's ability to think and act for themselves.

 

[briantrumpet]

When I moved to Canada in my early 20s my only contact with home was snail mail postage and a phone call every 3 months or so.
Freedom!

Flying snails, or did they swim?

 

[First Aspect]

When I moved to Canada in my early 20s my only contact with home was snail mail postage and a phone call every 3 months or so.
Freedom!

Don't forget the prepaid Telus long distance phone cards.

I have to say, phone tracking of anyone of university age really surprises me.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

I have to say, phone tracking of anyone of university age really surprises me.

It's downright creepy.

 

[Pblakeney]

Flying snails, or did they swim?

Flying snails that still took over a week to travel.

 

[Pblakeney]

Don't forget the prepaid Telus long distance phone cards.

I have to say, phone tracking of anyone of university age really surprises me.

I can't forget as I am completely unaware.

 

[briantrumpet]

Even in the late 1990s in France, I relied on either airmail, or 'télécartes' to use in public phone boxes. And yes, of course I did that thing with parents, of doing one ring and then hanging up to let them know I had arrived, without the expense of an actual voice call.

 

[briantrumpet]

Following on from a euphemistic comment or two on the CC daily thread, did this get covered here? I had a feeling it had been in the news recently again...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

Ejaculation data from Down Under​

An Australian study of 2,338 men examined the impact of sexual factors on the occurrence of prostate cancer before the age of 70. Like the Harvard research, the Australian investigation evaluated total ejaculations rather than sexual intercourse itself. Like the American men, the Australians who ejaculated most frequently enjoyed a reduced risk of prostate cancer. The effect was strongest for the frequency of ejaculations in young adulthood, even though prostate cancer was not diagnosed until many decades later. Even so, the apparent protection extended to all age groups. In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70 than men who ejaculated less than 2.3 times a week on average.