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On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
On 11/20/2022 1:13 PM, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
When they got to about 16 everyone else stopped growing.
I went on a summer camp after I\'d finished school, and there was an
orienteering competition. Which if you don\'t know is a cross-country run
with a map. I came second. Then had to explain that yes, I knew I was
that fit, but no, I did not want to spend my Saturdays representing the
school, I wanted to go sailing instead.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
The slopes will be opening in the next couple weeks, and I am looking
forward to some more serious snowboarding. At 73, I still love deep
powder runs all over the mountain.
I too was crap at high school athletics. Maybe if someone had told me
what the rules were, I could have figured them out. I considered myself
to be completely non-athletic, but did not think about how my water
skiing 30-40 minutes at a time might relate to that until I tried it
after being away at college for a few years.
On 20/11/2022 21:13, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
When they got to about 16 everyone else stopped growing.
I went on a summer camp after I\'d finished school, and there was an
orienteering competition. Which if you don\'t know is a cross-country run
with a map. I came second. Then had to explain that yes, I knew I was
that fit, but no, I did not want to spend my Saturdays representing the
school, I wanted to go sailing instead.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
I loved badminton, pirates and murder ball. Pirates involved one person
having to tig the rest of the class, with all the gym equipment out and
no-one allowed to touch the floor.
Murder ball was the best, one mat at
each end of the gym, a medicine ball in the middle, the class split in
two and each half had to get the ball onto the opposing teams mat ...
there were *NO* other rules. The latter two were banned by the council,
but we still did them at the end of each term.
I played badminton most lunchtimes for years.
Unfortunately, the school was only interested in football - to the
extent that when the pitch was frozen solid and we were at risk of
injury, they kept those on the school team in the gym to keep them fit
for the weekend\'s match and made the rest of us do football outside!
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:13:09 -0000, Vir Campestris
vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
Oh, one of those. You lot are fun to beat up.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
Scuba diving is more fun. Another world under there.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:32:55 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:51:32 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:26:11 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was
not outright ugly.
Cars serve a purpose, they are not meant to look pretty.
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
Do you own an Apple device by any chance?
None.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:19:59 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:32:55 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:51:32 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:26:11 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was
not outright ugly.
Cars serve a purpose, they are not meant to look pretty.
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
Do you own an Apple device by any chance?
None.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/violent-protests-erupt-apple-biggest-034805561.html
So why do you suppose a tax accountant might \"have a heart attack\" when
trump\'s corp did not report it on the W2\'s?
On 2022-11-23, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:
So why do you suppose a tax accountant might \"have a heart attack\" when
trump\'s corp did not report it on the W2\'s?
Payroll tax. It should have been paid on those bonuses but it wasn\'t.
The company saved on withholding and got to write off the checks as
subsidiary expenses. Meanwhile, the executives were able to claim the
checks as freelance income, which allowed them to stash some of that
money in tax-free savings accounts available only to the self-employed.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-organizations-outside-accountant-testifies-011016142.html