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I am in New Zealand. It is currently 9 degrees C. The shortest day is almost upon us. And youtube decides to show me an add "Sky is out, Thighs are out. Get the most comfortable shorts...." These guys are hiring hoards of marketing people to front a huge team of engineers, data scientists, analysts powered by untold compute capacity at the problem, fed with all the data they can source. Yet they cannot tell the southern hemisphere from the northern hemisphere. Maybe that is a new variable they need to add to their models (once they license the patent I'm about to apply for)
Trust me, it wouldn't work here either:
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Sky is out
Certainly is. Haven't seen it for days - rain, rain, rain ... cold and grey ...
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Thighs are out
No they blooming aren't!
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Get the most comfortable shorts
"Waterproof", and "Ankle length", I assume?
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Trust me, it wouldn't work here either:
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Sky is out
Certainly is. Haven't seen it for days - rain, rain, rain ... cold and grey ...
Quote:
Thighs are out
No they blooming aren't!
Quote:
Get the most comfortable shorts
"Waterproof", and "Ankle length", I assume?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When I went to Rome the heavens opened...
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When I went to Rome the heavens opened...
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Well when I visited Venice the streets were flooded! :rolleyes:
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well good evening from where when it rains it pours (with light & sound show), but usually over in 30 minutes. oh, but one thing we don't get is Winters ... four seasons, all of them Summer, and shorts all year round. :) (and yes, we get ads for winter clothes)
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well good evening from where when it rains it pours (with light & sound show), but usually over in 30 minutes. oh, but one thing we don't get is Winters ... four seasons, all of them Summer, and shorts all year round. :) (and yes, we get ads for winter clothes)
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Blup, blup (from the Netherlands) :-\
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True, it did not rain when I came for a visit. Instead, I was harrassed by the lions in the Colosseum and the Forum. At least they like it when it's hot and dry.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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When I went to Rome the heavens opened...
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True, it did not rain when I came for a visit. Instead, I was harrassed by the lions in the Colosseum and the Forum. At least they like it when it's hot and dry.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I still remember what they told us: "Ok, I want to see some decent sacking and looting activities! Don't stop for anybody or anything! Feel free to burn down buildings when you are done! In case anybody asks, say we are the Vandals!" The Vandals still have the bad name up until today. :-) Anyway, I always thought the Romans took good care of their lions[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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well good evening from where when it rains it pours (with light & sound show), but usually over in 30 minutes. oh, but one thing we don't get is Winters ... four seasons, all of them Summer, and shorts all year round. :) (and yes, we get ads for winter clothes)
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four seasons, all of them Summer, and shorts all year round.
That usually implies insects never die off and can grow large enough to carry off children.
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I still remember what they told us: "Ok, I want to see some decent sacking and looting activities! Don't stop for anybody or anything! Feel free to burn down buildings when you are done! In case anybody asks, say we are the Vandals!" The Vandals still have the bad name up until today. :-) Anyway, I always thought the Romans took good care of their lions[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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well good evening from where when it rains it pours (with light & sound show), but usually over in 30 minutes. oh, but one thing we don't get is Winters ... four seasons, all of them Summer, and shorts all year round. :) (and yes, we get ads for winter clothes)
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I am in New Zealand. It is currently 9 degrees C. The shortest day is almost upon us. And youtube decides to show me an add "Sky is out, Thighs are out. Get the most comfortable shorts...." These guys are hiring hoards of marketing people to front a huge team of engineers, data scientists, analysts powered by untold compute capacity at the problem, fed with all the data they can source. Yet they cannot tell the southern hemisphere from the northern hemisphere. Maybe that is a new variable they need to add to their models (once they license the patent I'm about to apply for)
Around here, in the US South, a lot of guys go around wearing shorts year-round, snow and ice and sub-freezing temperatures be damned. I don't get it, but maybe those advertisers are seeing this in their data.
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Around here, in the US South, a lot of guys go around wearing shorts year-round, snow and ice and sub-freezing temperatures be damned. I don't get it, but maybe those advertisers are seeing this in their data.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Um, every year. Certainly not in Florida, though they've had all three on rare occasions. But in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, northern Alabama and Georgia, yeah, every year.
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Um, every year. Certainly not in Florida, though they've had all three on rare occasions. But in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, northern Alabama and Georgia, yeah, every year.
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But how long does that last? Enough to go for a wardrobe change halfway through the day...?
I wish! Here in Tennessee, we've had 6 or more inches that stayed on the ground for weeks, with temps that stayed in the single digits (Farenheit) for a week or more. That's infrequent, but not rare. Our winters always dip into the teens, twenties, thirties for days and nights on end. Two years ago I had 8 inches of snow in my yard, and it stayed for about a week. The southern US is not in the tropics, some of it is subtropical (barely), but temperate. [Tennessee - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee#Climate)
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I am in New Zealand. It is currently 9 degrees C. The shortest day is almost upon us. And youtube decides to show me an add "Sky is out, Thighs are out. Get the most comfortable shorts...." These guys are hiring hoards of marketing people to front a huge team of engineers, data scientists, analysts powered by untold compute capacity at the problem, fed with all the data they can source. Yet they cannot tell the southern hemisphere from the northern hemisphere. Maybe that is a new variable they need to add to their models (once they license the patent I'm about to apply for)
Well Cairns is in the southern hemisphere and I sit here in shorts and Tshirt. So you need to ad how far from the equator you are to the algorithm. Mind you last week was trakkie daks and ugh boots.
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