If the beer here isn't at -2C then it's not fit to drink Chris. ;-)

Cheers.

Once again, confusion caused by different uses of the English language. I used to believe that "Brits drink their beer at room temperature" line, until I spent a few nights in UK hotels. I now know that what a Brit calls "room temperature" is the same as what a Canuck calls "fresh out of the fridge".

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@Wiggo - Australian lager isn't fit to drink at any temperature!!

Can`t agree on that.

I have brewed australian Lager and it was just great.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Once again, confusion caused by different uses of the English language. I used to believe that "Brits drink their beer at room temperature" line, until I spent a few nights in UK hotels. I now know that what a Brit calls "room temperature" is the same as what a Canuck calls "fresh out of the fridge".

Ah, but during our one day summer, when room temperatures crawl into double digits Celsius we still drink our ale at room temperature....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

... all the freebie shampoos and body lotions, which are crap anyway, but useful for secret santa in the office at Christmas.

You'd want to remain secret if you're honestly giving those as gifts!

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~Sue~

half a bottle - someone's being stingy there

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

half a bottle - someone's being stingy there

BT orifice party what would you expect ;-)

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

I really don't know why people do secret santa, it's so childish and people get embarrassed.

Because, if you genuinely like and are liked by your colleagues, it can be fun...

(And just for the PC record, out here in the People's Republic of Berkeley we prefer the term "Secret Snowflake" over "Secret Santa" to make the game more welcoming and inclusive.)

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Secret scrooge

Secret scrooge

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hehehe

Half the beer would get to warm to drink if we did that. ;-)

And there was us thinking you were speedy professional beer drinkers!

Oh, that's right, most of you chaps drink warm beer. :-O

Yes we do! Because then you get the proper taste of the beer, which is half the point of drinking it. Real ale and Cask conditioned beers should be stored and served at 12°C, and most lagers at 7°C. The reason for that is simply because lagers are crap, and the colder they are the less you have to taste what little flavour they have. But you are getting better, there is some hope yet.

Aussie beer

But then again ...

Oooops

The reason the Brits drink warm beer is refigeration by Lucas

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Lucas are in the automotive aftermarket.

Yes and in the day they were known as The "lord of Darkness"

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Lucas are in the automotive aftermarket.

Yes and in the day they were known as The "lord of Darkness"

My mechanic works on a lot of imports....
He has a number of old sayings about a car 'pulling a Lucas' or having a Lucas switch....meaning intermittent.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Panda-monium at the National Zoo in Washington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqzAfWROH5E&feature=youtu.be

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Rare White Giraffe Spotted in West Africa



http://www.philly.com/philly/news/science/Rare_white_giraffe_spotted_in_West_Africa.html

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~Sue~

Wow! That giraffe is like our blonde raccoon, Snowball.

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Whoever took that picture and advertised it has ensured that animals death. The poachers will have it in months if not weeks. The skin is valuable.

Unfortunately I had the same thought. But maybe it will be safe because
of the many eyes that will be on it. I pray it's so.

I plan to start donating to at least the ASPCA once I get my finances
under control. Also to, probably, the Wounded Warrior Project.
https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

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~Sue~

There are a couple of "charities" that I support, and I do so for free.
The first is The Ecology fund, which is "a way to get new funds for
critical habitat and wilderness preservation using the power of the
internet." All you have to do is visit the site every day and click
on three buttons.

http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html

The next site is actually ten charities that you can support, again, for
free just by clicking on the buttons.

https://greatergood.com/

Nine of these are pre-set for animals, veterans, cancer, etc., but one,
The Greater Good, changes every few days.

It's the advertising that brings in the income for these sites/charities.
That's why it doesn't cost me/you anything to help.

They also have a lot of really nice items for sale that also bring in
money for the charities. But I'm not trying to sell you anything! Just
making you aware. I've purchased items from them.

Please check both of these sites out and help support their causes. And
please share with your friends and family if you don't mind.

I have no personal connections with these sites. I'm just mentioning them
here because they're doing a lot of good, and at no cost to us.

Thanks,

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~Sue~

P L S D said:

I think that lots of trees are thirsty.
The bigger they get the thirstier they are.

GKC said:

They say that the hermit St. Securis, living there among trees, grew to love them like companions; since, though great giants with many arms like Briareus, they were the mildest and most blameless of the creatures; they did not devour like the lions, but rather opened their arms to all the little birds. And he prayed that they might be loosened from time to time to walk like other things. And the trees were moved upon the prayers of Securis, as they were at the songs of Orpheus. The men of the desert were stricken from afar with fear, seeing the saint walking with a walking grove, like a schoolmaster with his boys. For the trees were thus freed under strict conditions of discipline. They were to return at the sound of the hermit's bell, and, above all, to copy the wild beasts in walking only to destroy and devour nothing. Well, it is said that one of the trees heard a voice that was not the saint's; that in the warm green twilight of one summer evening it became conscious of some thing sitting and speaking in its branches in the guise of a great bird, and it was that which once spoke from a tree in the guise of a great serpent. As the voice grew louder among its murmuring leaves the tree was torn with a great desire to stretch out and snatch at the birds that flew harmlessly about their nests, and pluck them to pieces. Finally, the tempter filled the tree-top with his own birds of pride, the starry pageant of the peacocks. And the spirit of the brute overcame the spirit of the tree, and it rent and consumed the blue-green birds till not a plume was left, and returned to the quiet tribe of trees. But they say that when spring came all the other trees put forth leaves, but this put forth feathers of a strange hue and pattern. And by that monstrous assimilation the saint knew of the sin, and he rooted that one tree to the earth with a judgment, so that evil should fall on any who removed it again. That, Squire, is the beginning in the deserts of the tale that ended here, almost in this garden."

G. K. Chesterton. The Trees of Pride

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

I have three two trees growing in my computer room. They're very, very tiny.

(I had three but the f%$#&^# cat ate one.)

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~Sue~