Ha ha... Thank you Pierre for my morning laugh.

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My latest game comes from the "Fallout" franchise.

I have played the Fallout games starting with Fallout 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7a1GVlC9SM
Then Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4.
Now Fallout 76 perhaps:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FGaan35s0
"In vault 76 our future begins"
I think Fallout 3 was the most entertaining where the game start being born in vault 101 and first growing up and going to school before you go out in to Capital Wasteland and District of Columbia.

'Are we supposed to pick up the phone and then do it?' Hilarious footage shows two teenagers completely baffled by a rotary telephone when given four minutes to make one call

* Two American 17-year-olds were challenged to make a call on a rotary phone

• They were told to dial a single number within a four-minute time frame
  
• Neither had used an old-style handset before and had difficulties with dialling
  * The bamboozled pair did not know to pick up the receiver before starting to dial

The four minute video is embedded in the article

Kevin Bumstead filmed the video which featured his nephew Kyle and son Jake.

He said: 'I saw a video similar on YouTube and I thought it would be funny to see how my kids and their cousins handled this challenge at Christmas. So I divided them up by age group (24, 22, 22) (19 & 19) these 2 (17 & 17) and (14 and 12) and gave them the phone number and 4 min to dial the phone.

'These two were the most entertaining and they took the longest and sort of figured it out.'

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The average British teenager is much worse. :-)

In that case, use the current excuse: Brexit's fault. :-)

They certainly aren't any better from what I have seen. It seems to me that in the UK it's mostly down to schools dumbing down education and exams to maintain pass levels to secure future funding. That and junk TV and heads stuck in iPhones and iPads. Meanwhile youth clubs and organisations are closing down through lack of members.

They are not dumbing down education, they are dumbing down the pupils. They are taught, this is the way to answer this type of question, no "thinking outside the box" allowed.
When we were at school if you didn't think outside the box, and find a solution, you failed.
It's not those two boys fault, the fault lies with the teachers, and the parents who think schools should do all of the teaching, for not allowing or teaching pupils to think for themselves.

P.S. If you do teach your kids to think for themselves, some teachers classify you, the parent, as a trouble maker.

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

Blin:) It looks like a pancake.
Have to be Grey Aliens making those.

They certainly aren't any better from what I have seen. It seems to me that in the UK it's mostly down to schools dumbing down education and exams to maintain pass levels to secure future funding. That and junk TV and heads stuck in iPhones and iPads. Meanwhile youth clubs and organisations are closing down through lack of members.

They are not dumbing down education, they are dumbing down the pupils. They are taught, this is the way to answer this type of question, no "thinking outside the box" allowed.
When we were at school if you didn't think outside the box, and find a solution, you failed.
It's not those two boys fault, the fault lies with the teachers, and the parents who think schools should do all of the teaching, for not allowing or teaching pupils to think for themselves.

P.S. If you do teach your kids to think for themselves, some teachers classify you, the parent, as a trouble maker.

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

Uh, it is called teaching to the standardized test. Very effective when your bonus is based on the test result.

Owner gets stuck up tree trying to rescue own cat

A pet owner had to be rescued from a tree after climbing it to free her missing cat.

Marie Parry spent "three days of searching and no sleep" after Harry the tabby disappeared from her home in Fareham, Hampshire.

When she found the bedraggled moggy in a back garden she climbed the tree "by instinct" to comfort him before getting stuck herself.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said the pair were rescued using a ladder.

For Annie, and everyone.

Yes, even birds need a hand.

Kind man helps pigeon quench its thirst at water fountain
January 18, 2019

Steven Pesantez, a kindly man waiting for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City, helped a pigeon get a cool drink from a water fountain in a cute new video. As Steven wrote on Twitter, “I saw that my mans was thirsty so I decided to help him out.”

https://nypost.com/video/kind-man-helps-pigeon-quench-its-thirst-at-water-fountain/

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Awwww :) that's brilliant, Lynn! Thank you for posting it :)

Norman Greenbaum at work. :-)

So I was just looking at my outside webcam from here at the computer, and I noticed a small package on the front porch. I had ordered two little packs of lined post-it notes on Saturday, and lo and behold, they were apparently delivered overnight! I looked on my Amazon account, and it says they were "handed to a resident" at 12:22 AM - That's half past midnight on a Sunday. I don't have any special account with Amazon. I don't have Prime. The package doesn't even indicate it was shipped UPS. It appears Amazon delivered it directly. The night delivery is strange, too. All for two little post-it note packs. I'm not complaining. It all just seems strange, and the fact they said "handed to a resident" is odd, too. They didn't ring the bell or "hand" it to me.

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So I was just looking at my outside webcam from here at the computer, and I noticed a small package on the front porch. I had ordered two little packs of lined post-it notes on Saturday, and lo and behold, they were apparently delivered overnight! I looked on my Amazon account, and it says they were "handed to a resident" at 12:22 AM - That's half past midnight on a Sunday. I don't have any special account with Amazon. I don't have Prime. The package doesn't even indicate it was shipped UPS. It appears Amazon delivered it directly. The night delivery is strange, too. All for two little post-it note packs. I'm not complaining. It all just seems strange, and the fact they said "handed to a resident" is odd, too. They didn't ring the bell or "hand" it to me.

Amazon now has 24/7 delivery. When a delivery is made they text my phone. I have no idea why they incorrectly noted "handed to resident".

Well, it's just amazing to me. I got a good price on the post-it notes, and free shipping. I feel like they lost something on this deal, lol.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

So I was just looking at my outside webcam from here at the computer, and I noticed a small package on the front porch. I had ordered two little packs of lined post-it notes on Saturday, and lo and behold, they were apparently delivered overnight! I looked on my Amazon account, and it says they were "handed to a resident" at 12:22 AM - That's half past midnight on a Sunday. I don't have any special account with Amazon. I don't have Prime. The package doesn't even indicate it was shipped UPS. It appears Amazon delivered it directly. The night delivery is strange, too. All for two little post-it note packs. I'm not complaining. It all just seems strange, and the fact they said "handed to a resident" is odd, too. They didn't ring the bell or "hand" it to me.

Amazon now has 24/7 delivery. When a delivery is made they text my phone. I have no idea why they incorrectly noted "handed to resident".

Well, it's just amazing to me. I got a good price on the post-it notes, and free shipping. I feel like they lost something on this deal, lol.

I should say also that there's another part of my order which is a couple sticks of deodorant, and they are apparently coming Wednesday. I wonder why they didn't wait and package both orders together?

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Never heard of this before... To paraphrase the narrative of the article "Today's young women are dating / looking for a potential husband more so based on his educational degree, not so much on how much he might be the 'bread winner of the family'."

Dear Educated Women, Blue-Collar Men Can Earn Great Livings

The U.S economy is aching for many more highly skilled, technically trained people. But what if men end up limiting their eventual marriage prospects if they pursue careers in the trades or other jobs that don’t require a four-year degree? Some proportion of women who have bachelor’s and post-baccalaureate degrees avoid romantic involvements with such guys, holding out for those with B.A.s, M.B.A.s, or J.D.s. Which is to say, they seek potential husbands who have degrees that are more generally esteemed than those earned in a year or two. Same with the kinds of training acquired via apprenticeships or in the armed forces.

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Amazon now has 24/7 delivery. When a delivery is made they text my phone. I have no idea why they incorrectly noted "handed to resident".

Which means that they now have 24-hour delivery people (meaning human beings) - unless the webcam caught a passing drone? [I haven't heard of those being active yet].

I wonder what the working conditions are?

Ah, AMZL strikes again.

unless the webcam caught a passing drone?

Interesting thought. ;~) I'll have to look back on my recording.

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