I've filled up a 5x10 storage unit, a 10x20 storage unit and had a POD (like a shipping container) delivered today ... hopefully that's ALL I'm going to need to move my stuff.
I can't believe how much STUFF is in this house and how little of it I can get rid of.
]]>Although if you're doing that #freeTheNipple is probably more fun.
And definitely more fun that what JohnS is going through. "wow, bus tickets from 1985! I wonder why I kept those?"
]]>Now, explain to us, based on the cited Wikipedia entry, Norway's claim to the island.
I was wondering that myself (as I've never heard of it, but as Moz said, it's Denmark making the claim now. However, Greenland used to be a Norwegian "colony", but when the union between Norway and Denmark was dissolved in 1814, Greenland went with Denmark. Note that Norway itself was not a party to the treaty which dissolved the union. Fast forward to 1931, and Norway makes a claim for Erik Raudes land, an uninhabited part of Greenland. The World Court ruled against the claim in 1933 though, and since then us Norwegians have to be content with other "colonies" such as Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Bouvetøya, Dronning Mauds land, et cetera.
I actually saw Norway listed as the "most colonial country" in a foreign textbook due to the number of offshore holdings we still have claim on. Nevermind that several of them are uninhabited former whaling stations...
]]>Doesn't Russia have a coal mining "thing" where they control a small area of Norway?
Just to keep all things totally complicated.
]]>I prefer Freedom Pasties.
Although if you're doing that #freeTheNipple is probably more fun.
And definitely more fun that what JohnS is going through. "wow, bus tickets from 1985! I wonder why I kept those?"
I am SO TIRED of packing things into boxes. It's really tiresome just moving back & forth between the shelves & the table where the boxes are sitting. I put the table near where the first group of shelves is (was), but it's a pain to relocate the table every time I get to a new book case. And hard on my back. You accumulate a lot of books in 48 years.
I've learned that a box full of books weighs less than the same size box full of magazines (lots of DIY articles I still need to get a round TUIT for).
If I can remember the bus trip at all, I can remember why I kept the tickets ... if I can't remember the trip, those old tickets are going into the recycle bin ASAP. It's amazing how much shit you can accumulate in 48 years and how little of it I can throw away now.
But the other stuff I've found ... like two brand new in the box IBM PS/2 click keyboards up on the back of a closet shelf. I thought I'd used up all of those I had. I remember buying them at a local computer show for $2.00 apiece. I bought every one of them that vendor had.
Don't know why I put them up there where I couldn't see them without using a step ladder (which I had to do emptying out that closet).
]]>Is that something that happened since Cornish Pasties got PGI status?
Actually, is that still a think in the UK since Brexit?
]]>I strongly suspect that the UK is going hard on "get rid of stupid EU regulations" without bothering too much about what they do. Although they did recently cancel the big bonfire of the sanities (there was some deadline for removing all EU based laws and parliament finally worked up the guts to say they couldn't do it by then). So maybe copyright will survive (but Shakespeare didn't need it, why should you...)
At the risk of crossing the streams even more, a London tour guide just did a thing on traditional theatre (J Draper "Why We Can't Do Plays Like Shakespeare Anymore") that mentions the lack of copyright and she habitually wears a corset. A proper one, not a "just stab me now" one.
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]]>One more < and we have an actual link. (and one of Jill Bearup's armour review grades/taglines is "just stab me now")
]]>That other usage of pasties reminds me of Tom Waits.
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