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Commented on Cough Cough
I don’t get what all the fuss is about. Isn’t that the famous „spirit of the Blitz“ everybody was invoking? The plebs can stay in London and die, while the gentry sits safely in their country homes?...
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Robert Prior commented on
Cough Cough
Guess I won't be taking this up as a hobby Dunno about hemp, but retting flax smells absolutely disgusting....
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timrowledge commented on
Cough Cough
Dunno about you but “retting flax” looks like a pretty good swear-phrase to me. “What the retting flax are you poffering about, you slurpulent gimboid!”...
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Heteromeles commented on
Cough Cough
I suspect that retting in general smells pretty disgusting, since you're basically rotting off the soft tissues and trying to get to the cellulose fibers before they get broken down too. That's technology for you....
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Scott Sanford commented on
Cough Cough
I suspect that retting in general smells pretty disgusting... I imagine these assholes in Liverpool stunk quite a bit by the time they got home, too. I have sympathy for people whose arts and crafts project makes a mess; these guys, no....
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JohnS commented on
Cough Cough
SFReader @ 1406: Re: 'And I got a set of speakers.' I've been looking for speakers too since getting my new laptop - terrible audio. What brand/make did you get? On the way home from Batteries + Bulbs (where I got the new batteries installed in my UPS) there's an Office Depot. I got the only set of computer speakers they had; Logitech Z313. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/speaker-system-z313 I don't need anything fancier than that for my Photoshop computer....
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