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It's good to see another Python fan on here. That's a beautiful bird you've got there, olbriar. It keeps getting "corrected" to O'Brian, which I solved by using the checkmark. Recently I saw someone with a parrot, I think, on her shoulder. It was yellow, green and red, relatively small. Whatever sound it kept making was not one I'm likely to associate with parrots. Then the light changed and she walked across the street with the bird still on her shoulder. About a year before that there was a trucker who was traveling with his babies, a couple of female macaws, I guess. They were also called guacamayos. One was largely red and the other more blue and green. They were large with long tails and they could be noisy. Apparently he had had them since they hatched close to twenty years ago, in an incubator. Meanwhile, for anyone who is interested in cleaning out containers that had jam, jelly, peanut butter, etc., just fill with water and detergent, put the lids on tightly, shake, shake, shake, and leave for as long as possible. Upside down probably helps some. Years ago I saw a suggestion for an "experiment" to show kids how hard it is to remove the last bit of pb. What it really amounted to was an excuse for oil companies and such not to be required to clean up their mess because it's too difficult and expensive. Farfetched, isn't it? That's what I thought, too. Somebody would have to go pretty far to compare the two and thereby fetch a reason for polluters to go on polluting with no consequence except the natural kind. Well, I'm off my soapbox for now...
 
As timing would have it - my main fondness is for squirrels, two in particular over separate periods, and now another group, all around Richmond, London.

I write this from a Hospital ER waiting for a shot having been heavily bitten incessantly by a lone squirrel at a central location, Chelsea, I don't frequent much anymore. He didn't like it when I had no more nuts.

Two other ladies were there waiting with family in ER, bitten deeply by the same squirrel.

We're all waiting for IV or Oral Antibiotics as they are disregarding rabies.

I had gone back to check the squirrel was alright after he caused a child to scream with I thought an accidental scratch and had then ran to a tree outside a mall.

When the last peanut was gone he jumped around me and bit me several times deeply and wouldn't let go. One lady had been bitten on the calf for four minutes.

Something badly wrong with that squirrel, very sadly. He had tried on occasion to bury a nut between a brick wall and a concrete slab. I thought he was just stressed and alone.

Sad for him. I didn't hurt him but had to eventually throw him off my hand with a foot.
 
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Are you sure the squirrel doesn't have rabies? I've heard of a squirrel banging on a screen door at maybe 5 am to get fed, but not actually biting people. People get that way too sometimes. At least it's not that antelope (I think) who got addicted to tobacco and would butt people for not giving him butts.
 
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Hardly. Probably as naughty as pirating an mp3. They don't like you doing it because they can make money off recycling. Yet my council claims it costs them money to recycle, so they look the other way when people take stuff. By taking it away and repairing it, you are recycling it yourself, so you tell the judge that in court and he'll let you off.



I recycle because I want to, not because it's the law. If it's not easy to recycle, I don't. For example I'm supposed to washout food containers and put them in the plastic/glass bins, I ain't washing out jam jars and margarine containers, they go in the landfill. And anything not collected from my door by the binman to recycle, in the waste bin it goes. I've even been known to chop stuff up with an anglegrinder to get it in the waste bin instead of driving to the recycling centre with it.



Put it on full power, the hottest most powerful longest wash in the options. Use more detergent, stick in two tablets or three. Use rinse aid, on full setting. Make sure there's nothing stuck in the jets. I end up with sunflower husks stuck in the little holes, as I wash the parrot dishes in there.
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Actually, if you are in the USA, it probably IS illegal for you to remove anything that was dropped off at an electronics recycle.

Yes, there is the issue of theft, due to the intristic value of whatever may be there.
Also, due to the EPA classifying many of the contents of such devices as hazardous material.

This is really no different than taking something out of a Goodwill dropbox, no matter what you are going to do with it.

Don't forget that many, if not most of these places are under surveilence.

Of course, there is also the aspect that much recycle actually gets tossed right into the regular trash- even at recycle places.

This really peeves me.
If they want me to waste time, effort, and resources to rinse out food containers, then they can actually do it instead- they have employees and make money from the stuff.

Now they claim that they are not making money from it.

That just proves that their system doesn't work.

Either the stuff has value or else it does not.
If they cannot make a profit from something valuable, then their system is what is not working.

I remember when they made us buy the trucks and recycling plants by raising taxes.
More taxes to get each household a tiny recycle box that they insisted must be stuffed in a certain way- or else they would refuse to pick it up.

I would watch in disbelief as the duff in the truck would dump the entire, carefully organized box right into the truck.

Then found out (multiple times) that the recycle company was in trouble for taking the recycle to the same dump with all the other trash.

Now they pack barges with this crap, and send it to other countries where it piles up and causes grief there instead of here.

All this plastic crap needs to stop, but paper straws are stupid (and worthless).

What needs to change is how things are put together and how they are packaged.
People will cry that everything will cost more.
Because of inept leadership, we are already paying much more and always getting less.
But eliminate the recycle system, and use that money to change food packaging.
Food packaging should be biodegradeable, just as the contents are.
Have electronics set up so that the reuseable things are separated from the rest and easy to remove.

This alone could reduce throwing out things that could be fixed by, let's say, replacing a removeable panel that contains the frequent failure points.
New panel in, old panel goes to the manufacturer for reuse or to be parted out.
I imagine that this could even save manufacturers money in warranty repairs/replacements.
 
Those are excellent ideas. I hate to see waste. It sure is easy to find. Just walk down the street. The other day I saw a pile of clothes and evidently the plastic drawer that formerly held them. I hope somebody put them to good use...
 
I worked at a facility on the mainland in the outer skirts of town. Every year for about a week, the trees would be full of small green parrots, lots of them.

And just as they showed up, they were gone.

Was really a sight to see.

FYI, it is illegal here to take anything out of the dump/recycle centers.
 
Darn if that thing didn't go off again yesterday, but I just let it run. I guess it's done but the light on the far left is still on and I don't know if I want to mess with the breaker. I might have to, though.
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olbriar said:
I think it's indicating that the wash is done. Opening the door and closing it will likely shut it off.
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Not having a go at you specifically because loads of people do it, and I catch myself doing it too. Why do we use "that" everywhere? Your sentence was "I think it's indicating that the wash is done" which means precisely the same as "I think it's indicating the wash is done" - the word "that" is superfluous.
 
I'm a Kansan and that is exactly how we talk around these parts. :)
No matter how it's stated, I hope that it in some fashion helps. After all, that was the reason for posting in this thread.
 
That you decided to say that was irrelevant, the problem is that everyone in the whole world thinks that it's ok to say that all the time.

Still not as bad as some Americans who think it's rude to say in an instructional video "undo the left screw" instead of "now what you're gonna wanna do next is undo the left screw".
 
I am not a Grammer Nazi and absolutely detest them. But I prefer people to speak in a simple sensible way, usually against the "rules" of English. For example, I hate the word "fewer" - it's absolutely pointless.
 
Call it what you wish: calling out people in the OT section of an Android forum because you can’t stand the way they write is a sign of someone who is struggling with significant issues. Perhaps control, perhaps anxiety, perhaps…

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This is a pretty chill place, there’s no reason to get all uppity (particularly when you aren’t following all the grammar rules yourself).

Have you considered the Calm app? It’s available for both Android and iPhone.
 
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I opened the door and that last light was at last extinguished. I hope that's the end of it. If it happens again I may have to resort to the breakers.
 
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