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Riobard

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  1. Right, the area within which this unfortunate incident took place does look “forest-y”. It seems to be situated within, bounded by, a fairly developed area. An unusual extended pattern of one or more barking domestic dogs apparently figured somewhat in alerting a local that something was amiss. As I wrote previously, I read the word ‘grove’ in one piece and ‘forest’ in another. I think, however, that a grove may be a few acres but would be lacking the extent of underbrush and other vegetation bridging the distance between the taller trees as seen in the images. An addition to the thread less tangential than has already occurred might be the nomenclature of a cake named after a wooded area that has a cherry orchard, cacao trees, and a cow pasture situated within it. Attached are perpendicular vantage points at one corner of the space.
  2. This surprises me somewhat, as I view you as objective and fair. I did not see the member’s post as a comment about duration of membership somehow quantifying opinion merit. Seniority is not a valid chatroom construct. I saw it as a reaction to the temerity of a member with an undeveloped grasp of the board’s code of conduct. Surely by the two year mark it is understood that you don’t utilize knowledge of somebody’s personal information, however obtained, in plotting and urging the board as a collective to sabotage a member’s livelihood, however dramatic a difference in world view associated with the explicit scheming. I would be blowing my lid off, spitting tacks, and I have no objection to any less than ideal phrasing the recipient of the threat may have employed. Nobody should be backed into the position of rebuttal against the type of intimidation that a miscreant gratuitously introduced. Let’s please be clear about who is behaving poorly and is snubbing his nose at anybody calling him out as if he alone possesses impunity.
  3. But an additional $2,000 for the stripper’s half-hour attendance to leap up out of the cake and sensually cleanse off buttercream and fondant in the makeshift shower.
  4. 72 hours is the standard industry cooling off period for the average Bridezilla’s venting of angst and traumatic issues that often have a way of working out without said planner’s 24/7 on-call intervention.
  5. Yeah, I was looking as well. The road identified is Thep Prasit Alley 9, spanning south from the top red bubble and west to the lower red bubble. Plentiful vegetation, denser on the south side where you pinned the bubble where the road veers west, and exactly where the motorcycle rental outlet is depicted in the news-issued CCTV photo released.
  6. Could that mean when we were getting under adults’ feet as children in the far north and our elders said “go play in the bush a spell” it was intended as a patch of nature contiguous with the property and wasn’t truly negligent parenting? This would upend the narrative.
  7. A few local newscasts termed the site a wooded grove, a far cry from, say, the northern boreal. Probably an unintended artefact of the language translation process.
  8. Relax. It was over before it started.😉 And coming from somebody lugging a yalta truckloads of oxygen tanks into the political chattlefield? I can’t activate my camping gas stove pilot light with my phone on without exploding the maple sugar shack. LOL.
  9. Au contraire. Neither is a qualifier that could be described or modifiable as either singular or plural.
  10. Wrong. Viz introduces a specific multilayered entity, the historical context of disagreement upon which a flimsy malevolent suggestion was predicated by a board troll, troll behaviour not unlike your obvious sad misanthropic attempt at provocation, because you have little otherwise worthwhile to go on. Viz modules of English language including the version where “something sucks” is a dangling statement.
  11. Could you possibly be referring to a childish annihilation fantasy?
  12. It’s advisable to delineate your name consistently. If your passport includes a middle name, for example, ensure it is represented on your travel document and financial statement, all three versions aligned. I took care of this early on because there can be a delay between modification and what appears on the document needed for submission. An inconsistency might not pose an impediment to finalization but VFS Global has emphasized this aspect and indicated it is one reason that some applications are stalled in limbo. Don’t worry if an actual debit or credit card is not yet updated to conform to the document. I believe, as well, that the consular adjudication step may be more oriented to the culture of lengthier and consistent name designation than incentivized to let one slip through. That said, at a Canadian airline check-in this decade I was pulled aside for vetting, prior to security clearance, at a separate desk because my passport middle name was not reflected on my flight ticket, associated loyalty points registration, or vaccination document I had in hand.
  13. Yes, some positions seem so contrarian and incredulous as to defy logic. They may tend to stimulate surprise and rancour much more than influence real world outcomes. You have amplified my point by missing the point. It was illogical to opine that someone whose logic escapes you in one matter, however legitimate your perspective in that subject topic, had put forward a defence regarding such logic based on unrelated activities that suggest a win for the overall good of an unrelated constituency. Enjoy your vintage, in enough moderation so as to stay on track. Insinuating that I categorically dismiss, in gaslight fashion, your point of view viz a controversial matter within the domain of a third party’s obnoxious attempt at judge jury executioner status regarding that particular theme, is simply additional manipulative spin. I am on the side of objective logical debate.
  14. Meanwhile, the behind the scene image this brings up of a southwest resident needlepoint master …
  15. No, you don’t get it, besides which “alibi” is used incorrectly. A board member posts points of view that other members disagree with and that other members have the prerogative to refute. Frankly, I don’t follow all the themes related to the discourse among this particular board member and others here because polarized views are part and parcel of social media and often go on at length without resolution. Partisan positions are often articulated clearly and eloquently in the face of opposing perspective and mutually potentially expand thinking among the readership. However, I witness that a board member with his index finger crazy-glued to the downvote key puts forward the strategy that a concrete punitive measure outside the chatroom boundaries be levied against the first aforementioned member, be operated in coordinated fashion by the board membership. We don’t do that here. Such lobbying is nothing short of a temper tantrum. Subsequent to this, the board member whose livelihood is threatened simply indicates that undermining his activities is essentially an own goal due to the negative cascade effect that could ensue. He adds that the sabotaging proposition mirrors the approach taken by the entities the strategy is intended to suffocate. What you just did is assert that that he implied that whatever might be salutary about his businesses justifies his points of view in a separate arena, that they somehow exist in a zero sum equation. This is a fallacy of logic, as if he buys into the notion, for example, that Hitler’s fondness for dogs and babies offsets the egregious. He made no such type of connection whatsoever. He did not suggest that one corollary of his employment structure and activities was the privilege of an opinion. He simply intelligently opposed the shenanigans of another board member whose obvious antipathy and overzealous and usually misapplied cancel-culture bent led to idiotic scheming and a salvo that, as it turns out apart from having no legitimate place here, would lack intended impact.
  16. You just gave away your top missionary position and might consider changing it up. I wouldn’t peg you as a blindfolded bottom.
  17. Qué quoi what now?
  18. It seems to have sprung from a locally well known fromage tour operator a bit west of Montreal. When Trappist monks sell the farm there’s no telling what will evolve including its relation to the smell test and to variety on the in-flight cheese course trolley .
  19. WTAF?! Plotting to sabotage livelihood, egging on other members to do so, is but a shaky and odious proposition. That’s a hard no from me.
  20. With more skilled photoshop aspects than those of a future queen?
  21. Batik Air. Double the travel time double the loyalty points.
  22. Erm, wrong, wannabe coroner & aspiring armchair forensics analyst. About half of hanging suicides are not suspended and death by asphyxiation occurs while standing, kneeling, or sitting, with ligature sometimes fixed below head level. In this case the suicidally determined chap was not using his phone flashlight to find a homicidal mafioso hit person lurking in a roadside grove.
  23. My fingerprints were taken upon arrival and biometrically linked to my passport. I think that if I were somehow discovered dead with my water bottle and phone the authorities could figure out my identity. Of course it’s considerate to be conscientiously facilitative but I suppose offing oneself often precludes optimal organization. Anyway, it turns out the deceased was identified fairly quickly somehow through CCTV footage leads. His planned stay had been set at 3 months and he had 5-6 weeks remaining Incidentally just days before in the area the police intervened with a Russian male planning to leap to his death from a building. At first I thought that he was maybe eventually free to go and take a better stab at it.
  24. East of Saskatchewan, except for PEI, Canadians not on government welfare/disability benefits pay out-of-pocket towards PrEP. All 3 northern territories follow suit with western Canada. The financial incentive of protected sex is an interesting idea. Newly HIV-diagnosed Canadians, east of Saskatchewan anyway, are usually taken aback by the reality of antiretroviral medication costs they incur if not privately insured through employment. Stunned even, as young people don’t usually think about budgeting thousands of dollars for health care while grappling with the crisis of a chronic disease. ——- My paternal ancestors arrived in 1641 in what is now Quebec. I have in my possession the generation tree. I pay out of pocket for my primary care physician and urologist; in Quebec the rates for practitioners opted out of the insurance system and often being the ones you can access without incredible hassle, are unregulated. My medical costs including PrEP are equivalent to at least one trip abroad annually. I’m not in a solid position for grousing because I have more than adequate means to pay and I can take that additional trip if desired anyway.
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