Are Things Getting Weird, or were they Weird Already

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  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    yohan300 wrote: »
    No doubt someone would claim such an event is a harbinger of a climate apocalypse or something.

    It doesn't need harbingers: it's here.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    yohan300 wrote: »
    We have cicadas in the UK too, although only in one forest in the south and they haven't been seen or heard for 20 years. However they also weren't seen from 1941 to 1961 so they could be due a reappearance soon. No doubt someone would claim such an event is a harbinger of a climate apocalypse or something.
    Nobody should be eating something that classified as endangered and possibly extinct. Emulate Wendy Cope and don't eat a Barn Owl either - even though they are very definitely not extinct.

  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    We now have barn owls in NZ apparently. Not sure if they were blown over from Australia or came by more dubious ways.

  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Last night we had a level three thunderstorm come through Eastern Washington. Here is a link to some pictures of the storm. There was some definite rotation to the clouds, though no funnel appeared. We were very lucky.
  • I suppose it depends on how you define weird. In 24 hours, without leaving my home in southern Ontario, I watched the launch of a space ship in Florida as it happened, I watched the International Space Station in orbit above our house, I joined a church service in Scotland with friends, and now we've watched the ship arrive at the space station.

    In 1957 my father came home one morning after his night shift at the radio monitoring station to tell us he'd been listening to the first signals from Sputnik 1.

    It's been interesting so far. Whatever next?
  • The Raptu
  • LOL, BF. I see what you did there.
  • Since "the righteous will inherit the earth", in the Rapture wouldn't it be the unrighteous who are taken away ....
  • Yes - which is why I have been Sent Back...
    :innocent:

    There was a bit of a mix-up with the paperwork, it seems.
  • Problems with paperwork ... a sign of the return of normality
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 2020
    No - I gather the duty Recording Angel had had to take a flight to a certain heavenly beauty spot, to test his eyesight, and was delayed on his return by the Celestial Police.

    His junior couldn't cope, being troubled by a peculiarly un-angelic hairstyle flopping over his eyes, and getting into his ink.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I don't know about anyone else, but I for one am very pleased there was an administrative cock-up circumstances beyond our control causing BF's rapturing to be postponed. :mrgreen:
  • Stercus Tauri... Oddly, I was "at" St Columba Pont St yesterday.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Since "the righteous will inherit the earth", in the Rapture wouldn't it be the unrighteous who are taken away ....

    Silly Shippies. Don't you know the Rapture already happened?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 2020
    No, no - it was all a Dream.

    Ah know this, because the Lard revealed it to me in a Dream...and Ah am now a-prarphesying in the name of the Lard...glary be!

    CHEESE, anyone? Ah have some nice ripe Stilton...
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    CHEESE, anyone? I have some nice ripe Stilton...

    Ooo! Transport it my way, there's a dear boy. Stilton, the cheese of the gods. :relieved:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... Stilton, the cheese of the gods. :relieved:
    Oh dear - I rather hope not. If I give you my share of the Stilton, could I have Jarlsberg instead? :smiley:
  • We need another cheese thread. I had just been thinking how good it would be to find some Pont l'Évêque again. Heavenly is probably not the right description as it smells like a toilet that needs to be cleaned, but the taste is quite out of this world.
  • The Raptu

    Who clicked "Post Comment"?
  • Since "the righteous will inherit the earth", in the Rapture wouldn't it be the unrighteous who are taken away ....

    Actually it's the meek.
  • And, to bring this discussion together, we must not forget, "Blessed are the cheesemakers".
  • The Meek. Sounds like an insufferable and earnest folk music group.

    Like SCTV's spoof group The Ramblers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vti4Ymo_toc
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    mousethief wrote: »
    Since "the righteous will inherit the earth", in the Rapture wouldn't it be the unrighteous who are taken away ....

    Actually it's the meek.

    If the rest of you don't mind, that is.
  • And, to bring this discussion together, we must not forget, "Blessed are the cheesemakers".
    Do they make cheese from the milk of sheep or goats?
  • mousethief wrote: »
    The Raptu

    Who clicked "Post Comment"?

    My sister, glad to see me Gone...

  • And, to bring this discussion together, we must not forget, "Blessed are the cheesemakers".
    Do they make cheese from the milk of sheep or goats?

    Yes.
  • The comma after 'sheep' went missing, I think...
    :wink:
  • The comma after 'sheep' went missing, I think...
    :wink:

    The goats probably ate it. Bloody things eat anything.
  • Huia wrote: »
    We now have barn owls in NZ apparently. Not sure if they were blown over from Australia or came by more dubious ways.

    According to this, individuals have arrived in a variety of different ways, so the origin of those currently present isn't clear.
  • The comma after 'sheep' went missing, I think...
    :wink:

    The goats probably ate it. Bloody things eat anything.
    And, the goats roam the streets of our towns. Weird
  • Add solar flares to the list.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Add solar flares to the list.

    My dad who was an amateur radio operator looked forward to the solar activity years. After flares finish the upper atmosphere is further ionized and radio signals can zip to most corners of the earth. It was about the only time his signal could reach India or Antarctica.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Huia wrote: »
    We now have barn owls in NZ apparently. Not sure if they were blown over from Australia or came by more dubious ways.

    According to this, individuals have arrived in a variety of different ways, so the origin of those currently present isn't clear.

    I didn't realise they counted as native. I learn something new every day. Good job they didn't go from here to Aus as they could find themselves in a detention Centre as illegal aliens. :wink:

    Apparently during the lock down NZ Birds Online had far more hits than usual. Probably people checking on some of the birds that explored new places like the centre of Wellington without people - which would be a vast improvement as far as the birds were concerned.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    And now, the third named hurricane is forming off Mexico, due to hit the Louisiana coast in three days.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Isn't that a bit early for hurricanes?
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Isn't that a bit early for hurricanes?

    June to November, isn't it?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I was probably thinking of Atlantic Canada, where they don't (usually) start until July or August.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    We need another cheese thread ...
    Do feel free to start one upstairs! :)
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    So far, none of the three storms have made it past Tropical Storm status. Not as bad, but still not great!

    Yes, Hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30. Tropical storms don't seem to be too concerned about the humans' calendar, however! :joy:
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