Just for fun...

[Jeremy McCreary]

A fine sunny 67° day in SoCal to celebrate the close of a difficult chapter in my life: The missus mistakenly bought 2 quarts of fat-free half & half for my coffee. Yes, fat-free.
;^}

And being one who hates to waste food, I had to use it up. Is putting the FAT-FREE part in fine print some kind of cruel prank?

Unable to fathom how there could possibly be such a thing as fat-free half & half, I read the label. At bottom, you're just replacing milk fat with corn syrup — lipids with simple carbs.

I'll take my chances with the fat, thank you.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

 

[kevinmccune]

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A fine sunny 67° day in SoCal to celebrate the close of a difficult chapter in my life: The missus mistakenly bought 2 quarts of fat-free half & half for my coffee. Yes, fat-free.
;^}

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And being one who hates to waste food, I had to use it up. Is putting the FAT-FREE part in fine print some kind of cruel prank?

Unable to fathom how there could possibly be such a thing as fat-free half & half, I read the label. At bottom, you're just replacing milk fat with corn syrup — lipids with simple carbs.

I'll take my chances with the fat, thank you.

the second or third biggest farce and deception foisted on the American taxpayer( big AG!we subsidize higher priced inferior fuel-Lobbyists are number 3 on the "splaining' group backing up the line at the "Pearly gates"( move over Shakespeare)

 

[Chargeride]

Ah Mc Intyre, he was genuinly funny for a long time, but then just got annoying with completely staged audience involvement saturday night tv.

Millions may disagree with me

 

[Chargeride]

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A fine sunny 67° day in SoCal to celebrate the close of a difficult chapter in my life: The missus mistakenly bought 2 quarts of fat-free half & half for my coffee. Yes, fat-free.
;^}

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And being one who hates to waste food, I had to use it up. Is putting the FAT-FREE part in fine print some kind of cruel prank?

Unable to fathom how there could possibly be such a thing as fat-free half & half, I read the label. At bottom, you're just replacing milk fat with corn syrup — lipids with simple carbs.

I'll take my chances with the fat, thank you.

Palm trees make everything around them beautiful.

 

[DaveMatthews]

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Palm trees make everything around them beautiful.

Couldn't agree more! Thanks to the Gulf Stream, I believe you have quite a few palms in SW England, too.

Surprised to learn that the tall skinny palms in my photo — so iconic of SoCal now and much beloved by all — aren't even native to California...

A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California

Despite the diversity and ubiquity of palms in the Los Angeles area, only one species, Washingtonia filifera, is native to California. How then did the palm tree come to represent Southern California in the popular imagination?

www.pbssocal.org

How they stand up to our windier Pacific storms is beyond me. But they do drop a lot of old-growth litter onto bike lanes, streets, and sidewalks in high winds — sure-fire sign that a storm's passed through.

Some palm porn, shall we? Around the perimeter of Kellogg Park in La Jolla Shores.

Clusters of these shorter palms in unexpected places often mark springs where groundwater's been forced up along faults. Hence the 29 Palms and 49 Palms oases in the densely faulted SoCal desert to our NE.

Here they mark the major Rose Canyon-Newport-Inglewood Fault as it runs offshore at La Jolla Cove. Capable of an M7.5 if the whole thing were to rupture at once. Fingers crossed!

Encinitas city park above Swami's Beach, so named (officially) for the large old Self-Realization Fellowship temple nearby.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

I beg to disagree on the wonderfulness of palm trees. They provide almost no shade, no food (except some might provide coconuts or dates, if you are lucky), not much habitat for wildlife, and little in the way of regenerative debris (like fallen leaves) to enhance soil. They don't even provide amusement for children in climbing them or branches to hang a rope swing.

They are a mirage.

But can we just keep this thread to fun things and not grousing and politics (as she finishes her grousing... )

 

[6zfshdb]

Around here, people like to read them.

 

[Chargeride]

Couldn't agree more! Thanks to the Gulf Stream, I believe you have quite a few palms in SW England, too.

Surprised to learn that the tall skinny palms in my photo — so iconic of SoCal now and much beloved by all — aren't even native to California...

A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California

Despite the diversity and ubiquity of palms in the Los Angeles area, only one species, Washingtonia filifera, is native to California. How then did the palm tree come to represent Southern California in the popular imagination?

www.pbssocal.org

How they stand up to our windier Pacific storms is beyond me. But they do drop a lot of old-growth litter onto bike lanes, streets, and sidewalks in high winds — sure-fire sign that a storm's passed through.

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Some palm porn, shall we? Around the perimeter of Kellogg Park in La Jolla Shores.

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Clusters of these shorter palms in unexpected places often mark springs where groundwater's been forced up along faults. Hence the 29 Palms and 49 Palms oases in the densely faulted SoCal desert to our NE.

Here they mark the major Rose Canyon-Newport-Inglewood Fault as it runs offshore at La Jolla Cove. Capable of an M7.5 if the whole thing were to rupture at once. Fingers crossed!

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Encinitas city park above Swami's Beach, so named (officially) for the large old Self-Realization Fellowship temple nearby.

Its actually more the NW coast, even up into scotland, this is Plockton, way up into the highlands.
Loads of people have hardier palms around here in their front gardens.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I beg to disagree on the wonderfulness of palm trees.

The palms earn their keep by being a source of joy to everyone I know — even the smaller varieties in many local yards and gardens (including our own). Can't explain it, but it's real. No need to do anything else for us.

But it's not an either-or. Plenty of other kinds of trees here to enjoy for what they have to offer.

If you really want to get technical, palms aren't even trees in the scientific sense. They're more akin to bamboo.

 

[PedalUma]

I was in a bike shop and a tech said, 'Cool, you have Bill Gates' watch. Too bad that guy gave his wife VD from Epstein exploits with children.

 

[PedalUma]

just deposit a quarter. In the slot to make it go.

 

[PedalUma]

If I had a Toyota Tacoma I would make it into a Taco Mama. It could even be a Toy Yoda Taco Mama.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Cool, you have Bill Gates' watch.

Casio Duro is a good watch.

 

[Catalyzt]

Palm trees make everything around them beautiful.

As everyone else noted, they are not native to California, and my better half-- who was born and raised here, though my friends say she talks and acts like a New Yorker-- keeps threatening to rip ours out of the ground. I love it.

I beg to disagree on the wonderfulness of palm trees. They provide almost no shade, no food (except some might provide coconuts or dates, if you are lucky), not much habitat for wildlife, and little in the way of regenerative debris (like fallen leaves) to enhance soil. They don't even provide amusement for children in climbing them or branches to hang a rope swing.

They are a mirage.

But can we just keep this thread to fun things and not grousing and politics (as she finishes her grousing... )

Not quite true. If I am doing curls with dumbbells in the backyard on a hot day, it is possible to stand in the tiny shadow of the palm in our front yard-- just barely, and not for long.

The three animals that love the tree are rats, squirrels and lizards. The rats we could do without, but the other two are welcome.

Casio Duro is a good watch.

It is, and there's a good reason these have a huge cult following, but the only Casios (or quartz) that I wear are solar. I love not having to open the case! If you have as many watches as I do, and rotate through them a lot, you can ride, ski, body board, and swim with one for 20 years without having it serviced at all.

Also, generally, if I'm wearing a solar/quartz watch, it might as well have a chronograph. I time everything.

 

[Chargeride]

I cant wear jewellery or a watch, I fiddle with things till my brain breaks.
I'll undo the strap ten thousand times a day, or spin a ring endlessly and then mentally spin every ring shaped object I see.
I had an early Sony palm mobile, you pressed a button to release the mic and clicked it back to close, wore it out completely in a year, had to remove the arm and put the mic in the body to stop myself doing it.

 

[PedalUma]

The three animals that love the tree

In HI they place a cone like a dog's no lick stitches cone low in aluminum on palm trees for rats. With Bill Gates and 1,000 child victims raped repeatedly we need the 10,000 Johns put in prison for life. Nothing is fun about child abuse. The rich and powerful did it and thought the could get away.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

Pedaluma, while I agree 100%, can we please just have this thread be a collection of jokes, cartoons, puns, and fun things? A place of respite from the degeneration of human society.

 

[PedalUma]

If you see 10 minutes of curling, you have a life long inoculation.