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It seems so strange to me that you’re focused on straps and ignoring the heels. There’s nothing about either of those shoes that make any sense.

I don’t know if this would count as uncommon, but here are the guinea pigs,

Rose:

and Daisy:

Years ago, I had an open pizza box sitting on a table. The cat decided to walk over and get some pizza, but he stepped confidently from a chair onto the unsupported lid of the pizza box and fell through to the floor.

In and of itself, it’s not particularly humorous, but when I add in the way he looked around to see if anyone noticed and tried to pretend that was what he wanted to do, it gives me a chuckle.

That was long ago, and we don’t have cats now. We have guinea pigs. I taught the guinea pigs to spin in a circle once to get a treat. Now if I’m taking too long giving them their treat, they just start spinning non-stop.

They also chew the bars of their pens. I think they think it gets us to feed them faster (it doesn’t). One of them will get so involved in chewing the bars that I she forgets why she’s doing it and doesn’t come to eat when the food is available. We have to gently poke her in the nose until she stops chewing and realizes that there’s food.

Fla-Vor-Ice tubes.

My wife made me stop at two viewings. I’ll tell her we have to push through.

I too was traumatized by watching SatansMaggotyCumFart’s parent’s sex tape.

I have no idea why I bought it, and even less idea why SatansMaggotyCumFart would release it.

Conch has seen some shit.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/06/09/Male-guinea-pig-fathers-400-after-getting-into-female-enclosure-and-having-a-field-day/7041402319919/

Learner.

What do they claim the emergency is?

Colonizing and occupying the island, and even killing the residents wouldn’t be the same as establishing concentration camps.

I’m not familiar with the details of the British occupation of Ireland, but the earliest I can find instances of people being put in camps is in the 1920’s

Did Britain create some form of concentration camps before then?

Edit: it is such a fucked up thing to be claiming “credit” for.

My argument would be that Indian reservations were concentration camps, although they predate the use of the term.

I’m aware the Spanish did it in Cuba in the late 1800’s, and the British did during the Boer war, but were the British doing it in advance of the relocation of Native Americans started by the US in 1830?

The Germans learned from us.

You are correct. It relates to the torque (rotational force) that can be produced at different RPM.

Diesel engines have a narrow range of RPM where the torque is highest. At low RPM, the torque of a diesel engine is low. That’s why trucks have to shift into a low gear to start moving and shift multiple times to get up to speed. The driver uses the different gears to keep the engine running within the optimal range of RPM.

Electric motors have high torque at low RPM, so they can start a heavy load moving without having to have any complicated gearbox between the motors and drive wheels.

In a diesel-electric locomotive, the diesel generator can be designed to run at an efficient speed without being affected by the mass of the train. The electricity it generates powers the electric motors which have the necessary torque to handle moving the train.

I’m doing my part. Haven’t raked leaves in at least 20 years.

We have two guinea pigs.

Very often, guinea pigs are named after food. Our two rescues came with food names. However, everything eats guinea pigs and I feel it’s wrong to name them after food. We changed their names.

We named them after two characters from Downton Abbey: Daisy and Rose. Plants are the only living things that fear guinea pigs, so they are nice, powerful names for them.

Daisy in the background, Rose in front.

Well, the grifters don’t. The multitude of morons they’re scamming do.

U.S. democracy

Do people do good, spirited debates anymore? Most of what I see would be more akin to wrestling a pig.