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  1. The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episode with Brooks and Carl Reiner always brings a smile.
  2. That happened to me a few years ago too. Didn't replace the dryer at all, getting the whole families laundry completely done in an hour for $10 was well worth it. Was working nights at the time too so was doing it on my 'weekend' on Friday night when there was no one there apart from the more interesting characters you find in a 24 hour laundrette at 2am LOL
  3. Was watching the latest Time Team Official vid on YouTube last night when it mentioned it was in memoriam of archaeologist Mark Corney who had been a specialist on many of the Roman digs on the programme. Can't find anything online about it or a post here, but it mentioned he passed away late last year. Always admired his breadth of knowledge.
  4. I understand the reasoning but I suppose it's dependent on the individual. I know I'd want to know every bit of information as soon as possible so I can better plan a response. I tend to worry more about what I don't know than what I do.
  5. Jewison had a small cinema at the Hazleton Hotel in Toronto named in his honour at TIFF last year. Legend.
  6. Once had a Filipino friend staying with us and was attempting to explain why being called a b*stard was being, well, a b*stard whilst being called a right b*stard meant you were a great guy who would be welcome to marry my sister. Even tried sticking on a flowchart but it got too complicated LOL. Not sure if it's a peculiarly English language thing for opposites to actual words being the true meaning, or whether it's an English/British and derivative cultural thing but definitely a nightmare for a non-native speaker!
  7. Thankfully not, but he’s the soggy crust on a particularly unpleasant political class pie. We’re about a decade behind the UK generally in outlook so expect it to get worse too. I have met Doug Ford and Dalton McGuinty who were both uncomfortably overly sweaty. A few mayors as well, but there are few politicians over here that you don’t feel somewhat soiled and need to have a good wash after meeting.
  8. Having been in Canada so long it’s still pompously gratifying that an English accent (and a Yorkshire one at that, not an Oxbridge version of what North Americans think is an ‘English’ accent) can still enable me to be able to tell people to go forth and multiply without actually swearing. “Good DAY, sir!” carries the F off vibe enormously well. And only a couple have cottoned onto the see you next Tuesday/there we are then usage in the occasional meeting when they take a turn for the worse
  9. After Ken Mattingly passed away this week, Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8 passed away this week as well, aged 95.
  10. Did the Toronto Waterfront 5k the other week in the quickest time I've run one in the 20-odd years since getting crunched. 31:16. Me and another bloke by himself unspeakingly vied for a lead all through it, he took off in the last 500m and though my head wanted to go with him the body wouldn't lol. Was still really happy with it though, even when paying for it for a few days, certainly opened the mind to new possibility and where limits truly are. Quite the time processing what happened this last week or so, in the best way!
  11. Been a while since I've posted on here but I'm coming up on 4 years of keeping 70+lbs off. 2022 I gave in to the inside voice and stopped running due to the chronic pain, but got hacked off with myself and back into it in 2023. Took me a good 6 months to get back to managing 5k runs and been doing a couple of them every week since June. Signed up for the Toronto Waterfront 5k on October 15th, the first race I've signed up for since pandemic times. My head is telling me to do longer but 5k seems about my limit before I get physically ill with it. Might be a mental thing though, I don't know, will have to test it more. Bit the bullet and ordered an elliptical standup bike as regular cycling isn't an option for me. Looking forward to the lower impact workouts and going further than walking or running. https://www.elliptigo.com/bike-family/#sec-elliptical-bikes Not sure if anyone else here has been doing them, but I've been doing several of the Conqueror Challenges to keep active and motivated, perhaps if others here are open to the idea we could have a forums team challenge for one of the longer ones? 3 of us did the long Lord of the Rings challenge in just shy of 6 months, over 2000km. Neat things to keep you moving! Keep cracking on folks!
  12. Shocked to read Lance Reddick passed away, aged only 60. John Wick movies, The Wire, Oz, Fringe amongst others. Definitely too young.
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