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You did say that they were pizzeria flavored, right? Did they taste like brick? Like plaster? Like crappy oilcloth tablecloths, or lousy cheap candles in even lousier cheap Chianti? (As if there's another kind...) With an aftertaste of neverending renditions of "That's Amore?" Well, then, you got your money's worth. Taste o'Pizzeria! Spoiler:
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10-20-2017, 12:34 AM | #31112 |
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The one thing that sucks about my iPad Pro is its recharge time. Been plugged in for three hours and it is still only at 63%. I wish Apple would’ve been nice enough to have included a better charger.
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10-20-2017, 07:35 AM | #31113 | |
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Regardless ... my memory of them was a pretzel (or cracker, depending on the variety) wrapped around a gushy, flavor-filled core. Rather than the pretzel-with-a-thin-stain-of-vaguely-tomato-ey-flavored-substance-running-through-it that I got. |
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10-20-2017, 08:28 AM | #31114 |
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Songs that cannot possibly sound good when played by a marching band (no matter how good the arrangement/band):
"Walkin' on Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves (the chorus can work, but the verses are doomed). "We built This City" - Jefferson Starship. Spoiler:
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10-20-2017, 02:49 PM | #31115 |
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Something that makes me grumpy, and make me wonder wtf was the author thinking. Sometimes on "giveaway" sites like instafreebie, the author would upload a book giveaway, but the quality is of so low standard, that it makes project gutenberg's ebooks look as if it was professionally done.
This is a cover of one of the two: and no I didn't photoshop it, the ebook once imported into Calibre is also named like that, and it has almost no formatting. The other was just as bad. Why do a giveaways with so low quality books, when normally you use giveaways as free advertisement. it looks from the reader's end as if you are not proud on your book, and if you are not proud of your book, why should the reader read it? |
10-20-2017, 03:04 PM | #31116 |
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I mean, yes, the colors are appalling. But I wonder if he somehow screwed up, and put the Book ID on the cover accidentally. It's not a mistake that an experienced bookmaker would make, but...a first-timer, following half-assed instructions from some self-appointed, DIY eBook Guru, on the Net? Oh, easy-peasy to screw that up. Hitch |
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10-20-2017, 03:27 PM | #31119 | |
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10-20-2017, 09:09 PM | #31120 | |
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10-24-2017, 03:28 AM | #31121 |
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My mother has chronic bronchitis and when she has a cold she has to be careful to take her medicines and still she regularly (every 1 to 2 years) she either almost gets a pneumonia or fully gets one.
On Saturday she started getting a cold and although she coughed a lot and felt tired she was okay until this morning. When she could hardly breathe, her inhaler didn't help and she had my father call an ambulance. She was put on a ventilator, I don't know if they gave her anything. After a while the ventilator had helped a lot and they called our doctor to see if he wanted to see her or if he preferred to have her taken to the hospital. He wanted to see her and he had time to do it right then. So the ambulance crew left, my father got the car and my parents are now at the doctor. She was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis at a young age, but my grandmother and doctor didn't tell her. It was convenient for my grandmother; she kept my mother home, because my mother "didn't have long to live", my mother had to do the housekeeping and was sent to work at age 16. She didn't find out until she was in her 30s that she had bronchitis, when she found it harder to breathe and our current doctor told her and put her on medication. He was horrified she never knew. Am I worried, sure. But most of all I'm angry. She smokes unfiltered cigarettes, quite a lot IMHO (and she also has high blood pressure). Over the last couple of years she has reduced the number of cigarettes she smokes, but with her health issues any cigarette is one too many. Also, when she has a cold she smokes more, because it suppresses the coughing, or so she says. As children we begged her to stop. I don't know why she doesn't want to stop; if it's a middle finger to her mother and then doctor, if it's her way of keeping in control or because she afraid she can't stop. I wished she was taken to the hospital. I assume our doctor has told her numerous times to stop, maybe if she was taken to the hospital and got a lecture about smoking there it would be a wake up call. Probably not though, but you never know. Now, for next month or month and a half I will not only be working pretty much full time, I'll also be responsible for the house keeping and have to do also those pesky chores my mother hates doing (thawing and cleaning the freezer, deep clean the kitchen, etc). |
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The ad at the top of the Amazon page says: "KINDLE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SALE. Save on all things Kindle." So "ALL THINGS KINDLE" except the Kindle Oasis, ... |
10-24-2017, 12:32 PM | #31123 | |
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Now good luck with that freezer. We did ours Sunday. |
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10-24-2017, 01:43 PM | #31124 |
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Has she tried vapor cigarettes? I know many people who switched that it cured their respiratory issues. I also know many who use them to quit smoking forever. They really work.
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10-24-2017, 04:22 PM | #31125 | |
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Even if she never quit, vaping would be dramatically better for her, of course. Hitch |
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