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[Butterfly88]

My husband is blind (he's albino and he can see, but his vision is bad enough he's classed as blind) and he was looking into guide dogs.

If a blind person has a guide dog and they go out to the town centre for example, who picks up the dog poop when it goes to the loo?

My husband just looked at me like I'm mad and then thought and was like, "actually...that's a good question.."

I could be wrong but I think a dog can be trained to poop directly into a bag so the person can just pick it up and toss it.

 

[Mia]

If a blind person has a guide dog and they go out to the town centre for example, who picks up the dog poop when it goes to the loo?

Used to live right beside a center for the blind, and many had guide dogs. The people who had dogs stood in the gutter just behind the dogs, with a special sort of scoop as the dogs went, they listened and then picked it up with a kind of hinged scoop.

 

[Mia]

Original Google (Back Rub) System, put together with lego as it's case.

The first Google computer at Stanford was housed in lego. With 2000 MHz processors and 256 meg of RAM.

 

[Mia]

I could be wrong but I think a dog can be trained to poop directly into a bag so the person can just pick it up and toss it.

Come to think of it, I did once see that happen with a woman who had a golden lab, she was officially blind but could see a little and carried a white cane. The dog did go in a bag, I actually thought at the time that I seeing things. But now that I think back, the dog may have been actually trained that way.

 

[Mia]

Would you survive a nuke?

Would I Survive A Nuke.com

Interactive site, with various options: I'm good, would survive.

Dinosaur ending meteor
15 Megaton bomb

 

[Nitro]

 

[Nitro]

 

[tree]

Would you survive a nuke?

Would I Survive A Nuke.com

Interactive site, with various options: I'm good, would survive.

I survived but apparently the internet didn't.

I was surprised at how specific the location could be.
I tried the nearest town.
I tried my township.
I tried my road.

They all worked.
When I used my road, the result was the most positive regarding
my survival:

QUOTE
You are fine. You probably live in some godforsaken place...
END QUOTE

 

[Maelstrom]

Mael has no plans on starting any nuclear wars at this time....and you should note anything that happens after the close of probation doesn't count.

But I did look some of this stuff up a ground hit actually doesn't have a very wide 100 % death radius....just a few miles if you are in your basement.
If you have some Iodine pills a breathing mask and a air filter for your house you can manage fairly well.
The main problems are getting clean water and clean food safely.

My view is the risk is actually much lower now that Trump is in....don't worry too much. Okay?

Best wishes Mael

 

[Nitro]

Mael has no plans on starting any nuclear wars at this time....and you should note anything that happens after the close of probation doesn't count.

But I did look some of this stuff up a ground hit actually doesn't have a very wide 100 % death radius....just a few miles if you are in your basement.
If you have some Iodine pills a breathing mask and a air filter for your house you can manage fairly well.
The main problems are getting clean water and clean food safely.

My view is the risk is actually much lower now that Trump is in....don't worry too much. Okay?

Best wishes Mael

I find it interesting that in the early USA nuclear destruction films you get to see the destruction of vehicles,buildings and landscaping,but the cameras remain rock solid in place with nary a quiver from the blast forces that come into play.

Besides all of that,how did the film survive the nuke radiation?

 

[Maelstrom]

likely strapped the cammeras down to concrete blocks but they could have had telescopic lenses or been turned sideways to the blast and led cased.

 

[Riley]

Although is canon name was Jack Napier, I tend to give other versions of the Joker names:

• Stanley (The Batman)
• Jason Dean/"J.D." (The Dark Knight)
• Gabriel Leon (Suicide Squad)

Their names BEFORE...Whatever it was that made them looney. They all have a kind of significance. Stanley was the name of The Mask's alter-ego. Jason Dean was a deranged young man looking to watch the world burn (Blow up his school). And Gabriel both cared for and abused the leopards under his watch.


Why do we judge a person based on their tastes? Like, you could find someone whose perfect S/O material. They're awesome, sweet, funny, caring...And then you find out they're a Trump supporter. Or a Twilight fan. BUT WAIT! They're not like the fanatical beasts/annoyances/undesirables we come to associate with those two.
I like Batman & Robin. Does that make me a Viet Cong willing to shoot up a movie theater?

 

[Jorg]

Today I decided to count a lot of small coins I had collected all over some years, I thought I could use them to pay the bus but there are so many I didn't do it, at the end I have like US$20 on around 2000 coins. I'm going to the bank to deposit them.

 

[xudo]

Why do we judge a person based on their tastes?

Not everybody does this.

I like Batman & Robin. Does that make me a Viet Cong willing to shoot up a movie theater?

No. My husband loves Batman too and he wouldn't hurt a fly. Just because one guy decided to shoot people in a cinema and there was some tenuous link to Batman, doesn't mean that everyone who likes it is going to do the same thing. Sure, there will be people who are stupid enough to believe that but it doesn't make it so. Every so often, something awful happens and it turns out the person/people responsible liked this or that, and instead of maybe digging a little deeper, and asking some difficult questions, they just blame the thing.

Same thing when I was in high school and Columbine happened. Suddenly even the news over here was dominated with "they listened to rock music (and more specifically Marilyn Manson) so it must have been that that influenced them!" Now, I am a HUGE Manson fan, and I have never even thought about shooting up a school. Then again, I also wasn't victimised every day of my school years like the perpetrators allegedly were. I'm not saying that they weren't terrible people for doing what they did, but I do think they scapegoated stuff they were interested in rather than looking more into the bullying, their mental health and how they were able to access guns and all that jazz.

 

[Riley]

I tend to have a strange sense of humor. I laugh when I feel like something's funny. A video clip of Rolf quotes from Ed Edd n Eddy? I'll laugh. Strips of the webcomic Bug Martini? I chuckle. Same thing with The 7D. However, I CANNOT stand satire. Case in point: This charming 'newspaper' article. Which warranted my question.

I both share in and disagree on the opinions both by the shooter in the article and Teen Titans Go! Yes, you shouldn't be overly serious. BUT that doesn't mean you have to be zany and nuts and immature. Joel Schumacher's movies were the best of both worlds in comparison. Plus...I can stomach Bat Credit Cards better than bees used as money.

And that was a subtle It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia quote. "Oh, I'M un-American?!" "You're practically a Viet Cong."

Video games don't encourage or cause murder. BUT they can be catalysts and/or inspiration. The same goes for movies.

 

[Maelstrom]

Although is canon name was Jack Napier, I tend to give other versions of the Joker names:

• Stanley (The Batman)
• Jason Dean/"J.D." (The Dark Knight)
• Gabriel Leon (Suicide Squad)

Their names BEFORE...Whatever it was that made them looney. They all have a kind of significance. Stanley was the name of The Mask's alter-ego. Jason Dean was a deranged young man looking to watch the world burn (Blow up his school). And Gabriel both cared for and abused the leopards under his watch.


Why do we judge a person based on their tastes? Like, you could find someone whose perfect S/O material. They're awesome, sweet, funny, caring...And then you find out they're a Trump supporter. Or a Twilight fan. BUT WAIT! They're not like the fanatical beasts/annoyances/undesirables we come to associate with those two.
I like Batman & Robin. Does that make me a Viet Cong willing to shoot up a movie theater?

I didn't actually say I supported anyone...I didn't vote intentionally....but I do think with Trump getting along with Russia the Chinese are much less likely to start a big war alone....logic....also Hillary has a bad history of over or under reacting at the worst possible times so I though she was actually more likely to trigger a nuclear war accidently.
Just my opinion?

But I will give Trump a chance to prove he is good...and it isn't like we have any other option..we may as well make the best of things.

 

[Jorg]

I'm starting a youtube channel for fun and to try to have some money to help me with college, I don't think on bacome a millionaire but as far as I've read it isn't as hard to make a couple of bucks from Google. I will upload games and electronic related videos so if you're interested and want to help me my channel is on my profile here.

 

[Jorg]

I just noticed my forward dealer, the one which receives my Amazon and US shoppings and send them here, may be evading taxes in my country, I bought a couple of earphones and I declared them at US$48 but now I checked and they show them at $16. I checked my history and a couple of years ago I bought an external hdd in $150, and they are declaring only $5, WTF, I hate being irresponsible, I like to pay what I bought and don't fraud anyone and now this company probably declares less amounts of money.

 

[4gottenLoreKali]

Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a service that paid you cash for each grammatical or spelling error you spot in social media posts made by companies, bands, charities, and the like? More egregious screwups (like this recent one) would have a bigger payout than common ones (like confusion of they're, there, and their). It's a broke grammar nazi's (like myself) dream come true.

 

[xudo]

I had the random thought last night about whether diabetic Muslims have to observe fasting during Ramadan. I thought about it for quite a while and then found the answers online (it depends on how bad their diabetes is and how it's controlled, and they should consult medical professionals too.) Then went down this whole rabbit whole of who does and doesn't have to observe, and what they have to do if they don't fast.