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[Black Wizard]

Some people work Christmas Day too. Not sure how employers get around that, probably tell staff they can have a day off in February or March, or finish half an hour early here and there. Or they're classed as self employed.

People who work in hotels get at least double pay. Some engineering work takes place on Christmas Day too. Dundee train station is in the process of getting renovated and the only day of the year they could remove the road above the tracks was Christmas Day last year - it would have happened the year before but that winter was super-stormy. Obviously the emergency services work on Christmas Day and some petrol stations stay open as well as shops owned by Asian people.

 

[RTC]

Only the Mirror have it up at the moment, and there aren't exactly the best news-site, but whatever.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-chugs-11am-pint-9515487

I can only imagine how much his persecution complex would kick in if the hounds were set on him. It's like he gets a kick out of targeting the most vulnerable in society.

 

[Black Wizard]

"Chug" has a very different meaning in Scotland, so the idea of Nigel Farage "chugging" one before 11am is quite unpleasant.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Nigel Farage has 11am chug?! Disgusting.

 

[RTC]

Not so much that. The fox hunting.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

The hunt can be exciting. Better to knock one off before getting on the old horse...

 

[mckindog]

Merry Day After Maidenfans, on what is just after sunrise Boxing Day morning out here on the edge of the Earth.

My Christmas ended in scary fashion when we had to make an emergency run to the vet.
My little dog ate an entire chocolate orange. According to the internet it was a potentially fatal dose.

Fortunately he puked it up - buckets of the most pleasant smelling vomit I have ever experienced - and the vet says it was out of his system before it did any real damage. He's fine. Licking my fingers as I try to type this.

We did some math and figured it was the same as 75-kg person eating nearly 2 kg of chocolate.

 

[Forostar]

Glad your dog has survived!

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Licking my fingers as I try to type this.

I read this as licking your own fingers. I was thinking licking his fingers after cleaning up all that sick?

 

[mckindog]

Me too.
Meet Bentley, my crumb sweeper, hiking buddy and personal alarm clock.

 

[Saapanael]

Cool house.

 

[mckindog]

It's actually a public service office, but it is a cool little property.

What I hope to be doing on Friday. (That's a shot I took of my daughter from two years ago at the spot we're heading)

 

[Saapanael]

You seem to know your way around a camera. Nice shots all around.

 

[Saapanael]

"Chug" has a very different meaning in Scotland, so the idea of Nigel Farage "chugging" one before 11am is quite unpleasant.

@7:05 is the only "chug" I know of. I wanted to post the link so that it would automatically jump to the desired place but the forum won't let me.

 

[mckindog]

TY

Two of my favourites from this year:
Morning at a place called Sombrio on Vancouver Islands west coast, where we tented right on the beach



And sunset at the same spot.

 

[Maturin]

Anyone here interested in old-school board games (and card games)? My favourite game to play is Fluxx - a card game which defining feature is that the rules and the goals change. You simply play new rules and goals as you go along. Mind-bending, and very chaotic - in a good way!

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Just dinosaur Top Trumps.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

Those are awesome Dog!

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Photos?

 

[Black Wizard]

My favourite game to play is Fluxx - a card game which defining feature is that the rules and the goals change.

I've played a couple of versions of Fluxx. The Monty Python one annoyed the hell out of me because of the Speak in a Funny Accent card.