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I will say that whenever I see Oasis's name, this song pops in my head:

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Makes me want to go with Utopia's Caravan... 

[Vyn]

About a mile from my house is a small muffler shop. It's been there since 1989, and sits behind a veterinarian's office and is at the edge of residential properties. Yesterday a large explosion occurred in that muffler shop. Witnesses state that there was a small explosion that was immediately followed by a very large explosion, resulting in most of the structure being levelled, and what remained was on fire. Two people came running out of the ruins, both on fire. First responders showed up in about two minutes - they were fast. By the time they arrived, one guy had "stopped, dropped, and rolled" himself enough to have stopped being on fire - the other guy stopped, dropped, and died. He was still burning, but long gone.

Current news indicates that the owner is the guy that died. He had a sealed, metal, 55 gallon drum that contained an unknown substance. He decided to take a blow torch and cut the top off of it. Supposedly whatever was in the barrel experienced an explosive reaction.

My wife thinks it was a meth lab. Whatever it was, I'm sure it will all come out soon enough. But I can't help being perplexed by the events, as described. If he knew what was in the drum was dangerous, why go at it with a fucking blow torch? If he didn't know what was in it, why go at it with a fucking blow torch. The only scenario that makes sense is if what was supposed to be in the drum wasn't actually in the drum.



 

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Wow, yeah, do not go at any sealed container with a blowtorch.

[Charger]

Seems that Sharon Osbourne is coming on tour in Finland next year for some kind of spoken word tour and is being interviewed on stage by Bridgette Nielsen!

That's what I call an odd coupling...and a pretty odd thing to begin with...Who would want to go and hear Sharon talk about herself and her excellence for an hour and a half AND pay 50€ for it???

https://kulttuuritalo.fi/tapahtuma/sharon-osbourne-cut-the-crap/

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Mentioned this to my wife. Her response:

1. She will pay NOTHING to see Sharon Osbourne, ever.
2. She would be willing to go to Finland when the weather is nice there for non-Sharon Osbourne related activities.

[Charger]

HAPPY 107th BIRTHDAY TO FINLAND!

[Vyn]

Happy itsenäisyyspäivä Charger!

[Vyn]

And yeah, I wrote that from memory. For sure. Not lying at all. At least, the English parts

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Go Finland!

[Charger]

Happy itsenäisyyspäivä Charger!

And yeah, I wrote that from memory. For sure. Not lying at all. At least, the English parts

It would actually be Happy Itsenäisyyspäivää with two ää's in this case. Itsenäisyyspäivä = Independence Day but when you're wishing someone a Happy independence day, it's Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää. There is a grammatical reason for that but bugger me if know what it is.

Teaching Finnish Grammar is only slightly harder than teaching astro physics...

[Vyn]

Haha, no doubt! That's what I get for copy-pasta from the wiki. So, today I learned about Finland's revolution against Russia and a little bit about Finnish grammar. Scorex2!

[Vyn]

Today is The Day That Will Live in Infamy here in the United States.

Everyone in the US used to know what Dec. 7th meant. I was talking to one of my granddaughters' earlier and asked her if she knew what today was. Nope, no clue.

Apparently, President Roosevelt's proclamation had an unspoken time limit

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Do you remember the day the Maine was sunk?

It's slipped my mind, I do confess.

[Vyn]

I don't remember the day it sunk, not having been extant at the time, but I remember when that day was. Only because history dates have always stuck in my head. Pearl Harbor is slightly different for me in that growing up it seemed to get brought up a lot simply because most people around at that time were still around and in fact still robustly involved in things.

There were still folks around that remembered the sinking of the Maine, but not many and those that were still around had handed the baton off already. 1898 was a long time ago, even in 1970. I had a great aunt that was born in 1881 and died in 1976, used to go visit her, and although she would have been 17 or so when the Maine exploded it was never brought up during my visits

More to your point though, it's valid, especially when you examine the media reports at the time for events going back as far as recorded history. Each incident is the Big Deal and will Never Be Forgotten. Until it is.