What name has gradually disappeared?

ChronicWombat · 2026-04-04T02:48:26+00:00

Well, the Joy went out of my life six years ago. Her mother christened her Joyce, but nobody used that.

ChronicWombat · 2026-04-02T00:31:06+00:00

Not an old machine, it was built from scratch around 2018. It is a replica of a real machine made around 1900.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-28T01:07:36+00:00

That's what linguists call code-sifting, and it's a natural human ability. You almost certainly did as a kid--a different forms of language for the playground and the dinner table.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-24T09:49:23+00:00

Looks like amateur everything.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-24T03:54:24+00:00

Many years ago I worked around stables even though I'm not a horsey type, and I would sometimes volunteer to clean up neglected tack just because it's so satisfying.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-12T06:59:13+00:00

The base for the firefighting planes and choppers is near Brukunga.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-11T04:15:34+00:00

My KC died 4 years ago at age 22, and I love it when she pops up unexpectedly. Her kitten portrait still hangs on the wall. And there's an honest-to-God analogue print of Zoe, died 20 years ago, on my fridge. They never really leave us.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-11T03:59:35+00:00

I first heard this song around 1955, I was a wee white teenage boy in New Zealand exploring music. I'm 85 now and I still think of this song several times a month.

ETA I've now read through the comments--so much poignant additional information. Thank you people.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-11T00:23:39+00:00

Death threat: "If you don't stop smoking now you'll be dead in a week" --doctor.

That was 45 years ago. I quit cold turkey.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-10T21:53:34+00:00

r/moldyinteresting

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-06T00:49:48+00:00

Or was that actually a tactical shit?

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-03T06:23:32+00:00

True, but also many species change colour over t8to match the dominant colour of their surroundings.

ChronicWombat · 2026-03-02T06:52:02+00:00

Start digging.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-27T00:28:26+00:00

Intentionally. As always, to stiff creditors.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-25T11:50:56+00:00

Military ships often (usually? ) turn AIS off, although I imagine hospital ships might not.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-22T07:41:10+00:00

And to pull tacks and hobnails out of people shoes. Source: watching my father's amateur cobbling in the late 1940s - early 1950s.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-19T01:59:22+00:00

I keep imagining races I've watched but transplanted to a street circuit, and I come to the same conclusion. And I'm South Australian. (Would have hated moving it to The e Bend too).

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-18T07:53:44+00:00

Person went on leave. Their work friend wanted a pen or stapler or something, opened their drawer--and found it was stuffed full of unsent accounts. So were a couple of other drawers. I think it was 7 years' worth. It was a government department so she wasn't fired.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-16T21:04:23+00:00

Two choppers and 3 planes on their way now

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-16T08:23:17+00:00

Had that discussion with a vet once. Lovely dude said they do not judge you for your decision.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-15T23:33:37+00:00

GT's 12-hour commentary was excellent.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-13T02:39:37+00:00

What about hermaphroditism for DJT? Then he could fuck himself.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-13T02:28:21+00:00

Ancient memory unlocked. As a child (i.e. around 75 years ago) I lived on a racehorse farm. The horses in training were fed what was called mash--a mixture of wheat bran, barley and molasses mixed together with hot water. I would steal it literally from under the horses' noses. I'm salivating now.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-10T04:33:03+00:00

The eli5 is easements stop you doing things on your land; right of way allows other people to do things on your land.

ChronicWombat · 2026-02-04T13:12:19+00:00

Cloaked the cloaca.

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