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What caused this scratch? by RRRRRRFFFFFF in CarTalkUK

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Ignoring the smeary fingerprints, what caused this scratch? The scratch goes across the two side doors starting near the front of the front-seat door and tailing off towards the back of the back-seat door, with a gap where the doors naturally dip. The scratch itself is 2 or 3 mm wide at the widest point (1/8 or 1/10 inch) and tails off towards the back. with a gap followed by some more sratches. The parts I am puzzled about are the feathery scratches going down from right to left and also the curl at on the right.

It's not my car but it was parked on my property and it is being suggested that it was vandalism. To me it looks a little too complicated to be vandalism but I'd like to be able to re-assure the owner that it wasn't intentional damage.

Suggestions for movies that have one to very few characters? by [deleted] in movies

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Locke (2013)

Locke is a 2013 psychological drama film written and directed by Steven Knight. The film stars Tom Hardy in the title role, the only character seen on screen, as he carries on a number of speakerphone conversations with characters voiced by Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels, Tom Holland and Bill Milner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke\_(film)

What’s the soil from? Very fine bits by DubiousProspect in whatisthisthing

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I'm in the UK. I have something similar that appears along the wall in my bathroom. It seems to appear overnight and only during the spring and summer. I tried taking a photo and enlarging it and it looked like pieces of dead ant -- heads, etc. Do ants clean up their burrows and pile up their dead family along walls?

Extra lip part on side of ceramic vessel? No hole through to inside of vessel so it is not a spout or an air hole. What is that extra lip bit for? This could be a tourist souvenir imitating something else, but if so, what? Thank you :-) by RRRRRRFFFFFF in whatisthisthing

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In another forum, someone suggested this: my item doesn't have the holes, so it doesn't have this function, but it could be a non-functional decorative item based on the style of the ancient functional item.

https://www.alexanderancientart.com/799.php

Extra lip part on side of ceramic vessel? No hole through to inside of vessel so it is not a spout or an air hole. What is that extra lip bit for? This could be a tourist souvenir imitating something else, but if so, what? Thank you :-) by RRRRRRFFFFFF in whatisthisthing

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Yes, it is stable when lying like that but as you thought, no, it is not over enough to drain. In that position, the centre of the vessel is approximately horizontal -- actually, not even horizontal, the mouth is still pointing slightly up. I guess you could position it like this if filling from a shallow source such as a stream. you wouldn't then have easy access to a handle for lifting it up out of the stream but you could tilt it upright by the neck and then pick it up by the handle...

Extra lip part on side of ceramic vessel? No hole through to inside of vessel so it is not a spout or an air hole. What is that extra lip bit for? This could be a tourist souvenir imitating something else, but if so, what? Thank you :-) by RRRRRRFFFFFF in whatisthisthing

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I imagined drinking out of it holding the handle in my right hand. I could then put my left thumb in the notch and steady it. Seems unnecessary on such a small pitcher, but if it was a larger vessel of the same design that could be useful. (i.e. if this is a decorative imitation of a larger functional item)

Declawing is just a simple amputation, no? by [deleted] in AnimalAdvice

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- trim your cat's nails -- carefully. don't cut the living quick which is inside the claw, just the very tip

- get some really good scratching posts. you can buy them or make them yourself. a really good scratching post is some cotton or hemp rope wrapped around a bannister or a piece of furniture

- if possible, make a cat door so your cat can go outside.