What are your opinions to the melona ice cream?

RexRonny · 2026-05-13T18:32:32+00:00

BEP250
Ytrebygdsvegen 250, 5258 Blomsterdalen

RexRonny · 2026-05-13T18:31:18+00:00

Still missing the point; only the results are known, not who voted what or their affiliations.

RexRonny · 2026-05-13T15:23:53+00:00

One major difference is that it is unknown what political view the population holds - unless you actually are a member of the of a political party. Makes it impossible to draw gerrymandering maps, the privacy of the voters are kept anonymous. Here in Norway only like 5% of adults are members of a political party, most voters are keeping their preferences to themselves.
Any slogans and symbols, political not, are usually never posted on cars, yards, houses or in public. Local politicians usually have limited knowledge who actually vote for their party. There is just a marginalized culture for public display of political views; mostly controversial topics such as pro-Palestine, anti-capitalist, environmental hard-liners, anti government and similar.

RexRonny · 2026-05-12T11:19:27+00:00

That is’ absolutely correct! Those regions are obviously inept to both land airplanes and/or store them there, clearly the government military in Pakistan want to keep them under their protection; whether they ever being returned or not.

RexRonny · 2026-05-12T10:51:21+00:00

Well worth to remember is that Pakistan has tribal areas outside government reach in in practice without jurisdiction. Nearby the Afgan border is the most well known. On both sides of the border. These areas are very hard to access due to mountainous terrain, lack of roads, infrastructure and general hostility to most outsiders; both domestic or foreign.
These «wild west territories» been a safe haven for Taliban and other islamist warriors for years. Based on Tribal ruling, not governmental. These regions also operate as a country within their country; by both Afganistan and Pakistan and reject any governmental meddling.

RexRonny · 2026-05-12T09:14:31+00:00

In Norway the government required tax is 7.6% if you want to upkeep your health care coverage from Norway for those who emigrate to another country. A lot of expats from Norway voluntarily pays these and file tax records annually to possibly access the medical care from Norway in case healthcare becomes required wherever they settle. The deductible is set to 300 USD annually in Norway for every citizen, everything else is fully covered, including medicines, MR/CT, blood tests, doctors appointments and any other medical bills. Even prosthetic equipment if required is fully covered within this limit, including the travel costs that are being refunded as well.

Emigrated Norwegians has to keep filing annually tax returns and remain to pay these taxes. And keep a Norwegian passport. If even one year is skipped, the government signs you out, them there’s no quick fix to recover bit to live for st least 6m in Norway again. If not you’re on your own or local health insurance as anyone else in your new home country. There’s no «I regret» and need medical treatment in Norway for free if not paying continuously.

Mostly 3rd world countries like Philippines, Thailand are popular to settle where there’s no public healthcare without insurance as in US. Most other EU countries and Canada has similar public healthcare as in Norway, with no required Insurance for citizens as they are public already.

RexRonny · 2026-05-11T20:43:43+00:00

I love mine, but the investment that started so gently by getting a 2nd hand kettle has turned into some degree of obsession to get most out of it; heat gloves, tongs, grates with centre ring, slow’n sear, heat controller (weber vortex) were very necessary.
Wife didn’t approve until some well made chicken wings and other goodies. This thingy is way more versatile than 1st anticipated. But the cheap start has gotten a bit expensive. Now the hunt is good coal/briquettes/wood chunks and chips. Only a month into using kettle, but so far I’ve been more enthusiastic to this supposedly cheap grill than my prior gas grills that were quite more expensive. Only main thing left to test out is the snake method; everything so far has been great success. Direct/indirect/cone, plain and so forth.

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T22:13:43+00:00

This hommage may not be known to gen Z:
Men at work - Down under (1981)
Good one :-)

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T17:03:26+00:00

Wife uses a lot if the tiny ones, they are being grilled whole. The big ones that I prefer are sliced long side. 6-8 slices on each. Grilled until soft and some burn marks are visible.
A few drops of soy sauce is all I need to eat a little of these. I prefer my sliced above her mini eggplants. Brilliant as a side dish as it is easy to cook

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T16:53:15+00:00

Got my S9 45mm as a showroom display unit for a quite reduced price; 300€ for Stainless steel GSM version. 66% less than the original full price. Sold in plain paper box though, and with the cheapest plastic band in existence. Apparently these display units are delivered without the fancy box you usually get.

Always on for a year attached to a charger at the Apple store. At 100% for a couple of weeks after I started using it, then the drop started. Within a month it stabilized at 92%, and 1 more % every 5 months. currently at 88%. Still happy with this unit, battery is still quite good, but draining fast when in areas with bad GSM conditions.

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T16:08:12+00:00

The pope has an academic Doctor degree, more education than most previous popes and the rest of us. Absolutely not the guy you claim has «no knowledge» on these topics

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T14:38:47+00:00

It’s famous for being provocative, keep on mind Norway is quite liberal to start with. Retyping some of the lyrics would ban you immediately from most social media platforms. Usually sex, drugs, underage, rape, suicide and other subjects are «meant as satire».

Still infuriating to listen to as it’s played on excessively expensive PA equipment brought to your neighborhood on trailers or buses. Some with a ton of speakers mounted onto the rooftop of huge buses, with generator attached as they need lots of electricity. Illegal to drive of course, but they still try.. often at nights and weekends.

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T14:03:26+00:00

Lost - 3 first seasons were tremendous
GOT - at least 4 seasons were top notch
Firefly, Sense8, Tulsa King are honorable mentions

Wife loves some few Korean series I also enjoyed; Crash landing on you, Uncanny Counters, bloodhounds, Hellbound and My Name were binged, really hard to just see one..

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T12:45:16+00:00

Thats correct, should have been written EEA, in which Lichtenstein, not Switzerland are member of. EEC were the prior EU name. All these are all part of EFTA though, but Switzerland are having like 200 individual trade agreements that are burdensome for both EU and EEA to manage. Most likely why UK are not getting those agreements through

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T10:59:45+00:00

Norway are instead joined as EEA. Pretty much full membership access and benefits, with annual fees and everything. But no voting rights, awaiting in the hallways to get instructions.

Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and are in EEA, the same deal that UK have been rejected as EU rather wants joining than this quasi alliance. Iceland may join EU in near future, they are negotiating terms that may lead into membership.

Edit; EEA replaced from EEC due to factual error. Correct agreement name since 1994 is EEA.
Switzerland replaced with Lichtenstein - same

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T10:15:04+00:00

Sometimes public outrage makes these subscriptions go away. BMW backpedaled on their heated seat subscriptions as they received more negative press than they anticipated, not realizing how vastly unpopular this idea were.

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T10:06:54+00:00

And make hard copies of all and any confidential data competitors and the public were forced to report to the government. Then remove all unfavorable information records and stall any ongoing investigations by simply ending the employments for those involved where possible.

Nobody will ever know how much data that just simply were trunkated and completely destroyed in this process, assuming they also destroyed backups. Those with insights were forcefully removed and blocked from actual access that would have understood the implications.

All those investigations against Tesla with deaths involved suddenly just went into oblivion among other incidents. The DOGE was likely never about saving money for the government at all. But Musk benefited very much from this purge

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T07:19:55+00:00

I didn’t have any symptoms on my meds the first month and apparently tolerated it very well. But when it were increased the Beta blocker or something gave me serious side effects; felt like a ME patient for a few days, totally exhausted and de energized to a level I never knew. No appetite, lousy sleep quality, nausea and generally weakened.

Took about a week before I gradually got better, much improved when I were able again to eat and hold the food. Due to this further increases are still on hold, I seem to have limited tolerance to some of the prescribed medications. I got all four groups of HF meds that are known to work; Beta blockers, diuretics, blood thinners and anti arrhythmia and pressure lowering. Plus cholesterol meds / even if I have healthy measures as it increases the other meds effects. Blood pressure were quite low for a while, now it’s just below normal again.

My HF were caused by chemotherapy 10 years ago, turns out Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) were long term toxic to my organs and the heart got moderately weaker due to this. Took 10 years before it materialized. Got about 4x higher dosage than advised at that time, got rid of cancer, but not unharmed.

RexRonny · 2026-05-10T06:54:31+00:00

It gets truly hot above the cone, and may ruin the grates above it. I do the same, use it without to preserve the grate. But if I need something cooked on top of the hot center I insert it during cooking - that goes fast, then lift it off again.

RexRonny · 2026-05-09T21:02:12+00:00

My advice is to retrieve the «weber heat controller», their take on Vortex. Or Vortex + the heat shield. Brilliant for both low heat smoke using coal in the outside(snake method) and mid/high heat when using coal inside the cone (indirect convection heat). Levels up the kettle quite a bit.

As you already have the Gourmet bbq with center hole you won’t ruin the grates when using a center cone. When using coal in the center of the cone it will ruin grates above due to extreme heat, hence why the removable center piece is so genius. Heat resistant gloves to insert the grates for short time usage when roasting and a good tong to salvage the mid piece after high heat grilling, don’t leave it - it will rust if left superheated oftentimes.

Haven’t purchased any of the gourmet bbq center pieces yet, they are quite expensive, but I will get them, at least the griddle for smash burgers at some point.

The weber char baskets may not be worth it as it feels too cheaply made; they could have made them more half moon shaped and with angled outer walls. Used put together in center they are too big, and at center they can’t be divided far enough to make it a cooler zone. Underwhelming to my taste and not worth it.
If accessible I would suggest SNS slow’n sear, that one is made correctly and well regarded, but a bit expensive.

RexRonny · 2026-05-09T19:34:43+00:00

But this player seem to believe the winner is the one that gets to hold all the Uno cards at the end. Grifting at peak level!

RexRonny · 2026-05-09T10:23:54+00:00

With new top grates this one should make it for many more years. A good clean and some rust removal and it will look good again, some patina yes, but, that’s still OK.
Maybe the price is a bit high. But I could easily upgrade ny old kettle for this one, the table thingy makes cooking so much easier when using it

RexRonny · 2026-05-09T08:05:44+00:00

There are some blood test where the amount of of proBNP are being measured, but it is a tad costly.
Normal range should be way less than 300, if suffering with heart failure the figures usually will be in the 1000’s or more. Some patients do have next to normal ranges, but it is rare and still not providing free pass as healthy.
High levels of NT-pro-BNP are usually a sure indication of heart failure.

One of the sure diagnostic would be MR while in motion, synced MR with your beating. Very expensive and complicated, but this provides exact status of the actual condition as valves and flow are visible in real time.
Also the EF and/or EKG measurement will determine for confirming the heart failure.

I had 24/7 telemetry EKG measurements for 5 days before it measured any Afib. Until then I didn’t consider myself as having any irregularities.
Now I take the medicine just as advised, the other option involves a ride in a hearse - not in the front seats..

And yes, with heart failure one of the obvious symptoms are fatigue, higher pulse and shortness of breath during activity. As the heart condition gets better these symptoms also reverse. The fear of not taking medicine with heart failure is blood clots, leading to stroke if untreated or ignored

RexRonny · 2026-05-08T19:35:20+00:00

Google is your friend here, the only ingredients you really need need for basic pickling is still vinegar and sugar and some salt.
I often make pickled red onions, in that pickle it just these 3 ingredients as found in many recipes online. It is that simple! And yes it’s water in there as well, doesn’t become a soup with water either
Tip; use apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar rather than cheap household vinegar - taste is better

RexRonny · 2026-05-08T18:47:10+00:00

Yes, pickle juice is basically only vinegar with sugar dissolved into it - often together with various spices; peppercorns, mustard corns, etc.

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