The problem with sweeping generalisations is, they are all wrong.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 03:08:14 JST NormanDunbar
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 08:18:30 JST NormanDunbar
@dgar Every day, for two weeks, a chicken walked up to a librarian and said "Book! Book!" The librarian gave the chicken a book,and off it went.
One day, the librarian decided to follow the chicken after giving it a book. It led her to a small pond with a frog in it.
The chicken handed the Book to the frog, who looked at it and said "Reddit!" 🤣
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 02:38:28 JST NormanDunbar
@skinnylatte The two things I remember best about a trip to the US a few years ago, Monterey Bay Aquarium and La Brea.
I also visited the Grand Canyon but wasn't all that impressed!
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 19:27:07 JST NormanDunbar
I'm often mistaken for an adult. I think it's because of my age.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 23:33:05 JST NormanDunbar
Am I the only one who thinks that Trump "demanded' his NATO allies up their contributions to 5% because he thinks (yeah, I know!) they would spend the extra on US equipment?
Given how he's offered the UK "detuned" jets, and can effectively turn them off on a whim, I think (yeah, I know) it would be a bad move to buy anything US made these days.
Just wondering out loud.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 17:13:28 JST NormanDunbar
Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. A day of rest! We three are off to visit Pat and Peter, our elderly friends, again today to see how they are doing and sort out a few jobs for them. Should be fun.
Have a peaceful Sunday, whatever you happen to get up to today. Have fun, have a few laughs, tell bad jokes. Take care.
Today's photo is nothing special, just BCK11 leaving harbour on a flat calm sea on a sunny evening.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 22:40:35 JST NormanDunbar
Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Saturday. A slightly moist Saturday at that. Have you had your first proper rain in weeks yet?
Today is looking like a chores day. Shopping and the like, fun. For certain values of "fun". Anyway, have a great Saturday whatever you are doing, or have to do, have fun, have laughs, have a gin if you want, but take care.
Today's photo is the old ice houses at Tugnet, now the Scottish Dolphin Centre at Spey Bay, operated by Whale and Dolphin Conservation.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 20:00:56 JST NormanDunbar
@evan Never.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 13:03:21 JST NormanDunbar
@argv_minus_one @nazgul Especially if you carry a clipboard!
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 18:22:31 JST NormanDunbar
@MaJ1
Me too. Not as many as I used to, I was an avid book buyer and had "many" bookcases. I read quite a lot but never got round to reading all of themThese days I buy ebooks (pdf, epub or Kindle) on various topics and read them when I'm in the bath! I have still got quite a few to read though.
Nothing has changed!
@si_irini @skyfire747 @HistoPol @GreenFire @mattotcha @mina @energiepirat @2ndStar @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @VeroniqueB99 @forthy42
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 05:11:22 JST NormanDunbar
@si_irini
I'm not sure that not understanding "A Brief History Of Time" is cool? Unless you meant the fact the Stephen Hawking didn't sign my copy! 😉@MaJ1 @HistoPol @mina @energiepirat @2ndStar @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @VeroniqueB99 @forthy42 @SarahEx @GreenFire
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 05:09:45 JST NormanDunbar
@MaJ1
I have the original, with maths.
Unsigned by S. Hawking esq.
And, I have read it from cover to cover, three times.
Because its well above my brain's capacity for understanding!😉@HistoPol @mina @energiepirat @2ndStar @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @forthy42 @SarahEx @GreenFire
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 00:27:24 JST NormanDunbar
@PaulNickson @RosePuckey @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @weirdfolks Add uBlock-origin for SD removal too.
Or install a pi hole.
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 21:23:29 JST NormanDunbar
@evelynefoerster
But, you're not a bad person. We all make decisions that we look back on and think about changing. Hindsight is always 20-20 as they say, foresight, not so much.Take care. You *are* a good person. ❤️
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 21:22:26 JST NormanDunbar
@evelynefoerster
Sorry, Im not good with languages, so I translated your toot.Sorry to hear about the cat. Sad news. But you gave him/her love and that counts. ❤️❤️❤️
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 05:44:03 JST NormanDunbar
There seems to be a plague of squirrels around Leeds today. There are 5 in my garden ATM and Wesley chased at least that many on his walk this morning.
@MaJ1 might know why, he's the Fediverse's resident squirrel! 😉
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 20:49:25 JST NormanDunbar
A Russian meteorologist, lying in bed at night, with his wife. She said "It sounds like hail, Rudolf!"
"Nonsense", he replied, "It's rain."
"No! It's hail!"
"I tell you, it's rain!"
"I'm certain it's hail."
"Listen, my love, Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear." -
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 19:06:39 JST NormanDunbar
I'll tell you the sort of people I admire, those who teach themselves to read and write. From a book!
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 15:01:45 JST NormanDunbar
Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. A surprisingly dry one, given recent weather. Hopefully we are having a lazy day today. Time will tell, that's its job after all. Have a great day everyone and have fun.
February 2012 is the date of this photo. It was our first honey harvest, well, when we borrow the extractor and got the honey out. From one hive we got 72lbs, 32.7 Kg of the most beautiful honey!
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NormanDunbar (normandunbar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 03:12:36 JST NormanDunbar
@tayledras @MostlyHarmless Is OLPC still a thing? I haven't heard about it in a looooooooong time.