oddemann Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, mizapf said: Then you certainly know where I took that picture from. ? I was born in Tromsø and some 14 years later a got a TI, but then I had been living 12 years in Hammerfest (further north). I Got the TI, but don't remember if I got the Carts later or at the same time. The Big ones was Parsec (played it until I could do it in my sleep!), got MM, but since I did not get any books (to expensive and hard to find) it was not used that much. Got Ex. Basic, it got a lot of use. More after I solved the "f" problem... "But... but... EVERYTHING IS correct, hmmm, what is going on?" Then I learned that f and F is not the same thing. And "f" in Call Char dos not work. (Stupid machine ? hehehe, used a long time to solve it and the TI did NOT help me! ) But I got lucky, I did a boat trip that was more then 4000 km to TRY to get some more "cool" stuff for my TI. I Went down the coast, from Hammerfest all the way to Bergen, then over to Grimsby (England), with my grandma on a ship. (She was working on). Hardly knew any English, but when you are in need of ANY shit you can get to your "stupid computer", then THAT is a TINY problem. I knew the important words like TI, Computer, Games, Where, Money, Buy! I might be a product of the TI speech Synth! "You are not English?", I proudly answered, "NOPE, where can a find TI stuff?" The "modern" Viking-raid" gave very little loot! I think I got a cassette and a book. The rest was just shit and WAY to expensive. So... Can I say that I did a LOOOONG Viking-raid to get TI stuff. I was JUST 1000 years late to the "party". And being a modern "nice" Viking is not good, when you are in need of the latest "shit"! It was a good Viking-raid in other ways. Even had a stop in Bremenhaven (Germany) to late in the evening and "huge" spiders at the docks. So, the Viking looked longedly towards the town and dreaming of TI games (and shit). Hmmmm, Is this a game Idea! I just change the Iron "Viking" ship to a real on and I have, "The Last Viking - looting again!"??? The long journey for valuables and shit to take home to Hammerfest! Monsters and hard to understand people, with lots of sea, mountains and boat stuff! But... you will not have the experience of sleeping on top of an engine and finally after a week, your able to sleep. BUT, getting home is it so "quite" after having slept on a engine that never rested... That you can hear the seagull many MILES out at sea as your trying to sleep at home, but cant... it is TOO quiet! But... luckily after a week I could not hear the seagull any more. Pretty sure it was it that kept me awake! So... I had to keep buying magazines and type in games! Got a few carts after that, some cassettes and books. But the PC then came to town... And a got myself a "pull-able" PC laptop, just 23 kg or 46 lb. It was a mazing... 4 hertz (wow ? ), 16 colours (wow ? ) and built in screen and 2 floppy disk ports.... I think it even had 256k memory (wow ? ) How I regretted not getting a Amiga! But that is another story together with landing on Liberty Island and never leaving there alive! (ohhhhh how many times I tried to lift off from that Island!) Edited January 2, 2022 by oddemann Spelling and for sure more editing needed... BUGS! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Surprise, we still "can snow". I almost thought we could call this word obsolete in German. Compare with the first photo in this thread. As you can see, the tree is clearly growing catkins. This may be a bit too early in early January. (Interestingly, "catkin" is the exact analogue to the German "Kätzchen", with "-kin" being the cognate to the German diminutive "-chen" which we can add to any noun.) 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 Now at the end of the meteorological winter (Dec-Feb), the German Meteorological Service (DWD) reports that this winter was again much too warm here, 1.9 K above the average temperature in 1990-2020, and the eleventh winter in a row that is too warm. Actually, I think I saw about four days of light snowfalls in total, and the whole February did not show freezing temperatures (below 0°C). The picture from Jan 8 was indeed the last time I saw snow here. Right now it's sunny outside, at +9°C. Some people say it's OK for them, lower heating costs. I thought I should throw in a mid-term concern, just for a change to our current sorrows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 German weather: "We heard some people complained about lack of snow. Here you are, delivered as ordered. Maybe a bit late, but no one shall say we're not taking our job seriously." Disclaimer: Not an April 1 joke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 Now in contrast, today's weather: My home town behind a rapeseed field. Temperatures around 20°C. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Nice! We made it to 20c a couple of weeks ago... but today it's 0 and trying to snow again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 For some weird and completely unintended reason, my shot makes me think of the Ukrainian flag. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 It's no longer merely trying here... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/18/2022 at 4:40 PM, mizapf said: Now in contrast, today's weather: My home town behind a rapeseed field. Temperatures around 20°C. For much of the English-speaking world, the word Rapeseed has been replaced with Canola, as Oilseed Rape is probably the only positive use of the word Rape in the English language. . . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 42 minutes ago, Ksarul said: For much of the English-speaking world, the word Rapeseed has been replaced with Canola, . . . That is not entirely true. ? Canola is a subset of rapeseed oils that must contain < 2 % erucic acid (among other restrictions). FWIW, the word “Canola” is a portmanteau of “CANada Oil, Low Acid”. ...lee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 7 hours ago, Ksarul said: For much of the English-speaking world, the word Rapeseed has been replaced with Canola, as Oilseed Rape is probably the only positive use of the word Rape in the English language. . . Disclaimer: This is not against you. As long as the official name of that plant is "rapeseed", I don't give a * what novel language evangelists believe to be good or bad words - in arbitrary contexts. We have that discussion in Germany as well, with people even trying to modify German grammar to reflect all kinds of ... I digress, sorry. Have to calm down a bit. Doctor says, watch your blood pressure. Good thing that in German we call it "Raps", and it does not sound like anything troublesome. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 ♠️=♠️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 4 hours ago, mizapf said: Good thing that in German we call it "Raps", and it does not sound like anything troublesome. When I was teaching Technical English at the University of Kaiserslautern, one of the students wanted to know what "Raps Öl" was in English. I carefully parsed out the answer and noted that part of the word (underlined on the blackboard) had a not-so-nice meaning in just about any situation but this one. One of the girls in the class asked what the other usage was, and was a bit shocked to hear "Vergewaltigung" as my very calm answer. The next ten minutes in the class had students asking questions about just about every questionalble English word they had ever encountered, until I had to shut that line down and get them back on track with the day's lesson. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 In Swedish it's rapsolja. Very far from våldtäkt. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) There's only 1 real swedish word, " chocolate".. the rest is mumbo jumbo... bwhhaha... you know I'm just trying to be crazy funny here... Edited April 20, 2022 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 2:52 AM, Ksarul said: For much of the English-speaking world, the word Rapeseed has been replaced with Canola, as Oilseed Rape is probably the only positive use of the word Rape in the English language. . . But it is not on "THE LIST" ... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 3:56 PM, GDMike said: There's only 1 real swedish word, " chocolate".. the rest is mumbo jumbo... bwhhaha... you know I'm just trying to be crazy funny here... In Swedish it's choklad, so that didn't work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Mmm, choKlad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 1 hour ago, GDMike said: Mmm, choKlad If you eat it too quickly you will choke, lad! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 29 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: If you eat it too quickly you will choke, lad! It's all over the place!!! Sticky tacky ChokLaD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed in SoDak Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Taste. The international language. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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