rats19 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 10:04 am Well, I’m adding to the list.

So sorry to hear that. That must suck.

Here’s hoping the immunotherapy will work wonders!
Hang in there, Rats!

And I'll add a list of recommended Swedish books: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, and of course the rest of the Millennium series as well. Nordic Noir at its best. Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the only Swedish horror novelist worth the money. To Cook A Bear by ...

I completely agree that paper books are superior to tablets. Never been able to do the switch. I do listen to audiobooks while doing other stuff though, like mowing the lawn, driving or whatever, but then only lighter literature, like a crime novel. When I really sit down to read, I want it to be a ...

Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:42 pm The swedish movies are infinitely better made than the Americanized version. Very, very well done

I second that.

It's a nice Urban Legend but I don't think so 5th. This is more what I heard as a kid and over the years. According to Paul Stanley, the band's name was chosen because the word "kiss" was universal and could be recognized worldwide as well as incorporated into different meanings, such as "kiss of ...

Oh, come on! One of the few Canucks games that is played at a reasonable hour, and it’s scheduled to coincide with my flight to Brussels.
Game starts at 18.30 CET and my flight departs at 18.35.

I have meetings in Brussels like twice a year. What were the odds?

About 6 weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer, I am still in my 40s. WTF. Thankfully I have been given a very good prognosis but I will start treatment next month and, like you, it is always in the back of my mind. My best wishes for a speedy recovery. It sounds like early detection so hopefully ...

Last September I was in a local hospital for some severe back pain, they took my blood work and a few hours later I was admitted to VGH. I had Leukemia Hang in there, Reef! Sounds like quite the ordeal, but I hope you've been through the worst and it will get better from here. As you wrote, modern ...

As some of you have noticed, long-time poster Strangelove hasn't been around for a few months. Some of us have known for a while that Doc has been dealing with some very serious health issues since at least April. He kept us updated, but he hasn't logged on since July 26, and we haven't had any ...

A judge who made a ruling against Trump has her house burnt to the ground. https://www.newsweek.com/judge-diane-goodsteins-home-burns-to-ground-after-ruling-against-trump-10831834?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid ...

https://i.etsystatic.com/58320450/r/il/72fd60/7190847044/il_1588xN.7190847044_h7c9.jpg Remember, the people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law. The people who arrested her and sent her to Bergen Belsen were following the law. Human rights are always more important than the law. And at the ...

This is what is happening in the US now; Gestapo at work, trampling constitutional rights, completely ignoring the 4th amendment. Stand your ground? Nah, if anyone had pulled a gun against the masked terrorists kicking down the door to their apartment in the dead of the night they would have been ...

The check in my head on this is that deploying them in this manner could have the effect of slowly getting the general populace to a place where they find soldiers on their streets a normal thing.....that could open a door to a more authoritarian society, and nobody will have noticed it happening ...

Keep in mind that the National Guard and active duty military are two different things. Sending in the military for, quote, "training grounds" is not something a normal government would do. Which is what 5th was asking. They've already sent the National Guard into DC, and they did nothing of value ...

My wife is starting to get pissed off with me, I need to quietly remove myself from this echo chamber and get back to the living. Most of us are here after the wife got pissed off.... This might be an echo chamber because the same things are said over and over about certain topics, but honestly ...