Re: Polar vortex

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> On 22.07.2023 17.21, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]: 
>> 
>>> On 18.07.2023 13.24, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>> news:[email protected]: 
>>>>
>>>>> On 12.07.2023 13.22, Merlyne wrote:
>>> [attributions]
>> [arbitrations]
> [artifacts]
[artifactory]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [gone but not forgotten]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I've already forgotten]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Doesn't bode well for your end of term
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exams. You want me to paste it back in?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [exams?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Yes. At the end of the year.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [So I still have some time then]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That's not the right attitude. If you don't
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> keep up during the year you'll never be able
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to get through it all in revision.] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I'll copy off your test]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I shall be giving the test.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Then you'll give me a good mark because we know
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> each other] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That is not how it works. That is not how
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything works. Also it may be someone else doing
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the marking.] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [You'll tell me the answers so I get a good mark]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That would be cheating]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [So? do you want me to fail?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I want you to study, apply yourself, make the effort,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stuff like that] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Why? What's in it for you?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I want you to do well, is all]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I'm destined to fail since I don't even know what I'm
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being tested about]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [It's about all the vital and interesting information
>>>>>>>>>>>>> being presented in this very newsgroup. I though that was
>>>>>>>>>>>>> clear.] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [Nope. Was as clear as mud. I think I will be away that
>>>>>>>>>>>> day.] 
>>>>>>>>>>> [You are going to make me look bad when no-one passes my
>>>>>>>>>>> test.] 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [Looks good on you since you refused to help me out]
>>>>>>>>> [So my options are to look like an incompetent test-giver or
>>>>>>>>> behave unethically? Why do you hate me?]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Deflect!]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What?! Squirrel? Where...?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparerntly you've mistaken me for a dog.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the squirrel wasn't the deflection? What was it, then?
>>>>> Surely it can't be the pair of swallows that has built their nest
>>>>> on the door to my garage/storage shed/workshop....
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You have a workshop?
>>> I have a long table with a lamp and a couple of vises and a lot of
>>> stuff on it in the garage. That ought to count.
>>>
>>> Not that I can easily get to it at the moment, with the nest on the
>>> door. The eggs have hatched so it's now a nest of baby birds
>>> constantly being fed by two very busy swallows.
> 
> It appears I was wrong. The increased activity I observed must have
> been a final effort to finish the nest before laying. Probably
> something to do with a mortgage maturing or some such. So we are all
> still waiting for the hatching (and the gender reveal party).
Hopefully it won't start a fire.

There'll be 2 of each.
>>>
>> 
>> Aww...cute!
>> Yep. They'll dive-bomb you.
> 
> The last pair I had didn't. They were too busy to worry about me at
> all. At most they made an extra go-around to try and confuse me - the
> giant predator - before landing.
> 

Except you aren't a predator.
I can put in a good word, if you liek.