Re: Polar vortex

On 27.07.2023 15.32, Merlyne wrote:
> 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]
[artichoke factory]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [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.
Swallows have more sense than that.

> There'll be 2 of each.
We shall see. All in good time.

>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
They don't know that. Also I could be a fire hazard. No smoke without
and such...

> I can put in a good word, if you liek.
You speak swallow? These are barn swallows; they may have quite a strong
accent.

-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr