Who knows? Seals can also mimic human speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrMaLrkc5U

Interesting! I had no idea. Thanks!

The ceilings here are super high. I wouldn’t be able to reach it. Would a heated ceiling be all that efficient?

Apartment. First floor (second floor for Americans). Heat does rise, so maybe that’s it?

So it’s just really good insulation?

Would the walls and floor still be cold if they were doing that? I honestly have no idea how that would work.

I am not on the ground floor, and I thought maybe it would be some under-floor heating thing like you are saying, but I have walked all over the room in bare feet and felt no heat in the floor.

I’m not sure how else it stays that warm when it is below freezing outside.

Not for many thousands of years afterward.

No, he always flew away.

Are you saying his theme song is a lie? Because it says he’s going to take pollution down to zero!

No he didn’t, the laugh track requires recorded sound. He did not have that technology.

Charley Douglass invented the Laugh Track.

Same thing you can do with half a hole. Fix it to keep your mind from wandering.

We emigrated here (three weeks ago) because my daughter is gay and it’s just safer for her here. And every time I find out about something like this, or Scotland making queer history part of its standard school curriculum, it just makes me feel even better about it.

People keep telling me I made the wrong choice of countries to go to. I’m sure there are better options out there. This is still so, so, so much better than what she is used to. Her self-confidence about being in a place where people are actually willing to not just accept her for who she is, but treat her as just another person, has gone from zero to I don’t know what. Enough to actually go out and make friends and have a social life.

That’s horrible! I’m so sorry to hear that! I feel bad enough for the elderly women I see going up the stairs, but at least they can get to their flat!

Fleming noted that in Dracula, Stoker worked in subtle sexual references to serve as metaphors for “…deeper, dark concepts: the idea of an antichrist, the blood-sucking serving as a compelling, hellish inversion of communion. Makt Myrkranna, conversely, could have had the subtitle Lust in a Cape”.[21] In Makt Myrkranna, Harker has an obsession with breasts as he speaks frequently of the “bosom” of various women he encounters in Transylvania.[21]

Unfortunately, I am subletting through VRBO (kind of like AirBnB) so this is not my fight, but I am pretty upset on behalf of the building’s residents.

Racist countries (like Britain can very much be unfortunately) also don’t give a shit what a building full of immigrants want.

I think it was some poorly-worded hyperbole. A lot of the people here are not native English speakers, so I’m guessing they were trying to poetically say “you’re killing us!”

“Fasting.” Blackburn is a city that is 30% Muslim and this building is far more than 30% Muslim based on who I’ve seen in it. They’re complaining that they’re making people, including the elderly, climb up multiple flights of stairs while they fast. And I sympathize despite being an atheist with no Muslims in my family.