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I'm sure that with the amount of money involved, PL football contracts are pretty watertight both ways, any t's crossed and every i dotted. I guess he'd have to negotiate a termination of his contract, and the club would have to agree to it. Force Majeure doesn't seem to apply in this case. He wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Figuratively speaking at this time, of course.

And the name of the Roslagen area in Sweden and the Finnish word for Sweden/swedish (ruotsi) have the same origin as the 'Rus': rowing.

I think my problem with bonus tracks is that it stops me from reliving the original vinyl albums from my youth in a more convenient format. Strawbs' Grave New World should stop with The Journey's End. Period. After that, there should be silence, not fumbling to reach the CD player's/remote's stop/eject button. I've even ripped some CDs to non-lossy FLAC and burned it on a second CD Maybe it's just me. Amateur guitar/bass/keyboard band player since my early teens, I've never cared enough about hi-fi to invest in a expensive system. On some re-release CDs, I can tell tell the difference in dynamic range. In others I can't. And yes: I agree that classical music like it should be listened to and listening to it in a moving car isn't the same thing.

Why not have a go at making it yourself? The process in itself is not particularily difficult, but as all kimchees I've tried obviously used a different recipe, the difficult bit is finding a recipe that comes close to what you really enjoyed. Disclaimer: I've never been to Korea, but I've tasted Korean food at a number of Korean restaurants in Europe, and bought ready-made imported kimchees in Asian stores. They all taste different. I guess it's like bacalao or anything traditional in a country: every family have their own recipe. Portugal doesn't do one singular version of bacalao. I've enjoyed experimenting. I'd say that the important bit is to get hold of authentic Korean chili flakes/powder and not substitute it with plain chili powder.

Different media for different situations IMO. My favourite way of listening to music is still listening to the entire album end-to-end, on vinyl, CD or digital download, with the added occasionally joy of finding that a track you didn't instantly take to at first slowly grows on you after a couple of listenings. For me, streaming is for when I'm on my phone (car, bus, train) and for checking out new artists/albums. I still have my old vinyl collection, mostly for those old oddities that I haven't found available on CD or legal streaming services, or for when the only available CD release turns out to be "with added bonus tracks" or even worse: "re-mastered" and turns out to be hideously compressed in the process. New(ish) albums that I really like, I buy. On CD. (Edit: saw bicksters post. When I really, *really* want to listen to music or watch a movie more than once, I want to own a physical copy.)

Apologies for quoting an old post, but I haven't visited this thread for a long time... At 13 (a very long time ago), I started teaching myself the basics of guitar and keyboard, using an old book had several pages of guitar chord charts and listening to the music I heard on radio or cassette. 6-7 years later, I was formally taught how to play recorder/clarinet/flute, along with piano/classical guitar lessons, all by sheet music. My guitar and keyboard technique improved (and my sight-reading skills to a lesser degree), but I still can't play recorder/clarinet/flute by ear, or improvise on those instruments. I need the sheet music.

Yes, I know (wide/flat + foot). So does the 'new' genus name Ornithorhynchus (bird + snout), assigned by a different scientist a single year later, though... I admit that I had to look that bit up in order to get the spelling correct. By and large, Greek is ... well... Greek to me. I appreciate that the 'new' name is more of a mouthful than Platypus, and if you're suggesting that platypus was an established Greek word, known to British scholars back in 1799, while the new genus name was not a 'real' word, but merely a construction, I get why those bits on the map are green.

I'm more puzzled by the green areas of @bickster's European Platypus map, to be honest. IIRC (it's been a while since I read about it), the platypus lost the 'Platypus' part of its official scientific name not long after its first official description/classification, because the name had already been used elsewhere. I can (sort of) understand the name sticking around in the English language, but in Greek as well?

A fraction of the population, to be sure, but it's also about distance and ease of travel... 50 years ago, the four quadrants of the 164 square miles-sized island where I grew up had four easily recognizeable dialects.

Great thread. No, not all Danes understand Swedish, and neither (in my experience) do all Swedes understand Danish... I spent some years working for a multi-national company, and whenever only Danes and Norwegians were present, we got along speaking our own language at each end. Likewise for a Swedish/Norwegian gathering. When all three countries were present the conversation was in English. I once suggested for a Danish colleague that the difference between standard Norwegian and standard Danish was the Danish *very* soft consonants. He just smiled and replied: "Consonants? What consonants?"

Didn't have any side effects for the first 24 hours after my first Moderna jab, apart from a slightly sore left arm. The second jab, likewise. Enjoy your beer.

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I'd say they *should* have. I'd like to see a statistical breakdown on type of contraceptives - if any. Reports I've seen after the millions of vaccine jabs in the UK said the rate of blood clots victims was normal, statistically. But then, you've managed to vaccinate a much larger part of the population, whereas we've just managed to jab the folks in care homes, the 75+ and the health workers. In Scandinavia (and the Netherlands?) it seems to be just <60 female health workers affected.

If you say so. The reports in Scandinavia were about most cases being young nurses. As I said, I'm not a scientist. Just a hunch. Edit: but I still think a fair comparison may only be made when we've caught up with you in which age ranges have been vaccinated.)

Disclaimer: I'm not a scientist, and this has possibly been taken into consideration by those who are. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, though. Purely from a layman's perspective, due to the relatively low numbers of vaccine doses available (you had a head start - well done), at least here in Norway (and probably in the rest of mainland Europe) the two priority groups that has been vaccinated are the elderly and the healthcare workers. IIRC, most of the patients affected by blood clots in Europe after vaccination were young nurses. Women likely to use contraceptives. I believe it's generally accepted that the p-pill (some brands more so than others) heighten the risk of blood clots. A tiny bit. Could the Oxford/AZ vaccine be perfectly safe on its own, but in some rare cases (in combination with a high-risk pill) cause blood clots? I'm male, I'm 60+. They're working on getting the 74-65 age range vaccinated in my area, which has received extra vaccine doses due to the number of infections. I wouldn't hesitate to accept an AZ jab.

Oh, I completely agree, common geographical-type colour schemes (hues of blue below sea level - hues of green/yellow/orange/brown above) or a temperature-type colour scheme from cold blue to hot red is non-jugdemental - just stating the facts. As I said, I believe using the traffic light scheme is generally frowned upon in web design, unless you absolutely must deliver a Yes!/No! message, both due to accessability reasons and to the risk of suggesting some kind of bias.

He could have chosen some other scheme (I became curious and looked up his site). I like these two: I think those colour schemes make more sense And @HanoiVillan: In the second map, he actually explains the colours used. Edit: Duh. On the actual webpage: https://jakubmarian.com/water-in-european-languages/

@bickster: Yes, I agree that the colour scheme you describe is what you describe is more common and more intuitive, and probably what I would have used myself if I ever create a similar map. But I just think he was going by the traffic light scheme (which I believe is generally frowned upon in web design) - green: good, red: bad, yellow: somewhere inbetween.

The colour scheme appears to be based on the green/yellow/red traffic light scheme, but tweaked, possibly to make it more readable to people suffering from some form of colour vision deficiency. Some blue mixed into the greens (so appearing blueish to someone who cannot discriminate between red and green), some green mixed into the reds (appearing brownish if you cannot tell red from green).

And the 2 NOK note at the time was nicknamed a Quisling, while the 1 NOK note was nicknamed 'usling' (possibly untranslateable: Lowlife/wretch/scum/traitor). Anyway, you'd need two of those to match a Quisling...

@trekka Check that the alternator belt is tight and not slipping. Reasonably easy to adjust. With the car running, put a voltmeter across the battery terminals - if it reads appx 14 volts the alternator is OK.

I don't think those statements are mutually exclusive.

Could perhaps have posted this in the Ice Rink thread as well.

Absolutely no scientist, but if I've understood what I've heard and read correctly, most of the mutations are in the spike proteins (those red bits in the common illustrations), enabling the virus to attach to and enter a human cell. The new strain seems to have a better glue.