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[Leo Enticknap]

On the road approaching the village of Shitterton, in south-west England, a steel sign announcing the name of the village had to be replaced with this...

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...because every time they replaced the regular sign, it would barely last a couple of days before being dug out and stolen by souvenir hunters.

[Frank Cox]

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Yellowknife.

Apparently people living there have trouble with mail ordering sometimes. "Your address is what?? Sure it is, buddy." *click*

They also have to weld the street signs to the posts so they don't get stolen.

[Leo Enticknap]

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Anyone heterosexual living on this street must find that the jokes they end up on the receiving end of get pretty old, pretty quickly, I'd guess.

[Leo Enticknap]

I find that Chinglish like this can draw you into a false sense of skepticism, as well as of security. I look at the Google translate-produced instruction sheet, conclude that the object it describes has to be no-name garbage ... but actually, it's of decent materials, produced, and put together. The thing is that there is no consistency, or reliability. Those strippers could turn out to be every bit as good as ones bought from Home Depot for $40, or they could become as blunt as to be unusable within a couple of weeks.

[Jim Cassedy]

I got these wire strippers at a Chinese "99¢ Store" here in SF.
(Or, technically, in China, that would be a "6.40¥ Store")
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I had actually used the tool about half-a-dozen
times before I noticed this- LoL!
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-jc-

[Frank Cox]

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[Frank Cox]

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[Marcel Birgelen]

Many lockdown-rules are based upon some arbitrary chosen numbers. While I understand that you need to draw a line somewhere, the outcome of all those measures also seems to be rather arbitrary.

Making decisions based on flawed assumptions can only lead to flawed decisions, that's why I've decided to outsource my decision making to the Universal Decision Maker. Maybe those lawmakers implementing lockdowns should do the same, as tossing a virtual coin with a random outcome, will probably lead to better results than tossing a coin by committee.

[Frank Cox]

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[Leo Enticknap]

Public health experts drafting the latest lockdown regulations:

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[Randy Stankey]

I've never read whether males have better hearing vs. females. I would guess that the hunting instinct would be stronger in females but males might be more outgoing and willing to investigate new things.

All four of the cats might be able to hear (if cats can, indeed, hear that sound) but the other three might shy away from it or else they just might not give a damn about it.

That's a cat, for ya'!

[Leo Enticknap]

I don't know if it's true but I can guess that your cat might be able to hear the ringing of the vacuum tubes as the filaments heat up and that might be a tempting sound to him.

If so, possibly a male/female cat hearing thing?

He's one of a litter of four. A pregnant stray showed up in our yard in September, and we adopted her. She gave birth a week and a half later: the kittens are now 12 weeks old. We're in the process of trying to find homes for them now. MommaCat is staying with us, but this'll make four resident felines here, which is both the practical and legal (per City of Loma Linda bylaws) limit.

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TubeAmpKit is the one with his back to the camera. The others have shown no interest in it whatsoever, and they're all female.

[Marcel Birgelen]

I've just checked if warming your fancy tube amp is part of his plot to kill you. I guess as long as he's not sleeping on it, it's still in premature stages, but I'd keep an eye on it...

[Randy Stankey]

You know, cats can hear into the ultrasonic or near-ultrasonic frequency range. They can hear the sounds of mice and other small animals that we can only perceive as faint squeaks or chirps.

I don't know if it's true but I can guess that your cat might be able to hear the ringing of the vacuum tubes as the filaments heat up and that might be a tempting sound to him. He might think it sounds like prey. I'm not certain of this but, from what I have read, I think that it might be possible. If it is true, that could explain why he seems so interested in your tube amp and it could also explain why he bolts when you play sounds through it.

He might be attracted to sounds he hears coming from the tubes then he might be startled by the sound of music playing unexpectedly.

[Leo Enticknap]

He likes to wrap his paws around the 6P15s, which supports your warmth theory. However, as soon as any sounds starts playing, he's outta there. He hasn't quite figured out that the tubes starting to glow orange means that the noise he doesn't like is imminent.

Meanwhile, Tarantino storyboards his first Shakespeare adaptation:

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