@Randy first, happy birthday!
Second, Doona is the way to go! Well worth the investment. Also made air travel with our young one much easier.
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Re: European Union banning meat names for vegetarian products
Unlike TC said, this was actually a French initiative heavily influenced by their domestic meat industry and - for once - not us Germans doing questionable things.
The whole thing was covered pretty intensely and the vast majority of people across the political spectrum thinks the ban is
i) stupid and entirely unnecessary because current packaging is not misleading at all; even if meat-adjacent terms like “sausage” or “burger” are used to advertise the product the average consumer will know they’re looking at a plant-based product and
ii) preposterous considering there is a variety of topics on the agenda which are undoubtedly far more important than banal non-issues like that (aka deterring Russia, dealing with migration, China etcetc).
iii) It also adds to the point often made by critics that the EU is merely a bureaucratic nightmare leading to over-regulation in every aspect it touches.
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We might need an emergency Trap Draw!
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Second the Doona. Get an extra base so you have one for each car and it’s a breeze.
The only downside is, as a fellow tall, I found the stroller handle to be a touch low. I don’t know the big guy’s Ape index, so he might be ok.
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love a good heist
Heist at Louvre Leaves Museum Missing Priceless Jewels
Thieves used cherry-picker, angle grinder to saw through window and steal royal artifacts, officials say
"Over the course of only seven minutes, three or four individuals used a truck-mounted elevator to reach a balcony outside the Galerie d’Apollon, which houses France’s crown jewels, French officials said. There, the thieves used an angle grinder to cut a hole in a window to get inside, they added.
The thieves smashed display cases, and early indications were that they took Napoleonic jewels and jewels related to French royalty, a police official said. The thieves fled via the roads along the Seine River, the official added.
It was broad daylight, roughly 9:30 a.m."
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Is no one in the street in France at 930am?
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They watched the thieves run by while they ate croissants outside a cafe
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“experienced group of thieves” you say?
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The Murky Underworld Where the Louvre Thieves Hope to Hawk Their Stolen Jewels
A multibillion-dollar global black market deals in gold, diamonds and jewels stolen from museums and private collections
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OBVIOUSLY not condoning criminal activity. But man no news excites me like a good heist.
I can’t click enough links on it.
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Same. I’m so sick of hearing about identity theft - I want some real hard goods stolen, followed by a high-speed chase and a manhunt and a full-blown INTERPOL investigation
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How many scripts do we think are already underway for the expected movie and or series in French and English about this caper? I set the over / under at 5.5
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Oceans 14
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Is already underway, believe it or not
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@djpie I’m not a SNL guy at all, but they seriously parodied Maryland’s premier food podcast:
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I did not expect to see the German company that sells furniture ladders used in the heist do an ad campaign, but here we are.
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If Germans see an efficiency, they’ll exploit it.
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Heist docu this Sunday at 8
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