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Just witnessed the "Sankt Hans" festivities in Jutland, Denmark where a puppet is burnt on a bonfire: Google Photos[^] 
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I looks like, those standing around are taking it seriously. Nothing festive in that picture I can see...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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The Danish are masters in deceiving, in reality they are the happiest people on earth
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RickZeeland wrote: in reality they are the happiest people on earth
That's because we can burn witches! 
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As long as it's not CodeWitch that's ok
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Poor them if they would try
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better than the budists we got here,
they'll set fire to a mountain of paper and walk away - leaving the neighbors to enjoy the clouds of smoke blowing into their homes. (the burners were smart enough to close their own windows - and no they never bother to warn even their closest neighbors.)
- it's supposed to be honoring their relatives - enriching them by burning "hell money" - made from the shittiest cheapest quality recycled (laced with god knows what) paper.
here they've made smoking a tiny cigarette illegal almost everywhere even outside on some streets, but burning a heap of stinking recycled paper next to schools (yes pre-school/child care centers too), shops, eating houses (many open air), bus stops, AND EVEN THOSE NON SMOKING STREETS... all good.
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Put up a BBQ in a Dutch city, and you have the same problems; people complaining about stench and smoke, and every year there's a few shouting that it should be illegal to charcoal-BBQ.
Outside the cities things are simpler. If you want to BBQ you don't just warn your neighbours, you invite them over to join.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: people complaining about stench and smoke
Really? I love the smell of BBQ and I dislike BBQing (because a kitchen is so much easier and I don't like it outside) and I'm a veggie 
The downside, of course, is that my neighbors go outside and I can hear them when I have my door open.
All in all I'm done with summer and ready for autumn 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I dislike BBQing (because a kitchen is so much easier and I don't like it outside)
It is easier to just order food, so why do you have a kitchen? 
A small one-time-use grill costs less than 5 euros, perfect for a picnic. And best of all - almost no dishes to clean!
Sander Rossel wrote: and I'm a veggie
So? Throw some unions, carrots and radishes on there, along with a potato, a portobello-mushroom and a tofu-burger. Add some pickles, good sauce, and toast some bread.
Easy, delicious, meat-free, and will taste better than a stuffed witch 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It is easier to just order food, so why do you have a kitchen?
The costs don't outweigh the benefits.
I can't order healthy food where I live anyway, so I'd be eating pizza and fries every day.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: perfect for a picnic
Which is outside.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: almost no dishes to clean
Dishwasher to the rescue!
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Throw some unions, carrots and radishes on there, along with a potato, a portobello-mushroom and a tofu-burger.
Sounds like a lot of work for eating outside
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Sander Rossel wrote: The costs don't outweigh the benefits.
I can't order healthy food where I live anyway, so I'd be eating pizza and fries every day.
Pizza, when done right, is healthy. Part of the Mediterranean diet. Simply fresh bread with veggies and cheese.
Sander Rossel wrote: Which is outside.
Most of the world is
Sander Rossel wrote: Sounds like a lot of work for eating outside
Good food, like good software, requires a bit of effort, that's true
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Pizza, when done right, is healthy.
Yeah, not my local pizza delivery
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Most of the world is
Which is why I rarely visit most of the world
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Good food, like good software, requires a bit of effort, that's true
And like software development I'd rather make it in the kitchen, which has a fast i7 and 32GB and all my dev tools, than outside, with a crappy i3, 2GB and Notepad
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Can't argue there
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Looks "gezellig"
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I expected a wicker man.
Of course that's a pagan (heathens!) ritual performed by... witches
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When we got married I bring a desktop with me, noways we have a desktop (for me), 2 laptops (one for the wife for personal and the other to the kids to running the local library mostly), an all in one (to the wife's work), a tablet (to play games in bed for the kids) and 2 fairly new smartphones (me and wife, but wife's is constantly abused by kids)...
(and I do not count all the electronics I gathered - a shoebox)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Same: 1 Desktop (an Amstrad 1640) when Herself moved in.
Now ...
2 Desktops (though hers is old because she hasn't used it for years)
2 phones (plus a small bucket full of "used" ones)
Her tablet (10" Samsung)
My Nexus 7
My Fire HD (heap of pooh)
My WookieTab
Android head unit in car
Chromecast (Android)
Amazon Fire TV (Android. Ish.)
No kids, or there would be loads more I suspect.
And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ...
and the neighbors cat?
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Gets a tablet every day - cystitis. 
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Everytime I buy a new desktop, the old one goes to the attic. That way when something blows up, I have a spare PC, or I can raid it for spare parts. Have been doing so for quite some time.
Good amount of IDE-cables in reserve. And network cables, phone cables, hubs, dead routers, a TV adapter for the 16-bits Nintendo. Books on Windows NT4. Can't remember the last time I actually needed an IDE-cable
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I know that feeling - I have a drawer full of CAT5 cables I'll probably never need again ...
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Off the top of my head
1) HP Proliant Server
2) ReadyNas Raid box
3) 3 Dell laptops
4) 2 Surface Pros
5) HP laptop
6) Wookie tablet ( semi dead )
7) Samsung tablet
8) Numerous Raspberry Pis
9) Numerous NanoPiM4's
10) 2 iPhones
There are only 2 of us.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Oh sod - I forgot the 2 NASes:
Acer Aspire EasyStore (4 x 1TB, RAID5): Linux
Seagate Blackarmor (4 x 4TB, RAID5): Linux
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