Do you have a Roomba?

[VictoriaB]

Speaking of my friend's cat who loves to ride one, I'm wondering how
many of you have a Roomba, and whether you bought it or received it as a
gift.

I received mine for my birthday a few months ago. I gushed and said
thank you so much but didn't use it for a long time. I don't think it
does a good job on carpet, but does spiff up the kitchen floor quite nicely.

It fascinates me... I run around putting objects in front of it so it
will have to recalibrate, then it's so confused when I take them away.

v - yeah, I know, get a life

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[%]

i got my testicles stuck in a vacuum cleaner, now we're both bagless

[mixed nuts]

Cat poo and Roombas can be entertaining.

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Grizzly H.

[Fran]

On 20/12/2022 11:14 pm, VictoriaB wrote:
> Speaking of my friend's cat who loves to ride one, I'm wondering how
> many of you have a Roomba, and whether you bought it or received it as a
> gift.

Nope. Don't own one.

>
> I received mine for my birthday a few months ago. I gushed and said
> thank you so much but didn't use it for a long time. I don't think it
> does a good job on carpet, but does spiff up the kitchen floor quite
> nicely.
>
> It fascinates me... I run around putting objects in front of it so it
> will have to recalibrate, then it's so confused when I take them away.
>
> v - yeah, I know, get a life

LOL. Nothing wrong with small amusements. In this household, chuckling
about little things (and then relaying it to the partner who wasn't
around to see it) is a time honoured activity.

[VictoriaB]

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Yes, it is good for entertainment, and living alone I make my own.
However, my Gran would absolutely fall over in a fainting heap to think
that we've become so lazy.......

She came from a generation who were scared that electricity would leak
out of wall sockets and kill them.

Heard on the news: Police were called in the middle of the night to a
home in FLA about an on-going break-in... mother and daughter terrified,
hiding in an upstairs closet. Turned out to be a rogue Roomba crashing
around a downstairs bathroom... had somehow turned itself on.

v - wonders if they shot it
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[mixed nuts]

Department policy and training requires boot stomping, tasering, and
neck squeezing first, and after the shooting stops, and fter the news
choppers arrive, the house gets blowed up and there's a high speed chase.

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Grizzly H.

[VictoriaB]

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LOL! I love it! You know our dark silly scary side so well!
v

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[Fran]

On 21/12/2022 10:30 pm, VictoriaB wrote:

> Heard on the news: Police were called in the middle of the night to a
> home in FLA about an on-going break-in... mother and daughter terrified,
> hiding in an upstairs closet. Turned out to be a rogue Roomba crashing
> around a downstairs bathroom... had somehow turned itself on.
>
> v - wonders if they shot it

LOL. I remember reading some time back that some female 'right to bear
arms' tosspot put her handbag in the back seat with her 3 year old son
and the kid got her gun out and shot her in the back.

She survived. I considered that was a failure of natural selection
given her stupidity.

[Surreyman]

And, in fact, that the 3-year-old knew how to use it ..... !?

[VictoriaB]

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Egad! Yes, I remember that and agree completely. Poor kid. Sadder still
- they'll laugh about it and pass it down as a favorite family story.
"You better that 'un, he shot his maw in the back when he was only three!"
v

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[mixed nuts]

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

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Grizzly H.

[VictoriaB]

mixed nuts wrote:
> On 12/22/2022 05:23, VictoriaB wrote:
>> Fran wrote:

[..]

>>>
>>> LOL.  I remember reading some time back that some female 'right to
>>> bear arms' tosspot put her handbag in the back seat with her 3 year
>>> old son and the kid got her gun out and shot her in the back.
>>>
>>> She survived.  I considered that was a failure of natural selection
>>> given her stupidity.
>> ~~~~
>> Egad! Yes, I remember that and agree completely. Poor kid. Sadder still
>> - they'll laugh about it and pass it down as a favorite family story.
>> "You better that 'un, he shot his maw in the back when he was only
>> three!"
>> v
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txcRQedoEyY
>

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LOL! Exactly! And that was a myth.
v

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[Fran]

On 22/12/2022 9:23 pm, VictoriaB wrote:
> Fran wrote:
>> On 21/12/2022 10:30 pm, VictoriaB wrote:
>>
>>> Heard on the news: Police were called in the middle of the night
>>> to a home in FLA about an on-going break-in... mother and daughter
>>>  terrified, hiding in an upstairs closet. Turned out to be a rogue
>>>  Roomba crashing around a downstairs bathroom... had somehow
>>> turned itself on.
>>>
>>> v - wonders if they shot it
>>
>> LOL.  I remember reading some time back that some female 'right to
>> bear arms' tosspot put her handbag in the back seat with her 3 year
>> old son and the kid got her gun out and shot her in the back.
>>
>> She survived.  I considered that was a failure of natural selection
>> given her stupidity.
> ~~~~
> Egad! Yes, I remember that and agree completely. Poor kid.

Yes. Of the two of them the only one I feel sad about is the kid.

Sadder still
> - they'll laugh about it and pass it down as a favorite family story.
> "You better that 'un, he shot his maw in the back when he was only three!"

And sadly the poor kid will probably be so indoctrinated in that family
that he will think that world view of guns is 'normal' and that shootign
someone is at all an abnormal thing to do.

I am just astounded at US gun nutters. How any nation can put up with
so many mass shootings PER WEEK but still not do anything about guns
says to me that yur country is very broken.

[Fran]

:-)) The sad thing is that I sang along with that and knew ALL of the
words. I grew up with Fess.

[Surreyman]

Indeedy. Even in Surrey, too.

[Fran]

:-)) And Annie Oakley too?

I always wanted a hat just like Fess had.