2022

[Lucretia Borgia]

Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !

[HRM Resident]

Lucretia Borgia <lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
> Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !
>

You beat me by seconds! I guess your skipping that 8th glass of wine
at 3:45 AM was a good idea! Take care, LB!

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HRM Resident

[James Warren]

On 2022-01-01 8:52 AM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !

Ditto.

[axemen99]

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 7:52:30 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !

Happy New Year! 🎆 London Fireworks 2022 🔴 BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurcwV-3zNc
COVID begone!

[Lucretia Borgia]

Nope! I have aged out lol Went to bed around 10, slept, cat woke me
at midnight because she loathes fireworks. Must be some ex Brits
around here as there were quite a few fireworks at 8 o'clock as well.
All the best to your household as well.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Being cynical, I remember saying the same thing in the past lol

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 06:35:24 -0800 (PST), axemen99 <axem...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 7:52:30 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !
>

>Happy New Year! ? London Fireworks 2022 ? BBC
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurcwV-3zNc
>COVID begone!

I was listening to BBC 4 at their time midnight. It's the one time
per year when they let Big Ben play the whole way round, every other
day they cut in with the news after the first boing. The first thing
they do is announce the New Years Honours List, they actually gave an
OBE to Ken Barlow on Coronation Street!!!! To me that devalues it
further as my father was happy to receive an MBE because he said OBE's
were simply Other Buggers Efforts lol

Here's hoping better times are ahead for HK, hoping -

[axemen99]

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 10:41:22 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> I was listening to BBC 4 at their time midnight. It's the one time
> per year when they let Big Ben play the whole way round, every other
> day they cut in with the news after the first boing. The first thing
> they do is announce the New Years Honours List, they actually gave an

> OBE to Ken Barlow on Coronation Street!!!! To me that devalues it they

> further as my father was happy to receive an MBE because he said OBE's
> were simply Other Buggers Efforts lol
>
> Here's hoping better times are ahead for HK, hoping -

HK follows the British system of giving out awards, just changes names from OBE, MBE:
https://www.admwing.gov.hk/eng/honours_awards/hon_list.html

The recent prosecution of news reporters is similar to the same style as the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1967. It is unfortunate that HK government hires younger prosecutors that have no ideas about 1967. They act like the wife of Chairman Mao in the 1967 Cultural Revolution. The Chinese zero-covid-tolerance has shut down the Cathay Pacific Airline this week. Massive Exodus of HKer to UK continues into 2022. most are born before 1997.

Only good news for 2021, HK has a new Catholic Bishop, installed on December 4, 2021. He has Doctoral degrees from Harvard and Minnesota.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 09:05:46 -0800 (PST), axemen99 <axem...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 10:41:22 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> I was listening to BBC 4 at their time midnight. It's the one time
>> per year when they let Big Ben play the whole way round, every other
>> day they cut in with the news after the first boing. The first thing
>> they do is announce the New Years Honours List, they actually gave an
>> OBE to Ken Barlow on Coronation Street!!!! To me that devalues it they
>> further as my father was happy to receive an MBE because he said OBE's
>> were simply Other Buggers Efforts lol
>>
>> Here's hoping better times are ahead for HK, hoping -
>
>HK follows the British system of giving out awards, just changes names from OBE, MBE:
> https://www.admwing.gov.hk/eng/honours_awards/hon_list.html
>
>The recent prosecution of news reporters is similar to the same style as the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1967. It is unfortunate that HK government hires younger prosecutors that have no ideas about 1967. They act like the wife of Chairman Mao in the 1967 Cultural Revolution. The Chinese zero-covid-tolerance has shut down the Cathay Pacific Airline this week. Massive Exodus of HKer to UK continues into 2022. most are born before 1997.
>

I assumed it was only automatic if they were born before '97?

>Only good news for 2021, HK has a new Catholic Bishop, installed on December 4, 2021. He has Doctoral degrees from Harvard and Minnesota.
>
>

Let's hope he's like Tutu ~

[axemen99]

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 1:22:12 PM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> > Massive Exodus of HKer to UK continues into 2022. most are born before 1997.
> I assumed it was only automatic if they were born before '97?

Yes, with the recently updated British Parliament law, due to bad Chinese Security law against HKers in 2021. Now it is easier for HKers to migrate to UK.

> >Only good news for 2021, HK has a new Catholic Bishop, installed on December 4, 2021. He has Doctoral degrees from Harvard and Minnesota.
> Let's hope he's like Tutu ~

The position was vacant for 2 years, due to death. Previous 2 selections were rejected by Communist China.
Newly installed Bishop is an educator, 59 years old. He is well connected, especially with the younger generations. He made friends with Americans and Brits.
However he is NOT a politician, not connected with Communist China. West meets East, time will tell.

[HRM Resident]

Same here! Went to bed around 10 PM. Since they sell fireworks in
Dollar Stores now, everyone and their dog have tons of them. In the
“county,” it’s now every Friday and Saturday night for 5-10 minutes. Last
night it was nonstop from 11 PM until 1 AM. DW got up around 11:55 and
watched the pinnacle for 20-30 minutes. I didn’t even hear her!

Anyway, I have seen my share, and they don’t impress me anymore. We
were in Hawaii about 12-13 years ago on 4 July. Took a bus to near the Ala
Moana Shopping mall in Honolulu. Wow! No wonder they are trillions in
debt.

When I was in high school, you couldn’t have anything like that. It
was a then Halifax County bylaw. No fireworks and no firecrackers, etc.
However, they were allowed down the Annapolis Valley, so we pooled our
allowance/paper route/birthday change and got a grade 12 guy with a car to
get a trunkload! No fireworks, just a ton of every kind of firecracker
ever made. The beginning of the summer of bang-bang-bang every night. :-)

I heard you can take a window out with one of the little red ones about
an inch and a half long if you scotch tape it to the pane and touch the
fuse with a cigarette before you run like hell! But that’s only hearsay!!
:-)

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HRM Resident

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 22:26:01 -0000 (UTC), HRM Resident

They are not my favourite things - a friends brother tried making them
(during the war) and made an error, blinded himself but his face was
terrible to see for several years. However I have to say fireworks on
NY Eve in Tokyo were incredible.

[Doobielicious]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

I sincerely wish you all the best of great health and happiness.

[HRM Resident]

Lucretia Borgia <lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 22:26:01 -0000 (UTC), HRM Resident
> <hrm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Lucretia Borgia <lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 12:55:26 -0000 (UTC), HRM Resident
>>> <hrm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lucretia Borgia <lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
>>>>> Here's hoping it turns into a better year than the last two !
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You beat me by seconds! I guess your skipping that 8th glass of wine
>>>> at 3:45 AM was a good idea! Take care, LB!
>>>
>>> Nope! I have aged out lol Went to bed around 10, slept, cat woke me
>>> at midnight because she loathes fireworks. Must be some ex Brits
>>> around here as there were quite a few fireworks at 8 o'clock as well.
>>> All the best to your household as well.
>>>
>>
>> Same here! Went to bed around 10 PM. Since they sell fireworks in
>> Dollar Stores now, everyone and their dog have tons of them. In the
>> “county,” it’s now every Friday and Saturday night for 5-10 minutes. Last

>> night, it was nonstop from 11 PM until 1 AM. DW got up around 11:55 and

>> watched the pinnacle for 20-30 minutes. I didn’t even hear her!
>>
>> Anyway, I have seen my share, and they don’t impress me anymore. We
>> were in Hawaii about 12-13 years ago on 4 July. Took a bus to near the Ala
>> Moana Shopping mall in Honolulu. Wow! No wonder they are trillions in
>> debt.
>>
>> When I was in high school, you couldn’t have anything like that. It
>> was a then Halifax County bylaw. No fireworks and no firecrackers, etc.
>> However, they were allowed down the Annapolis Valley, so we pooled our
>> allowance/paper route/birthday change and got a grade 12 guy with a car to
>> get a trunkload! No fireworks, just a ton of every kind of firecracker
>> ever made. The beginning of the summer of bang-bang-bang every night. :-)
>>
>> I heard you can take a window out with one of the little red ones about
>> an inch and a half long if you scotch tape it to the pane and touch the
>> fuse with a cigarette before you run like hell! But that’s only hearsay!!
>> :-)
>
> They are not my favourite things - a friends brother tried making them
> (during the war) and made an error, blinded himself but his face was
> terrible to see for several years. However I have to say fireworks on
> NY Eve in Tokyo were incredible.
>

Fooling around with explosives, be it old 17th-century black powder or
C4 plastic (or anything in between), is dumb. As a 12-15 year old, I used
to cut shotgun cartridges apart to get the “modern” smokeless powder out
and light it with a match. It hardly does anything. Just burns quickly.
Old black powder (which I suspect they still use in firecrackers and
fireworks) makes a lot more smoke and smell but doesn’t have the energy of
modern stuff.

However, if you contain either in an enclosed space and get it ignited,
it contains more than enough oxygen to completely consume the “fuel”
portion and generate a tremendous amount of heat and gases that have to go
somewhere. Even many old kitchen match heads, if contained in something
tight, likely have the chemical reactivity to generate multiple times their
volume in hot, high-pressure gases.

Homemade “fireworks” and “firecrackers,” let alone anything else more
nefarious or whatever, is not something amateurs ought to play with. I
don’t understand why we can, in 2021/2022, go to a Dollar Store and load up
with a big box of fireworks. Even adults make mistakes, especially when
half-drunk at night!

Assuming a real bad guy gets it in his head to make a bomb, wouldn’t
there be enough explosive material in boxes of them, if cut open and put in
a steel pipe or other enclosed container, it would likely cause much
damage.

I started scratching my head on the logic of Canadians not being
allowed to have even a .22 rifle without a multitude of courses and rules
(a good thing), and at about the same time making vast quantities of
fireworks available to the general public at Dollar Stores (a bad thing.)
These are two contradictory laws.

My talk about getting firecrackers from “out of the county” is true,
but that was around 1967-1968, not now. They are now a 10-minute drive
away, and all you need to get them in 2021 and 2022 is a Covid mask! This
makes no sense to me.

Different jurisdictions, I know, but dangerous things are still
dangerous, regardless of who makes the laws on their use.

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HRM Resident

[HRM Resident]

Doobielicious <doobie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
>
> I sincerely wish you all the best of great health and happiness.
>

Hi Doobie! Same to you and yours. You ought to drop by more often
than once or twice a year!

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HRM Resident

[Doobielicious]

I will try to do just that. Be well and be safe!!!

[axemen99]

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 10:41:22 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> Here's hoping better times are ahead for HK, hoping -

In HK during 2021, democracy vanished, with the disappearance of 59 newspapers, students unions, teacher unions and community groups.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=772306233694452&set=a.694512358140507

[lucretia borgia]

Hi Doobie, good to see yah! I echo HRM's sentiments.

[lucretia borgia]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 08:47:08 -0800 (PST), axemen99 <axem...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Although I hadn't planned on going back again, it still saddens me.

[Doobielicious]

Will try my best. I hope all is well with you.

[Doobielicious]

Hong Kong and Japan are a few places that I've always wanted to visit. Same with Vietnam.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 08:38:43 -0800 (PST), Doobielicious

<doobie...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 7:43:11 PM UTC-4, lucretia borgia wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:15:59 -0800 (PST), Doobielicious
>> <doobie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 10:03:44 PM UTC-4, HRM Resident wrote:
>> >> Doobielicious <doobie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
>> >> >
>> >> > I sincerely wish you all the best of great health and happiness.
>> >> >
>> >> Hi Doobie! Same to you and yours. You ought to drop by more often
>> >> than once or twice a year!
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> HRM Resident
>> >
>> >I will try to do just that. Be well and be safe!!!
>> Hi Doobie, good to see yah! I echo HRM's sentiments.
>
>Will try my best. I hope all is well with you.

Yes apart from being bored to hell and back :) One good thing we did
in our condo building was deciding we basically live in the same
bubble so on Saturday nights we get together in the party room, we
each bring drinks and nibbles, works for us :)

[Lucretia Borgia]

It is, or perhaps I should say, the home of my heart. Japan is an
interesting visit, the Japanese are unlike any other peoples.