Originally posted by Great Big Steesyeah, linear time for the big calendar. cyclical time for shorter calendar. the largest number was something ridiculous, can't remember how big exactly. but something like billions of times longer than the universe has existed.
So it's really more like tick.....(50 years pass).........tock etc. then?
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Originally posted by wormwoodI have trouble with an hour let alone anything in the billions of light years.😏
yeah, linear time for the big calendar. cyclical time for shorter calendar. the largest number was something ridiculous, can't remember how big exactly. but something like billions of times longer than the universe has existed.
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Originally posted by wormwoodI wrote a cheque for my house insurance the other day, apparently I dated it 1983. That was about 15 years after I bought the place. Go figure. "😉
I used to have trouble with hours. but nowadays years fly by so fast anything less than a week seems like a blink of an eye.
Originally posted by Great Big SteesI was still a kid back then... but recently it took me ten minutes to figure out if I was gonna turn 34 or 35. suddenly I just wasn't sure. after some futile attempts at remembering it I actually calculated it from my birth year. 35 it is now.
I wrote a cheque for my house insurance the other day, apparently I dated it 1983. That was about 15 years after I bought the place. Go figure. "😉
but at least this time I remembered it was my birthday. didn't manage even that a couple of years ago.... well actually I've forgotten it twice already.
Originally posted by Great Big SteesI'll be writing 2010 all over the place most every day at the office. Come March or April for some reason I'll write 2009 one day. Happens every year.
I wrote a cheque for my house insurance the other day, apparently I dated it 1983. That was about 15 years after I bought the place. Go figure. "😉
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Originally posted by wormwoodDoes that, then, make you 33?
I was still a kid back then... but recently it took me ten minutes to figure out if I was gonna turn 34 or 35. suddenly I just wasn't sure. after some futile attempts at remembering it I actually calculated it from my birth year. 35 it is now.
but at least this time I remembered it was my birthday. didn't manage even that a couple of years ago.... well actually I've forgotten it twice already.
Originally posted by Great Big Steesthe finns traveling in ussr were called 'vodka tourists' back then. because we had a habit of consuming copious amounts of cheap vodka, and do all kinds of stupid stunts. often losing our passports, money, and sometimes even clothes in the process.
So you didn't even "try" their vodka. Oh wait the way they drink there probably wasn't any to be had by foreigners.
but not me, I was just a couple of years too young for all that. have tried russkaya vodka later though. didn't even get blind.
there was even pepsi in the soviets during the 80's when I was there. although they ran out of it constantly. but the next day it was always somehow available again.
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Originally posted by wormwoodVodka and Pepsi eh. Never was a Pepsi drinker...the odd coke but never with anything. I prefer my vodka with an ice cube or vermouth.
the finns traveling in ussr were called 'vodka tourists' back then. because we had a habit of consuming copious amounts of cheap vodka, and do all kinds of stupid stunts. often losing our passports, money, and sometimes even clothes in the process.
but not me, I was just a couple of years too young for all that. have tried russkaya vodka later though. di ...[text shortened]... hough they ran out of it constantly. but the next day it was always somehow available again.
