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scratchygoddess

hometoursandotherstuff

chiefofboatwatsonstittymug

Equivalent in Leeds, England

maxwelton

What's beautiful about the Leeds example is the six north-south roads at top right, including the two that bracket all of the "harolds" are all named Thornville...from east to west it's Thornville Street, Ave, Terrace, Grove, Mount and Road. And down lower-left, you'd think Harold Place would continue to the west across Thornville Road, but no, that segment below Harold Grove is "Back Harold Grove", which I suspect means that bit is more of an alley than anything else. Also, the next four streets running east-west north of Harold Ave and east of Thornville Street are also Thornvilles: View, Place, Row, and Back Thornville Row.

So in that one small corner of Leeds you have 10 streets named Harold and 10 named Thornville. (This seems to be a thing in that part of Leeds, just off-map in the above zoom are whole patches where there are multiple streets each of Welton, Hessle, Autumn, and Brudenell. I imagine the Amazon driver hates this part of town.)

Mr Border Collie (BC mix, we got his DNA results back: 47% BC, 35% Aussie Cattle Dog, 11% Aussie Shepherd and 7% Golden Retriever) not too impressed with my weak attempt at an "Artistic" shot, trying to use a drainage ditch as a reflecting pond for the cherries. Ah, well, he's handsome enough to salvage the shot...

#border collie #dogblr

sheepdog-and-fakegoldenretriever

Loves his new mat...

maxwelton

My ex-wife and I had a girl border collie who was terrified of the "pergo" floors in this house and so we put down mats and rugs everywhere. There were a couple of places, like on the "backside" of the kitchen island, where there were none, and sometimes she'd be curious enough to venture cautiously back there. She sometimes got 90% of the way around, to where she was only a couple steps from the safety of the next rug, and her brain would melt and it would take her ten minutes of agonizing backing up to her starting point to get back out. Poor thing. "Grippy" hard surfaces didn't bother her, but laminate flooring sure did. I'm not sure she ever slipped on it.

That's floor girl Tess, happy on carpet. RIP you wonderful doggo. Gosh, it's been 8 years.

depsidase

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ef-1

My favouritest sport fact ever is that in 1990s 2 cardiac surgeons watched an f1 race to save the lives of countless kids. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) kept losing the lives of patients after successful heart surgeries. Specifically the 10-15 minutes after a bonefide clinically successful surgery patients would die:

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I literally love this fact so much because being an pitcrew member is such a thankless job because theyre underpaid and overworked mechanics and they literally saved lives in this instance.

mondengel2

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital turned to Formula 1 for answers. By studying Ferrari’s pit-stop teamwork, they redesigned how patien

I love this!

And it that it wasn't a one and done.

The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.

After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it's now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.

This is a perfect example of how two very different fields of knowledge meeting can make a huge leap forward in progress.

republicansaredomesticterrorists

mesacollie

We are mauling Lambie together in front of the fake fireplace.

maxwelton

I knew the border collie home planet had sent out a memo about lamb chop stuffies. Poor lamb chop

jamesternes

646cc OHV twin capable of over 100mph

maxwelton

I've had mine up to just about 100mph and it vibrated several bits off. Will go 70mph all day long, though. Mine's a 1954, first year of swing arm frame, mine still has the plunger frame as first owner used it as a sidecar hack and sidecar guys didn't trust swing arms.

Think I have to sell this, sadly. Pup needs kibble more than I need ye olde bike.

#bsa motorcycle #bsa a10

meangirlnurse

i'm such a sucker for dogs with spots

meangirlnurse

ideal

meangirlnurse

his feets.....cookies and cream

border-collie

I heard you like them spotty

maxwelton

My BC has fancy spotted legs!

bigfatbitchdotcom

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

bigfatbitchdotcom

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

bigfatbitchdotcom

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

its-the-blob

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

ralfmaximus

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

nice-worm-deactivated20200906

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

secondlina

I reblog the money pigeon because I love him.

maxwelton

I would gladly repay him Tuesday for a hamburger today

Mr bordercollie benefits from the store having a bin of lamb chop toys sporting witch's hats on sale. He already has a lamb chop with a hat, but that was an orange hat, completely different!

#dog #border collie