I felt really bad the last couple of days I think I had covid but I think I am over it now.

what kind of birds?

how is that a good thing?

 

I'm glad you feel better, did you get tested?

 

doves (not to confuse with flying rats AKA pigeons)

 

they are quite lovely and one of the pair has even learned to fight off pigeons which try to steal their food (which is impressive given her smaller size and peaceful disposition)

No. I was never tested positive for it. But I had similar symptoms as I had when I had what I think was corona. I think I had it three times so far. Only the first time was pretty uncomfortable with 39° fever. The two times after that were rather mild. Maybe half as bad as a cold.

 

Why do you dislike pigeons?

It's an awful thing. Good things not happening to me today.

My grandma had non-covid pneumonia in October 2021. Was hell to get her treated bc most of the hospital was reserved for covid ward.

Did you get drunk after you've found a place to get her treated?

I ate delicious burger and nuggets, homemade, and made a thread about my experience.

how do you know it wasn't just a mild cold?

 

pigeons do nothing but peck at each other and shit all over the place

 

hopefully tomorrow will be better

 

do you miss McDonald's after it left Russia?

In contrast to a cold coroners gives me digestion problems and ans stomach ache. When I first had it I had 39° fever and had to go to the toilet every hour to not soil myself.

This time I had digestion problems as well but not nearly as bad as the first time. Did you already have it?

 

I doubt that doves shit less than pigeons if you disregard the size difference. In german a derogatory for dog is "shit pump". But that does not stop you from liking them.

I have never been to McDonalds.

 

I don't understand the question, I always get drunk.

that doesn't sound very fun, did you get vaccinated?

 

I don't think I've ever had it, even though last year I spent a month at my parents' place when my mom had covid (confirmed by a test, and I got tested then too to check if I'm maybe asymptomatic, but no)

 

that's true, but I've never seen doves shit all over my windowsill, and pigeons do it all the time (they sometimes even use the water dish I put out as a toilet - what animal in their right mind shits in the same place it eats?)

 

same with dogs, they usually shit where it's appropriate to do so

 

I suppose you haven't missed much, since the only good thing they have is fries (but you probably could make tastier ones yourself)

 

but maybe one day Uncle Joe will liberate Russia and you'll be able to eat some American pink slime meat

Yes I got vaccinated twice. Both times I felt really bad for two days after. Maybe half as bad as the actual sickness itself. This is the same for me with flu vaccinations. That's why I don't do those anymore. They make me feel sick but I don't get any guarantee that it actually does anything.

 

Are you immune to the flu, too? Do you think that you do something special in particular to give you a supernatural immune system?

 

I used to follow some youtuber who had ducks and chicken. They continuously pooped in their water as well all the time so he had to change it daily.

Meow

Of course I miss it, going to that geopolitical grey zone donbabwe-tier copycat is a shameful act for an American patriot such as me, so I didn't have McDonalds for an 1,5 years.

i had lots of free time and played vidya and talked to my famliy

do you catch the flu often? I always thought it was mainly old or already sick people getting it

 

come to think of it, I've never had the flu; I don't really get sick often, usually catch a mild cold once a year in November/December, but last year I managed to avoid getting sick at all, even with multiple coworkers coming to the office ill and coughing everywhere

 

maybe walking around with unzipped jacket during colder months is boosting my immunity somehow, I don't know

 

is it true they serve moldy food?

 

what game did you play?

Today was bad also. I suffering.

Today I read a gringo was suffering. It made me kek softly.

many ways to boost immune system, just generally being healthy (sleep, nutrition, exercise) is best. also being young

dark and darker. i managed to murder some people in solo. i have been trying fighter duel-wield build. rangers are soulless machines and deserve to be chased and murdered

I feel good because tomorrow I don't need to go to work

the best way to boost immunity to viral disease is to breathe through the nose and so accumulate nitric oxide in one's blood

 

I even tape my mouth shut during the night to prevent mouth breathing while sleeping

I get a cold maybe twice a year. Once at the beginning of winter and once nearing the end. It used to be only once but it's gotten worse since I switched to a big company with many people. Sometimes it does not result in a cold were I have to lie in my bed for 1-2 days but then I walk around with constant headaches for two weeks feeling bad until it goes away which is not more pleasant.

 

As soon as one of my colleagues comes to the office coughing and sneezing I know that I will get it a week later and there is nothing I can do about it. I tried to stay at home when I notice that coworkers are obviously ill but this just makes me feel bitter and I don't know if it helps at all or just delays the inevitable so I just take it.

I called in ill on tuesday and spent the day sleeping and playing vidya and enjoyed it quite a lot. So maybe the cold once in a while has also something positive.

 

I exclusively breath through my nose. It doesn't help.

tape your mouth shut during sleep like i said

 

i haven't gotten sick even once since i started doing it

I‘m pretty certain that the glue of the tape will give me pimples.

I might use a rope to force my jaw shut but I doubt that this will give me restfull sleeps.

Do you have much contact to other people?

Hmm two black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) flew into our house the other day, and couldn't find their way out. Had to catch 'em, and bring 'em out by hand. They tried to hide in the most inconvenient places but managed to free 'em without harming em.

They shat on me hand however.

what kind of tape are you using and where did u purchase it?

Why not use a ballgag instead?

uhh

Tinkering with the car has been a source of great joy as of late.

 

Difficult to miss something that never left for real. Vkus Ochka is literally the exact same thing serving the exact same shit food as the good old McD and even owned by the exact same people. Only Plebbiteers, Russian liberals and Ukrainians cared about the whole exodus thing.

is today any better?

 

rude

 

what do you do on your days off?

 

don't you take any medicine for that? the worst thing for me is always stuffy nose, but pseudoephedrine always helps (I mean, it doesn't actually cure anything, but at least it makes me feel better)

 

why don't people stay home when they're sick? it's a mystery to me, although I suppose having your pay docked 20% during sickness related absence is incentive enough for some (but still, if they insist on working they could just switch their schedule around and work from home instead of being incubi of viral plague)

 

do you feel better now? what game did you play?

 

they're so cute! but I have no idea how you managed to catch them by hand, I'd probably use some kind of box

 

so that is what this contraption is for!

 

are you repairing/improving something?

I rarely get a runny nose or a sore throat and usually don't have to cough at all. Only thing happens when I'm sick is that I get really bad headaches, feel bad, can't concentrate and feel really tired. Even if I would take something against the headaches I would still feel bad so I don't see a purpose. The only thing I do is drink a lot of water/tea.

 

You don't get a pay cut in germany if you are sick. You don't even have to go to the doctor at my job as long as you stay home for less than four days. Also you can always spontaneously decide to work from home. There is no reason not to do it besides not caring about others.

But it needs only one individual in group to ruin it for all and make everyone sick and there is no way to make everyone behave responsibly. So this isn't a topic worth getting angry over it.

 

I played blasphemous 2 and feel fine. Thanks.

it's saturday and i can play video games

what games are you playing?

baldurs gate 3

 

im a powerful badass looking silver dragonborn sorcerer with frost dragon ancestry

time to go out and find something good to report on

Swapped the spark plugs, ignition leads and coils. Next up is replacing some trim panels in doors for the fresher ones. I might get a full valet just to freshen up the interior.

Never checked myself, even entering the establishment would be a very shameful act for me.

They cornered themselves. I don't want to get into the details much, but one was at the window corner heavy curtains blocked it, the other was behind the radiator.

How does it feel to be shat on?

I dunno. I did not feel it. I caught one, I took it outside released it, then I saw tad bit of black gunk on my fingers and palm. Same with the other.

Today I spent several hours trying to make ans döner myself.

It was pretty good but probably not worth the effort tbh.

Have to learn how to cook the German national dish.

I don't feel insulted by this. It is one of the better fast foods.

Wasn't meant as an insult. It's a joke on the Bri'ish national dish: curry.

i saw ducks and geese and some lady chased the geese and i watched hoping they would attack her but they didnt but still fun

hey, me too, although I chose a different ancestry (fire)

 

please show your character

 

recipe please

 

I hope you paid them in grain for providing entertainment

The recipe is only in austrian but here you go:

 

In hindsight I shouldn't have made a cabbage/onion salad. In combination with the diced tomatoes/peppers mixture it made everything a little soggy. But I was concerned that raw cabbage would be too tough.

If I would make it again I would probably just use lettuce or cabbage and onion without any dressing instead and probably buy the breada. Then I only have to prepare the meat, yoghurt sauce, and tomato/pepper mixture which would drastically reduce the preparation time.

How good is BG3?

It's literally just bread with things inside, what's the effort? I like to buy pita bread, put it in the toaster and fill it with tomatoes, cucumber, salad and feta cheese and garlic sauce, which takes like 5 minutes

no, i feel like feeding wild animals is bad for them. i try not to minimize interaction as much as possible

Because I maded everything including the bread myself. Also had to debone and marinate the chicken tighs ans day before.

Making ans garlic sauce from yoghurt, garlic, lemon juice and zest, salt, and various herbs takes easily 5-10 minutes alone.

Managed to sleep in spite of no air conditioning ^_^

wait, isn't Austrian the same thing as German? I've been lied to

 

let's just say it's been a hot minute since I've spent a whole weekend playing video games and BG3 captured my attention thoroughly for the past two days - and I don't even like turn-based combat that much

 

how do you deal with the heat?

Austrian and German ist mostly the same. But they have a nasty dialect and some words are different. Also I've never met an Austrian who wasn't arrogant towards germans and very right wing for some reason.

 

I noticed your absence the last couple of days. It is so nice being immersed in a video game. It is like a dream that goes over multiple days. I'm tempted to try BG 1 again to finally play through all titles.

 

I got my cooling blanket last week and tried it out yesterday. It got too cold to be able to fall asleep. Also the hoses are really short and I fear to wiggle the blanket out of my bed in my sleep which would pull the cooling unit with it and cause it to fall to the ground breaking it and spilling water everywhere.

Technologically it is really genious though. The water is pumped to the top of the unit and spread over a sieve to run down a honeycomb like structure which gets blown at by the fan. This causes part of the water to evaporate which cools the rest which gets then pumped through the blanket.

Feeling cool is more about transporting the body heat away from the body than cooling down the environment. This feels so much more efficient than an AC.

it's great until you suddenly realize it's 8 PM and all you've eaten all day is spicy hummus straight out of the container

 

and here I thought your blanket (isn't it more of a mattress though?) wouldn't work at all, color me surprised

 

too bad it's too cold to sleep on

feels known

i used to eat an orange and then mindlessly eat the peel while gaming rather than get up and get more food

I paid 100€ for it. I expect it to last a while. Also I will only use it with distilled water because I figure these small pumps in an open system dependent on evaporation are prone to calcify.

As long as I have the mat I could build a really high quality one with an aquarium pump and water cooler parts for pc's. Wouldn't that be cool?

 

why is that a problem?

I went out with a girl, chatted her all night in a park, went to her place, had breakfast in the morning, it was nice.

it would, quite literally; too bad the summer's almost over

 

when I really focus on something it's almost like the time itself doesn't exist anymore, and when I snap out of it later I have no idea where those minutes and hours went - feels kind of weird, like waking up in some strange place after blacking out

 

what did you have for breakfast?

Quesadillas and tea.

I ordered this SERGIO TACCHINI jacket, it hasn't arrived yet and the sellers photos are blurry but I think 10 bux is a good price for unworn SERGIO TACCHINI garment made around the Atlanta olympics. What do you guys thinkg?/

My brother gave me three of his PlayStation 4s a few days ago and I might decide to set one of them up today once I find an HDMI cable and one of those cables I need to plug in and charge one of the controllers. That's about it, really. Not particularly "good" per se but at least it's something different. I haven't played any video games since 2019.

won't they send you to Siberia for those rainbow pieces?

 

what's the last game you played?

It was probably Ark: Survival Evolved.

It's Friday and I can play video games again (forgot to post requested pic earlier, will deliver later)

Those are olympic colors :(

But yeah I will likely have to paint them over with a marker. Good thing they're there though, otherwise someone would've bought the jacket I supposes :^DD

I made soup out of chicken bones today.

Whenever I eat chicken I put the bones in the freezer and once I have enough I make soup out of them. Any other Bernds make their own soup?

Yeah here we do the same, we save bones, fingers, neck and organs for soup with that and vegetables

How long do you cook it?

Until the meat is tender and the veggies are not hard, we used things as rice, carrot, potatoes, leek, etc. also eggs and all the spices so it’s a really complete soup

Here is the pic, I also found this cool ice staff that fits my character perfectly

 

It's fun, especially when playing together with a friend or two

met a very fluffy friendly healthy cat

nice

the owl returned to my neighborhood after a long absence. or maybe it's a different owl. currently laying in bed getting cozy while he hoots his heart out

wait, really? I was joking about Siberia

 

made a bone broth couple of times and it's a great base for soups (taste-wise), but I really don't understand soups as food

 

do you play with someone? how do cutscenes and interactions with companions work in multiplayer? I finished my first playthough yesterday (killed myself after becoming a mindflayer and defeating the Brain) and already started another one

 

did you pet it? I met a 3 month old dachshund the other day and she was so cute

 

do you hoot back sometimes?

When I make broth it is usually so full of gelatin that it turns solid in the fridge.

I make it in the microwave and throw 2-3 eggs and ramen noodles in there. Along with the vegetables that are already in there I have to eat the majority with a fork.

It's one of those meals that for some reason leaves you extremely satisfied when you are done with it. I try to have either this or self-made lasagna in the freezer at all times.

Soups are not food, they're drink.

i considered taking pic but thought it might be rude to the owner at that moment

I think owls hoot mainly for mating or marking their territory so I don't want to be a tease or a threat