A male whale and a female whale were swimming off the coast of Japan when they noticed a whaling ship. He said to the female whale, "Let's both swim under the ship and blow out of our air holes at the same time and it should cause the ship to turn over and sink."
They tried it and sure enough, the ship turned over and quickly sank. Soon however, the whales realised the sailors had jumped overboard and were swimming to the safety of shore. The male was enraged that they were going to get away and told the female "let’s swim after them and gobble them up before they reach the shore."
At this point, he realised the female was becoming reluctant to follow him. "Look," she said, "I went along with the blow job, but I absolutely refuse to swallow the seamen."
What do you call a group of tactical board game players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?
Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
So for most of today both wrists have had braces fitted to borh suppurt them & to reduce pain/inflamation. It's been awkward, though. It's quite a hot day and it's been hot & sweaty under the strapping.
Woke up this morning with a very sore right wrist plus there's a horrid ganglion cyst in my left wrist giving me grief. Fortunately I have two different wrist braces, both are ambidextrous in orientation. One has an aluminium splint to reduce joint articulation, the other is a wrap-around thing. The splint one fits my right wrist/hand better because it's smaller than my left wrist/hand. Being right-handed I use that one for finesse & the left for grunt work. It seems 58 years of doing that has led to slightly greater physical development on the left.
I have just signed up with Australia Post's Shopmate service. This gives me a US shipping address, once delivered there, Australia Post handles the rest of the delivery process. This means I'll be able to get around issues most Amazon traders have with not shipping here.
TIL that Australian quarantine regulations preclude the importation of bone-in ham, ergo any ham-on-the-bone sold here is an Australian product.
Musing. The lord mayor of the Victorian capital city Melbourne from 1988-1989 was Winsome McCaughey (pronounced McCacky). It didn't take long at all for a radio satire group to refer to her as Pensive McTacky.