Hell with one particularly violent spin of a roulette wheel you can beat those numbers.

Dorchester was not a warship, she was originally a civilian ship requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration for use as a troop ship; and Kerouac was a Merchant Mariner, which is a civilian position.

“That’s right, you’re not from Texas. Texas loves you anyway “

I wanted to ask the same question, something here doesn't add up...

some dogs are if not smarter than others, at least quicker to learn / pick up things and think on their own.

Like herding dogs have a task on the farm and htey do it with little to no human direction.

I understand that the type of dog can pre determine intelligence

But even with this.... you just never know if they are really smart. Correct?

Pfft even the tornadoes are small over there, huh?

Can you rephrase that in English?

Those are considered F3s there.

complete cap

Britain essentially sits at the centre of a giant, perpetual tornado as warm air from the Gulf Stream moving SW to NE, passing through the Channel and the North Sea, meets cold Arctic air moving NE to SW, but passing across the top of Scotland and down the Irish Sea.

We receive such clement weather for our latitude because the whole archipleago is basically right in eye of a huge atmospheric gyre that pushes away incoming pressure systems.

However, it's a double edged sword because if poor weather does make it past the barrier and into the eye, it's likely to get captured and buffeted back and forth between the coasts until it expends its energy and dissipates.

Wait, you can serve on a warship during war and just go home to play football?

I’ve seen tornadoes in Europe. They do occasionally minor damage to buildings. They aren’t the same type of storms that can level cities in the central US.

A good friend of mine has a border collie\corgi cross that has a bunch of little stuffed animal toys. She gives them each a different name and can put them in a big pile and that dog will get the exact toy she tells it to every time.

We have to treat it like a 5 year old and spell out certain words or it will know what we're talking about and start freaking out. Such as drive, ride, walk, bath, Vet, etc... It hears Vet, bath, or nails (knows it's getting a trim) and it crawls under her bed and it's damn near impossible to get her out.

All of our mutts know their names and "Outside?".

our Austrialian Cattle dog is like that.

He seems to know everything we are saying, Bed, walk, treat, ball, go to xxx person. Even as a puppy he would knock on the door to go out etc.

Insanely protective though which i guess isnt a bad thing.

Damn, I thought I knew everything cool about Kerouac - I’ve read three biographies and a ton of general Beat history. Thanks, OP!

“Tornados”

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Saved by the ball.

The link also mentions that the great majority of the UK's tornadoes are weak. Most tornadoes in the central United States are weak too, but the powerful ones have longer tracks across the ground.

Honestly I’ve seen two tornadoes in the U.K. in my life, one was when we had the ‘beast from the east’ snow storm in 2011/ 2012 (I think?) and there was a a snow tornado on the hills where I lived then which was quite impressive to watch, just a few metres wide white funnel of snow which flattened all the grass and knocked some coping stones off a wall,

Then in 2018 me and my wife watched a funnel cloud form and touch ground over Pendle and move over the side of the hill for about 10 minutes before dissipating, that one had little mini tornadoes whirling around it,

Of course both of those were nothing like the scary bastards they get in the US, I really feel for people that have to live in tornado alley and keep one eye on the sky and an ear open for sirens, we are so lucky in the U.K. that we don’t really have threats like that

Edit: broke up the post into paragraphs so it wouldn’t just be one long post!

I often call them all "my child".

Well

At least you can always lean to

"It's ok son or daughter"

"My son or My daughter"

😊

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