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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

SWBTATTReg

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3. Personally, over the years, I have watched many others do themselves in, far better than ...

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2020, 02:32 PM

Apr 2020

anyone else could. Hence, my choice is leave alone what's cooking on the stovetop, and let it simmer and boil over.

By the way, interesting choice of hobbies, neat! I bet sometimes it can be a challenge to remain quiet throughout it all. I'd go nuts, which is why I avoid these types of things, let nuts be nuts, after all.

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