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Friday lunchtime conversation topics

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Are always a bit raucous. Today’s teasers include:

It took 300 years to classify the giant galapagos turtle because they kept being eaten in transit before they could reach London

Wild wallabies roam villages west of Paris
https://www.thelocal.fr/20150804/wild-wallabies-roam-villages-west-of-paris

In 1969, two blokes bought a lion from Harrods of London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion

There is a thriving colony of wild Hippos in Columbia thanks to Pablo Escobar
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pablo-escobars-hippos-keep-multiplying-and-colombia-doesnt-know-how-to-stop-it/

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Does your desk have a snack drawer?

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A Portuguese co-worker’s visiting family restocked me with low-sugar high-fiber granola bars with coffee and chocolate (!!!!). They’re available in Switzerland, but at three times the price so I use my network strategically.

In a parallel conversation, another co-worker was asking me why I could eat those granola bars, but not ones he’d just offered me:

Conversation went something like this:

Me – I can’t eat those, they have nuts in them.
Suttipong – Do they? I didn’t see any in the ingredients.
Me – See? Right there! (now keep in mind that the ingredient list is printed in such a way as to take up the whole back side of the packaging)
Suttipong – It’s so small!
Me – It’s written in bold and underlined!

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Oktoberfest in Morges

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We went for a beer at Linpasse, who were offering a free beer if you made the effort of dressing up appropriately. Katy and Jennifer went all out, and were amply rewarded.

It was a night to remember, if only because of the lecherous old man who regaled us with stories of hand jobs on a Whitby beach when he was playing for the 2nd string Swiss football team in the mid-60s (I will never see béchamel or ties in the same light ever again). Then there was the reason why women cheat on their spouses (because they’re not being given enough foreplay, with many tangents on his many girlfriends and their preferences for knees, toes, asses, etc), how he was a doctor and knew a lot about female pleasure, and that Isis is evil because women should be screaming in pleasure and not pain. It was quite surreal.

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Bobble goes to CERN

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And is disappointed.

Paloma, her flatmate Elies and her friend Bianca, from Spain, had plans to go to the CERN open days. We had big plans to visit a few exhibits, the data center, and had hopes to go down and see at least one detector. That… proved to be ambitious.

No, we’re not lost at all.

It was packed, badly indicated, we couldn’t really see anything and all the detectors closed early because there were too many people. In the end, we walked in an industrial estate for 2 hours under a very strong sun, we spent 15 minutes seeing the data center (which was cool, if you’re a geek) and we listened to a 2 minute tesla coil concert.

We then spent 25 minutes driving to get to CMS – to find out it was essentially closed. So yes. Not the best use of time. The side trip to carrefour for impromptu grocery shopping was more enjoyable.

Update: this is what we wanted to see. Dominik Gehl and his family were able to do down into CMS when they went on Sunday. Pictures are his:

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