The Bloated Pig - A Place for Weary Flingers Page 1526
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  • @all -- Just saw Slim's video on the news this morning, so I think it's gone viral on YouTube, so you will probably be able to see it.
  • HA! Not often I get the page change!
    @Lisko -- The cost of getting your driver's license seems outrageous. What is the justification for that?
  • @Theanonymoussomeone -- My birthday is 9/10, and I am very thankful it wasn't a day later.
  • Congrats @lisko - at least your licence is safe! I'm on a train from Leeds - yes I know I went to London but when we got to Euston there had been a signal failure at Watford so our 2 hours 8 min train home suspended til further notice! told to go to Kings Cross (£5 taxi) train to Leeds then Leeds to Liverpool! So a mere 2and a half hours after we should have been home but it feels like forever!
  • @mvnla2 - You don't say...When I drove the first part for the license I paid 1500€ for the lessons at the school, 15€ for the photos, about 65€ for the police that they give me the permission to drive, doctor's certificate about 35€, 25€ for the written test and 50€ for the driving test. Now I have to pay that 430€ for the second part so that I don't lose my license.

    Oh, and I didn't pass the written test until on the third time so that makes 50€ extra and the driving test I passed on the second time so another 50€ more.

    So 2220€ for the license...Though I'm happy that I passed the first part before they decided to change the law, 'cause today the license costs about 3000€ :P But yeah, I agree with you, the price is absolutely crazy, but no can do, have to pay it or otherwise I'll lose the license...
  • @AMslimfordy - We grieve for all the people affected by Monday's tragedy, but it's hardest of all when someone we know has been taken from us. I'm so sorry.

    You are right though, about Boston being much too strong a city and a community for any attack to bring us down. Our history may be (quite literally) riotous and rebellious; we may be rather unruly and quick to question authority; we may be at once very warm and very reserved. But our long journey together has meant that we've grown deep roots; we love our city and our neighborhoods and our landmarks and our buildings and our institutions; yet we constantly seek to learn, to renew, to grow and adapt.

    Our shared past keeps us firmly anchored as we lean forward into the winds of the future.

    We don't forget anything; every victory and every defeat becomes part of who we are. We pause to remember, then we simply march onward.
  • @abizzle Did you find your new digs accomodating?
  • accomodating? *looks in dictoinary* accomodating... accomodating.... a-ha! yes @rd!
  • @all, Yeah, I told that I'd be back a bit later but I'm so exhausted 'cause all the driving today so I'm heading to bed now. It's almost 10pm and I woke up at 4am so I'm pretty sure that my day is done and I can sleep now...Zzzzz...Nighty night @everyone :)
  • Hi, who's in tonight? @AB feeling safe now?
    @JunkenMetal you too in Boston? My sis lived in Cambridge for four years, did a degree at Havard (the clever one in the family!) I loved Boston when we visited, such lovely people. Stood on a corner with a map and everyone who passed, or rather didn't, stopped and asked to help. I remember arriving in April. Freezing cold, boots, woolly socks, scarves, overcoats. Twelve hours later, flip flops, t shirts. How the weather changed!
    @Lisko keep missing each other. Well done on the driving test
  • @ab what AB do you play? I only do seasons.
  • @ab what is your favourite? Or what is your best? Probably the same :)
  • Well OB I appear to on my own now. A small snifter of whiskey please before I climb the stairs.
  • star wars
  • @ab keep flinging, especially in Star Wars, and beat your opponents. You can do it
  • Good evening @all! Anyone hanging around?
  • @ABcrazy Good Evening! I'm popping in and out, but it looks like it's been a pretty quiet day!
  • @BirdLeader if you mean platform update then I just did it. Hope it works the way you want it to! Looks like an awesome feature to have, thanks for all your hard work all admins! :)
  • O.k @BirdLeader will do sounds great!!! :) thanks for all you do..wish you could sit and relax someday:)
  • Me too! Sounds great! I hope we get to test it next week.
  • O.k went to profile page @Kimmiecv @mvnla2 how do i do it..i just woke up..so I'm a little fuzzy..it does sound good ..help? K think i got it;)
  • All this eating business its making me sleepy....
  • @Kathy -- If you need help, let us know. Sounds like you figured it out?
  • @Kathy a good hearty meal will do that! Your body's working hard to make it into stuff it needs! Makes it tired! You'll sleep well!! Keep it up! ;D
  • @BirdLeader new forum? Will it keep all the old conversations?
  • @AngryBirdsSpaceMaster The existing ("Vanilla") forum will still be viewable in its entirety, yes.
  • Hmm are we getting 'Chocolate' forum mmmm...:)
  • Thought food supposed too give you energy..not make you tired:(
  • Thoughts and prayers to those victims and families in Texas explosion..:(
  • Just keep Flingin' keep Flingin' keep Flingin' what do we like to do

    Fling Fling
    Die piggies...
  • @Kimmiecv I'm calling out early..not early enough but better..(((( hugs)))))
    *places flashlight on kimmie booth..with a bouqette of yellow roses:)
    Hope your night is wonderful and enjoy your day off tommorow":)

    Good night all God Bless:)
  • Lots going on! Hi @all
    Can anyone tell me why I always get the message that I'm not friends with the person I'm trying to PM? And yes, I am friends with said person. Just checked again to be certain that hadn't changed. This isn't the first time I've gone through this. Also, does anyone else get the RIO on vacation page each time they try to access their personal pages? I always have to do it twice. The second request always takes me to my personal pages.
  • Wow @Kathy don't know what I did to deserve the beautiful roses but Thank You :) and it's normal to feel tired after eating so your on the right path! :) sleep well and see you tomorrow! I'm making Machaka again so I'm more absent than lurking right now, sorry I missed stuff! :(

    *shines KitKats flashlight and replaced batteries to get her ready for heavy flinging this weekend and sets out candles to see her safely to Dreamland * mwaaaah love ya!!

    @Bird-addict I've had the issue before with sending PMs to friends, don't know why it happens but try this as its worked for me to override the prob: Go to your friends list and click on the person you want to PM once their profile pops up you'll see 3 boxes look for the 3rd box that says send private message and click it, it'll be right under their avy, if you want to add more than that person at this point it shouldn't be a prob because you should now be in the PM/compose screen. Try that and see if it works! As to the other issue nope hasn't happened, maybe you've got a touch of KitKats Hoodoo Voodoo? Happens to me every once in a while that I catch a bit of it here and there! LOL ;D
  • Ohhh hey I've seen that screen before! @Bird-addict maybe you should do that hard thingy and get rid of your cache overload if you haven't done it in a while?! Might clear that prob up. Worth a try anyways :)
  • Morning @all!

    Yay, I'm starting to feel like a human again after I slept almost 13 hours :D How is everyone? :)
  • Wouldn't hurt to clear cache though this has been going on since I came to the nest. It happened to me on my galaxy and now my iPad. I've always assumed it is a system glitch that everyone experiences. Maybe something associated with my account. Don't know but I've gotten used to it. When o'clock in my name, I briefly see "sorry for the I convenience" then the "RIO" page shows saying "oh no this page seems to have up and left on to a vacation to Rio" maybe @ripsy or @AMSlimfordy would know what's up?
  • Hi @Lisko! I was going to send a PM to you but the site is claiming we aren't friends, so here is what I was going to say,
    Lisko PM

    Hi Lisko! Sending a PM, cause I know you're sleeping as I write this. I figured you might not see it if I wrote it in BP, cause I don't know if you leave your notification on at night. anyway...
    I'm amazed at the prices you're quoting for a driver license fees! In the US it costs, oh about $25 to get a driver license. We have to pay for insurance but that is through a private company and we just have to provide the state with proof of insurance before they'll issue the license. We don't have to go back each year, they just automatically renew our license. Then every 5 yrs you have to appear at the DMV for renewal - at no cost. Each state is a bit different and will have different fees, but nothing like what you describe. Do the fees your required to pay cover vehicle insurance or is that another expense for you? How long will this 2220€ last before you have to pay out again?
  • Oops, I take that back @Lisko. It costs about $60.00 for a license, $25 is for a permit - which you have to get while you're learning to drive. So total of $85.
  • Hi to @all at BP&WF. Perheps someone could help me, let's say IT ignorant, with issue that I have with my iPad applications sizes. Yesterday I installed CTR time Travel game which's size is according to application description 65 MB. When I tried to sync it with iPad I got message that my photos couldn't be sync because my iPad is full. I deleted all Doodle Jump games that I have on phone to make space for photos. Then I checked for applications installed on my iPad sizes and it says that CTR Time travel is more than 350 MB???? How is that possible? Also all my AB games are over 300 MB, as well as BP and AA.
    @lisko I never sleep more then 6 hours during workweek. Luckily it's Friday so I could spend one lazy Saturday morning in bed tommorow.
  • @bird addict -

    Here when you go to the driving school, you have to go through 19 theory classes and 18 driving lessons (on lesson is about 25min). Then you have to pass the theory test and after that the driving test. While you're on the first part, the car insurances are included to the price 'cause you're driving on school's car. When you pass the driving test, you'll get temporary card which lasts 2 years from the day you pass the driving test.

    Then you have to go through the second part (which I'm working on at the moment). The fact is that at this point, they can't take your lisence away if you screw up, which I think is a bit stupid. But if you don't take the second part in two years, you're gonna lose the lisence. Yesterday I was there and on the first driving lesson I just had to drive around the town for about 30min and then the teacher told if there was something I did wrong (for example too much speed or something like that). After that we drove that same route again and the teacher was checking if there was any improvement. The third driving lesson was that we went to the motorway and drove here and there for about 1 hour. And the teacher was looking how well I can drive in an unfamiliar place. And in the end there was the dark driving simulator, where you needed to show how well you know how to use the lights when it's dark and how do you react if for example a deer jumps on the road.

    Now I just need to go to the track and show that I can handle the car when the road is slippery. After doing that, I have to take the certification and take it to the police station so that they know that I've done everything that's needed. It used to be so that when that's done, you don't need to do anything until you're 45 years, but now when they changed the law, you need to get the doctor's certificate every 5 years and that always costs about 30-35€.

    Oh, and every car you own, need a separate insurance, the cost of the insurance depends of how old your car is and the model also effects it. It goes by the stats, how often that model has been a part of a crash or something. My car is Nissan Micra -98 and the insurance costs about 80€/year. And then you have to pay the traffic taxes too. I don't remember how much it was exactly, but something like 150€/year. And when you count that the gasoline costs about 1,65€ per litre at the moment...No, it really isn't cheap to drive in Finland...
  • @cosmo - Usually I need that 6-8 hours of sleep, but yesterday was pretty exhausting day, mostly 'cause I woke up at 4am and the whole day went pretty much in driving so I was really tired when I got home. I'm so happy that my hubby let me go to bed earlier and he watched after The Little Terrorist :D
  • @birdleader GREAT idea and just a FYI I read ANY and ALL comments of the Bloated Pig, so I got your message, but can't wait for the new forum to go live and the @mentions will work for my name :D
    I opt-in the setting, so let the updates come, did you ask Rovio to help with the plan and release updates ASP to test out the new setting hahahah wouldn't that be wonderful right?

    Question though… is there a way to view a list of the current Top Scores one has? To my knowledge I only had one, not sure which it was and ermmm, no idea if it has been busted already. It would be great if there was a option to view ones Top Scores, so if there is and I have missed it, can you please direct me to that button.

    Thanks for all the great work in improving this already amazing place we all call Home in the virtual world!
  • @E-star - That would be great if everyone could see the top scores they've got and even better it would be if you would get a notification when someone takes it from you! Great ideas!
  • @cosmo2503 Sorry I wasn't in last night, a case of to much stuff and exercise for one week. (I ride my bike to work and in the winter when it is freezing I take the public transportation… Spring has come, so I started monday to ride again… my bum did not agree with me hahahahah and yesterday I had so much wind in my face, I think it still shows after a full night of recovery… almost stood still at one point) anyway rambling… About our monarchy, I think we are a to small of a country to really be in the picture for that. All though our Queen now and our King after 30 April don't decide much in our country, they have a great ceremonial job to do and travel all over the world to get attention for causes that need a bigger spot light. I am not very into the monarchy myself and know little about it. What I do know is that our Queen always showed sympathy when a disaster hit, just so the people knew she cared. She always tried to keep us together as a nation by addressing us when the time called for it, or like she did every christmas with a christmas speech. Again, I am a bit clueless myself as to our monarchy, I just know they always appear to be very open and warm people. Like the interview with the new King and his wife (she will be come Queen, but not with the job functions of our Queen now… just the title nothing more. Hard to explain… only one will be King (in the sense of the leader of the country, with the status and job functions) and if the King is a female, she will be called Queen and her husband is called Prince… (cause calling him King would cause confusion as to who is leading the country) in the case of a male stepping to the throne he is called King and his wife is called Queen.) Hahahahah LOL hope this makes any sense… I know I didn't knew this before the interview of last wednesday.
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