Every time I see something like that, I just imagine them yelling, “Wench! More ale!”
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Its cool we can still have a beer someday.
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Thankfully “going for a beer” can include whiskey 
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Maybe the man just prefers ale? 
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Good morning! 
It is Saturday, 07 August 2021
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Today is: 
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day 
It runs the gamut from the amusing to the frustrating: an oversized box used to ship an item that would find a bubble mailer spacious, all the way up to packaging so secure a high-powered rocket launcher might not open it for you.
When you need scissors to open the scissors, what do you do? Or what about that small item you ordered online that came in a box 10 times too big? How about when you only want three bananas but they’re all individually-wrapped? I’ll tell you what you do: You get wrap rage.
What is wrap rage? In a nutshell, wrap rage refers to heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from hard-to-open packaging. In 2006, Consumer Reports even recognized the phenomenon when it created the Oyster Awards for the products with the hardest-to-open packaging.
Frustration isn’t the only issue either. Many of us suffer some very real injuries.
Have you ever battled vainly to open a tightly sealed bottle of tablets – only to end up with a sprained wrist and an even worse headache? Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day aims to lift the lid on this kind of problem.
So, if you’re being forced to use knives or scissors to prise a toy or tool out of an impenetrable plastic case, don’t keep your feelings under wraps. Let the manufacturers know that their way of packing items just isn’t your bag.
As well as wasting customers’ time, unnecessary over-packaging also wastes precious resources. What’s more, it leaves us all with extra rubbish to dispose of.
Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? No doubt a lot of it comes from preposterous packaging. According to National Geographic: “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. About 80% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land-based activities in North America and Asia. Trash from the coast of North America takes about six years to reach the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, while trash from Japan and other Asian countries takes about a year.”
An ideal way to mark the occasion is to avoid unnecessary packaging as much as possible. This is a day to bypass burger cartons, say no to supermarket plastic bags and do some thinking outside the box!
I really wish I could be wrap raging today as I unpack my new TV, but I can’t because it still fecking hasn’t been delivered yet! 
Hopefully you have got all your purchases and are ready to struggle through all the Particularly Preposterous Packaging it has! Happy Saturday! 
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Looking at you Takealot
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The pic you quoted looks like someone ordered a PS5 from them.
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It is Sunday, 08 August 2021
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Today is: International Cat Day 
International Cat Day is a full 24 hours of recognition and veneration of one of humanity’s oldest and most beloved pets. The festivities were put together for the first time in 2002 by IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, among other animal rights groups, to celebrate the most popular pet on the planet.
In 2020 custodianship of International Cat Day passed to International Cat Care, a not-for-profit British organization that has been striving to improve the health and welfare of domestic cats worldwide since 1958.
An estimated 500 million domestic cats are thought to be frolicking across the world, which means that most every extended family is bound to have an aunt with more kittens than former husbands, whatever the country or climate.
And that’s great, because owning a cat has been shown to improve mental health and to relieve stress, anxiety and depression. So when it’s raining cats and dogs outside and you don’t have someone to cuddle with, any black, ginger, Persian, Siamese, Burmese, Bengal, Shorthair, Munchkin, Balinese, RagaMuffin or any old stray cat will do the trick.
So roll out the red carpet and the catnip for your furry feline friend, because International Cat Day is that one day a year when black cats bring good luck and cat eye sunglasses are the perfect match for everything and anything you’re wearing.
Get your purr on, and have a furry feline filled Sunday!
Know More:
https://icatcare.org/international-cat-day/
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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” James Herriot
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.” Charles Dickens
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” Garrison Keillor
“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.” Mark Twain
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” Ernest Hemingway
“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” Neil Gaiman
“If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” Mark Twain
“I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” Eckhart Tolle
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” Jean Cocteau
“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.” Elizabeth Peters
“There are no ordinary cats. Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” Colette
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” Hippolyte A. Taine
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” Jules Verne
“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.” L.M. Montgomery
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.” Pam Brown
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and after all these years this site still exists
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“I was not a cat person until I got a cat.” DarthMol
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When a cat gives a shit about me, i’ll give a shit about a cat.
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So, never then? 
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It is Monday, 09 August 2021
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Today is: Book Lovers Day 
From the scent of a rare first edition book found in an old time book collection, to a crisp, fresh book at the local supermarket, the very sight of a book can bring back memories.
Reading as a child, enjoying the short stories, the long books and the ability to lose yourself in a story so powerful that at the end your asking yourself where to get the next book in the series. This is for the reader in all of us, the celebration of Book Lovers Day!
While the day’s origins may be shrouded in mystery and rumor, the books themselves are not. Started from carving on stone tablets, the book was designed to make portable the writings and drawings of those that could not carry around stone tablets. Originally it was parchment or vellum (calf skin, in case you were wondering)was bound tightly with a wooden cover.
Often the wooden cover was tightly wrapped in leather to prevent the wood from getting wet and had clasps or straps to hold it shut. In the more modern age, printing capabilities made books cheaper, and easier, to print. The printing press, the typewriter, and the computer all had an effect on the market of books.
But more so than most, is the upsurge in electronic devices that can be used to read on. Computers, tablets, and most cell phones now have the ability to read books, making it that much easier to carry around a small library to enjoy not matter where you are.
In order to truly appreciate Book Lovers Day, one must only find a story and read it. Maybe you wish to dive into the unknown with a good mystery, or see magic in a high fantasy setting, or be enthralled in a steamy romance. The individual genre of your reading is not the big piece of this, just that you read.
Maybe a visit to your local library is in order? After all public libraries existed even way back in the Middle Ages, but they didn’t really let many folks take books home. The librarians in those days chained books to shelves or desks in order to prevent theft of the carefully hand written tomes.
Many librarians will gladly help you find a title to read, giving a brief explanation on what it is about if they have read it, or giving it a little flip and reading about it quickly in the synopsis. But no matter your preference, if you read it at home with a cup of tea, share a book meeting with friends or go to the library and make use of the wonderful pieces on those shelves, just enjoy your reading, revel in the book and find a way to read during Book Lovers Day!
An entire Monday reading automatically makes Monday the best day of the week!
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Today is also Women’s Day
Every year, in August, South Africa marks Women’s Month. On 9 August we pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. A system meant to control women even further and reduce women to passive beings, at the mercy of men.
https://www.gov.za/WomenDay2021
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Currently reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.
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It is Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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Today is: World Lion Day 
To go with the recent appreciation day for cats, and the awareness days for tigers, it’s only right that we do the same for the undisputed King of Cats - the lion! Today is World Lion Day
Lion Day aims to raise awareness of the majestic hunter, the ultimate feline, the king of the jungle, the big fluffy kitty of the Serengeti… Hmm, we should have left it at ‘king of the jungle’?
This celebration of the animal kingdom’s most beautiful and fearsome creature was founded by Big Cat Rescue, the world’s largest accredited sanctuary dedicated to big cats. August 10th is a day for people to come together from across the world to pay tribute to the mighty lion in as many ways as possible.
Though a fun and exciting occasion for all, its foundations are based in a very serious matter: lion numbers have dramatically declined to the point where the species needs to be placed on the endangered list, just like its larger cousin the tiger.
World Lion Day is the brainchild of co-founders Dereck and Beverly Joubert, a husband-and-wife team with a passion for big cats. They began the initiative in 2013, bringing together both National Geographic and the Big Cat Initiative under a single banner to protect the remaining big cats living in the wild.
Lions – with the scientific name Panthera leo – are the second-largest cat in the world, just behind the Asian tiger. These immense creatures, weighing between 300 and 550 pounds, have sparked the popular imagination for centuries, inspiring awe through their speed and muscular power.
Three million years ago, lions roamed all over Africa and the Eurasian supercontinent. But today, various ice ages and changes in the natural environment means that their range is reduced primarily to Africa and select parts of Asia.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, lions are a “vulnerable” species, meaning that their numbers could and should be higher. Currently, researchers estimate that there are between 30,000 and 100,000 lions left on planet Earth. Without significant intervention, there is a chance that they could find themselves on the endangered list alongside other species most at risk of extinction.
World Lion Day, therefore, is an opportunity for lion lovers all over the planet to push back against the decline in the range and habitat of the king of beasts. These giant animals are among the world’s largest land species and an apex predator with a reputation like no other. It would be a tragic loss for both nature and humanity if the species were to disappear entirely from the natural environment.
The threats against lions, however, are all too real. They face the dual specters of increasingly popular “trophy hunting” and human incursion on their traditional wildlands. A reduction in food combined with hunting tourism is making them more vulnerable with every passing year. Over the last four decades, the lion population declined by fifty percent.
World Lion Day, therefore, has three objectives. The first is to raise awareness of the plight of the lion and the issues that the species faces in the wild. The second is to find ways to protect the big cat’s natural environment, such as creating more national parks and reducing the areas in which people can settle. And the third is to educate people who live near wild cats on the dangers and how to protect themselves. Humans and large species like cats can live in harmony together, but only if they understand how to do so.
Happy Tuesday all y’all! Be fierce, roar loudly and have great day!
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andBeyond Safaris celebrating Lion Day 2021 with a live event:
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Celebrating the best lion pick I can find:
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It is Wednesday, 11 August 2021
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Today is: World Calligraphy Day 
Calligraphy is art in a written form. Today it is used in many design concepts for advertising and promoting, and it is easy to do because of the advanced technology we have today. However, calligraphy also has had a vast history that has impact many cultures all over the world. World Calligraphy Day commemorates this history and hopes that people can take on calligraphy as a passion in their lives.
Calligraphy has been around for the longest time and has been a significant art form that marks essential points in history. The Chinese, the Egyptians, the Islamics, and ancient Western civilizations all have different styles formed from their cultures because calligraphy is the combination of visual art with writing.
For instance, much of Western civilizations calligraphy came from its practice in Latin because of how it was taught and read in religious churches. The same goes for the Islamics, using the Koran and religious texts to create art. Because it has been around for hundreds of years, calligraphy continues to be a kind of art form that helps aid and transforms today’s media.
World Calligraphy Day allows experts and beginners to come together to discuss, practice, and learn about the art of calligraphy. This holiday began through the Pen Museum and the Manuscript Pen Company; the Pen Museum is a museum dedicated to teaching the art of calligraphy and the Manuscript Pen Company being an art retailer specializing in calligraphy products. Each year, the Pen Museum brings in experts from different schools of art and lets visitors who attend the museum to learn how to begin calligraphy and the different styles of art that exist.
World Calligraphy Day celebrates this art and its history and encourages others to participate and learn about this art form.
Want to try out calligraphy? Buy some supplies at your local art supply store and see how you do. If you need practice, you can always attend art classes, whether at a college or through online resources. You can also research into the different styles of art there is and see what interests you the most.
And if you do give calligraphy a try, or are already an accomplished calligraphist, share some of your work with us.
Happy Wednesday my Dudes! Write on!! 
Know More:
https://www.calligraphy-museum.com/en/news/news/today-is-the-world-calligraphy-day
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Oooh I love hand lettering and caligraphy. If only I had a calligraphy pen.
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