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[Lamma-Gung]

Message #20,000 has just been posted by Samson in the Chinese forums, describing the high-volume "sweet melodies" of our nocturnal big bullfrogs!

It's just been a little over a year since message #10,000 was posted by Foxy on Apr 27 last year. He won ONE beer back then for this achievement. Samson obviously has just won TWO beers!

It took two years to reach the first 10,000, only one year for the second 10,000, so it might only be half a year to the next milestone? Who'll get THREE beers (or any other drinks) in half a year or so?

These forums are speeding up so much, especially thanks to all of our very active posters of Chinese messages! Next summary of what's happening in the Chinese forums is coming up this week in the blog.

A lot more Chinese messages than English ones these days! How could we English speakers let this happen after dominating these bilingual forums for almost 3 years! Let's fight back!

[chuckm]

Gee whiz, it's soooooo quiet in the English forums! Is everyone busy doing other things (like me), or have we become a bit quieter as we get older

Oh, and L-G, any luck collecting plumbing photos? Doorway/window photos? Photos of little critters in loaves of bread?

I'm not complaining, just stirring the pot a bit from afar (and still dreaming of the day I can afford to live on Lamma for part of each year).

[gargoyle]

summer lethargy has set in.......... too humid to do anything..... and it's been constantly dark and gloomy for the last week or so, very depressing.

[Lamma-Gung]

OK, let's have some lethargic, dark & gloomy, depressing messages for a change!
But no humid messages, please...

[Lamma-Gung]

[Ed Banger]

[Ed Banger]

[volley]

The nail has been banged.

[chuckm]

Would it make folks on Lamma feel any better if I explained how miserable winter can be in Vancouver?

We get very little snow down here at sea level, unlike the folks in the mountains who can be buried under hundreds of cm of the stuff. No, the snow would be nice because it at least symbolises a good Canadian winter, despite the fact I hate shovelling the stuff. It's the damned incessant Vancouver rain that sucks!

I have lived here long enough to have experienced at least three winters in which I didn't see sunshine for 3 or 4 solid months .... just a constant drizzle and sometimes freezing temperatures. It's not considered unusual. Lamma seems the ideal place to spend a winter!

So why do I continue to live here? Summer is utterly glorious. Everything is super green, lots of sunshine, temperatures usually in the mid-to-upper 20's. Houses cost a fortune, petrol isn't cheap any more, traffic is terrible (road rage is becoming fashionable), west coast politics are crazy, taxes are exhorbitant, but the people are great and multiculturalism thrives. It's nice.

I suspect I'd be pretty sluggish and uncomfortable during a Lamma summer, so you have my complete sympathy . Getting on and off the floating-deepfreeze ferries must constitute a health hazard

I seem to have caused a bit of topic drift in this thread ... my apologies Congrats to Samson for being the poster of #20,000.

[Lamma-Gung]

Why this obsession with round numbers?

Congrats to you, Chuck, for posting message #20,137!
Congrats to myself for posting this message numbered #20,143!

Congrats to everybody for posting messages!

P.S. Yes, these constant tropical downpours every day, most of the day, make us so gloomy that we're looking desperately for ANY opportunity to cheer ourselves up...

[chuckm]

I think it's all those zeros that appeal to people. Especially when they are preceeded by a dollar sign

OTOH, I for one wouldn't refuse lottery winnings of $1,234,567.89 just because it didn't contain a lot of zeros!

Oh, and do cheer up ... at least all that precip isn't in the form of ice and snow!

[Samson]