Peter B. Giblett

@pgiblett (6524)

Canada • Age 67

Joined myLot 12 years ago

Writer, editor and future thinker - moderator at Wikinut.com. Former IT Executive, qualified as a lawyer (not practicing)

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Peter B. Giblett's Responses

Don't Be Too Harsh. I Was Under Pressure.

WorDazza @WorDazza (15830) • Manchester, England 3 Aug 16

The wonderful @jaboUK laid down a bit of a challenge for me yesterday to come up with some collective nouns. When the equally wonderful @ElizabethWallace waded in I realised I wasn't going to get out of it. So here goes. A...

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Peter B. Giblett I thought the collective nouns for lawyers were Greed, Huddle, or Quarrel. The narcissism of celebrities is certainly true.

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Everybody whoever enters into the school is getting hysteria

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 28 Jul 16

Yes. There is a school in Andhra Pradesh. Until 2014 everything was nice. But, recently some weird things are happening. Whoever enters the school, they are becoming sick .Actually, they are becoming hysteric which is causing...

school

andhra pradesh

students become hysteric

sending students to nearby village

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Peter B. Giblett It has to be something new in the environment, new electric pylons etc.

29 Jul 16

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Do you always count the time of your life ?

wildlittlefan @wildlittlefan (4680) • Hong Kong 29 Jul 16

Time really goes by fast and once it is gone, it is gone forever ? How often do you look back and count your time in life ? If you do so, you will find something you might probably wants to do it all over again but in a better way...

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Peter B. Giblett I am sure every person has a few regrets but there little point wasting time thinking about them. I just think about the good things that have happened and go from there.

29 Jul 16

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Don't Buy It....Buy It

jaishankar @else34 (13515) • New Delhi, India 29 Jul 16

Yesterday I happened to eavesdrop a conversation between a student and his newly hired private tutor who was hired to help the student improve his knowledge of English. The student said,'Sir,I have seen a very good grammar book...

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Peter B. Giblett I would say he was a very poor teacher. He assumed that he was the font of all knowledge and did not understand that people learn in multiple ways - the book should enhance his teaching.

29 Jul 16

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The rain dance worked!

AbbyGreenhill @AbbyGreenhill (45494) • United States 29 Jul 16

Hip Hip Hurrah! No, I didn't get down and dirty but I did run outside and observe the beautiful rain falling on the dry ground! The first storm only brought 1/4 inch of rain - but luck was with us and later we got the most rain...

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Peter B. Giblett We had rain this past week and the plants are looking a little healthier, but the grass is still brown rather than green and the ground still looks parched. We still need more rain.

29 Jul 16

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How many glasses of water do you drink per day

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111938) • United States 27 Jul 16

Hello,with this heat wave that we are having.How many glasses of water do you drink?I drink five glasses.Three in the morning and two in the afternoon/ Elders should drink more water so that they will not get dehydrated. Also you...

personal

water

how many

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Peter B. Giblett Today I must have already drunken 8 to 10 as I was doing stuff outside. Normally I drink 4 or 5 during the course of the day.

27 Jul 16

Many hosting services are scams!

jayaram @jayaramas (1353) • Bangalore, India 27 Jul 16

These days, there are many web hosting services , offering 1st year free, one year discount and so on. I was cheated yesterday by one such company, which i do not want to name here. Even after cancelling my domain, invoice of...

invoice

billing

hosting

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Peter B. Giblett Not all discounts or free offers are scams. It is true though that if you wish to use a free (or discounted) service you must check out all the implications before signing up, don't just jump right in, do some research about what all the costs are and what you...

27 Jul 16

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Getting rid of disabled persons

scheng1 @scheng1 (24649) • Singapore 27 Jul 16

A man in Japan entered a home for the disabled and knifed at least 19 to death, and injured another 25. This happened in a very peaceful small town. A few things are remarkable about this incident. 1. This town has very low...

japan

mass murder

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Peter B. Giblett So if the "disabled should be... euthanized" then I think about this man in a few years when he gets old and has mobility problems signing his own death warrant.

27 Jul 16

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It's HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15962) • United States 27 Jul 16

Temperatures in the high nineties again today, with the heat index over 100F. We had a storm last night that cooled things down some but this heat just won’t go away, it seems. I just can’t remember things being this hot when I...

hot weather

extreme temperatures

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Peter B. Giblett Yes it is still hot, hot, hot. We have been having crazy heat the past few days and even the storm that passed through a couple of days ago didn't make any difference the grass is still brown, but at least the humidity has reduced (a little).

27 Jul 16

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Bleep Utterance!

Inlemay @Inlemay (17713) • South Africa 22 Jul 16

Yesterday we had such fun reading and responding about the diversity of an oxymoron'ic, best slang word every said in Judy's post "The 'F' word" which lured me to tell this little tale. Sometimes words are uttered that the mind...

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Peter B. Giblett Yes the tongue has that innate ability to make us look like fools, you spend a fortune on a lavish education, enough to bring you out of the gutter and the tongue still lets you down

27 Jul 16

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And it started to rain. Should I go back to the Caribbean?

marguicha @marguicha (223720) • Chile 24 Jul 16

Here I am. mylotting in peace, with the heater on in full. Gone is the awesome weather of St. Maarten. Then, first came the wind. I was not really paying attention, but I thought that with a little wind tomottow, my clothes...

caribbean

rain

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Peter B. Giblett Rain happens everywhere (even in the desert). We have had rain today and we are grateful for it, but it was not enough as this summer has been very dry. As you are in winter in Chile surely you expect rain at some time.

25 Jul 16

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~Their Missing It This Year~

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 25 Jul 16

I feel really bad because my children were all looking forward to Vacation Bible School at church. They have never been to it and they were excited for their first year. My youngest daughter is sick with something though-she has...

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Peter B. Giblett With illness you can't take the risk. If they're missing it then I am sure there is something fun they can do at home.

25 Jul 16

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Where Have You Been?

Angie @andriaperry (117130) • Anniston, Alabama 25 Jul 16

Sorry I have not been around, it is harvest time and I am working with everything I am receiving. Being a landlady calls for me to be on call all the time. Two heart doctor, two people. First I have been canning the food I am...

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Peter B. Giblett It is funny you should ask as it is a bit hectic at the moment, we are purchasing a house in the USA and are planning the changes necessary to turn it around quickly as a rental property, giving us an income.

25 Jul 16

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Do you charge your phone correctly? Tips to prolong the battery life of your phone!

Michelle @infatuatedbby (94914) • United States 19 Jul 16

This article caught my attention while browsing Facebook titled "Apparently We’ve Been Charging Our Phones All Wrong" How do you charge your phone? I charge my phone when the battery is low usually at 20% and I always have...

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Peter B. Giblett We developed many of our charging habits from the days of NiCad batteries. I charge my devices for 10 minutes here and there my mobile phone is currently on 23% and I have just put it on to charge for 10 minutes (by which time it will be at 40 something...

25 Jul 16

Memories Of A Wartime Childhood.

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 24 Jul 16

My sisters and I were children during WW2, and England was under attack. We lived near a couple of industrial towns which were often targeted by the enemy. When we heard the wailing sirens warning us of an air raid we knew we...

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Peter B. Giblett It is a long time since I have heard people talk about their wartime experiences from that era, but then it is also true that many of the older people from that age are now dead, my mother was about 13 or 14 at the start of the war, my dad was older, maybe 18...

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myLot, You Are Amazing !

rebel_woman06 @SIMPLYD (90721) • Philippines 22 Jul 16

Remember this post of mine below http://www.mylot.com/post/2948414/short-by-0012 ? I was short by $ .0012 to make it to $9 when June ended , which was my goal . And I was surprised when Paypal wrote that myLot has paid me...

mylot

amazing

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Peter B. Giblett The minimum for payment went down to $5, but I guess you must have figured that out by now. Remember also that MyLot time ends midnight CST.

22 Jul 16

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Hidden Music Track - Alanis Morissette - Your House – Jagged Little Pill

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 22 Jul 16

Has this ever happened to you? You buy an album or music CD and listen to it, but just as you are about to switch it off as the last track mentioned on the sleeve note track listings is over, an extra track kicks in, for which...

music

alanis morissette

stalker

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Peter B. Giblett I have a CD, can't remember which, where the cover must have been printed for one country and the album pressing was for another country, there is an extra track in the middle and one at the end, plus one track has a title which the track is not normally known...

22 Jul 16

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Treasure Hunt, Treasure Found

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (160879) • United States 22 Jul 16

Last Wednesday I was going in to town. There were some specific things on my list to get. I was going to the thrift shop and to Wal Mart. I decided to invite my sister as she mostly otherwise pays for a cab. She asked me what I...

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Peter B. Giblett I like to find treasures, but different types, what interests me is old books.

22 Jul 16

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