topffer

@topffer (42156)

France • Age 65

Joined myLot 14 years ago

“Straw house with laughter is better than palace with tears.” (Chinese proverb)

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Freaky sign

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 20 Sep 21

During my summer peregrinations around Périgord I saw this funny sign on a splendid (ok, heavily restored) 16th or early 17th C house door in Sarlat-la-Canéda telling "chat bizarre"/"freaky cat". Never saw that before. Is your...

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Ornithological considerations

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 23 Jul 21

On early Thursday morning when I was going to buy my croissants, I found near my front door about half a cube meter of cartons blocking the entrance. Buying online is not good for the environment. Cartons are picked up every...

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Encounters of the third kind at the Mimos festival

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 13 Jul 21

In Périgueux I met Henri Devier, an artistic director of the theater company "Melkior" based in Bergerac. He made me think at my old friend Alain Le Bon, another theater director died about 10 years ago : same deep cultural...

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Non Verbal Communication Objects

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 11 Jul 21

On Thursday and Friday I went to my usual (it was cancelled last year) mime festival in Périgueux. Due to Covid restrictions making difficult to foreign theater troups to participate (we are only free to move again since the end...

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Google suspects that I am not 12 years old

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 7 Jun 21

I wanted to watch an old movie from Claude Chabrol on Youtube and I was sent to my Google account to confirm my age by entering a credit card number or sending an ID. Looking at Wikipedia I saw that this movie was forbidden at...

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I am still alive

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 28 Mar 21

I am sorry to have missed myLot since several weeks. I was supposed to retire last month, but, as I can do it, I have decided to do 1 year more, maybe 2. 2 would give me a full pension. I lost too much time in colleges. For those...

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My pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (4) : Sinning in Quercy

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 25 Jan 21

Leaving Rouergue the route enters in Lot which was the historical province of Quercy. Although Quercy has also medieval houses, the life has not stopped during the middle-age like in Rouergue. There are new buildings here and...

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My pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (3) : Rouergue, a time travel to the Middle-Age

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 24 Jan 21

It was raining when I arrived at Saint-Chély d'Aubrac, and I decided to go to a hostel for pilgrims. I was surprised to find in my room a local beer and some peanuts, as the people from Aubrac have the reputation to be cheap....

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My pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (2) : Gévaudan, the land of the Beast

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 22 Jan 21

Although Le Puy-en-Velay is a state capital with a statue of Our Lady of France at the top of a hill making it look a bit (seen from far away) like Rio-de-Janeiro, it is a lot less fun, no carnival and no 4G in 2014. Leaving Le...

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My walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 21 Jan 21

This series of discussions was inspired by a discussion started by @much2say aspiring at another way of life. With the covid around the urban life is no more what it used to be and many people want to move to the country. Hiking...

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The historical model of Trump's coup d'État attempt

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 10 Jan 21

I hesitated a bit before posting this. However staying silent is being guilty when something important like this happens, although I cannot be considered like an accomplice, being blocked by the worst Trump supporters we have on...

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The covid is a plot to spread communism worldwide

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 8 Dec 20

"The “so-called pandemic” and efforts to develop a vaccine are plots by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide, department readiness and countermeasures manager Igor Shepherd said at the Nov. 10 event held by the group...

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Scandalous : several passengers of the Mayflower voted for the 2020 election !

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 7 Dec 20

If the information provided to us is correct, the Trump legal team has determined that several Pilgrims from the Mayflower voted for the 2020 election in the city of Plymouth (MA). It is another proof of a widespread fraud showing...

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Understanding a cat meowing

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 14 Nov 20

I found a very geeky app to impress your friends, translating what tells a cat meowing. It is supposed to understand 9 basic expressions. To tell the truth it does not work that well because cats have accents : a Siamese does not...

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Trump makes me think to a drunken man refusing to leave the bar when it is closing

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 13 Nov 20

This guy is pitiful and has no respect for his job and his great country. Come on, we know it is hard to lose, but it is time to wreak havoc in a golf instead of the World.

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It is Armistice Day in France. The last dead of WW1 was an American

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 11 Nov 20

11/11/1918. The allies had decided that the armistice would be signed on 11/11 at 11 am. Although he was knowing that, an US general launched an attack against a village held by the Germans. 300 Americans died for nothing. The...

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Children-tossing

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 10 Nov 20

This drawing was put on the gate of an elementary school in Avignon with a text telling : "DON'T TOSS YOUR CHILDREN ABOVE THE GATE" "If I am late and the gate is closed, I come back with my children at 10am or 3pm." I have some...

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Republicans are sneaky

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 5 Nov 20

Our president is a very smart guy but he has a few defects, and among them to want to be the one to decide for everything. To do that he has chosen his ministers among people less smart than himself. And this is an euphemism. As...

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Will Trump die from the Covid ?

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 2 Oct 20

In France we had Nostradamus long ago, in USA the best predictions are coming from the Simpsons ! Difficult to believe, but a high peak occurred in searches in the USA soon after a tweet from Donald Trump telling that he had the...

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In 2016 Trump Twitter password was "yourefired"

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 19 Sep 20

Nobody could have guessed a so strong password ! What a genius ! And he was using it for several accounts since at least 2012... I give a link to Forbes.com where you can read the details ; you can trust this mag, Trump does not...

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