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Panic Picnics are emergency picnics, available 24/7 on
demand when you're in a panic and simply MUST have a picnic.
If you install the Panic Picnic app on your mobile device,
you will be whisked away to a delightful picnic almost
the instant the press the last digit on your device or at
any
bank linked ATM machine. This is your Panic Picnic
Pin (PPP number)
Here's how it works:
A few extra digits are added by you to your existing
universal pin number (as per Panic Pin - see link), but
Panic Picnic goes much further. When you insert the PPP
code a local team of picnic makers springs into action
and quickly prepares your picnic of choice that you will
have already preselected along with a preferred
location.
Your current whereabouts are of course known, so the
Panic Picnic team has no trouble locating you. This could
be anywhere. For example, in a busy supermarket
carpark, or on a bus stuck in traffic or leaving the
library. Your vehicle of choice (another preselection)
comes to get you and takes you to your delightful picnic
where local friends who have also signed up will have
been contacted to join you to enjoy your Panic Picnic.
Extra subscriptions naturally bring more options, for
example a strumming musician, or the services of a
vigilant fly swatter.
Ultra Panic Picnic features: hand embroidered heated
blankets; an array of portable heatlamps for a cold day;
wind deflectors; portable sturdy shelter with
airconditioning if it's too warm and discrete minders to
ensure total privacy by chasing away the sweaty masses
etc etc
Panic_20PIN
[xenzag, Apr 21 2022]
Picnic therapy
https://ct.counseli...a-therapeutic-tool/
[doctorremulac3, Apr 22 2022]
yellow jackets or wasps
https://images.app....l/bKdFNNUBoqqrA6TK9
[xandram, Apr 23 2022]
Wasp & Hornet.
https://www.gopests...Size-Comparison.jpg
Correctly labelled images for UK-English names. [Skewed, Apr 23 2022]
brown wasps
https://www.pestwor...nsects/paper-wasps/
[xandram, Apr 24 2022]
[link]
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Deleted and reposted due to strange line spacing fault I couldn't clear. |
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So, basically Uber, I understand they do both taxis & deliver
food, just put them on fast dial, that should do the trick
surely. |
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Have you ever been to a real picnic? |
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Its outside, there's food, then it's a picnic .. blanket, basket
&
additional people are optional extras, traditional for some,
talking
bears occasionally show up & steal the basket so best
not to have one in my view, yes, once or twice, there were
ants, they didn't taste nice, never could figure out why
anyone
would bother to bring them, the sandwiches were better. |
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A flask of tea is an essential component of an any
picnic. When I was a child my parents were poor so
our picnics featured sugar sandwiches... ie slices
of bread and butter with sugar sprinkled on them. |
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My mother used to have a sugar sandwich as a naughtiness |
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There was a cartoon I saw when I was wee, the protagonist (maybe Bugs Bunny) had a bundle wrapped up in a checked cloth. He flipped the cloth throwing all the contents into the air, and spread the cloth as a picnic rug. The contents fell down onto the rug in sequence, plates and cutlery first and then food, to assemble a perfect picnic. |
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I love sugar sandwiches and always thought they |
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Also I think picnics are very spontaneous unless
they are planned of course. |
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(+) This would be a great side line for existing catering companies to provide. |
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[Cocks head to one side & looks at [xan]] |
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Make the food, pack it, choose a destination, travel to said
destination, unpack food. |
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Not really all that spontaneous to be fair. |
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[Considers previous words] |
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[Wonders how he's channelling mother, she's not even dead
yet] |
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Though it could be if you've enough servants
on hand but not for most of us, though I suppose something
like this could make it somewhat more so for the plebs who
don't have adequate household staff (plus pantry space for
premade picnic baskets of course) to enable picnics as a
truly spontaneous event for them. |
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OK I know I said //Its outside, there's food, then it's a
picnic//, there is a chance I was being a smidge too
facetious, snacking on a Marathon bar (yes yes I know,
they've
not been
called that for decades, I still refuse to use the new name)
in one hand while you wander down the street doesn't
really qualify after all. |
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I meant spontaneous like “ hey let’s go on a |
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picnic” and then just grab a bunch of stuff to eat |
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and go somewhere fun like a waterfall or a park. |
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Where as a planned picnic, In my mind is where |
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you set a date and time and a destination and |
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then make your food to bring. |
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Well, I guess there are different grades of spontaneous. |
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You can also compromise on your definition of picnic to be more spontaneous. Grab the food from the fast-food, takeout, or delivery restaurant of your choice and budget on the way there. |
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Hmm. Looks like picnics might be good for stress therapy.
Makes sense. (link) |
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//fast-food, takeout, or delivery restaurant// |
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If there are no teeny tiny
triangular white bread cucumber sandwiches with the
crusts
cut off to be held and nibbled in a suitably effete fashion
its
simply
not a legitimate picnic. |
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Darjeeling in fine china to be held in
the other hand with the
little finger extended at the appropriate angle is another
must. |
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It simply can't be called a picnic without them. |
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So the halfbakery spontaneously double spaced my |
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anno after I edited it For a spelling error. I tried to |
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hey [doc3] loved the picnic link, especially about |
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nude picnicking in France. I guess why that’s why |
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they say they wear no underpants. |
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Not sure they even HAVE underwear in France. |
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IMO it's not a proper picnic if you haven't spread a blanket out on a grassy field or flat rock. I'm surprised not to find a complete picnic set sold in a wicker basket. It would have a blanket, food, trash bags, utensils, and so forth. |
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by "and so forth" I assume you mean spare underpants.
Especially if there's a lot of hot sauce involved. |
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//IMO it's not a proper picnic if you haven't// had to fight off
the ants. Or the yellowjackets. (If you're north american, you
probably know what those are. If you're not, you probably
don't, and I'm not sure if that's because you don't have
yellowjackets, or if they don't attend your picnics, or if you
just call them something else.) |
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// It simply can't be called a picnic without them // |
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And don't forget the small, lemon-soaked paper napkins for your comfort,
refreshment and hygiene. Hey, if they were good enough for passengers
on Frogstar they're good enough for Earthlings. |
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//surprised not to find a complete picnic set sold in a wicker
basket// |
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We tried that a few years back, never solved the problem of
getting the field or rock into a reasonably sized basket. |
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//don't forget the small, lemon-soaked paper napkins// |
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Paper? how very pedestrian, they should be finest linen
embroidered with your initials. |
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I believe we call them wasps [Googles] .. yes, that would be
it. |
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//embroidered with your initials// Ah the nouveau riche. If you had any class they would be embroidered with the initials of your great-grandfather who originally set out the specially-designed picnic landscape on part of your estates. |
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Great-grandfather Feloniously Egregious Skewed the 4th you
mean?
naturally, the name is handed down, saves a bundle on new
embroidery. |
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I don't think it was at all natural actually |
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Not at all? now that's a bit harsh, the family may have
dabbled a
bit, but only a little, an
extra thumb here, a spare kidney there,
some decorative stitching, still .. 'mostly' natural. |
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Great-great-grandmas maiden name, we've not spoken to
anyone from that side of the family for years. |
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"Hello" is a very unusual given name, for obvious reasons. "Oh!" is probably even rarer. |
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It was an odd family, I did say it had been years since we
spoke to them, probably for the best. |
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[Skewed] I don’t believe that yellow jackets are |
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are very yellow with black stripes and they are |
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very mean and angry . Anyway our wasps Are |
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not the same as yellow jackets. |
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I posted a link, but the wasp in this picture does |
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have yellow and black stripes, whereas the wasps |
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we have are solid brown. Neither of them are good |
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Why is the hb formatting my annos like this? |
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Most of those titled as yellow jackets in your links pictures
[xan] are
just common wasps (yellow & black striped) that we simply
call 'wasps' in the UK. |
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Though at least one picture shows a
wasp next to a hornet (larger, with orange & black stripes)
&
calls the hornet a yellow jacket & the wasp a wasp. |
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OK, to make it clear for you here's a [link] with a wasp &
hornet labelled correctly as what we call them in the UK. |
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Yellow jackets are what you wear when directing
traffic. Wasps are very easily distinguished from
yellow jackets. Firstly they are considerably
smaller and secondly are more interested in
buzzing around jam sandwiches than waving their
arms around at cars and buses. Hope this finally
clears up this particular identification confusion.
Tyres and tires will be next, followed by nuclear
and nucular. |
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@Thanks [Skewed] I do see that your wasps look
the same as yellow jackets. I posted a link as to
what my wasps look like. I guess there are regional
differences.Always something to learn here. |
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