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I found a channel that shows the old, horrifically dubbed kung fu movies of my childhood. So much Kung Fu Treachery. I am happy.Ooh! Do they have Shaolin vs. Lama?No but there was a lama as a villain in an earlier movie today! His head was so powerful it could knock over trees.
It was not so powerful that it could resist the power of the Shaolin monk's headbutt after he had a flashback from his masters teachings however.
"I like chicken! I like wine! And I like a good fight!"
(Eve and I love this one for the quotes, which have become family in-jokes because of a certain Thanksgiving dinner over 20 years ago where this movie featured prominently in the evening's revelry.)
For that I will show up as a hungry villain at your next Thanksgiving dinner.
If your husband's pupils try to throw me out for being a bad guest and I defeat them all with a single technique that I will pontificate about allllllll evening. Your husband will then fight me, and I will defeat him, embarrassing him totally. Then I will laugh as I walk away, devouring the turkey you cooked with pride.
Your husband, remembering this evening over and over again, will succumb to drink and never practice again, and your and your daughter will take care of him as he ages. Your son, however, will have this evening burned into his memory. He will train with your husband's finest pupil, who did not attend the dinner that evening as he was caring for an ill parent, and was thrown out of the school for disrespecting his teacher so although he was allowed to train in private as he was simply being a dutiful son. Your son, giving himself over to vengeance, will complete his training and seek me out for my poor behavior at that dinner so long ago, along with his best friend, a ruffian who has not been officially adopted by the family, but is known for being quite loyal.
Together, they will roam the land, seeking word of me. They will take on jobs...
But wait, I thought you were already defeated by my Eldest who grew up to take my vengeance for me after you defeated me in that one TKD tournament, thus restoring my honor and pride?
EDIT: My well-clothed pride! *covers with a TKD uniform*
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Smoke rolling into my air doesn't bug me as much as the guy with music so loud you can't help but hear it.
As someone who has always had breathing problems, it's the opposite for me. I don't like overly loud or aggressive music, but I literally can't breathe in many kinds of smoke.
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I plan on retiring to whatever post apocalyptic landscape the world is in by then.
I don't care where, it's all going to be like Florida by then anyway.
HEY!
... fair.
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So, WW asked for a pirate-themed drive-by party, he put up a FB event invite, I made two dozen dark and stormy cupcakes in ziploc baggies, and in the last hour and a half, our only visitors have been his mom, and two old college friends of mine who live clear out on thd other side of the Metroplex.
It's kind of dismal, and I feel awful for him.
He already thinks that he has no friends here anymore.A lot of it is circumstantial; of his few good friends from younger days who still live hereabouts, one is away in Oklahoma because their dad just died, and one is in the hospital because neck vertebrae surgery a few days ago resulted in a bad case of pneumonia.
But... geez.
One of his aikido students came by, and then his dad and stepmom came just as his mother was leaving, so it was only awkward for a minute, and he's bummed but happy because his dad actually showed up, which never happens.
Happy belated birthday!
Tell him (unless he'd hate it) that I'm sorry I live enough hours away (and didn't know to check anywhere) so that I once again failed to acquire mythical LM cooking!
Im glad it got better.
Same!
The bitter seed of expectations unmet, our worst enemy...
Indeed.
E+P=DE.xpectation
plus
P.erformance
equals
D.isappointment
- which wasn't to say that everything would be disappointing in life, but to remember that we were dealing with a real, live, actual human being, not some imaginary built-up-in-your-own-mind fake version of the human being. They could neither read minds, nor would automatically find whatever we thought to be the correct thing, even if they could. Fundamentally, then, we needed to talk about our expectations, see where we agreed and disagreed before hand, outline how we were to approach things together, and if anything was too big a disagreement to willingly compromise on, stop where we were and walk away.
Even then, we had to remember that we ourselves and other folks are fallible and able to be wrong. People and things and situations change. And they also don't change, and, most importantly, you are not going to be able to force them to change. Again, in that latter instance, if we weren't comfortable with the person as they were, right now - if aaaaaaaany little part was, "Well, it'll be fine, I'll get them to change, later." or any such thing, we were in the wrong, and needed to either end it or seriously rethink what we were going to do and resort our own internal priorities.
If we place expectations on a person for their behavior, sometimes that's justified, but being people there will, at some point or another, be choices that are made that do not live up to or follow our expectations, and when we bank on those expectations, that leads to disappointment ("and disappointment leads to frustration, and frustration to anger, and anger to resentment, and resentment to... the dark side").
The point of all of this was to talk, communicate, and to constantly update each other about who we were and what was happening in our lives. Never to create a fake version of your partner in your head (or if you do, shed it fast) because it's toxic and will harm your long-term relationship.
Expectations and hopes and dreams and desires are normal. They're how life goes. It's what people do. And there's nothing wrong with having basic expectations from one another.
But pinning yourself and your relationship on those expectations can be toxic; getting to know the real person and who they actually are is vital.
And this is true in nearly every facet of life.
Marriage, work, school, children, gaming, pretty much everything. If you hinge your satisfaction for a particular expectation, you're probably going to be very disappointed, simply because life doesn't always conform to your wills, wants, or desires... and that's not a bad thing. Finding joy in being surprised or experiencing unexpected is far better than having everything go according to your imaginary ideal (which would likely eventually come with its own hidden costs anyway), and finding that joy in what is real and how things actually are is a key component to being satisfied in life regardless of what you do or what else is happening.
:D
... but, uh, I don't think that actually applies to anyone here, right now, I'm just talky.
XD
I'm definitely not a fan of Agents of Edgewatch so far.
What's wrong with it?
Anyone else watching Kobra Kai?I've thought about it, but haven't started it yet. Not sure when/if I will.
Kobra Kai is actually pretty great.
I dislike the ending of Season 2 because I dislike cliffhanger-y seasons in general (and there's a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle over-emphasis on the "OH NOE TEH DRAMA(llama)!"), but I'm really glad it exists as a property and it's really a great revisiting of the Karate Kid property. Well told over-all.
That was a solid way that I used to kill wizards in 1st Edition D&D.
All the female players in my group are all about them animals. one collects pets one is a druid with a snake and of course sorcerer with her cat. I just run with it.
First... edition... Dee... and... Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...?
Huh.
You old.
XD
Okay, so, with the disappearance of all my posts and the posts on this page - and, you know, life - I'll take that as time to stop here, for now. But I'm coming back for you, page 5061. Oh, yes. You will be read. And I'll strive to avoid responding to you.
but no promises
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Too late.
CH, pie the man.
dang it, guys, you don't need to buy a
- SPLAT~!... oh, yeah, okay, honestly, I feel better about this. :D
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Microsoft bought Bethesda...
And you thought their games were buggy AF BEFORE!
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Some of us are old.
Here let me pull out my nerd cred.
Zip....kathunk!
Started in 3rd grade with the blue box. My first DM used a mix of basic and 1E to run me through B2.
Went on to play mostly 1E T1, S2, G1-3 etc back with the monochromatic covers. Last real 1E campaign was dragonlance that died at Skullcap in college.
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DRAGONLANCE FOREVER
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The story about the 54 year old construction worker is from 2016, but the danger is real.Hm. We havent had a licorice related death in the Netherlands yet, while on average as a country we consume 32 million kilograms a year.
Eating an entire (not single-serving) package of candy every day sounds uniquely American, though.
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what i'm saying is that i want pie; like a really tasty pieoh, no, someone send help, i’ve been in the rules forum for days, it’s dark and lonely in here and am hungry for for pie
(Also the other day I just re-read a thread I participated in from 2013 and what a train wreck that was. Oh, tail terror, you so crazy-cray.)
hurls a pie at TL
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Some of us are old.
Here let me pull out my nerd cred.
Zip....kathunk!
Started in 3rd grade with the blue box. My first DM used a mix of basic and 1E to run me through B2.
Went on to play mostly 1E T1, S2, G1-3 etc back with the monochromatic covers. Last real 1E campaign was dragonlance that died at Skullcap in college.
Hah! Yeah.
Mostly it was a joke because I'm pretty sure Vid is pretty young as far as most of us go, though I could be wrong.
DRAGONLANCE FOREVER
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cool, man, cool, yeah, DLf'r'v'r, yah *weak fist pump*
Eating an entire (not single-serving) package of candy every day sounds uniquely American, though.The story about the 54 year old construction worker is from 2016, but the danger is real.Hm. We havent had a licorice related death in the Netherlands yet, while on average as a country we consume 32 million kilograms a year.
As an overweight American, doing this sounds awful and always has. My wife read it to me just before I heard about it here, and I was aghast at how much that dude ate. Might be because I honestly like sweets less than non-sweet food-wise.
hurls a pie at TLwhat i'm saying is that i want pie; like a really tasty pieoh, no, someone send help, i’ve been in the rules forum for days, it’s dark and lonely in here and am hungry for for pie
(Also the other day I just re-read a thread I participated in from 2013 and what a train wreck that was. Oh, tail terror, you so crazy-cray.)
This, on the other hand, is much better.
Not feeling all that great, today. I had a Caesar salad last night that made me have either indigestion and/or nausea.
Sucks, man. I'm so sorry. Hope you feel better, soon. :/
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Some of us are old.
Here let me pull out my nerd cred.
Zip....kathunk!
Started in 3rd grade with the blue box. My first DM used a mix of basic and 1E to run me through B2.
Went on to play mostly 1E T1, S2, G1-3 etc back with the monochromatic covers. Last real 1E campaign was dragonlance that died at Skullcap in college.
Hah! Yeah.
Mostly it was a joke because I'm pretty sure Vid is pretty young as far as most of us go, though I could be wrong.
DRAGONLANCE FOREVER...
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...should i tell freehold my real feelings about the settingcool, man, cool, yeah, DLf'r'v'r, yah *weak fist pump*
I mean, what’s not to love about the setting that gave us kender? ducks
I mean, what’s not to love about the setting that gave us kender? ducksSome of us are old.
Here let me pull out my nerd cred.
Zip....kathunk!
Started in 3rd grade with the blue box. My first DM used a mix of basic and 1E to run me through B2.
Went on to play mostly 1E T1, S2, G1-3 etc back with the monochromatic covers. Last real 1E campaign was dragonlance that died at Skullcap in college.
Hah! Yeah.
Mostly it was a joke because I'm pretty sure Vid is pretty young as far as most of us go, though I could be wrong.
DRAGONLANCE FOREVER...
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...should i tell freehold my real feelings about the settingcool, man, cool, yeah, DLf'r'v'r, yah *weak fist pump*
Ducks are pretty bad, yeah.
(I still love you, though, Princess Tutu.)
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The most feared encounter on the random encounter table was 2d12 kender. I rolled it often enough that my party had a standard batten down the hatches approach and then started throwing things at me.
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Apropos of a conversation I was just having with Shiro (he was wondering why someone as highly-paid as I am was sitting here timing application response, which is something a 16-year-old with an iPhone could do and said 16-year-old would be happy to get $20/hour to do it).
This really does describe the state of the work force, and why, "Show up on time and do your job," is enough to make you a "great" employee.
We write step-by-step labs. They include screenshots and descriptions. "In the upper right corner, click Save and Close."
On multiple occasions we have hired outside groups to do our lab testing for us. Contractors. QA teams. Other curriculum development groups. Our instructions?
(1) Do every lab in order.
(2) Do every step of every lab.
(3) If anything doesn't match the screenshots or doesn't work the way it's described, stop and contact us.
And after years of attempts, we could not find a single person who could manage #2. They always skipped steps. I don't know if they were bored, or if they thought they were under a time crunch, or what. But we never once found anyone who could simply follow printed instructions.
So I sit here with a stopwatch and a bunch of buttons, being paid a ridiculous amount for doing something most 12-year-olds could do (until they got bored).
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Apropos of a conversation I was just having with Shiro (he was wondering why someone as highly-paid as I am was sitting here timing application response, which is something a 16-year-old with an iPhone could do and said 16-year-old would be happy to get $20/hour to do it).
This really does describe the state of the work force, and why, "Show up on time and do your job," is enough to make you a "great" employee.
We write step-by-step labs. They include screenshots and descriptions. "In the upper right corner, click Save and Close."
On multiple occasions we have hired outside groups to do our lab testing for us. Contractors. QA teams. Other curriculum development groups. Our instructions?
(1) Do every lab in order.
(2) Do every step of every lab.
(3) If anything doesn't match the screenshots or doesn't work the way it's described, stop and contact us.And after years of attempts, we could not find a single person who could manage #2. They always skipped steps. I don't know if they were bored, or if they thought they were under a time crunch, or what. But we never once found anyone who could simply follow printed instructions.
So I sit here with a stopwatch and a bunch of buttons, being paid a ridiculous amount for doing something most 12-year-olds could do (until they got bored).
$20 per hour? Count me in!
<.<
>.>
Those labs of yours, they don't have high hardware requirements, do they?
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Fantasy NPC: Kennevol Un Mattai, Master Architect
Okay this dude is just a single statblock full of a zillion plot threads.
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Apropos of a conversation I was just having with Shiro (he was wondering why someone as highly-paid as I am was sitting here timing application response, which is something a 16-year-old with an iPhone could do and said 16-year-old would be happy to get $20/hour to do it).
This really does describe the state of the work force, and why, "Show up on time and do your job," is enough to make you a "great" employee.
We write step-by-step labs. They include screenshots and descriptions. "In the upper right corner, click Save and Close."
On multiple occasions we have hired outside groups to do our lab testing for us. Contractors. QA teams. Other curriculum development groups. Our instructions?
(1) Do every lab in order.
(2) Do every step of every lab.
(3) If anything doesn't match the screenshots or doesn't work the way it's described, stop and contact us.And after years of attempts, we could not find a single person who could manage #2. They always skipped steps. I don't know if they were bored, or if they thought they were under a time crunch, or what. But we never once found anyone who could simply follow printed instructions.
So I sit here with a stopwatch and a bunch of buttons, being paid a ridiculous amount for doing something most 12-year-olds could do (until they got bored).
In the defense of the external subcontractors:
From what you b!*@&ed said about other teams in your company, they didn't sound like if they handled that much better anyway.
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This really does describe the state of the work force, and why, "Show up on time and do your job," is enough to make you a "great" employee.
Which is all the more dissonant with the fact that almost every job (or at least, almost every job I've had any kind of interaction with first- or second-hand) gives you all kinds of hell and treats you like crap if you're not willing to go above and beyond, constantly leaving a looming Sword of Damocles that says if you're the only one giving 110% while your coworkers are giving 120% then you're going to be out of a job something quick.
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Fantasy NPC: Kennevol Un Mattai, Master ArchitectOkay this dude is just a single statblock full of a zillion plot threads.
To be honest, I wondered about dropping the full stat block and just noting the most important skills and the description of him.
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Fantasy NPC: Kennevol Un Mattai, Master Architect
That’s rather... bleak.
“Maybe he was cursed by the fey!” “Nope, he’s just a middle-aged man who gave up on life.”
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Very funny Steam, very funny...
I was rereading some things about F.E.A.R series (I played 1 and 2 and loved them, despite their nausea-inducing 3d engines). Just on a hunch, I decided to check if FEAR 3 is on Steam (it isn't available on GoG where I got the first two games, sadly).
Yes, FEAR 3 is on Steam.
And the price looked suspiciously small...
Wait-a-minute... There is a 75% sale on FEAR 3 exactly when I got in mood of wondering how could I scavenge FEAR series for story ideas... Really? Why I can't pick winning lottery numbers instead?
Oh, wait, it's a story of f***ed up mess because someone wanted to have access to working psychic powers, that's why.
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Fantasy NPC: Kennevol Un Mattai, Master ArchitectThat’s rather... bleak.
“Maybe he was cursed by the fey!” “Nope, he’s just a middle-aged man who gave up on life.”
"Break enchantment!"
"Nope. Nothing."
"Heal!"
"Nuh-uh."
"Dammit... I am out of ideas..."
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Speaking of bleak... FEAR 3 installed.
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I'm about tired with people acting like I'm going to f&!% something up, despite proving my competence on multiple occasions.
And it's always basic level that everyone does type of stuff that they assume I'm going to f#@@ up.
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KENDER FOREVER
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(Almost certainly apocryphal, but what I've "heard" is that the atom was dreamed up precisely to deal with Zeno's dichotomy paradox. But Zeno was a fun guy, as you can tell from the rest of the entries. And the version of Zeno's paradox presented to me was significantly different: It takes a finite amount of time to get halfway to your destination. Once you're there, it takes a finite amount of time to get halfway again. And so on, and so forth, until you're adding up an infinite amount of time which must be infinite and therefore you never get there...)
Philosophize This! mentioned the halfway-there paradox in an early episode, and I still don't see how it's a problem. I mean we walk for example in roughly equivalent strides, not in halfway-there strides.
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(Almost certainly apocryphal, but what I've "heard" is that the atom was dreamed up precisely to deal with Zeno's dichotomy paradox. But Zeno was a fun guy, as you can tell from the rest of the entries. And the version of Zeno's paradox presented to me was significantly different: It takes a finite amount of time to get halfway to your destination. Once you're there, it takes a finite amount of time to get halfway again. And so on, and so forth, until you're adding up an infinite amount of time which must be infinite and therefore you never get there...)Philosophize This! mentioned the halfway-there paradox in an early episode, and I still don't see how it's a problem. I mean we walk for example in roughly equivalent strides, not in halfway-there strides.
It’s a mathematical illusion-based conundrum rather than a practical-based conundrum.
Queer: “If there are is an infinite amount of segments (of any size) between “here” and “there” then how do we cross that infinity?”
Answer: “Simple: we take a lesser-but-still-ininife amount of pieces in a singular stride.”
Objection: “But that’s not how infinity works!”
Reply: “Tell that to my well-working, long-striding legs! Oh yeah! :D”
And really, of course, we can easily see and intuit what we mean when we talk about a finite amount of space.
We can also relatively easily intuit the infinity paradox of infinite half-points. It’s just that the latter is demonstrably a non-issue (as evidenced by, you know, walking somewhere) meaning either we’re wrong about infinity, or wrong about how many divisions can be accomplished.
(Turns out it’s the latter - plank length obviously handily solves the problem.)
EDIT: ugh, autocorrect, why
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Some of us are old.
Here let me pull out my nerd cred.
Zip....kathunk!
Started in 3rd grade with the blue box. My first DM used a mix of basic and 1E to run me through B2.
Went on to play mostly 1E T1, S2, G1-3 etc back with the monochromatic covers. Last real 1E campaign was dragonlance that died at Skullcap in college.
Hah! Yeah.
Mostly it was a joke because I'm pretty sure Vid is pretty young as far as most of us go, though I could be wrong.
DRAGONLANCE FOREVER...
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...should i tell freehold my real feelings about the settingcool, man, cool, yeah, DLf'r'v'r, yah *weak fist pump*
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(Almost certainly apocryphal, but what I've "heard" is that the atom was dreamed up precisely to deal with Zeno's dichotomy paradox. But Zeno was a fun guy, as you can tell from the rest of the entries. And the version of Zeno's paradox presented to me was significantly different: It takes a finite amount of time to get halfway to your destination. Once you're there, it takes a finite amount of time to get halfway again. And so on, and so forth, until you're adding up an infinite amount of time which must be infinite and therefore you never get there...)Philosophize This! mentioned the halfway-there paradox in an early episode, and I still don't see how it's a problem. I mean we walk for example in roughly equivalent strides, not in halfway-there strides.
I think Zeno was just a contrarian jerk.
KENDER FOREVER
Turns out, it's closer to around ~100 years.
EDIT: or ~34, depending on what you're counting.
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I think Zeno was just a contrarian jerk.(Almost certainly apocryphal, but what I've "heard" is that the atom was dreamed up precisely to deal with Zeno's dichotomy paradox. But Zeno was a fun guy, as you can tell from the rest of the entries. And the version of Zeno's paradox presented to me was significantly different: It takes a finite amount of time to get halfway to your destination. Once you're there, it takes a finite amount of time to get halfway again. And so on, and so forth, until you're adding up an infinite amount of time which must be infinite and therefore you never get there...)Philosophize This! mentioned the halfway-there paradox in an early episode, and I still don't see how it's a problem. I mean we walk for example in roughly equivalent strides, not in halfway-there strides.
Between "a contrarian" and "a jerk", you probably described about the half of Greek philosophers.
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Queer: “If there are is an infinite amount of segments (of any size) between “here” and “there” then how do we cross that infinity?”
... autocorrect.
ಠ_ಠ
Autocorrect, what did you make me say.
(>_<)
sigh
The word was "query."
"Query."
Just.
ugh
And of course, now that I notice it, I can't edit it.
(；一_一)
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Queer: “If there are is an infinite amount of segments (of any size) between “here” and “there” then how do we cross that infinity?”... autocorrect.
ಠ_ಠ
Autocorrect, what did you make me say.
(>_<)
sigh
The word was "query."
"Query."
Just.
ugh
And of course, now that I notice it, I can't edit it.
(；一_一)
I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh at your internal turmoil.
But I *needed* to laugh tonight, and you were convenient.Here. Have a cookie.
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An actual discussion in my classroom earlier this week...
Child 1: Ms. LM, for breakfast this morning? We had BACON!
Me: Ooh, I LOVE bacon! For my birthday, my daughter made me bacon and potato tacos!
Child 1: squeaks in amazement. She just turned three.
Child 2: Bacon's alright; I like chorizo. She's almost four and a bit jaded.
Me: Chorizo is good, too. Especially in tacos. With potatoes.
Child 2: No, I don't eat chorizo with potatoes. Just by itself.
Me: You don't think that's too spicy?!?
Child 2: Looks at me disdainfully.No.
Me: Really? Chorizo?
Child 2: Not chorizo. CHEERIOS.
Me: Oh. So, not in a taco, then.
@#$%^&*ing masks and small person diction.
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Child 1: squeaks in amazement. She just turned three.
Child 2: Bacon's alright; I like chorizo. She's almost four and a bit jaded.
Heh.