It'd stand to reason that a dog bred to chase and catch small, furry things would, without much provocation.
No, no! I'm NOT trying to provoke anything!
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...her dog didn't react at all because she hadn't trained it to chase cats.i don't think you train dogs to chase cats...other way around.In my lifetime of cat ownership and relationships with dozens of dogs, I've never met a dog that instinctively aggressively chased cats without the owner's encouragement. "There it is! Get the kitty! Go get the kitty!"
In my experience, a "normal" dog will trot over curiously to try to sniff the unfamiliar creature. Only a human-trained dog will bark and take off at a full run trying to catch the cat. LM's been around a lot more dogs than I have; I'd be interested in her take.
EDIT: Admittedly, my experience is with labradors, retrievers, border collies, corgis, and a rottweiler. Not exactly a "murderer's row" in the dog breed world. Both cats I knew who were killed by aggressive dogs were killed by pit bulls whose owners had trained them to be so aggressive they had to be put down because they posed a danger to humans as well.
Many dogs have an instinct to chase creatures that flee from them. They might not mean harm, and might even consider it playful, but cats that are not used to or dislike dogs (because they were chased or harassed before) often run when they see dogs approaching. The cat reaction and the following owner's control or lack thereof over situation can be a big difference there.
And then, there are dog owners who deliberately sic them on cats.
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Thanks, Drejk and TOZ; I was going to post something similar: Dogs go nuts over squirrels because squirrels run. Cats are practically inert objects, so exactly as Drejk and TOZ said, they typically don't run so they don't trigger the chase neuron.
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No, no! I'm NOT trying to provoke anything!
Are you sure you aren't with your small, furry thing just dangling out there like that?
When we had a newfie and a cat and the pitbull came for a visit there was no problem. The cat stayed between "mom" the newfies legs, rubbed their tail in the pitbulls face, and the newfie informed the pitbull on no uncertain terms that the cat would be allowed to do this. No fear response, no chase, no fear.
Cue a few years later we lost the newfie. The dog was ok, until the cat got scared and ran, at which point the dog chased and the cat of course got more scared. It took a while to get them to the point that the cat wasn't afraid and the dog wouldn't chase.
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Don't pretend the things don't happen. It's frustrating to paladins.
Succubusses in, flips open notebook labeled “Ways to Drive Paladins Crazy (and Hopefully to Fall).”
Adds heading: “Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss.” Underlines, twice. Adds tally mark for quantitative analysis purposes.
Last night I had an epiphany about another of the key issues affecting 5e.
Last session we killed a dragon. This session we were supposed to descend into its lair and get ourselves a dragon hoard! And... nobody cared.
They worked so hard to eliminate the "magic mart" mentality in 5e that money is basically worthless. You can't buy the magic items you want. No normal items cost more than a couple hundred gold. So I got to see the phenomenon of four players starting a session in which we were going to get a dragon hoard in complete apathy.
And sure enough, we found the hoard and it was nothing but gold, valuables, and one +1 axe, so we told our ship's crew to go ahead, pack it all on board, take their shares, and be off with it. We didn't even bother taking a quick trip back to town to spend any of it.
When you've rendered any money beyond 500 gold pieces meaningless, you might have messed up.
EDIT: The only "loot excitement" of the night was finding a dead dwarf in a mithral breastplate on the way in. A simple piece of non-magical armor caused far more excitement and discussion over who should get it than an entire dragon's hoard of wealth.
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Depends on the breed, the owner, and the circumstance.
Here is my limited sample set:
A collie will chase and bark to play or greet, but if there is serious danger, they will stand right by you and be ready to defend. A cat is neither a threat nor food, so is largely ignored.
Schnauzers (bred originally as ratters on ships) will absolutely chase and attack tiny furry things, might bark at cats, but they are smart enough to know they would be outmatched.
Labs and retrievers will chase and attack a freaking *pinecone* if they see it fall from a tree. (Not an exaggeration. I've seen it more than once.) Eager to please, but kinda dumb. May try to play with a cat, but won't attack it unless it falls from the sky.
My mother trained her Blue Heeler, Maggie, to go after ground squirrels with the word "Digger!" (She trained Maggie to be a trail dog when she was out on her horse, and random holes in the ground can be dangerous.) But Maggie wouldn't chase anything else, and only when given the command.
My niece's German shepherd, Rexy, and her cat Blueberry, will habitually curl up and nap together.
Others on the thread may have different experience. I'm no expert.
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I'm off work until Tuesday. We get a long weekend for "Give an Indigenous Person Smallpox, Unless You Kill or Enslave Them First" Day (formerly known as Columbus Day, but Columbus can go f*** right off).
So I'm still in bed at almost ten, and my daughter made me a mocha and some breakfast while I read.
I've promised to go water at the nature center near our house where I volunteer, but I'm in no hurry.
Yes; my original statement really should have been, "Dogs don't chase still cats unless they've been trained to."
If a cat sees a dog and takes off running, the dog's chase instinct can certainly take over, depending on the breed.
My WORST dog owner experience is still "old lady with a tiny brainless toy POS".
I was carrying the Fluffernutter home from the vet in a cat carrier and the woman was walking her dog in the opposite direction and she saw me.
"Is that a cat?"
"Yes."
"Well, YOU need to cross the street, because my dog doesn't like cats."
There were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
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...her dog didn't react at all because she hadn't trained it to chase cats.i don't think you train dogs to chase cats...other way around.In my lifetime of cat ownership and relationships with dozens of dogs, I've never met a dog that instinctively aggressively chased cats without the owner's encouragement. "There it is! Get the kitty! Go get the kitty!"
In my experience, a "normal" dog will trot over curiously to try to sniff the unfamiliar creature. Only a human-trained dog will bark and take off at a full run trying to catch the cat. LM's been around a lot more dogs than I have; I'd be interested in her take.
EDIT: Admittedly, my experience is with labradors, retrievers, border collies, corgis, and a rottweiler. Not exactly a "murderer's row" in the dog breed world. Both cats I knew who were killed by aggressive dogs were killed by pit bulls whose owners had trained them to be so aggressive they had to be put down because they posed a danger to humans as well.
Every dog I've ever owned.
I've never trained or encouraged our dogs to chase cats it's just something they do.
We had golden retrievers and hound dogs, so both instinctively hunt small animals.
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There were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct...
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Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.
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Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
Do I need it? No. Do I want it... Yes! Yes, well, for later. For now I have a last piece of Black Forest to finish after my dinner (Bolognese sauce with minced meat on completely wrong type of pasta).
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"Doing things with AI is like cutting butter with chainsaw. You can do it, but someone needs to clean the mess..."
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Do I need it? No. Do I want it... Yes! Yes, well, for later. For now I have a last piece of Black Forest to finish after my dinner (Bolognese sauce with minced meat on completely wrong type of pasta).Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
This is a reflection on the limited list
of Polish verbs I can conjugate and spell from memory, without reaching for the "500 Polish Verbs" book on the shelf, because I am lazy.EDIT: Alright, I looked it up.
Drejk dostaje ciasteczka.
"Cookies" was one of the first nouns I learned. Not on purpose. I didn't learn "cookie" (singular) until months later.
Apparently my aunties are in charge of lesson planning at Duolingo.
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Do I need it? No. Do I want it... Yes! Yes, well, for later. For now I have a last piece of Black Forest to finish after my dinner (Bolognese sauce with minced meat on completely wrong type of pasta).Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
This is a reflection on the limited list
of Polish verbs I can conjugate and spell from memory, without reaching for the "500 Polish Verbs" book on the shelf, because I am lazy.EDIT: Alright, I looked it up.
Drejk dostaje ciasteczka."Cookies" was one of the first nouns I learned. Not on purpose. I didn't learn "cookie" (singular) until months later.
Apparently my aunties are in charge of lesson planning at Duolingo.
Funny thing is that in the first sentence you wrote - ciasteczka is actually singular.
After "potrzebuje" goes... Eeee... Genitive? I think it is genitive, and in that particular case "ciasteczko" becomes "ciasteczka".
Nominative: ciasteczko / ciasteczka
Accusative: ciasteczko / ciasteczka
Vocative: ciasteczko / ciasteczka
Locative: ciasteczku / ciasteczkach
Dative: ciasteczku / ciasteczkom
Genitive: ciasteczka / ciasteczek
Instrumental: ciasteczkiem / ciasteczkom
In the second sentence ciasteczka is in... accusative, I think... So there, ciasteczka is plural.
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Last night's session was such a good example of why I mislike "hardcore" gaming content: You need dedicated players willing to work together as a cohesive team, and it's really hard to find such players.
Tomb of Annihilation is an AP designed for 4-6 experienced, at least somewhat optimized characters. As I've mentioned, our group is a nightmare of failure to cooperate in a cooperative game.
I inherited a fairy grave cleric, so I didn't have a lot of say in my build. The only thing I got to do was roll and assign my attributes myself instead of using the ones Shiro had rolled. My only regrets are taking STR and CHA instead of DEX and INT, 'cause nobody told me it was a "no metal armor allowed" campaign, and we're in the jungle so there isn't much use for CHA. I like to believe that I play tactically soundly, but obviously I'm going to be biased so I'll just leave it that nobody's yelled at me for doing anything stupid or playing poorly.
Mustachio is playing a poorly-built, dumb-as-rocks lizardman ranger with no skills. A poor fighter. Tactically clueless. No AP-related skills. The player wanted to "relax, play something dumb, and just have fun". After he was told this was a killer AP.
Troublemaker is a nightmare. His first character, an eladrin wizard, filled in all of our knowledge and trapfinding gaps because nobody else did. But he decided to frontline against a bunch of velociraptors and died a horrific death. We assumed it was because Troublemaker wanted a new character. And he brought in... an INT-dumped barbarian with no skills and all his feats dedicated to not dying. Utterly useless as anything other than a hit point sink. He realized this wasn't working, and brought in the OP warlock build I mentioned upthread, but...
...*ALL* of his spells are anti-caster. Since we haven't faced a single caster, he's been useless.
...he's a CHA-based character and he took *no* Knowledge skills, in spite of a near-party wipe with his last character because our party... lacked Knowledge skills.
...Remember WW's absolute worst play, LM? When he'd be a coward, hide from the entire combat, then pop out at the last minute, shoot one guy with a Magic Missile and act like the hero of the fight? Imagine someone who plays like that, but stupid. During last night's final fight, his actions were:
Round 1: Run forward, use Prestidigitation to light a lantern that nobody needed, realized he'd used all his actions and was too close to the bad guys, so he used one of his 3 daily teleports to teleport away.
Round 2: Run backwards, shoot one guy with an Eldritch blast (a solid move), then teleport forward to be side-by-side with the lizardman in the front lines. So yeah. He puts his caster in the front lines in every fight. No. I don't understand.
Round 3: After losing over half his hit points because caster in the front line, he realized he could no longer Eldritch Blast, so he stayed in the front line and tried Toll the Dead instead.
If GothBard and I hadn't finished off our group in short order and come down to help the two of them, they would have died to a group of low-level mooks.
So the TL;DR version is that we have 1 good character, 2 decent players, and 2 players where we'd be better off with book-generated NPCs whose behaviors depended on random die rolls.
I'll let y'all know when the total party wipe eventually happens, because there's no other possible outcome.
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No, no! I'm NOT trying to provoke anything!Are you sure you aren't with your small, furry thing just dangling out there like that?
I'm more worried about the fact that it's barking.
I played a warlock with misty step and I did occasionally teleport towards the enemies... Especially when we were short on speed bumps front-liners (after paladin dropped out, and before we restarted the party with a fighter) But I did fine with my magic rapier, had actually decent AC (mage armor-a-day, for a win survival, and high DEX alongside CHA), and had vampiric touch to keep my hit points up.
Still, most of the time eldritch blast for 1d10+5 was better option than 1d8+4.
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I was going to let the fly live, but then I googled how long a fly lives. Turns out it's 15-30 days.
Looks like I'm going to make some collateral damage because that's too long.
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Last night's session was such a good example of why I mislike "hardcore" gaming content: You need dedicated players willing to work together as a cohesive team, and it's really hard to find such players.
Tomb of Annihilation is an AP designed for 4-6 experienced, at least somewhat optimized characters. As I've mentioned, our group is a nightmare of failure to cooperate in a cooperative game.
** spoiler omitted **...
Tomb of Annihilation was designed as a meat grinder.
At least according to the original author (I played (and died) through it).
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Should I take a note from NobodysHome rulebook and report an e-mail with an embedded link as a case of suspicious activity to the alleged sender?
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Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Do I need it? No. Do I want it... Yes! Yes, well, for later. For now I have a last piece of Black Forest to finish after my dinner (Bolognese sauce with minced meat on completely wrong type of pasta).This is a reflection on the limited list
of Polish verbs I can conjugate and spell from memory, without reaching for the "500 Polish Verbs" book on the shelf, because I am lazy.EDIT: Alright, I looked it up.
Drejk dostaje ciasteczka."Cookies" was one of the first nouns I learned. Not on purpose. I didn't learn "cookie" (singular) until months later.
Apparently my aunties are in charge of lesson planning at Duolingo.Funny thing is that in the first sentence you wrote - ciasteczka is actually singular.
After "potrzebuje" goes... Eeee... Genitive? I think it is genitive, and in that particular case "ciasteczko" becomes "ciasteczka".
** spoiler omitted **
In the second sentence ciasteczka is in... accusative, I think... So there, ciasteczka is plural.
OK, if you’ll forgive a Ukrainian-Canadian too lazy to look up Polish phonemics and too tone-deaf to be sure she can hear generated audio correctly, would either of you be so kind to confirm for inquiring minds how the “ci-” in “ciasteczka” is pronounced?
I’m hearing it as more or less the same as the “cz,” but I am all too aware that I could be crazy. (Not least because, as a barbarian easterner, I might have guessed that it was a hard c, so as if it were ki-steczka, which would sound kind of like “(little) bones” in Ukrainian!)
Coincidentally, I also need cookies (Мені треба тісточки! or, closer to the verb you two were using, Тісточки мені потрібно.*) for a trip back home for the long weekend, so I baked a batch of peanut butter cookies this evening.
(Also: Cyrillic, my friends. It just makes spelling easier. That applies to all y'all Romanizing folks. ;) )
*N.b.: I’m 3.5th generation, or so, depending on how one splits the difference between my parents’ sides of the family, and quite apart from assimilatory pressures, descended from a bunch of hicks, at least from the point of view of the toffs in Lviv or Kyiv, so I apologize for the inelegant phrasing and/or solecisms. I'm blanking on how else my family would say it in a remotely ordinary way, without putting on airs. Well, apart from a couple of other auxiliary verbs.
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Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
she's speaking in tongues!
Edit: This originally autocorrected holy water to horny water. This is a new phone. But as of today, it is *officially* MY phone.
Yeah, I've seen some cats that just ignore the dogs and never trigger the prey drive.
If the cat is ignoring a coyote and not a dog at all; then you have a missing cat and a coyote with a satisfied belly.
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Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Apparently, you don't have a strong chasing instinct... :PThere were a million horrible things I could have said, but the Fluffernutter was quite distressed and my instinct is always, "Protect first," so I got her home, THEN went outside to give the old lady a piece of my mind, and she'd turned a corner somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and wasn't worth chasing down.
she's speaking in tongues!
Edit: This originally autocorrected holy water to horny water. This is a new phone. But as of today, it is *officially* MY phone.
This is the most Freehold thing I've read in a while. LMAO
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Either I have food poisoning, I caught something from one of my students, or the disclaimer that you don't need to refrigerate Bailey's is wrong.
I've had a fitful night and just hurled up my stomach contents.
WW and the children have not reported any digestive complaints, so probably not food poisoning from dinner; catching something nasty from a student is a job hazard; the website says Bailey's can be stored for two years at temps <25c. It's been stored in a cabinet over my desk next to our kitchen door since this winter, and I'm pretty sure it gets quite a bit warmer than that (Texas heat, sunny windows next to my desk).
So it's most likely the Baileys-and-Jameson I had while I was reading last night.
Either I have food poisoning, I caught something from one of my students, or the disclaimer that you don't need to refrigerate Bailey's is wrong.
** spoiler omitted **
It's the bailey's.
Don't ask me how I know.
CH will notice I haven't really ordered them lately.
Drejk potrzebuje ciasteczka.Do I need it? No. Do I want it... Yes! Yes, well, for later. For now I have a last piece of Black Forest to finish after my dinner (Bolognese sauce with minced meat on completely wrong type of pasta).This is a reflection on the limited list
of Polish verbs I can conjugate and spell from memory, without reaching for the "500 Polish Verbs" book on the shelf, because I am lazy.EDIT: Alright, I looked it up.
Drejk dostaje ciasteczka."Cookies" was one of the first nouns I learned. Not on purpose. I didn't learn "cookie" (singular) until months later.
Apparently my aunties are in charge of lesson planning at Duolingo.Funny thing is that in the first sentence you wrote - ciasteczka is actually singular.
After "potrzebuje" goes... Eeee... Genitive? I think it is genitive, and in that particular case "ciasteczko" becomes "ciasteczka".
** spoiler omitted **
In the second sentence ciasteczka is in... accusative, I think... So there, ciasteczka is plural.
OK, if you’ll forgive a Ukrainian-Canadian too lazy to look up Polish phonemics and too tone-deaf to be sure she can hear generated audio correctly, would either of you be so kind to confirm for inquiring minds how the “ci-” in “ciasteczka” is pronounced?
I’m hearing it as more or less the same as the “cz,” but I am all too aware that I could be crazy. (Not least because, as a barbarian easterner, I might have guessed that it was a hard c, so as if it were ki-steczka, which would sound kind of like “(little) bones” in Ukrainian!)
Coincidentally, I also need cookies (Мені треба тісточки! or, closer to the verb you two were using, Тісточки мені потрібно.*) for a trip back home for the long weekend, so I baked a batch of peanut butter cookies this...
Chee-ah-STECH-ka, so closer to the чи
(I studied Russian and German in college, French in high school, and I haven't heard Polish spoken frequently since my grandmother died forty years ago, so my pronunciation is a hot mess, but I =think= that's correct.
OK, if you’ll forgive a Ukrainian-Canadian too lazy to look up Polish phonemics and too tone-deaf to be sure she can hear generated audio correctly, would either of you be so kind to confirm for inquiring minds how the “ci-” in “ciasteczka” is pronounced?
I’m hearing it as more or less the same as the “cz,” but I am all too aware that I could be crazy. (Not least because, as a barbarian easterner, I might have guessed that it was a hard c, so as if it were ki-steczka, which would sound kind of like “(little) bones” in Ukrainian!)
That would be kosteczka in Polish (singular)
[qyote]Coincidentally, I also need cookies (Мені треба тісточки! or, closer to the verb you two were using, Тісточки мені потрібно.*) for a trip back home for the long weekend, so I baked a batch of peanut butter cookies this...
c alone, is a sort of tz sound (tsar, or car in Polish... Ukrainian might have the same sound, not sure or )
cz is equivalent to English chci or ć (it's complicated) is a softer sound, resembling Japanese ch.
It's an oldie, but includes both the ś followed by ci and Polish j (which is a long i).
Uh, gods of the underworld, how I sound... :/
How to piss off ALL the bugs.
Compact the gravel they'd been spending the night to keep warm.
Last night's session was such a good example of why I mislike "hardcore" gaming content: You need dedicated players willing to work together as a cohesive team, and it's really hard to find such players.
Tomb of Annihilation is an AP designed for 4-6 experienced, at least somewhat optimized characters. As I've mentioned, our group is a nightmare of failure to cooperate in a cooperative game.
** spoiler omitted **...Tomb of Annihilation was designed as a meat grinder.
At least according to the original author (I played (and died) through it).
Shiro says that in their 7-player group, 2 people died in the very first room on entering the tomb, and 5 of them were dead by the end of the session...
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Earlier on, a Swedish man came to the house and left us some dried beaver meat .
Either I have food poisoning, I caught something from one of my students, or the disclaimer that you don't need to refrigerate Bailey's is wrong.
** spoiler omitted **
The wikipedia page notes that it should be kept between 0 and 25 degree Celsius (or 32-77 degree Funnyheit) and away from sunlight, so it's likely that Texas+Bailey doesn't mix that well...
*SIGH*. And here we go again.
You can check DVC's official schedule and see that today is a holiday for the school.
So of course Impus Minor got assigned a midterm that he *had* to take today that was worth 1/3 of his overall grade.
If I were the dean, I would immediately fire that instructor for gross misconduct. I'm not opposed to online learning, homework, or even tests. But "online" doesn't mean, "Weekends and holidays no longer exist."
Coyotes aren't dogs tho.Yeah, I've seen some cats that just ignore the dogs and never trigger the prey drive.If the cat is ignoring a coyote and not a dog at all; then you have a missing cat and a coyote with a satisfied belly.
Yeah, that’s true. Guess I’m saying that an inside/outside cat’s life can be full of hazards. We had people call our office because I had locked their cat in the water treatment building. I didn’t mean to, I never saw it enter the building, so I didn’t know I needed to chase it out.
My co-worker got over there and let the cat out, it wasn’t in there for too long. So that all went well. But just recently the same people wanted me to check our building for the cat again. It was not in there this time, but it’s gone. Coyotes are high on the list of possibilities.
Thanks to both lisamarlene and Drejk for humouring me about language notes! :)
Chee-ah-STECH-ka, so closer to the чи
(I studied Russian and German in college, French in high school, and I haven't heard Polish spoken frequently since my grandmother died forty years ago, so my pronunciation is a hot mess, but I =think= that's correct.
That’s what it sounded like to me, so maybe there’s some hope yet for my ear. :) But then again…
c alone, is a sort of tz sound (tsar, or car in Polish... Ukrainian might have the same sound, not sure or )
cz is equivalent to English ch
ci or ć (it's complicated) is a softer sound, resembling Japanese ch.
OK, I’d need to hear a lot more Polish spoken to pick up the nuance between ci/ć and cz regularly: I think I can hear it a bit in the examples on the Wiki page for Polish phonology, but in continuous speech in a language I don’t understand? Ha, good luck, me!
I don’t think Ukrainian has the ci/ć – at least not to any significant extent, but as I said, I’m a bumpkin, and certainly not enough of a linguist to parse serious phonology. If I’m reading Wiki correctly it’s a question of palatalization, and Ukrainian doesn’t natively do that for that consonant (family) strongly enough for it to register as a “separate phoneme,” and when it does (especially in speech), it’s mostly considered incorrect.
We do have the equivalent of the Polish c, for a “tz” –ish sound – that’s our ц. (Keeping on the theme of sweets, Ukrainian цукерки (or цукорки, which might be rustic, but that’s how everyone I know pronounces it) would be Polish cukierki, I think.)
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After an entire day on my back, I feel vaguely human again, which is good, because I have things to do.
Starting with coffee.
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What does it say about the sorry universe we exist in, when feeling human is considered an improvement...
What does it say about the sorry universe we exist in, when feeling human is considered an improvement...
since i listened to another podcast last night during the commute, it's fresh on my mind . . . .
folks, no matter what you may think of me and/or my convictions, i urge you to give Casey and Calley Means your undivided attention for a couple of hours one day. Rogan, Carlson, and others have interviewed them.
they're worth listening to, even if only once.
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What does it say about the sorry universe we exist in, when feeling human is considered an improvement...
...quoth the dragon.
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The local babies and toddlers' supplies shop has a Halloween-themed window display, prominently featuring a (fake) blood-spattered neat cleaver. I wonder why.
UPDATE: It now also features Junior's First Warhammer. Someone working there is clearly having a great time.
I remember when I got Crookshanks her first Warhammer when she was 2.
I was so proud!
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The fly still lives!
It's been landing on light bulbs and treasured belongings when it isn't mocking me.
I figure it'll slip up as soon as it reaches old age at some point this weekend.
After an entire day on my back, I feel vaguely human again, which is good, because I have things to do.
Starting with coffee.
I would say something, but I have a hard time coming up with something that would be the second most Freehold thing to say.