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How spoiled is the dog now that she found out I'm the one that speaks dog?
arrrarrarr woof growl follow her to the water/food/stairs to go out. Ok pretty normal dog stuff.
arrrarrarr woof growl : Scoot over so she can sit in the computer chair behind me.
arrrarrarr woof growl
Follow her to the back door. Open it. She doesn't want to go out. arrrarrarr woof growl. She likes to sit in patches of the sun. I see there's one at the back door. I fold up a blanket and put it down in the sun. Turns around three times goes to sleep.
Its ll c clock arrrarrarr woof growl. The dog goes to the new recliner. SHe's not happy till I'm sitting in it,m then she hops up on me and goes to sleep. Or tries to. The kids keep making noise. arrrarrarr woof growl ... she's not happy till they're out of the room so she can rest.
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Has she complained about the Norse accent?
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How many landscapers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
5. 1 person that does all the actual work and then 4 more standing around him smoking and giving critique.
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Day off.
Hauled 37 yard bags (30 gallons each) of green waste from the nature center where I volunteer to the composting center out near the airport.
Groomed the dog and got all the mats, snarls, and burrs out of his coat.
Gave Teensy Valeros a haircut.
Am now completely covered in the hair of both small furry beasts.
Need shower.
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Similar day for me - I weeded the back terrace and garden, put some cardboard and bark chip down to keep future weeds at bay, cut back the brambles, did some batch cooking (dhal, and protein flapjacks), and for fun, archery, espada y daga, and Percussion.
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Day off.
Hauled 37 yard bags (30 gallons each) of green waste from the nature center where I volunteer to the composting center out near the airport.
Groomed the dog and got all the mats, snarls, and burrs out of his coat.
Gave Teensy Valeros a haircut.
Am now completely covered in the hair of both small furry beasts.
Need shower.
Both? What was the second small furry beast?
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"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."
Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
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Quote from news story about a Chinese Robot Half Marathon:
"One robot fell at the starting line and lay flat for several minutes before getting up and taking off."
Oh great. First LLMs took all the novel-writing jobs and now a robot stole my signature racing style. Where does it end?!
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"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!
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Sugar hobbit town
Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
It's one of the tricky ones, isn't it?
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Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
Nice try. It's Lefftenant.
Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
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Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.
Isn't it just GLOSS-ter?
Although there's a Gloucestershire cheese my daughter loves at Trader Joe's, and she calls it "Villain cheese" because of King Lear.
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Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.Isn't it just GLOSS-ter?
Although there's a Gloucestershire cheese my daughter loves at Trader Joe's, and she calls it "Villain cheese" because of King Lear.
I approve.
I always thought the Shire was silent.
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I always thought the Shire was silent.
Only on Sundays.
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I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
But I'm addicted to YouTube's Daily Dose of Internet, and he's typically very reliable in what he shows. So he showed a Tik Tokker demonstrating how to tell a pineapple is ripe. It's irritated me for several years now that my host family trained me very well to pick good pineapples by smelling the cut stalk, but as my sense of smell has diminished so has my ability to pick good pineapples.
So, just for yuks, I tried the "pineapple hack". And every single family member reacted with, "OMG! This is a fantastic pineapple! Where did you get it! It's way better than any pineapple I've had before!"
So, well done, Tik Tok. I am mature enough to be able to say, "I was wrong. You did good."
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Take your sword to the grocery store. If you can toss the pineapple into the air and slash it in two, before it hits the ground; the pineapple is ripe.
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Beware the werehare!
Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.Isn't it just GLOSS-ter?
Although there's a Gloucestershire cheese my daughter loves at Trader Joe's, and she calls it "Villain cheese" because of King Lear.
Gloucester is the city, Gloucestershire is the county.
And is there life on Maror?
Gloucester is the city, Gloucestershire is the county.Say 'Gloucestershire'! Americans, you go first!"I know that I pronounced that wrong. I don't care, it's French. I don't care if I mispronounce French. If they want me to pronounce it correctly, they should write it in English."Pronouncing something correctly and writing it in English are mutually exclusive.Isn't it just GLOSS-ter?
Although there's a Gloucestershire cheese my daughter loves at Trader Joe's, and she calls it "Villain cheese" because of King Lear.
Yes, but/and much British pronunciation seems to be how someone would read a word aloud after drinking heavily all evening, like "sinjin" for "St. John".
Grrrr.
I spent all afternoon yesterday making pierogi. I took them out of the garage fridge to saute them for dinner only to discover that Val had demolished a full third of them.
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Merely a third?
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It is impossible to hide food from a growing boy.
Grrrr.
I spent all afternoon yesterday making pierogi. I took them out of the garage fridge to saute them for dinner only to discover that Val had demolished a full third of them.
That’s a paddlin.
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It is impossible to hide food from a growing boy.
OMG. Yesterday was all kinds of "fun" for exactly this concept.
Fluffernutter is supposed to be on two medications: Pepcid AC to help her eat, and Rejensa to fix her arthritis. She doesn't mind the Pepcid in her food, but the Rejensa is in chewable dog tablets, and even the feline vacuum cleaner kitten took one lick and spat one out. Mixing it in with the Fluffernutter's food, the cat treat lickables, or anything else doesn't help, so we've had to resort to the "nuclear option": Mix it with baby food.
Unfortunately, the chicken baby food just went on sale and was sold out at every store, so I had to get Gerber ham baby food, which is really at the bottom of the barrel in terms of what you can give your cats: Ham is pretty bad for them anyway, and of course being Gerber they can't not add crap to their baby food, so this one has corn starch, which is a known irritant for feline digestion. But, beggars can't be choosers, and I figured the Pepcid AC would help counteract the corn starch, so I put the medicated baby food in the room with the Fluffernutter and closed and (I thought) latched the door.
Unfortunately, kitten, being The Most Perfect Kitten Ever, is also brilliant. She got the door open and looted the baby food.
So yesterday was a LONG morning and early afternoon of projectile kitten vomiting (not as cute as it sounds), kitten diarrhea (their poops are toxic waste to begin with, so ugh), and calling the emergency vet because kitten was exploding everywhere and having the vet say, "Yeah, she'll work it through her system eventually."
Hours of cleaning later, she recovered.
And promptly went after the Fluffernutter's food again.
Really?
This is so on the spot it's terrilarious. All except #7 are absolutely true of me.
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This is so on the spot it's terrilarious. All except #7 are absolutely true of me.
I'll read it later. I'm too busy listening to Sisters of Mercy while riding my skateboard down to the International Academy of Clowning Arts and Sarcasm in Portland, Oregon.
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Pineapples are ripe when they've been dried out and stuck in the candy isle.
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So, I know a couple of things:
(1) As part of my (very mild) OCD, I'm always hyper-aware of where everything/everyone is at any point in time. I'm slowly learning to be tolerant of people who move through the world without such awareness, but it's hard for me to imagine what things must be like for them.
(2) As a parent and pet owner, I've spent decades learning to anticipate the needs of those who can't communicate verbally. Knowing that some people have neither kids nor pets, I'm forgiving towards them if they can't auto-anticipate such things.
-- BUT --
Our housecleaner has raised 3 daughters. She's known our cats for their entire lives. Yet when the Fluffernutter flees to WhimseyShire to hide from her, she closes the door, trapping the Fluffernutter in a room with no food, no water, and no litterbox. I've pointed this out to her before and asked her not to do it. She still does. Today she did it again, and I re-opened the door, and she re-closed it. She cannot get her brain to make the connection "cat in room. Cat cannot open doors. I should not close this door". It's not malicious, it just never crosses her mind.
On the bright side, the fluffernutter's poops are looking just fine. Found a prime example in the middle of the WhimseyShire floor 'cause she had nowhere else to go.
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I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
In seriousness: No, their parents didn't, because their parents probably never taught them that. They're young adults and late teens learning all this stuff on their own from the collective work of their peers and/or from doing research on the internet, and sharing what they discover back into that collective work.
We shouldn't be mocking and jeering them. We should be pointing at them and saying "They're doing what their parents should have done years ago - educating and improving themselves and learning new things - and choosing to share it with others rather than keep it to themselves."
GenX, and some of the older Millennials, are the ones failing to teach them these things in the first place - the TikTok self-educated "hack" trends are happening because someone in those older brackets failed to pass that education along somewhere earlier in their lives, and they had to learn it for themselves somehow.
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I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
In seriousness: No, their parents didn't, because their parents probably never taught them that. They're young adults and late teens learning all this stuff on their own from the collective work of their peers and/or from doing research on the internet, and sharing what they discover back into that collective work.
We shouldn't be mocking and jeering them. We should be pointing at them and saying "They're doing what their parents should have done years ago - educating and improving themselves and learning new things - and choosing to share it with others rather than keep it to themselves."
GenX, and some of the older Millennials, are the ones failing to teach them these things in the first place - the TikTok self-educated "hack" trends are happening because someone in those older brackets failed to pass that education along somewhere earlier in their lives, and they had to learn it for themselves somehow.
The number of times my dad has made fun of me for not knowing how to do something he never taught me...
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Pineapples are ripe when they've been dried out and stuck in the candy isle.
I'd rather have sweet, juicy pineapple chunks freshly out of can.
The number of times my dad has made fun of me for not knowing how to do something he never taught me...I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
In seriousness: No, their parents didn't, because their parents probably never taught them that. They're young adults and late teens learning all this stuff on their own from the collective work of their peers and/or from doing research on the internet, and sharing what they discover back into that collective work.
We shouldn't be mocking and jeering them. We should be pointing at them and saying "They're doing what their parents should have done years ago - educating and improving themselves and learning new things - and choosing to share it with others rather than keep it to themselves."
GenX, and some of the older Millennials, are the ones failing to teach them these things in the first place - the TikTok self-educated "hack" trends are happening because someone in those older brackets failed to pass that education along somewhere earlier in their lives, and they had to learn it for themselves somehow.
SAME.
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SAME.The number of times my dad has made fun of me for not knowing how to do something he never taught me...I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
In seriousness: No, their parents didn't, because their parents probably never taught them that. They're young adults and late teens learning all this stuff on their own from the collective work of their peers and/or from doing research on the internet, and sharing what they discover back into that collective work.
We shouldn't be mocking and jeering them. We should be pointing at them and saying "They're doing what their parents should have done years ago - educating and improving themselves and learning new things - and choosing to share it with others rather than keep it to themselves."
GenX, and some of the older Millennials, are the ones failing to teach them these things in the first place - the TikTok self-educated "hack" trends are happening because someone in those older brackets failed to pass that education along somewhere earlier in their lives, and they had to learn it for themselves somehow.
I got beaten once because I asked him what cleaning product I could use on a task he'd assigned me. He told me to try elbow grease. I'd never heard that idiom before (I think I was seven or eight), so I pulled every product out of the cupboard one by one trying to find it.
The same technique works for grapes.
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I got beaten once because I asked him what cleaning product I could use on a task he'd assigned me. He told me to try elbow grease. I'd never heard that idiom before (I think I was seven or eight), so I pulled every product out of the cupboard one by one trying to find it.SAME.The number of times my dad has made fun of me for not knowing how to do something he never taught me...I am... bemused.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to laugh at/scorn Tik Tok "life hacks" as only a Gen Xer can. "Really? You call that a 'hack'? Did you parents give you a trophy when you learned to tie your own shoes? Or can you do that yet?"
In seriousness: No, their parents didn't, because their parents probably never taught them that. They're young adults and late teens learning all this stuff on their own from the collective work of their peers and/or from doing research on the internet, and sharing what they discover back into that collective work.
We shouldn't be mocking and jeering them. We should be pointing at them and saying "They're doing what their parents should have done years ago - educating and improving themselves and learning new things - and choosing to share it with others rather than keep it to themselves."
GenX, and some of the older Millennials, are the ones failing to teach them these things in the first place - the TikTok self-educated "hack" trends are happening because someone in those older brackets failed to pass that education along somewhere earlier in their lives, and they had to learn it for themselves somehow.
Yep, sounds like a lot of the situations I was in as a kid.
Ask a sincere question the adult thinks is stupid but never actually explained before.
Adult gives a sarcastic or rhetorical answer.
Kid, not knowing better, takes it seriously.
Adult gets angry the kid took it seriously - or, more often, says the kid is "being a brat" or "being a smartass" in families that are okay with cursing - and punishes the kid.
With exemplars like this, is it any wonder I decided early in my life I didn't want kids? Even before understanding I was ace or the entire Everything of modern American society, economy, and culture.
Student A: "Okay. Letter 1 is Number B."
Student B: "What?"
Student A: "Letter 1 is Number B."
Student C: "Got it. I'm on Letter 3."
Student B: "....guys."
Student A: "Letter 2 is Number D."
Student B: "Ms. Scint, are you hearing this?"
Me: "Mhm."
Student B: "That's bad grammar."
Me: "No, the grammar is fine. 'Letter' and 'is' perfectly agree."
Student A: "Ha!"
Me: "Now, the vocab on the other hand..."
Student C: "Do you think it's number C?"
Student B: "I hate this."
Points to Students A and C for committing to the bit. I don't think I could stick with it, myself. :)