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- Comment on One of the down sides of testosterone 1 week ago:
Honestly, I’m a dude, and way closer to the girl stereotype here. An argument is one thing, a debate, whatever. But if it’s gotten to the point of what is consider a fight, it’s probably kaput for the relationship, tbh. But that may just be me having a stronger definition of fight, perhaps?
- Comment on first state btw 2 weeks ago:
While South Carolina is the lesser of the North/South Carolina divide, northern Georgia is Lesser Carolina. Tall Georgia is a myth. There is no excuse for mapmakers excluding Lesser Carolina, and allowing Georgia to reach up and touch Tennessee.
- Comment on first state btw 2 weeks ago:
Somehow, with all of these states, Lesser Carolina is still missing.
- Comment on the chance to do it all over again 2 weeks ago:
Nah, Mama found out she was pregnant less than hour before walking down the aisle.
She said many times she wished she had not gone through with it once she knew. And while I love my dad, he was not good for her, or her business, or a great dad during his dad-ing years. He’s a lot better now, but all of us, including him, would have been better off if he’d been the guy we saw on weekends, y’know?
- Comment on the chance to do it all over again 2 weeks ago:
Assuming I’m transported back as myself at my current age?
Figure out the whole identity issue (no paperwork), but then invest in Apple and Microsoft, wait it out a few years, stop my mom from marrying my dad, and help her figure out her medical troubles early enough to change things.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense, it’s just blowing my American mind, where an urn on the mantle is extremely commonplace. My brother and I both an urn with our mother’s remains, for instance.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 3 weeks ago:
Really? So you can’t keep the remains/an urn of their ashes? Does that also apply to things like when they make gemstones from ashes?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 3 weeks ago:
Damn, GG was CEO of a fossil fuel company? or a billionaire?
- Comment on Br*tish breakfast "food". 4 weeks ago:
Occasionally, as a ridiculous treat for the family, I make A Full Southern. It’s a full English, but I swap out the black pudding for grits. It’s a big hit
- Comment on Zamn... That's what happened ? Zamn... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah… All the family drama happened when I was like 5 years old, and could remember enough of it to not need to be told. But lemme tell ya, there’s people in the family I have no interest whatsoever in knowing, and I genuinely believe we are the better for it.
Not coincidentally, all those same shit stirrers and liars and cheats are trumpers today.
- Comment on Tru 5 weeks ago:
The top house looks like a CustardFist drawing
- Comment on Live laugh love 5 weeks ago:
I have not! I’ll look it up! 🙂
- Comment on Bet this is a fun church 5 weeks ago:
I get the sex part of the joke, but is the based on actual verse I’m not familiar with?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t happen near often enough in my opinion
- Comment on Live laugh love 5 weeks ago:
That is an honor
- Comment on Live laugh love 5 weeks ago:
No, that genuinely happened to me. Virginia Beach, early 2000s lol
- Comment on Live laugh love 5 weeks ago:
As a child, I loved seagulls. One year, for my birthday, my mom got us a beach front hotel for 2 weeks (it may also have been a trial separation from my dad, I don’t remember) It was amazing. My birthday is in the winter, so not only was it super cheap, but I got to see snow on the beach, and there was no one else, so the beach wasn’t crowded. I would feed the seagulls for hours.
One day, I decided to up the game. There was a little burger place that would give me free fries to feed the gulls, because they cooked them in batches, and ended up tossing a lot.
So, I get my 5 gallons of fries or so, and I go to our hotel room on the 4th floor, and stand on the balcony and feed the gulls.
Then the phone rings, and I go into the room to answer it, bringing with me the fries (cause I’m like 9 years old, and I don’t want the gulls to eat them all while I’m not there to watch). I answer the phone and then turn around to see that I have left the balcony doors open, and now there are approximately 100 billion seagulls swarming into the hotel room.
Slammed the phone down, and bolted for the balcony, forcing my way through a squawking, squalling, shrieking solid wall of gulls as they snapped at me, scratched at me with their claws (did you know they had claws? I didn’t!), and generally caused mayhem and havoc the likes of which no hotel room has seen since the era of big haired rock stars.
Luckily, fry bucket in hand, they mostly followed me out and ate the fries I flung off the balcony, most of which got eaten before ever touching the ground.
My mom came back to the room a few hours later to find me cleaning up gull shit off of basically ever surface, covered in scratches and bruises, bleeding on basically every exposed inch of my body.
As a child, I loved seagulls.
I still fucking do. They’re my spirit animal. I love gulls. I strive to be a gull. If I were a furry, I’d be a fucking gull furry (feathery? Are their bird furries?)
- Comment on he did that 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m curious, too. There are so many absolutely awful (real) images of him, and yet in constantly seeing doctored ones to make him look… Not much worse, honestly, just worse in a different way, and I’m not sure why
- Comment on You don't know me, you don't know my life 5 weeks ago:
I fucking love the time stamp differences between these two comments. That’s fantastic
- Comment on SBA #246 Sins and Virtues 5 weeks ago:
Came to the comments to see if anyone had already said it haha
- Comment on Mind your structural integrity 5 weeks ago:
Little brother in the bottom bunk is like “why is the wall so sticky?”
- Comment on Washington state coast - saw a creature that looked like this. What is it?? 1 month ago:
That’s a good ol’ fashioned Biblically Accurate Angel right there, amiguite. Had yerself a revelation from God. Fairly certain you’re building the next arc. Personally, I think I’ll take the flood waters for myself, but my brother and sister in law are good folk, and id appreciate it if you left them some space on the boat. They’ll help feed the animals and slop the cages.
Oh, and do us a favor. Skip the mosquitos this time around, Noah
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 month ago:
Sure
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 month ago:
Yeah… People are weird in this comment section. One person said the only natural way to read numbers was biggest first, as if it were a universal truth. And while there are variations in date format, to my knowledge most people don’t write the date with the year first? Like, it’s the least useful number to put first. I have rarely asked for the date and been actually inquiring what year it is. The day is the number I want to know most of the time. Day, month, year, in order of which number you most likely need to know first.
Month, day, year on government forms for some reason, though :/
- Comment on It'll fit 1 month ago:
Especially considering most of the eyebrows were drawn on!
- Comment on Investing in wage suppression 1 month ago:
At this point, I kind of wonder if we should just bring back feudalism. At least then I get a house and a patch of land to till, and I only have to give up a portion of it instead of starving while somehow getting fatter because my primary source of calories is processed corn and microplastics :/
- Comment on Pressing question 1 month ago:
Oh, definitely. Those 90s per stores were absolutely awful, and people thought they were trustworthy, because why would they lie? :(
I haven’t been on the hamster subreddit, but I absolutely loved the guinea pig subs. Such good info. Animal care subs in general were amazing.
I like Lemmy, and I genuinely hope it succeeds at dethroning reddit, but I believe the way forward is to bring back individual forums like we had back in the day. Way more organization options with a forum. Be could if we could use a Lemmy like front end to browse many forums at a time, while maintaining the individual actual forums, where each one can many sections and threads within those sections. That, I believe, could get us to unseat reddit and let us have our amazing communities back like the animal care subs.
That was way off topic, but I’m currently swollen and on meds and my brain has never thought in straight lines anyway. Lol
- Comment on Pressing question 1 month ago:
Yeah, Clyde deserved better.
I wasn’t there for the per store interaction, but I assume it was a kid working retail following directions off a tag on a cage. That’s been most of my experience with pet stores prior to decent information becoming widespread on the Internet
- Comment on Keep them secret 1 month ago:
My phone stays in do not disturb mode. I have several people as breakthrough exceptions, but my phone stays on vibrate so even they don’t get full ringers. Notifications for everything but calls and texts are turned off.
I am not hiding anything other than myself from having to deal with humans
- Comment on Pressing question 1 month ago:
We fed em, Bonnie was just evil. Clyde showed up one day on my mom’s porch, during a period in which I had been kidnapped (familial kidnapping) and brought a lot of comfort to my brother and mom during that time. The guy at the pet store (this was 90s, pre Internet for us) told them he needed a companion, and to keep them in separate cages and only let them interact supervised, so that’s what they did. They got Bonnie and set everything up, but Bonnie despised Clyde and everything about his good, sweet, and pure little hamster soul. Shortly after I got back, Bonnie committed her ultimate crime.