Mouselemming

@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I “heard” that title to the tune of “Immigrant Song”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A fucking rhino!?

  How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the matter Aquaman?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, it’d be cool if he could be made as a tub toy that swims fast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A completely useful compulsion I have.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A completely useful compulsion I have.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crossbow 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a hip, not a belly. I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, what’s happened to Melania, with her veil and look of loathing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Add-on question: when using a fork, do you put the points on the plate (or stab a piece) and then use your knife to push food onto the downward curve of the tines (I would say the back but that’s because I don’t do this) and lift it points-down?

  Or do you carry food on the concave curve of the tines (as well as stabbed on the points of course) and lift it points-up?

  This is cultural, neither is incorrect, but it might affect your choice of fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy shit, pick one already please⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Llama mischievous bad

  (Dalai) Llama mischievous good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% all natural hand-drawn comic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some aren’t able to spell it right once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot wrong with sending everyone to El Salvador or Gitmo. But quite a few people who seek asylum are trying to escape a deadly situation in their own country. (Yes if they’re trying for asylum they’re not supposed to be deported without due process but that’s not stopping the Reich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pack of Beakers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can hear this picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you have so many, and I assume the food is dried-on, consider tearing off the paper labels and running them through the dishwasher. It’s what I do with my cat’s food cans (along with regular dishes) and it works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me want cookie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cookie demonstrates strabismus, misaligned eyes, specifically exotropia, pointing outward. While this can cause amblyopia or lazy eye, they’re different things.

  I have had a lazy eye (one that doesn’t work well with my brain, so I have crap depth perception) as a child because it was much more nearsighted than the other, and now because of cataracts and floaters. But it aligns properly.

  Cookie also has a more unique and adorable quality of “googly eyes,” in that they can bounce around randomly before returning to their basic misaligned position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me want cookie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we saying nothing about the fact his eyes point in different directions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tomorrow: grass extinction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I don’t think those were clean hands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's urgent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscribe! More mantis facts, please! (Or pupils, invertebrates in general, whatever’s percolating today)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cute joke, but more likely osteoporosis, preceded by childbearing. Pregnancy hormones make tendons in general soften/stretch, in order for the pelvis to let the head through. I had C-sections, but my feet got bigger and apparently the rest of my bones sagged a bit too. And now I’m getting thinner vertebrae.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My doctor’s office measured my height along with my weight last year. First time I remember since I’ve been an adult. I’m an old white woman and apparently I’ve lost an inch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing, as they do, they open spaces you can anticipate and use. Even a roadhog can’t hog the whole road, they’re always moving away from somewhere. You signal and start to edge right, they zoom forward, you ease slightly off the gas and get the front corner of your car into the space behind their left rear tail light, now you’re in that lane and ahead of the guy behind them, and you stay close until you get fully in the lane. Then of course you leave a safe buffer in front of you. Your goal isn’t to be the first in front, but to use the lanes to get where you need to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right of course. You should drive defensively at all times, and with courtesy, remembering the humans around you. But it’s also dangerous and confusing to others if you don’t take the right of way when it’s yours. Or if you signal a move and then don’t do it. As with my example of lane changing, you can anticipate another driver not making it easy and use that to find your spot. You shouldn’t try to zoom ahead and cut them off, and you shouldn’t even be starting to signal if there’s not room. But soon after you start blinking, your car should at least indicate what you’re doing by changing position within your own lane, and then you should finish the move as soon as it’s safe.

  You should also realize that the other person’s signals need to be treated as a warning. Even if the car and its driver look small and easily intimidated, you should allow them the space to make their move. Too many drivers don’t.

  I’m going to add, if you see someone do something incredibly stupid, assume their GPS just gave them an impossible direction. Or their kid is kidnapped and they are hurrying to the ransom drop. Or whatever it takes for you to let go of your frustration and just add it into the day’s tally of crazy driving rather than getting angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always use the blinker. Remember it’s not a request, it’s a warning.

  When changing lanes in fast traffic, using the blinker will usually cause the car next to you to speed up. This is a feature, not a bug, as it opens a space behind them into which you can stick the nose of your car, ahead of the guy following them.

  Adding in: if you routinely drive with your lights on, you will find that little extra visibility makes people slightly less likely to cut you off or more likely to let you in. Sometimes they don’t mean to be assholes, they’re just distracted, and being more visible helps. If you consider that “dingdingding” a reminder to lock it, it will turn off the lights and be safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It should signal the direction the car is going to move. If the car’s moving ass-first, then it should tell which way the ass is going. Helpfully, this is the same direction you have to turn the steering wheel, so your muscle memory will do just fine. It will tell the small child you can’t see which leg will get broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you and everyone else drive like a maniac, you should use your blinkers. In fact, especially.

  Keep in mind, using the blinker isn’t asking permission. It’s a warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that last bit as "warning you that you might hit a large meaty object, but then I realized…I was pretty much right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re making a turn push the lever farther and it will keep blinking until the steering wheel starts to return to center. If you’re just edging sideways into the next lane, a little flick will give you the few seconds of blinks and stop, because the wheel doesn’t turn enough for the other system and you might not realize it’s still blinking mile after míle.

  I do wish the blinks were a faster tempo, more chances to alert others quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, warm the whole thing to heat the air inside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put the whole thing in a pot of water and start bringing it to a slow simmer. This will warm the air inside, expanding it and breaking the suction. I got my stuck blender jar open this way, taking it out as soon as the first tiny bubble escaped and quickly unscrewing it before it could cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  During COVID lockdown I had plenty of yeast but very little flour, so I bulked it out with about half Matzo meal, which isn’t breadcrumbs but the flour has been cooked. It wasn’t great, but it loafed enough to slice and make sandwiches or toast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, (thanks, Arrkk) and that’s a better answer.

  But the schoolmarm in me brings me back to tell you that, because of the “y-” in the way “union” is pronounced, standard usage is “a union” even though it starts with a vowel. The reason we use “an” is to avoid an awkward slide from the a to the vowel, but in words that start with the “you-” sound it’s not necessary.

  A ugly bastard An ugly bastard

  A onion An onion

  An unicorn A unicorn

  That’s me done, and a gold star to you on catching my original error!