Mouselemming

@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what? I think I’ll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it’s also too much plastic and sugar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that’s a very good point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hole⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Be very careful, boys (and others) have been killed by collapsing sand holes. No matter how fast their friends tried to dig them out. The sand is not just cutting off your air, and filling your mouth and nose if you try to inhale, it’s also a crushing weight on your lungs, much more than avalanche snow for instance. If you want to dig a hole deeper than your chest, do it in more-solid dirt, not sand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t read the linked article but from skimming the intro, it seems they found that unprovoked men are more likely to be violent but hell hath no fury like a provoked woman?

  I initially connected your previous sentence, so I incorrectly thought it was the victim statistics that evened out, and the disparity was because the male victims were provoking, i.e. asking for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pls respond⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately they’re allatime swishing with salt water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fat labrador topilogy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given it also has a mouth-to-anus tube, is there a name for a double torus? Genus-2 torus I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All songs with sirens should start with an advisory, like in the lyrics by the lead singer, with the opening chords, so it plays every time.

  “Yo, motherfuckers, we got sirens comin’ up in this bitch, so crack a window in case the popo sneak up on your ass during the chorus.”

  (Hello fellow kids do we still say popo?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you arrange your bromo bricks to form circles or just go wackadoodle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Arizona is not on the West Coast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meryl Streep movie, she could save only one child from the Nazis (or they’d have killed both, the cruelty was the point) and the guilt and trauma stays with her throughout her life.

  I was implying that if your mom had to give up one twin for adoption it might still be a painful thing she doesn’t want to talk about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mom said the doctor told her the ultrasound showed “two babies” but I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and they looked at the tiny embryonic speck and said, “there’s the baby!” In fact no babies are shown in ultrasounds, only fetuses. But my point was, they may have seen one 7-month fetus and one little shriveled thing and said “there’s two babies.”

  I guess it’s also possible she brought two babies to term, made a “Sophie’s Choice” to give one up for adoption, and didn’t want you to be heartbroken or afraid of being given away too. And since other people had heard about her being pregnant with twins, she gave you a story you could accept as a child.

  And another possibility is that the doctor gave her anesthesia or rohypnol or something and took the twin to put up for adoption, telling her it was absorbed. She’d know she had given birth but not remember it was twice. It’s terrible but not unheard of.

  You could ask her, if you feel you’re both adult enough now to handle the emotional implications of all the possible explanations. Remember that you can still trust her love no matter what, but she might not know the whole truth and/or might be ashamed to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’ve started scanning the dark periphery like we do. Not because you deserved anything that happened to you! And I’m not assuming you weren’t already. But because I can’t do anything to protect you from over here on the Internet and I don’t want that to happen to you anymore. It’s when we’re near home that we tend to let our guard down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that’s all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I’m in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I’m walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they’re at my back to make a move.

  My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: “Yeah that’s where I’m going, that’s obviously where I’m looking.” Sure, they could get mugged but it’s less likely, and physical threat isn’t on their mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always add red food coloring if you have some old bottles from before they took out the toxic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We over-60s remember when pistachios were red, airplane security was non-existent and everywhere smelled like cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there, just waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t stand the graininess just under the skin. And the rest of the flesh is too bland. Unripe, they’re woody and sometimes stringy. Maybe if you took a perfectly ripe one, peeled and cored and cut it up, and then squeezed half a lemon over it, I would try it. Otherwise, miss me with those nasty things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a village to survive. Some to remember the exact differences between safe, fun, and deadly mushrooms and others to turn predators into prey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ancient people had to remember/memorize a lot more things just to get through their days, before writing existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t, not enough sodium for one thing. I guess you first use the clean juice to make them stop dying long enough so you can stitch what’s left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Glow Worms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could pull them off without staining them if you drape them neatly over a clean chair. But then you’d be standing there trouserless (pants means undies over there) with Margot and Charlie…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, Sideways Stories From Wayside School is great! And weird, but good weird. Twilight was the first thing I thought of when the COVID toilet paper crisis hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For your carrot problem, get the really fat bulk carrots, which (at my grocery store anyway) are not woody and very tasty. Peel it as usual, noticing you only have to peel one or two. You’re now perfectly set for your first cucumber solution, cutting it in half lengthwise, or maybe even quarters because carrots are a firmer bite. Personally I start cutting off the fat end and work towards the tip, because you have more to grip for better control on the harder slices, and if your last ones are a little thicker they’re also small.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For that special someone on Valentine's Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re cheese waxes like from Laughing Cow. They’re saying “melt down old cheese waxes to make romantic red tea-light candles for your Valentine.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A succulent meal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab a head of romaine next time, slice it up and rinse it and have it in the fridge so you can grab a handful to add to your sandwich or bed under your hot chicken to catch the juices. Maybe grab an apple while you’re in the produce section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big improvement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’d’you shave with that toothpick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you and they’re so sweet! But I’m specifically focusing on fox news stories (preferably not the depressing ones) for that instance. Just trying to look every few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Balloons are sky trash, bad for the environment. But they could be good camouflage for drones now, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also fun to find items to post to it, but a little tricky to search for them while filtering out Fox Bullshit