Mouselemming

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's urgent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would agree except employment is so fickle in the biz. Health insurance should come through the Academy, since everyone is always a member even when they don’t have a gig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone is watching me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The first neighbor obviously has no idea how you really spent the night, is only living their dream of late-night parties through seeing you come home as they leave for work.

  The random friend may be able to see your lights go on, and your mum may want to know you’re alive and safe without bothering you. Mums start that the first night their baby sleeps in another room and it continues their whole life. Most of us don’t have that neighbor and just have to hope our kids text us once in awhile. I hope your mum lets you live your life without judgement. And I hope the random neighbor would let you know if something happened to your mum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How about we send all the aegypti to a certain big white house to suck a fat assdick? I hear he’s into piss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would gladly feed the birds and bats to be rid of mosquitoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ain't your buddy, pal!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as “person.”

  People say “dude” is neutral, but you don’t often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of “dudette” also implies it’s not.

  “Friend” maybe but could sound sarcastic.

  Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I’d like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses “Bub”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ain't your buddy, pal!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So basically you’re doing the “don’t ask, just say something on the Internet to issue a challenge” method of learning stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petty pedantry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but: it was right there all along.

  Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he’s also someimes on earth. Although he’s more of an indoors boy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard it that way but I get it. A combination of (the relevant bits of) suture and jaguar. Only problem is, it’s not spelled centuar, it’s spelled centaur.

  However, until one shows up to personally correct your spelling and pronunciation, I think you’re free to call imaginary creatures whatever you call them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happens every single time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just checking for infection of the perineum, doc!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroic dog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve heard of putting a steak on a black eye, haven’t you?

  Yeah, that’s what they tried first for his gruesome injury.

  He ate the steak.

  The ham will remain until he’s hungry again.

  Please donate to help cover the cost of his continuing medical care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A teen watching full length continuous streaming porn? Hope he’s got some Gatorade in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mother of the year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely wasn't late to work making this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh neato! I thought that one was for when you had black paper. I do remember using plain wax crayons on easter eggs though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World travelers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes a lot more sense than ASTROnesians, as spelled above, which makes them sound like aliens. Which is silly, because everyone knows aliens only land in either densely populated metropolitan areas (NYC, Tokyo, etc) or in the desert near Area 51.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lulz, I think I just found a collective noun for Republicans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably why wolves prefer to live in packs. Just to be more evenly matched.