ChickenLadyLovesLife
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- Comment on Slay Girl 2 days ago:
Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
I took German in high school and forgot it all immediately. A decade later I found myself in India studying Malayalam, the language of Kerala which is the southern-most state in the country. Very hard language to learn but as I was studying its formal grammar I was like, wait a minute this is very familiar. Turns out a German monk in the 19th Century visited Kerala and gave Malayalam its first formal grammar, which was basically just German’s grammar. So it wasn’t totally useless.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
I got out of the language requirement in college by taking computer science courses, which counted as “language” only because programming languages are called what they are. It is just the dumbest fucking shit. If they were called “paradigms” or “code instruction sets” or something like that (which would be just as or more accurate than “languages”) it never would have occurred to anyone to let us computer nerds – who are already not exactly well-rounded in general – to get out of learning a real fucking language.
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
Hare down there
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard
Maybe the author has a Dvorak keyboard layout (a and o are next to each other there).
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
drinking one glass of whisky
To be fair, medical professionals generally triple or quadruple patients’ reported alcohol consumption.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
In college I arranged a co-op at IBM. They made me take a drug test which I failed (for marijuana). A person from IBM’s HR called me and said literally “you need to clean up your act” and they brought me in to do the co-op anyway. I have no idea what the fuck that was all about.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
British cartoon pig?
- Comment on Good one 3 weeks ago:
I thought Muscadine was the actor in Kung Fu.
- Comment on Good one 3 weeks ago:
Since horse racing is all about betting: Zinfanduel.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.
- Comment on Hey Grok 5 weeks ago:
Does he really
He definitely doesn’t. I watched a video tour he gave of the history of SpaceX rockets, and he referred to the tubing and whatnot on the exterior of the rockets as “the fiddly bits”.
- Comment on Hey Grok 5 weeks ago:
How could you leave out Steven Cheung?
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 5 weeks ago:
you are charged for every minute of play time
I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 5 weeks ago:
When I was in graduate school I got snared into evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy had like a couple of thousand publications, but they were all in journals that he had founded and was the editor of and nobody but himself and his friends ever got published in them. I pointed this out in a meeting and somehow this did not disqualify him from consideration.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 5 weeks ago:
Et al phone home!
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
At least your getting good gas mileage.
Lol I get about 16-18 mpg. 6-cylinder engines ain’t fuel efficient even when they’re jammed into a go-kart. For bonus points, the damned thing takes 93 octane.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
I wish I could do that but I drive a roadster. Absolutely no fucking way to stretch out comfortably.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
I would love for the Japanese capsule hotels to become a thing here in the US. I’ve always hated paying $150 or whatever for a full room (or suite) during a road trip late at night when all I do is crash out on the bed and then get up and drive first thing the next morning.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
I stayed at one AirBnB where the owner had replaced all the kitchen counters with untreated butcher block. The instructions basically said “don’t use the kitchen”. For bonus points, my parents got the one bedroom and I had to sleep in the kids’ room … on the bottom bunk with the actual kid’s sheets because there weren’t any other sheets in the house. I just felt sorry for the kid.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 1 month ago:
I had a friend in the '90s who moved into a duplex and found that the previous tenant had cut into the separating wall and tied a splitter into the neighbor’s cable line. So he had free cable until the day the cable went out and he called the cable company to complain.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 month ago:
Monty Python used to be my favorite comedy group. Now it’s the Cleveland Browns.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 1 month ago:
My dad’s doctor told him he needed to eat more protein, and he was like “ChickenLady, what can I eat to get more protein? High-protein Boost?” No dad, fucking meat … you can eat more meat. The thing is he loved meat, but it never occurred to him that he got protein from meat. And he was a biology professor!
My favorite thing was my mother at one point thinking she needed to eliminate her intake of fats, carbohydrates and protein because they’re all bad for you. Fortunately she does like kale …
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 1 month ago:
Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater’s part since they couldn’t do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 1 month ago:
It’s more like chicken garlic.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 1 month ago:
10 cloves garlic
Fuckin’ righteous
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
Horseshoe crabs have nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is essentially a kind of eye, covered with photoreceptors. Not sure of the relevance of this horseshoe crab fact, it’s just fucking interesting.