ininewcrow
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 weeks ago:
The thinking, mentality and emotions about all this are normal … I know, because I’m getting to the age and experience in life that I feel this way too sometimes …
… the part that is not normal is that many of these people choose not to be polite, considerate, accommodating, compassionate, empathetic or kind and keep these thoughts and ideas to themselves.
Think about it … if I applied every idea or thought that you thought was a good idea, it would satisfy a good percentage of everyone, but it would not be suitable for everyone. The same thing applies to everyone else’s ideas or thoughts. None of our individual ideas will ever perfectly mesh with everyone in society … we all have to learn to accept and live with the idea that we all have to live within certain limits and learn to accommodate others around us and hope that they do the same for us.
We all have to compromise a little bit for one another and that way, we all get to live in a little bit of peace … because due to human nature and our ever expanding ability to screw with one another in ever more creative ways, it’s the best we can hope for.
Perhaps the first step towards any kind of sanity in all this is in first understanding that this is how we all are.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 weeks ago:
Past a certain age, you can’t tell if someone is rage baiting or just fed up with life
- Comment on I miss Wilfred 3 weeks ago:
America pushing people aside and running to the front: … HOLD MY BEER!
- Comment on heater 3 weeks ago:
Are you posting to Lemmy from the spirit world?
- Comment on heater 3 weeks ago:
Slather it in butter … then fry an egg on top … keep cooking eggs and start up a small breakfast place and call it the ‘Ground Nut Breakfast Joint’
- Comment on In case you weren’t sure which box 3 weeks ago:
I’ve often thought of doing that … but around here, enough people do that that it isn’t that scary for people any more … my idea was to create three or four identical scarecrows or dressed up characters and sit in as one of them.
- Comment on In case you weren’t sure which box 3 weeks ago:
They are common up here in northern Ontario in Canada … but it’s just a habit with people up here … everyone prefers using the back door and when you get there, you knock on the door. The front door is more or less decorative and seldom used and usually used only for days like Halloween or mail package deliveries (and package carriers are better as they almost always use door bell)
- Comment on In case you weren’t sure which box 3 weeks ago:
lol … my favourite is Halloween … a few years ago, I put up a paper sign on the door with an arrow pointing to the ‘DOOR BELL’ … I even added extra instructions ‘RING DOORBELL FOR CANDY’ … and at one point I even put a sign lower to the ground so that kids could read it. My wife laughed at me and said that people weren’t that stupid and they’ll see the large bright glowing button of the doorbell and use it to get our attention.
About three quarters of the people - whether they be kids or adults or both - knocked loudly on the door and ignored all the signs. I even had some miffed adults look at me weird for taking too long because I didn’t hear them pounding on the door.
For the past few Halloweens, I gave up and now I just sit by the door and wait for people to arrive and greet them before they even have a chance to knock.
- Comment on Roasted 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Math Pope 3 weeks ago:
It adds up but I’m divided because the negatives and positives just keep multiplying
- Comment on Oh that is BRUTAL 3 weeks ago:
You’re right it doesn’t … but if you’re a good cook, you spend about half an hour preparing food, about ten / fifteen minutes actually cooking your food, ten minutes to prepare everything else, half an hour or more (depending on your company) eating and entertaining guests … then another half an hour or more cleaning up and putting things away.
Working in the kitchen is more than just frying, boiling or baking the actual thing you are making … you spend a lot of time preparing and a whole bunch of time after cleaning up.
- Comment on Oh that is BRUTAL 3 weeks ago:
This works depending on the cook.
If he is a good cook and knows how to work in a kitchen … he doesn’t get distracted and his first thought is on the food, the hot grill and things burning or catching on fire. He’ll respond in an hour with a picture of a perfectly cooked sandwich
If he only cooks from time to time and doesn’t care that much for cooking … he is easily distracted and will burn his food with a simple text message. He’ll send you an angry text back.
If he never cooks … he’s texting you right back with a meme reaction, 27 instagram posts, 12 tiktoks, 5 youtube shorts, and 10 angry political posts for twitter because you just set him off as he’s sitting on the couch doom scrolling while eating a dozen grilled cheese sandwiches he ordered from Doordash
- Comment on Man, that's crazy 3 weeks ago:
Fake an epileptic seizure and start flopping around on the ground.
- Comment on Man, that's crazy 3 weeks ago:
Same here … I think it’s an age thing. I used to be intimidated by older people who talked too long … not intimidated by aggression or anything, just intimidated out of respect … I was taught to always give time to your Elders, give them space and let them talk because they give wisdom and knowledge. But of course, more than half the time, it’s just old person either talking to amuse themselves, or just talking just to talk with no rhyme or reason.
But once you get past a certain age … most of everyone around you is becoming younger than you and anyone older is talking less and if they are talking, they seldom want to talk to you. So anyone who does talk to you and especially if they want to talk too long or too much, you just don’t give a shit anymore and there are no more cultural rules or taboos, so you can freely cut down the length of the interaction, be polite, say you gotta go and leave. And honestly, it feels great to leave those kinds of long winded empty conversations because it feels like you just gained an hour of your day back.
- Comment on And now we wait 4 weeks ago:
If I ever saw a opossum do that to my food … I’d make it a cupcake box shaped house with a permanent door and supply them with daily cupcakes for life.
- Comment on And now we wait 4 weeks ago:
Gets hit with a magnitude 9 Earthquake on the Richter Scale … the coins don’t just fall out, the whole machine pins you to the wall, showering you with coins as the entire 20 story building collapses in on top of you.
- Comment on power generator 4 weeks ago:
You’re not invited to the team building the Solar Dyson Tube Project
- Comment on power generator 4 weeks ago:
The idea …
Send water on a 150 million kilometer pipeline to the sun to super heat it … then pipe the steam back to power a turbine
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 4 weeks ago:
A human family … in this case the farmers family … would also fit in all those categories
- Comment on Nothing to see here 4 weeks ago:
Aim for the head
- Comment on Mourning 4 weeks ago:
It all went to his head
- Comment on Toss another shrimp on the Harambi 4 weeks ago:
That was ten years ago!?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
THOMAS THE DAAAAANK ENGINE!!!
😅 😂 😂
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
and that was the problem … the Brits loved the idea of a minstrel show in black face because it had everything they loved about it … presenting black people as comical caricatures to be made fun of while also being presented and performed by white people … because they never thought of hiring and paying for actual black people to do these things.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
In the 1950s … to average white people who might have never seen a black person before … they would imagine this
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Exactly … according to old-timey racists in the 1950s … this is what they imagined about black people
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
For the lazy who don’t want to look it up
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t think we’d notice the …
DEAD = YES
- Comment on Why Ireland? 4 weeks ago:
The dumb part to all this is how we are all talking about this idiot like it’s completely normal.
Any other leader, any other American leader at any other time and this would have been considered absolutely idiotic … but attributing this to this orange clown somehow makes it acceptable and normalized.
The dumb one is not Trump … the dumb ones are all of us talking about him as a normal part of our world.
- Comment on Remember, you said you liked my backpack? 4 weeks ago:
It is what I was thinking about … I never noticed it when I first saw the movie when I was younger … but as I got older, I realized I did have that one last evening or afternoon when I just said something like ‘bye’ or ‘see you later’ like it was another normal day and we both didn’t realize it was the last time we said goodbye to each other as best childhood friends.
We continued to live in the same town but we both went to different high schools later. I skipped a grade, he stayed back, I went to high school earlier, we both went different ways, different group of friends and basically different lives. We still saw each other once in a while but we never acknowledged each other in the same way ever again. Every time we saw each other, it felt like meeting that long lost cousin or half brother that you have to say hello to but don’t really know. One of the saddest things I think about often now. I went off to see the world, worked, travelled lots, lived life with my wife but we never had kids … he went off with a girl from town, they had several kids, he worked steady for a while but then went deep in alcoholism and later drugs and now he is a shadow of the person I knew.
