cheddar biscuit is going to be so proud when i tell her how many notes her pictures have
Wait. Wait…
Her name is Cheddar Biscuit????
That is so perfect. I might have to lie down for a week.
every day when my dad comes home from work he feeds her pieces of ham. incidentally, she has a weird squeaky gravelly little meow, so it kind of sounds like she’s shouting “ham?! ham?!” whenever he comes home she runs to the door and shouts “haaaaaam?!” and it’s the best thing
Y’all know that individual health behaviors – choices around nutrition, exercise, smoking, etc. – only account for about 25% of a person’s health status? The determinants of health are largely social: income and education level, the safety of one’s physical environment (e.g. working conditions, clean water), and degree of social support. Trauma is far worse for health than fast food.
It’s tempting to subscribe to a just world theory, where good things happen to good people (or people who make good decisions), and problems befall problem people, but that just isn’t the world we live in.
Most sick people have spent their lives fighting against oppressive circumstances. They don’t invite illness and hardship with their bad decisions, they are miracles of survival in a sociopolitical environment that’s hostile to their very existence.
It has actually cooled down here enough today that turning out some kind of warm food is a reasonable plan for supper. Figuring out what is a different matter, though. I’m still feeling kind of like my brain’s been steamed like a dumpling 🙄
anyone can pass as straight, if they silence themselves enough.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
Oh my, I was reminded of another illustration of just what kind of petty passive-aggressive crank my dad can be.
He personally spent pretty much all his war stint floating/subbing around the Mediterranean, as former NROTC. (Under parental pressure, so yeah.) That was still enough for him to get out as soon as he could and come back with such an enormous hate on for the Navy. He ended up pretty vocally antiwar in general, and took part in some protests as a disgruntled recent vet. But, who knows without that personal grudge.
But, one act of protest he apparently found particularly satisfying? At one point after he got home, he had the urge to get all spiffed up in full dress whites.
Then he went out and did an oil change on his car. In his full dress whites. Probably smirking the whole time.
That’ll really show them 😩 But, he obviously got a great deal of satisfaction out of it.
(He also later spent a decent chunk of the ‘70s in Hawaii working for the Navy as a civilian programmer, and apparently left them some nasty surprises. Which I had no trouble believing. Sure, the pay and setting weren’t bad either, but I swear I still have to wonder if that was why he took the job to begin with. I almost hesitated to mention that, but pseudonymity. Plus it happened at least 40 years ago.)
But yeah, that was when he was in his 20s, and of course he’s had decades in the meantime to grow into and further develop his own personal flavor of crankiness. Sometimes I am glad not to be dealing with that on a regular basis anymore, I tell you what.
While sailing in the Mediterranean sea, in 1962, the American aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) flashed the Italian Amerigo Vespucci with light signal asking «Who are you?», the full rigged ship answered «Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy». The US ship replied «You are the most beautiful ship in the world».
Great, now I ship actual ships.
@seams-unusualpdx lol! 😆 “Great, now I ship actual ships.” I ship it! They are two ships! I don’t care– I ship it!
OH MAI GAWWWD!!!! 💖♥️💖😍💖♥️💖
The Independence was decommissioned two decades ago and is currently being scrapped. The Vespucci is still out on the waves seducing the hearts of other ships.
So the people who are being rehomed in the luxury flats have been told that they will not have any access to the VIP features in those flats.
Got to have some way to remind them they aren’t worthy of living there i suppose…
So Kensington Row have said they can’t use the cinema and pool facilities unless they pay the annual fee… I wonder how much that is..? Would you not think that given the circumstances would waive that. I mean Jesus Christ, give these people a break!
aye from what I’m reading they were never actually going to be rehoused in the luxury building, it’s a completely different adjacent building, just built by the same company? It’s like it was deliberately mis-reported so that people would think the state was doing them this massive good turn, when actually they’re just being put in ordinary social housing they would have been rehoused in anyway – they’re just getting bumped up the cue, which they’re obviously entitled to be… the whole thing is dodgy as fuck
At a summit in Brussels on Thursday the EU’s 27 leaders – minus Theresa May – are expected to take the next crucial step in moving two EU agencies out of the British capital. The EU is insisting the European Medicines Agency and the European Banking Authority, both located in Canary Wharf, find new homes after Brexit…. The agencies are not only seen as prestigious, but the regular flow of visitors is a reliable boost for hotels and local businesses. Every year about 36,000 scientists and regulators visit the medicines agency, which was set up in 1995 to monitor and supervise medicines across the EU. At least 21 countries are thought to have made a bid for the medicines agency, with a smaller number throwing their hat into the ring to host the banking authority, which started its financial supervision work in 2011 after the crash.
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