Someone was extremely indignant earlier, when Daddy took her perch in the hall away.
So, she’s been sacked out on it again for hours now since he brought it back from fencing 😽
She seems happy enough with the new temporary setup.
Mr. C left yesterday, and took the giant fencing bag away for a couple of weeks! 😿 Feist was not pleased.
So, I improvised last night with a carry-on bag he left beside the bed. Add a memory foam cushion I haven’t been using lately and an ugly old towel to top it off, and that may even be an improvement over the usual setup.
I pity her daughter for the misfortune of being born to this piece of absolute shit.
okay but you should really read the full response to this though:
I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this letter. I encourage you to reread it and to ask yourself that time-honored question, “Do I sound like a villain in a Reese Witherspoon movie?” You are, presumably, sympathetic to your own situation and are invested in making sure that you come across as reasonable and as caring as possible, and yet you have written a letter indicting yourself at every turn. This girl is “like a daughter” to you, and yet you want to shove her to the side of your other daughter’s wedding just because she walks with a limp. Your daughter’s wedding will be perfect with Katie as a full and honored member of the bridal party. A limp is not a fly in the ointment; it’s a part of Katie’s life. It is not only wrong to have asked your daughter to consider excluding her best friend over this—it is ableist, and cruel, and it speaks to a massive failure of empathy, compassion, and grace on your part. You must and should apologize to your daughter immediately, and I encourage you to profoundly reconsider the orientation of your heart.
I LIVE BECAUSE OF THIS
“I encourage you to profoundly reconsider the orientation of you heart.”
CLEAR SKIN IS SO ATTRACTIVE I’D CHOP A TOE OFF FOR CLEAR SKIN FOREVER
I swear to fucking god writing a post on this website is like talking to a fucking genie! Better be specific as shit or some smart as is gonna ruin your life
My nephew who travels a lot brought me a beautiful exotic plant. I plant it in the garden, and it grew big with my care. I’m caring for my plants, I talk with them and play the music for them. One day the plants grabbed me with its sprouts. I was scared thinking it was a carnivorous plant. But then I found out it was some sort of greeting and a demonstration of love. The plant always does so when I come near. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan for this relationship because the plants gives us back the love we are giving them.
Señor F. R. and his wife thank Saint Patrick with this retablo because they finally managed to save enough money for a giant bath in which they can make love since the two of them are pretty fat.
Alright you guys, ‘tis the season again and I’ve already seen bullshit float about so here we go: what to do and what not to do when you happen to have a tick attached to yours truly.
WHAT NOT TO DO:
DON’T cover the tick in anything. Vaseline, nailpolish, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all suffocate the tick, making it panic vomit germs into your blood stream. That’s the opposite of what you want.
DON’T burn the tick. Same problem, plus the additional option of giving yourself a burn wound in the process.
DON’T squeeze the body of the tick when you try to remove it. Again this empties the tick’s digestive system into your body. Bad.
DON’T wait for the tick to detach itself. The longer it stays on you, the higher the chances it’ll transmit anything to you. Plus when ti detaches it may again vomit germs into you.
WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO
STAY CALM. A tick hanging on you is not a reason to panick. You’re not going to keel over just like that, and if you’re unsure what to do, there are many resources on the internet on how to safely remove a tick, like this one from the CDC (aka the professionals)
USE APPROPRIATE TOOLS. These can be suitable tweezers (the pointy kind, not blunt tipped ones), tick removers (there are cheap ones out there, those you can buy at the vets are totally fine for use on humans, too!). Ideally you can remove the entire tick in one go, however if that doesn’t work and the mouth part breaks off in your skin, that’s not a terribly big deal and you can totally remove it separately after you got the body remove. Again, don’t panic.
KILL THE REMOVED TICK. But not by squeezing it. Flush it down the toilet, submerse it in alcohol in a container etc. Ideally if the tick has bitten you and not your dog, keep the tick around in a sealed container in case you start having symptoms and someone needs to identify the tick species. Also IF you start getting symptoms like the tell tale Lyme disease rash, HIT A DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY AND TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR TICK BITE. Do not wait this out, ticks can transmit a whole host of diseases beside Lyme, so be mindful of that, too!
Some of those diseases you can actually get vaccinated again, such as tick born encephalitis. Check with the local authorities if you live in a risk area, and if so, get the shots to protect yourself.
Excellent post! I would like to add that ticks hide in tall grass and bushes mostly. They do not drop down from trees or jump to other people’s heads etc. Ticks aren’t designed to jump, they latch on somewhere on your leg and then crawl upwards in most cases.
So be careful with bare legs and tall grass!
I suggest tucking your pant leg into your socks while hiking or walking in fields. May not be super cute but I find it effective.
Drowning a tick does not work, they can swim! I usually wrap it in a bit of scotch tape and it’s fine (then all the guts are contained). A good rule of thumb after being out and about in any forest is to check your legs, socks, and shoes. They rarely make it higher than that (you can check anyway if you want).
Always remember to check your dogs, too!
– someone who’s lived in Tick City and has never once had lyme disease
– someone who’s lived in
tick city and has never
once had lyme disease
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speaking of cassette tapes, do you guys remember when you had to take them out to switch sides, so there was this break between the last song on side a and the first song on side b and you always knew where the album was split up. but then you switched to cd and that break was gone and it was just Weird.
#what’s the earliest music player you remember?
I think we still have that in my parent’s basement somewhere, it was a big record player and radio combo.
I think I was six when I got cassettes but we had to borrow a player from the neighbours. It was amazing, huge and silver like a spaceship console, with TWO decks so you could copy stuff!!
Then I got a walkman as a gift and it was my best friend for many many years. I still have it somewhere.
For an even stranger effect compared to other formats:
The Stereo 8 introduced the problem of dividing up the programming intended for a two-sided LP record into four programs. Often this resulted in songs being split into two parts (the split was often made during an instrumental break or a repeated chorus), song orders being reshuffled, shorter songs being repeated, and songs separated by long passages of silence. Some eight-tracks included extra musical content to fill in time such as a piano solo on Lou Reed’s Berlin, extra verses on The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls and a guitar solo in Pink Floyd’s Animals.
When I was little, it was all vinyl and 8-track commercially.
No need for flipping with the continuous loop setup, unlike vinyl or compact cassette formats. But, I do remember some of the continuity weirdness. Might have gotten more used to it then if my parents hadn’t only used car stereo 8-track players. Car music could get startling sometimes 😅
The continuous CD format didn’t actually strike me as odd after the other ones, but I can totally see how it might.
As far as the CD not having the break, Tom Petty has you covered. On 1989’s Full Moon Fever, the CD has a track in the middle where Tom speaks and says this:
Hello, CD listeners.
We’ve come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette (or records) will have to stand up (or sit down) and turn over the record (or tape). In fairness to those listeners, we’ll now take a few seconds before we begin side two.
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