32582 pts ยท June 26, 2012
If this description gets to the frontpage, I won't do anything. Maybe make an "Oh, look. That's me" comment. We'll see.
It said surrendered due to a house fire. It's possible the family is temporarily homeless, staying with relatives, etc and just can't care for him. In which case it's better to surrender him and hope he can find someone who can. The same is true if you realize that your lifestyle just doesn't match this animal's personality. Sure there's plenty of assholes who don't care that the puppy stage is temporary, but there's also plenty of times when surrendering it is the responsible thing to do.
"I'm 16 years old, Daddy! I'm not a child anymore!"
It's actually not. It's a made-up syndrome by a male psychologist who was uninvolved in a flubbed hostage situation to discredit the female hostage that called the police and prime minister out on said flubbing, saying she was more afraid of them because they had endangered the hostages more than their captor had. It's pervasive in pop psychology but isn't considered an actual diagnosis.
My biologist coworker said a woman once asked him, "What's that black bird with the red wings?" and he said, "You're about to find out how easy biology can be." ('Twas a red winged blackbird.)
I'm pretty sure I have one of my mom's ears and one of my dad's ears. Left: earlobe free, gets irritated by earrings really quickly (mom). Right: earlobe attached, doesn't have a problem with earrings (dad).
I travel a lot for work. My (f) coworker (f) and I once had to explain to our supervisor (m) that when we pull up to a hotel, the very first thing we look for is how sketchy the parking lot feels. It had never even occurred to him.
^ This right here. I grew up in a very conservative area, and when all you ever hear is the propaganda, it makes a lot of sense. That's why cities and universities tend to be more liberal than rural areas: There's a lot more exposure to other ideas and walks of life, rather than the same talking points going around in circles forever.
Licked a human bone.
Where you work makes a huge difference. I worked at a fabric store for a while and 99% of the clientele was excited to be there and chat about their projects and everyone else's. I can count on one hand how many problem customers I dealt with in those couple of years. And then I switched to a better-paying job at a discount store in a low-income area and hoo boy was that a difference.
That and the good ol' "it's illegal to drive barefoot." The dome light thing at least has some logic to it (plus parents lying to kids).
Okay, broken glass makes a lot more sense. But the general public's feeling seems to be that the FEET are unsanitary and will somehow taint the food, which, like, c'mon.
Somebody once overlaid a map of the Mediterranean on Australia and it filled most of the continent, other than the coastal areas. Another person commented, "Wow, if you actually did that, at least 5 people would drown."
Driving one-way across the US is not half the distance of his full route. Also I don't know what you're counting as "across" the US, because I've driven from Louisiana to Wyoming in 2 days but it definitely was not leisurely. I took 3 days on the way back to do some sightseeing but even then, the stops were brief. I can make it to Chicago in about 12 hours but the north/south distance is waaaaaay shorter than east/west.
Something I found out recently via the internet: In ME2 when you first meet up with Archangel you can tell him that he pinged you and he says "Just enough to drop your shields a little. You were taking too long." If you stand around on the bridge too long he DOES ping you just enough to drop your shields a little.
#15 Why is that little cut-off scream so fucking funny
I move fairly quietly and had one particular manager I used to accidentally sneak up on all the time. One time it happened during Mardi Gras while I was wearing a themed scrunchie and I had to tell her "Brenda I LITERALLY have bells on. If you didn't hear me that's on you."
I don't understand how shoes have anything to do with health regulations, unless you're in a place that damages bare feet, or you're actively switching/covering shoes to avoid some kind of cross-contamination. For one, the food should not be hitting the floor. For another, bare feet are WAY cleaner than the treads in your shoes, even if you walk around barefoot outside as opposed to places like this where the shoes come off at the threshold so your feet are especially clean.
Oh, I'm saving that one.
nopedon'tlikethat.gif
Farriers come out every ~2 months. Typically they remove the old shoe, trim down the hoof, and nail on a new one. (There are horses that are barefoot, wear boots, have injured hooves that need special treatment, etc.) Horses are trained to allow all this. Farriers will refuse to see a horse that is not well-trained for it: it's just too dangerous otherwise. But sometimes an otherwise well-behaved horse will spook or something and a farrier will get kicked.
When did they stop being "unisex"? It's so much shorter.
Plot twist: It's the nun taking the, uh, sister?
Like I said, I don't know this specific guy, so I've got no horse in this race. Just pointing out that that can still be annoying to read, and in this case might just be a matter of taste.
I've noticed that even though the languages are unrelated and the vocab is totally different, Spanish and Japanese have a very similar cadence to them. They sound very, very similar if you're at just enough of a distance to not really be able to discern the actual words.
I got no issue with tropes as long as they're well-written. Every story is written on the bones of the ones that came before. You just gotta make it meaningful here and now.
(Caveat: Haven't read this.) Even if there's a well-written reason for it, having a character who's just plain annoying across several books still does hinder enjoyment of a series, no matter how understandable it is.
I have the exact opposite problem: Ridiculously thin hair that doesn't want to grow, so I just don't have enough of it to do any fancy hairstyles.
That and you don't always feel every wound immediately.
I always told my ex "Not yet, but I will be when I smell your food."
Thinking about this arbitrarily: "Yeah man, I still get $50K, so why not?" Remembering who I hate most: ".............Hang on, I gotta think about it...."
It said surrendered due to a house fire. It's possible the family is temporarily homeless, staying with relatives, etc and just can't care for him. In which case it's better to surrender him and hope he can find someone who can. The same is true if you realize that your lifestyle just doesn't match this animal's personality. Sure there's plenty of assholes who don't care that the puppy stage is temporary, but there's also plenty of times when surrendering it is the responsible thing to do.
"I'm 16 years old, Daddy! I'm not a child anymore!"
It's actually not. It's a made-up syndrome by a male psychologist who was uninvolved in a flubbed hostage situation to discredit the female hostage that called the police and prime minister out on said flubbing, saying she was more afraid of them because they had endangered the hostages more than their captor had. It's pervasive in pop psychology but isn't considered an actual diagnosis.
My biologist coworker said a woman once asked him, "What's that black bird with the red wings?" and he said, "You're about to find out how easy biology can be." ('Twas a red winged blackbird.)
I'm pretty sure I have one of my mom's ears and one of my dad's ears. Left: earlobe free, gets irritated by earrings really quickly (mom). Right: earlobe attached, doesn't have a problem with earrings (dad).
I travel a lot for work. My (f) coworker (f) and I once had to explain to our supervisor (m) that when we pull up to a hotel, the very first thing we look for is how sketchy the parking lot feels. It had never even occurred to him.
^ This right here. I grew up in a very conservative area, and when all you ever hear is the propaganda, it makes a lot of sense. That's why cities and universities tend to be more liberal than rural areas: There's a lot more exposure to other ideas and walks of life, rather than the same talking points going around in circles forever.
Licked a human bone.
Where you work makes a huge difference. I worked at a fabric store for a while and 99% of the clientele was excited to be there and chat about their projects and everyone else's. I can count on one hand how many problem customers I dealt with in those couple of years. And then I switched to a better-paying job at a discount store in a low-income area and hoo boy was that a difference.
That and the good ol' "it's illegal to drive barefoot." The dome light thing at least has some logic to it (plus parents lying to kids).
Okay, broken glass makes a lot more sense. But the general public's feeling seems to be that the FEET are unsanitary and will somehow taint the food, which, like, c'mon.
Somebody once overlaid a map of the Mediterranean on Australia and it filled most of the continent, other than the coastal areas. Another person commented, "Wow, if you actually did that, at least 5 people would drown."
Driving one-way across the US is not half the distance of his full route. Also I don't know what you're counting as "across" the US, because I've driven from Louisiana to Wyoming in 2 days but it definitely was not leisurely. I took 3 days on the way back to do some sightseeing but even then, the stops were brief. I can make it to Chicago in about 12 hours but the north/south distance is waaaaaay shorter than east/west.
Something I found out recently via the internet: In ME2 when you first meet up with Archangel you can tell him that he pinged you and he says "Just enough to drop your shields a little. You were taking too long." If you stand around on the bridge too long he DOES ping you just enough to drop your shields a little.
#15 Why is that little cut-off scream so fucking funny
I move fairly quietly and had one particular manager I used to accidentally sneak up on all the time. One time it happened during Mardi Gras while I was wearing a themed scrunchie and I had to tell her "Brenda I LITERALLY have bells on. If you didn't hear me that's on you."
I don't understand how shoes have anything to do with health regulations, unless you're in a place that damages bare feet, or you're actively switching/covering shoes to avoid some kind of cross-contamination. For one, the food should not be hitting the floor. For another, bare feet are WAY cleaner than the treads in your shoes, even if you walk around barefoot outside as opposed to places like this where the shoes come off at the threshold so your feet are especially clean.
Oh, I'm saving that one.
nopedon'tlikethat.gif
Farriers come out every ~2 months. Typically they remove the old shoe, trim down the hoof, and nail on a new one. (There are horses that are barefoot, wear boots, have injured hooves that need special treatment, etc.) Horses are trained to allow all this. Farriers will refuse to see a horse that is not well-trained for it: it's just too dangerous otherwise. But sometimes an otherwise well-behaved horse will spook or something and a farrier will get kicked.
When did they stop being "unisex"? It's so much shorter.
Plot twist: It's the nun taking the, uh, sister?
Like I said, I don't know this specific guy, so I've got no horse in this race. Just pointing out that that can still be annoying to read, and in this case might just be a matter of taste.
I've noticed that even though the languages are unrelated and the vocab is totally different, Spanish and Japanese have a very similar cadence to them. They sound very, very similar if you're at just enough of a distance to not really be able to discern the actual words.
I got no issue with tropes as long as they're well-written. Every story is written on the bones of the ones that came before. You just gotta make it meaningful here and now.
(Caveat: Haven't read this.) Even if there's a well-written reason for it, having a character who's just plain annoying across several books still does hinder enjoyment of a series, no matter how understandable it is.
I have the exact opposite problem: Ridiculously thin hair that doesn't want to grow, so I just don't have enough of it to do any fancy hairstyles.
That and you don't always feel every wound immediately.
I always told my ex "Not yet, but I will be when I smell your food."
Thinking about this arbitrarily: "Yeah man, I still get $50K, so why not?" Remembering who I hate most: ".............Hang on, I gotta think about it...."