Raenon

24291 pts ยท November 12, 2011


Just ask him what does governing have to do with selling lumpy pillows.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think if you eat it, you're doubly sworn-in.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The can is almost certainly made of steel.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10ish years ago I was sitting fireside in a nice restaurant when an upbeat pop cover of Mad World came on.

Completely threw me.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I once wrapped a pill in deli meat, and my lab spit it out with the clearest look of betrayal I have ever seen. Got squirrelly about deli meat for the rest of the day.

So I showed her the pill going into a pinch of cornflakes and a splash of milk, and she gladly ate it.

4 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My older sister has always been into crafts, including sewing. She also used to drop stuff around the house, including needles for said sewing.
She left a 3" long needle in the living room at one point, which ended up in my foot, and bent like a fish-hook. Yup, removed with pliers.

This was almost 30 years ago, I still wear shoes in the house at all times.

4 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, his born in 1856 claim has to be an outright lie. He'd have been serving in WW1 in his 60s. But if the 1887 date was correct, more like 30. Same for the prison record with photo. The man was not mid 60s in that photo.

7 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Hug my dad.

7 months ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

... I'm an American.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice interrobangs there.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They got me into the shower and ran cold water across my face until the pain stopped.

Great guac, though.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

When I was a young man still living at home, I was making guacamole late at night, so it would be ready for lunch the next day. I like adding a habanero because the avocado kills most of the heat and leaves the fruity flavor.

Cut it up, and absent-mindedly rubbed my eye.

Tried to rinse it out in the sink... got it in the other eye.

Quietly freaking out, I knocked on my folks' door to get help as my eyes were swelling shut.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

"She-Man"?

8 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

18 kids... It's wild to me to hear stuff like that, because my own experience was so different.

My graduating class was 1100 students (a big year, but the other 3 years were all 900-1000...) and there were at least 6 other public high schools in a <10 mile radius of similar size.
This wasn't even a city, just unincorporated areas of Central Maryland.

8 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I knew a guy in the 90s that turned old HDD platters into windchimes. They sounded great.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did my part, downvoted and left you a few upvotes elsewhere :)

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Have you tried dissociating? /s

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I dunno. I like wasabi, but wasabi ice cream was weird as hell.

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've been called for jury duty just once... and it was the big one.
Grand Jury. In my state, that means twice a month for 2 years, and it is investigative. We heard what evidence they already had, and subpoenaed additional witnesses and evidence.

The basic process is kind of interesting, if you enjoy police procedural dramas and the like... but we had to hear horrible, horrible things, case after case of homicides.

Plus of course, employers have to let you go, but they can be difficult.

10 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You really should look into some of the garbage in the plague of McMansions... building techniques haven't gotten better.

10 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Yeah, but none of us are likely to make it that long.

Some of the more pessimistic (realistic?) think we might not make it a decade before secondary effects screw us /hard/

10 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Many years ago, when I was a child, my mother bought a lamb cake from a friend who did fancy holiday baking for a side income.

It was a beautiful lamb cake. Fully decorated, perfect frosting wool, all the details.

We cut into it, served up lovely slices of fluffy white cake. Then we tasted it.

All the skill and preparation in the world could not protect that cake from her son deciding that he needed to spray floral air freshener in the kitchen.

Wretched stuff.

11 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As someone living in York, PA, have my upvote.

11 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My lab used to love when someone rubbed her ears, but would whine like you were torturing her if you tried to hold her paw.

She passed a few years ago, I still miss her, she was amazing.

11 months ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 0

Most stores (in USA, at least) sell them by the pound regardless of whether they're in a bunch or loose. You can break apart bunches if you need, no one will care. Some do that so they can get different ripeness levels.

11 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0