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  • I’m English the word “sorry” doesn’t mean “I take responsibility for this event or action” it means “I am expressing regret that the event or action has occured,” and normally comes with the condition of responsibility, but it’s really just a way of expressing empathy or regret for the event. “I’m sorry this has happened” is not the same thing as “I am sorry I did this”

    Just a quirk of our language. In Spanish*, “I’m sorry” is translated to “lo siento” and literally means something along the lines “I feel” or “I feel this,” an expression of literal empathy for the occurrence. You can also say “perdon” which translates closer to pardon, as in pardon me. I don’t know the cultural context in Spanish speaking countries very well, but that one feels more like accepting responsibility, if one needs to be pardoned.

    *I am not a Spanish speaker. Take this with a dose of salt your cardiologist would be quite upset about.










  • Nah, no lady bugs or whatever the Japanese beetle that has replaced them in the US is called in my home.

    Lived in TN for since 09, and when those things find a way in it’s awful. They have crawled into my ears while sleeping (they bite, did you know? I didn’t. Ow.), they have eaten through window screens, chewed a hole in the drywall, and done general havoc. There was a mostly unused room where I found about 1000 or more of then hanging in a corner. The mass was so large I genuinely thought it was some kind of hornets nest or something.






  • Two stories:

    My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was “take this shoebox home.” Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn’t informed it was a sex Ed class.

    ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information

    I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. … My mom immediately ordered different books.