My ex asked someone in Mass one time where she thought a good place to go for a drink was, and she said “Bar Noir”, but pronounced it “bah no ah”. He thought she said "Bar; ‘No R’ " and took it to be a play on the local accent and told her how clever it was. She just replied, angrily, “YOU’RE BEING AN ASSHOLE.”
“Bah, no AH!” or "you’re being an asshole " is still a common response when someone asks where to go and nobody has anywhere in mind.
deleted by creator
I have a hotcat picture too!
This was during a freak 100°F heat wave in the PNW recently. I don’t have aircon so it was a rough weekend, but she found a way to relax through it!
I definitely go in with a purpose, and with a paper list that I hold clenched in my claws like it’s the last good thing I will ever hold.
If I don’t do that, I will go in to grab the one thing I need, but will become distracted seeing things I do need, but not as much as the one thing. After amassing an armful of kinda-needed-items, I will check myself out and go home, where I immediately remember I did not grab the one thing I needed.
It’s stressful as all get-out, and made so much worse by increasing costs. My face hurts when I am shopping because I can’t stop grimacing lol
Jesus actually wrote a book! I got it, he signed it. His cursive is really becoming
Scramble some eggs plain and mix into rice and some canned corn. Butter + Sriracha + soy/tamari . We call it “bachelor stir-fry” and it’s especially good if you can get your paws on some sesame oil!
I know it’s me just being a particular asshole, but I really don’t like the pronunciation data… it’s honestly tiresome, problematic, and outdated. It’s pronounced DATA.
I bought a tabletop ice maker from Costco for $80 three years ago, and have never ever regretted it. It doesn’t pull a lot of power and works pretty fast.
The downside is cleaning it, it’s cheap so you can’t easily break it down and rebuild it, so you’ve got to get creative.
Edit: I see you said “nugget” now, (which I don’t exactly know what that means), but these ice pieces are not rock hard like refrigerator ice, fwiw.
I’m taking a big risk after experiencing your last post, but… I actually really loved Prometheus. Alien is in my top 5 movies list, but I still enjoyed it.
I’ve found that some canned sweet corn and sesame oil will dress this up really nicely
When I see that particular typo I get all giddy imagining someone just getting paid to scream out in shock over and over
But … wasn’t that story from someone who actually lived through the dust bowl?
Now that you’re old you smell funny and I don’t want to be around you
I’m about 75% through The Ritual by Adam Nevill. It is also a movie. I really enjoy how he writes his characters, and the book is legitimately scary and creepy. I have to set it down sometimes.
On the scary/creepy note, another amazing book and movie is Birdbox by Josh Malerman. That book legitimately terrified me.
Pearl by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).
It’s about a pig on a small farm that can seep into your mind and make you do and see terrible things. I picked it up after reading Bird Box and a few other books of his, which I enjoyed. I expected to give up on it based on the silly 80s horror movie premise, but the book is truly demented and creepy and I felt existentially weird after reading it
With some dogs, anyone in the room is smelling their feet.
That pronunciation always drives me wild! it only makes sense to call it data.
Damn, the shooter took that bullet casing to the face pretty well
I don’t have this relationship with porn but have been addicted to other things. I have found some success in this method:
I tell myself “ok, I can do bad habit in three hours, and I promise myself I won’t feel bad if I do.” and then in three hours, if I can, I just tell myself the same thing over again, and put it off for three more hours. If I buckle, I don’t kick the shit out of myself, and I’ve found that I can make it a whole day if I bargain with myself based on time. If I’m going to do bad habit in three hours, I can think about other things until the three hours is up. And no matter what, setting a small goal (just three measly hours, what’s that to me if I can do bad habit as much as I want when it’s done?) and accomplishing it gives me a different form of reward.
Idk, it doesn’t always work, but when I was trying to fast for health/personal care it really helped me not eat until my “shift” was up.
It doesn’t have to be three hours, it could be 30 minutes, or “when I’m done doing other activity” or something similar. Small goals that are possible to attain.