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Post by Gelquie on Nov 30, 2019 17:23:31 GMT -5
I read an article today that Black Friday shopping (at least in the US) is dropping, on the advent of online sales becoming more popular and because of shops stretching their sales out to cover earlier and later in the week or into next week. Thus reducing the charm of people who like rushing into stores early in the morning and instead spreading it all out through the week for people who don't like to be rushed.
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I'm okay with this.
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Post by Thorn on Dec 4, 2019 21:44:06 GMT -5
Got an email from my dentist about how I'm two years overdue for a checkup.
Guess it's about time I throw away my life's savings so they can...scale my teeth. >.> (probably worth getting them checked again anyway, but it's so frustrating it costs so much.)
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Post by Thorn on Dec 11, 2019 6:29:15 GMT -5
Manager: "Hey remember that HAIM song? And you sung along every time it came on? And I brought it up and then every time after you would kinda catch yourself and huff when you started to do it? Yeah which song was it again?"
Me: "Haha I dunno."
(I lied. I do. It was 'Want You Back', and the line was 'said it from the beginning.' Just too difficult to resist man! >.>) (...and I kid you not, as I typed this it started playing on Spotify. SORCERY.)
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Post by Breakingchains on Dec 16, 2019 14:10:52 GMT -5
Oh hey 5k posts
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Post by Celestial on Dec 17, 2019 13:59:21 GMT -5
Just because I needed a reminder of how posh my university is: my class and lecturers celebrated end of semester with mince pies and wine. Admittedly they were all supermarket but still.
It was nice wine too.
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Post by Thorn on Dec 17, 2019 22:07:05 GMT -5
Just because I needed a reminder of how posh my university is: my class and lecturers celebrated end of semester with mince pies and wine. Admittedly they were all supermarket but still. It was nice wine too. Oh man jealous! Free mince pies would have been rad.
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Post by Twillie on Dec 18, 2019 13:03:12 GMT -5
Email: To cancel your contract, go to the site and click on this link.
Website: *no such link exists*
Me: Cool cool
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Post by Liou on Dec 21, 2019 18:08:46 GMT -5
I've started to wear earplugs on the bus. Last year my ears had started to ring with alarming persistence, and so I ran a few tests to check if something might be causing it. I was taking the bus quite regularly, and protecting my ears on the bus brought the ringing down almost completely. Buses are louder than expected.
I didn't use to wear plugs much because I didn't like the feeling. Wearing them has made me realise what it's like to filter noise out. I still hear all the noises around me through the plugs, I can still hear the bus and hear every voice of every person speaking around me. (I can still hear music and what people tell me if I keep them on during an entire dance class.) But all noises merge into One Single Noise that I can effortlessly ignore. None of the individual noises take up my focus or have to be... pushed back to the background one by one or clicked away like mental notifications. And I wonder: is this what it's like to ignore Background Noises? Is this what people say they can do any time?
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Post by Gelquie on Dec 24, 2019 1:04:31 GMT -5
Me: *Starts to use 'themself' as a word more often to refer to someone in the singular whose gender is either non-binary or unspecified.* Word processors: "That's wrong." Me: "Well it should be correct, so I'll make it correct through time and use and you can't stop me."
'Themselves' will have plenty of time to play in the plural playground.
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Post by Fraze on Dec 24, 2019 6:40:45 GMT -5
So we're having a bit of a Frozen marathon, because it's Christmastime and Traveler wants to watch it. Anything that qualifies as "kid" programs are invariably dubbed (grownup stuff is usually subtitled), and whether we go with the English or Estonian version depends a lot on the quality of said dub. Of course, you won't get a better dub than for a major Disney movie, so we usually watch Frozen in Estonian. The English and Estonian versions compare favorably to each other, as do the songs in each language. But one song stands out as being better in Estonian than English, and that's the ice-cutting song at the very start. As Hunty said, this country knows how to do men's choruses. Just listen to this glory:
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Post by Twillie on Dec 27, 2019 21:20:07 GMT -5
So I was at the store earlier today, and as I was leaving there was a pretty large group of people just standing around in the middle of the aisle. I just figured it was maybe a couple families having conversation and they didn't realize how much space they were taking up, but no. As I passed by, I saw the crowd was there because one of the women was holding a baby kangaroo?? There was just a kangaroo joey in a Target and people were gathering to take a look??? I didn't stop to join the crowd, so I couldn't say why the kangaroo was there or why the woman had it, but uh, yeah. It was like when someone takes their little dog or child to the store, but just. A kangaroo.
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Post by Ryanruff13 on Dec 27, 2019 22:00:28 GMT -5
Me: *Starts to use 'themself' as a word more often to refer to someone in the singular whose gender is either non-binary or unspecified.* Word processors: "That's wrong." Me: "Well it should be correct, so I'll make it correct through time and use and you can't stop me." 'Themselves' will have plenty of time to play in the plural playground. As a linguistics nerd myself who's passionately all for inclusivity, thank you for forwarding the cause. I actually have a tendency to slip "themself" in wherever I can online. ...Though surprisingly, I've only used it once here. I have more work to do to fulfill my linguistic desires...
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Post by Nut on Dec 31, 2019 10:56:05 GMT -5
A customer came to my register wearing a hat that said NWTF and I asked "Are you a member of the National Wild Turkey Federation?" and he said "Yes" and I felt like I had exchanged a secret handshake that would only be complete when I posted about it here.
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Post by Liou on Dec 31, 2019 16:09:32 GMT -5
Current reading problem: if a book is good, I'm reluctant to read it, because I don't want to finish it. Random super cliche YA books I pinch off the teens' section for funsies, sure, I finish that in a couple days. But a book I'm really keen on? I get through a dozen pages and have to close it. And then I spend a few hours thinking "yeah. oh yeah that's the stuff, that's good reading right here, I mean dang, that paragraph *rereads last paragraph and closes book again*" instead of like, reading the book. I've paused in the middle of a book and been stuck there for weeks - a month? - because I don't want to finish it. Been reading a few lines at a time very sparingly.
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Post by Twillie on Jan 3, 2020 21:42:57 GMT -5
Me: *graduates university*
Online ads: Ah yes, time to let you know about every college to ever be and why you should apply.
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