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12-10-2012, 12:23 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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I love that: get lost on a flight of steps.
That's how I am driving around this city...with all the one ways and stuff I get completely turned around and then I have NO idea where I'm going, which way I'm pointing, if it's two blocks that way or 9 blocks this way. Ugh... |
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12-10-2012, 12:28 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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The thing is, on foot, I can always eventually find where I need to be. But sometimes I may have gone a very circuitous route :p And I sometimes need someone to tell me the overall direction I need to be heading in.
That's all I want from them. Which general direction. Start throwing streetnames and left turns and T-junctions at me and I've already stopped listening. Because I'm stuck four instructions back from where they're at and have already forgotten instructions one and two. General direction, one or two landmarks and get me a bit nearer so I can ask someone else for the next bit of direction. Absolutely no point my even attempting to follow full instructions in one go. But I can't imagine trying to figure my way in a car. Particularly in cities with one way systems and ringroads and stuff.
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12-28-2012, 12:00 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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I am a mean mommy.
Minifob jumps out of bed at 6:00 am sharp everyday, regardless of how tired he is. He could easily go back to sleep for another hour or more, but it's become an obsession--he says his favorite number is six and is brought to tears at the suggestion that we might ask him to stay in bed longer. The holiday schedule has resulted in even less sleep than usual, plus we're both sick. We could certainly stand to sleep in past dawn. So before saying goodnight, I stealthily set his bedroom clock back an hour. Sucker. |
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12-28-2012, 12:47 PM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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12-28-2012, 12:04 AM
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
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where the hell is that like button !!!
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12-28-2012, 08:31 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Ha! Well played.
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12-28-2012, 02:03 PM
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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12-28-2012, 02:07 PM
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Back in 10
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A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do
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12-28-2012, 06:41 PM
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Location: Austin, TX
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More amusement: We've discovered that our new oven has a "Sabbath mode."
For those not aware, there's this small, strange overlap of people who feel they must strictly observe the Jewish rule of "no work" on the Sabbath, and yet are too modern to give up any of the stuff they like to do on Saturdays that doesn't involve contemplating God in one's home all day. So you get weird rationalizations like, "you can ride in an elevator, but you can't push the buttons," such that elevators in "Sabbath mode" will automatically stop on every floor. When Sabbath mode is engaged, the oven basically stays on for 12 hours, with the interior light and digital display functions disabled. Like the elevator, you can put stuff in it, and if it happens to be hot and cook your food, well, God will understand that you were an unwitting bystander to the work that your gentile appliance was doing. Better hope the local firefighters don't observe the Sabbath when you accidentally set your kitchen on fire. |
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12-31-2012, 01:01 AM
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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12-31-2012, 08:11 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
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:gentile appliance:
and :Black Sabbath mode: are both wins.
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01-02-2013, 06:07 PM
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Two sales people came to my door today and tried to sell me salad.
Cookies, water softeners, yard services, carpet cleaning... but salad? |
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01-03-2013, 05:33 AM
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Uhh, as in green salad?
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01-03-2013, 08:45 AM
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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As in, "All you need is a big bowl and we will prepare for you a fresh and delicious salad!" Then they handed me a flyer with information about the health benefits of foods like spinach and zucchini.
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