You PIERCE my privacy with your gaze. I feel violated!

You ASSAULT me with your tongue. I feel violated!

Yep, both senses seem equally crude 😄

Well that interpretation would be “52nd marriage.”

But I wanted to interpret it as “50-second marriage,” as in a REALLY short, less than one minute marriage 🤭

I like that you included punctuation. It would’ve meant something quite different without that comma.

But if we stand up against it, we’ll be off’ed or thrown into prison. It’s not our fault a bunch of despotic tyrranic dystopian oligarch fascists are burning the world down. You say it’s our fault if we don’t stop them?? How about it’s THEIR fault for burning the world down?!

We were the first with video games though

I’ll never forget Christmas 1979 or 1980 Dad bought the family our first gaming console, an Atari 2600, and I’ll never forget that they said it cost $100, and apparently that was a lot of money back then. My dad was 30 years old and had bought the house we were living in when he was 26 years old, a newly built single -family home in a new subdivision, a 26-year-old supporting a family of 4 on one income 🤯

Most of those happened before we were 10 years old therefore we were unaware & unaffected, and Y2K was a big ball of nothing. So I’d say we’re about equally politically traumatized as millennials except we had way funner childhoods 😜

Why do the hamster tunnels look like intestines?

only people that want to buy something and don’t have enough money right now use credit cards.

Not necessarily true. Real credit cards have benefits like cash back & airplane miles etc. Tons of financially-savvy wealthy people use their credit cards for every purchase then pay it off before the end of the billing cycle so they don’t accrue any interest but they still get all the benefits & cash back etc.

Klarna is for people who want to buy something but don’t have enough money right now. It’s helpful to them because it’s interest-free so they can pay off little items over the course of several months without acquiring interest.

But if you have enough money to buy something & pay in full, just do that. No need to drag it out for months if you’ve got plenty of money in the bank.

What statement do you suppose they were trying to make?

I went there once because I needed a specific type of light bulb. But it wasn’t in their inventory. So I don’t even think of that place anymore when I need bulbs. Anyway they’re rather small stores. How could they possibly stock all the millions of varieties of those two specific things? Spoiler: they don’t.

Took me a minute. Ah yes, German.

When I’m alone with somebody and they say absolutely nothing after I sneeze, I have to process that for a moment and decide what kind of person they are. They are probably stoic & logical & they eschew bullshit meaningless traditions. I like it. But I’m a girl with a big heart and I still cannot bear to be silent after somebody sneezes, but I agree it’s meaningless & old-fashioned to say “bless you,” so

I learned Chinese a few years ago and they say “Yi bai sui” or “may you live 100 years” after somebody sneezes. So I say that in english after somebody sneezes. “May you live 100 years.” That way there’s no awkward silence showing that I’m cold and heartless, instead I’m a compassionate educated polyglot 😜

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What I’m describing is not exclusive to the USA. It’s just how fuel purchases are made when paying at the pump isn’t an option, so you have to go in & do the transaction with a human behind a Point-of-Sale machine. The person at the cash register doesn’t know how many gallons or liters you need. So you have to tell them. But they want to know the corresponding cash amount, not the volume of liquid. So you have to do the math yourself in order to tell them the dollar amount to charge to your card. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t know how to make this any clearer.

Yes but the cashier wants us to tell her a monetary amount. It has nothing to do with USA using gallons instead of litres. It’s a matter of multiplying money amount times unit of volume of desired fuel.

Well yeah but I still need to tell her a dollar amount. If I underestimate then my tank won’t get topped off. So I have to do the math.

In my wanderings around the USA I’ve only encountered one pump that allowed pump before pay. At some obscure Nevada gas station in a little pass-through town in the middle of nowhere.

The mathematics I have to go through at fuel stations that don’t allow paying at the pump, gotta go inside and talk to the cashier, ugh.

Each tenth of my tank is 2.4 gallons, so if I’m at 4/10 and want to top off, (10-4)=6, so 6 x 2.4 = 14.4 gallons x price of fuel per gallon which is hovering around $6.90 lately (diesel in California), so I tell the cashier person I 'd like to purchase exactly $99.36 but gosh that’s so close to $100 let’s just round it to $100.

My conspiracy theory regarding the enshittification of autocorrect is that they’re trying to make us all look & feel stupider until we finally accept it & incrementally lower our intellectual standards.