I had two of those as a kid. They put little chains around them and pulled them down into place.

My family is all in the US, though some cousins have done semesters/years in Japan and Germany. Extended family (branches from my grandfather’s family) in Italy.

Chicken-egg; post-space…post.

That’s why they spray water on fruit trees, to insulate them at 32F, right?

Sitting in a rocking swivel patio chair while shaving the dog and I leaned forward to get his belly. The chair started to tip. I startled and i was able to stop it from tipping over, but then it felt like my back locked up and i couldn’t move. Husband helped me into the house and i missed several days of work. I did the exact same things three years in a row. I still have the chairs. Dog died and that’s likely the only reason it stopped after 3x.

My husband is an engineer. Screaming, “what the fuck are talking about?” is probably not the way.

How old is he?

Click out.

They’re all bad, but Firefox is terrible about this. Twice already in January I’ve had to make new passwords to pay bills. I was in my car when i did it and now i have no idea what those new passwords are. I’m so sick of letters, numbers, and special characters! No one is out there attempting to guess my gas company login password - they’re buying it from someone who hacked the gas company.

Probably the second (unless it’s something as common as trick or treat) as the implication may not hit me until later. You also have to judge the likelihood of follow thru- like when a kid get threatened with forever grounding.

I match your preferred timeline and wouldn’t change it. Happy that my childhood and young adult life is documented mostly by still photos with no backup.

Offered to take my adult kids to the beach -we will rent a pet-friendly house that’s big enough for everyone if you get your dog fixed before we go; we don’t want to be dealing with dog in heat at a beach house.

We booked the house. The dog did not get fixed. They came anyway but left a day early because…yep, the dog went into heat.

About an hour after they left, son called - “Wow! That immigration checkpoint was not as quick and easy as you described it!”

Apparently, standing on the side of the road with a pocketful of weed while your wife holds the dog and feds search your car can be unsettling.

“Sir, do you know why our dog alerted on your car?”

Ok - now i have to go Google because I’m not sure if you made this up or if this is something that they actually believe.

ETA- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle

When I first came here, I was so jaded, with the expectation that every account was a bot or an asshole. Seeing the actual conversation among humans has been nice.

Both can be true.

Sometimes it’s better to not know and just say thank you.

It’s ok. I prefer club soda from the gun and most restaurants here don’t charge for that.

It irritates me when people say, “i don’t drink soda” and then grab a flavored bubbly water.

Thank you. Enjoying my first glass of big tank bubbly lemonade.

Throw 2 or 3 naproxen in with that and you’ll wake up in the night extremely unhappy.

How big the total lemmy userbase? We’re already anonymous.