KittenBiscuits

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[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always thought this is why Olive Garden, Red Lobster, whatever 80s/90s fad chain restaurant sang their own birthday songs for patrons.

Happy happy birthday.. It’s your special day.. happy happy birthday That’s why we’re here to say HEY! Happy happy birthday may alll your dreams come true happy happy birthday from Bennigans to you..HEY!

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

We will make it ironic

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is lazy town classified as a cartoon? It's certainly in fever dream territory, no argument there.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

True. There was that one annoying dude on GoT that experienced such.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Just a handful, but I usually will add a new one when it hooks me enough that I can't stop binging it.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I find I can generally wait, but I experience pain when a group decision can't be made. Just pick one already. We're not disarming a bomb, we're trying to get some dinner.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lead, thallium, mercury... metals not friendly to direct human contact. I find it rad that if we add a few more protons we get a pretty, shiny metal that won't melt our brains.*

*that we know of

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Many amine endings are like that for me. I'm hooked with fun action, adorable creatures, and badass robots, and then it just derails into endless monologuing.

But watching something when I'm not into it? Sometimes, just so I know what happened in the end. If I like some element of it enough, like the setting or one of the actors. Other times, a wiki plot synopsis will be enough to sate the curiosity. I'm getting better about not forcing myself to finish something I'm just not into.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

If it's to be a celebration of life not in a church or funeral home, somber dress is less of a norm. I wore my mom's favorite color (purple).

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Typical attire is dark clothes, little to no patterned fabric, suit or jacket if you have one, dress, slacks, dress shirt, cardigan if you need extra layers. Navy blue, charcoal grey, brown, black, colors like that. Nothing "loud". Subdued jewelry. You're not there to draw attention to yourself. You're there to comfort the grieving, process your own grief, and remember good things about the departed.

That said, I have been to some funerals where the only clothes some ppl had were jeans and a shirt. Their demeanor was appropriate and respectful, and no one judged them.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seems to be radius

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I live next to protected wetlands and in a generally swampy area. Yes, there are clouds of insects.

I'm not a fan of spiders and dealing with cobwebs, but since moving here, I have declared a truce with them. We try not to keep any lights on near doors to minimize bugs getting into the house when we come and go. And UV sticky traps are very effective and always shock me with how many they can accrue overnight. We have a regular bug service coming too. Creepy crawlies are just part of life here.

 

Found it in my pool while I was getting it ready for summer. Rehomed it to the neighbor's pond where it will have lots of turtle friends.

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So smol (infosec.pub)
 

Found him in the skimmer this morning. My hand must feel more cozy than the basket as he chose to take a nap once I picked him up. I carried him across the street to the wildlife refuge marshy area. Be free, little 🐢

 

BG was sponsoring the Atlanta Olympics that year, and some marketing person thought it would be a fun idea to put our home state on name badges as kind of a US ambassador-like gesture I guess for all the extra visitors the parks expected.

I don't know if we saw an increase in visitors that year. Williamsburg is like a 12 hour drive from Atlanta. But I did have one guy complain to me about the Italian food we sold in the cafeteria, that it was horrid, and his wife was Italian, and she couldn't eat this. Almost 30 years later and I still remember that guy. Why was he remotely expecting decent food at a theme park? I have no idea. And I still have Funiculì, Funiculà running through my head on occasion. Thanks BG.

 

It's just a handy place to put my phone down for a second. Or stash a pen or a credit card.

 

This came up in the rotation on the tv and it amused me. I tried asking it for a pattern but it was unresponsive 😂

 

Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN

Updated: 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025

Source: CNN

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.

 
 

Mom hung a mass produced art print on my bedroom wall when I was about 8. It's of a little girl holding her puppy.

oil painting titled Miss Bowles and her dog by Joshua Reynolds

Cute, right?

Thing is, this painting terrified me. And I was raised in the time where you just kind of swallowed any complaints and didn't bother mom or dad with kid foolishness.

Here is a copy of the thing I actually had hanging on my wall. This same frame. Probably came from Service Merchandise or some such.

larger crop of the same work of art

What in the everloving hell is lurking just over her shoulder?!?! To me it always looked like a skull wearing a hat on the side of his head, like a little old timey jaunty hat a clown would wear.

It's a wonder I got any sleep. I was too afraid to tell mom I hated it. I never considered that I possessed the agency to take it off my wall and hide it at the bottom of the closet.

I think of this cursed painting still.

Did you ever have something in your childhood that unnecessarily scared the bejeezus out of you?

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