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I feel like celebrating on March 1st when it’s not a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then their birthday is the day after February 28.

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If we can get aggressive people to point that energy at each other in a controlled environment, I see that as a victory. Keeps them off of the rest of us.

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I was a “gifted program” kid with problems at home and undiagnosed adhd. I went from A’s to failing and dropping out and nobody cared. Nobody wanted to know what was wrong. All they wanted to do was punish me.

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I had something like that when I was pregnant and it truly was magical.

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We bought my husband his own after he kept stealing mine.

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I also just hate glass. I broke a jar the other day and thought I’d cleaned it up properly, but no. I’ve been picking nearly invisible pieces of glass out of my foot with tweezers for days. My feet are scratched to shit. Plastic is bad but glass sucks too.

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Yes.

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I dropped out of high school at 17 and went to college (which I think is the same as a community college in the US? Not a full four-year degree) when I was 24 for programming. Worked as a programmer for a couple years and then got bored and went into agriculture for a couple years. Now I’m bored again and looking at going back to school for something else. I’m 33 and I’m doing fine. 21 is so young! You have lots of time to figure yourself out. Honestly I think asking 18-year-olds to decide what they want to do forever is ridiculous. Almost nobody knows themselves that well that young. I’m still figuring out what I want in life.

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Two kids. I live in Canada and have a disability so I don’t have to pay for school, which I know is a big advantage. I paid for my first diploma myself, though, without any loans or grants. I worked through high school and of course after and saved the money. I also got married (and had no wedding) and we used the gift money to pay for school. Had our first kid while living with my grandmother and paying her mortgage for her. I was 30 when I finally moved out into my own place. Before that we lived with my grandmother, before that my inlaws, and before that with my dad.

I took the long road but I have a house now and that mortgage is my only debt.

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I used them when I had covid and lost my sense of taste. When you can’t taste, all food is just a gross mush in your mouth.

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Hey I still have that yellow and blue table

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I really disagree with your secondhand comment. Buy more secondhand, less new! Cheaper, better for the environment, and you can find some cool things you wouldn’t otherwise. I get nearly all my small kitchen appliances from thrift stores. Most people get them as like a wedding gift or something and then never use them, so they are practically new. All my clothes except underwear and socks are thrifted, most of my furniture, my dishes, most electronics… I love thrift stores.

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It depends on the person. One of my kids goes to 104 every time she gets a fever. It scared the crap out of me the first time but now I know to expect it.

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I am SO tired of this shit. “Waaah you aren’t condemning Hamas hard enough!!!” My god just shut the fuck up already. I can’t tell anymore which ones of these people are just stupid and which ones are being disingenuous. I swear to god these people will accuse anyone of antisemitism if they aren’t starting every single fucking sentence with an “I condemn Hamas” disclaimer.

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Oh wow I never noticed the frying pan underneath.

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As a Canadian, I really enjoy listening to Americans pronounce French words.

Editing to say, my French isn’t great but I don’t think you really say the N in gratin (or maybe that depends on regional accents, I’m not sure). I would say it more like “grah-ten” but without really saying the N. You kind of just hint at its existence. Maybe? We need an actual Francophone here…

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I reeeeeally recommend drying off after. Anyone who is prone to UTIs like I am, please dry off each time…

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This has never made sense to me. I love the smell of food. When people apologise for the smell of garlic on their clothes, all I can think is “Why?? You smell delicious.”

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I have been using convection ovens for way longer than I have had an air fryer and it’s honestly different. The smaller size and the basket shape makes it cook faster and it’s just so muxh easier to toss the stuff in the basket than it is to flip everything over halfway through baking. Deep frying does taste better but I hate cleaning it up after. I thought air fryers were stupid for years but then I tried one and I was wrong.

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To go pick it up myself, I have to: get warm clothes on my children, load them into their car seats, brush snow off the car, drive all the way there, get my children out of the car and into the restaurant, carry the food and corral my children back to the car, get them back into their car seats, drive all the way back, remove all the children from their seats, and then get their winter clothes off and put away. I’ll pay $15 to not do that.

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My friend ate an entire raw Trinidad scorpion pepper once. I warned her not to and then made sure to film her pain.

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In Canada we have a lot of that and I always assumed we import things from America and then just change the labels. The metric usually converts to a more reasonable number in imperial.

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I do honestly love hearing the honking and watching them fly by. I always point it out to my kids. I’ve seen lots of Canada geese in my life and they’ve never hissed at me, so I don’t have a problem with them other than the poops that are just everywhere.

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Oh I know they’re viscious! I’ve just been lucky and always kept enough distance between myself and them.

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I make my own hot dog buns and then put the cheapest, crappiest chicken hot dogs on them. I like the crappy chicken weenies.

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When I was 18, I took my little brother trick or treating. I’m short (and a woman), he’s tall. Everyone asked him if he was too old to be out, but nobody questioned me.

How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

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Woah woah woah. Hold on a second. There are actually people who take Ancient Aliens seriously?! I thought we all watched it because it was hilariously stupid.

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I genuinely love Ancient Aliens but it’s definitely a comedy for me. I really don’t understand how anyone can take it seriously. My husband had someone in one of his college classes who believed an Animal Planet mockumentary about mermaids was real, though, so I guess people have fallen for dumber things.

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I screwed up my knee getting out of a cargo van. I work on a farm and there are a million other ways I could hurt myself but no, I fucked up my knee getting out of a van.

What’s a good place to get engagement rings that **arent* diamond?

I’m thinking about proposing to my girl, however we both think diamonds as a standard is stupid and overrated, we both prefer much more colorful and comparatively cheaper gemstones like rubies and sapphires, but I’m having trouble finding a good place for that, I’ve never done this before, any ideas?

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Etsy has gotten worse since I got engaged, but that’s where my ring is from. We went for sterling silver and it was $150.

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I’m not a prude but I’ve never understood sex scenes in movies. I don’t want to watch that with my friends and family, nor do I want to watch that with strangers in a theatre. If I want to watch people fuck, I can just watch porn, thanks.

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I just think they’re weird and unnecessary. I’ve never seen a sex scene that was important for the plot. They seem to just be added because they’re sexy and I don’t need to be turned on when I’m hanging out with friends and family, so what’s the point?

I have no issue with nudity, by the way.

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I eat cereal dry with my milk in a glass.

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I got some crocus bulbs to plant in my lawn that I’m hoping work out. We have been adding clover seeds to bare spots, too, and we have a lot of wild strawberries (which I never get to eat because the birds get them first). I don’t care at all for perfectly manicured lawns. I don’t think my neighbours mind, though, since none of them have perfect lawns, either.

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It is pretty weird to eat raw bread

Fresh bread is one of my favourite things in life! My dad used to get a fresh french baguette when we went grocery shopping and he and I would just eat the whole thing in the car on our way home. Lately I’ve been eating warmed (but not toasted) crusty buns with hummus. I only toast bread when it’s starting to get stale.

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I feel like I should hate this but I don’t

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I want a foot pedal for my kitchen sink so badly. I feel like it would save a lot of water and I’d never have to touch the sink with my gross hands I need to wash.

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We had these sinks in my elementary school bathroom and I’ve only seen them in one other public bathroom since. I’m really not sure why it isn’t more common.

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I always took a late lunch so I only had two hours left of work when I was done lunch. I can deal with being sleepy for two hours.

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I always say that I don’t mind spiders. They’re very respectful. They stay in their corner and eat the bugs I don’t like.

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Really? I’ve been to weddings and funerals and baptisms in churches and never have I been offered a bible. Maybe it’s a local thing?

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A thrift store selling food sounds like the food bank after a canned food drive.

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It’s pretty accurate. Birth is pretty bloody and messy.

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My dog wasn’t allowed in my brother’s room, but he loved my brother. One time, after he was kicked out, he tried slowly walking in backwards. I guess he thought we couldn’t tell what he was doing if he did it backwards.

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Portuguese immigrants in Canada from mainland Portugal say this about people from the Azores. I heard it a lot growing up.

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My inlaws are from São Miguel. I can’t understand their accent, but that’s probably because my Portuguese is terrible and I can only understand my own family. I need to visit the Azores one day. They’re so pretty.

Court: Lawsuit Can Continue Against Library That Moved All LGBTQ Children’s Books To The Adult Section (www.techdirt.com)

A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to...

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The majority of people don’t want to subject their children to this stuff and that’s just the facts.

Lol. Thanks, I needed a good laugh today.

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Cilantro is one of the best things in life.

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