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Auuuuhh I don't get it till August 26. Whyyyy!!

We toured our office a couple of days before the handover from construction to occupation. Fully finished building (allegedly). We all had to wear hi vis, steel cap boots, long sleeves and hard hats. Completely unnecessary but site rules.
Guess how many people complained? Yep, 0.

My high school did this in the 90s. Worked with the local polytechnic to divert kids who weren't academic into trade qualifications while keeping them at school. It was a RESOUNDING success, without any need for this utter pile of bullshit they're pushing.

a cartoon potato with a face and arms is standing on a white background . Alt: a cartoon potato with a face and arms is standing on a white background .

Part one. (Not her real name but the one that gets used most often and that she answers to now.)

I absolutely believe that cats understand the world around them, and what we say to them.

They just choose their responses to it, which don't always? often? align with what we may have asked them to do.

Mine sass me right to my face. You can't do that if you don't understand.

I would pay more tax and my partner less, it more or less evens out across the household (we'd be about $5 poorer which we can totally afford).

I acquired an elderly cat some years ago and we discovered that she recognised smoked salmon packets. Unopened, we took one out of the fridge and she IMMEDIATELY started howling and begging. Someone in her earlier life gave her bougie tastes!

We have a tui that sings the song my washing machine makes when it's unbalanced.

I have had a hell of a time getting my diet calibrated against ADHD medication (appetite suppressant side effect) and keep finding myself STARVING late evening so I wind up eating "too much" late in the day and then having issues sleeping and then it's hard the next day and ugh bodies whhyyyyyyyyyyy

I would like to submit the "everything is chemicals you sodding prats" argument, because these people are just. Argh. Sodding prats.

I did it on a whim about six years ago (searching for non dairy alternatives for my partner) and - as someone who can eat dairy no issues - I PREFER it this way. Creamy and rich and :chefskiss:

Nutellex Buttery. (I think it's vegan?) we also add eggs for non vegan option, beat them in quickly like you would for carbonara, but if you don't do egg then the Nutellex is enough. Add a little vege stock if you need liquid.

Proper concert grand piano.

Ridiculously fitted out rooms for my cats - like climbing walls and bougie cat trees and tunnels and cardboard boxes - and someone paid to deal with litter boxes.

I'm not very inventive I guess.

I have clothes in my wardrobe that all fit me the same way and they have eight different size labels on them (admittedly one of those is due to vanity sizing from a plus size brand) and it's such bullshit

My problem with your 'nip is that Bonnie gets THE MAD ZOOMIES and needs to destroy things - ideally Mango - for ten minutes, right as Mango has turned into a drooling mess atop the climber and is profoundly upset by Bonnie messing with his vibes.
It's hilarious as shit but I have to supervise 😂😂

I was mixing your ear worm up with "I'm getting married in the morning" anyway, so my bad all round. (I woke up with that thought and went "oh hey oops".)

Would it work to swap for "Not Getting Married Today" (which personally I prefer)?

Pepper has a Patron support option - it means you CAN give her money without needing to handle merch.

My god I thought the doors thing was just our shitty house!!! Then today the weather happened and suddenly the door isn't sticking.

Having a broad education and interests outside your field is great! People can be multi faceted and having diverse perspectives rocks.
I'm glad I don't get judged on what I did 20 years ago, I've grown and learned a shitload since then.

I live in Auckland. We never stopped having to do this. 😂

(they go in the spare room with two dehumidifiers cranked up, dries fast and no mould etc)

My Tiger-bear used to do that and it cracked me up every time. I eventually worked out - after YEARS - that what she wanted was to be little spoon but without the blankets between me and her. Unfortunately for her that was too cold for me so she did not get her way.

I tore my shoulder putting weights away at the gym, not while actually working out. Seven years later it's still at best mildly fucked.

Whatever the USD equivalent is tbh, because that's the market I'm usually buying in! Just let me buy the damn book legally! I'll pay market rates! Or let me borrow it from the library! Something!!!

Girls are socialised to discuss issues (if perhaps not always well). Boys are socialised to repress them and when it boils over HOO BOY IT'S ALL ON.

(Yes yes stereotypes etc I know but cultural conditioning is still a shitty but prevalent thing)

The "I just wanna pirate cos lazy" crew : ugh.
I am a founding and regularly complaining member of team "will. you. fucking. publishers. SELL ME THINGS OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA PLEASE"; I use my library religiously and buy whatever ebooks publishers will deign to sell to New Zealand.

I was 20 minutes early and waited in the car. Also taken into account (also confirmed diagnosis).

The practice I had my ADHD assessment at reminded me four different times via three different mediums. Phone, SMS, and email. I was initially surprised and then realised oh hey they really KNOW their client base...

Soup? Broccoli and corn soup, chuck in stick blender or sieve or whatever so it's appropriately drinkable for the Limpet?

Drugs are the only excuse for some of the later Dune books.