Brandon Ferguson

It really, really is a big part of the job isn't it? Treating "I don't get it" as a useful signal that perhaps something needs to be discussed and not a personal or professional failing (for either party).

Which of course led to me asking a lotttt of "dumb" or seemingly "out of touch" questions

man, I read this as "ambien anger"

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I mean, we both _could_. Let's bring back the skullet!

(Well, maybe not bring *back*, not sure that was ever here)

It took me an upsettingly long time to figure out just what was "different" in this picture.

"Oh he grew his hair out!"

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piri piri, gado gado,

(and if you're from the US in 90s and ordering form Little Caesars: pizza pizza)

This is a good post.

And if they're saying if I don't I can't "get that bag" - the bag in question simply must be a 10 Sack from White Castle in Metuchen, NJ

Exactly my first thought 😅

Ha! The Dutch language school I went to gave us buttons that said a similar (IIRC) "Spreek Nederlands tegen me. Ik proberen te leren"

"Speak Dutch to me, I am trying to learn"

Since everyone just switches to English at the first hitch in your language.

Your pin is waaaay nicer looking. :D

hahaha - just read something and had the same response

hahah - and here I am knocking solid.

Toss some solid ones in there, and fuck it, a few completely hollow. Never let them know your next move.

Filled. Solid is always so disappointing to me with something like this. I like the surprise of it all.

The malt reply is good. Or something like pistachio cream, hazelnut cream, etc would be ace.

Michael Jordan meme of him saying "...and I took that personally"

Meanwhile in my retro/perma computing feed:

well damn, now I have to listen to it as well.

Hahah - I did pause and go 🤔 Wait. actually not sure that's true still.

Stupid technology progress messing with my dumb jokes again.

They are in fact bigger

Oh man, I had no idea. I think one of the admins of the MUD I ran around on had an Erols email address. Something about that name shook out and _old_ memory.

[reads Lord of the Flies]

Man, this sounds fun!

Oh wow, that game was really something incredible.

The Shacknews Zombie Horde days were some of my most memorable gaming moments.

There's a shopping area in Amsterdam North that after it closes, it plays music from Efteling (a theme park, like a Dutch Disney) to keep teens from loitering.

I mostly feel for the single pizza delivery place that is open past those normal hours so they have to listen to it every single night.

haha I love observations like this. I have a "If I'm listening to Control by Pedro the Lion a lot, I'm probably not in a good place" rule

Oh! I somehow missed this was coming out! I was just craving another book in that series after coming across one of my highlighted passages from the first one. This is great news.

Yup! Bit more hidden than it used to be but support.github.com/contact/bug-... I think should get you where you're going.

support.github.com/request is the more general area that loads the various forms.

boo! but also saves me scrambling to get samples hahah

Every picture I see from it is just stunning. Excellent work! Can't wait to see it in person.

Also: what handles you got on them cabinets? (literally comparing two samples this morning for my new kitchen)

oh hai!

Hell yeah. Is it weird that I needed to see something like this today? I appreciate you posting it. <3

Gonna have a hard time not calling La Chouffe "Papa Smurf" from now on.

My "favorite" version of this is when I was forced to stream the Dutch version of Everything Everywhere.. they went out of their way to erase all of the English subtitles for the Chinese scenes and even the silent rock scene. So if you turn off Dutch subs, you're left with nothing in those scenes.