NABDad

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Crocs like the worst rotten meat. They actually prefer it. She'd be a delicious morsel to a crocodile.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Well, the grifters don't. The multitude of morons they're scamming do.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I was talking about UPS, not USPS. Although there has been a noticeable slowdown in mail delivery since that particular scumbag was given control.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 78 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Absolutely. It's fascism. There's no doubt. However, the points I mentioned are, I believe, the ones most relevant to the question of the post.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn. UPS doesn't even bother getting the package to the right street for me.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

As an American, I suggest Ukraine tell the US to fuck right off with that bullshit.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

It's no big deal. He overslept and in the rush to get out accidentally put on the pants of the child he was raping the night before. What Republican hasn't been in this situation? They'll laugh about it later and he'll get some good-natured ribbing.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. Please for the love of all that is good in the world, don't side with the US.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Representatives for the internet provider she had used in her old apartment initially told her they couldn’t cancel her account because there was no last name associated with it.

She had been paying the company for months. She has since switched internet providers.

Are people this silly? Just stop paying them. They'll figure out how to cancel the account.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Cats are territorial. You are relying on just luck that they will get along. You're much better off not trying. Your cat doesn't want a friend.

Four "add another cat" stories for you:

  1. My oldest had a cat and decided to get another cat after quite some time. However, the first cat had already established the entire house as her territory. They followed all the recommendations to try to introduce a second cat, but it made no difference. Now they can't bring themselves to give up cat #2, so they have divided their home up to keep the cats separated.

  2. My second child and his fiancee had one cat. They decided to add two more. Their cats fought. When they tried to keep the new cats in a room and introduce them gradually, their old cat was so violently opposed to their presence that it tore apart the carpet under the door trying to g et at them. However, they ended up moving. Once in the new apartment, all three cats stopped fighting.

  3. Many years ago, a co-worker agreed to take a third cat. There was no fighting between the cats, but one of her cats was not happy. He started peeing on every surface he could get to. If you think the cat wasn't doing it intentionally, he straddled her toaster so he could pee into it. Cats know how to communicate their displeasure. By the time she was able to re-home the new cat, the damage was done. Apart from the small appliances she had to replace, she had to rip up the floor in her house and replace it to get rid of the smell of cat pee.

  4. My wife and I added a second cat years ago, but we did it at the same time we moved into our house. There were some fights between them, but they were just because of their personality differences. The new cat was young and wanted to play, while the older cat had reached the stage of life where he wanted to see how much fat he could gain. She would attack him and chase him around and that would piss him off, but they usually got along and he got in better shape. When she got too obnoxious for him, he would chase her under the TV, and make her stay there in time-out.

So, based on my experience, the only time you can safely add a cat to your home is when you move.

 

When the directions for knitting the 4th Doctor's scarf were posted, I mentioned in a post that I had the one my mom made for me ~40 years ago.

I said it had never been washed and it needed to be.

I finally did it. Cold water in the laundry room sink, a little bit of woolite, and some swishing. A couple of rinses, and some gentle squeezing to get as much water as I could out.

The tricky part, of course, was laying it out flat to air dry.

 

I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.

 

This is probably a stupid question, but if I want to add a line to a PDF telling people to direct any comments to my Lemmy account, how would I specify that?

 

Obviously teenager is 13-19.

"Young adult" would start at 20, but where's the cutoff at the upper end? Similarly, what's the range for "adult", "old", "elderly", " ancient"?

If someone asks for responses from "old men", how do I know if it applies to me?

 

It seemed like every time we visited WDW, there was some event or show taking place in front of Cinderella's Castle, and the interior was closed.

When I visited as a kid, you'd walk through the castle and ooh and aah at the mosaic.

I've wanted to see the mosaic again for years, and it was always closed. I finally got the chance again last time, and I took some pictures.

 

Where has this guy been?

When my wife and I went to Disney World in 1996, we planned nothing in advance. We found ourselves waiting in massive lines for rides and spending hours waiting for tables in restaurants. We realized we screwed up and we had to do better.

That was 27 years ago. Since then, we had kids and raised them to adulthood.

Every trip after that we scheduled reservations in advance. Every morning we wake up, we know what park we are going to. We spend about 20 minutes every day we are there planning that day's activities, and we roll with whatever changes we encounter.

I don't understand how having a plan in place in advance of your vacation somehow makes it more stressful. I've always thought it was easier to not have to wonder what we'll be doing and where we'll be going during our Disney trips.

Are there really people who insist on just showing up with no plan and then blame Disney when they are stressed?

Also, it seems like most of the Disney criticism I see is coming from Fox news in some form or another. Is that just my news feed, or is it an extension of the culture war that the right is trying to foment?

 

Title is my question. It seems like refusing to recognize other state's driver licenses would be blatantly unconstitutional. Is there something I'm missing?

 

I tend to at least look at every work email I receive. Likewise for Teams messages. If I see a notification of a new communication, I tend to check it and see if I need to respond. I don't always respond, but I always look at the message.

In various virtual meetings, I've seen other people's notifications when they share their desktop, and it seems like some people just don't bother even looking at them.

Am I the weird one? Does everyone just ignore messages they receive at work?

 

Running out of time...

 

What's your favorite Disney World Restaurant, and what is it about that restaurant that makes it your favorite?

Without any deep thought, the first one that popped into my mind was Narcoossee's. The food is amazing, and there's a great view of fireworks if you're there in the evening.

When my wife and I went to WDW after she graduated from school (1996, I think?), we stayed on property at the Grand Floridian. It was my first time staying in a Disney resort. We arrived too early to check in, so we went to Narcoossee's for lunch.

The last time we went to WDW (2021), we took our adult children with us, and had a wonderful dinner with everyone together at Narcoossee's.

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