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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • I’m going out with a girl after work and we’re gonna play in the park.

    (It’s my wife and I’ll be riding my bike while she tries to get used to inline skates again. We’re in our 30s.)

    But for real I miss being able to just… Enjoy a playground. Go throw rocks at the creek with friends. Have sword battles with sticks we found while walking by the trees.

    But if I do that, people call the cops because some old guy is clearly confused and wandering around…







  • Soooooo many things have been unchanged for thousands of years in blacksmithing, masonry, farming, and leathercraft.

    There are tons of idioms (in English, I’m sure there are ones in other languages) that originate from one of these things, or other old professions.

    I remember seeing a tiny single-blade “arrowhead” at a more local historical museum, and the historical society with all their degrees and (in all seriousness) hard work putting everything together, non of them actually knew what it was.

    Their best assertion was that it’s an iron arrowhead made some time in the last 500 years, I can’t remember the exact date but I want to say mid 1600s.

    Its… A utility knife. Incidentally also used in leather. The wooden handle had long since rotted away when it was found, I’m sure.

    But I’ve seen people use the same small utility knife for cleaning fresh hides as well as cutting/scoring the produced leather.

    Basically one of these but instead of it being solid through the handle, it tapers into a rat tail in about an inch.

    So they thought “ceremonial/specialized arrowhead” because none of the people who worked there had access to the internet and reverse image searching at the time, and nobody there was into those kinds of hobbies and recognized it.

    Of course, nobody gives a shit what a stupid dumb idiotic teenager says, they’re just children who know nothing. I did, however, know someone who likes reenacting colonial American things, and it’s one of his hobbies so he got ahold of them and got the information corrected within a few months.






  • Lpt: DO NOT ASK A PERSON IF THEY HAVE FOUND A JOB YET

    If they have and you’re important enough to them, you’ll know when they tell you. If they haven’t told you, either it’s none of your GODDAMN BUSINESS or they’re still looking.

    You asking just reminds them they don’t have a job. And if they’ve been looking for awhile, it’s even worse. Especially if you actually said “yet” or added in some other “it’s been awhile” modifier.




  • When my now wife spoke of her “two unmarried aunts who live together in the same bedroom”, I wasn’t expecting that they were sisters who just kept living together in the same bedroom with different beds on either side of the room, even splitting it sitcom style with a clearly defined line down the center, for 60 years.

    And when I explained to her that my friends “aunts” are not actually sisters, they are in fact lesbians who have been together since long before marriage was legal and now just don’t see the point in a piece of paper when they’ve spent the last 35 years together, she had her own moment of realization.

    I explained about Sappho and her friend, how that was basically what you had to be among older generations that had to hide it, just roommates. Then promptly showed her that video.


  • “Today we’re gonna make an entire dream house for only $0.17. So to start with, let’s go outside and see what we can find just laying around.”

    grabs $47,000metal detector, hops in a $60k 4x4 with clear product placement labels in every shot, two minutes of time-lapse of someone wandering around aimlessly while apparently looking for things

    “Alright so we found a couple old glass bottles that can be washed out and made into a rustic display piece, and if you follow me over here you’ll never guess what I found. That’s right, its 147 acres of forested land with a 6 bedroom, 2.5 floor cabin and small pond, all with blank ownership forms! And with just a couple million graciously donated by my parents, we have all we need!”

    " this just goes to show all you need to do to accomplish your dreams is get your hands dirty and do a little hard work."

    filler for ad revenue

    " Anyway thanks for watching, this episode was sponsored by that game company you hate and can never escape ads for! "


  • I didn’t stop to greet some customers as I walked in with a cane for the third week in a row due to nerve damage.

    I wasn’t on the clock, we didn’t have a uniform, no name tag, nobody would even know I work there until I put my shit on after I clock in.

    By that time I had made it a habit of recording every interaction with management, so I just pulled out my phone, hit the record button, and asked “so to be clear, are you officially reprimanding me for NOT doing work off the clock?” and that immediately shut him up.

    Managers get awfully pensive when they have recording devices capturing them.