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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,362 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    In a 2025 YouGov survey, two-thirds of dog owners said that their animals were smarter than the average dog.

    Like Lake Wobegon, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. I miss Garrison Keillor, he was so good.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • OmgFrigginMike
    OmgFrigginMike Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Wylaff said:
    Both of my dogs are stupider than the average, so I'm doing my part to balance it out.

    They obviously didn’t survey me. My two are dumber than a box of rocks. Cute though

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The fashion industry does not call older models “older models”; it calls them “generational models.” Another fun, or maybe not so fun, fact: In the fashion world, “old” generally means anyone over 30

  • edz
    edz Posts: 668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    @silvermouse said:
    In a 2025 YouGov survey, two-thirds of dog owners said that their animals were smarter than the average dog.

    Like Lake Wobegon, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. I miss Garrison Keillor, he was so good.

    Still go back and read his works. Classic story teller, not many like him.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    not a useless strategy for some plants but a useless word
    myrmecochory

  • OmgFrigginMike
    OmgFrigginMike Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This forum is suddenly blocked on my work computer. 🙄

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,708 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OmgFrigginMike said:
    This forum is suddenly blocked on my work computer. 🙄

    Maybe they don't want you here when you could be working

    A little dirt never hurt
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,145 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I find it odd that AJ Fernandes' website doesn't list Ave Maria, Diesel, manowar etc as his brands.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,608 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    I find it odd that AJ Fernandes' website doesn't list Ave Maria, Diesel, manowar etc as his brands.

    They’re no longer his brands. The brands belong to Altadis. He still makes most of them but the labels are no longer his.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do not know what this indicates about the state of America's psyche but I found this indicative of something........

    "Furry Weekend Atlanta grew 245% in three years, climbing from 7,212 attendees in 2022 to 17,736 in 2025, making it the largest furry convention on the planet."

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/americans-are-obsessed-with-furries/

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coastal Turtle Toaster Cover

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,145 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Somewhere in the Midwest there is a vending machine that still owes me $1.75.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Antiphrasis, pronounced an-TIH-frah-sis, is a figure of speech where a descriptive word or phrase is used in a way that’s opposite to its conventional meaning. Essentially, you say one thing, but you mean its opposite.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 33,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting. We have 'jello' often but use fruit juice and beef gelatin. Pomegranate is a favorite.

  • edz
    edz Posts: 668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Interesting. We have 'jello' often but use fruit juice and beef gelatin. Pomegranate is a favorite.

    Add a little honey and you get gummies, wife uses elderberry and honey with the beef gelatin to make elderberry gummies.

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