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Keep your thirst for power and fame in check, man. The list is long and much older than the age of all of the MR's users combined.
I had an especially grumpy morning. Just ask my colleagues!
Clearly it's what happens when a zoo puts a lizard and a gecko in the same cage..
Lion + Tiger = Liger or Tigon.
Lizard + Gecko = Lizzo.. or Gizzard.
Ooops.....Domo Arigato. 🙂
I knew my anime cred was zilch (Gatchaman is it for me)* and this proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Might as well add lack of mutant cred (beyond Team X) now too. 😋
*I do know that Tatsunoko Productions made Speed Racer before Gatchaman...but...nothing else. 😚
Trying out this Shark Tank blessed posture harness. Not sure if it works.
And I happened to look out mom's window and a Blue Jay streaked by, it cawed "JAY!" once. That was fun to see / hear.
I wait impatiently in the hopes of a Shooting Star Funko Pop.
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As far as you... POSER!! 😝😝😝 j/k
Check out the remake of Hurricane Polymer. Also a Tatsunoko Production.
Ha, you beat me to it was about to correct @kazmac . We used to watch that show as kids, that and Marine boy.
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Gatchaman was cool too. Plus Space Battleship Yamato.
Yes! I watched Marine Boy too, when I was really young, that's definitely my first two exposures to Anime (was before it was referred to as such).
Also Ultraman
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Hahaha, and unlike more modern animated kids shows, for example, GI Joe where they're firing LETHAL WEAPONS at each other, but nobody gets hurt, in Speed Racer, people died in horrible flaming deaths.
I used to play with my Hotwheels like they were the Mach 5, made the lift-jump sound too
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Oh yeah, and now my little G is massively into Anime and Manga
Also Ultraman
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Hahaha, and unlike more modern animated kids shows, for example, GI Joe where they're firing LETHAL WEAPONS at each other, but nobody gets hurt, in Speed Racer, people died in horrible flaming deaths.
I used to play with my Hotwheels like they were the Mach 5, made the lift-jump sound too
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Oh yeah, and now my little G is massively into Anime and Manga
My mother:
And friends of mine, during this period of confinement.
Last week-end, a friend of mine who was also the best student I ever taught, remarked that she could write a manual on her eldest son, who is profoundly autistic, and that anyone having to deal with him would need access to such a document in order to understand at a basic level how he functions and how to cope with him.
By way of reply, I quoted my mother, who used to groan that we hadn't come into this world complete with an owner's instruction manual: "I mean", my mother would remark, with a meaningful, gimlet eyed glance, at the respective guilty party, as her eye roved over each of us, in turn: "It would have been really helpful in dealing with them, and anticipating problems, and issues, if I had been notified, not necessarily in advance, but when taking delivery of this small person, by way of an instruction manual, a detailed instruction manual, tailored to each individual child, like you get with a car or a washing machine, that this one inherited her father's small throat which made eating a real challenge, this other one is very picky about his food, whereas that fellow adores his food, is a real trencherman, but suffers massively from motion sickness...."
Then, voice dropping into a creamy tone, torn acutely between dreamy and soppy (and happy) reminiscence, and the grumpy tug of inconvenient reality, she would add: "You know, when I was dating your father, instead of being carried away by the sweet nothings, chats, dancing, cinema, coffee, brilliant presents from this handsome and funny man," (an aside: That was true: He was handsome, and funny and kind and always gave great gifts, carefully thought out as to what the recipient wanted and would like), "I should have asked him - is there anything I really need to know about your family, about the genetics in your family, stuff such as (the now notorious) moodiness, small throats, high arches, picky eating habits......stuff that anyone thinking of having children with someone might want to think about...."
He would dissolve into giggles, and she would repeat that we should all have come into the world fully equipped, complete with our instruction manuals clutched in our tiny infant fists....
And friends of mine, during this period of confinement.
Last week-end, a friend of mine who was also the best student I ever taught, remarked that she could write a manual on her eldest son, who is profoundly autistic, and that anyone having to deal with him would need access to such a document in order to understand at a basic level how he functions and how to cope with him.
By way of reply, I quoted my mother, who used to groan that we hadn't come into this world complete with an owner's instruction manual: "I mean", my mother would remark, with a meaningful, gimlet eyed glance, at the respective guilty party, as her eye roved over each of us, in turn: "It would have been really helpful in dealing with them, and anticipating problems, and issues, if I had been notified, not necessarily in advance, but when taking delivery of this small person, by way of an instruction manual, a detailed instruction manual, tailored to each individual child, like you get with a car or a washing machine, that this one inherited her father's small throat which made eating a real challenge, this other one is very picky about his food, whereas that fellow adores his food, is a real trencherman, but suffers massively from motion sickness...."
Then, voice dropping into a creamy tone, torn acutely between dreamy and soppy (and happy) reminiscence, and the grumpy tug of inconvenient reality, she would add: "You know, when I was dating your father, instead of being carried away by the sweet nothings, chats, dancing, cinema, coffee, brilliant presents from this handsome and funny man," (an aside: That was true: He was handsome, and funny and kind and always gave great gifts, carefully thought out as to what the recipient wanted and would like), "I should have asked him - is there anything I really need to know about your family, about the genetics in your family, stuff such as (the now notorious) moodiness, small throats, high arches, picky eating habits......stuff that anyone thinking of having children with someone might want to think about...."
He would dissolve into giggles, and she would repeat that we should all have come into the world fully equipped, complete with our instruction manuals clutched in our tiny infant fists....
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Bought some disposable fountain pens. To my surprise, they write quite well, I can easily see myself writing for hours.
Had to go with disposable pens because I just keep losing pens, pencils, and markers. As a matter of fact, I already lost one and it's not even 24 hours since I got them...
Had to go with disposable pens because I just keep losing pens, pencils, and markers. As a matter of fact, I already lost one and it's not even 24 hours since I got them...
You haven't lost the one. One of your kids probably borrowed it. Varsity disposables? I had a pack of three I wanted to use this past summer but it was all dried up. Granted, I'd bought them in 2012 so it's no wonder they were empty and dry.
Gotta defend my kids here, they don't even know I got them... I just lost it as I lose all sort of stationery.
I purchased Pilot V-Pen pens.
Incredibly random, but why do toasters have a setting capable of burning bread in the first place? Makes no sense.
I think the longer cycles are supposed to be for things like frozen waffles (so they have to time both defrost and "toast").
I do the manual popup, check, restart ... and still wind up with burnt toast ...
Exactly it's like introverts have been training their whole lives. But it's going to be a total nightmare for us when things reopen because it will be massive levels worse than the pre levels until crowds and traffic settle down.
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I want to know why a toaster is at the top on Amazon when you search bread make. That would be a toast maker not the other
I’m not sure the world will get back to normal like that. I think it will be phased and people will not all rush to get out.Exactly it's like introverts have been training their whole lives. But it's going to be a total nightmare for us when things reopen because it will be massive levels worse than the pre levels until crowds and traffic settle down.
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I want to know why a toaster is at the top on Amazon when you search bread make. That would be a toast maker not the other
As I’ve said elsewhere my life isn’t that much different in lockdown from normal.
Yea other than traffic and work being more spread out and quieter, and not being able to eat out or go on trips once in a while, it's the same. If it weren't for my wife, it would probably be exactly the same except traffic/work.
So rare I eat out it nobody had told me restaurants were shut I'd probably not have realised!
I am receiving so many texts and phone calls from political campaigns (on both sides) asking for money that I am on the brink of donating my entire salary to some movement in favor of the abolition of free elections.
Hah, I've wondered that a million times about OS upgrades or big system updates sometimes too. I always figured there's some sort of algorithm on the estimate-making, but then some experiential real time modifications. Like certain items get flagged in a looksee pass, like "oh man she has some pile of iTunes libraries there" but then later on in the nitty gritty, "yeah but half of them haven't been touched in in a year and a half".
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May have peaked too soon using the i-heart emoticon on the previous post about Kim; they are both pretty funny unless of course the beauty salon he's at belongs to a mortician.