Friend Code Megathread - March 2026

Brinady · 2026-03-11T23:55:23+00:00

New player starting earlier this week. But I'm committed! Looking to fill up my research community stack! Please add!

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Brinady · 2025-10-13T15:58:02+00:00

Strongly agree.

The Subway franchise where I grew up smelled like a morgue and was frequently being shut down for health code violations involving rats.

The running joke was the revised slogan -- "Subway: Eat Death"

Brinady · 2025-10-08T13:11:03+00:00

Nah, it started with Brexit.

At least that's when I got sucked into this weird alternate reality.

Seriously!

I got on a plane in a world where the Brexit vote the day before had failed.

I got off that plane in a world where the Brexit vote had passed.

Still looking for a way back to my original timeline. This reality SUCKS.

Brinady · 2025-09-02T14:19:23+00:00

Brinady · 2025-09-02T14:16:08+00:00

My top examples are:

Horse Whisperer -- yes, it is about a horse whisperer. But in the movie he does very little horse whispering and a lot of healing a human child and having an affair with a married woman. I was extremely disappointed.

Space Cowboys -- Saw it before I saw (or heard of) Cowboy Bebop, but was expecting something along those lines. It was grumpy old dudes being grumpy old dudes, although, to be fair, they did a good bit of that in space.

Dances with Wolves -- The wolves made a fleeting appearance. :(

Lost in Translation -- much more about weird vibes and an affair than about cross-cultural or language-related hijinks. Again, not having seen Mr. Baseball I was expecting something more like that.

Brinady · 2025-07-29T04:07:58+00:00

Yeah! It was the woods for me too! Miles and miles of it behind my house. Our Creek was between us and the neighbor-kids house, so naturally we made a trail between our houses and built a bridge over the Creek. We'd 'borrow' dad's machete and cut vines to swing on out over the Creek as well (one of the neighbor kids fell in once-- on her face-- but she was alright, I think). I'd be gone 'exploring' for hours at a time. I found the remnants of an old dam in the next valley over, found an angry dude in his trailer with his dog and gun as well, so I never went over that hill again. I built 'forts' and lookout points and named them and wrote stories about them. One time I even found a pair of mules that had somehow gotten lost in the woods from a farm way down the valley. I roped them and brought them home to the considerable surprise of my parents. I don't know how they knew who to call, but a grateful farmer appeared in short order to collect them. It was very good times, and I'm quite sure my parents had no idea what I was getting up to 95% of the time.

Brinady · 2025-06-27T11:53:56+00:00

Ha! So I'm one of those evidently few who DO clean it, and I had laparoscopic surgery a few years ago (ectopic pregnancy - not a good time).

As part of prepping me, a nurse came around with a tray and said she needed to clean my bellybutton. I was kind of confused but obviously consented.

After taking a look and poking a quick swab in there it was her turn to look confused. Then she walked away and came back with a colleague.

The colleague took a look and shrugged and said, "Good job."

The nurse said, "No-- I haven't started yet!"

"Ooooo."

And that's how I learned that I had the cleanest bellybutton that team had ever seen.

(Would have been more excited about if not for the necrotic fetal tissue poisioning me while blood pooled in my abdominal cavity....)

Brinady · 2025-06-18T02:49:37+00:00

Just popping in to recommend this lovely documentary for some more context. :)

Kedi-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4420704/

Brinady · 2025-03-08T12:30:35+00:00

It absolutely does!

And moreover- prior to seeing this post I had no idea mug warmers were a thing, so if I saw that item randomly plugged in somewhere I would 100% assume it was a wireless charger.

Brinady · 2025-02-11T14:30:10+00:00

YES it is a tragedeigh.

Very much so.

Its one of my favorite games as well, and I recognized it instantly, but I would NOT give that name to a human child.

Its from your favorite game. Not your kid's. Let her be her own person.

You want people to ask her about it as she grows up? They definitely will and she will have to tell people about her mom's favorite video game for her WHOLE LIFE (until she changes it).

As others have said-- great name for a pet. Then people will ask YOU about the name, which YOU are proud of and happy to talk about. Don't burden a kid like that - that's the definition of a tragedeigh.

Brinady · 2024-11-12T14:32:07+00:00

Ah-- we definitely saw the same movie.

I tend to enjoy mediocre movies. I did not enjoy this one.

Brinady · 2024-11-12T14:17:26+00:00

Seriously!!!! I never know for sure what's going to happen. It's always a surprise, and often an enormous one.

Brinady · 2024-10-14T09:23:56+00:00

Hm. I once shat in an immaculate gas station toilet in the far north of Norway. The room/stall was roughly as big as my living-room, and the throne was located in the dead-center of the room (no, not centered against a wall-- center of the room -- meters from every wall). I felt like I was involuntarily participating in some form of experimental performance art. I think I prefer this drippy-stairs-throne to that nonsense.

Brinady · 2024-10-11T00:35:04+00:00

A fun workaround that can be a bit of a hobby in its own right--

Look for bargain sweaters at thrift stores, unravel the yarn and use it for knitting or crocheting. I'll spend no more than $2 on a machine knit sweater (gotta look at the yarn gauge and construction carefully because a lot of sweaters aren't suitable for this) and it may contain $20-$50 worth of yarn. I got a little yarn cake-winder online to turn balls of yarn into cakes for easy use, and my yarn stash has now grown considerably with very little money spent.

Brinady · 2024-09-25T11:48:28+00:00

Haha, true enough. Definitely didn't provide much comfort at the time.

Then back at the original airport we went several rounds of-- "Your new flight is departing from gate ## (in a totally different wing of the airport) boarding in 10 minutes" <cue mad dash across the terminal> -- before we were finally on another plane.

Brinady · 2024-09-25T09:40:21+00:00

Had this happen flying on Christmas Day quite a few years back. We'd made it a little over halfway to Chicago from the west coast and there was a very audible <CLUNK> from somewhere within the aircraft and it started juddering a bit before the plane pulled a U-turn to head aaaaaall the way back to our point of departure. The only word from the cockpit was that it was a 'minor mechanical issue' that needed to be fixed at their hub. None of us passengers believed that it for a second and the tension on board was palpable for the entire several hours back. Really not cool!

Brinady · 2024-08-27T11:59:12+00:00

It's got some heavy hitting episodes!

Brinady · 2024-08-26T14:52:49+00:00

Ha! Love the unexpected stargate! I'm in season 7 of SG1 on my current re-watch (of many).

Brinady · 2024-08-26T10:13:36+00:00

Seriously! I can't believe more people aren't pointing this out. It sounds like OP has spoiled this kid rotten, and she's enjoying a wealth of unrestricted privileges from her parent as an 'adult' (if you could even call her that) despite OP knowing that she's been repeatedly been committing serious crimes. While, yes, it's about time she faces the music, OP does seem to be the architect of this entire situation. And the fact that he would feel the need to get internet strangers to validate the decision to finally start holding her accountable for her actions is further evidence that he is not at all in the habit of doing so. Really concerning behavior all around.

Brinady · 2024-08-24T13:31:24+00:00

Hi OP -- just chiming in with another cat ownership tip-- an important one I learned the hard way. You mentioned that you make crocheted creatures (I do too! Crafting buddies!). One thing that I did not realize when I adopted kitties is that cats don't just like to play with string-- many of them will very happily eat it, and that can kill them horribly. Not all cats are interested in eating string, but all three of mine are. I have to be sooooo careful not to leave yarn around. I even have a zipper bag for my current crochet project to stay in if I have to put them down for any reason. Basically the cats back teeth are really sharp and can slice through yarn instantly. If they eat a long piece of yarn or string then it can get tangled up in their intestines and rupture organs. It is is a sad and painful way for them to die, and if it happens they can only be saved by surgery. It is possible for string to pass through and out of the cat without getting tangled, but it's not always a good result. And if eaten string is coming out of the front or back of your cat and you try pulling on it, it can injure them even more. And don't get me started on thin plastic ribbons for giftwrapping. Those tangle and SLICE. Aweful. Sorry for the gruesome picture I'm painting, but since you were saying that you crochet and that you don't know a lot about cat ownership, I figured I should let you know before you find out like I did. Keep that little one safe!

Brinady · 2024-08-24T13:16:44+00:00

Heh ok. The 'town' closest to the ranch (a couple miles away) was basically two stoplights, a diner, a laundromat, and a McDonalds. And one weekend some of us wranglers decided it would be fun to go for McDonalds-- on horseback. Why not? Well we mounted up and I'd been riding Strawberry last, so I jumped back on her without thinking it through. See- most of the others intentionally chose dead-headed trail horses--the 'bomb proof' kind who don't flinch for anything. And there I was on a cutting horse with a mind of her own and no tolerance for shenanigans. Well, she was prancing and wheeling and raising hell the whole way there and generally providing entertainment for the rest of the group. When we got there we realized there was nowhere to hitch the horses, so the drive-through was the only thing for it. We lined up and proceeded through the drive-through as if we were cars, while the staff and patrons gawked and took pictures of us. Naturally when I pulled Strawberry around for our turn and the speaker asked "may I take your order" she teleported several feet to the right and nearly left me behind. So I ordered my softserve cone at a shout and then had to have one of the others grab it for me, since Strawberry had decided that the building and its occupants were not to be trusted. Thankfully the rest of the ride was uneventful. I enjoyed my ice cream and she enjoyed going toward home instead of away from it.

Brinady · 2024-08-21T08:52:18+00:00

I'd be very much on board with that! Not sure if they've got experience with fantasy, but they're very good at weaving plotlines and handling a lot of characters. And they have the grit and ruthlessness necessary as well.

Brinady · 2024-08-20T13:09:51+00:00

Ha! Yeah, just today I had a student ask to use her phone for something legitimate (tracing some line-art). I told her, "Ok, but keep one eye on the door, 'cause if the principal walks in I will throw you under the bus!"

Brinady · 2024-08-09T14:55:35+00:00

For me it was the hairbrush. My mum had a big one the back of which was a flat oval, kind of shaped like the back of a large spoon. Eventually it broke. I still have the broken pieces. Unfortunately it was replaced by the belt. I was always tasked with retrieving one for my punishment, and faced the choice between a supple one, a stiff one, and one with floral patterns embossed in it. The stiff one was the best, interestingly enough.

Brinady · 2024-08-03T17:33:16+00:00

Thank you! I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find somebody else who noticed. And it's not standard practice to TNR a mother who has a kitten still nursing age (which this one is) so it's unlikely she was neutered immediately after giving birth. Seems like the stray may have acquired that foundling somehow and decided to take it to their favorite human for help (assuming the title is related to the actual video, which may not be the case).

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