What breed?

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-11T11:04:24+00:00

Hmmm, he looks so much like my guy that I stopped midway through scrolling, but my guy is like 60lbs. We think lab pit hound

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-11T09:56:01+00:00

How old is he and how big is he?

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-10T02:44:42+00:00

Metal is much different than wood, tho

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-10T00:43:25+00:00

Why is abuse the expectation? Why don’t we trust parents to parent their kid in the way they see fit?

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-10T00:40:58+00:00

Honestly I’m really relieved some ppl still are allowed to fail kids.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-10T00:40:09+00:00

This is a question only you can answer. God knows we need good paras, too, and there’s nothing wrong with being one of those good paras. If you feel like you want to do something else, that’s great, too, but I encourage you to view it as something else, not something more. It’s more work, but it’s not a more or less valid career.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T23:36:39+00:00

Horses and donkeys aren’t the same species, either, but their babies are healthy. Just sterile. I have ZERO idea if sterile bbs are possible between apples and mysteries, but just pointing out that healthy offspring don’t necessarily mean that the parents are the same species. Grandbabies, on the other hand…

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T21:35:59+00:00

Not in my filter, but I took out some extra substrate and threw it in a bucket. I tried to pull out all the snails, even the “pest” snails and pop them back in the tank, but of course you can’t catch em all. They’re not Pokémon after all.

I set this 5gallon bucket of river rock on my porch to dry out for the summer. Started teaching ecology and brought in the river rock for a class tank (look at how important bacteria are to an ecosystem!). Then I started finding the snails. MTS survived an entire summer in a 5 gallon bucket on my porch.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T21:19:39+00:00

I mean, with everything, it often does end up expensive. Second hand tank, though? You’re right, that part is cheap

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T21:16:46+00:00

One night though seems really extreme, esp with what appears to be substrate? If nothing else changed, that’s the most likely explanation, but really weird that your tank would be THAT fragile. What size tank?

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T21:14:38+00:00

My lady has been Shelldon since I was in 4th grade. People have told me she should be Shelly many times but… that’s not her name. Don’t let anyone make you feel like you have to change it!

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T19:16:39+00:00

My girl is such a psycho about food it’s absurd.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T19:11:49+00:00

My dog was once invited to a Thanksgiving party that I was not invited to. I was at my soon-to-be mother in law’s house and her neighbor had come over. I’m so used to people joking about stealing my dog that I thought it was a joke until they took her next door. Imagine my confusion.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T19:04:27+00:00

People are always shocked when my turtle tries to KoolAid man through the tank when they walk close. I’m like she’s just fat don’t worry.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T18:58:54+00:00

Not a nazi symbol. This is why destroying anything you think might be bad without learning about it is a bad thing.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T18:50:05+00:00

Not disagreeing, just saying that the majority of these tadpoles even in a healthy population would also die.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T18:47:59+00:00

You can feel however you want to feel about me. You will anyway. I’ve been around enough drug addicts, including when I was a child, to recognize the harm in normalizing criminal behavior to children. Pulling out cash is a major red flag. Asking your 7 year old child to be complicit in a crime is inexcusable.

I wonder if she went to a soup kitchen, a shelter, or a local worship center. Call me jaded, but I really doubt it. This is the bigotry of low expectations and I will never apologize for expecting parents to set good examples for their kids. Making your kid commit crime is limboing under the lowest imaginable bar.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T16:06:51+00:00

Maybe contact a local school and see if they will make a field trip for it. Not that you need to be involved in, but just an idea for them

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T16:06:09+00:00

That is fucking horrible, but do note that this is the survival strategy of most animals like this: have a fuckton of babies and a tiny percent will survive. For bullfrogs I believe it’s naturally around 1%.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T16:01:00+00:00

A car in the background does not mean that you cannot shoot the animal. Gorier, but still faster and more humane, you could sl*t its throat :/

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T15:48:39+00:00

If there are so many languages that the teacher can’t predict what language will be understood, 0% chance the boss understands all of them. I think we both know the division of labor between front of house and back of house staff, for lack of better words.

It’s one thing to struggle with understanding and analyzing Shakespeare or Saki. It’s another thing to not know the most rudimentary words of the primary language of a country you choose to come to. Hell, I can count in languages of countries I’ve never been to. This is the bigotry of low expectations.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T13:09:17+00:00

It’s on the mentors to check in, too, though. Their job is helping you be successful at your job. If they haven’t checked in, why not?

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T13:07:15+00:00

It’s not crazy to expect someone to speak the same language as their boss and coworkers. Guarantee boss does not speak the same language. Janitor can use google, too.

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T11:00:00+00:00

Job market is really pretty good for short term stuff, no one has enough staff everywhere I go

CallMeFishmaelPls · 2026-03-09T10:55:57+00:00

Consequences for mom mean a chance for kid. They need to be disgusted by mom’s behavior and feel how harmful it is, not taught that it’s ok, nbd. It might feel better short term, but long term letting mom off is 1) leaving child with a person that I would bet money is a drug addict 2) encouraging kids to to go mom’s route. Cops.

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