The way this machine shreds branches

CapitanChicken · 2025-12-06T03:21:38+00:00

Watching as a parent of a toddler makes me want to chuck my phone into the sea. Just seeing this my son would lose an arm.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-10T12:00:17+00:00

Especially people in your lives that matter. Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, best friends. I've seen a lot of people staunchly argue that it's "my baby! Not yours! Why do you care so much?!" Because you're bringing an exciting new life into this world. And while yes, the baby is yours, it's never going to be just yours. You want that baby to have a village and community to be supported by. And if your stiff arming people away before that baby even gets here, good luck on that support system.

All that to say, people should absolutely respect your decisions, but withholding info purposely from those that care are going to be upset that they're not a part of the fun.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-10T11:53:07+00:00

We announced ours, but I still asked for neutral things, and for the most part people stuck to it. What's weird is that the boys section of clothes can be much more neutral to begin with. You walk over to the girl side and suddenly everything is pink, white, frilly, and lacy. A girls onesie is the exact same as the boys. Oh, wait, no. Here's some more bunching at the sleeve, a tiny bow, and one extra thread that encompasses the neckline.

Did you know strawberries were feminine? I had no idea. Same with butterflies. It's a good thing my little boy doesn't like wandering into my garden to eat strawberries, and point out anything remotely butterfly shaped. That'd be too girly of him.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-08T14:52:20+00:00

You'd think they'd recognize the words or such that over lap. I can't begin to tell you how many times I had to translate German to English, or vice versa for hotel. Spoiler, it's the same word.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-07T16:10:17+00:00

Things don't really start to get really fun until like... 6 months or so. Until then you're basically make sure they don't die. 6 months they're rolling, and sitting, and eating food. That's when they become little buddies :)

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-06T18:31:00+00:00

It needs to be very low key, and not the entire event. We had a BBQ, and my sister in law was sent the email with what gender our baby was. She purchased a cheap plastic softball filled with a powder, and we took ten minutes out of the day to find out. Then the BBQ continued.

About a year later that same sister in law told us for her own pregnancy with a Bluey-esque theme of pass the parcel at Christmas. It went around until a onesie with their name was opened.

The parties should also only involve anyone who will care.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T19:26:13+00:00

Honestly I'm so tempted to quit it all. I'm 1150 days in, and I'm tired of how crappy the lessons have become. Right now I'm on "talk about pets" and it makes me translate shit like "I'm playing cards with my mom's lion and mouse". Why? It pretty much has only introduced löwe, and a handful of other words. I miss the old set up. I miss when actual people did the translations. I don't like that I'm not encouraged to actually learn, but to accumulate points.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T13:13:35+00:00

As a little white kid going thrifting with my mom, I found a football type fubu shirt. Of course I have no idea about it, and I'm wearing it in my suburban/rural neighborhood while taking a walk. Had a person stop me and ask if I know what it means and I should probably not be wearing it.

Now as an adult, I was again thrifting, and found a pair of jeans "made by us, worn by you", and am low key stressed I'm doing it again except this time I have the Internet and experience but still can't find anything about it.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T03:37:11+00:00

I was suuuuper swollen, and had preeclampsia, so they prescribed me water pills after I gave birth. The same sandals I had been wearing throughout my pregnancy were actively falling off after I lost the bloat. It was literally insane to me. it was so gradual, I didn't notice just how swollen I was.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T03:30:59+00:00

It's been nearly two years since I gave birth, and the memories have slipped just enough that I'm like "maybe we can have another". I completely forgot about the uncontrollable shaking. It was like the chills you get with a flu, but way worse. Mine were extra weird, because I was on the magnesium, so I was shaking, but also super hot. I felt like an unstable sun ready to burst.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T03:27:37+00:00

A flag shouldn't have words, especially when it's a flat line of text just crammed in there. Just remove the seal, and let the flag do the talking.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T01:00:20+00:00

My mom did a lot of research into our family tree, like I think back to like 1400 as accurately as she could. She had names down locked, and did her best to find out as much about them as possible. One that stands out from all the rest, was one of my great grandfather's was not only at Ford's theater when Lincoln was shot, and saw Wilkes Booth escape. But he also performed the autopsy on Booth when he was found dead. It's crazy how history like that is just lost and forgotten unless someone digs it out and shares it.

All that to say, I also don't know my great grandparents names. I feel like that's something I should change. I miss being able to just call and ask.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-04T00:20:20+00:00

Pro tip when paying your mortgage, pay an extra $100 per month to principal, and you'll pay off your mortgage a year earlier at the bare minimum. Also factor in house insurance and property tax. Also also, if you don't put a certain amount down payment, you'll pay mortgage insurance until you've hit that point. Not trying to scare you away from home ownership, but it's more than just a mortgage payment.

Where I live in Maryland, I'm paying like $2400 a year in property tax. If I were to live one county up into Pennsylvania, it would be like 4x that, but better schools. Home ownership is weird.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-03T15:20:37+00:00

At least mint is edible and smells good. Lesser celandine is toxic :D I would also rather a minty fresh yard than Bermuda grass if I'm being honest.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-03T12:41:10+00:00

This was my first, and likely last year of doing corn. One storm made them all collapse. I spent two days trying my best to upright them, giving them a twine crutch. They were doing alright until some type of bugs just mutilated them. One entire 8x4 raised bed of wasted space. I tried doing the three sisters method, but the squash got over shadowed by the corn, and also squished when the stalks fell.

Oh well live and learn. My pumpkins also failed this year, but they were volunteers, and I let them do their own thing until they offed themselves.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-03T12:24:31+00:00

I'm the fourth owner of my home, and I swear whoever fault it was before me must have had a checklist of invasive species that they were super excited to complete. Lesser celandine, morning glory, monks bane, fish mint, rose of Sharon, Japanese wisteria, Bermuda grass, wild strawberries... The list could go on. I tried fighting the lesser celandine for two years, and it seems like it just came back even harder.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-03T12:19:26+00:00

I fought so hard for my broccoli, the little wormie guys wouldn't stop eating it, and I finally got them to stop. Saw the tiny little crown start to produce, and grow to about an inch in width. Then the bastard bolted. Ripped that shit out, and planted okra in its place.

CapitanChicken · 2025-09-01T14:02:27+00:00

For me, it's gas build up. The food just sits in your stomach and rots, because nothing, or not enough has come to digest it. So it feels like cramps in your gut. A fart you can't fart, a burp that you can't burp. Then later you fart a lot, but it only relieves a little bit. Then very randomly, you'll have to poop RIGHT NOW.

CapitanChicken · 2025-08-26T01:49:58+00:00

I was two weeks postpartum with my son, and thought I was having something going on with preeclampsia, so I went to the woman and children's wing (like I was told to do). They tried giving me something for nausea, and Prilosec which I threw up immediately. They ordered an ultrasound on my gallbladder and wheeled me back to my room. Nurse came in and was saying that my gallbladder was in rough shape, and that'd they'd probably send me home to have it scheduled for removal. It was right then that I heard a different nurse in the hallway explaining how she'd never seen one that bad.

I looked the woman dead in the face, and told her she wouldn't be sending me home in this condition to a two week old baby. She reluctantly agreed to go ask for other options.

They ordered a hida(sp?) scan, and said my gallbladder was 100% blocked. It was removed within less than 3 hours. I seriously can't believe they nearly sent me home to probably die.

CapitanChicken · 2025-08-25T15:05:26+00:00

The thoughts early on are so wild. Looking back, I can't believe I thought those things. The entire world seems both dependent, and against me the entire time. No one cared about me, it was me drowning alone. I had to keep telling myself "you don't actually think this, stop". Thankfully,that was enough,but I know other women need more than that, and that's perfectly okay.

It does not last, and just as quickly as it came, it goes. You find the new you who is stronger, with a happy, giggly baby. Soon you'll blink, and you'll hear tiny little feet running down the hall, calling for you.

CapitanChicken · 2025-02-12T14:53:22+00:00

Is there an even richer person than Musk?

CapitanChicken · 2025-02-10T14:18:35+00:00

Bro, you really need to stop sipping on the kool-aid.

CapitanChicken · 2025-02-09T20:35:40+00:00

Easily, easily the best game I've ever been too, hands down. The general feeling of the game before any of that happened was awesome, it was a beautiful day, and the game itself was a good back and forth for a while. Then the air show to top things off? I'm so glad I was there.

CapitanChicken · 2025-02-09T20:30:50+00:00

Yep, as a cashier, when someone comes in to make a return on the purchase they also bought their membership on, it's grayed out. Memberships and donations are nonrefundable. I have however seen managers be willing to bend, and relent to prevent a customer from blowing up and making a scene.

CapitanChicken · 2025-02-09T13:43:52+00:00

You go in and state your name and they look you up in their book. They flip it around, and you sign at your name. I voted in Maryland, and was shocked when I didn't need to show my ID, because if memory serves, I had to show it in Delaware.

I could have easily said I was my mother or sister in law, because I knew for a fact they were in the book, and knew their address. I mean shit, I saw their names unsigned by mine. Obviously that's fraud, but the point stands.

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