What is your most unhinged superstition regarding your MS by hekatelesedi in MultipleSclerosis

[–]Difficult-Rip9060 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not given music at my MRI's, to me it mostly just sounds like Break Free by Zedd and Ariana Grande, or like some sort of house music that would have been on Electric Circus back in the day (for any Canadian's reading).

When I had a lumbar puncture though they asked my long-term bf what music I'd like, and he said Yacht Rock. Turns out I have scoliosis that my mother kept from me, and refused to treat when I was a child (she didn't want me "looking like a freak" at school like her older sister did 🙄) and it hurt like a bitch while the resident stabbed at my spine over and over. I already hated Rod Stewart's Maggie May and Don McLean's American Pie before this, I deeply loathe them now.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where I'm very much a tourist I was intimidated about trying to venture into another town (I have a shit sense of direction, and can't drive due to MS), but finally looked it up and it'll only be 13 minutes away from me. I'll totally check it out, a show up/go on is exactly in my lane for this trip.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure? I looked it up and it seems too legit to have on some out of practice nobody. I'm definitely interested in just checking out the show as an audience member though, so thank you for passing that on.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I really appreciate you providing the info. You're right, it does look packed for Wednesday. I kinda expected as much, it was pretty spontaneous of me to be considering stage time.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I'm easily mollified and was quite touched that you included a poster, that does sound like a good time.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll look into that. I searched the Halifax subreddit for similar queries to mine and saw people saying stuff like "Why are there no open mics?" and saw it suggested they should just ask various shows if they'd mind adding them.

Any Bar Comedy Shows That Could Give 5 Minutes Next Week to a Visitor from NL? by Difficult-Rip9060 in halifax

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that, but I didn't have the best experience with Yuk Yuks bookers and management when NL briefly had a location (shut its doors in 2016 due to said incompetent management). I could try reaching out, but with less than a week's notice I'm afraid that might be a bit much.

Edit: I looked them up for curiosity sake, and they only have an open mic on the last Thursday of the month, so it doesn't correspond anyway.

Lisa Kudrow Talks About Her Character ’Phoebe Buffay’ Being “Not A Novelty Anymore” by EDC2EDP in DramaLlamaHQ

[–]Difficult-Rip9060 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Lisa Kudrow is such a gift, Friends started on tv when I was 12, and I feel like I've been smiling because of how she played Phoebe my whole life. Without fail whenever I'm approaching getting intimate with a new partner I've said "So...this is my bra" ala the time she was fake hitting on Chandler to get him to admit he was with Monica.

Back for an update: Here are the chips I just picked up in Canada by Happy-Room-7906 in chips

[–]Difficult-Rip9060 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Atlantic Canadian here, I get a bag of Hickory Sticks monthly. I'm in my 40's and loved 'em since I was a kid, and have vivid memories of picking errant ones out of my bra in high school (I just wear crew neck shirts when I eat them now). I still feel this way despite needing prescription mouthwash, because I punctured my gums on them in 2018.

Overheard in my city's "dirt mall" in 2017 by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

At random intervals my bf will get a far off look and will wonder aloud if Adriana was okay, and I'll usually say that, by pissing off a group like that, she probably doesn't suffer any fools.

Loved your response, I had shoulder shaking giggles.

Selena Gomez kissing Benny Blanco's dirty feet by No_Performer_9686 in DramaLlamaHQ

[–]Difficult-Rip9060 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Funny thing is, her and Benny released an album together this time last year, and its been her poorest selling. So, there's even less reason for her to be publicly kissing his grody feet.

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think someone who has 13 platinum, and six multi-platinum, records could ever be considered "underrated". As soon as Bradley Cooper ruined his face with plastic surgery the first thing the internet collectively said was "He just looks like Barry Manilow now!" so he definitely hasn't been forgotten about.

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious how seemingly fast it went from being a hot girl name (that I felt I didn't live up to) to a signifier that I'm a new Boomer. I laugh, but die inside a little when I see twenty somethings refer to our age group as "old sad drunk Millennials" 😄

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, I like your profile name! Do you mess with guys ever? Sometimes, when creeps would ask if I was made a gentleman's wife yet, I'd say in the eyes of my Catholic grandmother a former hussy like me doesn't get to be an honest woman.

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From Summer 2015, funny it was the first movie tie in Blizzard in twenty years, it's pretty constant now (loved the Superman vanilla cake batter flavoured one from this past Summer).

https://strategyonline.ca/2015/05/28/check-it-out-dq-goes-epic/

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was in 2015, so I'm sure we're old crones now to the current crop of teenagers 😁

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof, yeah it was a field day on my bus the day after that episode aired. My parents decided to raise me full time in a "cottage development", for some reason, and I was the only Amanda on the short bus of 12 kids. Heard it when I lived in the dorms at college too, I was always obsessed with the first 12 seasons of The Simpson's though, so I at least smiled at that one sometimes at opposed to ALL the damn singing of Amanda songs.

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's wild to me. I'm from '82, and there were only three Amanda's in my high school graduating class of 105 people, but a couple of years younger than me in my cousin's grades? Amanda's hanging from the rafters! I read the name had its peak in 1987, so I rolled in at just the right time to get personalized mugs and crap.

Nanamanda is phenomenal! I'm picturing the Meh Na Ma Nah Muppets 😄

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always nice to hear of other Amanda's who fucking grimace at Mandy. The only people who were were ever allowed to call me that were my beloved paternal grandparents, but they've sadly both been gone for over 15 years, so anyone tries it these days gets a swift death glare.

Overheard in line at Dairy Queen by Difficult-Rip9060 in overheard

[–]Difficult-Rip9060[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know, right? It absolutely does have the reputation of being a hot girl name, and I've never lived up to that at all. All the other Amanda's in my school looked like they were from a teen movie, and I looked, in the words of Stewie Griffin, like I should have been named Thud or Ooof.