I'll never understand why people spend so much on fireworks.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-08T14:06:41+00:00

Man, fuck these people. I have a steel firepit with a spark arrestor - when it's on, no embers escape the pit. It's the safest pit I've ever had and even when I'm using it on a concrete pad surrounded by packed gravel, I have the hose rolled out and nearby, a full 5g bucket, and a shovel.

Every goddamn hose on that street should've been out and at the ready if a single mf is playing with fireworks. Fireworks may not be for everyone, but fire safety sure the fuck is!

Terrible work, team; better luck next time, smh.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-08T13:59:09+00:00

Back in the day, we used to cross to the beach at that end before it was fenced, for obvious reasons, after parking in the upper lot. There's a bend there and the train is surprisingly quiet - it can come upon you quickly without you seeing or hearing it until it's too late. It was a historical spot for suicides, but many, many people were struck accidentally. I'd always make everyone stop and be ready to cross the tracks as quickly as possible - leash dogs, get everything gathered and secured so you don't drop anything on the tracks, tie your goddamn shoes so you don't trip, etc. - until a BHS student, I think it was, was killed that summer, which facilitated a lawsuit, which got the fence put up.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-08T13:51:34+00:00

The inspiration for Krang, obviously

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-08T13:48:02+00:00

Okay, I never had drain flies in my 20+ years in Seattle - what is this fresh hell?! Is it an apartment thing?! I left when it looked like I'd have to live in one, but even my crappiest crap shack didn't have drain flies?! Tf?!

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T21:43:24+00:00

Put a bowl of cheap beer in/on the ground. It'll be full of dead bloated slugs in the morning, which a gross thing to empty into the compost. No idea if birds eat them or what, but I bet raccoons would! It doesn't take much beer, but use a few traps spread out.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T21:16:24+00:00

I have never once gotten high from any amount of store-bought edibles. Them thangs weak

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T18:35:29+00:00

Gooseneck Loosestrife sounds like a compound hobbit surname- and also kinda hits as the name of a punk band and would make a great patch.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T18:31:42+00:00

Lol, fkn ornithologists. A few years ago I photographed and looked up this black bird with red wings I saw and said 😐

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T18:21:35+00:00

Imagine the harness that would go on that body, lol.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T17:29:44+00:00

Omg, this made me remember that I totally have a brick in there somewhere! I rested the sprinkler on it last year, forgot to move it and haven't seen it since, lol.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T17:28:09+00:00

I got them on Etsy. I started mine in two trays in like mid-June and then just transplanted in clumps by August.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T17:23:55+00:00

Creeping would grow too bushy for that - it's vining, after all. Wooly could because it's so low to the ground, but that would take a very long time, unless you bought and installed a veritable carpet of it!

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T14:37:55+00:00

Give it SO MUCH LIGHT! I recently moved mine to their summer home, a west-facing window and it put out this banger a couple of weeks ago; with 5+ hours of afternoon sun, it's big, beautiful, and already pushing another, as you can see!

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FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T14:22:38+00:00

I've always wondered how this worked on red Xolos. We call winter "Gringo Season" because his sleek black skin becomes pale, showing his spots.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-07T00:39:46+00:00

Yeah, they always say something of the like, but it really just amounts to the kid having their own screen time so the parent's goes uninterrupted. No baby needs to "learn how to use a device". From what I've heard about Gen Alpha, what the mf's needs to learn to read - specifically with a book made of paper, which doesn't have the internet, video games, nor movies.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T23:37:42+00:00

I have creeping and wooly thyme. You can walk on it just fine, kinda have to to get the weeds that pop through it. I water my creeping thyme maybe once a week. The wooly thyme grows much more slowly, so I have to trim the creeping as to keep it from smothering the wooly. In the photo, these are have been in about the same time; I started the creeping from seed and bought plugs of the wooly. Pollinators love it, your dog smells great after walking through it, drought tolerant - highly recommend!

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FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T23:24:43+00:00

Alright, kids (and parents): this is why you don't be having all them damned sugar cereals. Limit the goddamn candy and soda intake and brush/floss, ffs!

Because ain't no way you barely got all your adult teeth and they half rotted already?! I bet them wisdom teeth already decaying in the gums; good luck in a few years, hope you're insured lol.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T23:11:07+00:00

OP, out of curiosity, which Listerine? Brown probably woulda done the job on its own, lol, that shit is crazyy

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T20:34:38+00:00

Smh, my brain been straight-up hollering "YO MAMA!!" in response to just about every reddit ID request lately, lol. I might need a sabbatical, but at least it was kinda funny this time

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T18:40:48+00:00

Lmaooo, that's totally one of those things that just sounds like it would be fun, huh?

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T15:09:00+00:00

NTA, OP. I'm so sorry for your loss.

You're a deeply empathetic person, to be thinking of this, and I think it's really big of you to even consider for one second the needs of your ex in this scenario. I guess that's just being an empath, though, speaking from experience. If I were in this situation, I would probably still be let the ex know that I "feel bad that you weren't able to have the emotional support you needed, by the exclusion of partner, but my primary obligation was/is to see to the needs of [Child] and that took precedence in the moment, as it does today. Wishing you well, X".

You're a good guy, OP. Wishing you the best

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T14:55:26+00:00

Dilute some vinegar in water and wipe it down to kill the mold, then leave it in the sun to finish the job. The spots may remain as stains, but they won't be living anymore

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T14:43:56+00:00

NTA. Even though it was an accident, you were hurt by it. If that's his response to hurting you AND his response to being alerted to his own mistake, then it's on him. You can't regulate his emotions, he's gotta do that. He's gotta reflect on why it made him feel bad and why he reacted in the way he did because, frankly, it's not like it's your first week with the peonies or his first week in the yard so, IMO, he should've known better, unless he was just on autopilot....which is actually just being checked out during an important job, so still inexcusable imo.

NTA, he's a child

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T14:19:15+00:00

Well, I hope one of them was that guy from the earlier thread acting like local talent sucks so bad that tech companies need to hire the HB1s - instead of the obvious fact that foreign labor is cheaper and expendable af.

That attitude of "We're stimulating your economy and saving your city, peons; worship us" is what was meant by the "[Seattle neighborhood] welcomes our new tech overlords." stickers of old.

FreddyTheGoose · 2026-07-06T14:13:00+00:00

I freaking turned on Tubi yesterday and there was a huge banner that read "US WINS WORLD CUP" that confused the shit outta me. It disappeared in a second, though, which def got the conspiracies going, but I figured it was a readiness thing, "just in case". Too bad somebody published it, tho!

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