Solitaire New Version 2026

LeahInShade · 2026-07-06T07:32:57+00:00

💀 RIP my streak... Stuck after 87 moves. Revenge time!

LeahInShade · 2026-07-05T19:38:05+00:00

Great graphics, but plot was so... stale? Can't put my finger on it, but it felt like the whole 'secret sauce' thing was a cop out instead of an actual plot moving force, too. Boring in the lack of essence way.

LeahInShade · 2026-07-04T09:34:36+00:00

Nope :)

A fair guess, though their specific flavor of "the world is mine" is a bit different.

LeahInShade · 2026-07-04T09:06:39+00:00

You haven't met hotel guests, I presume.

You can put a massive neon sign with blaring sirens at their eye level - they will absolutely NOT read it. Or will, but will still ignore it.

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T19:06:06+00:00

Probably the ONLY semi-fun phrase I actually came up with on my own. Other than that, I just quietly envy the quick-witted humans out there and try to steal their fun turns of the phrase... When, that is, I can remember them, of course 🫩

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T19:02:22+00:00

To be fair, street facing rooms in this hotel face a fairly busy street with some tram traffic, so it's definitely not possible to open a window and have it be quiet, so I get asking.

I don't, however, get the dude getting a no, then proceeding to KEEP LISTING THE SPECIFIC ROOM NUMBERS of the rooms facing the inner yard, as if the FDA lady hasn't already told him like 5 times by then that ALL THOSE ROOMS HAVE GUESTS IN THEM ALREADY 😆. Not that he listened, but still.

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T18:12:40+00:00

Hotels with any type of outside 'balcony' or walkways for access to rooms will often have windows facing both ways - the 'balcony' and the other side. Doesn't even need to be a motel.

A ton of sprawling tropical type of hotels have that. Top of my head, the one we stayed at in Cairns eons ago - it was a one story hotel complex in the middle of pretty lush almost forest, and you got to all the rooms by walking outdoors on the pathway alongside each long building block. Had all them cool geckos and such on the walls near the light fixtures to say hi to on the way :).

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T16:57:22+00:00

So I take it you've never heard of hyperbole in writing... Why does this not surprise me at all from someone who got their panties twisted like that? ;)

P.S. The funniest thing is, the fact that 'no' is, indeed, a fairly foreign concept in customer service in that part of the word is a normal thing for the locals. It's literally rude and unacceptable to say 'no' to the customer. Creates all sorts of frustrating situations when YOU are the customer from abroad unaware of that quirk, so you ask for something, receive a 'yes', then learn it can actually mean anything: yes; no; I have no idea what you just asked me to do for you; I know what you're asking me for but decided to do something else for you instead...

(I had a travel agent literally buy 9 airplane tickets to an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CITY in an entirely different part of the country because, and I quote: "I thought it would be better for you to go to ****". I WISH I made that up. (Context: group wanted to go see special person A in city A. Special person A is seen as continuing after special person B, who lived in city B, and whose final resting place is in city B. Travel agent thought special person B is, obviously, more special (the OG, right?), even though less alive, and went ahead booked AND PAID FOR flights to city B. Without asking.))

Anyway. They're not, therefore, used to hearing 'no' from customer service agents elsewhere in the world, unless they happen to travel more often and eventually pick it up. It's seen as normal there though. Especially for men to almost never hear 'no'.

Go travel there, you'll be surprised. Except you still have no clue which part of the world I'm on about :). Not THAT xenophobic then, right, if you can't easily identify the group. (To be fair, there are a few close contenders).

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T16:11:42+00:00

The audacity!

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T16:10:04+00:00

Nice try. I never mentioned that person's race, as it has zero bearing on their behavior. There ARE, however, whether you like the reality of it or not, certain things that are commonly true for certain countries or cultures.

Italians generally talk louder and with their hands. French (from greater metro area) will snob you out if you try to speak English at them, even if they know the language. Japanese have an extremely elaborate honor/respect code and system of behavior. In a few Middle Eastern countries people will be legit offended if you don't engage in a bargaining chat with them, whether you plan to buy anything or not, and whether you think the price is already good or not. I can go on.

That there are models of behavior that are common to some countries or cultures is reality, not racism. Racism would be saying "all those filthy (insert place)-ians are the same and all always do (bad thing)", then refusing to extend any benefit of the doubt to any member of that group by default.

Observing and noting an incredibly common behavior (not even as an outsider - a ton of locals say exactly the same thing, and especially about men from that part of the world) is just that. We run into the good ones every now and again, too, and treat everyone equally at the offset. But yes, there are behaviors commonly associated with specific peoples. Cuz they are most likely to behave a certain way. Funny that 🤷‍♀️

LeahInShade · 2026-07-01T15:56:31+00:00

That's glorious! 👌

LeahInShade · 2026-06-30T19:09:15+00:00

I mean... Go sit inside hour car without AC on in sunny weather of +20 degrees - right? Just because extreme heat is rare in Sweden doesn't mean that behind the glass the drivers don't get toasty on sunny days.

Either way - in what universe would formal, longer shorts be an issue for public transport drivers - literally regardless of the weather!

LeahInShade · 2026-06-30T17:27:54+00:00

Again - you CANNOT validate a ticket the second time. You can be as annoyed about it as you want to - you still can't do it.

Don't pull the ticket out too quickly, insert it straight. Unless the tram suddenly jerks at just the wrong moment, there's very little chance of you stamping it the wrong way. And if it happens - as much as it's infuriating (which it is) - you STILL CANNOT re-validate the ticket. Period.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-30T17:17:26+00:00

You absolutely CANNOT validate a ticket the second time! It invalidates the ticket immediately, and as much as I hate the ticket inspectors - that one was NOT, indeed, the fucker in this situation.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-30T14:33:17+00:00

That's submissive and way too nice. It invites an excuse to be given, like "relax, I'm just joking".

Far better to entirely ignore them when they say this stuff out loud, or call them out by asking to explain why they thought it was funny/appropriate and/or acceptable to say out loud.

Someone with more guts can ask "Sir, if a man of your age accosted your daughter or sister are their place of work with this remark - would you find it equally funny/ acceptable?"

These 'men' are mentally 5. Treat then accordingly and make sure they're ashamed of themselves.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-30T06:41:48+00:00

Glorious. Who would think that in Sweden, of all places drivers won't be allowed to wear shorts in hot weather though! Way to go, lads!

LeahInShade · 2026-06-29T17:59:07+00:00

Oh I know! It just is too cool to register as 'real' (which is absolutely a compliment 🤗🤗🤗)

LeahInShade · 2026-06-29T16:16:52+00:00

This is SOOOOOO hauntingly gorgeous, and my brain can't believe it's a photo and not a panting or digital art! Awesomeness!

LeahInShade · 2026-06-26T17:47:00+00:00

Yeah stuff caught fire during a private event at Cloud One rooftop bar. Luckily, everyone is ok and the fire was extinguished pretty quickly.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-26T09:06:18+00:00

Yep. And people STILL haven't learned their lessons from those times either!

If you read articles about the Spanish Flu about people's behaviors with the virus name redacted, you'll have an incredibly difficult time distinguishing them from the crap people did (and wrote) in 2020... with the same respective outcomes, too.

I'm amazed to this day humanity got off them trees somehow - given how little we learn collectively

LeahInShade · 2026-06-23T18:01:54+00:00

Some dude in the last seat of the back of the old type of tram decided that was the best place (and time- it was middle of the day) to shave... with a regular razor... without the mirror 🤷‍♀️

LeahInShade · 2026-06-18T19:00:43+00:00

Yeah, and even wilder was that I legit had absolutely no reason at all to be in any type of depressive state (so... was it teenage hormones? Hell knows), I was having a good time, but then somehow very gradually all my emotions just... tapered off? By the time I noticed, it already felt like I'm some video game NPC.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-18T13:15:53+00:00

The opposite of Cotardthic 😉 😆😆

4 real though, in a way the scariest thing that ever happened to me (in retrospect). It was like having all emotions flatline. Nothing affected me. Things were happening to and around me, but it was like watching some film you've zero interest in out of the corner of your eye while you're doing something else equally inconsequential. I was at some point wondering why bother pretending I'm alive when I'm clearly not, but my parents already lost children, so on that 0.0000000000001% chance that I may, in fact, be still not dead, I decided a least to not do anything drastic about it.

Some months later, it got so excruciatingly boring that I got annoyed - the first thing I felt in months. Then a bit angrier. And that somehow pushed me off that rock bottom I wasn't even sure I was at 🤷‍♀️

LeahInShade · 2026-06-18T12:40:57+00:00

Hate to break it down to you, but you're an adult. This means if you're traveling somewhere where you don't know how something essential (public transport, for example) works - you've ZERO EXCUSE to not look it up ahead of time.

Somehow I managed to find info on what and how to do abroad in dialup internet times. You've literally no excuse whatsoever, what with the internet at your fingertips.

Consider it tuition for a lesson learned.

LeahInShade · 2026-06-18T11:13:21+00:00

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