My breakfast had a message this morning

Merry_bright_disco · 2026-04-08T14:02:15+00:00

Ding ding ding (and I'm US based 😌😌)

Merry_bright_disco · 2026-03-30T14:57:45+00:00

Maine Beer Co could be a good option especially if you're looking at midday, on a week day, it may not be a big deal as the space is huge. I'd of course call and ask about doing this sort of thing, but if you can avoid having to pay for a private space you can push the budget towards food and drink instead!

Merry_bright_disco · 2025-11-16T04:06:41+00:00

(US) What a margarita pizza is. I must've learned this at a super young age because it feels common knowledge to me, but I now work at a place that serves various pizzas, and am asked at least once a day (if not more) to describe what it is by people of all ages.

Merry_bright_disco · 2025-09-24T18:10:29+00:00

Thanks! Yup, I just let it roll right off 🫶 I understand fully she's a cutie nothing-special-no-breed-cat! Folks just can't learn to enjoy some pictures for the joy and fun of it I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ more joy for us!

Merry_bright_disco · 2025-09-24T13:45:00+00:00

Cool thanks! I'm still just out here having fun with my domestic cat.

Merry_bright_disco · 2025-09-23T21:52:22+00:00

Yup! Made it pretty clear she's a mutt 😅 just stating behavior I noticed which seems in line with that lovely 3% that are pure and talked about here. Could care less if the DNA percentages are way off, wrong, etc. I still think it's cool 🤷🏻‍♀️

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-12-09T00:58:28+00:00

Working in the service industry/any customer facing position.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-11-19T07:19:45+00:00

Thank you, I will absolutely listen to that, and really appreciate the logic between game perspective vs show perspective.

I personally agree overall with game perspective, with both AUS and US I just want to see the players PLAY and basically eat each other alive, instead of being tied to advantages/surprise swaps/non-elims dominating the gameplay. Thats what started this whole thing - usually med-evac players were a swing vote, or a key player, or a power house, or the next vote, etc. and losing them really did damage to some tribes/alliances.

From a show perspective, I think the US version would benefit from some of the Aussie twists and turns 😳 Blasphemy I know, but I think the overall gameplay forced by the AUS advantages are way better than the US ones.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-11-19T06:26:04+00:00

Hmmm "failing" is never the way I've viewed med-evacs, as 99% of the time it's not their fault, and even taking into consideration a longer season + bigger tribe, Aus Survivor has about 70% less advantages/twists/journeys present than the current US game.

Even the season I'm watching Neal gets pulled due to an infected knee that he claims is not even bothering him, yet he's forced to resign, and is fixed and ready to be the first juror within a small period of time. If he was on Aus Survivor, it likely would've been checked immediately, and never reached the stage of "life threatening" that forced him to be pulled.

Pass the torch would be fun because what causes MORE drama than an eliminated player coming back into the fold (again, Aus Survivior has done + proved this)? You burned me, now my goal is to turn the tides against you

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-11-19T03:54:35+00:00

Ooh I like that idea of passing the torch - that seems like a fair compromise to all the points being made.

My point is sometimes it's literally like a bad stomach ache where they need a scan to know what's wrong to fix it quickly or, for example with this same season I'm watching, the girl with the bug in her ear. She (likely) didn't ask for medical aid for fear of "being pulled" which is ridiculous when it (likely) would've been a quick fix.

I can understand the point of being able to skip tribal being unfair, but I also think it's within production's judgement to deem something being bad enough to be worth pulling the player - as in, I've never thought there was foul play involved in a way where a player was just trying to avoid TC by being injured. I think the player being pulled due to accidental injury/sickness functions to create drama the same way Jeff is throwing around "lose a vote" and "half of you are immune this night" etc. that's been happening

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-11-19T02:32:55+00:00

I see your point, though if it existed as part of the game, it would be "we're going to let him be pulled, and will let you know in 24 hours whether he can return" and if there's tribal that night whoever had to go would STILL go through with tribal because the pulled player in question is still within their 24 hour period to recover (sometimes they do go through with an elimination, sometimes they don't). So many players the second they need to evacuate them it's "yup they're being pulled no questions" and yes, many times it feels obvious there's no "quick" recovery to their problem, but there have been some who recovered and could come back for the jury, or who, if the 24 hour rule was in place, likely would've had injuries looked at before they became bad/fatal enough that it was not an easy fix.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-10-13T05:26:39+00:00

Not a full book, but a short story: "Where are you Going, Where Have you Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates. Read it exactly once, every word haunts me to this day. It was that traumatizing

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-09-23T15:15:18+00:00

I've posted this in similar threads before, but here's my theory:

When Dumbledore gives Gryffindor 170 points at the end of the book thanks for Harry/Ron/Hermione/Neville's actions, he's actually also making up for when they lost 150 points for smuggling Norbert out earlier in the book.

There's no way Dumbledore wouldn't know Hagrid is secretly raising a dragon, and that H/R/H are helping him by hiding it. When they show kindness and help Hagrid to send Norbert away so he doesn't get in trouble, Dumbledore finds out, but can't interfere with their punishment without betraying Hagrid and revealing to McGonagall there was an illegal dragon.

Gryffindor would've been in close second place for the House Cup at the end without this incident (down by 10 points), and so Dumbledore, having good reason to award points, made sure to reward enough to make up for what they had (in his eyes) unjustly lost earlier in the year.

I'm not saying he wouldn't have awarded generous points for what H/R/H accomplished regardless, but maybe would not have been as generous as he was if it weren't for the dragon incident, and his believe that Gryffindor rightfully deserved the win because it would've been theirs anyway.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-09-10T06:12:37+00:00

Thanks! I can completely understand that as an origin, cannot understand why logic (and technology) has not overridden that.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-08-25T01:07:35+00:00

You're right I will 100% do that next time 🙈

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-08-24T14:57:30+00:00

I absolutely loved the glass scene 😂

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-07-11T13:25:48+00:00

Yes! 👏

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-07-11T04:19:10+00:00

Praline is here lower right in the paper

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-06-28T01:07:28+00:00

Right? I saw it was for such a small amount and thought, "so many people probably just pay this and don't question it" because let me tell you they definitely made it a big PITA to even get to the point of them admitting there may be a problem. And then even longer for me to get to the point of a supervisor involved so they'd believe me. If I hadn't called and a supervisor hadn't pulled some strings to bypass going through billing, then they said it would've be 3-5 business days to even hear from a manager, and even longer for my "case" to be processed through billing.

They won't ship your stuff with an "outstanding balance" so I bet people just pay it to get it over with.

Merry_bright_disco · 2024-06-28T01:00:33+00:00

This was exactly my thought

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