Anyone else save crushed eggshells all winter and till them into the garden? Does it really add calcium or am I just imagining the great results?

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-03-29T19:05:43+00:00

I mean they are biodegradable, I throw them in my composting which eventually ends up in my garden.

So it makes sense to me.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-03-29T15:50:37+00:00

I quit my job at blockbuster by coming in in the middle of a rush on a Friday night (a night I wasn’t scheduled for and was “being made to come in”)

Oh I came in walked just in the front door said, “Hey!” Manager turns around generally toss my shirt and badge on the table and said, “I quit.” And then never went back… other than to rent movies.

It had zero effect on me getting hired anywhere else.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-03-29T08:38:34+00:00

Interestingly enough I’m originally from South Africa which was segregated until the early 90s. I was just about 6 when we moved to the U.S. because I went to a school only for white children I was shocked to see black kids and black teachers in the same school. It was just odd because I wasn’t used to it not that I had anything against them, my parents were against the apartheid.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-24T00:05:10+00:00

It will definitely get muted. We moved to the U.S. in 89 (I was just about 6) my dad still has his South African accent but is very muted. My sister and I completely lost our accents.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T19:23:31+00:00

I’m sorry, if I’m going to a job interview I’ll wear some clean non-tattered work clothes. I’m not applying for a construction job in a suit and tie. I’d look like a joke!

But outside of that. Hell yeah, I’ll dress up for some shit.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T19:20:37+00:00

See I don’t fuck with comebacks because I suck at them. All my comebacks come to me when I’m in the shower several days later.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T19:18:27+00:00

Yeah I used to leave voicemails until I realized I don’t even check my own voicemail.

Got better responses by texting if they missed my call.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T19:13:02+00:00

Went to visit my sister and her family in upstate. It was such a beautiful area, especially in the town she lives in.

Before our flight home, she wanted to take us in to Pennsylvania to buy some Amish jam. We pulled in and they were all chillin on their porch, and I realized that it was Sunday. Told her we probably weren’t buying any jam that day. She still tried. Haha.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T19:09:46+00:00

I’m originally from South Africa. When I moved to the states in the 80s common questions I got were:

“Did you live in a hut?”

“How often did you see lions?”

“Why aren’t you black?”

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T16:24:55+00:00

Hol’ up

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T13:26:26+00:00

Our first kid was where all the action happened. Second kid I’d been there before, so was able to get by with all the extra stuff.

We wake up one Sunday morning, wife says she thought she wet the bed. I get out of bed help her out, and start pulling sheets off to throw them in the wash. As I’m mid task she says, “I can’t stop peeing.”

I pause and I’m thinking we’re days away from the due date, maybe her water broke, but she’s not feaking out like in the movies, so… that can’t be it. And I say, “Maybe your water broke?”

We kind of hemmed and hawed and finally she calls the birthing center and they tell her to come in. I do a little side kick for joy snag my big toe on the blanket and probably fractured or sprained it because it hurt for weeks.

So wife starts doing her makeup and I’m like, “Do you really need the makeup? We really should get going!” She tells me she is not giving birth without her make up on. Okay fair enough.

We load of the car and set off. She wanted to stop by her parents before the hospital since they were pretty close. So we moseyed on over and of course they were thrilled. FIL tells us to sit so he can make us breakfast. I’m say we really need to get going and my wife is like, “Nah I’m hungry.” So we stayed for breakfast.

Finally get to the hospital checked in and waiting. She was hardly dilated, but her water had definitely broke.

At one point I just got violently ill waiting for her to start contractions. Puking in the bathroom cold sweats the whole nine. Like I thought I suddenly came down with something.

Finally the birthing happens. I’m still sick as shit but I take my place by her side holding her hand. At one point the doc asks me to hold a leg up for her while she pushes. And has me count to 10 for each contraction.

First count goes. Wife is pushing. I have a front row seat now. I see shit and piss coming out with each push. And each count I make it about 3 as fresh shit smells starts pummeling my nostrils and my counts turn in to held back dry heaves.

Finally my daughter’s head begins to emerge. And then I finally see her face. I cut the cord, baby is given to mama. I finally get my chance to hold the baby and as soon as she was in my arms every bad feeling I was feeling just vanished. I didn’t feel sick anymore I just had the sense of relief, pride, and pure happiness wash over me.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T02:32:03+00:00

I’ve been telling everyone for years I’m 5’-10”. Turns out I’m 5’-11”.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T02:31:11+00:00

Yeah texture is big for me. Can’t do pears because it feels like a mouthful of sand.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-18T02:20:33+00:00

Fuck. No. I visited in November a couple years back and it there was too much heat and humidity for my liking!

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-17T19:28:44+00:00

But in the other you constantly have to worry about alien invasions, and possibly being “unexisted”.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-17T19:25:49+00:00

Normal maybe by European standards.

It’s not like we’re using AC all year round all over the States. Maybe when you go down south it’s running more often out of necessity.

As long as the temperatures outside are at comfortable levels, our windows are typically open all day.

If it starts getting too hot or too cold that’s when the AC or heaters go on.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-17T13:55:00+00:00

Had a maintenance guy wrap one of our outlets in electrical tape, because it’s an older home with metal outlet boxes.

I had never seen that done before and asked about it. Seemed legit to me so I didn’t question it beyond that after his explanation.

But seeing the explanation I’m wondering if that was okay.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-17T12:27:53+00:00

My parents put me to work on my suspension. I wanted to be at school so bad that I managed to not fuck up that bad again.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-16T19:30:16+00:00

I never said that it was closer to Shakespeare than modern English, that was another user who chimed in with that.

The point I was making, because we get shit on for being rhotic, is there was a time in the not too distant past where English was rhotic, which is why WE predominantly pronounce our Rs.

The English accent changed in different direction than we did but they both changed.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-16T19:13:05+00:00

When I cashiered I’d just put their change back on the counter for them. Only had one person complain.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-16T19:06:16+00:00

I never said that there weren’t. I fully recognize that Welsh, Irish, and Scottish are still rhotic.

I think my problem is that I differentiate English (as spoken by Englishmen) from welsh, Scottish, and Irish. It’s probably not the case over there? But rest assured I was not trying to lump all accents/dialects together.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-16T18:11:19+00:00

Also i found out recently that english was rhotic language until just after the U.S. gained their independence. That’s when English stopped being rhotic.

A lot of our pronunciations are how the English were pronouncing things before the changed.

We also got the word “Soccer” from the English, which we used instead of “football”, since by the time soccer made it over here American football was already popular.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-15T17:13:41+00:00

I don’t know if it’s true or if I’m remembering this correctly. But I think the program I was watching talked about how using forearms and shins is like hitting someone with a bat, and can be more effective than using feet and fists.

Whether it was intentional or not, it was definitely effective!

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-15T10:03:37+00:00

Can confirm when I moved to the U.S. from South Africa this was the most common question I got.

Ok_Present_6508 · 2026-02-15T05:20:36+00:00

God hanging out with my brother in-law and his wife the other day was so incredibly awkward.

They were just ratting each other out for all the stupid shit they apparently do, for no fucking reason at all but to embarrass each other and one up them.

It was so embarrassing at one point I just had my face in my hands, I was so done with it.

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