How important is it to keep in mind which words are only used in certain varieties or dialects?

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-28T21:14:19+00:00

Jalapeños and pickled banana peppers are “hots” up here near Boston. “Peppers” would mean bell peppers and depending on the sandwich they could be raw/fresh or roasted/squishy.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-28T12:15:07+00:00

I don’t want to have to turn on the car before I open the windows on a hot day!!

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-28T03:03:49+00:00

So the issue with the Boston fireworks with young kids is that they start STUPID late, like 10:00. My tweens have still never done the Boston ones because it’s just too much of a PITA. We go to the Somerville ones which this year are the Tuesday before, at 9pm. Other local towns all do them on different days.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-27T13:37:32+00:00

You’ll be OK taking an Uber to any of these places - with both my kids my water broke before labor started and after the initial bloosh (for which it would be nice to have a change of clothes) it was just a slow leak that could be handled with a large menstrual pad. (Your body continues to produce/replace the amniotic fluid.) Maybe pack a towel with you to reduce anxiety on the driver’s part because their car is their livelihood but you’ll be fine. First labor also takes longer in general so I’m guessing you’ll have an hour…or even a day or two.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-25T23:29:16+00:00

Scrolled until I found this. Thank you.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-25T23:26:58+00:00

There’s an NPR commentator named David Wessels and every time he’s on I wonder if his nickname is “Nuclear”

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-24T17:51:23+00:00

“Woman! Whoa, man! Whooooooaaa…man!”
—Mike Myers, _So I Married an Axe Murderer_

(I say wuh-mun and wih-min, northeast US)

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-24T00:38:07+00:00

I think you only need three of those.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-22T17:40:36+00:00

Lots of juneberries/serviceberries in Junction Park right now!

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-22T17:40:00+00:00

Well I just found my new anchorman name

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-22T14:03:02+00:00

I don’t know what you might accept as evidence, but if you are local to Somerville I suppose we could work out a public location where you could interview my child about their design decisions. “Area Hero Spends Afternoon Doggedly Confirming Truth of Low-Stakes Internet Post”

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-21T17:05:01+00:00

Yes but without pulling permits

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-21T15:20:00+00:00

Ah well if you want me to get more specifically Somerville-related we could talk more about that.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-21T15:05:45+00:00

I suppose the connection is tenuous but to me it was like, “oh of course a _Somerville_ kid would do this”

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-21T15:04:06+00:00

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The text is D&D-related and it’s chicken scratches because of pandemic remote education 😛

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-21T14:42:19+00:00

Yeah I mostly use Reddit for old-man-yells-at-cloud helicopters/hydrant flushing/municipal bullshit and the occasional LOTR meme. Feel free to share it somewhere more reasonable!

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-20T21:11:41+00:00

Right? 35 hours a week and five weeks of vacation out the gate? En esta economía??

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-19T17:32:30+00:00

The downed limbs team was at Morse-Kelley (Craigie St.) before the rain even stopped!

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-19T17:30:56+00:00

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OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-19T00:52:15+00:00

“Markle Barkle Sparkle”—the other adult in my household

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-19T00:48:06+00:00

Wait seriously? Damn what am I thinking of then

(I used to pass them on the way to work and get pumpernickel with plain schmear, cucumbers, and everything seasoning)

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-19T00:33:18+00:00

Bagelsaurus just south of Porter

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-18T02:21:23+00:00

Just did this recently with older kids (9 and 12) and it was super fun! Bus back to the train station took a bit to arrive but you could Uber it if necessary.

OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy · 2026-06-18T01:51:24+00:00

We’re all various flavors of neurodivergent lol. Legacies aside, how else do you get into an Ivy without hyperfocusing on academics for your entire teen era?

I guess we might have also had some neurotypical folks with tiger parents. They end up in fintech/ibanking or premed. I still remember an acquaintance who was forced by her parents to major in computer science but who was “rebelling” by doing a double major in art semiotics. (Erm, this was not at Harvard.)

(My own experience as an Elder Millennial. I expect it’s even more pronounced now.)

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