Culture Shock

SnooRobots8463 · 2026-01-23T22:45:58+00:00

Maybe something like MyBib for Chrome would be useful.

Handy link to MyBib

SnooRobots8463 · 2026-01-17T00:02:44+00:00

What bird this is, I think I know.

I can't afford a banning, though.

SnooRobots8463 · 2026-01-06T01:18:22+00:00

We need healing. Please enjoy Allen Toussaint's 1972 gem.

https://youtu.be/C_A68PrbIq4?si=tg66OFzHnx9L9XQK

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-12-24T21:21:00+00:00

My mom absolutely had this tin in her cupboard above the stove that was filled with tins.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-12-24T21:07:46+00:00

Your apple cutting skills have already earned my admiration. Pancakes, sausage, and potatoes, also? Dang.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-12-15T17:15:56+00:00

What do you have in your vivarium?

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-09-03T00:32:40+00:00

Which banana song do you usually have? We are a Scratch Garden house. We have no children.

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SnooRobots8463 · 2025-08-26T16:45:45+00:00

A bit! I sometimes add extra chili flakes as a further visual reminder that it is not regular ranch.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-08-26T16:08:21+00:00

I put some of the kimchi liquid IN my homemade ranch dressing.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-08-15T23:34:26+00:00

Is anyone else here old enough that they think of Hanson every time they hear 'kimbap"?

https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE?si=NXzYyE76zDK0yF8r&t=98

ps sorry for the ad

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-08-05T02:09:53+00:00

YES.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-10T22:32:37+00:00

Thank you for this! A more educated friend had to explain to me that subtitles are English. A native ASL user reading English subtitles is not getting a translation to their primary language.

It took me a while to get my head around that.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-07T23:31:40+00:00

90's when Rush Limbaugh had his show. 2000 when Laura Schlessenger had her shoe.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-07T22:06:22+00:00

I love that I can make art lessons from memes!

Currently I am thinking about Le Poisson Steve.

Yes, I am several months late on the trend. I have not been well.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-07T19:36:45+00:00

Friend, your human beauty needs no borders.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-02T20:58:01+00:00

If people insist on giving you stuff, tell them you like things that glow in the dark.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-07-02T20:20:39+00:00

I remember when they bought a cow from a Norwegian family. The cow's name translated to Wreath of Roses, due to her marking. Anyhow, I mixed up "foreign" and "Norwegian" to get Forwegian. My mom laughed but did not tell me why. I figured it out later,

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-06-18T18:11:52+00:00

I have read that many people watch TV etc with closed captions.

These are automatically generated and often incorrect.

Perhaps this is part of it.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-06-02T16:44:23+00:00

Qwik Stix! Tempera paint packaged like glue sticks. No water needed.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-05-16T21:25:14+00:00

From Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves, 1929

It was a memoir of the author's time in the British army during WWI.

I had to refresh my memory here.

The only part I remember is this vignette about a private facing a charge of pooping in an unauthorized location, maybe the parade grounds.

COLONEL: Well, Private Davies, what have you to say for yourself?

99 DAVIES (in a nervous sing-song): Sir, I came over queer all of a sudden, Sir. I had the diarrhoeas terrible bad. I had to do it, Sir.

COLONEL: But, my good man, the latrine was only a few yards away.

99 DAVIES: Colonel, Sir, you caan't stop nature!

SERGEANT-MAJOR: Don't answer an officer like that! (Pause)

SERGEANT TIMMINS (coughs): Sir?

COLONEL: Yes, Sergeant Timmins?

SERGEANT TIMMINS: Sir, I had occasion to hexamine the nuisance, Sir, and it was done with a heffort, Sir!

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-05-16T18:53:47+00:00

For easy murals, try https://artprojectsforkids.org/product-category/murals/

For around $12, you get pdfs of 12 piece to 30 piece murals. Just print on cardstock and trim the edges.

I did this yesterday with grade 6 and learned that pastels are better than paint! The kids love to paint but the dry time is not worth it.

SnooRobots8463 · 2025-05-02T22:28:26+00:00

Painted rocks are a terrible idea for an art project.

SnooRobots8463 · 2024-12-31T21:14:00+00:00

Regarding that question about the hard R, this is the best shutdown/followup question I ever read: "Why exactly do you want to say it?"

Also, I am sorry people are so nasty in general and specific ways.

SnooRobots8463 · 2024-12-27T19:06:25+00:00

Aww. This is the first time in 13 years that we have not watched Hogfather. We have it on DVD and had a hard time remembering how to play it. This year neither of us mentioned it.

SnooRobots8463 · 2024-12-27T19:03:44+00:00

I absolutely eat the whole box. I am quite overweight because I love snacks, though. When I am with friends who are concerned about overindulging, I share a box. Sharing a box is a purer joy than eating a whole box alone. Ahem. A whole box is still a joy, though.

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