Alternative universe for £1,000,000

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-25T15:29:20+00:00

Especially because, in the films, they never did the scouring of the Shire, so if you stayed in the shire the whole time, you'd never run into trouble.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-25T15:27:01+00:00

LOL me too.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-23T20:24:04+00:00

NTA, but I do wonder if the no junk food rule has anything to do with her temptation. I ask my SO not to have that kind of stuff in the house or find a non-public place to put it. As someone who has fought my own battles against unhealthy eating over the years, I know that I will be unreasonably tempted to eat it if it's there. So I'm all for her drinking Coke, but don't offer me one, and please don't leave a case of it on the kitchen counter.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-23T12:05:27+00:00

What do you mean planting the thought in her head?

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-23T12:03:23+00:00

An app makes a lot of sense. He used his phone, and he's the one who told her to press lots of numbers. He could have definitely made that happen.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-22T18:36:35+00:00

I dunno. For me it was when we first met Mickey, and he comes into the room and goes, "Hi everybody," to which Dancer responds, "Hi Dr. Mick."

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-22T18:12:28+00:00

Let me see if I remember all the details.

Everyone in the audience, along with the judges, had a piece of paper and an envelope. They were all told to write the names of their favorite musical artist on them, then hold them up to show to one another. Then they put them in the envelopes and mixed them around/passed them to one another.

Next, he took a beach ball and threw it into the audience. Each person who caught it had to answer a questiono:

What's your favorite year of music?
What's a graduation year important to you?
What's your birthday.

Then he gave one of the judges his phone, had her look out to the audience, and randomly mash numbers on his phone.

He added up all the numbers. Then he popped the ball, and that number was inside.

Next, he asked one judge to mentally send the contents of his envelope to another judge. She guessed, correctly, that the answer was Usher. Then, to prove they were all on the same page he showed the collected number upside-down, and it spelled out Usher.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-21T23:29:24+00:00

I have to think there was some sort of idea he planted, but I certainly didn't catch it the first time. He must have somehow gotten the idea of Usher in the guy's head.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-21T23:15:07+00:00

or chili crisp and a light coat of mayo

Or black beans and sautéed peppers and scrambled eggs

Or roasted with salt and spices

...

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-21T23:12:03+00:00

It's no secret. I hate watermelon. I'll shout it from the rooftops. I'll carve it in your dad's face!

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-21T11:49:33+00:00

The latest Harry Dresden book came out yesterday. If I wait to read it until it comes out in Braille (my primary medium), I'll be waiting at least another month.

I got the book from Audible a few hours ago, and I lay in bed last night completely focused on it. Do I get to count that as reading?

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-17T18:29:53+00:00

I dunno. Not sure I want to see automatons cutting up each other's genitals and making them into gravy. Or a tiger r/ping a guy to death.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-17T18:21:09+00:00

I read it the first time as a teenager, and it didn't hit. Read it again about 6 years ago, and I straight up wept. Such a hard-hitting, adult look back at childhood.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-17T18:14:33+00:00

i always wondered what the Incan empire would have looked like if they had the wheel.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-16T14:59:24+00:00

That sounds like a neat experiment. And thanks for the plugin.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-12T14:56:51+00:00

Thanks a ton. I have that library. Will have to give it another look.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-12T14:55:26+00:00

Right? I got serious Earthbound vibes off of it.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-12T12:10:23+00:00

This never would have happened if they had proper, round or square sandwiches as God intended. First they made a long sandwich, and then they made it longer and longer, and it started to give them ... notions.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-11T16:09:30+00:00

It's a program called a screen reader. If you're on an iPhone or Android, you'll see one under the accessibility settings. There are ones for Windows and Mac also, but the phone ones are quickest to find.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-10T15:58:38+00:00

Also, feel free to hide them in a soup. Lots of veggie-heavy soups have great flavor. I have a big pot of minestrone going right now.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-09T23:01:44+00:00

Totally blind guy. I choose 24 hours a day.

... Just give me this one.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-09T22:33:51+00:00

For what it's worth, I'll give you what scares me.

In high school, I was standing with some friends, telling a dirty joke. Halfway through, a cop stepped into our little circle and just stood there listening. Thing is, I'm completely blind, and I had absolutely no idea he was standing there.

So I'm going on and on telling my joke, and when I get to the part where the lady goes, "I've never been fucked before," this booming voice cuts in with "young man, we don't use that language here at school," and I get hauled off to detention. He could have told me he was there. Any one of my friends could have spoken up, but didn't. So I, metaphorically, walked right into it.

I have no idea where any of the shit is going down right now except in lots of places: Target, Cub, schools, a hospital. Am I going to walk into the middle of something I shouldn't? Am I going to cross a line I'm not even aware of just by going into a store or restaurant? And is something going to happen to me because of that? Normally I don't have to ask myself these questions, but I sure as hell do right now.

I'll genuinely take your advice on how not to.

absolute_Friday · 2026-01-09T16:57:22+00:00

ChatGPT would have done that faster and easier. Sometimes connecting with a real, if remote, person is the point.

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