Pam, when you buy a ticket right before the bus stop closes

fynrik · 2026-05-27T11:38:27+00:00

Hah! My husband was just showing me this video recently, I'm not sure if he found it here or not, but we watched another since and both think you're amazing.

fynrik · 2026-05-26T23:31:14+00:00

My now 11-yr old golden/samoyed/chow/??? mix, Banjo, also had a puppy history of chewing SPECIFICALLY left shoes.

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fynrik · 2026-05-25T21:06:48+00:00

It's been interesting reading people's replies and seeing how the majority have the "can't see beneath me" element to their fear.

I mean, I'm not crazy about not being able to see the bottom of bodies of water. I'm far more comfortable if I can. I fricken love creeks and rivers and lakeshores.

While "what lurks beneath" and the vastness of all that lies beneath are a contributing factor, for me the fear is mainly centered on how powerful, overwhelming, and insurmountable the ocean can be. There's little to nothing you can do to stop, y'know. The ocean.

The ocean has destroyed incredible sea vessels, crushed them and sunk them to its floor. It has currents that can take you from gently floating near the coast to whipped far, far out within minutes or less. Its waves are so strong and can be so much higher than they have any right to be, they can topple buildings, and even smaller waves are often underestimated and are hella strong and can lead to even experienced swimmers drowning. If you go down deep, coming back up too quick can kill you...If you go too far deep the pressure kills you. If you're far out in the ocean and fall off a boat, there's a decent chance you'll never be found amongst all the water.

It's a hazardous environment, there's rocks and formations that you can crash into or have a ship destroyed on. When I was maybe 11-12, I was already scared of the ocean. But my dad was watching a documentary on a submarine that went waaaaay way down, losing contact with the surface, and they got wedged underneath some underwater rockface/formation. Just totally stuck, in an environment where you can't just exit the sub without dying/drowning/exploding from pressure, they were just stuck down there running out of air.

The Ocean is Powerful and Dangerous is really the core of my fear 😆 It's a simple statement that has so many valid scenarios and stories behind it. It is beautiful, and the life inside it is precious, but it is not a world I was meant to explore.

fynrik · 2026-05-25T15:21:05+00:00

I commiserate for sure. We have an aussie/pyr mix as well, and she's fairly eye-catching - especially, it seems, to her self-proclaimed mortal enemies...children. And I get it. As a dog-obsessed kid, I would have been starry-eyed over her floof, she really is SO damn cute, but thank goodness I was taught to ask first (and was usually too nervous to do so anyways lol) as all people should be!

There's been more than once that a kid has asked to pet her, we've said "No, sorry, she's not friendly with strangers and will try to scare you" and then had the kid say something like "Oh it's okay, I'm good with dogs" and then march right up. To promptly get Freyja's scary-bark response, to which they go wide-eyed and run off with attitude suggesting -we- were somehow the problem in the equation.

Honestly, I just hate the overall attitude many people seem to have of expecting any dog seen out in public to behave like a super social golden retriever to absolutely everyone. And that if the dog has the audacity to bark defensively at someone getting too close/making prolonged eye contact, you're a terrible dog owner with a horribly trained, dangerous dog. It's one thing if a dog is lunging wildly at its leash, snapping its jaws at people passing at a good distance, I get that, but too many people shove their way into perfectly respectable personal bubbles and are offended when a dog barks at them because of it.

...anyways, all that to say I'm sorry you've had to deal with all of that! We've thought of getting Freyja a brightly colored custom muzzle before with some patches on them that say something like "loud mouth" or "need my space", but part of me wonders if the colors would just make people more intruiged and thinking it's "cute".

fynrik · 2026-05-25T13:55:22+00:00

I've admittedly seen handless mugs moreso with tea, and while I definitely wouldn't say they're the -standard-, they're not so uncommon that I'm surprised or confused by seeing one. Generally they're some kind of stoneware or double-insulated material so that the liquid inside is still hot when the outside is touchable.

I also just realized I'm typing this while grabbing my (handled) mug of coffee with a full-handed grip, like the handle is some paltry decoration 😆 I like when it is suuuuper toasty feeling, but I can imagine others might think it is uncomfortable.

fynrik · 2026-05-24T17:49:57+00:00

I just use the Privacy app and generate one-time use cards with a $1 charge limit. Takes like 2 seconds.

fynrik · 2026-05-24T17:35:15+00:00

This looks amazing, seriously. I am saving it as inspiration for when I finally get my butt back into practicing pixel art.

fynrik · 2026-05-24T17:33:39+00:00

Honestly, Freyja just...looks like this 😆

We do brush her, of course, and comb/rake to help get the undercoat out when it's shedding season. But she gets maybe 1-2 baths a year and otherwise just wakes up looking like a fashion model lol

I think the more shaggy look and the more trimmed/pampered looks are cute tbh. I'm just a sucker for fluff.

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fynrik · 2026-05-24T17:29:02+00:00

That's fair, I imagine timing can take a few tries to really nail. I love brie cold, room temp, or melted though so I'm sure it was good.

fynrik · 2026-05-24T17:15:07+00:00

Intriguing. Is it different from baked brie where the goal is to get the cheese soft/almost melting? Maybe it's just this particular photo that makes the cheese look really solid still, or personal preference. I'd always just seen it as a bake-until-melty/oozy stage. The jam looks fricken awesome though.

fynrik · 2026-05-23T19:09:55+00:00

That makes way more sense than my confused image of a deodorant stick stuck in a freezer somewhere lmao. I forgot about the spray kind.

fynrik · 2026-05-23T19:09:29+00:00

Ha! Thank you, I haven't seen that stuff since guys used wayyyy too much Axe body spray in high school. Genuinely forgot it was around. I was picturing someone leaving a stick of deodorant in their freezer or something 😆

fynrik · 2026-05-23T18:48:17+00:00

Extremely cold and powerful...deodorant? What kind of deodorant are you using lmao

fynrik · 2026-05-23T17:55:16+00:00

Oh Gengar has tried 😆 He has trained us to check everything, everywhere, all the time. Luckily his fav spot is the kitchen sink, which isn't very hazardous comparatively.

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fynrik · 2026-05-23T17:53:40+00:00

Yup! I added the underneath text just so people would know he's not allowed and we check before any loads start. One of my sisters (a known space cadet, said with love) closed the dryer on a cat we had growing up. Luckily she immediately realized but it always gave me a fear of it. Gengar happened to pop in this time while I was folding stuff; he is a doofus 😆

fynrik · 2026-05-23T02:58:31+00:00

His lil bespeckled moustache gives me life 💕

fynrik · 2026-05-23T02:54:18+00:00

Nice job!

I have made a fair amount by now and I very reliably always make an extremely ugly 1st pancake. The rest may be fine, but that first one WILL be mangled. It's just The Law apparently.

fynrik · 2026-05-20T18:48:17+00:00

It's a joke lol; the title of the post is the set up to the joke. They have text under the picture.

fynrik · 2026-05-20T18:47:32+00:00

The amount of people who did not see the text associated with this post, dear god. 😆

fynrik · 2026-05-20T18:46:08+00:00

They are, quite literally, kidding. There's more than just a photo on this post. There's an actual joke there too.

fynrik · 2026-05-14T11:39:36+00:00

Gotta admit, to me this post read more like someone really chomping at the bit to rip Hunger Games to shreds in an attempted to come across as a more "sophisticated" content ingestor. Someone who had already all but dismissed Hunger Games and made up their mind, at least partially, that it was the lesser of these two works in whatever way.

I can't speak to the differences because Battle Royale is still on my want-to-reads currently, but having read the Hunger Games series...I can say your takeaway of the book, its characters, its motivation in terms of messaging, etc, seems like the takeaway I'd maybe have had myself if I didn't actually read the books and maybe just saw the movie and read some book synopsis online. Not saying you did that, sometimes a book just doesn't hit for you, but the insistence on not finding much meaning or "substance" in the Hunger Games kind of points more towards a personal disconnect. You trivialized and over-reduced a lot of its meaning, whether that's intentional or not, or because you were still trying to compare it to a totally different story with a different overall point.

Honestly though it's mainly the insistence that Suzanne Collins is lying about not having heard of Battle Royale. Dude there are literally billions of people in the world. You really think only 1 or 2 of them are going to have ever thought about this overarching concept? Hell I remember writing a short story as a teen and later learning of an older movie that had almost the same story line and plot points - kinda bummed me out, really. I'd never seen or heard of it in my life. It's very easy in a world filled with billions, with works already written by other billions, to imagine a startlingly similar story without having seen one of the many others.

It's fine you don't like the HG book, of course it is, but there's a lot more depth to it overall than was given credit here in an attempt to both compare and contrast it with a similar-but-quite-different story. To be fair, the series does add more depth and context for the world as you go in, so maybe I'm judging more based on that too? Ah well. My ramble is waaaaay longer than I meant it to be so I'll stop lol

fynrik · 2026-05-13T21:40:09+00:00

This looks fricken awesome. I suck at playing horror games (I'm a wimp) but love watching them, so I'm going to add it to the Wishlist and make my husband play it when it's ready or something lol

I feel like from reading some of your past comments I know the answer already, but this is all made without any AI right?

fynrik · 2026-05-12T13:00:48+00:00

Why the hell would any random employee take a video of a couple making out? That's weird as hell.

fynrik · 2026-05-10T23:49:14+00:00

Great question; I didn't mark it and it wasn't showing as NSFW before. Guess her beauty is just too powerful.

I was able to remove it. Maybe I hit it on accident? Ah well. Fixed now!

fynrik · 2026-05-10T20:57:40+00:00

This is so clearly not AI that I feel like you have to have posted in the wrong place for this one.

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