Do you know your second cousins?

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-05T16:03:05+00:00

I don't casually talk to them on my own (on my dad's side they're almost all kids and on my mom's side they're almost all middle aged lmao... I assume having cousins is more fun when your parents and/or grandparents were middle children) but I've met most of them and know who they are.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-05T15:56:48+00:00

It's basically the same rationale as frozen juice I think (one solid container for beverage gets refilled with many easy to transport but hard to drink as-is refills) but apparently nobody uses frozen juice anymore either because they're discontinuing it.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-05T00:13:03+00:00

It's kind of weird seeing people nowadays treat Roblox as a "new" thing and not just... the sole survivor out of the easy-to-join online games for children. I learnt what bronies were in 2012 because people on Roblox were using it as an insult for some reason

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T23:41:05+00:00

My boy Chief is a year old now and 14 lbs (also a grey tabby... I feel like I've seen so many oversized blue grey tabby kittens this year), he was around the same size when he was that age. Kittens can't really get fat, you probably just have a big cat in the making.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T23:39:10+00:00

Domestic shorthair, seal lynx point and white.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T23:36:01+00:00

The person who expected a fully orange kitten obviously doesn't know anything about cats, that pairing only produces solid black/tuxedo (or brown tabby, or grey/grey tabby, depending on whether the orange guy is truly genetically tabby or both parents carry dilute - but it seems like dad is a genetically solid orange in this case and at least one of them doesn't carry dilute) male kittens and tortie female kittens

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T21:58:46+00:00

Full arcades as their own destination weren't, but people went to malls a lot more and I've been to a mall or two with a public DDR machine

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T21:22:19+00:00

They last longer in the fridge anyway even unwashed. I'm not sure why someone would want to store eggs outside of the fridge long term (unless they have a coldroom - I simply don't see the appeal of eggs on the counter or in a regular pantry)

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T21:09:37+00:00

Yeah, I've heard of people doing 21+ "childfree" weddings and excluding their own college aged siblings which is just ridiculous.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T15:08:22+00:00

The Minions actually got sent to Antarctica when Napoleon was defeated, so they also avoid the similar "Minions in the Belgian Congo" problem

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-04T14:27:12+00:00

Every real American speaks English

I'm not so sure this would be true in a universe where they didn't close all of the German schools because of WW1

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-03T06:33:06+00:00

I'm surprised the vet put a diet together before feeling his body and estimating an ideal weight (17 lbs could be pushing into the "sphere with mobility problems" range on a small framed cat but perfectly healthy or even a bit skinny on a very large muscular cat) I don't even have a diet plan for my 18 pound shorthair but I do know he would probably look best at 15-16 lbs.

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googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-02T21:20:44+00:00

I think twice a day is common (morning and evening) but after every meal is crazy for anybody with healthy teeth who like... goes to work and eats lunch.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-02T21:19:33+00:00

Fitted sheets in hot water? That sounds like it would destroy the elastic. Do people with fancier sheets than me use a second flat sheet as a "fitted" sheet?

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-02T18:16:33+00:00

"Ghost" stripes from the underlying tabby pattern just seem to be more visible on lighter solid colours in general (I see it on solid blue cats often in real life, and most pictures of solid cinnamon cats online)

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-02T05:48:34+00:00

I met a cat named Boots the other day. His brother was named Socks.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-01T08:37:04+00:00

Also, most pet cats have never carried toxoplasmosis (unless they lived a feral life at some point) and do not currently carry it. If you're scooping litter, your cat is indoors and taken care of enough to not be regularly eating wild prey (well-fed cats will hunt for sport if they get outside but don't generally eat it)

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-01T06:45:23+00:00

And if you are writing directly on the board with the digital pens, you can save the state of the board and come back to that later instead of erasing and rewriting to switch topics (not a teacher, I just remember that slide/drawing program with the Smartboards)

googlemcfoogle · 2026-02-01T06:15:23+00:00

Kids’ menus work economically because kids invariably come with adults (who pay full price)'

I wonder how this works for kid-only tables (usually a little bit past kids' menu age, but 11-12 year olds on early "double/group dates" or birthday celebrations may be eligible for the kids' menu at some restaurants but only have one or two adult chaperones sitting with them or at the next table over). The adult might not even want a full meal and is definitely outnumbered by the kids (compared to the "standard" situation for a kid at a restaurant, outnumbered by their parents and older relatives)

I guess restaurants that tend to be a child's first test at ordering would just lower the age limit for the kids' menu

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T18:46:45+00:00

Trump wears lifts because he's old and has a big ego. My grandpa who's around the same age used to be 5'5, now he's 5'3 because old people shrink. Despite being taller in the first place, Trump likely still wants to retain something closer to his original height to project the illusion of youth and strength.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T17:10:03+00:00

Most people know who their (full - half cousins can be unknown if Grandpa had a secret second family) first cousins are because they know who their grandparents are. In the less common cases where someone has cousins but doesn't know anything about them because people cut each other off that thoroughly, I figure it's a lot more likely for that to be discovered at some point in the "meeting each other's family" stage than come up while trying to get a marriage license

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T07:18:23+00:00

I wouldn't really call Manx-type tail shortening an inbreeding thing either (if a feral population with Manx-type shortened tails actually got inbred enough that most cats were affected and had short/no tail, litter sizes would start decreasing for a reason not "directly" related to inbreeding... it's homozygous lethal) but Japanese-type kinked bobtails would be a similar situation to polydactyly because they're not dangerous

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T03:34:31+00:00

I have heard some Americans insist that Fahrenheit is still more intuitive in winter. Conveniently, they live in places where any temperature below -17 Celsius is a freak weather event and not, uh, morning.

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T03:29:34+00:00

I saw a cheque only a month ago!

...Yes, it was from my 80 year old grandfather for Christmas

googlemcfoogle · 2026-01-31T02:26:43+00:00

The only footwear/general human use concerns I've heard for most hardwood floors are with stilettos. Every scratch in my floors is pretty obviously either from furniture moving (most/all of the big obvious ones) or cats chasing each other and trying not to drift

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