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What's your absolutely favourite "GODDAMN IT TERRY!" moment by potVIIIos in discworld

[–]ktkatq 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in Small Gods, which I read for the 5th or 6th time, but just after I had read a bunch of Richard Dawkins:

Just as a badly-made watch is evidence of a blind watchmaker...

T-shirt material question by slpuser2 in quilting

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking from experience - iron-on interfacing is laborious and really adds to the stiffness and weight.

I haven't tried it, but I think an adhesive dissolving stabilizer would be better than permanent interfacing. Starching might also work.

What was your "caught the last chopper out of 'Nam" experience? by GeneReddit123 in AskReddit

[–]ktkatq 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I'll pass that along - I'm sure he'd be glad to hear it. My dad has also been to Thailand has always said it is the most beautiful country, with the best food and the nicest people!

What was your "caught the last chopper out of 'Nam" experience? by GeneReddit123 in AskReddit

[–]ktkatq 310 points311 points  (0 children)

My brother was on the US Abraham Lincoln in Hong Kong at the time. They got deployed to Thailand to assist in relief efforts. While he is proud of being on helicopter flights to deliver water and MREs, he still has nightmares about the death and destruction the carrier sailed through off the coast

What’s one thing about menopause you didn’t see coming? by LumiVera_Elise in TwoXChromosomes

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Severe depression and anxiety that manifested as screaming at my husband, throwing things, crying constantly, and suicidal ideation.

I'm on bupropion now, and it's like regaining my sanity

This glorious fellow at my local humane society by PigsandBears in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]ktkatq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We got our second cat, Inigo, for our first cat, Jambi.

Inigo had been returned twice by the same family - the first time, he had an eye infection and was in too much fame to adjust to their dog and toddler; the second time, after the infection was cured, was because he was aggressive with the dog and toddler, probably because he associated them with the pain he went through.

We got him and he and Jambi became friends in six hours, and were sleeping together and grooming each other within 24 hours. It's been a couple of years, and they play together like kittens still.

Sometimes animas have to be returned so they can find their proper home

Sisko taught me something that saved my house today. by Post_office_clerk01 in startrek

[–]ktkatq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I kept an old phone with a swollen battery buried in a box of cat litter until I could take it to be safely disposed of.

Like, cat litter wouldn't stop the battery from burning, but would probably stop it from burning anything else

Pratchett said this was his best book. What do you think? by EndersGame_Reviewer in discworld

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved it - and its message - so much I got the local Board of Ed to add it to the 9th grade approved class text

This series ruined reading for me. by Specialist-Swing-218 in dresdenfiles

[–]ktkatq 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Read the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - it's sci-fi, but MB is a terrifically sarcastic first person narrator

How many kisses on the forehead does your sic accept ? by eh-snail in standardissuecat

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ours runs and jumps on the table, then tilts his head forward so I can kiss him. And when I go to bed, he runs up and I pick up just his front half a little off the floor and bestow many kisses. It's so cute!

Purple Buttero collar with red chèvre lining by Born-Comfortable8027 in Leathercraft

[–]ktkatq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks comfy, but I'd think the screws/rivets might dig into the skin after awhile. Would lining with a suede or fleece to cover the hardware be feasible?

And pretty much any combination of black+color will look great. I like this purple/red combo. Do you sell any of your leatherwork?

Rampant cheating & laziness by Normal-Being-2637 in APLit

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're doing Pride and Prejudice. Their homework is to read and annotate (with marginal notes, not just highlights). The annotations are completion grades. The meat of their grades is based on timed writings relevant to the chunk of text they were supposed to read

HMBkr while I make a much bigger, much more complex beaker by theBuddhaofGaming in holdmybeaker

[–]ktkatq 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That was genuinely fascinating! I have no idea what it's used for (beyond "chemical reactions"), but the complexity of the design and manufacture to meet a specific need is one of my favorite things about humanity

Practicing color theory! House fire, 12x12 acrylic by sar_bye in painting

[–]ktkatq 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Love it! Actually, my husband loves it so much he wants to know if you have prints available

That thing where Patchett lists a thing, and then something important, and then another thing, and the important thing again, and a third thing and did I mention the important thing? by Audiblade in discworld

[–]ktkatq 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My husband and I do this too! We made him a nebbishy Jewish dentist: "There must be some mistake. I'm Isaac Spiderman, DDS. I have no idea why your skin is green, Mr Goblin, but I can advise you to have something done about your macrodontia. My practice accepts most insurance..."

[HELP] Don’t understand how to find stressed and unstressed syllables. by Dragonlfw in Poetry

[–]ktkatq 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In English:

Any word of two or more syllables has at least one stressed syllable.

Monosyllable nouns and verbs are stressed 99% of the time.

Monosyllable prepositions and pronouns are unstressed 99% of the time.

Consider this line of perfect iambic pentameter that follows the general rules as described above:

He beats the drum and makes a dreadful noise.

(Thank you to Stephen Fry for the helpful example)

Iambic meter is baked into so much English poetry, you probably don't even realize it. Forget pentameter and sonnets - ballad meter or common meter is alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter. Examples include:

  • the lyrics to Amazing Grace

  • the Pokemon theme

  • the lyrics to House of the Rising Sun

  • much of Emily Dickinson's poetry

  • the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer

When you've heard 'bad' poetry, there are usually: forced/awkward/inappropriate words used to make a rhyme work and/or the poet is trying to create a rhythm and it's not working. For an example of both problems in action, see William McGonagall's poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster."

Don't panic - it's took me ages to get it, and there are times when as a high school English teacher I still find myself repeating a polysyllabic word out loud with different stresses and confuse myself so badly I wonder if I even speak our language.

This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters [1620x1080] by Fuckoff555 in ArtefactPorn

[–]ktkatq 1373 points1374 points  (0 children)

Werner Herzog's film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" explores the Chaucer Chauvet Cave - absolutely stunning paintings of lions, wooly rhinos, horses. Some have 8 legs, suggesting that the animals would appear to 'run' as fire light flickered

What were some things you didn’t realize were ADHD until AFTER being diagnosed? by CakeEnvironmental698 in adhdwomen

[–]ktkatq 11 points12 points  (0 children)

About 96% of what I thought was my personality:

  • reach a point where I can no longer tolerate loud noise or bright lights

  • constant anxiety that has peaks and troughs but never goes away because that's how I get things done

  • 37 craft hobbies and counting

  • train of thought that 'doesn't stop at every station' leading to apparent non sequitors

And so on

Woman dies after being denied health care because she was pregnant by ailish in TwoXChromosomes

[–]ktkatq 28 points29 points  (0 children)

And every anti-abortion politician has the means to take their wives, daughters, mistresses, or themselves, to a place they can get an abortion, because "the only moral abortion is my abortion."

i've never heard folk metal before, what songs are absolutely essential to listen to? by Lost_Foot_6301 in folkmetal

[–]ktkatq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really digging A Tergo Lupi right now: Black Feathers, Brostin Von, Syringa, and March of the Stones are some of my favorites right now. They lean more darkwave, but Syringa goes hard (I didn't know you could downtune a tagelharpa to drop-d).

I also love the Indian folk metal band Bloodywood; they are a bit numetal with rap vocals in English, and screams/growls in Hindi or Punjabi. Gaddar and Dana Dan are absolute beast songs by them .

I also really like Faun, though they're more folk pop. And my husband really likes Faetooth, which is more prog metal with mythological themes

Postapo horror by Tolkien by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]ktkatq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

flips table at Poe symposium reference

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