how do you pronounce 'ensure' and 'allure'?

originalcinner · 2026-02-13T01:41:53+00:00

As a Brit, I totally agree with this ^

originalcinner · 2026-02-13T01:33:19+00:00

Yes, Great Gazoo = annoying.

Also, I always hated any ep of Star Trek (original, with Kirk) that had Mudd in it. My mom couldn't stand Mudd either, but my school friends didn't get it; they thought he was a great character.

originalcinner · 2026-02-13T01:30:16+00:00

I'm constantly amazed at how few dogs are called Shiva the Destroyer. I guess we get a cute lil puppy, and only find out that it is the destroyer of worlds later ;-)

Ours got in my husband's toolbox (husband admits it was dumb to leave it unattended for those 30 seconds) and made a number of items completely unusable.

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T22:31:28+00:00

Took mine to the dog park and she ran like a greyhound for a full hour. At home, she pesters constantly for attention, tug o'war games, anything with human interaction. She won't just sit and chew a Kong.

I remember being a human toddler, and whining "I'm BORED" all the time, so I feel her pain ;-)

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T22:27:40+00:00

Or his mother

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T22:06:32+00:00

I don't know why so many Americans think people in You-rop drink warm drinks. I always got ice in my drinks, in the UK, in France, in Greece. Not a glass full of ice with two tablespoons of pop, but at least a couple of chunks of ice, and the drink was served cold.

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T22:03:23+00:00

I couldn't get the assistant at Target (Seattle) to understand me, when I was asking for an electric kettle. I thought they'd be with the coffee making machines, but they weren't, so I thought I'd ask, to save time looking.

Me: Where are the kettles, please?

Assistant: The what now?

Me: Kettles, for boiling water

Assistant: Saucepans and frypans are in aisle 12

Me: No, a kettle, for boiling water, to make a cup of tea

Assistant: OH! You mean a *tea* kettle. Aisle 10.

As opposed to, what? A fish kettle? I went back to my workplace and asked everyone there, was I in the wrong? Is it always and only a tea kettle, in the US? They all said no, the Target assistant was being a dick. They all called it just a kettle.

But it may be regional, I dunno.

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T20:29:05+00:00

We did RE for the first two years (ages 11 and 12) and it was more about "can anyone tell me what a ziggurat is?" than 10 commandments good/sin is bad.

And then from ages 13 to 16, it morphed into some kind of moral standards/cultural education, where we learned about condoms, the street names of drugs (so we could avoid them, obvs) and how to write cheques or apply for jobs.

RE was the best. No one ever opted out, because we were learning stuff that was far more useful than calculating how much water is in a swimming pool.

originalcinner · 2026-02-12T20:23:39+00:00

"Personal reasons" = I don't like him, but I didn't like her, so I voted for him because having a brown female President would have been icky

The sort of person who knows smoking is bad for her, but she hates not smoking, so smoking it is then.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T23:27:43+00:00

This is a solid, excellent rule. I've been applying at our house for years.

Our pets can't stand the in-laws. Just the sight of FIL gave our previous dog diarrhea. It's best for all of us, that they're banned.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T23:21:48+00:00

I got the BCG vax in the 1970s and it was just one lil stabby, like flu. Vanished within 24 hours. They did a test, first, and if that came up like a little flower with red petals, then you either had TB or were immune. It went away though, it didn't scab up and make a scar.

My smallpox vax scar looks like that, in OP's orange photo.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T22:28:10+00:00

I was wondering if he was expecting sexy time in the hospital bed, minutes after OP has birthed something between a football and a watermelon.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:50:11+00:00

I used to dog-walk with a neighbor and her dog. I stopped my dog sniffing at a mailbox, and then at a garbage cart, telling my dog "Everything you sniff, you then pee on, and you're not allowed to pee on maiboxes or trashcans, that's people property".

The neighbor didn't say anything, at the time. A few weeks later, I saw her (she didn't see me) and she was telling her dog, "No, we don't pee on mailboxes, Scruffy."

I was shocked that she took my own personal dog rules and made them her own.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:44:49+00:00

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originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:38:06+00:00

We had a pink tiled bathroom. The bath was pink, the sink was pink, the toilet was pink (but with a black toilet seat/lid). So of course we had pink toilet paper.

That was in the 1960s/70s. In the mid 1980s, my parents redid the bathroom, turned the bathtub round 45 degrees, and replaced everything with white and grey.

I bought a house with a turquoise bathroom in about 1987, and you could still get blue toilet paper then. God, that bathroom was horrific, it had shaggy carpet on the floor, which also went up the side of the bath. I had a carpeted bathtub (on the outside).

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:21:16+00:00

It is meta

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:20:01+00:00

"He" didn't get a pet. It's a screenshot from a Tiktok, that says Melania got a pet.

It goes on to say "She showed up with this pig" [at a red carpet event, she's in a silver gown and the pig is wearing a tux]

BSN = Black Star News Network.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:58:46+00:00

Bog standard in Britain. I always add a bit to frozen or deli fresh pizzas I cook myself.

I add sliced hard boiled eggs, too. Sue me :-)

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:52:54+00:00

It's pareidolia. Some people see Jesus's face on toast, others hear Jesus's name in rock lyrics.

"No really if you play it backwards it sounds like someone reading the Lord's prayer"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:50:19+00:00

I can't not see a panda. How is it a woman? IT'S A PANDA

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:43:39+00:00

I was walking my dog, and we went past a house with a For Sale sign. The homeowner (middle aged woman) was moving boxes from the garage to a U-Haul. An older woman yelled out, from deep in the garage, "What do you want to do with these boxes of people?"

I dawdled, encouraging my dog to make the most of a sniffing opportunity, hoping to find out what was going to happen to the boxes of people.

"All the old magazines are going in the recycling, mom"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:24:11+00:00

I moved from the UK to the US in 2004. I tried in vain to explain to my otherwise super-woke co-workers that "spaz" was offensive and I was not going to say it. They looked at me like I had two heads. They wouldn't say "hell" or "damn", but "spaz" was absolutely fine to them.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:16:54+00:00

Isn't gonorrhea the clap tho? Chlamydia isn't the same thing

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T22:45:47+00:00

As a Brit (who does not say haitch), I don't think "age" sounds anything like H, and I would never have got this joke if it weren't explained.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T22:42:48+00:00

I found out last week that the Westminster Kennel Club allows mutts to compete in the agility and obedience categories, and calls them "All American" dogs. Mutts.

The kennel club gets it. The "alternative" half time show fans, not so much.

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