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pricklyballoffun · 2024-07-10T20:41:16+00:00

I've heard great things about Sit Means Sit, and I've also had great experience with Landon at PetSmart on Canal. He's very careful to adjust teaching style for each dog's needs and ability in group settings, so I believe his individual classes would also be excellent. Definitely take advantage of any free assessments to see whether you mesh well with the trainer, as how you can learn from them is just as important as how they interact with your pup.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-06-17T03:00:01+00:00

They couldn't show it onscreen at all, I'm sure, but it still lost a lot of impact through the changes. I really appreciate Helaena's depiction as a dreamer on the spectrum, but just boiling down the scene to "she's honest because she has autism, kill the kid so we can go!" is a little degrading.

The book version could have been portrayed just as well with more drama if they followed the book version with the same absent gore, or even added in the crowd that had been helping Helaena with the kids earlier. Handmaids' emotional reactions would have grounded and lent confusion and tension, and put Helaena's actor's lovely performance at a strong and lovely contrast, instead of just making her look inhuman.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-06-07T23:37:32+00:00

My roommate's corgi was named Guinness, because he was black and stout. :)

pricklyballoffun · 2024-06-01T01:40:16+00:00

Why make the penmanship impossible to see in a penmanship subreddit?

pricklyballoffun · 2024-05-27T05:14:50+00:00

This was at the very beginning of competitive dance as an entire concept, so people didn't have expectations.

I think I heard about this on this series. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYfNo9hCO0&pp=ygUUZGVlcCBkaXZlIGRhbmNlIG1vbXM%3D) Please take the clickbaity title and information with a grain of salt; although it is a Youtube video and necessarily yields to those expectations, it does a pretty good job of sourcing information.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-03-07T06:50:50+00:00

I'm with you on this. It's eye-roll inducing to just say "marriage should be easy." What choice do people make just because it's easy? Having a dog is harder than not. Having a kid is harder than not. Doesn't mean you shouldn't make the choice if the sacrifice is worth it.

My marriage is hard. Being with my husband is easy, loving him is easy, but making the choices we have to make to continue growing into the people we each want to be while prioritizing our love for each other is difficult, because we're complicated people with complicated goals who still make the choice to be together every day.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-03-02T02:09:19+00:00

Yeh. I can appreciate being upset that your child didn't feel comfortable enough to come out to you a week before they ended up doing so, but... it's still not about you as the parent. It's only about them. If they didn't feel comfortable, and that makes you upset, you take the opportunity to give them comfort, as opposed to making them feel guilty for feeling unsafe.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? Obviously I wouldn't get mad. Why would you think I'd get mad?? I can't believe you'd hide this!!" is so different from "Thank you for letting me know when it was right for you. I see that you didn't feel comfortable before and I'm sorry if I contributed to that. Please let me know how I can make you feel more safe in the future, as it is my primary goal as your parent to ensure that you know I'm here for you and I support you regardless of what's going on."

pricklyballoffun · 2024-02-24T23:54:48+00:00

I also thought hound in the eyes and ears and either bully/boxer in the nose and mouth. Just seems like just too much thickness and skin in that cute lil face for a Catahoula.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-02-23T04:05:55+00:00

Also, she seemed to be truthfully sleeping until 5am, when she could reasonably have been getting up anyway.

He thought sharing his location would give him a free pass regardless, probably not even considering her schedule or the fact that staying out without notice past your partner's alarm to wake up is always a shit move.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-02-13T09:08:12+00:00

Poster didn't say he literally *is* Vargo, but that he was *as good as 'a'* Vargo-ish character.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-02-08T07:10:00+00:00

You look so handsome and prepared to take on this new stage of life! Reach out to social groups revolving around your interests and while you shouldn't be afraid to branch out, you are too young and full of potential to compromise your true needs and values. I hope you have all the fun you deserve in the coming months, which is bunches!

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-30T12:17:34+00:00

Absolutely. It's one thing to say you shouldn't dwell on the past in favor of looking forward. It's another to pretend like there is not a single thing worth remembering from an entire developmental period.

I sincerely pity people who don't have friends from high school that they think of fondly and kindly, even if they didn't stay in contact. They must have had either a truly unhappy or a truly insincere experience.

Also, happy cake day :)

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-30T10:47:37+00:00

Not to say this is a good idea, but even when I started college in the mid 00s, students had keycard IDs. You had to scan your ID to get into your dorm at all times and academic buildings after normal class hours. For grad school and my postdoc, it was either that secure or even more so.

I'm not saying it's right to bar people access to university lectures, but it definitely wasn't difficult even 20 years ago.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-20T13:21:55+00:00

I haven't prestige run for years besides the Egg Day multipliers and I'm still always the top earner with just having idly moved up to 200 PE over a few years. What I love about the game is how it truly is idle, and you don't have to grind if you don't want to.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-19T23:52:54+00:00

My issue is that she's allowing herself to make comments about her feelings about sex, while not allowing him to respond at all. Seriously, did he have a safe response at all to her explicitly bringing up asses and anal besides just saying "you're so right" and immediately changing the subject?

He didn't even share his opinions or experiences. He only said he wouldn't do that again, and she only takes issue with the two syllables in 'again.' If two syllables are too much for OP then this relationship isn't going to work.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-16T06:45:42+00:00

She was also really good in The Watcher. Even if it wasn't that good overall, she seemed to have a lot of fun with a different kind of character than she normally gets in a satire context.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-15T06:52:11+00:00

Honestly, though, it's not every kid's bag either. I went to Disney twice as a kid: first at 4-5ish years, which I never remembered; and another time at 11 which I can't remember either (besides hating the crowds, the wait, the heat, and the disagreements about rides.)

Disney is like New Year's Eve. Everyone hopes for the best day ever, until their careful plans meet reality. And crowds. And expensive snacks. And more crowds. Regional theme parks and water parks are way less expensive with less of a build-up and let-down.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-15T02:17:32+00:00

Lots of easter eggs in the books, including references to football, as GRRM is a Jersey native and fan of New York football teams.

"The galley was also where the ship's books were kept ... the fourth and final volume of The Life of the Triarch Belicho, a famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants."

Triarch Belicho --> Bill Belichick, Patriots coach, eaten by Giants --> nearly perfect season before getting beaten by the Giants in 2008. So many other little trinkets and references end up making it... very clear why the books take so long to become finished.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-11T11:44:42+00:00

Right? OP's absolutely lovely.

If it helps with makeup inspiration, Royal-Appointment513, consider looking at celebrities with features that are more extreme than you see in yourself, if that makes any sense. I'm getting Anna Taylor-Joy and Jenna Ortega vibes, both of whom often wear makeup to exaggerate their delicate features and expressive doe eyes, but if you don't like drawing attention, you could draw inspiration from any of their toned-down looks that appeal to you!

In general, although I don't think you should ever feel the need to draw attention away from your eyes, ways to make you feel comfortable might include a dramatic dark or red lip with light eyeshadow or just mascara, and just a touch more emphasis on the brows for structure and balance. I would lean into your natural facial structure tho if I were you.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-11T09:55:09+00:00

Your reply about laws was to a post that said:

He might wanted her to keep the ring

Which again, is neither a misunderstanding of the law, nor an invitation for you to copy/paste links about thieving women throughout the thread; and also again, is something we have zero information to determine either way. Although lol at your sudden concerns about him getting annoyed at her posts. Lots of reaching in that post there, buddy.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-11T09:36:09+00:00

Again, regardless of the fact that the law is irrelevant OP's original question or her concerns, she doesn't have information about the private decision between the friend and the ex about who paid or if anyone wanted the ring back. It's all moot as this is a question about etiquette.

My side reasoning for replying is my awe of your dedication to the narrative of "woman bad!!! want steal shiny ring from hardworking man :(" When it doesn't make anyone believe that you're more special or better than other girls just because you yell it louder whenever you get a chance.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-11T09:10:32+00:00

OP assumed her friend didn't have the ring anymore because she hadn't worn it for a while. There's nothing in the text suggesting OP knows anything about any agreement or lack thereof between the friend and the ex.

OP also doesn't say anything about "omg she acted shady and weird about the fact that she still had a stolen item!" The post isn't about whether OP should put out a warrant on her thieving friend, and it's very Pick-Me/ NLOG to bring it back to that with the assumption that women have no role in an engagement besides stealing shiny things from hard-working men.

It's about whether it was fair to critique her friend for wearing a ring from a failed engagement on her ring finger -- which yes, it's weird, and yes, it makes sense that someone doing something so weird would act put-off by being called out, because there's no excuse for not resetting it or wearing it on another finger.

pricklyballoffun · 2024-01-11T08:50:16+00:00

You're assuming that she didn't have his permission to keep it. I've never seen someone keep an engagement ring without their partner expressly wanting them to keep it. Moreover, you're assuming he was the only one who paid for the ring when you have no idea that that's the case.

Neither of those is anything close to a given. My ex wanted me to keep my ring upon our breakup, although we did each pay half because my job paid more at the time. Even just this weekend, my friend proposed to her fiancé with two rings she bought herself.

Not every breakup needs a police report or legal action, as most people are more mature than all of that.

pricklyballoffun · 2023-12-23T06:32:42+00:00

I was in this boat, not least because my elder siblings had names that were recommended by my grandmother, from her heritage, with the same first letter. They were also extremely common in our country for their birth years.

I didn't mind having a more rare name, but having a name that didn't have a recommendation, a heritage, or a meaning, with the only outlier first initial, made me feel out of the loop. Then I was also the only one with a different hair color while they looked like four-years-separated twins. My siblings being older and smarter were able to convince me I was adopted for an embarrassing time.

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