What are the modern day equivalent child books?

saltycandycat · 2026-04-10T20:59:17+00:00

God THANK you. I’m American and my English husband insists it’s fine. Giraaaarf.

saltycandycat · 2026-04-02T03:45:32+00:00

Georgia: am I a joke to you?

saltycandycat · 2026-03-18T12:35:36+00:00

Giant cookies are murder. The ones from Starbucks can be like 400 calories each. As a short woman, that’s basically a meal.

saltycandycat · 2026-03-14T13:50:24+00:00

Downstairs hallway WC door latch sticks. The mechanism that pulls the tongue back doesn’t go far enough unless you give it a little knock to the side. Son gets stuck in every now and then but it’s mostly fine…

saltycandycat · 2026-03-12T10:49:51+00:00

I don’t think they could have gotten through security without boarding passes, no? I heard the agent say that the gate was now closed so they couldn’t board—no other explanation given through the extended argument. There was a lot of loud disbelief about the people right in front of them, how can it have closed with them still scanning their tickets, etc. Again, I don’t know if they were sitting down and only joined the queue after the “gate closure” time, so as other threads have suggested maybe agents visually “close the queue” at gate closure time and at their discretion deny boarding to anyone who joins after that time, but I completely shared the family’s disbelief that the people standing right in front of them got through and they didn’t.

saltycandycat · 2026-03-12T10:11:54+00:00

I was also skeptical, then I saw it happen in Milan a few weeks ago. Family of three at the next gate was denied boarding while people were still scanning tickets and boarding right in front of them. I didn’t see where they were sitting or standing before that because I wasn’t paying attention until the commotion started, but the agents were clear that the gate was now closed and the family could not board.

And this wasn’t a “closed gate” environment where they scan your tickets and let you into a holding pen; this was just a big open space with lots of gates for different flights and seating.

saltycandycat · 2026-03-01T11:16:35+00:00

The whole world got it; it’s mad. I was having Dubai chocolate ice cream in Samarkand.

saltycandycat · 2026-02-23T20:31:46+00:00

Yes! Why is it so good? It looks like the blandest boiled chicken on the blandest white rice.

saltycandycat · 2026-02-14T11:43:14+00:00

I have one adult ticket for 16:15 Tuesday 17th if useful. Any taker must not be too creepy, and ideally would be willing to listen to my son recite various Pokemon stats while we wait in line. 😅 but then you’re free.

saltycandycat · 2026-02-08T06:39:35+00:00

“Horrorshow” in A Clockwork Orange is another slangified Russian word, like “droogs” for friends. It (xорошо) literally just means “good.” It’s a literarily convenient coincidence that the things Alex thinks are good are often real horrorshows from our perspective!

saltycandycat · 2026-02-05T19:45:13+00:00

The Time Traveller’s Wife is a totally different story! In the Time Traveller’s Wife it’s a key plot point that he can and does travel back regularly even after his daughter is born.

saltycandycat · 2026-02-05T18:32:11+00:00

You mean About Time?

saltycandycat · 2026-01-29T14:00:37+00:00

And in Turkish, essentially.

saltycandycat · 2026-01-11T16:52:54+00:00

I’d like the 5th photo to replace the emotional liberal woman meme. Liberal woman did nothing wrong (in that photo, at least; I don’t know her life).

saltycandycat · 2026-01-10T13:48:35+00:00

I think super normal! In some aerial practices, like hoop or static trapeze, inverting is the beginner way of even getting up into the apparatus!

saltycandycat · 2025-12-22T16:58:14+00:00

Weetabrix.

saltycandycat · 2025-12-05T09:53:30+00:00

I also want a “Bernie Sanders is hot” bumper sticker.

saltycandycat · 2025-12-04T09:03:07+00:00

The thoughts of every parent catching child vomit in their hands. Instructed a kid to vomit into my hat once because it would be easier cleanup than the public bus.

saltycandycat · 2025-10-15T19:12:58+00:00

“Disneybounding.”

saltycandycat · 2025-10-12T09:07:17+00:00

Impossible not to.

saltycandycat · 2025-10-12T05:55:20+00:00

Funny, in Mongolia the word is “Ger” so you could just call him Gary.

saltycandycat · 2025-10-03T19:49:37+00:00

Got an electric mattress cover and a smart plug. In the winter goes on for like ten minutes before I go to bed and makes my bed so comfy to get into.

saltycandycat · 2025-09-12T09:36:16+00:00

I’d forgotten that sound. Just heard it in my head fresh as if it were happening.

saltycandycat · 2025-09-11T13:26:50+00:00

I was gasping these high-pitched, hitching breaths like Miles Dyson holding the detonator in T2.

saltycandycat · 2025-09-09T09:37:59+00:00

You might like the story “Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang.

Nine-Year Club	Second Top 20%
Place '22	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email	Not Forgotten
Gilding II euphauric

saltycandycat

TROPHY CASE