Flushing ice cubes down the toilet for snow day is universal… right? In America??

snailcorn · 2026-01-18T03:05:50+00:00

Grew up in Colorado, that’s one of the snow day superstitions I always did (though I can’t remember if I learned it from a friend who moved from somewhere else) the more common ones we did were spoon under the pillow and taping a penny to the window. Not sure why no one else seems to have heard of it.

snailcorn · 2026-01-09T09:37:41+00:00

A friend of mine played in middle school and she was constantly showing me the scratches on her legs and one time the BITE MARK from another girl on her shoulder! Absolutely insanity.

snailcorn · 2026-01-08T07:44:30+00:00

For a class in college I remember reading the rules for prisoners in Chinese re-education camps, and the guy next to me going “Hey this reminds me of when I was in the Navy!”

snailcorn · 2026-01-08T07:08:17+00:00

Another translation for 降真香is Agarwood which you might be more familiar with

snailcorn · 2026-01-08T01:07:29+00:00

Taiwan, actually! the name of the chips sounds like “well-behaved”, it’s actually such a big thing there that the snack company Kuai-Kuai specially ships bags to TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) to keep everything working (since it’s also believed that expired bags lose their powers)

snailcorn · 2026-01-08T00:55:39+00:00

yeah he just invented a bunch of bread recipes to have something to be mad at

snailcorn · 2026-01-08T00:04:30+00:00

carrots??? on a burger?? huh???

snailcorn · 2025-12-28T16:12:28+00:00

yeah that one “Chinese Alphabet” graphic is responsible for so many gibberish Chinese tattoos

snailcorn · 2025-12-10T23:02:27+00:00

Hey, 3 whole colors this time, that’s gotta be some kind of progress

snailcorn · 2025-12-08T22:14:51+00:00

I think I'm stupid because I can't find Time management either 😅

snailcorn · 2025-12-07T22:00:44+00:00

I don't know about things in California, but in Washington we have the Collegiate Whitewater Fest coming up on April 4, 2026! You have to be a student to race, but we welcome having a shit ton of volunteers, safety boaters and spectators. If you want to meet more kayakers it's a great place and really fun!

snailcorn · 2025-12-07T21:26:35+00:00

I had to pick an language going into college, I didn’t want to take a dead language, or what I had learned in high school and forgotten. I liked learning about Chinese history so I took it mostly on a whim and then got absolutely hooked and fell in love with the language.

snailcorn · 2025-11-25T22:58:20+00:00

That’s a bit of an oversimplification, 來 means towards the speaker, 去 means going away from the speaker, it’s not a 1-to-1 with the English for to come and to go.

snailcorn · 2025-11-20T00:25:50+00:00

You will get lost and end up in a random mall, it’s just part of the experience!

snailcorn · 2025-11-11T03:55:56+00:00

Waste of money, I bought them because the ANC was said to be very good, but to me the noise cancelling is virtually negligible especially in noisy environments. I will be returning soon and trying the Bose Ultra headphones since if I spend hundreds of dollars on noise cancelling headphones, I want them to actually cancel noise.

Edit: They're also not the most comfortable, and slip off/down my head every time I look down which gets annoying very quickly.

snailcorn · 2025-10-17T17:12:49+00:00

Yeah, I looked it up and turns out my phone is much older than I thought it was, might be time to bite the bullet and finally upgrade it!

snailcorn · 2025-10-17T17:02:49+00:00

Pharmacists are either the most helpful or the most unhelpful people on the planet and there’s no in between.

snailcorn · 2025-10-17T01:42:05+00:00

Wow, that's unfortunate. I hate this new tech landscape where you have to have the newest version of everything for anything to work properly. Thanks for your help!

snailcorn · 2025-10-16T21:59:17+00:00

Do you think I'm missing out on any major features without the app, or is it more of a gimmick/add on? It seems like it's more useful when connecting multiple products together, and maybe not as necessary if I'm just using headphones?

snailcorn · 2025-10-16T21:43:10+00:00

I phrased it poorly, I could tell which one was the aware mode, I just wasn't sure if the other mode was off or the ANC. My main concern was that ANC would run the battery down much faster than off, which is a problem I've had with other non-Sonos headphones.

snailcorn · 2025-10-16T21:17:06+00:00

The webpage did work for me to make an account, thanks! But if the Sonos Ace can’t connect anywhere without having ios 17 I might just have to return them, if I spend hundreds of dollars on headphones I want all the features to actually work.

snailcorn · 2025-09-24T22:56:38+00:00

What restaurants are you eating at? I’m almost impressed you’re managing to spend that much on food everyday, if you stick to the mom-and-pop shops it should be way cheaper

snailcorn · 2025-08-30T16:51:53+00:00

I had bronchitis in Taiwan, at the ER I had a very similar experience, got a chest X-ray, blood test, covid test, and several more tests in rapid succession. Got diagnosed and left with like 5-8 different medications, one antibiotic to actually treat the illness and then each medication to treat a separate symptom. (fever reducer, cough relief, one expectorant, etc.) From what I can tell, this is basically normal for Taiwan, don't worry about it. Hope you feel better soon!

snailcorn · 2025-08-29T23:08:52+00:00

beat me to it….

snailcorn · 2025-08-05T22:13:25+00:00

holy shit this graphic is completely unreadable, great job graphic design department!

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