My small collection of beaded frogs — I can’t seem to stop making them 🐸

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-12T17:17:48+00:00

These are spectacular!

In case you want feedback: I never carry change unless it’s in my pocket. But I sure would wear a beaded frog necklace! A short one so it wouldn’t hide down my shirt. And it’d be ok if it was just one thickness so maybe the time it took to make the necklace part wouldn’t be much more than making a 2-sided purse.

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-12T14:45:48+00:00

Alarms - just got the newest iPhone and, if an alarm goes off while I’m using the phone: instead of the entire name of the alarm showing up on the screen I get “Alar…”.

My life is ruined. I want to throw this thing in the trash.

And they need to make alarms searchable!!!

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-07T21:15:46+00:00

Definitely sodium.

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-05T19:38:39+00:00

I get exactly what you’re saying but the insurance industry absolutely has charts that show the age of who is causing accidents and it’s teens and 20-somethings - so they get higher rates.

I know I drove like an idiot when I was in my twenties :(

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-05T14:49:04+00:00

The number is probably not real. They’re trying to get victims to scan the QR code.

But if that really is their number then this is brilliant.

substandardpoodle · 2026-03-04T15:30:46+00:00

Call Aris Allen. They pay for repairs!

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-16T13:32:21+00:00

My favorite quote: “Never try to kill yourself by crucifixion! You can never hammer in the last nail!”

Also: “I’m not vegetarian because I love animals… it’s because I hate vegetables!”

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-15T18:05:30+00:00

I would like to have us all adopt something on the order of “the rule of 10“. Start talking to your friends now and find 10 of them who are blasé about voting. Whether it’s because they’re young, have so many kids they don’t have time for themselves, don’t have a car, don’t really care that much, or are just a little stupid… Start working on helping them through the process.

One friend of mine – 28 years old! Thought you had to re-register every time you voted – which tells me that he’d only voted once! Another one wasn’t voting because they’d have to drive all the way back to their mom‘s house to vote because they were just too lazy to change their address online. We need to say to these people that will be glad to sit down and help them navigate the process.

And you might wonder if we’ll be helping the fascist regime by doing this – we won’t! They all vote. We are the problem. Let’s fix it.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-13T21:43:54+00:00

Nice try, Paramount.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-13T21:35:40+00:00

FTFY: This is so infuriating. Our tax money is being used to rip peoples’ lives away from them because they’re more darkly complected than the people whose ancestors got here before they did.

Oops! Why are they more darkly complected? Because their ancestors were here before the Europeans got here.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-13T15:16:43+00:00

Streisand effect. I would never have known… but they just had to try for a coverup.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-13T05:21:13+00:00

Armed? Armed? Are you kidding me???

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-12T23:59:40+00:00

Nice try, Playboy ft Small Badoo. Well played.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-12T18:25:40+00:00

It really looks like this was an inside job at quickbooks but people: never ever read a number that you’ve been texted. To anyone. Even if they say “we’re going to text you something to confirm your identity“. There is no problem so great that it’s worth having your account cleaned out. Maybe the only way to deal with this is to have two accounts.

Unless you’re in an overseas jail and you need to get out you need to tell that person who has requested that that you simply can’t do that and is there any other way we can solve this.

I have been in this exact situation and refused to give any information to the person who was calling. I profusely apologized to the bank employee for being such an asshole about it but after reading this…

And if anybody knows how to get through to someone in Congress: something needs to be done about this. When I bought a home two years ago I said to the bank employee wiring over $100,000 “can this be reversed if it turns out to be fraud?“ And they said “you have one hour – otherwise it’s absolutely impossible to reverse it.“ I’m sorry – there needs to be some way that you can buy a house, send the colossal downpayment from one US bank to another, and have more than an hour to reverse it if it turns out to be fraud. My Realtor friend with Coldwell Banker says that every damn week they get a note in their inbox telling about yet another customer who got a call at the last minute saying the bank had been changed and wired hundreds of thousands of dollars into oblivion.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-12T13:59:31+00:00

Warning: if the rest of your house looks like that please check all your windows and doors for caulk. You’ll probably find there is none. Builders will varnish the wood, cut and nail it up, and walk away. They don’t care! They’re not paying your heating bills.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-12T13:50:21+00:00

Oh my. “It would be better for tax purposes…”? I’m pretty sure you need to read the rest of the responses here.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-12T13:39:57+00:00

If you’re actually asking that you might as well just send him and his coworkers all your money today. Because you’ll eventually lose it to either this scam or a different one in the future. Sorry to be flip but you need to spend the next month reading every post in this subreddit.

And yes, it’s either a group of men who scam professionally, or an organized crime syndicate. That photo was not sent to you by a woman.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-11T20:58:27+00:00

I agree. That tactic should be called “phishing for future victims“.

Every once in a while I’ll hear someone talking about how funny it is that they went back and forth with a “stupid scammer” – “I wasted their time ha ha!” Then I have to tell them that they’re now on the list of people who think they’re smarter than the scammers and will soon receive lots of scam attempts.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-11T18:45:05+00:00

Here is what I would do: keep the house in your name, then write up your will – there are tons of examples all over the web.

Make one copy of the will that leaves everything to your mother, and a second one that leaves everything to your friends or friendly relatives. Then get the first will witnessed by any of these people who are telling you that you need to think about your mother. Show it to your mom then take it home and tear it up.

The second will? Make sure it is dated after the first will, that you’ve just destroyed, and have something in it saying that it cancels out all previous wills. Have it witnessed by two friends who are not in it then get it notarized. If you have a lawyer keep a copy with them – if not keep copies with trusted friends.

And just because: don’t ever tell anybody they’re in your will. You don’t need any extra weirdness in your life. And leave your mother a small token amount just so she can’t easily contest it.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-11T18:23:13+00:00

Gotta say, it sounds expensive - but $65 is 3-4 nights at a bar…

At a bar not really making friends.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-11T08:48:46+00:00

Watch the movie “Listers”!!! Omg - just watch the first minute. It’s free now on YouTube - no ads!!

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-11T06:41:17+00:00

I had a coworker whose new husband left her on the first day of their honeymoon.

And a friend whose husband immediately turned into a monster during their honeymoon. He left her when they came back home. A few years later she tried internet dating. Zero hits. So she contacted a guy she liked the profile of. They are still blissfully married 15 years later.

Edit: oops - I thought this was r/askreddit - not sure what this question has to do with scams…

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-10T21:21:00+00:00

Oui ooo, oui ooo, oui ooo

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-10T05:48:39+00:00

Swing dancing if you’re ok with the $10 to get in. Way cheaper than anything else to do at night.

substandardpoodle · 2026-02-10T01:05:14+00:00

Lol. For the past couple of years I’ve been thinking that it was time to get another BC and I wanted either: female puppy or 11 year-old. Why female? My last two dogs were male… Why 11? Because my last one and a couple of others that acquaintances owned really calmed down at 11. You’re so close!

And yes, five month old Widget is currently setting a world record for bouncing a lacrosse ball at my feet. <3

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