What made you smile or laugh today? Part IV

[seela]

You might have fun with this too:
https://spraktidningen.se/kviss

It’s a friday thing for me.

Damn, those are hard! I only got four correct from the newest one, and one of them was a pure guess.

My smile is magnolia buds. Makes me think of Karin Boyes poem.
Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking.
Why else would the springtime falter?
Why would all our ardent longing
bind itself in frozen, bitter pallor?
After all, the bud was covered all the winter.
What new thing is it that bursts and wears?
Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking,
hurts for that which grows
and that which bars.

Yes, it is hard when drops are falling.
Trembling with fear, and heavy hanging,
cleaving to the twig, and swelling, sliding -
weight draws them down, though they go on clinging.
Hard to be uncertain, afraid and divided,
hard to feel the depths attract and call,
yet sit fast and merely tremble -
hard to want to stay
and want to fall.

That's pretty! I'm eagerly looking forward to some buds in trees here, too. It snowed today, so...

 

[IrisAlthea]

Damn, those are hard! I only got four correct from the newest one, and one of them was a pure guess.



That's pretty! I'm eagerly looking forward to some buds in trees here, too. It snowed today, so...

They are difficult. There are often words I haven’t heard before and I’m happy when I get them all.
I missed ”reifiera” in the last one because overthinking is my hobby.

Boye is one of my favourites together with your Södergran.

Another smile but decidedly less happy:
The Center Party here are proposing a law against controlling behaviour against a partner.

There is a discussion right now about wonen getting murdered by partners and the political parties are overbidding each other with (mostly) stupid suggestions.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

A PM threatening me with the phrase “If you want to continue to be a moderator...”

Dear Newb,

Get a thicker skin asap.

Me

 

[gracie920101]

I finished 85/243 in my crossword puzzle league!

It’s an insignificant thing, but I’m proud of it, because I solve in a foreign language and still managed to beat over 150 people. And it was so difficult for me at the beginning, so this is a concrete piece of evidence that I’ve made progress.

That's an admirable finish especially knowing you were solving in a non native language.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Did it end with
Or with someone calling you a “gal” and you wouldn’t understand because you’re not a guy.

Neither of those. Pretty sure this “pleb” thought I was a guy. And he also thinks he can get me removed from the site, apparently. Who knew?

 

[Bramblethorn]

At a wedding last night. There was a bounty for booing the DJ whenever he started to play creepy inappropriate songs like "Every Breath You Take".

 

[Bramblethorn]

A PM threatening me with the phrase “If you want to continue to be a moderator...”

Dear Newb,

Get a thicker skin asap.

Me

oh no! How would you survive without a moderator's salary and how would you fill your time without the delight of cleaning up spam posts?

 

[IrisAlthea]

At a wedding last night. There was a bounty for booing the DJ whenever he started to play creepy inappropriate songs like "Every Breath You Take".

No Hey Joe or Delilah then I take it?
A wedding sounds nice!

oh no! How would you survive without a moderator's salary and how would you fill your time without the delight of cleaning up spam posts?

Yes, the glorious life of a mod.

My smile:
http://xkcd.com/539/

 

[Moochienanu]

So... you messaged him?

I pounced on the opportunity of someone saying they had no limits (which we all know isn’t possible) and sent a list of interesting kinks that might be hard limits to some. He came back with his non-answers and something illegal, so I replied that I don’t want to talk about illegal things because those are not kinks. He then sent some long-winded meaningless stuff, so my final message was telling him I didn’t want to talk anymore, then he came back with four messages one after another like the one I posted telling me how I must be a man and I am uneducated, a malicious profile, a cam girl wannabe sex worker, and then a pleb. He threatened to report me. It all was so quickly escalated and made me laugh.

Can you blame a brat for such a juicy initial poke?

https://media1.giphy.com/media/ibsXQCrB0nhSeRZfeR/giphy.gif

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Anja

 

[seela]

Tentative archipelago plans for summer.

 

[Jada59]

Books.

 

[seela]

I realized there's a churchy day off coming up in a few weeks and I'll be able to take a few extra days off around it. Thanks for dying, Jesus!

 

[IrisAlthea]

“Vivaciously forward” is probably a synonym for “annoying as fuck.”

That one needed a spew alert!

 

[barefootgirl69]

A conversation about chocolate.

 

[BadAmy]

Cashew feni.

 

[seela]

Getting mail. I love getting mail, it's so rare that I do.

 

[Justis]

Time freely given

 

[IrisAlthea]

He actually thinks he’s the reason he left!

 

[seela]

Planning a presentation I have to give with a coworker in May. We had so much fun planning it and thinking about ways to make the difficult and very high level conceptual stuff more relatable. We decided to go with memes.

It was a face to face meeting, too, the first one in a while.

 

[seela]

Checking out Biscuits merch again. It’s idiotic that the biscuit with the pat of butter in its mouth makes me smile every single time. And Gumpy!

 

[gracie920101]

Checking out Biscuits merch again. It’s idiotic that the biscuit with the pat of butter in its mouth makes me smile every single time. And Gumpy!

But I don't know what size of shirt to send!

 

[seela]

But I don't know what size of shirt to send!

Aww, you don’t have to send me anything. The best biscuits shirts are always sold out or at least sold out in sizes that might feasibly fit me. So I just look at the pics and even that makes me smile. I’m easy!

 

[seela]

Friday off, sunny weather, baking.

 

[IrisAlthea]

A roadtrip, a photo exhibition and skidding down the dunes in clothes decidedly not meant for that kind of activity.