What made you smile or laugh today? Part IV

[supercollider00]

Only a month and a half before freedom....!

 

[Fingerfuxs]

I red something humorous

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

A guy checked me out and smiled at me at the tram stop. It doesn't happen a lot. Now it happened at the perfect time, because I was feeling like a total failure because of not being able to be a cool, collected professional who knew all the answers at a negotiation. It's the little things in life, ya know.

And I have ice cream in the freezer!

A wise man, who understands "subtle" keeps him off the "Asshats list". And, i bet you smiled back, unwittingly. Win - win.



Today, this from my garden forum*:

This pandemic is beginning to wear on us. I ran out of toilet paper and started using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg; tomorrow romaines to be seen.

I suppose that's a little arugula, but eventually something better will turnip.

*I won't identify it because they are a little um, conservative. I was redently admonished for saying "damn" in a post on the compost thread...

 

[seela]

A wise man, who understands "subtle" keeps him off the "Asshats list". And, i bet you smiled back, unwittingly. Win - win.



Today, this from my garden forum*:

This pandemic is beginning to wear on us. I ran out of toilet paper and started using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg; tomorrow romaines to be seen.

I suppose that's a little arugula, but eventually something better will turnip.

*I won't identify it because they are a little um, conservative. I was redently admonished for saying "damn" in a post on the compost thread...

I'm not sure if I smiled. I was confused.

Damn, the rules on your gardening forum must be rigid.

My smile of the day came from taking a walk in the forest spotting flowers.

 

[seela]

I had such a fun time on skype trying to speak Spanish! I definitely need to start doing this voice chit chat more often. Like a language a week or something.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I’m still smiling after a great day in the sun yesterday.

 

[seela]

Spotting a special license plate that reminded me of someone and fun times.

 

[Orchidea73]

This beautiful day.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Stopped by the pub for a "quick drink after work" with two co-workers, ended up having a three-hour deep and meaningful conversation and learned a lot about one another.

 

[MissMayhem69]

Laugh.

A snarky message from a threatened male "dom". Apparently, girls aren't allowed in his club. Terribly pathetic.

Why can't we all get along?

 

[Lady2020]

A Litster's pm.

 

[Dom70]

Met a lady today...(at least I THINK she is a Lady!) I aim to find out!

 

[Sh75]

Just hearing her voice and that sweet giggly laugh. It just made my day and made my heart smile. Love you kitten

 

[seela]

I signed up for Northern Sami language class and I'm super excited! Can't wait for it to start! #nerdalert

 

[MeekMe]

In trying to work through the anxiety I was asked, “when was the last time somebody chased you with a machete?” And I had to pause and really think about it. It sounds so absurd. But I really thought about it. And then I realized it wasn’t being chased by someone with a machete, but that I had some equally terrifying events in my life that gave the same feeling. Now a simple non-life threatening event can feel like being chased with a machete. And now I have a somewhat comical thought of being chased by someone with a machete. I actually laughed out loud when the realization hit me.

 

[Bramblethorn]

This thread: https://twitter.com/JohannesTEvans/status/1395129788021592071

 

[Orchidea73]

Someone who's hilarious and mental and lovely and barking mad and absolutely brilliant. https://i.imgur.com/p5D3yK1.gif

 

[gracie920101]

Explaining the difference between compel / impel and breech / breach to an individual. They were frustrated at first but they finally got it. I felt so accomplished!

 

[seela]

Explaining the difference between compel / impel and breech / breach to an individual. They were frustrated at first but they finally got it. I felt so accomplished!

Do me next?

Is breech the baby position? I don’t know how to spell it. Breach I know. But impel/compel I’m very interested in!

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Explaining the difference between compel / impel and breech / breach to an individual. They were frustrated at first but they finally got it. I felt so accomplished!

Do me next?

Is breech the baby position? I don’t know how to spell it. Breach I know. But impel/compel I’m very interested in!

I think I get compel (urge or coerce) / impel (push, force, direct) , and "breach" I remember from Shakespeare: Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead. (Implies a hole. Or did I infer it?) Henry V I think at Agincourt? Might he have worn breeches? AFAF (I get confused because the little gap in a rifle where you load the bullets is a breech, because its at the back (breech) end, which is why the birth (backwards) is a breech. Does a whale breech (flop out of the water the wrong way) or breach (break the surface)?

Seela: is English the MOST messed up language? I mean "i before e, except after c or where it says "A" as in neighbor and weigh". My buddy Keith is no Einstein but he knows this rule is weird

 

[gracie920101]

Do me next?

Is breech the baby position? I don’t know how to spell it. Breach I know. But impel/compel I’m very interested in!

Impel Is used when implying one has a choice in a matter. I am impelled to return to Lit each day to see what everyone is doing.

Compel implies no choice, as in, a driving force compels me to return to Lit daily or maybe it's just hormones.

Breech refers to a baby's position during birth.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Impel Is used when implying one has a choice in a matter. I am impelled to return to Lit each day to see what everyone is doing.

Compel implies no choice, as in, a driving force compels me to return to Lit daily or maybe it's just hormones.

Breech refers to a baby's position during birth.

 

[seela]

I think I get compel (urge or coerce) / impel (push, force, direct) , and "breach" I remember from Shakespeare: Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead. (Implies a hole. Or did I infer it?) Henry V I think at Agincourt? Might he have worn breeches? AFAF (I get confused because the little gap in a rifle where you load the bullets is a breech, because its at the back (breech) end, which is why the birth (backwards) is a breech. Does a whale breech (flop out of the water the wrong way) or breach (break the surface)?

Seela: is English the MOST messed up language? I mean "i before e, except after c or where it says "A" as in neighbor and weigh". My buddy Keith is no Einstein but he knows this rule is weird

Thanks for compel/impel! I also know breach from the same Shakespeare quote. Which I then again know from Gilmore Girls.

And English is so far from being the most messed up language. (Looking at you, Mongolian, to this day the only language I gave up learning because I just didn’t get it. Gotta give it another shot at some point.) What’s messed up about English is that there seem to be a lot of “rules” thrown around to be helpful which are either plain wrong or plain stupid (like the not ending a sentence with a preposition, English is structured in the hearty Germanic fashion, prepositions at the end of a sentence is what happens naturally).

Impel Is used when implying one has a choice in a matter. I am impelled to return to Lit each day to see what everyone is doing.

Compel implies no choice, as in, a driving force compels me to return to Lit daily or maybe it's just hormones.

Breech refers to a baby's position during birth.

Thank you! It’s just past 7am and I’ve learned something. I think I’m done with the day already and can go straight to weekend mode!

 

[Bramblethorn]

What’s messed up about English is that there seem to be a lot of “rules” thrown around to be helpful which are either plain wrong or plain stupid (like the not ending a sentence with a preposition, English is structured in the hearty Germanic fashion, prepositions at the end of a sentence is what happens naturally).

AFAICT, a lot of those kind of "rules" were invented by tedious Victorian-ish dudes with too much time on their hands, often as a kind of shibboleth to mark out the posh classes from the plebs. I suspect they're the same people who insisted on inventing all sorts of obscure collective nouns for different kinds of animals, something that serves no discernible purpose.

What made me smile today: dudes who need to have Manly Versions of things, which are exactly like the regular thing but in black or labelled with MAXIMUM TURBO POWER RHINO AS USED BY THE S.A.S., so that they don't get feminised by their biro/deodorant/car/whatever.

 

[supercollider00]

Had to laugh at a rather pathetic attempt to make me submit via humiliation by PM from a guy. Pretty big red flag. Can't even imagine how it is for the female submissives on here.