TF are you on about, these are dope. I like your style, particularly the character work examples.

…gonna shoot you a PM.

Axe the ass

Lol, I’m a booster of the term sh.it.heads for members of my Lemmy instance of choice [exactly as is, broken link and all], so I feel like I’m the wrong person to ask :p

‘Toot’ for Mastodon posts makes some sense to me - where ‘twitter’ and ‘tweet’ are reminiscent of bird song, ‘toot’ for a service whose mascot is an ancestor of the elephant fits. ‘Trumpet’ feels a little longform - a ‘toot’ captures the short form a bit better. Heck, this follows for the fart interpretation too - quote child me to my father once, “A toot sounds like ‘toot toot’. That was ‘blaaaarrrrrrrrrgh’”

Skeet? From what I’m reading, it’s an unofficial term combining ‘(blue)sky’ and ‘tweet’, partially for differentiation but I imagine in part because it’s hilarious. Official term IIRC is just a post.

Idk man - people just choose terms and whatever is repeated the most frequently eventually becomes standard nomenclature. 🤷‍♂️

Two reasons: Practical considerations (shared assets, certain legal protections, I’ve seen people get married for an easier go re: immigration in some cases, etc. Basically check your local laws); and ritualistic.

I find people often discount the importance of certain ritual practices in Western secular society, and for a lot of people ritual in general is a whole lot of fluff and nonsense. But having a ceremony to recognize a formal joining of two people, and by extension their families (to varying degrees), with the at least ostensible intent that you will live and die in partnership with that person, is a powerful thing. It’s a common ritual among multiple societies, with lots of variation and differences in exactly what it signifies, but the ubiquity speaks to that power IMO.

Don’t get me wrong - I think divorce is a good thing for when the partnership truly does not and cannot work, and people can live happily in lifelong unions without marriage - but for some folks, taking that vow in the eyes of your friends and family (and whatever deity concept you may have, if that’s your kink) is a very important and serious thing. Something changes, to some degree, when you take that oath.

It doesn’t have to be expensive - that it often is, IMO, is a function of capitalism infecting a beautiful thing more than anything else. You can have a wedding in someone’s backyard officiated by someone who paid $25 online for a certificate, with a small number of close friends and a potluck BBQ afterwards, and it would be just as valid and meaningful as a wedding that cost 100k (shit, IME the smaller one is actually more meaningful in a lot of cases). It’s the intent, ritual, and meaning participating parties place on it that’s important.

It’s a skeet/toot/whatever about Lemmy by a user I’m 99% sure I’ve had a brief exchange with on here.

I’ve got so much whiplash I’m looking up personal injury lawyers.

Not much of a gamer these days, but I love this format and what you are doing here. Keep it up!

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As someone who whisked away jizz (at best) covered towels from hotel laundry carts for a living for a while, I am glad to have been part of the magic.

Tip your housekeeping staff if you can - we know what you did but keep it to ourselves ;)

(Also if you see the laundry guy when getting on the service elevator, do not make the “Is there a dead body in there” joke. There are far better choices, be creative)

I second mycoboutique, it is cute as fuck.

Similar dream I have for Ottawa - you give Chebucto Community Net a nice chunk of change to set up and maintain the infrastructure.

Been many, many years, but if the kind of person who worked/volunteered for CCN hasn’t changed doubtless someone would be interested and have the skills.

This is going to come off terribly, but do you talk to many people IRL? There’s no game here, just humans being humans.

That said, perhaps not your preferred types of humans, which is perfectly fine. If anything, not engaging people the way I describe here could be a filter for the kind of people you prefer to interact with. Really isn’t anything wrong with that, though others may find it a bit constrictive.

If what you’re doing makes you happy and secure in your relationships with people, then more power to you!

If you don’t mind me asking, how is this reading minds? This is watching for behavioural cues, which lend some evidence of interest/disinterest. Men exhibit similar cues as well - think about the guy sitting at the bar, facing the interior with a grin looking about, versus the guy hunched over with a scowl counting the bubbles in his beer. Unless you’re moved by pathos to clink scowling guy’s glass, who seems more approachable?

Will admit there are folks who see a single behavioural cue and immediately jump to “They want to jump my bones”/“They wish me and my family were dead”, which is dumb. What I’m talking about is more “Oh, looks like they may be open to chat with someone, go say hi”, then noting if that impression stays or dissipates on fresh evidence. Again, the biggest problem I’ve heard of is people, but particularly women approached by men in a social setting, not wanting to tell the approaching party to fuck off (politely or otherwise) because of a perceived or real threat of violence. But this feeling often comes across pretty clearly in body language - if you’re a decent person, reading those cues and and exiting gracefully just makes sense.

Discounting non-verbal cues in IRL communication is silly. We give out a lot of information about how we’re feeling with our bodies to those paying attention. I’ll admit it can sound kinda creepy when writing it all out, but for some folks this is all intuitive. For other folks, thinking about this a bit helps with being more at ease in talking with new people, whether platonically or with an eye to something more.

The thing is, there are signals - open body language, frequent glances around the room, etc.

The tougher bit for some folks is also seeing, and respecting, when they clearly want you to go away, AND not taking it personally. They may want someone to approach them, but for whatever reason not you. That’s perfectly OK, and says nothing about your general worth, just their interest at the moment.

Go, initiate contact, and if you’re getting one word replies, crossed arms/body facing away from you, refusal to meet eyes, inauthentic laughs, etc., exit cheerfully, move on with your day and let her move on with hers.

The biggest problem I’ve had women tell me about is not being approached, but guys not taking the hint if it’s not clicking and leaving them be. Be the guy who reads the situation, takes the hint if present and doesn’t get all fucked up about it, and you’ll probably end up talking to someone who does want to talk to you later.

Should note this is often just human stuff, and holds for a lot of guys as well with the caveat that they’re often, though not always, more direct.

Sometimes, I think about the fact that if I post something really useful here, our traffic’s still so comparatively small that it probably won’t come up in a search engine query.

But that’s the way I like it, baby - I don’t want to live forever.

The difference between boofing and hooping is entirely contextual, it’s the same act.

So I’ve since quit, and I understand why even what I’m about to describe doesn’t exist anymore where I am, but right at the tail end of smoking indoors there were businesses/buildings doing totally walled off, wellish ventilated smoking areas. Those seemed ok to me, and when I (stupidly) took up smoking I was sad those were gone.

The only, and last, one I saw when I was a smoker was in an airport, which was an unexpected godsend because my fuck does it suck to be a smoker waiting for a flight.

(Yes, it’s a gross and deadly habit that’s also unhealthy and gross for the people around you and the employees who had to work in/clean such spaces, and it makes sense to have no smoking indoors).

What I’ve found even more fascinating is, particularly in earlier iterations of the technology, visual effects produced were remarkably similar to visual distortions people experience with certain drugs.

Easy to make a lot out of this where it’s not warranted, but at minimum it gives some interesting food for thought re: how visual processing works. Have seen people write about this, but am too dumb to actually understand.

Good choices so far! A few other ideas:

-Museum of Science and Tech is an obvious kid-favourite.

-One I don’t see mentioned as often is the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum at the Experimental Farm. Haven’t actually been in the museum myself, but they do have live animals as it’s a working farm, and I did see kids getting a kick out of that. It’s also across the road from the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, which connects to Dow’s Lake/The Arboretum if the kids have energy and patience enough for a little hike.

-Unless you really want to do a full river/canal boat tour (which admittedly is a good time), if you want to give the kids an ‘on the river’ experience you can take a water taxi from the locks to the Museum of History.

-For a less structured day/period, Mooney’s Bay has what I believe is the biggest public playground in Canada. You can also toss the kids in the water if it’s really hot (depending on water quality and comfort level). Keep an eye out as there may also be festivals going on depending on when you come (all pretty kid friendly as I remember them). Edit: Can also take them to see the Hog’s Back falls while you’re there, it’s close by.

-House of Targ, like 2-3 blocks south of Lansdowne, has all-ages family freeplay on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 8:00 PM. Bunch of pinball machines and arcade cabinets. Have seen elementary age kids having a grand time there when I’ve showed up early for a band/adults only freeplay.

-Depending on scheduling and available time, the Mayfair Theatre has a Saturday Morning Cartoons program, with cereal and people in PJs, once and a while. People and their kids seem to love it. Bookmark their website and watch for advance tickets, it sells out FAST.

-We have a baseball team - the Ottawa Titans [edit: NOT Giants]! They play at the old Lynx stadium on Conventry. If the kids like baseball/sitting in stands drinking soda and cheering on something they don’t understand, they may enjoy it. Also have soccer and football at Lansdowne.

-If you want to get the kids into nature, Gatineau Park is a no-brainer.

-Vincent Massey Park is nice as well.

Might add some others as I think of them.

You poor son of a bitch.

(Kidding, I like it here. Let me know if you want any recommendations!)

45 and flight?