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Tabula rasa. Friend to two freeloading dogs--one epileptic half border collie and neurotic Kelpie. Sometimes art person, sometimes research person. I came here to kickass and beat cancer, and I'm all out of cancer 🥳👊🏼 (Remission since, 1/24).

Mostly, too tired for the wrong kind of nonsense (but always up for the good kind of nonsense). Professional library critter.

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2024-07-09 16:25:26

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From what I've read it's some weird mix of Protestant prudishness and some "stars upon thars" levels of class signalling nonsense.
But I don't think people know why they feel that way. It's like an echo of old beliefs. Like reflexively saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. 😂

2024-07-09 16:16:54

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That's such a throwback and has layers of weird notions of social class and "morals" baked in it.
Eating spicy food literally used to be associated with being trashy and having low moral status...for all the usual stupid reasons people associate innocuous things with immorality...a mix of classism and xenophobia.
Odds are people who feel naughty about spicy food don't know why that thought even exists in their head. 😂

2024-07-06 17:17:30

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Yeah, I'm not good with 15 minutes early. Thirty minutes late to get the kids, even if they're teens, stresses me out. My "on time" is plus or minus 5 minutes for everything but kids and work.
The doctor never gets me 15 minutes ahead. They can ask all they want. It isn't happening. I'm not showing up 15 minutes early to appointments that routinely run 2-3 hours late. If I have to take the entire day off and schedule nothing else because of them, the last thing I'm going to do is give them MORE time.
As for social stuff, it depends on how much the person setting the time cares about it 🤣 No point in getting pressed over an abstraction.

2024-07-06 14:44:41

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That was my grandfather's method. Retired USAF, of course. If you're on time -- you're late.

2024-07-06 13:15:54

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We have a different perception of time.
Example:
Kid - "Mom, can you pick me up?"
Me - "I thought your dad was?"
Kid - "He said he'd be here in 10 minutes."
Me - "Oh. I'm on my way then."
.......
Calls husband, I ask where he is, he tells me some vague location that is at least 30 minutes away from the pick up point.
......
See also in the car with husband: "Relax, it's close, we'll be there in like 5 minutes." ((Arrive 20 minutes late.)) "See I told you we'd be on time."

2024-07-04 16:16:29

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Ah yes, Happy Dog Peeing All Over the Place While Running in Fear Through the House Day to all those who celebrate. 😬
This holiday should be sponsored by Nature's Miracle or Bissell wet-vacs.