Random Thoughts

GNTLGNT

Humanity managed to achieve so far - moon landings, modern medicine, mobile phones. And yet, we cannot figure out how to stop tables in cafe from wobbling uncontrollably

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Kurben

GNTLGNT said:

Humanity managed to achieve so far - moon landings, modern medicine, mobile phones. And yet, we cannot figure out how to stop tables in cafe from wobbling uncontrollably

If a random thought, like the above, is so well structured and thought out can it then really be called random??

not_nadine

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We go to bed everynight assuming we will automatically wake up the next day

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FlakeNoir

GNTLGNT said:

We go to bed everynight assuming we will automatically wake up the next day

I really need to stop using my phone before bed... 😳

GNTLGNT

Your money has probably been to more places than you.

not_nadine

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The irony of technology asking if YOU’RE the robot

Hedda Gabler

A large amount of creative stuff I’ve been watching, reading, listening to lately is coming from Canadian creatives. 

Now, as a non-regional accented American, most times I have no idea they are Canadian from their speech.  Unless they tell us, I probably don’t know their country of origin. 

But… there is one word that often unmasks them. One word and I’m curious why it’s this word and not others with that same sound. 

The word is… about. 

Why in the hell can’t you Canadians say “about” right? 

I’m teasing you. ❤️😄

not_nadine

'aboot'

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New angle for me.

Hedda Gabler

not_nadine said:

'aboot'

Yes!

just a story about Annie from SKMB. 

She is/was Canadian.  I met her in person at Ghost Brothers in Atlanta. 

We’re talking away, nothing in her speech to suggest any region of the globe until she said, “aboot.” I chuckled and said, “there it is. There’s the accent.”  And she immediately knew which word and was sort of angry at herself because she said she worked really hard not to say it that way. 

It was charming! I told her it made her unique and wonderful and not to change.  It made Annie loveably Canadian. 

GNTLGNT

Hedda Gabler said:

A large amount of creative stuff I’ve been watching, reading, listening to lately is coming from Canadian creatives. 

Now, as a non-regional accented American, most times I have no idea they are Canadian from their speech.  Unless they tell us, I probably don’t know their country of origin. 

But… there is one word that often unmasks them. One word and I’m curious why it’s this word and not others with that same sound. 

The word is… about. 

Why in the hell can’t you Canadians say “about” right? 

I’m teasing you. ❤️😄

GNTLGNT

Kids eating buckets of candy wasn’t an issue in our grandparents’ day because they were walking it off during their eight miles to school in the snow.

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

Kids eating buckets of candy wasn’t an issue in our grandparents’ day because they were walking it off during their eight miles to school in the snow.

Don’t forget uphill, both ways. 

GNTLGNT

Halloween must be a lot less exciting for cosplayers.

ghost19

Hedda Gabler said:

GNTLGNT said:

Kids eating buckets of candy wasn’t an issue in our grandparents’ day because they were walking it off during their eight miles to school in the snow.

Don’t forget uphill, both ways. 

"And we were happy to do it."

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ghost19 said:

Hedda Gabler said:

GNTLGNT said:

Kids eating buckets of candy wasn’t an issue in our grandparents’ day because they were walking it off during their eight miles to school in the snow.

Don’t forget uphill, both ways. 

"And we were happy to do it."

....."not that you appreciate it".....

GNTLGNT

Someplace on another planet, there are a group of scientists trying to figure out how life on earth can live by breathing oxygen.

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You know you’re in a small town when the radio station tells you what the elementary school lunch menu is for the day.....(yep, read a ton of them in my DJ days).....