Month: November 2019

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rustingbridges:

I’m reading a blog post, and this guy is talking about what he does at canadian thanksgiving

is that how canadians refer to canadian thanksgiving? “happy canadian thanksgiving!” “give canadian thanks!”

#I mean probably not  #probably this is just because most of his blog audience is american  #and probably he gets a lot of confused questions about his thanksgiving timing  #but maybe

Yeah, it’s only “Canadian Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is American. Likewise, “American Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is Canadian.

Mom has been known to call the American one “Pilgrim Thanksgiving”, but I think she’s been doing that less lately.

(We celebrate both, in honor of our American heritage. I don’t know how Canadian-only people are supposed to cope with the fact that one can of pumpkin makes two pies: we get to just make both Thanksgivings’ pumpkin pies at once, keeping the second one in the freezer until it’s time.)

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overlordtulip:

Apparently most people don’t have the thing I have where my non-dominant hand is stronger than my dominant hand. Throughout my life, I’ve always found the intuitive distribution of labor, hand-use-wise, to involve using my right hand for any task which involves precise movements or quick reaction times (writing, mouse-movement, fencing, et cetera), and my left for any task which involves brute force and can afford to sacrifice precision (opening tightly-closed bottles and jars and heavy doors and so forth, probably some other categories of tasks I’m forgetting right now).

I wonder if this is related to the thing where, despite doing most two-handed activities in the prototypically right-handed fashion, I’ve always done minigolf and baseball batting in the prototypically left-handed fashion.

 

brin-bellway:

I wonder how common this is. All I really know about it is that I have the thing and my mom does not. (I found out when she expressed surprise at me opening jars with my left hand.)

I’ve never played baseball; I am not sure how I hold a mini-golf club, or for that matter what the prototypically right/left-handed fashions of mini-golfing would be.

 

rustingbridges:

I mean I also open jars and so on with left hand, but I think it’s just because I typically hold jars and bottles with my right. I know my right has a stronger grip.

I’ve been trying to teach myself to do things like that with my left hand, so I can intuitively have my right open for more important tasks, but it’s kinda hard to remember.

 

poipoipoi-2016:

Yeah, that feels about right to me. 

Also, my left shoulder is about twice the size of my right one, and if doing literally any shoulder work in the gym didn’t instantly result in injury, I’d probably spend some time/effort on that.

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officialgeorgecostanza:

As a linguistics nerd, I’d like to formally suggest “Nespring” as a nonbinary equivalent to niece/nephew and “Avaun” as a nonbinary equivalent to aunt/uncle

Nespring: literally meaning “the offspring of my sibling” from the old English roots “offspring” which is just ‘of spring’ and the Latin root “nepos” that both niece and nephew are derived from

Avaun: derived from the roots of both “aunt” and “uncle,” the anglo-French “aunte” and the Latin “avunculus”

@nonbinary-culture

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#language #gender #interesting idea #(fun fact: I used the word ”prumngle” in my thoughts a couple weeks ago) #(and then I stopped and looked at myself and went) #(”huh. I actually found a use for that word. neat.”) #(whereas these words would be *much* easier to find uses for)

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maryellencarter:

Somebody ought to do chicharrones / pork rinds in a whole bunch of flavor powders like potato chips, because they’re low carb and they have The Cronch

nobody makes sour cream and onion chicharrones and this is A Crime

(google turns up “onion and sour cream” chicharrones which boast of being heavy on the onion flavor. do not want. i want chicharrones in the lay’s cheddar sour cream flavor. and doritos nacho cheese flavor. and like… all dressed chicharrones, which are probably some sort of crime against fusion cuisine XD)

A lot of grocery stores have, next to the popcorn, shaker bottles of various seasonings. I wonder if those would help.

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chaoticbisexualalien:

finding out goats can identify/are drawn to happy humans is such a game changer because for years I thought I could summon goats by singing fleetwood mac songs but it was actually just because I was laughing at myself while I did it…….. smh I really thought goats just innately knew to stan stevie nicks……….

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