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Post by kneazle on Nov 26, 2023 15:13:33 GMT -5
I was over at my parents yesterday and mum said she had a chicken to roast for dinner.
Turns out she'd not really paid attention to what she was doing and bought chicken nibbles rather than a whole chicken.
I made a honey soy sauce to go on them and they were quite nice - just a bit different than we were expecting!
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Post by sprite on Nov 26, 2023 17:22:23 GMT -5
Me running up the stairs to the bedroom, to avoid hearing the neighbours below having sex. Must remember to always watch tv on sunday nights from now on.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 27, 2023 2:01:30 GMT -5
There was an Australian cities version as well, which was hilarious.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 27, 2023 6:37:13 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I can see someone doing it in the US - Colorado, New York, LA, West Virginia or something
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 27, 2023 6:47:31 GMT -5
I was over at my parents yesterday and mum said she had a chicken to roast for dinner. Turns out she'd not really paid attention to what she was doing and bought chicken nibbles rather than a whole chicken. I made a honey soy sauce to go on them and they were quite nice - just a bit different than we were expecting! Something similar happened to me the weekend my friend was visiting. I planned to buy lots of salad and a barbecued chook. The supermarket had a problem, and couldn’t cook whole chooks, so I settled for a bag of “Chinese chicken wings”,which had a spicy coating, and had probably been deep fried.
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Post by sprite on Nov 27, 2023 12:33:20 GMT -5
Text from neighbour, "what was that grey thing streaking across your garden?!!?" but it was another neighbour's cat.
If it had been the rat she thought it was, i would napalm my garden.
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Post by groo on Nov 27, 2023 18:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by tinaja on Nov 27, 2023 18:24:04 GMT -5
The 2 yr old girl E at Thanksgiving was playing with a bottle brush in a package. I saw her put it into an open suitcase. And really didn't think much about it. Mom and sis is looking everywhere for it. And finally the lightbulb came on. I told her what happened. The suitcase belonged to the great auntie. And she had already left. There was a scene in the Sex and the City movie just like it, but it was a phone. And the character looks just like E.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 28, 2023 6:31:54 GMT -5
When river said her living room was 17°C, I went to convert our living room's temperature to Celsius to see how ours compared, but I did it backwards and laughed when the result came up as 147.2.
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Post by tinaja on Nov 28, 2023 15:49:00 GMT -5
Not sure that it exactly makes me laugh, but an acquaintance is putting out some very sexual themed art out. They just mention the types of media used. Seems like you have to be very brave to do that.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 30, 2023 19:14:45 GMT -5
Laughing at myself hearing something weird on the radio and saying "hey, I own this record! What is it?"
And then two tracks later she played another track which is on ANOTHER record that I have on my phone but all I knew was "I have this on my phone, what is it" (it was Coil's "Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris In a Night," of course, everyone loves that song)
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Post by sprite on Dec 1, 2023 5:34:50 GMT -5
Caught the neighbour's cat eyeing up the bird feeder. He looked very guilty when he saw me.
He's under strict orders to go after the squirrels and rats, but wee birds are off limits.
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Post by psw on Dec 3, 2023 9:42:35 GMT -5
Title of an on-line lecture: Ancient Archaeology
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Post by Queen on Dec 3, 2023 14:50:23 GMT -5
The Dutch Natural History Museum has woolly mammoth christmas tree decorations I want some.
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Post by Queen on Dec 3, 2023 15:02:01 GMT -5
also T Rex
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 3, 2023 15:03:17 GMT -5
OMG
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Post by kneazle on Dec 3, 2023 16:11:25 GMT -5
So I was sick on Friday and missed the work Christmas party which involved Karaoke (I love karaoke so I'm actually sad about it) apparently our CIO sang Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine. I'm REALLY gutted I missed that!
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Post by psw on Dec 3, 2023 16:37:05 GMT -5
kneazle - someone must have made a video!
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 3, 2023 16:59:08 GMT -5
!!! kneazle, that's amazing
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Post by sprite on Dec 4, 2023 8:03:54 GMT -5
I heard a Canadian colleague karaoke that once in South Korea, with our Korean colleagues. It was kind of painful because no one else knew it, there's a lot of repetition, and it's very very long.
I may have accidentally hit the 'next' button on the music controls.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 5, 2023 14:34:03 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 5, 2023 15:11:58 GMT -5
I feel like I’m in a mind valley right now, I need more coffee
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 6, 2023 6:07:55 GMT -5
"Indonesian Martabak Tahu is a lovely tofu stuffed pancake made with canned corned beef"
I mean I love tofu, but that sounds gross to me. When I read it I made a loud "bleurgh!" sound and then started laughing.
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Post by psw on Dec 6, 2023 8:53:08 GMT -5
Reminds me of a similar "bleurgh" - chipped beef, another gross canned product which I unfortunately consumed in my youth, particularly made with some sort of sauce, served on toast, generally known as Shit on a Shingle.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 7, 2023 15:00:25 GMT -5
"Indonesian Martabak Tahu is a lovely tofu stuffed pancake made with canned corned beef" I mean I love tofu, but that sounds gross to me. When I read it I made a loud "bleurgh!" sound and then started laughing. that made me groan
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 7, 2023 16:00:41 GMT -5
Every year when the school sends an email to parents telling them their kid will be receiving an academic award it includes the line 'please do not tell your child' to keep it as a surprise. And then the school also adjusts the online timetable the child can access to see they are missing lessons to attend the practice assembly, which means they know they will be up for awards. And after the first year, the kids have worked out those in the start of the line for each year group get the diligence and effort awards.
Makes me giggle - the kids know almost as soon or even before the parents do, but we have to keep it a secret!
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 7, 2023 17:05:08 GMT -5
Um administration, kids who are smart enough to get awards are also smart enough to figure that out!
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Post by kneazle on Dec 7, 2023 20:12:58 GMT -5
Laughing at myself really. I saw a psychiatrist this morning about ADHD and she said I should get an ADHD coach as that would help. I started googling and it was longer than it should to realise that our work Employee Assistance Provider - who I talk about with managers and staff ALL OF THE TIME probably has someone I could see for free.
(they do!)
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 7, 2023 21:10:46 GMT -5
Radio playing something that sounds like a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner, which eventually went on so long that it made me laugh, and then the dj announced that the name of the track was "Stillborn Plague Angels," which made both of us laugh because that genre is always so over the top.
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Post by sprite on Dec 8, 2023 11:04:37 GMT -5
I always wonder if people genuinely like that music, or they just listen to work out how it's been done?
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