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My mom’s exasperated “shit a fiddle!” when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn’t really say curse words around me except for this.

I’ve never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.

I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?

I’m now inspired to make a cross stitch of this accordingly.

That’s pretty common in my area. Tell your wife she needs to get out more!

You can mix it up by saying “six of one, baker’s dozen of the other” and see if she catches on.

I just spent a few days sitting with my FIL in hospital. We binged Gunsmoke. I am a reluctant fan of Festus now.

• do they have you scheduled for any sight-seeing like CT or MRI scans?
• can you order UberEats to your room? I watched them come and go frequently and wondered if it was for employees, inmates, or both
• do you ask all the nurses for crunchy ice?
• have you asked that one nurse for a bed bath?
• are most of the nurses pregnant like they were at my hospital? Wtf is in the water?!

Fall risk?

** CAUTION: may incur relocation to a different wing

Was this in the Grand Tetons? Did you find the stash of the foxy shoe bandit?

Diet cokehead here!

I drink water too. And if a restaurant tries to sneak me a diet pepsi, I ask them to bring me iced tea.

The surrounding language is very macabre humor. I don’t think they are serious. At the very least, they are more not-serious than they really mean it.

“Ugh, allergies are the pits!”

Though this is very situation-specific.

“Hey deer! This is Beaver Town! You lost?”

Excellent point. I missed the totally obvious extra 0 there. OTOH a 50 foot giant running at 2x20 foot strides per second would be absolutely terrifying. Not that a 50 foot giant isn’t terrifying in its own right. But a sprinter giant? That’s like how I felt after 28 Days Later introduced sprinter zombies. Hell to the no thank you.

Sorry, are you saying 1 stride = 6.25 m? That seems absurd to me. But I’m a short lady, not Mr. Fantastic.

The office manager of the hvac repair company we use, came over Wednesday morning before work to loan us a window unit so we could stay cool while we waited for a part to come in for our central air. She’s an angel.

I thought the hitchhikers are supposed to supply the weed. He must have thought he’d won the lottery.

For the newbies, you don’t want your footprint tarp sticking out from under your tent if you can help it. It will wick water under your tent (rain, dew). Even waterproof fabric can fail given too much water exposure.

I look at focus. Did they opt for wide or narrow apeture. Did they get the focus sharp or did the focus point accidentally fixate on something other than the subject.

I look at composition around the edge of the frame. A random branch or leaf unintentionally breaking the frame. Using something in the foreground intentionally as a frame is different. Crop out the unintentional distraction. Conversely, be aware of ears, hair, arms, hands, legs, feet, (and tails if applicable) getting cut off in the frame. Sometimes that’s a legitimate choice, sometimes it looks like an accident. Maybe better to capture the whole being and crop down later.

I look at white balance and color tone to see if it’s pleasing to me. This is highly subjective depending on the viewer.

I look for other compositional things like straight horizons, leading lines, rule of thirds. And if those rules were intentionally broken as a style choice or accidental.

I believe learners should try to follow compositional rules. Once you’ve mastered looking out for those things while minding your exposure time, apeture, ISO, and focus all at the same time when getting your shot, then you will get a feel for when you can break the rules for more impact and it still be a good photo.

I’m sorry you’re having nightmares about your bully. I had a work bully and still have occasional nightmares with them in it too. When I wake up, I tell that person (in my mind) to fuck off. I wish one of these would end up being lucid, so I can tell them in the dream itself. But this helps.

I’ve always thought of it as the brain defragging. That said, I have had a couple where I really felt like the deceased family member was dropping by to say hello. These feel different from the ones where they may appear as a character in my dream, like an extra in a movie. I’m not lucid for those.

Last week it was my mom’s birthday. I hadn’t dreamed of her in a while, but I do think of her daily so I don’t ascribe dreaming of her just because she was on my mind during the day. The night of her birthday she was in my dream.

When I get a family visit, it does tend to end up being a semi lucid dream. I know in the dream that this person is no longer living and this is a visit. But I can’t control the direction of the dream.

So in the dream, I’m aware I haven’t seen her in some time and am very happy to see her. She was also saying how much she has missed me, and was uncharacteristically clingy. Just wanting to cuddle. She knocked me down even to cuddle. She was a tiny woman and I am not.

Then on my other side, my cat that passed 2 years ago decided she wanted to come cuddle too. I didn’t dream of my mom’s calico (whom I also fostered for some years while mom went through a rough spot). This was my calico. Mom never met her. But there they both were visiting at the same time.

It. Felt. So. Good.

I was sad to wake up.