ChickenLadyLovesLife

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ChickenLadyLovesLife,

blinking your emergency lights

In the US, truck drivers sometimes do this as a “thank you” if you flash your brights to them to let them know they can safely change lanes to the right after they’ve passed you (which is a nice thing to do for them since they can’t really see shit behind on their right).

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Slap a man upside the head with a salmon and he’ll stop asking you for fish all the goddamn time.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

It was brown M&Ms. Only a psychopath would say no green M&Ms.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I wish people would make fun of Visual Basic more but nowadays it’s like it never even existed. As somebody that started in VB I feel left out.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I really hate saying “turn of the century” and having to specify which century.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Duran Duran is where we’re from
And doing this is real good fun
Must be the music, so I guess
RIght here on WMMS

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Golden Oldies

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I’m a school bus driver and we get tipped (at Christmas and the end of the year). It’s fucking ridiculous. One of my coworkers last year even handed out tip envelopes to the kids - and got suspended for it, fortunately. Imagine being a parent and seeing that bullshit when your kid brings it home.

I don’t throw away the gift cards, of course, but it genuinely means a lot more to me when I get a hand-written card from one of my kids (especially if it’s not accompanying money).

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I call my cat “muffin sweetie” when I think nobody is listening. Sometimes people are listening, though.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Republicans keep their hold on power by systematically disenfranchising voters who disagree with their policies. In a perfect world, voting for a third-party candidate that has no chance to win might have some positive impact; in our world, it means you’re doing the Republicans’ work for them.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I got to the point with weed where the first bowl of the day made me feel great with the standard high, second bowl was meh and after the third bowl I just had tremendously negative and stressful thought patterns all the time. It didn’t help that this was all before 7 AM.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Fun fact about bridge load limits: school buses are legally allowed to ignore them. While this might seem insane given that the point of a school bus is to transport children safely, the posted load limit on a bridge isn’t the weight which will cause the bridge to collapse - it’s a weight which, if traffic heavier than that were to regularly use the bridge, would cause abnormally high maintenance and repair issues over the long term. Bridges can bear much greater loads than the posted limits without instantly collapsing.

Source: school bus driver who got a question about this on the test for his CDL endorsement and looked it up after going WTF?

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

rationing during WW2

Not just during but long after (well into the 1950s). People generally don’t understand that Britain literally bankrupted herself holding out against Germany, then got to watch as the former Axis powers rebounded faster than they did.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

My parents were big hippie environmentalists back in the '70s and they were always so proud of their son (me) for volunteering at the local recycling center every Saturday. Fortunately they never found out that I did it for the porn. I had like four or five copies of every porn magazine published in that decade.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I’m a school bus driver and many of my fellow drivers talk or surf on their phones while driving fucking kids around. It’s illegal and every moment on our buses is recorded (audio and video) but somehow nothing is said or done about this by the people in charge.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I went to a food truck festival a few weeks ago, and holy shit the prices of stuff. I don’t think there was a single item you could get for less than $18, and that was like the price of three french fries.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

TBF food trucks are insanely expensive (like, $80K+ expensive) so I don’t really blame owners for charging whatever people will pay. I’m just amazed people pay that much.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Lemmy is losing users, but Reddit is using losers.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I used to drink five 24 oz. coffees from Wawa a day, and I thought nothing of it until I did the math and realized that’s A FUCKING GALLON OF COFFEE. I now drink just one measured actual cup a day and it’s nice. It turns out blinking once in a while has its advantages.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Stay alive!

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

How could you not be a fan of this shit?

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

It’s interesting that this shit is how Lyndon Johnson rose to prominence in the Democratic party. As a newly-minted Congressman in the 1940 election cycle, he acted as a conduit for Texas oil money, funneling it to various Congress and Senate races around the country and allowing the Democratic party to retain control of the House and Senate. This earned him the appreciation of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and FDR himself.

It also possibly won WWII, given the isolationism of the GOP at the time.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I feel like somebody this dumb would have their cap on backwards.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I should have added that he would also be wearing crocs and half-calf white socks.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Fluoridex. Prescription-only and pricey (~$17 per tube) but worth it. My dentist prescribes it and also sells it from his office for a bit less than what drug stores charge. Health or dental insurance may cover it but probably not.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Hence mocking Musk instead of guillotining him.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

This incidentally is why used school buses from Colorado are highly desirable in the skoolie community (a skoolie is a used school bus converted to a motorhome). In addition to the generally high-quality transmissions and retarders (essentially for handling mountainous terrain), the “sand” you use doesn’t promote rusting-out of the bus bodies like road salt does. In a sense, though, this is still bad for the environment: the extended lifespan of these vehicles keeps them on the road spitting out carbon dioxide longer then they otherwise would.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

To paraphrase Mitch “RIP” Hedburg: I’m a cesspool of disinformation. I used to be a cesspool of disinformation, but I’m still one, too.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I just finished a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie and other books in that series. In one of her books she had a line describing her part of the West as “a land that had no people in it”. In the 1950s, shortly before she died, a young fan wrote to her and pointed out that there were, in fact, people in it: the Indians. To her credit, Wilder wrote back that she had made a mistake and of course Indians were people, and she had future editions of the book edited to say “a land that had no settlers in it”.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

The dude who sold me my latest smartphone this year had one long fingernail. I kinda thought it was a coke nail until he applied my screen protector and used the nail to separate the plastic backing from it. Aha!

I studied classical guitar in high school and since I could never keep my real fingernails intact I always had three plastic nails going on my right hand. That was a tough one to explain to the local bullies.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I would have had the star holding the gun sideways.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

TBH the line “some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses” never made much sense to me because “those that work forces” is not commonly used (or used at all) to mean “the police”. It only made sense to me when I learned that the original line was “some of those that wear badges” but RATM’s record label made them (or maybe just convinced them to) change it because that was too inflammatory. I wish they’d go back to the badges line because that makes the meaning perfectly unambiguous.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

On a Mac it’s way more intuitive than this. You just … hold on, I have to look it up again.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

And what does that do exactly? Take a snapshot of the whole screen or just a selected portion? And does it copy to the clipboard or create a file? And where is the file? That shit actually is hard to remember, especially if you don’t do it every day. And it is in no sense of the word “intuitive”.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I used to play this game with my cat when he would come sit on my lap while I was sitting at my desk working on the computer. I would put a plastic bottle cap on the edge of the desk and he would immediately tense up, but he played it cool for a few minutes and acted like he didn’t care about the cap. Then suddenly the paw would fly out at light speed and knock the cap to the floor. Rinse and repeat like ten times in a row or more.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I was just thinking about this girl I worked with at a summer camp who suddenly said “you have amazing eyes” while I was talking to her. It was genuinely like two years later until I realized she said that because she was into me. I wasted the whole summer chasing a Dutch girl who, when I asked her at the end why I hadn’t gotten anywhere with her, said “I was disappointed in your physique.”

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I had a girl in high school (high school!) literally say to me “when am I going to get to feel that dick of yours inside me?” and I blew it, thought she was just joking.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Those tiny round bandaids work too.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

There is the theory that sexual attraction is towards characteristics that are on the opposite side of the normal curve from yourself, specifically so that your kids are nearer the average of your species and thus more fit for their environment. I’m tall and had a huge underbite (until it was corrected surgically) and I go for tiny women with overbites. Also, smart women with money and style.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

How do you pretend to be a democratic republic

This is the key word right here.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Tramp (Chaplin’s famous character).

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

It’s how the British royal family ended up with the family name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, …at least until they changed it to Windsor because being conspicuously German was not a good look in Britain during the early 20th century.

It’s even worse than that, specifically. In 1917 during WWI, Germany started bombing London and other civilian centers primarily using bombers manufactured by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG, popularly known as “Gothas”. Having the name of the thing dropping bombs on your people literally in the name of your royal family is some hilariously bad PR.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

It didn’t say what was happening to those bunnies.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Once the elites have everything they need or want provided by AI and machines, we get death.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Virtually everyone lives in or around Chicago.

And hilariously, everyone is still paying the Saudis for parking.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Visual Max .NET

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Pimp My Streaming Service

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Yeah, now I’m thinking there have been shitloads of cockroaches that I wasn’t aware of.

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