ettyblatant

joined 1 year ago
[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

What? Did you say something?

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm an elder millennial and I have had absolutely no problem buying goldfish into adulthood. With this change, i'll inevitably be calling them Chilly SeeBas, so idk how much more adult they're going for in my demographic

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Pearl by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).

It's about a pig on a small farm that can seep into your mind and make you do and see terrible things. I picked it up after reading Bird Box and a few other books of his, which I enjoyed. I expected to give up on it based on the silly 80s horror movie premise, but the book is truly demented and creepy and I felt existentially weird after reading it

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That pronunciation always drives me wild! it only makes sense to call it data.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

What, you don't like cold soured apple curd tart cream? It has nutmeg in it!

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it eating a pork rind?

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Showering is very difficult with broken hands.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I am in a much better environment! This was about 10 years ago, and that particular store closed. I also ghosted that job. They had been harassing my trans coworker friend so we just stopped showing up. They did NOT try to call me :)

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 142 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I worked with someone who did this. It was the HR person. She just didn't show up one day, didn't answer her phone or door. For a solid week. After a wellness check by the police, it was revealed that she was fine, just couldn't go back in to work because she hated her job so much.

I was young, and it was a shitty grocery chain filled with shitty management and shitty customers. I 100% thought she had killed herself, or skipped town for some other awful reason. It was a relief to hear she was OK. Fuck that store.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It was counted in pairs, so it is actually 51 million dollar sets

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ahh, yes. I see you know your judo well.

 

Hello! So, I have always joked around with my friends about how when you say a particular word a few times, you start to question if it even is a word, or if it is spelled that way, etc.(think of tubing, or smock as examples) I have noticed in the past few weeks that I (37yr) am having that problem with almost any word that I try to write. We are talking about "and/it/the/Patrick" and whatnot, and it is really making problems for me at work.

Does anyone else have this problem! Does your brain automatically make all words sound fake?

And, yes, all words are made up.. I am talking about the ones that currently reside in common speech.

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