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I understand that some things that irritate me, like like being like used like every like other like word, or so at the beginning of every, like, sentence and SO on might have been around since god was young. But that doesn't make them any less irritating.

"Brain and brain! What is brain?!"

https://deadline.com/2025/02/actor-gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawa-dead-in-santa-fe-1236303385/ With their dog, so maybe carbon monoxide as said upthread.

It's Miracle Whip, not mayo for me. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

@shapeshifter the Thruway is Interstate 90 and runs from the Mass Turnpike west to Buffalo and then south to the PA line. I can't speak to Rochester roads but some state or county routes will be called by local names like the Kensington in Buffalo or the Parkway in CT, although they have numbers on the map (33 and 15). Others will be "the" like the 290 or the 190. Those are usually part of the interstate system. State routes 5 and 20 run east to west across the state but are often Main St in the towns they pass through. I join the chorus of complaint about having to choose one answer on some of the questions. Yard sale and garage sale are interchangeable, etc. The test did get me mostly right. I guess the light red Michigan and Cleveland are from northwest Ohio. Apparently nothing from CT has stuck.

the writer could, and should, have left out So and started with It.

Never participate or watch a battle re-enactment. Someone is going to die. It's inevitable.

Twice this week I've seen overwhelm used like this "the overwhelm of other people's opinions" and "how to combat the overwhelm." WTF?

14/20. I've been too far from the border for too long. Dinner, supper same thing.

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

Ah, football. 10 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours of television.

Wait, can we back up? Why is Ryan Reynolds an asshole?

I sympathize with the kids. We all work too much and 2 days "off" for 5 days of misery is appalling. The ""s are because, as noted upstream, at least one of those days is full of errands and house maintenance that would only take a few minutes at lunch or coffee break but snowball during the week. If you really love your job and co-workers, I salute you. For me, working has been the thing I resent for taking me away from real life. The few months to retirement can't go quickly enough.

Yikes! Do they have balanced billing?

Pivot was so overused during the pandemic that there should be a moratorium on using it. And if I never hear the word iconic again it will be too soon.