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Can we launch an educational campaign to teach the respective meanings of weary, leery, and wary? (Yes, that's a damned Oxford comma.)

I once worked in an office in which The Powers That Be decided to order branded golf shirts. One of TPTB sent around the manufacturer's size chart and asked each employee to indicate their size. I said "You realize you just asked every woman in this office her bust size."

I've always been disappointed the show never tried to make Charles look like the real Charles. Who was not a handsome man. https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Phillip_Ingalls_(1836-1902)

I'm getting notifications all over the place "It's Amazon Prime day, item XYZ is now 99% off". So I click the links for any product that interests me, and it turns out that, if it is even available in Canada, it is nowhere near that price. I understand the price in Canadian dollars must be different, but the item isn't even marked down on the Canadian site. Many times is exponentially more expensive than the US site. Maybe it's a sign I need to stop shopping?

Don't use a mirror to check for burn marks. Nothing good can come of that.

There is a distinct smell of feces in one side of my yard. I have no dog, and haven't seen any dog waste anywhere in the yard. There is definitely no sewer backup. After much sleuthing, I think it may be my neighbours' garbage can. Which is full of diapers.

To the employee who answers the phone when you are standing right in front of them, in the middle of your transaction: "I got off my ass and drove all the way here. Why does the guy who just picked up the phone get priority over me?"

Damn, I've never gotten a judicial spanking even close to that in my lengthy legal career. But if I had, I wouldn't be able to maintain the poker face that prosecutor did while on camera.

Trying to drum up interest for a TLC wedding special.

Well, along with 90 Day Fiance and My 600 Lb Life, this show does make me feel good about my own life. Comparatively speaking, my life is a shining beacon of good decision making.

The CAT is a high speed ferry that has operated between Bar Harbor or Portland and Nova Scotia periodically over the last ~20 years. You weren't on it in 1970!, but assorted old and slow ferries sailed every summer for decades.

Newsflash - Canada is a sovereign nation, not part of the US. Food service workers across Canada are paid at least the same minimum wage as all other employees, except in one province in which tipped workers are paid approximately $2 per hour below the legal minimum wage. No food service worker in the country is paid less than $12.50 per hour, and most more than $15. Yet the American influence leads to the same tip creep, with the suggestion that 20% is the minimum acceptable tip.

People can be assholes without it being a medical condition. Just as kids can be brats without it being a medical condition.

That's a PICNIC Problem in Chair, not in Computer

Adeste Fideles is much better in Latin. Says this heathen.

Today I learned I can ask (tell?) my host to buy me something expensive when I stay in their house. That's even weirder than my mother going out of her way to have what she believes to be my favourite foods on hand when I visit. We once had breakfast together in a diner and I used one of the little marmalade packets on my toast, since I never buy marmalade for home. The next time I visited her house, she had bought a Costco size jar, just for me.

"Get your fire insurance"

There is no such rule, unless the visitor is flying on a budget airline which charges for carry-on luggage and they don't want to pay the fee.

It's okay when Adele does it.

Wait, what? You're not finishing a small bag of chips?

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

"Pretty is as pretty does", per my grandmother.

She's naturally pretty; not Gino's type.

I bought towels yesterday. The original price was crazy, and even on deep discount they were pricy. I washed them, on gentle, in my brand new washing machine. The hems are fraying and there are picked threads all over each towel. Back to the store I go. But I'm not bothering to fold them and bundle them up in the pretty ribbon in which they came.

Hope all of the Canucks are sitting on your nice chesterfield, with your feet up on your ottoman. And a monkey. Haven't you always wanted a monkey?