Posts by Gorfram@beige.party
(DIR) Post #Av4Ol8KsFoKMsPln9s by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-12T23:43:34Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell/114672907748993671 …the legalese meant to inform them whether a given arrest is legitimate. (They may not care, either; but that’s a different bunch of verbiage from me.)I’m off to go think about this some more; or maybe to let my stomach unclench. Definitely not both.
(DIR) Post #Av4XXGd5WKEo8HkhHM by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-13T01:27:03Z
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@futurebird Maybe I’ll make a summer goal to learn to identify all the trees visible from my (well-suburbanized & parking lotted-in) balcony.
(DIR) Post #AvCQlBcrm8C4Fo1BEu by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-16T00:56:31Z
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@platypus American, but not a big cheerer-on of sporting events & rallies. I can’t imagine owning a cowbell unless I accessorized it with a cow.
(DIR) Post #AvFeFSFaPbJzNblvYe by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-18T09:28:18Z
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@Tarnport A tiny amount (too little to actually taste) of chili pepper opens up tastebuds slightly, making the dish seem more flavorful
(DIR) Post #AvNeOFQ32f8TSHXOmu by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-22T06:34:06Z
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@Edwin085 #AltText Two boats in a tiny bay, and another boat & two people working on stuff on its beach of big flat rocky slabs. Two rocky headlands encircle the bay from either side. The surfline retreats after a breaking wave, and then... keeps on going out, nearly to the mouth of the little bay. It's about this point the two people sense something is wrong; and as they look up from their work, a huge dirty wave crashes into the left-side headland. They start to retreat away up the beach to the right. The people quickly have to change course though, as the wave coming in through the mouth of the bay crashes against the right-side headland and bounces off, coming up incredibly quickly now from the right. It is about this point that yelps and exclamtions are heard. Shortly afterward, the camera falls; and a whirl of rock and sand and water and sky is seen before the clip abruptly ends.#Alt4You *sorry if this is long, it's kind of hard to convey fully but succinctly
(DIR) Post #AvOOhVbZgPXJ343Fqa by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-22T08:31:37Z
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@Genderqueerwolf I've had good luck with placing a tub of ice cubes center front of an oscillating fan*, tilted down a bit so that the air sort of "bounces" off the ice water before being blown over towards where I'm sitting.***might work just as well with a static fan, I just like the oscillator.**this in fairly dry 90 F weather in the PNW******yeah, I'm a wimp w/r/t hot weather- that's part of why I moved to the PNW
(DIR) Post #AvPEw8sHfimGVlAMj2 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-23T01:07:38Z
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@interfluidity You mean, swap Trump for Khamenei? ...They might prefer the bombs.*jk,oc
(DIR) Post #AveczjFmp0K7qsckO8 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-06-30T11:17:48Z
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@futurebird Operating the clutch in a car with a manual transmission. That was so hard to learn. At first it seemed impossible, and when I finally did it, effectively but badly, I thought I’d never get much better.Years later I realized that I did it probably hundreds of times a week, all smooth and sweet, without even giving it a conscious thought.
(DIR) Post #Aw6is2fSHekXf8a7tI by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-07-14T00:35:27Z
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@futurebird @noondlyt @weirdestate Perfect setup for selling your feet pics online, no?
(DIR) Post #AwAf6126IpFUs4rIn2 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-07-15T22:12:08Z
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@Nonilex 30% of *all* the forest in NE British Columbia?? That’s a hell of lot of forest to have be on fire.*I don’t doubt you or the assessment. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around it.
(DIR) Post #AxC2xGBMwmtpdYVxVA by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-08-15T12:06:16Z
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@futurebird "Endless Queens" is, of course, the name of my new drag troupe.
(DIR) Post #AyKSiklTIkWgFQC00W by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-09-18T11:24:43Z
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@futurebird I'm terrible with names (and faces!), but I've gotten very good at saying "I'm so sorry, but I seem to have forgotten your name" (by now, it might as well be my favorite greeting). Of course, it gets effective by about the third time I have to say this to the same person. There's a maintenance guy for my apartment complex that I've introduced myself too about eight times. (I think it's "Nate." I think he's the one with the red hair. ...I think I should make flashcards).Dale Carnegie, of "How To Make Friends And Influence People" fame, suggested making Rolodex cards for each new acquaintance; with their name, some memorable characteristic (like another poster on this thread suggests), the circumstances where you met them, etc. He also suggests noting things like their spouses, kids, & pet's names, & things like their hobbies or their favorite sports teams. I've never actually done this, but I probably should have.*on an unrelated note, any recommendations for making visual flash cards?
(DIR) Post #B15QZPunS3ryOmW6E4 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-09T22:56:20Z
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@futurebird I'm guessing ant taxidermy isn't really a thing.*or, at least, not a very big thing 😜
(DIR) Post #B1A9o29pKxDdd4jMxc by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-12T05:41:58Z
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@strypey I will be glad when "SJW" falls out of common use, not least because I keep thinking it stands for "Single Jewish Woman."
(DIR) Post #B1DqzMJBdSPuoadQx6 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-14T00:29:58Z
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist Need.
(DIR) Post #B1Drauc93Aq3vXPRi4 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-14T00:36:49Z
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@futurebird Oh, hell, yeah.I'm a little more talky about it. Do you merely really like the cheese; while I really, really, *really* like the cheese? -- I'm gonna negotiate for more of the cheese. Are the crackers the cracker equivalent of catnip to you, but "I mean, they're nice" to me? -- You're gonna get some cracker concessions. Etc.FTR, I have three siblings, two of them older than me.
(DIR) Post #B1Dsln2beCWPZwXND6 by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-14T00:50:00Z
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, assiduously saved up her babysitting money until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.Shower your kids with scissors, folks.
(DIR) Post #B1DtozxQBHecSeCowC by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-14T01:01:47Z
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist Until my sister bought the dressmaker's shears, it had never occurred to me (I'm a few years younger) that there could be more than 1 pair of scissors in a household.
(DIR) Post #B1E27SCUiBkwtwZEhs by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-14T02:33:54Z
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@aSweetGentleman @futurebird @epicdemiologist I was thinking about scissors-related folklore.There's a Chinese superstition that dropping a pair of scissors brings bad luck. In "The Joy Luck Club," someone knocks over a whole table stacked with scissors; and her luck promptly goes straight to hell.An Irish superstition holds that, if someone gives you a blade as a gift, you must give them a coin (at least a small one); or else the friendship might be cut short. (That's just a blade, though - I suppose for scissors, you'd have to give them two coins.)In Greek/Roman mythology, the third of The Three Sisters of Fate cuts the thread representing a person's life - with, of course, scissors.
(DIR) Post #B1ZtfjL78dtiGFk3ay by Gorfram@beige.party
2025-12-24T15:42:48Z
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@lardmotel @HCBunny , Your Time Has Come.