that's , um, special

The US is not a signatory.

Next up: exposure training

Succinct

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many happy returns

The former. But you put me in mind of another story: someone in yhe college dorm returning to her room with a too small towel turned a corner to find a guy there. Horror. Cover top or cover bottom? She threw the towel over her head and sprinted past!

That ship is, in my view, one of the most beautiful things ever made by human hands.

An excellent precept, and good parable for young uns

I guess the moral is if you use your oven for storage, disconnect that sucker.

So like a month later they move back home. Rearrange all their stuff back where it belonged. Turned on the heat and, lo, the ducts had not been cleaned. Blew soot all over and they had to move out AGAIN.

Turned into a whole saga. The place was so filled with smoke that they had to move out for weeks while it was cleaned. Even clothes in drawers had soot. Happily insurance covered everything.

Oh God

Nope. She was not happy

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Friend of mine made an apple pie and, while in the shower, discovered her housemate had stored plasticware in the oven too. Had to run out into the snow wearing only a towel.
There were some Conversations after that.

They took mob money too.

😭

💔

these are from a gingerbread house party my girls had w some friends—one of them was a guy friend with an interest in more military precision than outright bloodbaths 🫡✨

So it turns out my cat is allergic to my dog.

omg omg omg, I'm bouncing

tea cozy

an amusing visual!
Naturally I'm also picturing a super-hero type cape of said cheese slices, still in their plastic casings. A stand up collar with a nibble or two missing. The incredible lack of swish of such a thing.
Wait, how did we get here?

Huh. Learn something new every day

trials for these criminal acts can't come soon enough

might have been a better way out of the labyrinth

My college roommate's dream was a porter, someone to just carry all her cruft around. Though a cart could do that too.

Works if you stop at the comma too.

I think he's sailed off the peak. Maybe he's Icarus now.