[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'm registered to donate, they won't take them unless I get an expensive genetic test. My brother just passed away, and they wouldn't let him donate anything because we had an aunt a couple of generations ago who had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a prion disease that causes dementia)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I've tried digital books, but I've found that physical books work much better for my brain. I retain more information and can "get lost" in the story, whereas, for some inexplicable reason, digital books being read on a screen kind of "flatten" a story for me. It's almost like a 3d vs 2d experience for me.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Hi neighbor! Wisconsinite here to throw our hat in the ring. I used to live on a residential road in the Milwaukee area that had a sign on either end that said "Rough Road". It was permanently installed. There were asphalt patches on top of patches that had been used to patch older patches. Half the patches turned to potholes, and then they ran out of patch money. But apparently had just enough left in the budget for signs.

I moved to across town to another suburb of Milwaukee, and the new street I live on partially caved in right beside my neighbor's driveway

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

All the time! Both when lying on my side and lying on my back. It's comfy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I have an unopened bottle of Seagrams from 1946, and a bottle of Old Forester from 1953, where time + the VERY heavy glass stopper cracked the plastic seal and broke the cork. Both belonged to my better half's grandfather

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

20+ years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, a Palestinian refugee joined our class. He mentioned off-handedly how quiet it was where we lived at night - he was used to hearing rockets/bombs all night while trying to sleep.

Then I started reading.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

There hasn't been any single major event - just years upon years of proving that they were trustworthy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I wanted to tell you what an incredibly apt statement that was, and to thank you for teaching me a new turn of phrase I plan on using excessively

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Considering they're en route to the hospital now, welcoming my very first nephew to the world would be a pretty awesome highlight

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A black cat sitting on the floor looks up expectantly at a woman's hand, which is holding a slice of pepperoni pizza with a bite taken out of it.

Inspired by Grimm's pizza post

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"There's not enough blue to make a cat a pair of pants!"

From my southern grandmother, when she'd spot a break in the clouds on an overcast day

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I can't stand micromanagement

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