The Happiness Thread

It's summer here down south...

 

Aha! Speedo weather in Speedoland! Post pictures!

 

@KaTrian, thanks for the pic, most inspirational, thank you.

 

That's one of my favorite sounds I love hearing the foxes. One of my neighbors moved here from the city and the first time they heard it. Well... he comes over here the next day and asks if we heard that crazy screaming the night before. I said yeah and before I could tell him what it was he says "I locked all the doors and windows, got my gun, that was scary shit!"

He was a bit insulted that I had a really hard time explaining through my laughter. Dudes a marine. A veteran. And a fox nearly scared him to death.

 

Exactly. Luckily he's smart enough to not just shoot randomly.

 

At least we know that if someone gets hit it was on purpose That's... Better?

 

The technical term is "suppressive fire," and if you're partially surrounded by small wildlife, it's a perfectly legit response

 

You say potato, I say tomato....

 

It can be more than one kind of fire I mean, if the bloke in the bushes you're giving it loads into keeps his head down then his response is to be suppressed

 

You mean pigeons, same goes for shooting at clouds with those fuckin angels or beaches and their mermaids.

 

You had much luck getting mermaids to respond?

 

I think you know what's coming next...

 

Ah, I believe there is a common convention for this! Uh, "send newts"?
Very well.
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(Ignore the image fails just use the links, direct images on these threads doesn't work well from my phone.)

 

No further comment, I think that's clear enough.

 

So apparently a few homophobes didn't like a viral short film with young gay people in it for their usual godforsaken reasons. And a channel I follow on Youtube made a joke video mocking their response. And then in the shitpile that is Youtube comments I found this nugget of gold on the video. "I'll never let my children watch that filth. I don't want them to be influenced and turn ginger".

 

Put an ad out for my student's flat (sublease during the coming spring). Got 14 responses in an hour.
I knew there was a high pressure on accommodation in the city, but holy... I did not expect this!

 

Home made Mac and Cheese. Mmmm. Cheesier than a '90s family sitcom.

 

Wait, did you just come out as a... ginger?

Actually, that's a kind of a weird example of a prejudice moving from one region to another. In the US when I was growing up (70s/80s), I wasn't aware of any particular anti-redhead feelings. The town I grew up in certainly hated everything else regarding human pigmentation, but not that. Don't recall hearing "ginger" as a descriptor or derogatory term until the early 2000s, and that was from the UK, but (it seems to me that) the prejudice migrated over the internet and established itself in US culture in the last couple decades, so yay connectivity?

 

Yeah, even here in Ass-Backward Alabama, no one has a problem with ginger people. It's the LGBT+, liberals, non-whites, and non-Christians they seem to have a beef with.

 

Tim Minchin Prejudice song.

 

I've relearned how to write 1,000 words a day. I also purchased an iPad Pro last Sunday. Between the case, the stylus, and the tablet, it cost slightly over $1,000, but it has 512 GB of storage, and the screen is large enough for writing while remaining more portable than my laptop.