That Moment...

Cute Staffordshire Bullquin!

 

I think it may be a Pitbullguin. Hard to say for sure.

 

Awwwe...I want it!!

TMW you`r laundry bag seems to have up and vanished.

 

TMW it looks like crab fishing just got more extreme.

 

I was swimming in the sea once and a dead crab floated up to the surface right next to me. Needless to say, I legged it out of there and right back to my mummy!

I've never liked crabs. I wonder if that's why.

 

Even the thieving Raccoon-crab?

 

That moment when you realize that you've bought like 20,000 notebooks for the purpose of creative writing and never even open them.... But hand make a leather bound notebook in a book binding class and actually filled the thing up to the last page with writing......

 

I was swimming at the beach and a shrimp paddled its way next to me.
To this day, I can't eat shrimp with their heads attached. If they come with heads on them, I can't eat them.

Gawd, I'm having District 9 flashbacks.....

 

I had seafood pasta once and I had to dissect everything. I picked up a forkful of linguine and unearthed a crayfish staring at me with black, dead eyes. That experience has scared me away from seafood in restaurants for all time.

 

I would think this would do it for most people.

 

TMW I realized 12 years after the fact why people seem so disturbed when I tell them my cat's name is Lips.

FWIW it was not intended that way. My cat had kittens, and I wasn't intending on keeping any of them, so I just called them by their markings.

 

TMW more Fantasy Bars/Pubs/Taverns need this sign.

 

TMW you get your new tenancy, and are informed that the landlord "has enough hassle in my life without dealing with that"-referring to HAPS (housing assistance payment scheme)

Followed by

TMW you conclude that it might be time to move

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Also

TMW you get a missed call from a mobile number you don't know

followed by

TMW you get a missed call from a landline you don't know

followed by

TMW you look up said landline number and find results for a Cook n Dine in Longford.

 

Cool. I'd drop in for a pitcher of mead.

 

That moment when Trumps ex-UN ambassador Nikki Haley said this...

...after someone compared the cost of giving birth. (USA average 12 000$, Finland average 60$.)

Yeah... If you check the statistics you find out that USA is not even near the level we have been decades.

Finland is every year in top 5, usually the best in the world. USA....

Child mortality rate 2016 by OECD
- Finland second in the world. 2.3 per 1000 live births.
- USA number 23 between Slovakia and Chile. 6.5 per 1000 live births. That's almost three times our level!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates

Yeah... "You won't like the answer."

USA is about 30 years behind Finland in child mortality rate. 30 years!

Yeah... "You won't like the answer."

https://www.stat.fi/til/ksyyt/2010/ksyyt_2010_2011-12-16_kat_007_fi.html

(You can read the graph even if you can't speak our lovely and easy to learn language.)

But... You know... We are poor barbarians who start our lives in a cardboard boxes.

(In Finland every mother-to-be gets so called maternity package. It's free. The box is very common first bed in our country. Quality of that stuff is high. Materials like merino wool and so on. Or you can choose 140€ instead of package, but 95% of first-time mothers choose the packet, because it's so good. )

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage

Yeah... Nikki... You don't like the answer - if you are American!

 

TMW Mrs. A and I are both foreigners at the same time.

We need to do third country vacations more often.

 

TMW you pull back the curtains and discover a bunch of bananas on the windowsill.

 

If I were you, I would never trust curtains again.

 

The moment when your husband wakes you up in the middle of the night with the words: "You need to get up! We have a disaster!"

Disaster=Husband wants a late night snack of baked beans, gets a can from storage out in the porch, can is cold and the beans will be difficult to scoop out of the can, so he decides to warm the can up by soaking it in hot tap water, so he puts it in the sink, puts the plug in, fills the sink with hot water (well, that was the plan, but what he actually did was get bored waiting for the sink to fill, so he went into the living room to watch TV, forgot all about the beans, and flooded the kitchen floor.)

I love the togetherness vibe - "WE have a disaster."

Fortunately, Worry Wart Wife has a wet/dry hoover she's never used—bought, like insurance, against the day she hoped she would never have. However, standing ankle-deep in the Big Muddy, while trying to read the instructions for operating the slurper-upper—which appear to have been written as a direct translation from Chinese to English—was not quite what she wanted to be doing at quarter to midnight on a Thursday night.

 

TMW vacation time ends early for reasons both personally horrifying yet oddly exciting. Can something be both? Yes, my mind says. No, says the other half. Goddammit.

 

That moment when your team starts winning again. And your favourite player gets one of the goals.

Birkir Bjarnason for the win. In your face, Villa.

 

TMW:

Boss: 'Officer Ginger, you're being reassigned. Oh, don't look so sad, Officer Privateer. You're going with her.'

That was a roller-coaster and I don't like where it stopped.

 

Tmw an ass kicking changes someone. My older brother is spending a lot more time with my niece an I'm seeing her a lot less. This is great, as was giving him a few slugs to the jaw.

 

That moment when you find out that two Finnish scientist - Matti Haukka and Ari Väisänen - were thinking about female pantyhose and treasures inside them anc coffee cups and.... and that lead them to invent new methods to collect gold, uranium, palladium, platinium, mercury and other heavy stuff like REE's.

They bought the cheapest pantyhose's from markets, took them to lab and tested. Money in regional universities in semirural area is tight...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adsu.201800048

In Finnish, sorry

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10699716

http://circhubs.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ari-Väisänen-Jyväskylän-Yliopisto.pdf

https://techfinland100.fi/mita-rahoitamme/tutkimus/tulevaisuuden-tekijat/metallien-talteenottoon-soveltuvat-3d-tulostusmateriaalit/

 

TMW you are so tired you barely have the energy to take off your shoes...and the day's activities still aren't over.