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Waiting for your flight? Why not learn CPR? 8 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Stayin Alive isn't the only song - npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/03/521913341/what-do-hanson-and-madonna-have-in-common-hits-ideal-for-saving-a-life
Achy Breaky Heart, Mmmbop, Another One Bites the Dust, Girls Just Want to Have Fun are all also in that range.
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This slide has speed boosters 12 comments
guest · 6 years ago
I remember my elementary school had one entirely made of the rollers, coated in some sort of paint or plastic, and it had a wave shape so you went down a little, had about a hand length of flat space then then the bigger length. It. Was. Awesome. Yes you got fingers jammed but even as a first grader I remember the challenge we all did of "Who can run up it?" if you were very skilled and fast you could make it up to that flat, no one could make it all the way up. Also fun was using your hands to start the rollers rolling for that speed boost then launched yourself down.
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Cinderella's Castle At Walt Disney World 1 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It is beautiful but you can't rent it, it's by invitation only.
Homeowner who was tired of his packages being stolen, rigs a trap for the next thief 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Remember - even if they deserve it, which they do, - You cannot legally booby trap things like this with dangerous/deadly force. It'll get you sued/jailed. If all your left with is non-dangerous things to startle or annoy remember that the waste of life stealing your things will get pissed and then take it out on your house. It's a no-win situation other than setting up cameras in a way to capture their face even if they try to keep out of screen view, and preferably the car they're in so you can turn it over to the police.
With BS like this, if your packages/mail continually get stolen, you just have to resort to paying for a post office box and having things delivered there.
The best place for a cactus 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
There are lots of these for sale on etsy and amazon, right now the amazon ones are much higher in price than they were a few months ago, they fit small plants and are quite cute, and you can paint them if you wish to be more cartoon accurate.
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Best scene from my childhood 26 comments
guest · 7 years ago
You can always add another song to the mix, it's not as good as Bowie, but The Atomic Fireballs made the song Man with the Hex (it was on the American Pie soundtrack) which uses the lines in a swing revival style.
Be careful who you donate to 23 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's just annoying how they pick the "good" stuff out and sell it auction style on their website. "Oh hey, your kid is just getting into Legos...holy goodness Lego cost how much...maybe Goodwill- OMG that's almost retail price!"
Be careful who you donate to 23 comments
guest · 7 years ago
He didn't (it is now General Andre Cox and Commissioner Silvia Cox were appointed in 2013, replacing Basset and his wife). Long term, high position, army receive a *very* generous pension and health care (military dot com /benefits/military-pay/the-military-retirement-system.html). But when he was he got 13k, his wife was compensated, and they were provided housing and car use, in 2011 that total compensation was valued at almost $80, $53k of that as benefits. So they were by no imaginable means living on 13k, that probably wasn't even close to the taxes they paid.
Probably the neighborhood of tomorrow 15 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Most HOA's will not allow you to have a garden in your front yard, newer neighborhoods will often limit the allowed size of them in your backyard without (hard to get) HOA approval to preserve the appearance of the community.
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Its always a baby that sits there 7 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Also if you don't speak the primary language of the flight crew they're not going to let you stay in that row, even if others in the row do. (Made sense as in an emergency they're not going to be translating instructions or the need to open the door, they will be translating to exit - either way it let my husband and I have the row to ourselves) Never have I ever had the amount of leg room in that picture on an emergency exit row, it's a little extra space but not that much, my husband is 6'5" tall and his knees still touch the seat in front of us when it is straight up every time so it's not just a subjective/imagined thing.
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2 different types of badger 11 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Not quite the difference between the US and Australia's possums but still surprising.
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Well... He's got a point 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Heart, nerve, brain, ovum, the cones in your eyes, various ones last a lifetime; certain ones like fat cells last 10-12 years on average, some have just a few days in their lifespan (sperm, colon, etc.), but if you're talking simple external dermal layers (skin), white and red blood cells, and so on, the 7 year will completely cycle through them.
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Namaste 6 comments
guest · 7 years ago
This is not a problem "crossing his arms" it's a problem "having one person on his right that is significantly shorter than him and a person on the left who is closer to his height".
If he had someone on each side who was relatively the same height as him, like the second picture, his arms would cross more naturally (comfortably) and a little further away from his body and he would not be in such an awkward/uncomfortable pose.
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Brilliant Idea If You Have a Baby 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
funsubstance fun/396524/brilliant-idea-if-you-have-a-baby/
That pink bumpy baby recliner/nap nanny - Recalled due to infant deaths!
The inflatable pool - soft suffocatable edges and if managed to climb up it - risk of falling injury!
That child should not be unsupervised with a blanket (gray or the pink one on the bottom of the pool).
The boppy should not be near them when there is a risk they could fall asleep on it - their warnings go into more details.
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This clever space looks like a great idea 4 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The small window is just odd. Pre-modification it would be out of place, and post-modification (if it was intended and remodeled to be this space) it seems like it should be bigger.
But why? 14 comments
guest · 7 years ago
And some companies will deem you ineligible for rehire, i.e. have it in their handbooks/the paperwork you sign upon hiring, if you do not give that two weeks (standard positions), three weeks (managerial positions, more (executive level) positions.
Hair 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Just wait (if you're a woman who plans on having kids) shortly (a couple weeks-months depending on your body's hormones) after giving birth, you'll be thinking all your hair is falling out.
During pregnancy your body extends the growth stage (hair= mostly in growing stage, ~10% in resting stage, after resting stage it falls out, online says most lose about 100 hairs a day), post pregnancy all those extended growing ones flip over to resting then falling out, so just as you're sleep deprived, nursing, emotional, and super insecure about your post pregnancy body a lot of hair, oh-so-helpfully, decides it's time to come out in what seems like handfuls, every day until you're back to where you would have been if you had continued your life non-pregnant.
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Rights 18 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's not legal (libel/slander depending on what medium they were falsely claiming, plus filing false police reports, etc.) but very often they are punished minimally for destroying the reputation/relationships/career of the person (male or female) they claimed assaulted them.
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Green 22 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Some of the "bac'n bits" are vegan - textured vegetable protein + smoke flavoring = no animal products to be found. Neither a fan of bacon nor the vegan lifestyle myself, but it's surprising the number of vegetarians and vegans who never paid attention to this and are suddenly surprised when they can choose to include it in their meat-less diet.
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Recycling old shirts 4 comments
guest · 7 years ago
That's an awfully big gap between the last button and the bottom of this dress/shirt it would flare open a lot with normal wear.
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Work karma 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
As this photo or one almost exactly like it has come up before: No, no one going through the hassle of pumping breast milk would store it in a creamer container - a sanitized small container yes but this no, it separates rather quickly (being non homogonized) so someone actually attempting to pour would think it was spoiled rather than they were getting the "breastmilk cream", It has a strong odor, it's not something that is accidentally confused. If they put some in with creamer then just to mess with a creamer thief in a roommate scenario then they are just as big a jerk as the thief as it is a biological hazard and opens them up for a lawsuit.
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14 superhero "shower thoughts" that will make you rethink everything about them 20 comments
guest · 7 years ago
grimreaper is correct - if he was circumcised it wouldn't have healed years later as he grew and his mutant genes kicked into effect, it would still have the same scar tissue. now, if you cut the scar tissue or in theory the entire anatomical part it should grow back.
(So, using a different body part, if he had his earlobe pierced or cut as a child, and his mutant ability kicked in, he would retain the piercing/cut scar, he slices or burns that scar tissue away the earlobe should heal back completely, he gets his ear cut off it should grow back completely, but not until that style of action happens would anything change to the scarred ear).
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Awww be nice to your weird neighbour, Canada 24 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's funny the "Come live here" part, it's rather difficult to get Canadian citizenship. There was a whole thing after Trump won the election on how all these people said they were moving to Canada and giving up their US citizenship and then found out it was going to take more than being unhappy in the states to be able to live and work there.
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How have you been doing it? 14 comments
guest · 7 years ago
This would: 1) Be super awkward and full of poorly distributed weight, 2) most likely end up burning you and having you drop your grip and the whole mess dumping into the sink, 3) Melt the plastic colander where it touched the metal pot. If you can't manage to use a colander just purchase a pot with a strainer lid.
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Acceptance letter with a twist 10 comments
guest · 7 years ago
This is similar to what my child's kindergarten teacher did. They mailed a note/poem to read the night before with similar confetti to put under his pillow, and the confetti referenced in the rhyme. -.- If he gets one of these in twelve years when applying to colleges, they'd better believe my family will not be one to beg for money from.
Facebook amirite? 7 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Do make sure you get a good/flavorful/farmers market/herloom/(or better yet cherry or grape ones because those have great flavor and are a little more rewarding for first time growers) tomato to do this with, not a flavorless-but-pretty-and-easy-to-ripen-via-gas one. Seriously, if you're going to do the work of tomato growing, do it right.
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500k if I die 1 comments
guest · 7 years ago
So many people don't understand this! They act like it's a standard purchase for goods (and yes there can be elements of that, especially in something like health insurance, but that's not the primary goal) when it's really a bet where the insurance company is trying to profit.
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U want sum milk? 11 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It could have been a WIC thing (trying to remember the post I read about it on a parenting board years ago...): Your WIC card/check allows you to get certain items, if using the check you have to get all the items on the check/voucher at once, and you can use multiple checks/vouchers at a time. The people were complaining about waste because the wanted the additional WIC approved items (cheese, eggs, true staples not junk) but had to get the milk to go with it and they couldn't get powdered milk (that they could store and use for baking) anymore?
Or it could have been one of the uber-mega-couponers combining with a deal (I don't have time for coupon clipping but I've definitely bought a couple things because the sale plus the store coupon [things expiring in the next day or two so the store sticks a $2-3 off coupon on it] meant I was reducing my overall bill by adding it to my cart. Never seen those deals on milk though.
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Sweet, sweet irony 8 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's what they were raised for. The firefighters were thankful and the pigs were not a lost cost for those farming them. Just because they were rescued rather than burning doesn't change the fact that they are livestock.
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This guy is woke 7 comments
guest · 7 years ago
This needs the rest of the naturally occuring chicken egg colors (red, pink, tan, blue, green - fresheggsdaily.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-egg-colors.html has some nice images) - varies by breed/earlobes are an indicator of the color egg you'll get
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Toilet thoughts 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
More fun is the daylight savings ones, especially twins - A kid born just before the cutover (I think it usually happens around 2am, so say at 1:55am) followed by a kid born after the cutover (what would have been 2:05am but is now 1:05am) - so despite being born ten minutes after they are officially about an hour younger.
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Trying hard to support his kids yet he's ridiculed 6 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The Mother In Law/the kids' grandmother offered to watch them, he refused.
He deserved it 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
"Extreme Emotional Disturbance" or "Irresistible Impulse" - pretty sure if some ...person, decides the best time to start saying stuff like that is when you're doing picking up dog poop, that even if they went blind and it was brought to a court of law she would win on one of those two (or claim he was doing some sort of intimidating verbal assault, etc. and she was doing what was an instinctive reaction).
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Seriously! 22 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It doesn't start so early that those of us who have to work don't have to pay for before and/or after school care (thankfully cheaper than 1k/mo daycare).
Us - 5:45-6am kids wake up, 6-6:30 getting ready & breakfasts for all, 6:30 spouse drops youngest at daycare and drives into work, 7:00 Drop 5yr old off at before school care that will get him to school b/t 8:50-9:20, school/work/30 min lunch (8hrs/day of work doesn't include commute/lunch) (after school care picks up 5yr old when school gets out at 3:50) - commute home - usually both home by 5 - off to get kids together.
If school started later what time is there for family/homework time? Every minute you start later = a minute you stay later. Schools already provide 2 meals for the families that qualify for food assistance, and staff need home time too.
A lot of those complaining about school starting too early are the types who stay up late, don't have a routine, or their parents take them out to the store at 10pm or later.
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Child seat restraints work 2 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Just as an FYI - check your carseat's weight limit for switching them around from rear facing to forward facing. Yes it's more of a PITA to get a kid in rear facing but it is safer as long as they're not over that limit - even if they have to criss-cross their legs to fit in the seat.
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This is perfect lol 28 comments
guest · 7 years ago
If they're that comfortable together then there's zero reason why not to do so today. It would make them both feel better.
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ASL Mom's Spaghetti 6 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The interpreters for live concerts and festivals usually research the artist's songs and local ASL slang to fit with the songs. It's a lot of work and practice but those who need them are always very appreciative. It is a performance of it's own.
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Amazing artist changes sexualised dolls 21 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's not blinding children to viewing real people in real life, but dolls are designed to provide a toy that they can care for and also pretend represents themselves. This is just giving a beautiful more "like them" option that fits in their doll houses and doll accessories where something like the American Girl is much larger and (not knowing the prices of these, I would assume:) much more expensive.
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For all you emotional masochists out on the town. 1 comments
guest · 7 years ago
I would love that for when we go out with my (young) kids - they can see out the window, be "enclosed" into the seat by a parent, but also not repeatedly kick my husband or I (or each other) in the knees/shins because they're mindlessly swinging their legs.
Chocolate stuffed beer mugs 3 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Good with everything but the incorrect ingredient - Cool Whip is *not* whipped cream.
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Tory Belleci 9 comments
guest · 7 years ago
@ jolten: "Only /seconds/ to live, what would you do?" [Would do Kari]
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Only in USA 26 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The one with the senior lady in the cart - those carts are specifically there for those above child age with special needs - so if she cannot walk around the entire store, and there were no wheelchairs or she didn't/isn't capable of navigating one this is a valid and kind option, not something to shame.
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Salvation army 19 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Non profit doesn't mean you don't make money. Non profits make money for their "good works," For profits make money for their shareholders/owners. Both can pay their staff, including their executive staff as much or as little as they like as long as it meets with Federal/State minimum wage laws and volunteer requirements.
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Smoke Detector's Job 2 comments
guest · 7 years ago
More like 1% fire, 35% cooking, 64% hey it's the middle of the night? Low battery! Low battery! Are you awake yet? Low battery! Did you have a sleeping child nearby - good luck getting everyone back to sleep before dawn.
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For every tantrum you throw, dad is going to use one of your tattoos 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Not one of those three sellers look like magic markers, they're all made of the same things, a layer of glue, ink, then a protective layer. People are so quick to jump on the hate, in the case of temporary tattoos it is entirely unjustified.
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For every tantrum you throw, dad is going to use one of your tattoos 5 comments
guest · 7 years ago
$40??!! He needs to hit up Walmart and the Dollar Tree it should have cost less than half that. Even the awesome ones SmileMakers have on Amazon cost $25 shipped for 144.
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At least it's something, right? 14 comments
guest · 7 years ago
Legally blind vs totally blind. Legally blind 20/200 or worse in the better eye with maximum correction (for things like [US] Federal Quota Funds for Legally Blind Students). Legally blind people can see, totally blind people cannot. The person wearing those glasses is definitely legally blind.
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On one hand, he has a point, on the other, I really don't want to see it 7 comments
guest · 7 years ago
American Gods is doing a pretty good job equaling things out in what they show.
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Some deep shit 4 comments
guest · 7 years ago
It's one of those riddles that is designed to trick and make the person say the denser object with the same weight weighs more, the one instance where it doesn't work is with precious metals - gold, silver, etc. and gemstones which are weighed in troy ounces. One pound (troy pound is 12 troy ounces) is about 20% lighter than one avoirdupois pound (16 [standard] ounces). So if someone asks which is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of gold, the [avoirdupois] pound of feathers is heavier than the [troy pound] of gold.
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Hot wheels or a barbie toy? 24 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The third toy is the infant/baby/under 3 option, for just those people who can't actually handle picking a boy or girl toy for their precious unique snowflake.