WEED EATER.

Yeah, that’s what I mean. In the city, it’s against the cultural grain and doesn’t work. In a small town, it’s normal.

One second has passed, ah ah ah.
Two seconds have passed, ah ah ah.

I’m talking verbal replies, not head nods. I don’t remember any head nods.

I would say there’s a pretty big correlation there because friendliness is the quality of being willing to engage in conversations with people (even brief ones) and potentially make friends. If you’re not even willing to reply to a simple greeting, that’s understandable, and someone who does that may still be friendly in other contexts, but they’re not friendly to strangers on the street, and that’s what I’m referring to. I’m not trying to throw shade or anything; it’s an understandable learned response. It’s just that city life is a different culture than suburban/rural life, and different sorts of people are going to prefer each.

I’ve walked down the streets of Philadelphia on a Sunday morning - much less crowded than public transportation - and said good morning to people I passed. Even then, only half of them even gave a greeting in turn. There may be more friends, clubs, and hobby groups available in cities, which is certainly a nice thing, but there’s a loss in the friendliness of people on the street because there are so many of them. To each their own.

Da ba de da ba die

Never got the breakfast, or…?

So what, it’s only a meaningful or fulfilling job if it’s in academics?

Hoop snakes.

I voted for you, Kevin.

Calvin never had any major mental illnesses (except maybe undiagnosed ADHD), much less “seeping deeper and deeper” into it.

Events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

I’ve heard it’s full of cliches ; )

Forgive me for not knowing the names, but I randomized a few to test.

Red: “We slice the meme. Everybody is using panels.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “A sliced meme.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We use slices.”

Red: “A sliced meme. Everybody is using panels.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We use slices.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “We slice the meme.”

Red: “We use slices. A sliced meme.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We slice the meme.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “Everybody is using panels.”

I guess it works? Weird that it ended up with the same speaking order each time.

Yes, I agree, he was very respectable, and definitely belongs on the same level of prestige. I said I like it.

I like how you listed Ross by last name alongside some of the other scientists.

I suspect there’s a law requiring it, because I don’t think corporations would choose to be that nice.

No, no, no.

I hoped as much.

If you use it as a noun to describe such a person, sure, but as an adjective it’s perfectly acceptable and much more natural.

At my family’s house, the men’s shampoo is of the same brand and packaging as some of the women’s shampoo, just with less floral names like “ocean” and “gingham legend,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.