KittenBiscuits @ KittenBiscuits @lemm.ee

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Am Appalachian. This sounds about right.

Squirrels can clean out a feeder pretty quickly. Not as fast as deer can, but much faster than the birds.

So it's a pain in the ass to go fill it back up, and it costs money. A person gets a bird feeder because they want to watch birds. There are cheaper ways to feed squirrels, if you like squirrels.

Both squirrels and birds can build nests in your home. Squirrels can chew their way into your attic, then you risk them chewing through wires. Birds nest in your dryer vent or bathroom vent. A nest in the dryer vent is a fire hazard. And they can introduce bird mites into your home. It's like having a bed bug infestation except you can't see them, their bites are hella itchy, and at least they can be dealt with by multiple rounds of thorough vacuuming. Ask me how I know.

I used to love to keep a bird feeder and watch the bird party on a snowy day. But I wasn't out to feed the deer, and the mite problem erased any lingering feelings about feeding birds.

My MIL used to work for a dentist. One year he encouraged? required? the employees to hand out toothbrushes on Halloween. My hubby begged his mom not to do it, to just fib and tell her boss she had. But... she went through with it. They got egged that night & their pumpkin was smashed. She fucked around and found out.

I've rescued wasps from the pool as well even though they & I are mortal enemies. 1) it was in the water with me & I didn't want it considering me a liferaft, and 2) smushing it was not an option. It flew away, hopefully to tell its brothers that I'm worthy of a brief ceasefire.

Hellboy animated a corpse to get info out of it. I don't think he subscribes to modern jurisprudence though. I don't recall him being concerned in the least with handing the corpse a subpoena first.

I know, what if we put lasers on the birds!

Here Baby Jesus, we brought you some nice smelling stuff, pretty shiny metal, and a kitten.

Fun anecdote, in DC the east/west streets are named A St, B St, C St, and so on. But not i street. Capital i could be confused with L Street, so all the signs are written "Eye St"

Puff, puff, pass away

I took it off my phone but it's still on my tablet. rip rif

I had staff that used to talk over me and each other. Drove me batshit, but they were good employees. One day, i couldn't get my words out for being interrupted, when i suddenly grabbed my sea otter tape dispenser off my desk and proclaimed "I have the talking otter! Let me finish speaking!"

They were so thrown off by the absurdity that it worked! I got my thought out, then handed the Talking Otter to the next person who had comments. From then on, if they got unruly, I'd say "do I have to go get the otter?"

You were just playing billiards but with cars.

Oh, you meant the other kind of pool...

If you can play sousaphone and other various brass, you might be able to pick up the didgeridoo. The embechure is kind of similar (see also: alphorn). It's the circular breathing I'm still trying to get the hang of.

And a I picked up a hand pan drum last month for giggles. It has a lovely tone.

Edit: I'm a shameless enabler.

Not even Soundwave was spared? Shit dude. That's some hard core cold turkey.

They're packed full of vitamins and good for you

• Why is dad so loud?
• How to get mom to give more treats
• How to work red light toy
• Why not sunny space all day long?
• Why do humans get in the wet box?
• I ate a string, what do i do?
• New surfaces to scoot butt

Sounds like 'modediagnose' could be translated as "fad diagnosis" maybe?

It's a problem with health providers here too.

You sound salty about their take on amazeballs.

And even if it isn't, then you'll have Swiss cheese.

In my line of work, I have worked closely with HR and have been involved behind the scenes in things like this. I have seen PIPs that are fair and actually used as intended, and I have seen PIPs that are so demanding, it's beyond obvious that they want you to fail so they have an excuse to let you go. Which do you think this one is?

I'm getting the vibe that this is the latter. I am not at all familiar with working under a union contract, but in a hostile situation, I would consider the likelihood of success of going to HR and saying "let's skip the PIP that you can't enforce anyway, offer me a reasonable severance, and I'm out of your hair today/this week."

You don't need to be running yourself ragged pretending to try to meet their unreasonable demands at the same time as you're job hunting.