Pronouns. Language speaker. Hard-boiled egg enthusiast. Knife thrower. History quoter. Misplacer of reading glasses. You really must try my baked asparagus.
@Cooperstreaming
Checked a book out of the school library when I was 6. The family in the story was bi-lingual and I thought that was the coolest thing. Started learning foreign words.
Now speak 2 other languages, can get by in 3 others, have lived overseas and been to 29 countries.
@SarahNevada1
If he was willing to casually communicate this, he expected no adverse reaction from the guy he was sending it to. This would not be the first such message. Discovery time for all of their phones.
@PiaGlenn
Maybe you and the stud auntie and the other Avengers are on to something here. Instead of hashtag BuildThatWall, this was
#FormAWall
.
Just go shoulders to shoulder with strangers until she feels safe again. This is working for me.
@TerryWatkinsJr1
I was in the events biz for 20 years, had 3 Democratic and 3 Republican Nat’l Conventions as clients.
Based on feedback from hotels, police, and event staff: Female hookers had normal or slower traffic during the RNC; male RNC hookers complained they could not meet demand.
@BethMooreLPM
I read history every day. There is no way to count the number of times the church has genuflected to politics in the hope of shared power. It might lead to a veneer of influence for a while, but for the actual message of Jesus, it has never once worked.
Never once.
Ever.
@luishipero
@2020fight
@The_UnSilent_
He doesn’t know the colors of our flag or the words to our national anthem. He was a draft dodger, he insults American war heroes and the families of fallen soldiers, yet he has convinced the gullible that fealty to him equals patriotism. It’s symbolic.
And Orwellian.
@JilleeMae
@difficultpatty
Agreed. But when I was cyberstalked a few years ago (seriously — this happened), and then it escalated to 30+ texts and calls a day, the police said, “Ain’t no law against being crazy. Call us after she commits a crime,” and hung up.
@shannonrwatts
My in-laws, born in Stuttgart in 1929, grew up in Nazi Germany. They have been stunned watching these developments in the United States since 2016, saying repeatedly, “This is how it happened then.”
This is not a drill.
@PiaGlenn
What a great story. High five. Here’s another true story:
Spring 2017, mid-day, my daughter followed and accosted for blocks, finally turned on them. The leader smirked and said, “This is Trump’s America now. We can do anything we want.”
Unless the rest of us form a wall...
@littledeekay
In the 70s, my mom referred to someone and said, “He would be a Nazi if he could.”
Confused, I said “But Nazis were the enemy of America.”
She said “Nazism is not a country. It’s a mindset. It’s losers who need someone to tell them it’s OK to hate.” I have never forgotten that.
As a Hoosier — who for years attended the same church as Pence — I was proud of Kamala Harris for politely deflecting the condescension and rudeness she encountered tonight. I’m with her.
@BeccaBeckery
An EpiPen saved my life. I am deathly allergic to hazelnuts; was served hazelnut coffee at Starbucks and barely survived. Thank you for posting this.
@briansbergin
@____B_S____
Toddler walked in front of me on a road like this (sans little doggie). Scooped her up, carried her down the long driveway, found the door open and the oblivious babysitter chatting with someone on the phone.
@Freeyourmindkid
Guy at work (San Diego) bought a new tract home. First night in the house, 5 y/o gets out of bed and says, "Daddy, there's a lobster on my wall."
"Go back to bed. (pause) Wait..."
The inspector had signed off on his report, but had not checked the attic. Full of scorpions.
@JUNIUS_64
I know absolutely nothing about this field. I am a speaker, I sell software, I play bluegrass banjo.
And yet, after reading this thread, I am now convinced I could crush anyone in a debate regarding telomerase. Thank you for this new superpower.
@historyinmemes
Hold on. The Russians would have been communicating in Russian.
If this story is true, that means Johnny Cash not only spoke perfect Russian, but he was also fluent in Russian Morse code.
“Unlikely” is the nicest word I can think of.
@JilleeMae
@difficultpatty
I would wake up every morning with a hollow feeling, wondering what happened overnight, or if this was the day she would snap. The raging difference between me and the ladies here is, she stood no chance against me physically. I’m sorry y’all have to deal with that part, too.
@TansuYegen
Happened to me on an international flight. Young woman would not keep her long hair on her side of the seat, even after I asked.
So I lowered the tray table, trapped her hair, and locked the tray table again. Once she realized she couldn’t move, she stopped doing that.
@MarinaZ79311156
My dog is 12 and dumb as a bag of hammers, but he was forming an exploratory committee to consider challenging Boebert. But now that you're in, we will back you instead.
@AP
My dad — who could have gone pro in 2 sports — was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy at age 48 and given 5 years to live.
He died in 2019 at 80, 32 years after his diagnosis. He had issues, but only drank coffee and water for 3 decades and walked a lot. This can turn out OK.
@kurteichenwald
QAnon is now just a creative writing contest. The three teenagers who run it compete weekly for the most hilarious story line, and the winner gets temporary custody of the followers.
@littledeekay
As a practicing Christian who studied Nazi history, in Germany, in German, I am speechless that ignorant people are blindly going down this road again.
And yes, I can read this text, and I know where this is headed.
@shannonrwatts
People don’t know about the Führereid. German military, civil servants, everyone, took an oath of loyalty – not to defend the party, the country, or the Constitution — but unquestioned loyalty to one person.
Thus, even if the party tried to oust him, followers would protect him.
@BeccaBeckery
Follow up — Starbucks apologized profoundly and guaranteed to pay all medical costs, $5,400 out of pocket.
They then ignored all bills and contact.
I took them to small claims court for this amount, which they spent $40,000 fighting. I could not prove the case and lost.
@travisakers
Reminds me of my favorite family conversation a few years ago:
Conspiracy-theorist relative: There’s a comet on the way the government is not telling you about. It’s going to hit the earth in 6 weeks.
My aunt, completely serious: Well shoot, we was gonna go to Gatlinburg.
@Gemeni365
@peachontwitta
Partly true. German homes had Wi-Fi in the 90s before anyone in the US did. But German health care still relies on faxes and hand-written documents; very little done electronically. With a 91-year-old mother-in-law in Stuttgart, we deal with this from the US on a daily basis.
@_brandynd_
For people who don’t get it, this thread is the best description of ADHD I have ever read. This resonated. I met the author when I was in Stuttgart a few months ago and he is a standup guy.
I'm not gonna lie, I've been struggling lately. Much of it has to do with ADD. Never let anyone tell you it's an inconvenience or fashionable diagnosis - it robs you of a lot.
I thought I'd talk about what it does to me, and how I live with it. Maybe some of you might identify.
@chamomeriam
Wrote a white paper on a professional topic. Later received an RFP (Request for Proposal) from a big company. I did a proposal.
Response: You are not clear on the issue. Please review the RFP again.
Me: Your RFP was plagiarized verbatim from my white paper. I understand it.
@Strandjunker
Remember how upset the right was when the Obama girls were awarded a patent on a customizable, Chinese-made voting machine, just in time for daddy’s reelection?
@MikeStuchbery_
Very cool. Indiana Jones meets Swiss hotel bar. I knew about this disk, but did not know the backstory. Just looked it up. Here’s my favorite part:
@BeccaLizz
Legit.
Tough one was an overseas flight when I paid extra for an exit row seat w legroom. Couple begged me to swap seats with their tiny terrified grandma who had never been on an airplane. I agreed; wound up in the middle of 5 seats for 8 hours.
Still polishing my halo.
@houseparty
“You’re essentially allowing this app to access your smartphone and...your movement, your locations, your contacts, how often you contact people, who you communicate with, and they’ll be able to basically track your every move.”
@stephenaltrogge
Children’s sermon, front of the church, staffer told some stupid story about how God gave Jesus the earth as a gift, like a father gives his son a ball to play with. Lame. Pointless.
He finished, and a six-year-old girl yells really loud, “That’s the sermon? Are you kidding?”
@denvercoder
I got to be friends with an extraordinary guy at my new church, later noticed some people avoided him, then learned he had done 3 years in prison. When someone made a comment behind his back once, I said, “If self-righteousness were a crime, a lot of people here would be lifers.”
@rjcrock2003
Kellyanne Conway: There were 18 Covids before COVID-19. Why weren’t we more prepared?
Marjorie Taylor Greene: California fires caused by a Jewish cabal shooting lasers from outer space.
Larry Kudlow: Real beer is made from critters.
Quite the brain trust y’all have there.
@Richard79360562
@guardianscience
My mother-in-law grew up in Germany during WWII. There was once a bomb dropped on her neighborhood that didn’t explode; it just bounced.
Therefore, I have proof that bombs are not dangerous.
@GrimKim
Saw this babe in a classroom, Indiana University. Asked a friend, “Whoa, who is THAT?” He mentioned she was German, so as a foreign language major, I addressed her in bad German.
Married on a Colorado mountaintop 2 years later. Still going 35 years later. Cheers.
@chrissyteigen
My daughter, 2006, age 5, when her Siamese fighting fish died, lip quivering, trying to be brave, and said:
“These things are so hard for little kids.”
@smalls2672
@SchmoopyWoopy
I was trying to think how it is that violent people with cash could come into possession of information that gives them an advantage over our friends, and I can’t come up with anything.
@JoJoFromJerz
You have a bazillion followers. Why not get a few dollars from each with a GoFundMe? I don’t even follow you and I would chip in. I hate to see this happen to anyone. You would own it free and clear by next week.
@_JadaMC_
@BeccaBeckery
The judge said I had to prove, without any doubt, that it could not have been anything else, i.e., I did not eat or drink anything else that day with hazelnuts. How do you prove a negative? I couldn't.
@latimes
@Davidlaz
Friend of mine sold software systems to hospitals. He retired, very rich, at age 41. Another friend sells artificial joints. Just bought his second vacation home and second boat. They don’t work any harder than me. A small number of people get very wealthy off of the US system.
@NickKnudsenUS
I was in the roller chain business (like bicycle chain; 1000s of uses in manufacturing). One by one, US chain producers moved production to China "to remain competitive." Not one lowered prices; they just increased shareholder profits 80% and eliminated thousands of US jobs.
@bj116
I just tried your recipe – shrimp, herbs, whitefish, lobster, orange, pineapple, peaches, crab legs, and garlic – and I’m sorry, but I can’t recommend it.
@juleswoodson11
@dax_tnr
@LiriaForsythe
Bingo. If someone embezzles from a church, the church might forgive them, but will NEVER let them near the money again. Yet somehow this simple wisdom does not apply to predators in leadership.
@AshaRangappa_
Trump attorney Christina Bobb, on Ingraham’s show, said — live on TV — that Trump’s legal team had been through the documents and didn’t see a problem.
That seems like an issue.
@tplohetski
Yes. They are doing bilingual robocalls to tell Austin Water customers to boil water for two minutes.
I got one of the calls. I live in Indianapolis.
My daughter got one of the calls. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
My son did not get one of the calls. He lives in Austin.
@JoJoFromJerz
When the maid of honor got up to speak at the reception, and talked about how the bride had so wonderfully overcome the terrible emotional abuse she endured from her parents during her childhood.
The bride’s parents and extended family were all there. It got kind of quiet.
@sullivanamy
@jgumbel
Earlier. I shed the lifelong Evangelical and Republican labels after 1) reading the Gospels and 2) seeing the unvarnished hatred Evangelical leaders showed toward Obama because...um... why?
Their syncretic Christianity / American Supremacy faith is not even cloaked anymore.
@KimmyMonte
Cardiologist: So you play softball every Friday night. Do you think maybe the sudden activity is too much strain on your heart?
Dad: Well, to give you an idea, we play under motion sensors, and we can’t make the lights come on.
@johnhydejr
@RisetteMD
Trade show a few years back, some blowhard says he has been admiring our company's growth, asks my female colleague to go get us some waters, starts pitching why I should do business with him.
I said, "It's her company. Talk to her." He turned a nice shade of green and left.
@sullivanamy
@jgumbel
p.s. I go to Mike Pence’s home church, a mostly white congregation trying desperately hard to cross racial lines and be racially sensitive. Pretty amazing. And they have NEVER ONCE mentioned Trump or Pence, even when he and 50 Secret Service are there. They stay on message.
@_JadaMC_
@BeccaBeckery
No cost to me. My issue is not with the judge, but with the giant corporation that put me into anaphylaxis, lied, and after significant effort, was able to avoid all consequences.
@JaneMayerNYer
So easy to forget that before this, she was on the board of Wells Fargo, overseeing the committees responsible for years of massive scandals, including the fake accounts.
And yep, she skipped out just as the walls were closing in.
@fakehistoryhunt
I have clicked through to some articles by
@UmarBzv
. I do not intend to fact-check everything I see, but the writing is really bad. That’s always a warning sign to me.
I just saw two women in oversized SUVs snarling at each other over who would get the parking spot closest to the door of the fitness center, and it was the most American thing I have ever seen.
@KarenAttiah
I was a teenager working grounds for a big apartment (NOT condo) complex. One resident spent all Spring and her own $ planting amazing flowers in common areas. The mgmt then raised her rent because “she had the nicest view.”
She refused to pay more and they tore her flowers out.
@Freeyourmindkid
In Paris on business a few weeks ago, teenager got on with his mask under his nose, sniffling and coughing the whole time. A bunch of older ladies fussed at him, and when he ignored them, they forced him off the train at the next stop.
@bj116
I stopped referring to myself as an Evangelical in 2016 when I saw how they were willing to prostitute their principles to the temptation of shared power.
@BethMooreLPM
It makes sense. Your life is different now. So, you are different.
I remember reading the words of Admiral Nelson’s personal secretary after Nelson was killed in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar:
“…I become stupid with grief for what I have lost.”
@TheValuesVoter
I was part of my church men’s group every Thursday morning at 6:00 AM for over 5 years until they finally realized I did not worship the orange calf. The men — importantly, NOT the church leadership — let me know it was fine if I never came back again. We used to be friends.
@pbump
I consolidated the expected Nextdoor responses into a single post. Just save the ones that best represent your outrage and paste them on every post.
@AZ_Brittney
I drove Lyft and Uber for a couple of years, evenings and mornings, when my wife was out of the country and I needed to stay out of trouble. I ALWAYS made sure the person got inside safely.
Twice they didn't, and I ended the ride and took them somewhere else at my own expense.
@tackleberry_82
@KristenRSheafer
Mostly agree. But I was in the event software biz, got an inquiry for conference registration. I checked into the organization; they were documented as extremist, with ties to dangerous groups. I wanted nothing to do with them.
So I quoted 5x our normal price. Problem solved.