Otto! You gotta do something! There’s a gremlin on the side of the bus!

What is your unconventional typing style?

Mine, too!

Yeah, if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do … Most of what I did to lead up to that point.

I’ve never understood that last one. Assuming I am otherwise physically healthy and don’t have any foreign objects in my mouth, I can’t really taste anything but neutrality. Technically I can probably taste saliva, but I think my brain filters that out and noting it doesn’t seem like it would help anyway.

Unless I’m misinterpreting and I’m supposed to go lick something during a panic attack. I know I’ve read that biting into a lemon can help.

Reminds me of an old bash.org quote. As closely as I can recall:

Someone told me I should dance like I fight, all graceful and shit. It was going well … Until I dropped her on her head.

I’ve been told that brain freeze happens because the roof of your mouth detects cold, causing constriction of the blood vessels about your skull. (I looked this up and Wikipedia says it’s only a theory.)

Therefore, to combat that quickly, one needs to warm the roof of your mouth. I’ve gotten mixed results with using the tongue for warmth; I assume that, when it doesn’t work, it’s because whatever cooled the roof of my mouth also cooled my tongue.

Therefore, if your tongue doesn’t do the job, communicate with your partner consuming anything at least a little warmer than the food item that originally caused the problem should help. As the other commenter said, usually a warm drink will suffice, though in my experience it doesn’t even need to be particularly warm. I’ve drunk ice water to help before when the problem was something very cold like ice cream.

I broke my ankle, didn’t realize it was broken, and tried to twist it back into place and stand on it. Twice.

My doctors all had things to say about that, too. As well, like you, I have a pronounced limp after walking more than a few steps.

Apparently:

An eggshell is mostly calcium carbonate, riddled with microscopic pores, and lined with a thin protein membrane. In hot liquid, that membrane behaves like a natural flocculant, encouraging the tiny proteins and vegetable fines that cloud your stock to tangle together. The shell’s rough surface provides places for these particles to gather, and once aggregated, gravity does the rest. You don’t need much. For 1 litre of broth, the shells from one or two eggs can be enough to coax clarity.

https://www.lincolnrowing.co.uk/food-cooking/clarify-soups-with-eggshell-how-particles-vanish-and-broth-clears-instantly-7121/

Based on how that page loaded on my phone, I recommend reader mode if using Firefox.

I used to have a three monitor setup … One curved ultrawide 37" (I think) and two 24" (one on either side of the big one). The system was purely a personal setup - no professional use, though I did sometimes do maintenance on my servers from it. My setup was whatever media I was watching on the leftmost monitor, whatever game I was playing on the center, and any chat related windows (or other windows that might require supervision) on the right. I think. It’s been years since I had that setup - I might have reversed what the outer two did.

When I moved to my current home (3-4 years ago) I only bothered setting up the middle monitor, as I had no idea where the stands for the outer two were and didn’t want to bother mounting them. (Still haven’t.)

I don’t game on my PC much anymore. For what little desktop stuff I do it’s satisfactory. However, you may have gleaned from the above that I tend not to do one thing at a time. As such, now that I only have one monitor, I primarily play games in windowed mode unless I’m playing with a friend online. The windowed game goes on approximately the right half of the monitor, whatever I’m watching goes top left, chat windows mostly go bottom left (with some exceptions).

The only time I miss a multi monitor setup is when playing some games - mostly early access - that have their own ideas about the window mode. I’ve encountered a few that will respect my settings regarding resolution and mode, but insist on being dead center of the screen; some that didn’t even have a mode other than full screen; and some which would go windowed but only use the full resolution of the monitor, thus rendering the setting pointless for my use case.

Anyway, that’s pretty niche, I guess. If you don’t have a similar need one huge monitor is probably fine.

I sort of did that once accidentally. I was six or seven and riding the school bus when a sports car blasted past. I thought the car was cool and so that it would be funny if someone were to lean out into the aisle and shout “follow that car!”

Then I realized I was already doing that rather than just picturing it in my head. I don’t know if “funny” is the right word but certainly there was a lot of laughter, especially by those who could see my realization face.

Ha! I got ahead of the game and just had an unfinished basement for five years! Even easier access!

Back in my day, it was “I’m going insane … Short trip.”

My cats once got in a fight with a praying mantis in an old townhouse.

I’d seen praying mantisses before but this one was a. in my home and b. large enough to be genuinely a little intimidating. The cats won, but it took a long time because they were being more cautious than usual.

I’ve never once had a cat who cared about verbal excoriation. Mine will only stop doing naughty things if you get up and approach them, then as soon as you sit back down they’re back to doing it again.

Good to know, thanks!

Very regal.

To be clear, mine has bald spots (one above each eye) and I was curious whether yours did … A question I suppose I could have answered by simply looking at your picture. I apologize and thank you for responding!

edit: As I said, she doesn’t like to look at the camera, so I don’t have a lot of photos of her from head on … But this near four year old photo kinda shows the bald spots. I think they only increase how adorable she is.

You not only stole my cat but cloned her? How rude.

Beautiful, though.

edit: Wait, do they have the bald spots?

edit: So far as I know, she’s a cat, not a car.

You lemmings keep stealing my cats.

(She doesn’t like to look at the camera but she has the same eyes also)

I was gonna say “;)”