My Spanish teacher said something about using "el pene" for your hair. The i in "peine" is doing a lot of work.
Gonna have to be real careful ordering pasta if I ever go to Mexico
I've just started learning Spanish and today instead of saying "mucho gusto" (nice to meet you) I accidentally introduced myself by saying "musto gucho" (must taste) so apparently spoonerisms are not an English-exclusive feature in my brain
You are correct, it apparently means that in Italian (Google translate automatically switched to Italian and confused me)
Hi friend sorry to confuse you even more but that doesn’t mean anything in italian either 😅 google is being mean to you
You're also correct. When I have Spanish selected it says 'this is Italian' but when I try selecting Italian it says 'this is nothing'
Yeah idk I think the closest it may be is some kind of Spanglish. But it may mean nothing at all
Well I'm relieved to know I probably didn't tell a potential new coworker that I needed to taste her.
I've just started learning Spanish and today instead of saying "mucho gusto" (nice to meet you) I accidentally introduced myself by saying "musto gucho" (must taste) so apparently spoonerisms are not an English-exclusive feature in my brain
You are correct, it apparently means that in Italian (Google translate automatically switched to Italian and confused me)
Hi friend sorry to confuse you even more but that doesn’t mean anything in italian either 😅 google is being mean to you
You're also correct. When I have Spanish selected it says 'this is Italian' but when I try selecting Italian it says 'this is nothing'
I've just started learning Spanish and today instead of saying "mucho gusto" (nice to meet you) I accidentally introduced myself by saying "musto gucho" (must taste) so apparently spoonerisms are not an English-exclusive feature in my brain
You are correct, it apparently means that in Italian (Google translate automatically switched to Italian and confused me)
I've just started learning Spanish and today instead of saying "mucho gusto" (nice to meet you) I accidentally introduced myself by saying "musto gucho" (must taste) so apparently spoonerisms are not an English-exclusive feature in my brain
I think one of the absolute cutest things Ripley does is that he has a pet name for his favorite person. Tev has a habit of calling Ripley "buddy," and Ripley has decided to call him "Tev Buddy" in return.
He doesn't call anyone else Buddy, and he doesn't always add "buddy" to Tev's name, but he's decided that they have a special word that they use for one another (probably because he's noticed that Tev doesn't call anyone else in the house "buddy," and nobody else uses that word for either Tev or Ripley).
There is construction on our street and Cheese apparently knows how to do the beep of a truck backing up.
thinking about how peoples blorbos tend to be men on here (makes sense with the trends in fandom of men being prioritised etc etc) SO please reblog and tag your female blorbo(s). this is NOT the post to be like “[male character] becuz he’s a woman to me” i Will come to your house and bite you. anyway i’ll go first mine are susie and julie from dbd and carly jones from house of wax 🖤
filipino here and i once came across a tiktok abt an american comforting others abt the prospect of having lice. which is MIND BOGGLING to me since filipinos literally pick lice out in the open during recess or even on the sidewalk. even hair stylists dgaf if u have lice
so anyway answer my poll
if u voted i genuinely need u to reblog and add what country ur from + answer bc thats the basis of this research ok thanks
Witnessed a slow motion argument today when Tilly (small turtle) ate a mealworm that Tippy (big turtle) was looking at. She retaliated by moving to sit in the food bowl so that Tilly couldn't have any. Twice he walked away in frustration, and twice she moved off the food bowl--only to immediately go sit back on it again when he attempted to come back. I think it's safe to say the honeymoon period for these two is over.
I added a second food bowl and she immediately marched over and sat on it.
I had no idea turtles could be petty.
Good question! Vets aren't entirely sure. Guesses are that when he was an egg or a hatchling, conditions weren't quite right. Other local nature centers have box turtles who grew up with similar shells due to their nests having been disturbed by humans or other animals. It's possible he had metabolic bone disease early on, but he recently received a diagnosis of "healthy little guy who is a funky shape."
Witnessed a slow motion argument today when Tilly (small turtle) ate a mealworm that Tippy (big turtle) was looking at. She retaliated by moving to sit in the food bowl so that Tilly couldn't have any. Twice he walked away in frustration, and twice she moved off the food bowl--only to immediately go sit back on it again when he attempted to come back. I think it's safe to say the honeymoon period for these two is over.
I added a second food bowl and she immediately marched over and sat on it.
I had no idea turtles could be petty.
Witnessed a slow motion argument today when Tilly (small turtle) ate a mealworm that Tippy (big turtle) was looking at. She retaliated by moving to sit in the food bowl so that Tilly couldn't have any. Twice he walked away in frustration, and twice she moved off the food bowl--only to immediately go sit back on it again when he attempted to come back. I think it's safe to say the honeymoon period for these two is over.
Anonymous asked:
i’m getting a cockatiel in a week, i’ve done a lot of research but do you have any advice that isn’t common knowledge?
Gosh, uh. I'm going through some Big Life Events right now so I don't know how obvious this advice is or not, but with Cheese I have to tell myself every day to Be Patient.
I really want him to like me! But he's just now graduating from "nervous acceptance" to "mild curiosity," which is a big step up from "paralyzed with anxiety," but it's still so far away from "loving and trusting." But you can't try to force a little animal to trust you, since it kind of defeats the whole endeavor, you know? It inherently takes a long time. And Cheese at least seems to have had many years preceding this of Not Particularly Good interactions with humans.
Something else that I don't see talked about a lot is that there is absolutely no one-size-fits-all approach to training and behavior for parrots (or any animal, but especially parrots). Some parrots bite because they're afraid (Cheese). Some parrots bite because they think it's funny when the big apes scream (Ripley). Some parrots bite because they've eaten too much fruit this week and it's made them into a hormonal rage machine (Enyo but also sometimes Ripley). Very similar looking behavior can occur for totally different reasons. So you're going to have to take into account that your bird's temperament and life history and environment are all influencing them, and try your best to accommodate.
I wish you and the cockatiel coming into your life luck and happiness! Also, a mini cereal box stuffed with paper shreds is a big hit among most cockatiels and very cheap toy to make so give that one a try.
A dramatic reading of “I am the horrible goose that lives in the town” by Daniel Ortberg: https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives
I’m so glad I showed my roommate this article and made them read it aloud for my amusement.
“I am the horrible goose that lives in the town” by Daniel Ortberg
I am the horrible creeping bag of sound that is the most worst to you! I will use my beak to mischief you and I will press B. I wobble my snake-front-body and I waggle my bag-back-body and they meet in the middle to plan a bad idea to upset you. I flap back and forth my business rear for balancing and I snapple-pap my feet all up and down the town for terrible reasons, and you don’t like it. I am the goose and you are the miserable boy with no honk. I invented my body and it was the best idea.
Honk! Honk! I flap open my back in celebration when I make victory over the fence, when I smash it from its lock, when I smash it down, when I undo all of your doing. Here I honk! I hold up all of my wings and I make more layers of me, the goose that hates your family.
These are the keys that you do not have! I am flat and racing over the earth and you are all the way stood up, all the way confused, all the way overalls and no ideas. I make a fight between yourself and your memory. I wet your feet because I do not respect them, I wet them with a lake, and I am lake-satisfaction.
Your garden? I make it terrible! I make a puzzle of your garden! I hustle up your carrots and remove all rakes for a punishment to you. Theft puts a parade into my walk, I am so proud to steal from you and your bad family, who are no good to me and are not geese. I am the most goose who ever was, and I am enough goose for the whole town, because I am a little white heartbeat that moves very fast, more fast than anything else, for surprises.
My business is the worst business and you have it. Here I come! I’ll take any big thing, small thing meant for hiding, widest thing, right in my beak and hustle it away from your permission, because I don’t agree with property and never have. Here I come again! You cannot anticipate me because your brain is so big and weighty and far from the ground, but my brain is aerodynamic and small and ground-sure and I have all I need in my wicked goose-body, and also I have your radio.
Where is the boy for me to disrespect? I am his least friend. I see his games an I contempt them. I ruin his life! Glasses for him? No! Shoelaces for him? No! I make every escape. I am the pest of his whole awful body but my body is so smooth and good. My body works. My body is the softest triangle with a hose attached, strong and useful and all the way sweetheart. You need everything but I have it. I put my honk in a jar so there is more honk! I honk at you, I honk directly up to God, and I will never leave! You will never be well again, and I will trouble your father all of the time. I am all a triumph, I am the most successful goose, and you are misery with suffering and hopeless with loss. I have the beautiful bell in my mouth, and now I have two honks, and you have nothing to say. There is a beautiful golden bell in my mouth and your mouth is so, so empty, because you hate me, the great goose with a mouth. I am tremendous! Here I am coming, with the good news of me, and you hate it. You can think only of the bell and how much I have it, and you are never the goose. I will run around with my bell as much as I want and you will make despair. Here comes the goose! Here comes the goose bell! Everybody be awake to the goose now and from now on! You liked this village so much before the goose came and ironed over all of your peace, but I’ll bring soda-can-and-boot-trash into your bed and mouth. You’ll never be the goose, and I already am the goose as most as a goose can be, all coiled up and ready to ungoose again.
Just reblogging with the note that Daniel's last name is Lavery; he changed it in 2019.
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A dramatic reading of “I am the horrible goose that lives in the town” by Daniel Ortberg: https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives
I’m so glad I showed my roommate this article and made them read it aloud for my amusement.
Source: SoundCloud / huduvudu
Cheese update: I have been trying to teach Cheese to be braver about hands and try to Step Up by 1. offering him food out of my hands (he is suspicious of this but will usually eat it) and 2. slowly moving my hands closer to him. Usually this results in Cheese eventually hopping over my hand and walking away from it.
This evening I noticed Enyo had already put himself back in his cage to go to sleep so I told Cheese "okay let's go back" and moved my hands close to him on either side, to which he responded by simply. Flying directly back inside his cage.
It's not Step Up, but I think maybe Cheese does actually have brain cells.
Cheese is so smart you guys. After a week of Playtime and Bedtime Routine, Cheese just flies out of his cage to the perch when I open his door. I still want him to sit on me but until then this is totally functional.
If you are neurodivergent (including all psychological conditions, neurological conditions, and developmental conditions) I have a question for you and pls elaborate in the tags if you feel comfortable