Post a Random Fact About Yourself

I fucking hate Twinkies. Just thinking about them makes me queasy.

This also applies to soda pop.

 

The one I ate looked and smelled normal.

 

obviously yes or they'd be out of business

 

I mean yeah, I'll eat a Twinkie. I don't go out of my way for them and can't remember the last one I had, but I like them. I'm more of a Little Debbie person. Little Debbie is known in my gaming group as Debra, The Patron Saint of Nerd Nite.

My random fact is that today I got to see a live bat up close because one of my colleagues had to go rescue one from a school. He said the kids all applauded when he came to get it. They put apple slices in the box for it (it eats insects, but whatever).

 

has anybody ever tried to feed them twinkies?

 

they might need them like some people need cocaine (that was at least my idea)

 

I've eaten a whole box in a couple of sessions.

Of course, Girl Scout thin mints have only two servings in a box (serving defined as a sleeve).

 

Maybe that's the real cause of white nose syndrome...

 

I’m fluent in 3 languages, but one of those is sadly not my wife’s mother tongue.

 

so why don't you just learn it?

 

There’s no more room in my stupid head! That’s why man!

In reality I’m learning, but I have to say it’s easier to nail a language in your early twenties than in your mid-forties.

 

it surely is - which language are we talking?

 

I would have loved to have had a valid reason not to understand my last mother in law.

 

Vietnamese.

I speak Chinese already, so there are points of similarity, but then there’s the French colonial additions to the language which complicates things.

Also, I was naive to think it’d be easier than Chinese because I wouldn’t have to learn a new alphabet again. Vietnamese uses the western alphabet (with some additional stuff) but they pronounce a lot of it in a different way.

So learning it is a process of undoing the western ABC programming that’s been stamped into me from childhood.

She’s a wonderful lady though, so this will be done and in the meantime I’m fortunate that she’s an English language professor.

 

that probaly makes it harder - i never tried myself on an asian language

 

Nobody needs 'em. They are treats. They are mostly artificial bullshit but who cares.

 

Finished my current quilt today! Now, on to the blue quilt I began for my husband, but will finish for my son because my son requested it.

 

Valentine's Day really depresses me.