This was my grandma. She married a Quebecois man who was ESL and raised his french kids from a previous marriage all while refusing to ever utter a single syllable in their language. You could ask her anything in french and she would clearly understand and respond in english. She spent sixty years living with and loving french speakers but she never slipped, not even a bonjour. She also refused to ever say why. We waited until my grandfather passed to bury her ashes because we were certain if we left her alone at the family plot in rural Quebec she would find a way to make us regret it.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Let's get real: What's your favourite Dinosaur? And why?
1·2 months agoCeratosaurus! Its basically a t-rex and triceratops mixed together.
It sure is. I can’t resist collecting the really stupid ones. Here’s a better look

This is just catnip bubbles with extra steps
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?
41·6 months agoYou know the smell dirt makes when its wet? It’s called petrichor and humans can smell it better than sharks smell blood in the water. It is detectable by the human nose at 0.4 parts per BILLION. This gave early humans a huge advantage in finding water when needed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
My wife came home from getting hers still in tears from the pain. I offered to go with, but the doctor made her believe it was nothing. Not content in simply hurting my wife, they set the string so it cut my fucking frenulum the next time we had sex! Took us nine months to find and book a competent gyno to fix her razor vag.
The worst part is my wife got the IUD because it was recommended by the gyno after she had a tubal ligation. It was not there to prevent pregnancy. They claimed it would make her period easier, the opposite was true. All that trauma and pain for nothing.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•A better name for tramp stamp tattoos could be bumper stickers
111·7 months agoSometimes calling it a tramp stamp is more fitting. Here’s an example my wife and I had done last summer

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What actors/actresses make you immediately not want to make a movie/show?
51·7 months agoJenna Ortega. For awhile I only saw her name in poor bastardizations of my favourite childhood media and it has soured me on her work entirely.
Only the rich are cowbirds. Cowbirds are parasites that make other birds raise their young for them, kinda like Musk.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When you think back to a day at work that left you feeling accomplished and satisfied - what happened that day?
10·8 months agoLast time I felt that way was during my final tree planting contract five years ago. Set a new personal best at 4500 trees despite only having six hours to work that day. People over thirty tend to break down from the toll the job takes on the body, so I was equally suprised and proud to set a new record while being the oldest guy in the camp.
You are correct. The other reply is wrong. This is the movie you’re referring to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppets_from_Space
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish
94·9 months agoIf you think thats weird you haven’t even scratched the surface on Zuck. He actually idolizes Emperor Augustus Caesar so much that he copied the guys haircut for most of his career. Behind the Bastards does a good job of highlighting it. If you want a quick readable version, here’s the first non paywalled article I could find. https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-by-augustus-future-of-facebook-2018-9
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•This plant-stick spawned in my pot, what is it?
4·9 months agoYup looks like unhealthy cannabis to me. If it was raspberry like another commenter mentioned, there would be some small thorns. I do not consider myself an expert, but I have worked with plants all my life and keep plant ID books handy.
My Polish father in law makes it with bacon and it is by far the best fermented food I’ve ever enjoyed. I’ll see if I can get the recipe.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We could be going towards a Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies
8·10 months agoWe are very much on Trek. For reference, check out season 3 episodes 11 and 12 of Deep Space Nine. These episodes take place on Earth in 2024, roughly six months ago. It was always clearly laid out in Trek that their path to utopia was paved with war and hardship.
Well that and the fact that our first contact in Trek is with a peaceful but vastly superior race. We had everything to gain by creating an alliance and could have easily been wiped out by Klingons or Romulans if we didn’t.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Momma told me to flaunt what I got, and what I got is at least 40 bucks.
4·10 months agoHow about I trade you two dozen eggs for those bills? Eggs are only worth a few dollars a dozen north of the border. We’d share more, but your leader is threatening our future.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you were a butterfly, which flowers would you choose?
5·10 months agoDorothy rose columbine. Beautifully built for butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Games@lemmy.world•Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarketEnglish
2040·10 months agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nintendo-sue-paco-gutierrez/ It was actually Venezuela and Nintendo didn’t sue.
When you spread lies like these it hurts the credibility of the very real problems with Nintendo, like suing a supermarket or attacking the emulation community.
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[moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•Studio Slump: Lionsgate's Last 6 Films Have All Been Box Office BustsEnglish
3·1 year agoThe same indie film that topped the US box office last weekend, Terrifier 3.




I just want to point out that for many of us, sex ends up kinda scheduled anyway. When my wife and I started dating, we were both against scheduled sex and kept things organic. Now that we’re 40 and work 40 hours a week, fridays and sundays are generally the only days we have enough time and energy to do it. It isn’t exactly scheduled, but functionally I see no difference. The only times we’ve deviated from that in the last few years is when we’re on vacation.