My fave from Scotland: “tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon”

When I was a kid I’d always called it cow pus

There are dozens of us

Then tell them they just filled their mouth with bug secretions.

Why wait until Halloween? Go to your nearest coffee/tea shop and say it to folks who decide bug secretions are better than sugar in their beverage.

The funny thing about the green card comment is that my wife is Latina and I’m white as can be, so the person was basing their comment entirely on my accent.

When I moved to Los Angeles from N WI people would always ask where I was from; sometimes saying “no” when I said Wisconsin. When I married my wife, somebody at work said it was just so I could get a green card.

While a ship, the Lexx was primarily designed as a weapon that could destroy planets, so I’ll go for The Lexx.

Usually one of the Star Trek series; currently DS9.

Not really; only when somebody uses peertube to share a video

I just recently joined Lemmy; never had a redditt account. Have been using Mastodon for quite a few years now; only ever dabbled in twitter. I like that the fedi stuff seems more organic and less manipulated by algorithms, although, that also makes it easy to miss stuff as well. Still getting a feel for Lemmy and discovering interesting communities. My ultimate social platform was Google Reader (still miss my sharebros/gals. My primary social media after the demise of GR was the comment section, BBS, of BoingBoing – we had a mass departure after the publisher did some petty bans (started our own discourse instance)

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark (1973) scared the crap out of young me… The little creatures lurking in the dark and dragging them away. My older sister reinforcing the fear with stories/teasing didn’t help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_(1973_film) I’m sure it would be laughable now, but my sister really knew how to push my buttons.

I’m just happy when I go to a site and all the source for the page is 1st party.

Looks exactly like my Ollie… He’ll be back, but will probably poke my face with his cold wet nose before settling back down between my feet.

When I was in first grade, a second grader had a coconut that was still in the husk… He convinced a lot of us that it was a bat egg. He would put it up to your ear and scratch the other side and tell you that was the baby bat getting ready to hatch.

Whenever there is some viral story about some youtube/ticktock celebrity.

Always love idioms from other languages. Had a book called “Idioms Delight” that explored equivalents from several different cultures/languages.

That used to be my drug of choice

Tulsi (Holy Basil): Has just enough anti-anxiety properties to quiet the inner voice that keeps me up at night.

Sugar is great for when I’m sleepy in the afternoon (good strong black licorice is a good complimentary to that, since it seems to keep my blood sugar from dropping in the first place)

Well, ya; not with that attitude

Blow up the mooooon!!!