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I have knee replacement revision in 20 hours

Hauling 80 miles away sucks, recovery's going to suck more but I'll be so glad this prosthesis isn't loose anymore

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pays for movie ticket and overpriced popcorn

dinks around on their phone and doesn't pay undivided attention to the movie

WHY

Also, why do people who pay tons of money to see some pop singer concert, hold up their phones and record? WHY.

ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

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I tested positive for MRSA exposure. Now I gotta squeeze an antibiotic ointment up my nose for two weeks. Like I really needed this two weeks before surgery.

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Glasses with strawberries on them will forever remind me of Nana and Hachi

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Love fresh cukes, especially in tzatziki. Waterlemons are great when they're fresh out of the garden; otherwise they taste like wet floral foam

The texture grosses me out

Awesome with BBQ sauce and ham. I can't find a "Hawaiian" pizza anywhere

Tastes like oily cardboard unless it's in guacamole

I'm a Topo Chico Tia!

Nasty. One little smidgen made me poop my guts out

reblog and add ur opinion about:

cucumber/watermelon

bananas

pineapple on pizza

avocado

sparkling water

marmite/vegemite

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I have to put my dog to sleep today. I think Koko might have had a stroke recently. She forgets where she is and most of the time needs help to stand up. She's also fifteen years old. When it's done I will be relieved because she hasn't been herself for awhile and she hates it. I'll still look for her for awhile because I won't believe she's dead.

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Too bad the Sistine Seagull didn't get to be Pope Larus. Leo XIV is from Chicago which is near where I'm originally from.

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I quit smoking 28 years ago today, on Cinco de Mayo 1997. Cigarettes are unbearably gross now. If I walk by somebody smoking, I feel seasick.

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Remembering Eddie Albert on his birthday #botd

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Guess who's getting a knee replacement revision?

Yep. The tibia component is coming loose. The femoral one's too big at the kneecap. I asked the surgeon if the original operation had been botched and he said it's too soon to tell yet. I am way too young for this shit. This is octogenarian matters.

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wait did something happen to Jesus

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Why does the one on the right look like a doodle pup???

This is unrelated to anything else with the silly “Dire Wolf” controversy but them putting these images in all the articles give me the weirdest uncanny valley discomfort. Like it is hard for me to take these photos seriously. Do you know why?

Wolf pups just do not look like that. Because wolves typically have their pups in underground dens, it is an evolutionary advantage for the vulnerable pups to blend in with the dark earth of the den. If they were born white, they’d be sharply contrasted and easier for predators to spot. Even arctic wolves are born dark and gain their typical white coat a little later (though not all arctic wolves are white either).

Fun fact in Game of Thrones they used domestic dogs to play the dire wolf pups; puppy Ghost is cute but he’s clearly no wolf!

Giving birth to pups that are darkly colored is a pretty basic adaptation in a lot of canids that litter underground. Red foxes and arctic foxes are also born a very nondescript shade of dirt. Exceptions exist, but this is just a thing that a lot of wild canines do. Here are various canids (red fox, Ethiopian wolf, maned wolf, and African wild dog) that do this

I don’t know if we have any proof that dire wolves had their pups in dens but it would be kind of weird if they didn’t. So even if the dire wolf had a light coat as an adult they would likely still be born with a darker color to act as camouflage.

So when I keep getting this image

blasted on all my feeds you can understand why my brain has trouble registering it even as a gray wolf pup. It’s just weird. It looks like what chat gpt would spit out if you requested an arctic wolf pup. That thing would stand out like crazy in an underground den. You can make something look like something else all you want but the evolutionary history of a species is too complicated for us to ever faithfully recreate from scratch.

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Jayne Mansfield would have celebrated a birthday today #botd Photos by Peter Stackpole for Life, 1956

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I'd like to stop being asthmatic, epileptic and avoid the familial dementia risk. Being taller or shorter might be cool but I'm fine with being medium height.

You can give yourself one genetic mutation and it is safe, effective, and cheap*. What are doing?

*i know that a lot of these aren’t just due to one gene but are a complex interplay of several genes, epigenetic factors, and environmental factors, but we are playing pretend here

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Why does this house smell like a cross between a plane crash and a walk-in cooler?

The weather's been usual Northern Illinois shenanigans.. a wildfire about a week ago, grass fires until yesterday, high winds and heavy rain now. How come it smells like a plane crash and a walk-in cooler? I guess it's better than the air being all smoked up but this is unsettling.

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Because a ladybug got in my mineral water and made things gross with her hemolymph, I do this to make me happy

tagged by: @kaiyves-backup

last song: Frank Zappa - Approximate (it's hilarious and SFW)

last book: Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman

last movie: Does a documentary about Karyn Kupcinet count?

last game: Kicking my own butt at Canfield solitaire.

last tv show: NASCAR Circuit of the Americas in TX

spicy/sweet/savory: I like them all

relationship: only if he's rich

favorite color: Black

last google search: DIY covered litterbox

I tag: YOU!

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The Swinging Six - Zip Code song (1960s) (and the winner of the Luigi Mangione Lookalike Contest is....