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Armand Hubert Simon Leleux

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I cycled so far for this please appreciate my photo

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I've come to prefer knitting over crochet but I sure hate hate hate stitching knit things together. Knitting a whole blanket in 1 go is too heavy but I can quite comfortably crochet a big blanket

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I did also just realise I can probably crochet a huge granny square blanket with my local sheepy handspun yarn... it'll probably be very nice and warm to have on my bed and the somewhat irregular yarn won't be much of an issue because it's just plain granny square.

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When I get my own place I can get the fucking giant duvet yes yes *cackling*

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once i finish the mittens i need to start birthday knitting......... probably knit two frogs and two sweaters...

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got cornflakes for fried chicken & the back of the box has its own recipe. easy as pie. "rinse chicken tenders with cold water and coat with crushed kelloggs corn flakes cereal." and then cook. no binding agent. no seasoning. nothing but a pile of flavorless chicken with a side of the extra-dried-out cornflakes that fell off it. serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce. doesnt even say serve hot. Serve Warm. wouldnt wanna get too wild with it. truly this is the spirit of cornflakes

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Heather options are 30 minutes uphill or 50 minutes fairly straight cycling.... I think I will dare for the long ride because the uphill is a killer plus the longer ride has better views iirc. There's also an ice cream stand. Might walk there or might bring knitting and or ereader.

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Another day, another lily.

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Hey, you. I... I couldn't help but notice you are having a rough day... May I offer you some snuggie rats in consolation?

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It’s a shame how much nautical stuff is focused on the royal navy, especially the ships. Enough about the battleships. Here’s some beautiful boats from other cultures.

(Left) This is a traditional Somali ship known as a beden. Traditionally, the planks are sewn together with coconut fiber instead of hammered with nails. Did you know ancient Somalia had a maritime empire?

(Right) Galway hooker, from Galway Ireland. The original cloth sails were treated with a solution made from treebark to protect them from rot, which just so happened to turn the sails their iconic rusty red color, and modern synthetic sailcloth is dyed to imitate this.

(Left) Viking boats (amongst others) were built with the planks overlapping (clinker) instead of being flush (carvel) this provides flexibility for the boat to bend instead of break in rough seas but still maintains strength.

(Right) a Māori waka taua (decorated war canoe). This particular one is Ngā Toki, and it previously held the world record for longest canoe at 123 feet long and 6 1/2 wide).

Four more that I know less about:

(Left) Haida dugout canoe.

(Right) Vietnamese Ghe Nang.

(Left) An Unangax baidarka.

(Right) An Uros reed boat.

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parents will make u feel guilty about absurd shit like breathing too much air or smth. and it will work too like you'll be laying on the ground years later paralyzed by the guilt that you're breathing too much until someone grabs u by the shoulders and tells u that is fucking stupid. and then you'll need to remind yourself of that every day for the rest of your life to function

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When speaking with someone else, if they ever ask you to repeat yourself because they didn't hear or understand what you said the first time, always show patience and kindness while repeating yourself.

It's not uncommon to feel frustrated or impatient at having to repeat yourself. However, feeling frustration or impatience at having to repeat yourself doesn't mean that you need to show that to whoever you're speaking with.

There's all sorts of factors that can lead to someone not understanding you and needing you to repeat yourself. People can have auditory processing disorders, people can be hard of hearing, people can have a different first language than you, etc. Or even if someone doesn't have an auditory processing disorder, and isn't hard of hearing, and has the same first language as you, that doesn't mean they deserve to receive a snippy attitude just because they couldn't hear you or understand you the first time.

Either way, especially when someone just didn't understand you, it's always unkind and inconsiderate to be snippy or rude to someone just because they couldn't understand you. It makes life extra hard for marginalized groups, such as immigrants who have to regularly communicate in their second language, or people who are hard of hearing, when they have to deal with constant snippy attitudes or even cruelty from those who find it justifiable to be unkind to someone just for not being able to understand.

So the next time you're talking to someone, and they say something like "sorry I didn't hear/understand that, could you say that again?" or even just give you that blank lost expression universally recognized as "I didn't hear/understand what you just said", when you feel that frustration rising at having to repeat yourself, instead of getting snippy or showing any anger or aggression, take a breath and repeat yourself with patience.

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I did have a nice day, enjoyed using my new old bike at the bf's place, we cycled to a museum and walked around the town as well and visited overly expensive like countryside living shops lol. Cycled home the long way and walked around the city centre there and then went home. I haven't parked it at the train station yet bc I want to get a second lock because it is a fancy brand bike and if it gets stolen it'll be an ordeal to replace it.