Ininewcrow

If we move a dog up to 200 mph, they are very aerodynamically efficient

Something absolutely outrageous like a pink jacket or a boa, a big flashy hat or pants with the cheeks cutout.

No one will say a thing because all the Irish people will be flopping around on the floor having seizures trying to spit out whatever thing they wanted to say.

Or just let every error occur in sight of everyone, delay fixing it at a reasonable time frame (not too long to inconvenience people, not to short to make them think it was easy)

The meaning of Guy changes when you live in Quebec or in French Canadian region like northern Ontario

I have a Lemmy account and I first used that avatar there … now I’m spending more time on Piefed and I used the same avatar but I kept confusing the two accounts because they had the same avatar.

So to separate them … I had Chief Poundmaker pound back a bright red Canadian Piefed.ca pie instead. It was just a funny change for me to distinguish the two accounts.

*Dr Teeth

Reminds me of a math rhythm my older brother taught me when we were teens

You subtract the clothes
You add the bed
You divide the legs
And then you multiply

A good alternative would be …

penis.mightier

Later that year, Sally did another school report on dinosaurs … on the thesaurus

Quarantine … probably until the snow melts

Reminds me of how proud I am to remember one of my uncles.

Some of my dad’s family went to St Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany in northern Ontario in the 1950s … it’s famous as a very brutal institution that did terrible things. Dad had one older brother who was famous for being thrown out of the school and told to not return. He was very rebellious and constantly fought with everyone the entire time he was there. He was regularly beaten and punished when he was smaller and younger but he never stopped fighting back. He was a naturally strong and built young boy. When he turned 12, he was built like a full grown man and was known to punch out and beat any of the priests and brothers. They couldn’t handle him at one point, sent him home and just told him not to return.

My cousins in that family are some of the toughest, strongest most brutal people I know. I’m glad I’m related to them because anyone who ever crossed them on the street didn’t do so good.

They applied that same logic to Indian Residential Schools in Canada … but they weren’t trying to grow men … they just wanted to get rid of the Indian inside the Indian.

I’m Ojibway / Cree from northern Ontario and in our language we distinguish foxes according to colour

Mahkehshoo … the word for ‘red’ - mookoowak - is derived from the word for blood ‘mookoo’ … and adding the ‘shoo’ at the end notes that it is in reference to an individual or being … so you get ‘Mahkehshoo’ - ‘the red one’

Mahkahtehshoo … the word for black or darkness is ‘mah-kah-teh-oo’ and again, adding the ‘shoo’ at the end is in reference to it being applied to a individual or being … so you get ‘Mahkahtehshoo’ - ‘the black one’

Wahpahkehshoo … the word for white is ‘wahpack’ and like the others, adding ‘shoo’ means you are talking about an individual or being … so you get ‘wahpahkehshoo’ - ‘the white one’

I have a bunch of family and friends from Six Nations in southern Ontario … a Mohawk community. Most of the people I know there are part of the turtle clan and all their houses are filled with turtle memorabilia … at one friends house, I literally trip on turtles because he has several large heavy door stoppers in the shape of turtles.

I just had this talk with my wife … we were talking about a bunch of other things but a highlight that came out of it was this nugget

‘The world is mostly full of good people … it’s only a minority of loud, ugly stupid idiots that make it seem terrible’

Doggo trying to lead you to the toilet: … HEY BUDDY! I KNOW WHERE WE CAN GET A FREE DRINK!!!

Some of the best food we can have is the food we make for ourselves.

It never feels like it at the time … but whenever I’ve gone far from home, I always miss the food me and my wife make.

You also have to consider barometric pressure and humidity. I find even moderate humidity in winter time combined with low pressure makes it feel miserable, damp and cool … even with a moderate temperature.

20 C in the summer is fine because its moderate humidity, moderate pressure and everything is in equilibrium.

But 20 C in the winter inside a house with a bit high humidity, low pressure makes it feel like the cold is seeping past your skin and into your bones. So the way most people deal with it is to raise the temperature … but it seldom cures the feeling because temperature / humidity / barometric pressure are still not in equilibrium.

The way my family used to deal with it was to turn the house into a literal sauna and raise the temperature to 30 C … I’m Indigenous and this was normal life for me but my wife is non-Indigenous and she gets upset with me if it gets too warm in the house at winter time. I remember camping in the winter time with my dad for hunting / trapping trips in the dead of winter. He’d put on a fire and raise the temperature of the tent or hunt camp up to 40 C or more! I remember one night finding a crack in the wall of a hunt cabin to breathe in cool air because it was so freakin hot inside.

We get the same feeling during extreme winter storms with blowing snow, minus 20 degree weather and hollowing winds … but you’re inside next to an electric heater with a fake fireplace.