lolola

Wait, all these baby hippo posts have been a single baby hippo? I thought people were just posting cute baby hippos.

Despite new evidence to the contrary, I will continue to hold this false belief 🦛

And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.

Holy frijoles

Me and my gf way back in the day trapped a stray kitten once.

It was living under a car. We put little piles of dry food out for it for a few days, gradually moving the pile further and further away from his hiding place. Then one day we made a little trail of food leading to a carry box that we filled with food. Once we heard it chomping away inside, we crept up and slammed the door shut. It felt like a scene out of a cartoon lol

Little thing freaked out and clawed at the door and cried for a while. But once we took it into the house and out of the summer heat, it was very happy.

Note, I am neither an experienced pet owner nor a trapper. I just like telling this story hehe

Edit: ...what pronouns do you use for a kitten from decades ago whose sex you don't remember?

Once the "weird" label took off, I thought it would lose some of its power because it was being used so much.

But damn. There's no other way to put it. This is weird.

My sense is it's getting at "what's an overated candy flavor"

I'm gonna make some hedgehog stew today

WHO IS THIS PERSON

I really wish the nomenclature was consistent. If you say "shreds", it'd better be documents in a literal paper shredder, perhaps in service of obstruction of justice.

If you're just referring to people saying "Trump bad", please use "slam" or "blast" so I know to ignore it.

Cornholio Paradox

I thought most hoes would be quite easy to plow

When referring to a difficult task: "That's a tough road to hold", or "a tough road to hoe", or "a tough road to [travel on]" or "a tough road to... [trails off awkwardly...]", or just "a tough road".

It's a tough row to hoe.

It's an agricultural metaphor. The row is a line of dirt in a field where you plant seeds. You use a hoe to dig the lines, remove weeds, and create little holes where you drop the seeds. Hoeing may be difficult if the soil is too hard or too full of rocks and weeds. Such a row would be a tough one to hoe.