What McD's really needs to do is get equipment that will make the drive thur employees understandable when they talk to their customers. That garbled speech if just awful. +++blick, snickle, crack+++
I thought Roger was doing a commercial for fireworks. When I lived in Louisiana tents would go up alongside a busy road and tables would hold all sorts of fireworks from sparklers to beautiful fireworks that looked like colorful flowers and dragons high in the sky to mini dynamite sticks. Those tents appeared for July 4th and for the New Year. In Michigan one may have sparklers. That's it. Pitiful, IMO. No wonder people would travel out of state to obtain some decent fireworks even if it is illegal to do it.
Could phobias be passed down the genetic line so future generations would be programmed to recognize these fears and in some way act upon them? As an example I give you my grand mother who - unbeknown to me most of my life - had an enormous fear of being buried alive. She lived to 89 years but instructed my mother that when she was pronounced dead my mother was to hold a mirror under her nose to ensure no vapor clung to the mirror proving that she truly was dead. Fast forward to me and never having known about my grand mother's fear, I, too, have had a life long fear of being buried alive. Which makes me wonder if a deceased relative years and years ago had been buried alive and that knowledge and fear was then genetically passed down to the surviving desendents to this day?
So am I supposed to automatically know exactly how much my order will be when I go through the take out line? I barely have time to get a good look at the menu before the pressure from the cars behind me starts to urge me to hurry and place my order even though I might have bought something different had I had 30 seconds longer to peruse the menu board. Well, excuse me, PLEASE! but I'll do my best in the take out lane to hurry up and order while my husband scrambles around in his pockets and my purse to find the money for our food without - GOD forbid - holding up the lane and inconveniencing the patrons behind me. Come on, people, cool your jets! sheesh!
My MIL lived in Florida for decades so we had to go there. We made a point of going to Universal Orlando for a week's stay at their Royal Pacific hotel which is their best hotel if you like teak and greenery and serenity gardens and waterfalls. They are also pet friendly so your fur babies can come, too. We went there 10 years in a row until Covid hit and MIL died and we haven't been back. I miss it since I'm a big Harry Potter fan.
Speaking of sexual vocalization: The female fox is called a vixen in homage to human females because when in sexual heat they make very loud sounds like a woman in the throes of sexual lust. I was a volunteer feeder/cage cleaner at an animal care center and one day while doing my rounds I kept hearing a woman moaning. I tracked the sound down to a female red fox situated in a dog run next to an arctic male fox's run. She kept coming to the fence and rubbing on the chain link while the poor male fox was going crazy trying to 'date' her. He was fixed the next week but he would have had beautiful kits with that lady fox.
Maybe it's just me, maybe it's because I'm old now but I am really tired of watching movies and tv shows (ex: game of thrones) that look they were shot with only 1 or 2 lamps for lighting. I get it that horror movies like dark sets for the 'atmosphere' but if I have to strain my eyes trying to figure out what I'm seeing instead of just watching the entire show without such distractions then the director defeats the purpose of telling their story. Lighten up, people. Lighten up!
When I lived in Louisiana for ten years we installed a small pond on our front yard. I bought a dozen feeder fish (goldfish) and put them into the pond where they thrived and got bigger and bigger. They were about 8 inches long when they disappeared. I figure a bird or raccoon had a feast of them. I ended up buying more feeder fish and they grew big, too, and then disappeared. Between some animal biding their time to have a really big snack and my city spraying the area w/poison (unannounced so we had no time to cover the water in the pond!) to kill off mosquitoes which killed off my fish, too, we finally just caught the local fish in the bayou behind my back yard and put them in the pond. Nothing would kill those little guys.
Come on, people, cool your jets! sheesh!