Sorry, I was -1 year old...

I've heard of the A-Team (or maybe I've only heard of Mr. T) but I haven't seen any episodes of the show, just references to it in other media.

My pet peeve is when people score things out of five or ten, or whatever number ever known to mankind, and they answer with a decimal. It defeats the entire purpose of scoring that way. I'm sorry, 6.8/10 is not 6.8 out of ten, that's 17/25, or 34/50 for consistency with increments of two tenths, like 6.6/10 (33/50) or 6.4/10 (32/50). If one's asking to score out of X number, they mean whole numbers. Even if they don't mean that, it's still heavily implied by scoring out of X number!

Conspiracy theories. I've been obsessing over them for over a decade.

Coming to terms with the existence of stuff like creationism, flat-earth, antisemitism, ancient aliens, Q-Anon and the like has been a constant struggle for almost half of my life.

I have grown and matured as a person in the process, solely based on battling my cognitive dissonance regarding conspiracy theories.

Just a reminder.  There is no discussion of religion on the forum (https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?virboard=1;num=1639081613).  That hasn't happened here yet, so I'm just trying to make sure it doesn't.

If there's something along that line you would like to discuss with someone, feel free to do so via private message.

When it comes to English I dislike how it works (or rather doesn't) with relatives. You never know which side of the family is being spoken of. In Swedish, and many other languages for sure, you INSTANTLY know. Your grandfather on your fathers side for instance is called "farfar" (translates to father-father). But if I tell a story about the same guy in English I have to write "my grandfather... ON MY FATHER'S SIDE". It's honestly quite annoying; especially since there already ARE different words; grandpa/granddad/grandfather/whatever else. Just standardize one each for either side of the family and stop with the "on X side"?

^Same with "the day before yesterday". Surely something could be done there? It COULD be contracted into a single word right? "Thedabay" or something idk...

In Swedish it's people who use the word "egenKligen". Yeah that's "egenTligen" and the K is making you spit...

As a person with massive issues with sleep also can't stand it when I'm tired for an entire evening, I go to bed, OH suddenly I'm NOT tired. Oh now I'm just lying here wide awake and annoyed? That's cool!

Time of writing all of this is 01:30 and I got up again as I couldn't sleep. DST just makes it all even WORSE (that needs to go as well). Just made a big bowl of pasta just to try to go into a carb-coma. We'll see how it goes.

    This is more another source of amusement than a peeve but... coats for Huskies.
     The Husky breed is roughly three thousand years old.  They were bred by the Chukchi people of Kamchatka to tolerate the harsh conditions there.  Chukchi Huskies lived their entire lives outdoors.  Even during the worst blizzards they were left outside so that only the heartiest, most cold resistant dogs would survive to be breeding stock.  Consequently Huskies are almost impervious to cold.  They have been laboratory tested at temperatures as low as -100 degrees Fahrenheit with no ill effects.  They don't just tolerate cold, snowy weather.  They love it.  I often have to force my Huskies to come in during the Winter months, especially at night.  They want to sleep all night in the snow. 
    Yet people buy coats for their Huskies.  Why they do this I couldn't begin to guess. 

I missed the sweatshirted husky.  That's pretty funny.  In general I think putting clothes on animals is kinda stupid.  Maybe if someone has a little pet with thin fur, and it shivers like heck when going outside, then sure.  But as a fashion statement, I don't really get it.


I was a night owl for a long time.  I've slowly shifted toward mornings because my cat doesn't like sleeping in (ironically), and doesn't like me doing it either.  So when she wakes me up, I get going pretty quick.  And snoozing an alarm clock really doesn't work because she knows what that sound means.  It's time to start yelling and clawing that guy until he gets up!