Grrl Power #1139 – Anti-concision
Sydney uses “ADHD wall of text.” It’s super effective. Exactly what it’s effective at is another matter.
I assume that most languages have acronyms. Not like, Chinese, probably. Or even Japanese for that matter. I know Japan knows what they are for sure, (Evangelion’s N.E.R.V., etc.) but I think they have to use Romanized alphabets to achieve it. But yeah, probably most written languages with non-ideogram based writing systems probably would. No idea about Korean, which is non-ideogram and phonetic AFAIK, but each Korean… syllable (?) is consonant-vowel-consonant (except the ones that aren’t) but that would leave most Korean acronyms looking like something Iceland would name a volcano, or the noise Klingon would make when he got a bat’leth to the groin. KLKTKTK! German seems like a language that would benefit from acronyms.
I enjoy writing Sydney’s stream of consciousness manner of speaking, cause it gives me the change to do a lot of googling about topics I know nothing about. Writing this page taught me what the standard unit of currency is in Senegal, its general exchange rate (it’s closer to 600-1 at the moment, but I have to keep reminding myself that less than a year has progressed since the beginning of the comic) and that xylophone is indeed a word in the French dictionary, but isn’t French in origin. Oh, and also Bissap. I wanna try it.
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I have a colleague like this.
Kind and helpful BUT God help me he NEVER gets to the point of whatever hes talking about.
“Hi man, where is the, insert object,?”
“Well you see, proceeds to give life story,”
Love him to death but i do my best to avoid asking anything of him that requres himn to do more than point.
Go away on lunch break, come back, all chaos has broken lose, ask colleague “can you tell me everything that happened up to this point?”
“Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Middle Easterner’s came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And former Prince now King Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it. He took her best summer dress, put it on and went to town.”
“What does the British royal family have to do with what happened here? How did the office catch on fire and where did all the spider monkeys come from?”
“Well, okay, Bob went to make coffee, but he couldn’t find the coffee, so he stepped out and slipped on a plastic pudding cup that Sarah had dropped. And then Jim came in and you know the sign in the break room that says not to use both microwaves at once because it’ll trip the breaker? Why are there even two microwaves if you can only use one at a time? They’re the same model of microwave, it’s not like they have different features. Not that microwaves are great for much more than heating up water. Maybe they should just run an extra circuit from the breaker.”
“FOCUS! WHAT HAPPENED?!”
*wipes away tears*
Bwahahahaaaa! I’m uncertain what’s funnier, Sydney’s Lucille Ball impression, or Dave’s discussion of Hangul/Korean language.
(Half Korean here, and I’m imagining my Mother reading this and my brain breaking at her trying to figure out if it’s right or not…*Snickergiggle*…then rereading Sydney’s wallotext and saying, “Why you in this comic? That sounds just like you.”)
And given international charges, particularly in under developed countries, that phone call probably cost as much or more than those buildings they purchased.
Probably she has the specific kind of phone plan that famous politicians and other high-profile, high-travel people do. If it’s likely she’ll go to places because she’s famous and needed etc. and she (usually) goes faster than planes without breaking a sweat… she better have a phone plan that lets her call home
Probably a satellite phone
About 2 decades ago, I got an around 40 minute voicemail from one of my grandmas. I regret not being able to pick up for reasons, but it sounded like she was “talking” to someone and not just leaving a voicemail.
I have a friend that periodically leaves me messages like that. All over the place. He is a little… distractible. Anyway usually I have no idea what the point of the message even is and I rarely listen to the whole thing. I ususlky just csll back and ask what he was calling about.
He is 38.
Yeah, my mom would occasionally purse dial me, and what followed were long recordings of whatever she was up to. Now that she’s gone I really wish I’d kept a few.
I know Japanese has something similar to acronyms where you take the first (or possibly just any single) character of each word.
First thing that comes to mind is the “Sholky” (Shoulder Keyboard), which is what the Yamaha SHS-10 was called in Japan
A lot of anime/manga/light novels get shortened that way, too. Off the top of my head, Bofuri, Konosuba, Furuba (Fruit’s Basket), Hagaren (Full Metal Alchemist), to name a few
To add on: Komi can’t Communicate had the male lead come up with one of those shortened forms in the very first episode.
My understanding is, they usually either take the first one or couple of syllables of each part of the phrase (POCKEt MONster = Pokemon) or bookend syllables (Kirigaya Kazuto = Kirito)
You out did yourself with Maxima’s facial expressions this time, Dave. And her hair…a definite tell!
This is about the 2nd page altogether that made me laugh out loud and I’m still giggling minutes later – because Maxima’s hair going literally hay-wire in panel 2. Sorry, I can’t explain it! And at panel 5 I lost it again.
Ho boy. That girl can TALK.
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Sydney, i’d tell you to never change, but i’m not sure you could if you wanted to.
also i like the fact that Hiro can tell Max is upset when he can’t even see her face. make it seem more like they’re probably gonna end up together in some way, chain of command be damned. paying off the mutual attraction they seemed to share from earlier in the comic.
You weren’t there. Anyone who was could have felt it and probably even heard it, unless they’re too old to hear that pitch… or have attended at least one rock concert without earplugs or three with them.
Most people wouldn’t know what it was, but Hiro’s been around long enough. He didn’t really have to look at Max to know something was the matter with Max. He just did it out of habit. “Yeah, this is Max about to have a melt down again. I better tank it, I might be the only one here who could survive if she *actually* melts down.”
To be fair, that only really happened the one time. But that was a doozie. It was their first time going up against Nyah Nyah, and Max’s first lesson in collateral damage. And, to continue being fair, the melt down did obliterate all the evidence that it was Max at fault. They’d gone in on a bomb threat, and thanks to her melt down, it just looked like they didn’t manage to deal with the bomb.
But the two of them would always know. Neither of them would ever speak of it again. At least, not as an event that actually happened.
I love this comic, and lover the Dave’s post below them they make me laugh. And yes ADHD is often like that, though mine is not as severe as hers, and I’ve learned some moderating techniques (I wasn’t diagnosed until I was an adult, so..)
You had her out not just of supervision but out of continent. And With people she can Influence. They are So lucky a point singularity didn’t flash in and out of existence because anvil wanted to see how much kinetic energy she could absorb from the orbs’ NOPE factor.
You saying Anvil doesn’t qualify as supervision?
Anvil qualifies as just regular vision.
unfortunately, SUPERvision is actaully required to hold sydney back from making gaffes, which is the source of Maxima’s frustration when anyone buy her or adrianna is on halo duty.
Dabbler boobnotizes Sydney to keep her under control, while Anvil makes the call.
You do remember that Anvil is a Super, right?
For supervising Sydney PROPERLY, you need Superman on a kryptonian version of the Super Soldier serum while wearing every lantern ring and Mjolnir in one hand and the magic lasso of truth in the other, while wearing the Helmet of Nabu, in a trinary solar system, while wearing an Iron Man suit made of a celestial version of an alloy containing Adamantium/Vibranium/Inerton/Eternium/Unobtainium/Beskar/Mithril, while possessing the allsight of Heimdall and the Odinforce. Also Batman needs to be on standby ready to scat sing.
By comparison Anvil is a 92 pound weakling in the supervisory arena.
Or 4 ttrpg players, a red-box adventure module & a tube of cherry dice
Now I want a tube of cherry dice.
You don’t need physical strength to handle Sydney, just a nerd (with earplugs :P )
Not to handle Sydney. To handle the fallout of Sydney’s antics. :)
Oh..
My…
GAWD!
Don’t EVER let Sydney give a SITREP!
It’s an automatic halving of one’s sanity quotient.
Not sure what’s hotter.
Maxima’s tank destroyer?
Or the Sydney-induced mega-migraine she’s got coming on right now….
*26 minutes into call*
Syd: And that’s why you never mix graktz and tea… back to the subject, tho, I should again stress that this was NOT MY FA-HEY!
Kenya: Hey, Max! So, yeah, there was a little fight, and a little property damage, which I take full responsibility for. Deets when we get home. Love ya, babe!
Syd: Wait, Iwasntfin-*CLICK*
I have the feeling this is how it actually ended.
I feel like the answering machine more likely ran out of storage
{Sydney, in conclusion. ..}
“Oh…FYI, I found a ‘settings’ and or ‘control panel’ for The Orbs Of Power and they’re definitely recharging!
The bar is like 40% full and changing color so maybe another”
MAILBOX FULL
I nominate this for canon status.
It’s super effective at getting her ass locked up in ARC headquarters for like a month. JUST to keep her out of trouble/in trouble on her own damn continent.
“Do not break another phone, Colonel!”
There isn’t any caffeine in bissap, it’s pretty much like jamaica with a few random herbs like mint/ginger/orangeblossom added in. Like jamaica, it -does- have a lot of sugar in it.
So apparently, she ran out of the meds she put in her utility belt, or they made her check her utility belt in.
I know a few ADHD people who recognize that too much sugar is a trigger for maximum distraction. These of course are the people who are a little more focused after a good dose of caffeine. Hibiscus (the herb) can be a potent stimulant though. I usually combine it with rose hip for that effect though.
One of the challenges of having Sydney as a direct report is that you’re the person to whom she directs reports.
… I may or may not feel personally attacked regarding the subject of ADHD and rambling walls of text.
:-P
But yeah, that feels about right. Literally 27 minutes is a little extreme, but Sydney’s ADHD is pretty damn extreme, so it fits. Most of us aren’t *that* bad.
Most of us. Most of the time. Get me tired and a little punch-drunk with a touch of adrenaline high…
Yeah, most of us who have AD/HD are not that bad, but OMG, that rings so true. One reason I read this and laugh so hard is I get it so thoroughly.
I feel you about being punch drunk and adrenaline high. After a 10 hour day and a lot of bureaucrats breathing down my neck…
As a fellow ADHD, I must say I feel thoroughly represented by this comic. XD
I’m a little more aware of the way my mind works than Sidney, so I never sent a 27 minutes voice message.
I used to send two or three messages of 10-15 minutes in sequence, just so people could at least catch a breath between messages, but nowadays I can break into sequences of 1-2 minutes, and yes, sometimes I send over a dozen of them in sequence. XD
mental note, give this person the phone number for ex bosses I don’t like…..
Try growing up with two parents who are like this. As a kid, I always wondered why everyone else used such short, to-the-point sentences, because I was used to Sydney-style rambling. And when both parents have looongg sloowww southern drawls, the rambling takes even longer than it does for someone who speaks at a normal pace!
As someone with ADHD I can confirm sentences can go on a while and teeter off into various directions as I say things that distract myself but then try to remember why I was talking and then about what to get back on track.
Xylophone is as much an English as a French word.
It’s a technical word that was created at the same time in French and English in the mid 19th century and anyway made of greek roots : Xylon & Phonos.
BTW the West African traditional xylophone has a name, it’s a balafon.
I think we may be about to witness the birth of Sydney’s Standing Orders.
It’s like Private Skippy’s Standing Orders, only primarily about preserving Max’s sanity.
…
There will _probably_ also a brief closed-door discussion of the Cucumber Sandwiches Club about whether surgical intervention can mitigate ADD/ADHD. X’D
Japan absolutely has katakana and hiragana acronyms. They use initialisms (what comes to MOST people’s mind when they hear “acronym”, example:CIA) fucking CONSTANTLY in katakana and hiragana which can be a bitch for translators. Especially because they are way more okay with initialisms including multiple letters from the same word, which english does too but much more rarely. Acronyms are rarer (an initialism is spelled out, an acronym is read out as if it were a word and often a homonym of one, such as CIA vs.AWOL, N.E.R.V. or Laser which yes, is an acronym) bit not completely absent.
While I know true acronyms exist in Japanese, with Japanese characters, I am not sure how common they are because I am not exactly fluent. It is possible they are rarer due to it being less common they spell out words, although it could be argued that since ALL non Kanji characters in Japanese are read how they sound, that ANY Japanese initialism is an acronym. Japanese acronyms aren’t limited to hiragana or Katakana though, you also get them in Kanji. A really really really fucking famous one is Fu Rin Ka Zan, 風林火山 , which is short for as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain, from the Art of War, and it is famous enough that it’s pretty often used as a word all by itself (often as a technique name).
It COULD POSSIBLY be argued that irohanehohedo/Iroha is one if one counts solminization or lettering systems, such as “abcs” to be an initialization, but that feels like a stretch.
Notably though, japan also has a system of acronyms/initializations using NUMBERS instead of letters, known as gorowase. Typically arabic (western) numbers will be used for this, but a mixture of Japanese and Western readings for them will be used. Given how if you combine english and Japanese pronunciations, each number has 3+ readings and those readings can be abbreviated to make more sounds, and given that there’s 46 to 133 sounds in Japanese (based on your definition of “sound”), there is A LOT you can do with that! The reason Speed Racer’s car is the Mach 5, for example, is that in Japanese, 5 is “go” (which is the main character’s original name).
In general, oftentimes if you see an anime character with a t-shirt with 2-3 numbers on it, that’s an abbreviation/acronym, frequently for said character’s name.
But yeah, acronyms and initializations aren’t remotely absent from ideographic languages, and Japanese in particular is not purely ideographic.
Going to get a bit into gorowase.
Take 1. 1 can be read as ichi, hito, or itsu. But it can also be read as i (the sound of ea in “beach). It can ALSO be read as wan.
2: ni, ji, futa, tsu, su. I believe I have also seen it read as Ko once or twice, due to the kanji for 2 looking VAGUELY similar to that hiragana, but if you try to do that most people will probably hate you (just use 5 instead)
Some numbers have even more options.
Right actually, ideographic languages, especially semi ideographic languages, have a bizarre phenomenon. What I can only describe as reverse acronyms. Although certainly not COMMON, you’ll sometimes get a word made by taking apart an arguably smaller word. The main example, and the only one I am aware of, although I am positive there are others, is Kunoichi, くノ一. You take the Japanese kanji for woman, separate it out into the three characters that make it up, and then bang, you have a female ninja.
Thinking about it, I wonder if one could argue that some kanji are acronyms. BECAUSE Japanese and Chinese are ideographic, some characters are made by combining other characters. You have 木, which is tree, then you have 森 which is forest, cuz it’s a whole lot of trees. 火 is fire, 炎 is… also fire but a whole lot of it, like a big fucking fire. If you place 䨺 above 龘, you have Taito:”a dragon taking flight”. Also presumably carpal tunnel, especially if you’re one of the poor bastards who allegedly has that compound kanji (which has no unicode character) in their name.
Meanwhile if you put a bunch of 女, or Woman, together you get 姦 which is….. uhhhhhh…. noisy. Japanese hasn’t historically been good on the whole “sexism” thing, but then again, neither have MOST languages, including english. I mean, just think about how you make a lesser form of something in english by adding the feminine suffix “ette”….. actually if a baguette is feminine, what the heck is a Bag? An even more phallic piece of bread? But what if you put a baguette in a bag.
Um, anyways, I was going to say something else about Kanji but I can’t remember.
WAIT RIGHT, some Kanji are also combinations of UNRELATED ones, in addition to just grouping the same one together. (Arguably MOST are if you consider radicals, albeit “almost all Kanji are acronyms” feels like a radical viewpoint, heh heh).
But a good example is my favorite kanji, rain: 雨 (Although the kanji for umbrella being a bunch of the kanji for person under an umbrella, arranged similarly to the raindrops in rain is also good.)
You start with 雨, add a rice field 田, and get 雷, lightning. Add a wire to lightning and you get 電, electricity. Notably, the “wire” is pointed so that when written left to right, the wire connects to whatever the next kanji is (Japanese is read right to left but only vertically, blocks of horizontal text are read left to right. It still kind of connects characters when written vertically, but is less blatant due to the line for the wire curving up). Thus electricity and talk is phone. Learning Japanese is def hard, but a lot of the language is structured like this so the more characters you know, the easier it is to read them. Or well, to understand them. As I said most kanji have like three or more readings and you often kind of have to guess which one is being used for a word. Names are worse because each Kanji has like five to ten more readings that are exclusively used for names and usually nowhere else.
Right this reminds me, if you want an absolutely insane ideographic character, look up the chinese character Biang. It is too complex and usage specific for unicode, so you’ll have to google it. Wait, apparently it was added to unicode in 2020, but my phone browser doesn’t support it so I can’t copy and paste it here anyways, and even if I did, you couldn’t read it. Well, you already probably couldn’t read it, but you couldn’t see it either. Anyways, it’s used for biangbiang noodles exclusively and to my knowledge means nothing else.
Anyways I gotta go since I just spent two hours writing these two comments out and am at work, so uhhh, there may be typos.
I JUST REALIZED I never gave an example of a gorowase abbreviation.
Sydney is 4102.
Technically that is also “shitney” but what can you do. Man I just realized that is ABSOLUTELY something anybody named Sydney probably got called by bullies as a teen. If they got bullied. 10 is tricky because it can be read as 10 or 1 0. 0 especially is rough because it can be zed, zero, jiro, o, mai, maru, no, na, nai, nashi, etc. Meanwhile 10 can also mean + in addition to the variety of sounds, and 1 can mean minus. Wait, does that mean that 51032 could mean 5 plus 32, but also 5 minus 032? But you wouldn’t normally say 032, so probably the former. Right, 6 is roku which thus is often used for rock, ala rockman or rock and roll
Right, this is actually a mechanic/plotpoint in Yakuza Zero. Infamously, yakuza is 893, ya k(y)u, za. Heh, 8930. Wonder if that shows up in game, I need to finish it.
Aaaand I am doing it again, back to work
So, basically, kanji can be phonetically broken down and reassembled to make other words, which is what you can do with English
Reverse acronyms, sort of, are found in Norse. For much more read about ‘kennings’. An English language pseudo example
Instead of saying ‘gold’, say ‘banker’s blood’. However, they can be stacked, so that blood becomes ‘battle’s fertilizer’. (These are modern English, not Norse).
Sounds kinda like Cockney rhyming slang.
I FORGOT. Japanese has an INCREDIBLY FAMOUS and well known acronym.
“yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi” ~ “no climax, no fall, no meaning”.
This phrase is a derogatory way of referring to the lack of substance of a particular genre of literature, which then got turned into an acronym that ended up becoming the specific term for said genre: Y.A.O.I.
No I am not making this up, albeit some people claim that it is a backronym.
This whole thread is both interesting and thematically appropriate for this particular page
Might be slicing hairs, but per this website, there aren’t true acronyms, as in initials in Japanese, but, hiragana at least is used to make short forms. https://www.quora.com/Do-the-Japanese-have-acronyms#:~:text=They%20don't%20have%20acronyms,forms'%20are%20made%20of%20syllables. Admittedly, I just did a quick Google search. Note the example given in the second post forms a single word by using the first two sounds in hirgana taken from the three words in kanji (and no, that does not necessarily mean two syllables, because single vowels following a consonant + vowel character can form a dipthong (I think their called dipthongs), like hai, or just extend the vowel in the consonant + vowel character, such as anytime a u follows any prior character ending in o. Then there’s the solitary consonant character n, which also is part of one syllable with the preceding character. The Hourensou, happens to be two characters forming a diphthong variety from each the front of each word. If you feel using the first syllable from each word is an initial, then yeah, they use acronyms in Japanese characters. If not, they use short forms, which are close, but not actually, initials or acronyms.
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Might be slicing hairs, but per this website, there aren’t true acronyms, as in initials in Japanese, but, hiragana at least is used to make short forms. https://www.quora.com/Do-the-Japanese-have-acronyms#:~:text=They%20don't%20have%20acronyms,forms'%20are%20made%20of%20syllables. Admittedly, I just did a quick Google search. Note the example given in the second post forms a single word by using the first two sounds in hirgana taken from the three words in kanji (and no, that does not necessarily mean two syllables, because single vowels following a consonant + vowel character can form a dipthong (I think their called dipthongs), like hai, or just extend the vowel in the consonant + vowel character, such as anytime a u follows any prior character ending in o. Then there’s the solitary consonant character n, which also is part of one syllable with the preceding character. The Hourensou, happens to be two characters forming a diphthong variety from each the front of each word. If you feel using the first syllable from each word is an initial, then yeah, they use acronyms in Japanese characters. If not, they use short forms, which are close, but not actually, initials or acronyms.
What kind of answering machine even allows voicemails that long
Rereading this made me come up with an extremely important question: does Sidney read Kinnikuman. I can’t see her as being too into pro werestling but a series about highly specifically superheroes engaging in pro wrestling matches to settle disputes and it going seriously off the rails feels potentially up her alley. Not as in the “she would see this and instantly love it” way but in the “someone shoved it in her face and wouldn’t stop talking about it and she hated it at first but got really into it after reading about six volumes due to hearing about a character that piqued her curiosity and she wanted to see them show up because she heard it was pretty early on and on getting to them they became her favorite, but then she got to another character she liked even better later on” way.
I feel like the most likely candidate for such a character is Sneagator. Sydney feels like a Sneagator gal.
I would totally read that 27 minute long transcript because while we know what happened, I just want to go along for the ride that is Sydney’s story telling.
How long does it typically take for comments to show up here again? I made a four paragraph reply a few hours ago and still don’t see it.
One think to keep in mind about hibiscus. It’s a diuretic. So Sidney may want to be careful how many she has or she may flush half the fluid in her system.
Maxima: *Forwards message to Hiro* “Major, I want a summary from you on that message in 30 minutes”
So, you expect him to be able to process and summarize in less than three minutes? o_O
Sure, just gotta jot some notes on the salient points while he listens. Although Hiro is far too high up the command chain for this, as is Max. An attache should be processing this while they deal with the wrapup, and just hand Max a 3 sentence summary and a recommendation on whether her involvement is actually needed right now.
Yeah, it was more the joke idea that Maxima would tell Hiro that since he finds it so amusing, he can listen to it. However, I imagine Maxima might have a level of concern over information security. Sydney has been privy to some highly classified stuff and information on her Orbs carry a lot of state secrets, so Maxima could certainly pick an attache or lower officer, but she needs to balance that with the risk that Sydney might be revealing something only higher officers should be aware of.
What Maxima really needs to do is designate a lower rank officer than herself as Colonel, for Sydney to contact and pass on information summaries to Maxima. I believe Peggy, Kenya or Mr. Amorphous would normally be designated for low level recruits/privates to communicate through.
I also don’t see much of an issue with Hiro or someone else taking some notes while listening to the conversation from Sydney then giving Maxima a summary. The important information buried in there is probably only 1 minute of discussion worth. It’s just a case of putting up with Sydney’s distractions and noting the relevant topic points as they come in.
Whatever the case, I see Sydney being assigned to some classes on delivering succinct reports and understanding the chain of command for where her reports should go… which probably just entail her running laps for the duration of any message and some extra time depending on how high the recipient is ranked.
I imagine Sydney has already been subjected to a class on reports… and her brain did the smash cut thing where she doesn’t pay attention to 95% of it. Maybe she subconsciously expects other people to experience her messages the same way: tune out all the “unimportant” stuff, and only retain the important bits.
But I do think making her run laps based on the length of her reports would provide a very strong incentive for her to learn to be succinct.
I feel like there’s an obvious way to get Sydney on point for these kinds of messages.
“Sydney? For business, imagine that the phone operates on the same rules as Sending in DnD. You have to convey the message in 25 words or less.”
I think that might actually make things worse by just splitting it into multiple pieces. Or result in her texting something far too cryptic to be useful.
Sydney is BEAUTIFUL!!
Tamer: Enhancer 3?
Excellent :D
It feels like it has been sooo long since Sydney let loose….
Max can’t be all that upset. Her hair is emitting little white things, not flames. She didn;t absentmindedly crush her telephone down to black hole dimensions.
MY inbox certainly can’t hold 27+ minutes of audio.
Obvious: Sydney didn’t pack her meds in her utility belt.
Whose fault is it? Sydney. Kenya, Max, Hiro
I don’t think Sydney can be blamed she is just a rookie.
Kenya She helped her put it together.
Max She’s the boss (nuff said)
Hiro He’s the XO and part of his job is taking care of little shit like that so the boss doesn’t have to.
or somebody else?
SPQR. QED.
I can totally recommend bissap which is basically iced hibiscus flower tea sometimes with some other ingredients like ginger and greater or lesser amounts of sugar. If you’re in the Middle East this drink is known as Kakakde and if you’re in central Africa it’s Folere. There are I am sure other names for it.
Enjoy!
“Hey, calling again. You can just ignore the previous voicemail. I’m just gonna text you with the important stuff.”
This page made me laugh SO hard that for a few minutes I literally couldn’t breathe. My wife was going “Are you okay???” and I could only reassure her with a syllable or two every time I could draw a breath. Thank you, Dave. 8-D
Sudden thought and I dont know if anyone will ever see this now, buuut…
Anvil paid for the damage in a battle she was a surprise participant in. While this is fantastic stepping up to the plate and awesome good will, wont it encourage super-fights to break out every time a super gringo is in town?
Human nature will human nature, after all…
as I say things that distract myself but then try to remember why I was talking and then about what to get back on track. yep
As someone with ADHD I can confirm sentences can go on a while and teeter off into various directions
I used to have a message like this saved on my phone to pull out every time a friend tried to claim she never got drunk… or that she never butt dialed, or never flirted with that one guy… or…