You don’t have to drink alone.
Halloween is over, Election Day has come and gone. The pet Advent Calendars are out at Trader Joe’s, which means the holiday season has begun. They sell out quickly so I was happy to get one for my dog and my daughter’s cat this year.
Yes, I’m a crazy animal person, but I’m apparently not alone. Pet calendars are big business with offerings from Aldi, Sam’s Club, Walmart, and all the major pet chains. There are high-end cookie boxes and many personalizable items for sale on Etsy. Even horse and small animal versions available from Amazon.
They put up with you working from home, swearing at the TV when trump’s orange face appears, and all the time you spend picking DUAN songs instead of playing ball with them. Do something extra nice for them this holiday.
When there’s a turtle calendar, we’ll talk.
You could get a custom calendar from Etsy and fill it with whatever turtles eat! What Do turtles eat?
Snapping turtles eat human flesh. Don’t get that Advent calender.
Depends on the species. Most turtles are omnivorous. Tortoises are almost all herbivorous. Mine eats food sticks from the pet store, plus lettuce that we toss in the tank occasionally. When he’s a good boy, he gets freeze-dried meal worms.
Well, a freeze-dried meal worm Advent Calendar it is, lol!
Hi everyone, I’m here fleeing the kinjapocalypse part II.
I’ve got my advent calendar sorted. I had a bunch of gift cards, so I got myself a Lego calendar. I won’t be able to see my parents for xmas for the first time this year, so my inner child needs a little tlc this December.
Hey best coast! It’s going to be a tough holiday for a lot of people. At least you’ll have Alice, right? You need to get her an Advent Calendar too!
Nice to see you!
My buddy is part owner in a brewery that does a pretty fun advent calendar, although the beers weren’t quite up to my snobbery, the thought was awesome…
http://www.forumvancouver.com/threads/craft-beer-advent-calendars-2014-for-the-christmas-holiday.7887/
Good idea though. I’m going to have to see if any of the local breweries or wineries have one. We’re blessed with lots of distilleries too but that could get me into trouble.
On tonight’s Happy Hour agenda might be some Valley Beers a friend brought me, you can never have Too Much Juice!…
http://www.valleybrewingco.com/the-cans.html
Juice is good for you!
are pets ok with opening 1 box a day? cats are as they don’t care? dogs aren’t as they want to open them all?
A friend’s parents bought two last year, one for their dog, one for here. But they didn’t put them up high enough and their dog got into them and are all the treats in both before Dec 1st, lol.
watch this while you drink…
One-Minute Time Machine | Sploid Short Film Festival · Official Selection
I totally forgot about this video, this is good stuff!
i just ordered a kapsalon….i shouldnt have….but on the other hand
oh yeah…i need that
other than that tho… im soothing meself with music
basically its chips , shoarma and salad drowned in garlic sauce and cheese
I’m drooling! 😋
fwiw.. kapsalon means hairdressers/barbershop in dutch
story goes that once upon a time a snackbar in rotterdam(i think) had a hairdresser next door and once a week they would order chips,salad and shoarma with garlic sauce in the same tray
eventually they just started calling it the kapsalon order
now its a nationwide mainstay lol… im inclined to believe the story tho….its a bloody wierd name for food
holy hell! the drooling is unstoppable…
…sorry…had to
et tu Brutus?
my turn!
…having grown up in the UK just do yourself a favor & don’t look up “doner kebab”…trust me on this if you care about having an appetite come lunchtime
no, no, no. I love kebabs. I’m not looking that up. no, no.
I’m not that dumb! 🙂
Hello, everyone! I’m new here. Usually I hang out on BackTalk. I heard that the kinjacalypse might be the next gift of 2020. Thanks Hannibal for the open invitation!
Welcome friend! Yes, 2020 is the “gift” that keeps on giving…
…kinja’s timing is characteristically awful so we might need to make some excuses about the fact we haven’t lined up the guest rooms with fresh linen & wordpress is less forgiving in some respects than kinja when it comes to the ease of embedding stuff in comments
…but when I say “we” it’s really one stressed out person trying to get things to work for the rest of us so hopefully we can get folks up to speed to whatever extent they want to be able to contribute without giving them a nervous breakdown
…if you think you’d like to be able to put up posts as opposed to just comments your best bet is to find the “messages” option from the dropdown where your avatar is at the top right corner & send something to @myopicprophet saying you’re interested in being an author & I guarantee you’ll get a response…although whatever patience you might be able to summon up on that front will doubtless be appreciated
…either way, welcome
…the more the merrier & all that sort of thing
Welcome!
Welcome! I hope you find your way around. One of the nice features here is the PM, if you have any trouble message me and I’ll do what I can to help you figure it all out.
Thanks! I do have a quick question- in my notifications I only see likes. Am I missing if there’s a quick way to see when someone replies to my comments? I had to scroll down the thread to find them. I’m not sure if I’m just not looking in the right place on my profile or not.
replies dont show..yet
does make it harder to keep track of things
…if you tied your deadsplinter login to a wordpress account there’s a function that *sometimes* gives you a heads-up on replies if you’re not on a mobile device by clicking on the little square speech bubble to the left of the notification icon/number up in the top right
…thus far we haven’t figured out how to twist wordpress’ arm into giving up the functionality kinja had for letting you know someone replied to you, though…so to some extent you have to do it the old-fashioned way by refreshing pages & scrolling
…the little widget titled “sticky notes” has a tab that will give you the most recent comments left by anyone, if that helps…which I find it sometimes does?
how do you do that?
and if you do that, do you know of anything else that changes in your ds or wp accounts?
What farscythe and RIP said. And you sort of get used to it.
ah…maybe i should make a wordpress account then
…it’s kind of a YMMV thing…& not much use on mobile devices…but when it does work it’s handy…& I think it flags all replies if you’re the author of the post they fall under…but don’t quote me on that because I could be wrong about how it works?