Rabbits can be assholes, they like to chew wires, and even the nice ones disapprove of everything. But they are hands down the cutest thing you can have hopping around. Like kittens and puppies that never grow up. We had a Belgian hare that would chase a ball.
Was gifted a baby bunny in Jr High by a fellow student, he told me it's a girl because boy bunnies can be mean so I named her Gidget and in just a few months she had adorably learned to use the doggy door to go outside. A few months after that, her testicles descended and name got changed to Gadget, who started spraying inside, so I was made to return to gifter. 😐
My son rescued a rabbit that was bred but not well enough to sell. Right now he has a beautiful Lion Head named Love. He’s had her for 4 years. I’d post a photo if I could. He loves them.
I had three mini bunnies--one was smart and had a personality--he was amazing. One was fine. One was the most evil hell beast of all time, a mini lop with the nastiest disposition, who lived for fucking EVER and I felt guilty going to spend time with him every morning and afternoon and evening, because he was just terrible with an awful attitude.
He stopped gnawing on stuff and so his teeth would grow in (faster and faster) horribly, so that he couldn't eat and would have his fur stuck in there. We'd take him to the vet every month, and then every two weeks, and finally once a week to grind down those teeth and it was horrible and he'd look at us like "I HATE YOU FUCK YOU".
Maybe he was crazy and we should have put him down, but that fucker lived about 8 years.
The dwarf one I had--the first, who was brown and white--was a doll. He actually would (appear to) come when I called--like, once he got out of his hutch and was making a break for it when I said his name and he hopped on over.
Oh my Gawd I just figured out why legacy media all had their ducks in a row with the new "Harris got no convention bump and nobody likes her and they like the orange guy by a lot" Polling news, Trump's retweet of a mangled MAGA Alannis Morisette song: “She spent her whole damn life / Down on her knees / To be commander in chief / That’s how you say please / Isn’t it moronic …”
is a thing that happened and their very special boy needs a little help from his cheering section "Legacy Media". The GOP candidate for president of the United States of America is spreading blow job memes about his opponent, the current VP. Trump's tail-spin crash and burn will not be televised or reported on in print.
My favorite part about the Venezuelan gangs in Aurora was the equally idiotic story that the Hell’s Angels were going to come here and take on said gangs. I live in Aurora.
On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump held a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, where he repeated a claim he first made at an event hosted by the anti-trans school board group Moms for Liberty: that youth were being given sex-change operations at school and sent home as a different gender. This claim is entirely false—schools do not have the resources, doctors, or legal authority to provide medical gender-affirming care, much less surgeries. When asked about the claim, Moms For Liberty founder Tiffany Justice acknowledged that it was a lie, but said she was thankful to Trump for spreading it.
Tiffany Justice, when asked by CNN, stated that she was happy that Trump was lying about gender affirming care in schools, however:
“Are kids getting surgery in school? No they’re not.” But she continued that she was still “thankful to President Trump” for making the claim – since, she said, his remark has drawn attention to the important issue of schools facilitating children’s social transitions without parental consent.
Justice said of Trump’s claim: “It grabbed your attention, and we’re talking about it now, and that makes me very happy.”
I had already heard that Andre the Giant was an epic drinker. I've even seen pictures of it, and the sight of a can of beer looking so tiny in his massive hand is all you gotta see to know in your guts, yeah, that guy drinks a LOT.
Still, I never knew the numbers. The Drunkard waiter apparently assumes his readership is so familiar with alcohol conversion factors that he doesn't need to go into detail, so let me translate. Pure alcohol has a caloric content of 7 calories per gram. That's quite a lot, not quite as much as fat, but nearly as twice as much as carbs or protein.
I'll skip the other conversion factors. Suffice to say that 7000 calories, in alcohol alone, translates out to 52 strait shots of good booze. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
One might be tempted to dismiss that number as hyperbole, but it's totally consistent with the final anecdote of that article where Andre told his doctors that he needed to drink two full bottles just to get a buzz. 52 shots comes out to three bottles. For Andre, one decent buzz plus maintenance for the rest of the day, basically.
I'm sure somebody here has said it, but Kamala with those Pittsburghians is the kind of reaction PAB dreams of getting from people when he starts in on the Sir! stories. Unfortunately for him, that will remain a dream.
My father drank a quart/day of Canadian Club whiskey, and fuck him. That's over 2000 calories and he weighed well under 250 pounds, so Andre's 7k/500# isn't out of range in proportion. It's impressive that he did it with beer and wine, but fuck him anyway. And fuck everybody who thinks drinking a LOT is HEROIC.
Why is applying for jobs so freaking hard for my depression to handle? I'm shaking just asking my old teacher & teaching mentor (both are fb friends) for references. The application says _professional_ references, _not_ friends, and Marie's kind of both. It's been so long since I had an actual job. Even my last consistent volunteer job has been over for a while, and I don't know who to contact. My life's been eaten up by depression & caring for kids.
Having been on the other side of the hiring table, the only DO NOTs of references are:
- Do not list someone that you didn't ask ahead of time
- Do not list someone who will say something ugly about you
The people in HR will just call up the reference and all they will ask is that you're an okay person to work with and that they'd recommend you for a position that works with people/pets/computers/money.
As long as you asked the person ahead of time and they said, "sure you can use me as a reference" and you know they're not gonna backstab you and say "no I wouldn't recommend them to work with people/pets/computer/money" - then the HR person has no way of knowing that you last worked with them 10 years ago and you've just been friends ever since. And they really don't care.
All the HR person cares about is that the person you listed isn't related, and they confirmed you're cool.
I was still working on it, particularly the references & the woman's like oh it's done. It isn't because I know I didn't give any phone numbers except for a couple schools & the baseball team, the schools probably won't have anyone who remembers me, since it's been 20ys
I hear you, I've been applying consistently and sometimes I've felt like it's an impossible goal, just getting interviewed has been difficult. I think my Seasonal Affective Disorder is actually starting to kick in too.
I used my coworkers as references, but I consider them all to be friends. I was lucky to work for a close-knit nonprofit. Even so I've had pangs about whether I should bother them for a reference, but I asked them and they were all very cool about it. I'm sure your friend, since you worked with them in some capacity, is a good reference. Can you get in touch with your last volunteer job and ask if they have any contact information for the people you worked for?
Exactly! Just because you are friends doesn't mean you haven't also done legitimate work together. It doesn't have to be some cold, clinical relationship. As long as they're someone who will actually put in a good word for you, that's all that matters in the end.
Depression sucks and I'm sorry that you're battling it. I have similar issues, and know the battle is real, and there are victories and retreats in these battles. I would assume that the person who is both a friend and a professional reference would write a glowing reference for you without revealing that she is also your friend. I'm employed, and if I applied for another job, I'd be in the same position. My boss and my work colleagues are some of my best friends. I don't think that's unusual, but that's coming from my perspective, and your mileage may vary.
Remember, when you apply for a job, or a grant or whatever, the very worst thing that can happen is that they say no. In your current state, that sounds more ominous than it actually is, and can aggravate your depression. But I believe that if you did it a few times, the sting of hearing 'no' would go away. Meanwhile, are you in a position to find a social worker or other professional you can work with, to help with your depressive state? Please reach out for help. You could try starting with FindTreatment.gov . Please let us know how you do with this. The Wonketariat is a very supportive group, as long as Gallbladder isn't in a bad mood.
ty. I was seeing a therapist for years, but they're like well, the rules changed so we can only give you x number of visits per year unless you're actively trying to off someone or something. I do talk to the person who prescribes my Wellbutrin periodically.
I really really hate that, as does my therapist. When I was going through an especially difficult time once, my therapist yelled at all the people up the food chain until he got his way and he didn't have to limit my visits. I'm really lucky. I hope you can find the help you need, too. Go ahead and apply for jobs; perhaps just the act of attempting to help yourself will help you through this.
Jimmy Carter makes me proud to be an American again. After preventing a nuclear explosion while in the Navy, his Navy service, governorship of a state, and presidency where he was treated like shit, and now hospice, where he's decided to stay alive long enough to vote for Kamala--what can I say? He's one of our greatest Americans, and I was proud to cast my first vote for him in 1980.
5 seconds after I started reading that Vox article...a pop-up ad for a Land Rover SUV popped up on my screen. WHy the hell the Internet thinks I'm in the market for a $75000 SUV I have no idea...I"m one of that now teensy minority of folks with an actual station wagon.
One afternoon, Siegler’s anime army waved their flags and chanted what sounded like “gay sex” or maybe “low stakes” (it turned out they were saying “thug shake”).
Your header gif source info for today: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/back-up-dat-bun?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4788666b-bf2b-4708-a26e-1c7fa056b250
"Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope!"
If I had a bunny that could pull that off, he'd be pulling in suckers at a carnival side show. "See the amazing backing bunny!"
If that bunny accidentally backed into a radiator, would it have hot, cross buns?
Morning bun. Luv morning buns❤️💙💚💛
Attack of the killer bunny!!! XD
Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!
"Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes!
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses!
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies!
Bunnies!
It must be bunnies!
...Or maybe midgets"
--Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, original cast album, "Once More With Feeling"
and sharp claws!
What time is it?
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4788666b-bf2b-4708-a26e-1c7fa056b250?target_reply_id=e5470e6c-21a0-4627-9348-5297f4a6c226&showTarget=true
Bunny buns!
Rabbits can be assholes, they like to chew wires, and even the nice ones disapprove of everything. But they are hands down the cutest thing you can have hopping around. Like kittens and puppies that never grow up. We had a Belgian hare that would chase a ball.
Was gifted a baby bunny in Jr High by a fellow student, he told me it's a girl because boy bunnies can be mean so I named her Gidget and in just a few months she had adorably learned to use the doggy door to go outside. A few months after that, her testicles descended and name got changed to Gadget, who started spraying inside, so I was made to return to gifter. 😐
My son rescued a rabbit that was bred but not well enough to sell. Right now he has a beautiful Lion Head named Love. He’s had her for 4 years. I’d post a photo if I could. He loves them.
The Lion Heads are so cute. Every day is a bad hare day ;)
Neighbor has a tiny bunny. The amount of alfalfa that little critter can put away at one sitting is STAGGERING.
and they scratch and make weird bunny noises at you.
I had three mini bunnies--one was smart and had a personality--he was amazing. One was fine. One was the most evil hell beast of all time, a mini lop with the nastiest disposition, who lived for fucking EVER and I felt guilty going to spend time with him every morning and afternoon and evening, because he was just terrible with an awful attitude.
He stopped gnawing on stuff and so his teeth would grow in (faster and faster) horribly, so that he couldn't eat and would have his fur stuck in there. We'd take him to the vet every month, and then every two weeks, and finally once a week to grind down those teeth and it was horrible and he'd look at us like "I HATE YOU FUCK YOU".
Maybe he was crazy and we should have put him down, but that fucker lived about 8 years.
Yikes 😳
Was this a 4 H kind of thing or did you just want Bun pets?
Merciful Dog, I had no idea. How ick.
Imagine a really cute tiny lop eared bunny, but with horrid rodent fangs growing splayed out of the mouth, full of fur.
Are you sure you didn't accidentally adopt a rat?
Jaysus! Did Monty Python know this? I’ll bet they did.
Hahaha, dwarf and mini lops are known for being huge dicks. Ask me how I know!
A friend of mine had a "mini" that turned out to be more like regular size and was a huge dick too.
As I recall they call them giant dwarfs. They didn't get the gene. If they get 2 of the gene, they're called peanuts and they don't make it.
Line breeding is weird, part eleventy.
Perhaps certain breeds or buns should come with warning labels installed?
The dwarf one I had--the first, who was brown and white--was a doll. He actually would (appear to) come when I called--like, once he got out of his hutch and was making a break for it when I said his name and he hopped on over.
But that mini lop, man--holy smokes.
Oh, I believe it! Some buns just love to intimidate and be assholes.
A tough bunny? My world is shattered. Procter and Bergman were right, everything I know IS wrong.
Even in the same litter, with a pedigree in a line bred for good pets, sometimes one of those gets born.
At the time, I just loathed him, but all these years later, he cracks me up. I deserved to have a mini lop glaring at me all the time as a kid.
The name is Bun. James Bun.
Pull up to my bumper baby?
My praise of the bun appears to have hit a filter. Censorship! Shadowban! Calumny!
Squee!
"Wonkette is the world's greatest website" yes!
Alexandra Petri explains why I now get my news from Wonkette, Fark and Raging Pencils. Y'all make me smile.
Oh my Gawd I just figured out why legacy media all had their ducks in a row with the new "Harris got no convention bump and nobody likes her and they like the orange guy by a lot" Polling news, Trump's retweet of a mangled MAGA Alannis Morisette song: “She spent her whole damn life / Down on her knees / To be commander in chief / That’s how you say please / Isn’t it moronic …”
is a thing that happened and their very special boy needs a little help from his cheering section "Legacy Media". The GOP candidate for president of the United States of America is spreading blow job memes about his opponent, the current VP. Trump's tail-spin crash and burn will not be televised or reported on in print.
As long as he just disappears, I'll be OK with it.
My favorite part about the Venezuelan gangs in Aurora was the equally idiotic story that the Hell’s Angels were going to come here and take on said gangs. I live in Aurora.
https://gazette.com/news/hells-angels-responds-to-claim-theyre-headed-to-aurora-to-fight-venezuelan-gang/article_8d011c79-04d9-5a15-a7f2-2fd0a6ddcca4.html
Was that Kamala's Penzey's visit? It made this lady cry too.
𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 "𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐟𝐮𝐥" 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐞
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑥 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟.
On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump held a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, where he repeated a claim he first made at an event hosted by the anti-trans school board group Moms for Liberty: that youth were being given sex-change operations at school and sent home as a different gender. This claim is entirely false—schools do not have the resources, doctors, or legal authority to provide medical gender-affirming care, much less surgeries. When asked about the claim, Moms For Liberty founder Tiffany Justice acknowledged that it was a lie, but said she was thankful to Trump for spreading it.
Tiffany Justice, when asked by CNN, stated that she was happy that Trump was lying about gender affirming care in schools, however:
“Are kids getting surgery in school? No they’re not.” But she continued that she was still “thankful to President Trump” for making the claim – since, she said, his remark has drawn attention to the important issue of schools facilitating children’s social transitions without parental consent.
Justice said of Trump’s claim: “It grabbed your attention, and we’re talking about it now, and that makes me very happy.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/moms-for-liberty-founder-thankful
I had already heard that Andre the Giant was an epic drinker. I've even seen pictures of it, and the sight of a can of beer looking so tiny in his massive hand is all you gotta see to know in your guts, yeah, that guy drinks a LOT.
Still, I never knew the numbers. The Drunkard waiter apparently assumes his readership is so familiar with alcohol conversion factors that he doesn't need to go into detail, so let me translate. Pure alcohol has a caloric content of 7 calories per gram. That's quite a lot, not quite as much as fat, but nearly as twice as much as carbs or protein.
I'll skip the other conversion factors. Suffice to say that 7000 calories, in alcohol alone, translates out to 52 strait shots of good booze. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
One might be tempted to dismiss that number as hyperbole, but it's totally consistent with the final anecdote of that article where Andre told his doctors that he needed to drink two full bottles just to get a buzz. 52 shots comes out to three bottles. For Andre, one decent buzz plus maintenance for the rest of the day, basically.
If the unthinkable happens in a couple of months I hope Jimmy Carter's family lies to him about who won the election so he can die at peace :(
I'm sure somebody here has said it, but Kamala with those Pittsburghians is the kind of reaction PAB dreams of getting from people when he starts in on the Sir! stories. Unfortunately for him, that will remain a dream.
My father drank a quart/day of Canadian Club whiskey, and fuck him. That's over 2000 calories and he weighed well under 250 pounds, so Andre's 7k/500# isn't out of range in proportion. It's impressive that he did it with beer and wine, but fuck him anyway. And fuck everybody who thinks drinking a LOT is HEROIC.
In the case of Andre, he suffered from excruciating pain from his medical condition, and alcohol was his pain management drug of choice.
Honestly surprised it was a heart attack that took him out before liver failure.... but maybe not.
another case of bad drugs driving out good drugs
probably my father drank as management of excruciating pain of some sort. probably many who drink a lot do. are there even other reasons?
Why is applying for jobs so freaking hard for my depression to handle? I'm shaking just asking my old teacher & teaching mentor (both are fb friends) for references. The application says _professional_ references, _not_ friends, and Marie's kind of both. It's been so long since I had an actual job. Even my last consistent volunteer job has been over for a while, and I don't know who to contact. My life's been eaten up by depression & caring for kids.
Having been on the other side of the hiring table, the only DO NOTs of references are:
- Do not list someone that you didn't ask ahead of time
- Do not list someone who will say something ugly about you
The people in HR will just call up the reference and all they will ask is that you're an okay person to work with and that they'd recommend you for a position that works with people/pets/computers/money.
As long as you asked the person ahead of time and they said, "sure you can use me as a reference" and you know they're not gonna backstab you and say "no I wouldn't recommend them to work with people/pets/computer/money" - then the HR person has no way of knowing that you last worked with them 10 years ago and you've just been friends ever since. And they really don't care.
All the HR person cares about is that the person you listed isn't related, and they confirmed you're cool.
I was still working on it, particularly the references & the woman's like oh it's done. It isn't because I know I didn't give any phone numbers except for a couple schools & the baseball team, the schools probably won't have anyone who remembers me, since it's been 20ys
I hear you, I've been applying consistently and sometimes I've felt like it's an impossible goal, just getting interviewed has been difficult. I think my Seasonal Affective Disorder is actually starting to kick in too.
I used my coworkers as references, but I consider them all to be friends. I was lucky to work for a close-knit nonprofit. Even so I've had pangs about whether I should bother them for a reference, but I asked them and they were all very cool about it. I'm sure your friend, since you worked with them in some capacity, is a good reference. Can you get in touch with your last volunteer job and ask if they have any contact information for the people you worked for?
A professional can be a friend. It happens all the time. If you worked with the, use them
Exactly! Just because you are friends doesn't mean you haven't also done legitimate work together. It doesn't have to be some cold, clinical relationship. As long as they're someone who will actually put in a good word for you, that's all that matters in the end.
Depression sucks and I'm sorry that you're battling it. I have similar issues, and know the battle is real, and there are victories and retreats in these battles. I would assume that the person who is both a friend and a professional reference would write a glowing reference for you without revealing that she is also your friend. I'm employed, and if I applied for another job, I'd be in the same position. My boss and my work colleagues are some of my best friends. I don't think that's unusual, but that's coming from my perspective, and your mileage may vary.
Remember, when you apply for a job, or a grant or whatever, the very worst thing that can happen is that they say no. In your current state, that sounds more ominous than it actually is, and can aggravate your depression. But I believe that if you did it a few times, the sting of hearing 'no' would go away. Meanwhile, are you in a position to find a social worker or other professional you can work with, to help with your depressive state? Please reach out for help. You could try starting with FindTreatment.gov . Please let us know how you do with this. The Wonketariat is a very supportive group, as long as Gallbladder isn't in a bad mood.
ty. I was seeing a therapist for years, but they're like well, the rules changed so we can only give you x number of visits per year unless you're actively trying to off someone or something. I do talk to the person who prescribes my Wellbutrin periodically.
I really really hate that, as does my therapist. When I was going through an especially difficult time once, my therapist yelled at all the people up the food chain until he got his way and he didn't have to limit my visits. I'm really lucky. I hope you can find the help you need, too. Go ahead and apply for jobs; perhaps just the act of attempting to help yourself will help you through this.
It helps when I have a job. Also helps now that choir season's started up again.
YES!!! Choir!!!
Awe those women & Jimmy Carter, too! May he live long enough to hear the election called for Harris, and also may the election be called for Harris.
Jimmy Carter makes me proud to be an American again. After preventing a nuclear explosion while in the Navy, his Navy service, governorship of a state, and presidency where he was treated like shit, and now hospice, where he's decided to stay alive long enough to vote for Kamala--what can I say? He's one of our greatest Americans, and I was proud to cast my first vote for him in 1980.
5 seconds after I started reading that Vox article...a pop-up ad for a Land Rover SUV popped up on my screen. WHy the hell the Internet thinks I'm in the market for a $75000 SUV I have no idea...I"m one of that now teensy minority of folks with an actual station wagon.
I had a station wagon (for 28 years!) until 3 weeks ago. I loved that thing and drove it until it was like a Fred Flintstone car.
From the Baffler article on Nazis:
One afternoon, Siegler’s anime army waved their flags and chanted what sounded like “gay sex” or maybe “low stakes” (it turned out they were saying “thug shake”).
Today, nonsensical chants. Tomorrow, the world!
That video gets me every time. #HarrisWalzforDemocracy