You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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is the scientific name for a Brain Freeze.

i learned that i have a hard time learning from my mistakes.

I learned that yet more people think I'm stupid even when I'm trying to be nice to them, especially if I'm trying to be nice to them.

I absent-mindedly microwaved food on an aluminium tray. Nothing happened

I learned that roger Williams can play piano like nobody's business

I learned who Roger Williams was.

my past misfortune makes me worry to much in certain similar situations.

In Japan you should not put a flower on a student's desk unless they are dead to honor their memory. Putting a flower on their desk when they are still alive means you actually wish they were dead, which is like a troll telling someone online "Go kill yourself".

Gotta love that Yandere Simulator game. It shows lots of interesting (and dark) facts about Japanese culture, like leaving your shoes where you committed suicide.

that Leopold Stokowski was the king of all classical music and conducting of same.

I watched the Cinema Snob review The Oogieloves movie. I had read that it was bad and one of the worst movies ever made. But seeing it for real made me realize it's not only because of the nightmarish images it conjures up of being in a theater full of small children actually doing the things they're told in the movie. Let's see, we got a pillow that spits feathers, which is like it is throwing up its own entrails, a creepy talking window, and a character whose pants keep falling down because he's obviously never heard of something called a belt. The humans all act like they're very high on drugs, one of them is a women obsessed with roses and has them all over the place even though she's allergic to them. It might not be as bad as a peanut allergy, but she could still get really sick. In fact all the main human characters have such a weird obsession with things like squares and circles and bubbles it makes me wonder if... nah. And the Oogieloves do things that are really not safe for them to be doing that impressionable toddlers may imitate. Climbing to the top of an 180-foot tree to grab a balloon, which then gently carries you safely back to the ground. Yeah, that would happen.

with the news revealed in the daily kos of the Koch bros "12th amendment plan" there is no practical limit to the Koch bros' perfidy.

illness has stages: experiencing symptoms, assuming the sick role, seeking professional help, dependence, recovery

the older one gets, the faster time seems to pass.

This was something my parents and I all learned on Easter Sunday, but I just remembered it so I'd thought I'd talk about it. When I was younger my grandmother would traditionally make these delicious creamy lemon-flavored squares for dessert on Christmas night when we used to have supper at my grandparent's house. The squares are such a hit that my mother now makes them. We invited my grandmother for supper on Easter but she wouldn't eat the squares because she said she never really liked them! She said she made them for my now late grandfather, and other family members who like them.
She said she would much much rather have a butterscotch version of the squares. Maybe we can have those the next time we have her over. It's funny how you assume someone always likes a food that they're good at making. But my mother doesn't like butterscotch pie much and she made it for my grandmother at Christmas. My grandmother sure likes butterscotch. It kind of reminds me of that butterscotch pie situation in Undertale.

I love butterscotch also food of the gods

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