My girlfriend proposed to me, but I just had average, un-manicured guy hands. We have our 29th anniversary in May, so my nails were not a problem.

Same goes for Dove Bars

I’m rolling on the floor with laughter at your Rick joke

You saved this joke thread

I had to educate myself about caloric content in the food I was eating. My wife got me a book called “Eat this not that” which helped a lot (especially at restaurants) but the same information is available all over the internet.

After I tracked my intake for a couple of weeks, I started to know what I was eating, calorie-wise. Then I set a budget of 2000 calories per day, but everyone will need a different number.

I imagine it as having $20 a day to spend on food (1 calorie is 1 cent) and thinking about it like “bargain hunting” helped me find foods I like that were “good deals” calorie-wise.

For example, mayonnaise is a terrible deal (150 cal per 2 tablespoons) , while salsa, mustard, hot sauce, etc are tasty but have few calories.

Like others said, you need to burn more calories than you take in to lose weight, and until you’re honest and accurate about what you’re taking in, the needle isn’t going to move.

Did you hear about the cannibal who passed his brother in the woods?

After a successful raid on a circus, one cannibal asked the other, "Does this clown taste funny to you?"

That’s pretty good

Erma Gerd, Rurbish!

Don’t you mean one letter ‘B’?

Don’t you mean ‘tell ChatGPT to cite the Wikipedia article sources when it writes your paper’? /s

Arduino is overkill.. you can buy multicolor LED light strips with remote control for $10-20. The LED strips with sticky backing can be trimmed to length, so I’d give that a try.

Unless you just really want to do an arduino project.

Hard to give any advice without some dimensions, but I’d start out looking for LED lights that would fit inside the head/neck opening.

This will be a nightlight?

Good reference to Rumpole of the Bailey, that’s what he called his wife, Hilda

Don’t they home in on CO2 given off in your breathing? Seems like you could use that someone to lure them into the bug zappers

She sleeps during the day

Yep, I’m good now thanks.

Before I lost someone myself, I always felt awkward about bringing it up, as if I’d be reminding them of something painful they’d forgotten and wouldn’t want to remember.

When it was my loss, the acknowledgments felt like someone cared.

Absolutely, use whatever words feel right for you. The point is to acknowledge the loss, and it doesn’t have to be a big discussion (of course it can be, depending on the relationship) That’s all I was trying to say.

Also, please don’t let awkwardness keep you from offering your condolences to a friend that’s lost a parent. All you have to say is “Hey, I heard about your Mom/Dad, sorry for your loss”.

You can’t take away what’s happened, or lessen the grief, but it’s appreciated all the same. I’ve lost both parents in the last 5 years and was grateful when people acknowledged what I was going through in even a simple way.

I disagree, you should enter every argument possible /s

There was a kid in my middle school who said that all the time!

Along with a few other choice phrases about screen doors on submarines, old as Moses’ toes but twice as corny, etc. blast from the past!

Why did JS Bach have 23 kids? He didn’t have any stops on his organ.

These both have to be ancient (venerable?). I bet they were making the rounds hundreds of years ago.

Don’t get advice only from the internet. Ask the same thing of real people you know and respect IRL.

Usually shows up in the phrase “You don’t know Jack shit”. Which suggests Jack shit is even less the plain old variety, so I’d argue he’s extremely bad at it!