The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

New weird thing with my hand...

Now I've got very little movement in my index finger. It's numb right above the index finger, so that is probably why. For now, though, my hand seems stuck in the Vulcan salute...

First thought a smile and How cool. Second thought sympathy like OUCH sorry for the smile What do you expect at 4:15 am

 

[Figgy1]

Happy Farm Market Saturday. Today should be interesting it's either going to be feast or famine there today as we made it through last night without a frost. So I'm hoping for a feast as it's going to be the last of the summer veggies. Keep your fingers crossed for me I want some more peppers and eggplant THNX Some growers have hot houses but the veggies grown in the great outdoors seem to be tastier. After that I have some other errands to run so I'll try and ketchup later

 

[MinnieM123]

seconding this. Its like they are trying to stack humans like they were tetris.

That was a great example. Yes, Tetris!! (I used to love playing that game by the way!!)

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

At the picture house getting ready to watch Hotel transylvania 2 on the last day of our mini break

 

[MinnieM123]

We went on lock down my second semester here. We received a text saying, "Active shooter on campus; shelter in place." I was in accounting that day, and we read the text to the professor, who says, "Well, what do you want me to do about it?" and then tried to continue teaching. Meanwhile, none of us were focused and ended up gathering by the windows watching the police come. We were evacuated by SWAT team. Since I was a commuter and my car was right in the lot, I was able to leave. I got off campus and pulled over. My parents were at O's opening day that day, and I couldn't reach them (it took about four hours to reach them). I called my aunt and started crying. She calmed me down over the phone so I was able to drive home. I called a couple of my relatives, who had likely seen it on the news, my bestie's mother, who had already heard and was texting me, and a leader from my religious group so that everyone knew I was fine, since no one knew what was going on at the time.

We found out later that it was someone shooting a BB gun in the woods. Students who later were expelled.

In the world that we live in, where school shootings are more and more common, you really can't be too careful.

Unfortunately, those scenarios can happen anywhere. Working in a huge hospital complex, we're trained in all kinds of situations. I recall a few years ago when they first introduced Code Silver (active shooter) guidelines for staff. In an actual Code Silver situation, an immediate call goes out from hospital police & security, to all (armed) law enforcement in the area: SWAT, MA State, Boston & close-by cities, Transit, and even any Fish & Game, to immediately come to the hospital command center. They very quickly dispatch groups of 4 officers in teams to locate and end the situation (by whatever force needed). Those first teams are not there to answer questions or give advice to people in the hallways, etc. Team 2 groups are the officers who are assigned to do that; they immediately follow behind the Team 1 groups. They way the whole thing is set up, if a Code Silver goes out on dispatch, there can be well over 100 officers there within just the first few minutes alone. (Hospital staff is continually updated via pagers, phones, overhead announcements and computer messages.)

 

[MinnieM123]

Cannot tell you how many weird mistakes I've made with Spanish over the years...

I admire you for studying another language. Good for you. I also think @Cesar R M is awesome. He has worked hard to learn English, and I think he does a great job.

 

[MinnieM123]

Yes, I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I literally squealed and clapped my hands when he showed up with it.

Of course you did. Any other behavior would have been inappropriate . ..

 

[MinnieM123]

Saying hello and good night early tonight. Need to get up at 3:30 am to catch bus to make flight. More pics on Sunday from the trip.

I wish you a very safe trip home. Can't wait to see more pix, too! I really enjoyed seeing the Halloween decorations on Main Street USA in particular. They were so attractive and colorful.

 

[MinnieM123]

I use wordreference.com to double check everything. It's the site my Spanish professors recommend because it's the next best thing to a good dictionary.

Definitely=sin duda, indudable
definitively=categóricamente, decididamente

In general, we use "definitely" in daily conversation, not "definitively".

Both our languages are weird...

All languages . . . it's the Tower of Babel (which in my opinion, constitutes a lot of babble!)

 

[MinnieM123]

At the picture house getting ready to watch Hotel transylvania 2 on the last day of our mini break

@MR FERRET -- Picture house? Do you mean a movie theater???

(Question to self: did I just enter a time warp here, and is it really 1940 now? ) Cue the Rod Serling Twilight Zone music . ..

 

[FutureCEO]

I'm a teacher here. I teacher middle/high schoolers. Science is my subject.

In 8th grrade, we had physics day were we went to Riverside (now called Six Flags NE). It was fun and educational. Imagine that. Apparently they don't do field trips anymore.

In 10th grade, we blew up gummy bears and shaved balloons. Chemistry. Hard class but best teacher I ever had for science.

 

[Songbird76]

Meet the teacher is not like parent teacher. All the parents for the two grades at my son's school go into the auditorium together and listen to presentations about the school and the curriculum. It says on the invitation that this is not appropriate to bring children too. Some people still do anyway, as some people always will think they don't mean them, but it is made clear that they aren't supposed to. These kids are 5 and 6 and I don't think they would want them unattended.

Yes, but I'm talking about parent teacher meetings. They take place in the classroom, and we can't leave our kids home alone at 7 and 9, so we bring them and set them in the entrance hall to color or play on the ipad. They are not allowed to come into the meeting, but there are always other parents waiting in the hall, so the kids are not unattended. But I don't think it's fair to expect parents of elementary aged children to come to meetings where they are not allowed to bring their children. If you are a single parent, or like us in that we BOTH want to be there to talk to the teachers, you can't leave them home alone. If you don't have access to or can't afford a babysitter, you are left with the choice of either not going, or of bringing the kids along and let them play while you are in the meeting.

 

[Songbird76]

This is pretty hilarious...

Hahahaa!!! Hilarious! I saw one with a different actor, too. So fun. And nonsense karaoke with Chris Pratt...hilarious!

 

[French Quarter]

any tips regarding this?

There's nothing you really need to know. You just book a table near the time of Wishes and show up. Give yourself lots of time at check in as it takes some time to take the elevator up.

 

[French Quarter]

probably because I'm at the other end of the spectrum? I'm Mexican and we've had our doze of serious racism, hate and discrimination. Even on these days.
More specifically on "cool kids"(aka, online teenagers and young adults who think insulting, throw racism remarks left and right and other belittlement stuff, makes them "cool") online.

but I agree with that you say. After all, I think you're the one with studies related to the theme at hand.

I am so so sorry that you have to experience racism or any ounce of hate directed toward you. People are jerks and I hope some day this changes.

 

[French Quarter]

or if you had a very big freezer!

Maybe I will change my bathroom into a walk in freezer. :|

 

[ratherbeinwdw]

Unfortunately, those scenarios can happen anywhere. Working in a huge hospital complex, we're trained in all kinds of situations. I recall a few years ago when they first introduced Code Silver (active shooter) guidelines for staff. In an actual Code Silver situation, an immediate call goes out from hospital police & security, to all (armed) law enforcement in the area: SWAT, MA State, Boston & close-by cities, Transit, and even any Fish & Game, to immediately come to the hospital command center. They very quickly dispatch groups of 4 officers in teams to locate and end the situation (by whatever force needed). Those first teams are not there to answer questions or give advice to people in the hallways, etc. Team 2 groups are the officers who are assigned to do that; they immediately follow behind the Team 1 groups. They way the whole thing is set up, if a Code Silver goes out on dispatch, there can be well over 100 officers there within just the first few minutes alone. (Hospital staff is continually updated via pagers, phones, overhead announcements and computer messages.)

We went on lock down my second semester here. We received a text saying, "Active shooter on campus; shelter in place." I was in accounting that day, and we read the text to the professor, who says, "Well, what do you want me to do about it?" and then tried to continue teaching. Meanwhile, none of us were focused and ended up gathering by the windows watching the police come. We were evacuated by SWAT team. Since I was a commuter and my car was right in the lot, I was able to leave. I got off campus and pulled over. My parents were at O's opening day that day, and I couldn't reach them (it took about four hours to reach them). I called my aunt and started crying. She calmed me down over the phone so I was able to drive home. I called a couple of my relatives, who had likely seen it on the news, my bestie's mother, who had already heard and was texting me, and a leader from my religious group so that everyone knew I was fine, since no one knew what was going on at the time.

We found out later that it was someone shooting a BB gun in the woods. Students who later were expelled.

In the world that we live in, where school shootings are more and more common, you really can't be too careful.

I am stunned that professor said what he did. Has he been living in a bubble? He could have contributed to the harm of his students if there had been a shooter. He should be fired. To say that a few years ago may have been overreacting, but not today. No one ever thinks it will happen at their school. But, it happens, and in the last places you would expect it to happen. I'm sure the school has a set policy on what that teacher should have done, and I guarantee you, it wasn't to ignore the warnings they took the time to send out.

 

[Songbird76]

that actually reminds me of the joke of the "pinches tacos" ad that appeared online lately... lol
Technically some americans think that "pinches" means "little". in Mexico it has nothing to do with "little" and is more like an insult but also colloquial insult word to exaggerate something.

Ha! Two of my friends over here are Mexican and our little group of friends gets together and we teach each other to make things from our home countries...like eggrolls from Indonesia, a rice dish from Sri Lanka, etc. One of the Mexican sisters was teaching us to make traditional Mexican tacos, empanadas, etc, and one of the things was a tortilla and then you pinch the edges all the way around so it makes kind of a ledge to hold the toppings on and I think it was called something like pellascadas or something and she explained that the word meant "to pinch". Hubs and I couldn't remember the word, but remembered it had to do with pinching the edges, so we started calling them "Pinchadas" and then she told us that meant something really bad in spanish, but she never told us what.

 

[French Quarter]

I think they mean in the way that US citizens calls their country "America".

Spoiler: political stuff not for the sensitive

For most latinamericans this is annoying. As they remember the Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine of "America for Americans". Which was sadly transformed from nice words to blatant expansionism, invasions, genocide and manipulations (even murder attempts like Mr. Henry Lane Wilson and Huerta vs President Madero )

Canadians don't like being called Americans either...even if we happen to be on North America.

 

[Songbird76]

Happy Farm Market Saturday. Today should be interesting it's either going to be feast or famine there today as we made it through last night without a frost. So I'm hoping for a feast as it's going to be the last of the summer veggies. Keep your fingers crossed for me I want some more peppers and eggplant THNX Some growers have hot houses but the veggies grown in the great outdoors seem to be tastier. After that I have some other errands to run so I'll try and ketchup later

Reminds me of the Gilmore Girls episode where there's a cold front coming in and Jackson is worried about his zucchini crop so he goes out into the field to sleep with the zucchinis to monitor the temperature. Now THAT is dedication!