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Vrisnem said:
This is meant to be casual chat thread so lets keep it friendly and light-hearted from now on, both in content and tone, thank you!
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Thanks! I generally use this thread to share some random thoughts like how I do on Facebook. I’ll stop the political posts like I should have done a long time ago.

About those Friday the 13th facts, four of them are natural because of how the calendar goes, but the rest have came true due to the timing of the events. I pretty much know all about the calendar (maybe not exactly everything, but at least the date arrangements). Because February has an extra date every four years, there is a 28-year cycle on when a date occurs on a specific day of the week.
 
Alolan_Apples said:
Thanks! I generally use this thread to share some random thoughts like how I do on Facebook. I’ll stop the political posts like I should have done a long time ago.

About those Friday the 13th facts, four of them are natural because of how the calendar goes, but the rest have came true due to the timing of the events. I pretty much know all about the calendar (maybe not exactly everything, but at least the date arrangements). Because February has an extra date every four years, there is a 28-year cycle on when a date occurs on a specific day of the week.
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Posts like these are better suited to the Place Your Random Thoughts thread than General Discussion. This thread is intended to be a place for people to have a conversation. :)
 
Vrisnem said:
Posts like these are better suited to the Place Your Random Thoughts thread than General Discussion. This thread is intended to be a place for people to have a conversation. :)
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Since I have an aversion to posting on the Random Thoughts thread, I’ll probably stop with sharing my general thoughts. You may PM me if you want to know why I refuse to go to the Random Thoughts thread, but I’ll try to use this thread more for discussing topics rather than posting random stuff.

There is a lot of stuff related to politics to talk about this year, but I couldn’t really share them publicly anymore. The Blog Tree is finished, other members wouldn’t let me create new threads on politics, and I wouldn’t share these on my other social media accounts, including my Wordpress blogs. It’s pretty interesting that in 2016, there was an influx in political discussions, but in 2020 (which is even more intense), nobody wants to talk about it anymore.
 
There are cases of irony where some people make a decision for something better, only for them to be worse off. This has happened to me a couple of times, but I have two examples of it, both of them being my biggest regrets with the TBT Marketplace:

1. I tried selling a Star Glow wand for 12,000 TBT. Back then, there were more glow wands in circulation, but fewer TBT out of circulation. Therefore, nobody would spend 12,000 TBT. However, I was given a 10,000 TBT offer with a free apple. I turned it down because I wanted more Bells. By turning it down, I only got 8,000 TBT with no apple.

2. I chose to sell my apples for TBT Bells. I eventually lost patience and sold them for Nook Miles Tickets since they were high in demand. As soon as I sold them all, demand for NMT drastically dropped to the point they were essentially worthless. Basically speaking, I burned TBT Bells here.

Have this type of irony happened to you?
 
I’m currently painting a wooden box. I’m using fast food trash as place setting so I don’t get paint on the table, as I plan on using silver and gold paint on the inside and blue and green paint on the outside.
 
There's so many homeless kittens and cats in my neighbourhood including a pregnant momma cat so tonight me & my boyfriend have to set out traps and watch them. We don't wanna accidentally get a raccoon or skunk lmao. Momma cat & her kittens meow at my door sometimes and then run away when I try to bring them inside so I just leave food out for them. The shelter is gonna get them all spayed/neutered & adopted so hopefully this all goes smoothly.

Obviously the traps are humane so don't worry about that lol.
 
oak said:
There's so many homeless kittens and cats in my neighbourhood including a pregnant momma cat so tonight me & my boyfriend have to set out traps and watch them. We don't wanna accidentally get a raccoon or skunk lmao. Momma cat & her kittens meow at my door sometimes and then run away when I try to bring them inside so I just leave food out for them. The shelter is gonna get them all spayed/neutered & adopted so hopefully this all goes smoothly.

Obviously the traps are humane so don't worry about that lol.
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THIS^^^^^^^^^^ (minus the raccoons and skunks and boyfriend) Where I live, most people do not get any care for their animals and just let them roam free, breed, and wreak havoc. It's on a scale that's just...not okay. My parents' yard alone has sustained thousands of dollars of damage from outdoor cats people refuse to keep indoors, and they say it's not their cat or it never leaves their house which is a lie. Last year there was even a human death about a half hour away from me, where a pack of dogs chased down a fully grown man. I think you should have to take a test or have a license or something to own animals, imo. /rant
 
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Lori377 said:
THIS^^^^^^^^^^ (minus the raccoons and skunks and boyfriend) Where I live, most people do not get any care for their animals and just let them roam free, breed, and wreak havoc. It's on a scale that's just...not okay. My parents' yard alone has sustained thousands of dollars of damage from outdoor cats people refuse to keep indoors, and they say it's not their cat or it never leaves their house which is a lie. Last year there was even a human death about a half hour away from me, where a pack of dogs chased down a fully grown man. I think you should have to take a test or have a license or something to own animals, imo. /rant
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Wow sounds like your city might be worse for stray pets! Sorry about your neighbours letting their cats breed freely, it causes a chain reaction issue for kittens. I've never seen a stray dog here before though but the cats are another story. At least the animal shelter comes out straight away if I call and it's guaranteed none of the cats will be put down so I don't have to worry about that.

No luck catching momma cat by the way. Just 1 pissed off neighbourhood cat tempted by the sardines that I released right away. Poor guy was howling.
 
oak said:
Wow sounds like your city might be worse for stray pets! Sorry about your neighbours letting their cats breed freely, it causes a chain reaction issue for kittens. I've never seen a stray dog here before though but the cats are another story. At least the animal shelter comes out straight away if I call and it's guaranteed none of the cats will be put down so I don't have to worry about that.

No luck catching momma cat by the way. Just 1 pissed off neighbourhood cat tempted by the sardines that I released right away. Poor guy was howling.
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It's the general area I think since it's a lot of farming and rural areas too. There are good pet owners around, don't get me wrong! Thankfully after some incidents where people were hurt/killed by packs of dogs roaming free, it seems to have gotten a little bit better but not much. The main problem we have is people trying to dump them in the country (horrible stuff I won't go into with this btw). Our town doesn't even have animal control as they're super under-funded and just...no one wants to do it. They just assign a random sheriff, usually (in my specific town).

Sadly here, it's the other way around as far as animals being put down in shelters. Granted, if they're socialized or are young, they're much more likely to be adopted, but...well, yeah. It's horrible and sad that people just don't care or view animals as living things, or as having any feelings. The biggest problem though has to be the cats, for sure. They just keep breeding all over the place and people don't bother to do anything about it and they end up dead as a result most of the time. Aw, sorry you didn't catch momma cat, I've been there, done that!

I'm such an advocate for animals and pets, sorry I went off on a tangent there. I just wish people cared enough to be educated about animal husbandry more than they do. Good luck to you! =^.^=
 
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Today I had a mental break down from all the millions of assignments I had for online school! Anyways how was your day?:D(y)
 
I am so excited for the fall season to officially start tomorrow! Fall is my favorite season both in and out of AC. There’s this one apple orchard about an hour and a half from where I live that basically embodies fall. While most of what made it awesome won’t exist in this current climate (there were samples of the food they sold literally EVERYWHERE) I still have very fond memories of it.
 
So I finally caught all of the fish, insects, and sea creatures in ACNH and have them donated to the museum. The only exhibition left to complete is the art exhibition. Granted, I did obtain them by time traveling, but I rather get it done as soon as I can than wait for months.
 
I can't find a decent shaped cloud anywhere for the photo challenge but the moon decided to come hang out mid day. Go away moon I need clouds.
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May have to go to oral surgeon; NOT looking forward to it!:(
 
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