I assume a large percentage of Lemmy users have the 'tism.

Yes. But you have to understand - to my mind, the purpose of a pet name is to entertain me, while mildly annoying her, by being unforgivably twee.

I call her my little Smoddy-Dimble.

It looks like most of the strange combos in the thread are variations on the theme of sweet + savoury. Lives up to the premise - that’s weird and bad and wrong.

I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that’s how I learned I’m allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.

I’ve been back and forth to Australia, because I have family there. Melbourne and a dusty little coastal town in South Australia called Whyalla. I’ve also attended a Worldcon there, and I think, accidentally insulted Charles Stross.

I’ve also been on a month-long trip to Europe which covered the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. I fell in love with each and every one of those countries as I toured through them, although it was a little bit disappointing to be trapped in Essen while my wife attended Der Spiel because of a public transport strike.

We had plans for a trip to the US next year, which may not happen now. Perhaps we’ll head back to Europe.

Maybe ‘museum quality’ means ‘good enough for the gift shop’.

Solve the puzzles. One of them’s gotta lead to a magical fantasy kingdom.

The voices. The voices in the walls. They make me do things.

Actions. I know too many people who ‘really meant to’ do that awesome thing but somehow never got around to it.

Highlander II

Liking Highlander II is so far out of my worldview that I didn’t realise it was an option. What was it you enjoyed about the film?

Modern medicine. I could live without my daily medication, but it would be life on hard mode.

A weta.

Their scientific name means ‘terrible cricket’ for the same reason dinosaur means ‘terrible lizard’: they’re big. Unlike the ones wikipedia shows you, mine was only palm-sized. They’re basically harmless, so I scooped him up and deposited him outside.

I’ve used it successfully to memorise phone numbers, shopping lists, etc.

Look for a Youtube video on the memory palace technique. It’s a method for indexing information in mental images to help recall. It’s simple and makes it much easier to commit things to memory.

At work, yes. They made room for the handicap stall by narrowing the other stall to the point where my shoulders brush the walls. Too f’ing awkward.

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don’t do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it’s just me.

I’d say it’s proper cooking if you’re making decisions about what goes into it. Heating up beans and bread? Not cooking. Heating up beans and bread, adding some thyme and black pepper to the beans in the process? Cooking. Very simple cooking, but cooking all the same.

Birds.

One morning I got up and found an explosion of feathers in the entry. I mentally said goodbye to the owner and decided it must be the smallest cat - because there was no sign of the bird and she eats everything.

Imagine my surprise when I went to put my shoe on and there was something soft and warm under my foot. There was a still-living, apparently unharmed, sparrow hiding in my sneaker. I released it outside and went on my way.

Not the most pleasant experience, but I’m luckier than my mother-in-law who found one of these in her shoe. They bite when they feel threatened - that’s how she found it.

That I need a healthier hobby.

I tried a Budweiser once. Once was enough.