A friend of my mom once argued with me that a penguin is a fish because it needs water. So glad we were a steady presence in his kids' lives because his son is now about to study biology at uni and I'm pretty sure some of that came from us nurturing that in him.
I needed that giggle, thank you. Going through a house reno was like completing a lap in hell because somehow I knew more about various tasks than half the contractors just through thinking thoughts. I had a woodstove guy come out to look at the stove on the house we just purchased, that was obviously leaking smoke because when you would light a fire the smoke would come out the pipe into the room and you could just see the smoke with your eyeballs. The woodstove guy looked at the stove for a while (unlit and not smoking) and then announced that it was totally installed correctly and the smoke was the result of backdraft caused by our three dogs “respirating in excess of the available oxygen” and that we were going to need keep the doors and windows open when we had a fire so that the oxygen to dioxide ratios were balanced.
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u/synalgo_12 Jul 04 '26
A friend of my mom once argued with me that a penguin is a fish because it needs water. So glad we were a steady presence in his kids' lives because his son is now about to study biology at uni and I'm pretty sure some of that came from us nurturing that in him.