but not when I speak.

Hamburger Helper & Sloppy Joes!

Never could.

My wife does occasionally, though.

Oscar de la Hoya!

LIMA BEANS!!!


Oh, and I can't trill my "R's" either... Fortunately, those in Costa Rica, Bogota, Colombia, parts of Mexico, and many in Puerto Rico do not trill their "R's" either. Then again, my Spanish is bad enough that it wouldn't matter overall.

First time I ate it, I was sure I was being pranked. meanwhile a coworker mocked me because I “never want to try anything different.”

Coworker is an asshat.

I couldn't understand this odd flavor, while most other people rave about cilantro. Yuck.

Maybe soap flavor evaporates?

Is it did not happen until we ate at some awful
Mexican restaurant at a mall in PA. Before that, cilantro was no problem. But, that salsa at that restaurant tested like dove soap. Now, all cilantro tastes like that to me. It was immediate. Not sure what happened.

piss standing up. These, by the way, are my only concessions to male superiority.

Bras are like religion & the concepts of heaven & hell: human constructs.

That is what I call bras.

Of course, I have enough layers underneath that no one can tell, but--ahh, I can. I understand it for those who really need the support, but for those who don't... FREEDOM!

Never liked any of them.

I thought it was weird having had two.

Healing vibes to you!

My first laparoscopic robotic one.

Number three, last year, where a previous one finally gave out, upcoming number four near my navel, the first there.

I think I'm done picking up heavy objects, SheltieLover.

When is surgery?

October 1, but I am looking forward to doing so.

I'm an old hand now.

I don't understand what causes these recurrences! So sorry you're up to 4!

The good news is that advancements have generally made the repair work faster, safer, and recovery time is much shorter. Where I was hospitalized for several days as a kid of 10 years, 56 years later it's an outpatient thing.

Here's hoping you never have to challenge my record!

Mo clue how they figured this out.

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Tie a stem with your hands and put it your mouth when no one is looking. Then put in an untied stem in your mouth when people are watching. Switch the stems around in your mouth with your tongue and voila!

I'll tell you about it later.

and 've always wished I could do that. I also suck at driving a stick shift and parallel parking, much to my humiliation.

The trick is to pat your head whilst rubbing your tummy all while lifting one leg and spinning it and simultaneously going up and down with the planted leg.....and not falling down...
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…the look that made it clear you’d better stop whatever it was you were doing.

Our younger son can also do it. I’m so jealous.

not directly but immitating and practicing. prrractice makes purrrfect. meow.

I never noticed trilling r's before that.

i wonder who the voie over talent was .

wanted 100% hearing one day, w/ aids or whatever would work.

Now, w/ the loss still, and I'm older, much older, I am glad I don't have perfect hearing. My SO told me that hearing everything isn't always the thing that one wants. They're right. Sometimes (or rather, a lot of times), it's nice to block out things, hearing-wise.

and my right one's about 20/50 corrected.

I don't have a problem trilling my r's There was a Ruffles potato chip commercial where the catchphrase was "Ruffles had ridges" said in a mock English voice. If you can imitate the commercial you should have no problem trilling your r's.

Started doing this as a kid and I can still do it. When my niece and nephew were very young and started acting up and wouldn't behave I'd turn my eyelids inside out. It scared the crap out of them and they'd settle down. After that, whenever they wouldn't behave I'd threaten to make my "monster eyes" and they'd behave.

I couldn't do it, but I'd be transfixed when in the company of someone who could.

Don't waste time telling me the tricks; I've tried them all to no avail.

I'm convinced that the whole thing is a worldwide conspiracy to make me feel foolish, as if I need that kind of help.

My sister had one of the pictures in her house and whenever I was over I'd try to see the image but couldn't. Finally, after crossing my eyes and slowly relaxing them I was able to see it.

I don't think anyone can.

the trill is gone, baby! The trill is gone!

Chocolate covered peanuts, and put the nuts back in the can on the buffet. Afew days later, our daughter and her fiance stopped by while they were riding a motorcycle. My husband and I were rearranging the back bedroom and didn't immediately come out to the living room to greet them. When we did come out, they were eating the peanuts from the can my Mom had left on the buffet. We were mortified. I managed to get the nuts put away and give them something else. That happened 30 years ago, and we never spilled the beans. And I never will!

Who even does that?!?

and knowing my Mom so well, she had hysterics It was her favorite Myrtle story ever. The can was my Mom's and maybe she thought no one else would have any.

I'm a rebel.

I have no idea where this came from but a boss once gave me a gift cert for a mani/pedi & when I got to the pedi part, after a nice soak in scented water, I said, "I'm good now," & left.

the meaning of trill

You flutter your tongue against the roof of your mouth. Personally, I think trilling is easier to produce with a D sound than an R sound, but Ruffles potato chips cashed in on it with a commercial years ago.

You know, like the sound a pig makes or that some people make when they laugh too hard. I try and try and I just can't do it. Years ago, I had a boyfriend who would laugh every time I tried because I tried so hard. He would ask me why it was so important to me and I said it's because it's something that everybody can do and I can't.

I have to suck wind in, sounding like a third grader, trying. ☺️

All hail!

Sounds vaguely dirty.

arthritis, I reckon.

But, my daughter did get me some castanets like I had as a child, so that sorta makes up for no snap now.

But that damage was externally caused. It eventually healed.

Nowadays, I can snap my right okay, but my left can be slow to work, or just won't work. What I have pretty much lost is my ability to play guitar. I just cannot hold the strings down for the entire length of a song anymore, or I cannot move them fast enough.

But I don’t like some combinations. I like pickles and hamburgers but I don’t like pickles on hamburgers.

on each foot.

That other people can’t. My daughter says I’m
A “super smeller”. Not sure if that’s a thing. It’s not always a good skill to have. 😂😂😂

She says "stinks" more often then I use the words "a" and "the" combined.

I can't smell ant farts. I can't smell Lily's breath from the other side of the house. I don't know when someone's pumping gas at the Citgo station downtown.

I can tell when someone just passing by me has a sinus infection. Seriously.
I can smell water. So, I usually know about a leak before it presents itself.
I think my son has the same thing,
When he was little, he and his best friend had identical Batman costumes that they wore ALL the time. Occasionally they would take them off. Then, when he wanted to find his , and put it back on, he’d smell them both and say, “yep, that’s mine!”.
I have to buy everything unscented as smells can overwhelm me.

I'd never thought about heredity having a role in it, so thanks for leading me to a new line of inquiry!

On balance, if you don't mind me asking, is your heightened sense a positive thing or problematic?

My dear departed first wife lost her sense of smell from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Once a year or so, though, a flower's fragrance would come through, and it was a cause for great joy.

Positive thing than a negative one.
The only thing negative is when there are lots of smells together in one place such as the first floor of a department store with all of the perfumes or the candle section of a novelty shop….a mixture of smells is tough. I didn’t realize for the longest time that everyone didn’t smell to the degree I do. So, it seems normal to me.