I searched and I asked the botanical garden. None of the product or trick I found are actually effective and really vary from person to person. Also I laught a bit at your law. Here there is a lot of squirrels and it's forbidden to kill them except if it's an accident. I can't put something around my plants either because they are all on a simple wooden shelf. In a journal, I read an article about how Ontario (our neighbouring province) throw THEIR squirrel in OUR territory to get rid of them. So yeah they treat squirrel like their homeless people.


TopHat: I can help with your french if you want (I'm a french canadian).

Also top hat its a mite rude to say she's got problems because she still wants to spend some time with you.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! I FUCKING HATE THIS!!!!



Okaylet me begin. My mom's friend is staying and she (my mom's friend) brings her son and everytime.... EVERY FUCKING TIME she is not home he cries so god damn much. I cannot seem to keep my anger in check and I want to shout at him. My god...... He needs to stop being a fucking crybaby.

To be certain... it's not an actual baby right?

OK, I don't know WHAT it is about my lawn that makes people think it's a garbage can, because I've seen quite a bit of trash cropping up there recently.
And I always have to pick it up and throw it away, because I'm the one that always mows the lawn.

OK, I don't know WHAT it is about my lawn that makes people think it's a garbage can, because I've seen quite a bit of trash cropping up there recently.
And I always have to pick it up and throw it away, because I'm the one that always mows the lawn.

I'm sorry, I know you're annoyed at the situation, Alonso, but I couldn't help but laugh.

Well, I figured out who's been doing the littering...
It's my DOG, dragging trash over here from across the road! (Our neighbors are very messy people...)

I'm sorry, I know you're annoyed at the situation, Alonso, but I couldn't help but laugh.

Well, I figured out who's been doing the littering...
It's my DOG, dragging trash over here from across the road! (Our neighbors are very messy people...)

Likewise XD how did you catch it?

You probably shouldn't let your dog loose on the street then?

Well, I live out in the middle of nowhere, so that's a bit tougher. And he's an outside dog.

Okay, so I mixed up Stalin and Musulini and said I don't care, since it was "some russian" and according to Mom, Musulini was not russian. I quite rankly don't care, but she said "Just because you didn't learn it in school is no excuse to not learn it now" to which I have to say...

If it made any fucking DIFFERENCE in my every day life or was ACTUALLY IMPORTANT I'd bother learning it! But since it isn't, I DON'T FUCKING CARE!

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Not all people are history buffs, but most people at least know famous dictators such as Hitler or Stalin. Mussolini might not be of the same 'greatness', but he still played a big role in WW2 since Italy was one of Germany biggest allies.

Yeah but that's the thing: do most of the people KNOW about those guys or actually KNOW-KNOW about them? Yeah it's important to know that they existed. But unless it has impact on your current lifestyle/job, like being a history museum curator or a teacher or something like that, nobody really cares what they did since it doesn't concern them. I'm the same. Heck, there are even people out there in America and other places who think Hitler's still alive and active. Sure they're wrong, but then... why do they care? Why should they care?
The past is the past, after all.

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If everyone thought like you, we'd have no written record of anything that ever happened in human history. History is very important, and we should always look back upon it and see what we can do with our present problems. Hitler and the other dictators show the consequences of giving too much power to one person/party. We have to strive so that events like the Holocaust don't happen again.

It's nice enough to record it and all, but bringing it up over and over is terrible - it's possible that my History lessons in school are at fault for my thinking this way, considering for 3 - 4 years I learned nothing but Hitler. A bit of Weimarer Republik on the side, but mostly it was Hitler. Yeah the guy did some serious shit, but come on, I'm sure he's not the ONLY bad thing that ever happened in Germany.

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It's nice enough to record it and all, but bringing it up over and over is terrible - it's possible that my History lessons in school are at fault for my thinking this way, considering for 3 - 4 years I learned nothing but Hitler. A bit of Weimarer Republik on the side, but mostly it was Hitler. Yeah the guy did some serious shit, but come on, I'm sure he's not the ONLY bad thing that ever happened in Germany.

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I think the thing about Hitler is that it's best example on how people can be brainwashed without noticing. In high School my history teacher focused a lot on Hitler and Staline and they went on and on about how they use the despair in their people to gain power and it even got the US (Times and Hitler man of the year XD). While I forgot most of the events I will always remember to judge before entering a movement or a line of thought. That aside, Germany still feel guilty about the WWII and people forgot all about Japan and the massacre of Chinese (they should teach that also, they did so much terrible things).

My grandmother is still alive at 88, but it's been many years since I've seen her. My father doesn't speak to his family ever, so we no longer go to Winnipeg. However, he does talk to her on occasion, so I've done my best to communicate. She doesn't speak much English though. Only Chinese and Japanese. So with what little Japanese I know, I've had some basic communication. Since I'm getting better every day, I hope to have a more full conversation soon. My grandmother is nearing the end of her life, so I want to have at least some meaningful interaction while I still can. I'm going to continue to study Japanese every day, and hopefully in short time, I can write a letter in the language to her. That is my goal.

If there were a thumbs-up/thumbs-down function on this forum (for the record, I'm wholeheartedly against introducing such a function), this post would get a thumbs-up from me. That warmed my heart, Professor. Here's hoping you accomplish your goal and then some. With luck, maybe you'll eventually be able to communicate with her in Mandarin, too. I recall you mentioning an interest in learning that language, after all.

Something that scared the hell out of me happened yesterday.
For some reason, my heart started to beat differently for some minutes. I didn't feel anything besides that - no dizziness, no chest pain, only the strange beating. And before someone asks, no it wasn't something like tachycardia or palpitation. It was like... a really strange heartbeat. I mean, it's really difficult to put the symptom into words. Let's say that a normal heart beats at a TUNTUN-TUNTUN-TUNTUN frequency. Instead, my heart was at a TUNTUN-TUUN *jump*-TUNTUNTUN-TUNTUN-TUUUN *jump again*-TUNTUN one.

Went to the doctor today, did an electrocardiogram, explained my symptoms and according to him, everything is "fine" with my heart.
The guy spent a lot of time asking questions like if I have ever done drugs, if I use any long-term medications, which medications I use and blah blah blah. He apparently thinks I had an episode of "premature ventricular contraction"? In the end, he just told me to treat my anxiety (which I already do) and to stop drinking caffeine based beverages.

Anyways... Here I am now, exhausted, yet full of IUPAC and pharmacognosy books to read. It's desesperating how since I joined college, I don't find time for anything.

Something that scared the hell out of me happened yesterday.
For some reason, my heart started to beat differently for some minutes. I didn't feel anything besides that - no dizziness, no chest pain, only the strange beating. And before someone asks, no it wasn't something like tachycardia or palpitation. It was like... a really strange heartbeat. I mean, it's really difficult to put the symptom into words. Let's say that a normal heart beats at a TUNTUN-TUNTUN-TUNTUN frequency. Instead, my heart was at a TUNTUN-TUUN *jump*-TUNTUNTUN-TUNTUN-TUUUN *jump again*-TUNTUN one.

Went to the doctor today, did an electrocardiogram, explained my symptoms and according to him, everything is "fine" with my heart.
The guy spent a lot of time asking questions like if I have ever done drugs, if I use any long-term medications, which medications I use and blah blah blah. He apparently thinks I had an episode of "premature ventricular contraction"? In the end, he just told me to treat my anxiety (which I already do) and to stop drinking caffeine based beverages.

Anyways... Here I am now, exhausted, yet full of IUPAC and pharmacognosy books to read. It's desesperating how since I joined college, I don't find time for anything.

Urgh it' been three days that my nose bleed for no reasons! Even if I humidify my nose I still freakin bleed a lot and it get me unnecessary attention from my boss. (But at least peploe have some sort of pity and let me completly clean their toilet without using them).

I'm a janitor for the summer (I hope next year I will find a job in my field), so when I bleed I freak out much more about the floor than my own face XD. Also, the temperature isn't excessive, so I really don't know what cause this. The only thing I know is it's isn't important and stuff and I have o blow my nose to make it stop unless I want this to go on for hours.

You know what I'm sick of? Getting sick. This is already the 4th time this year I've contracted some form of allergies/bronchitis. Best part too is that I just got over this mess 3 weeks ago.

"See, this is the sort of thing you should be paying for yourself"
"Mom, I'd love to, if I could"
"Well if you had looked for a job that you trained for, for which I paid 6000€, three years ago, bla bla bla" (She literally said bla bla bla, we both are tired of her saying it or hearing her say it)

And I WOULD try to get a job in that profession if people would actually HIRE me for that fucking thing. Okay, I know I don't LOOK the part of a cosmetician - or someone trained in that profession. I don't LIKE wearing make up, it makes my eyes feel tired and makes me feel tired, which negatively impacts my actions during the rest of the day. I don't particularly enjoy make up, but I like giving the people massages.
But everybody just sees me with my simple make up, that I only wear for job interviews, and thinks "no" cause apparently to get a job as a cosmetician YOU NEED TO GIVE YOURSELF RACOON EYES TO PROVE HOW GOOD YOU ARE MAKING YOUR EYES LOOK LIKE BIG BLACK HOLES WHICH IS APPARENTLY QUITE ATTRACTIVE ALONGSIDE FIVE LAYERS OF FOUNDATION BECAUSE *GOD FORBID* YOU CAN SEE A TINY PIMPLE ON YOUR FACE!

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