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scraparcs

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Why are can openers so monstrously difficult to figure out? If I ask my coworker how to use an electric can opener just a month after asking him how to use a dishwasher, I'll be the laughingstock of the company.

Is there a good YouTube video on how to use an electric can opener?
 
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My pm box is mainly filled with messages from a certain girl I met years ago. Sadly I kind of blew her off. I don't want to delete her messages, yet I'm too lazy to store them somewhere else.. So in the meantime I'll pretend that I'm really popular, lol. :p
 
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mmm pizza. Tonight I'm having Mexican :D

Muchos frijoles? (Many beans?)

That's one of our catchphrases at work. Then we go out and eat brains and intestines, because that's real Mexican food, not those normal parts of the animal. :p
 
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Why are can openers so monstrously difficult to figure out? If I ask my coworker how to use an electric can opener just a month after asking him how to use a dishwasher, I'll be the laughingstock of the company.

Is there a good YouTube video on how to use an electric can opener?

Put the blade over the lip of the can and press the lever down.
 
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I'm still not sure if I want to write my next book in first person perspective, or third person.

Any opinions?

First person: I proceeded cautiously down the hallway. Suddenly an orangutan appeared and tackled me.
Third person: He proceeded cautiously down the hallway. Suddenly an orangutan appeared and tackled him.

I like the insight that first person can offer... but it might get to be too much insight. I might want to keep certain character information secret for a while. Of course, there are still ways of holding it back.

I say use the orangutan's point of view.

The human thought he was proceeding cautiously down the hallway, but I had a taste for human flesh, so I tackled him.

ETA: I did put the blade on the can and press down just like I always had before. Maybe I just have a defective can opener?
 
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I say use the orangutan's point of view.

I think every great writer hears that at some point :D

I'm leaning toward first person because I think it'll be more interesting. Thanks for your input, everyone!
 
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I think every great writer hears that at some point :D

I'm leaning toward first person because I think it'll be more interesting. Thanks for your input, everyone!

Hence why I'm not a great writer, nor even a mediocre one.
 
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I am a horrible writer. I have trouble distinguishing between which there is correct to use. Is it Their or There?

this is how I keep those two apart

where is a place? there is the place (both have ere in them and both refer to places)

like I did not notice that until I was a senior in high school and I have never had trouble with it again
 
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this is how I keep those two apart

where is a place? there is the place (both have ere in them and both refer to places)

like I did not notice that until I was a senior in high school and I have never had trouble with it again
Wow, that is a good way to teach it. Good thing I am only trying to be a Pre-K or Kindergarten teacher because I won't have to teach that.^_^

Goodnight CF.
 
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Jerks who tailgate. I'm a lead foot...there...I said it. So there would be absolutely no reason for any person to tailgate me, unless they insist on doing 15+ over. That's really the only thing that stirs up the road rage in me.
 
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