I pronounce it like calendar, except with more of an “o” sound on the first syllable. Is that…not right?
::suddenly sweating with insecurity as I’m reminded of the working class heritage I strive on a daily basis to hide::
Oh my, neither! One musn’t forget the nasal plotic in the middle. Don’t tell me you were uaware? Oh this is dreadful.
That’s marvelous. I’d be singing her praises too!
As I mentioned earlier, my nephew is an infectious disease/pediatric med doc and have traveled extensively in Africa. He loves it there. But the things he’s seen- children dying of ear infections, bladder infections so bad urine was leaking out belly buttons, and on and on. Such poverty and such want.
Maybe Lindsay was basing her view of Africa on this map?
LAWDY NO!!! I’s been sayin’ wrong ALL DIS TIME!!!
The embarrassment is enough to make me revert back into slave dialect!!!
:throws the stupid bowl with the holes in it across the wall:
Oh snap. Vows not to smack-talk ywtf again.*
*I’ll pay my servants to do it for me.
For the record, the little girl that monstro mentioned did not have rabies. She’d been bitten by a dog and therefore potentially exposed to the rabies the virus. But she didn’t have the actual disease.
I feel the need to say this because it’s an important distinction. Rabies is almost always fatal and it’s incurable. So if I were that talented to actually save the life of someone who had rabies, yall would not be just finding about it on a messageboard, in a thread about colanders, outruled breastfeeding, and Mauritius. I would have been on Oprah talking about it months ago. Or NPR, like Hippy.
Why you gotta be so modest and stuff? The dog had rabies, did it not? The girl had a high likelihood of developing rabies. Ergo, you saved her life.
But that’s not even the point, fool. The point is that you weren’t there as a mere spectator, but you actually stepped out of your bubble and acted on your empathy. Many people wouldn’t have done that. They would have hid behind their professional exteriors, drawn the curtains so that the family could grieve in private, and then gone home without giving the matter another thought.
But we don’t need another hero, Miss Tina Turner, so I won’t call you one. 
Look at ya’ll falling all over yourselves to deny the actually frikkin’ interesting things that you do. That’s cool. Maybe the young lady(ish) in question can learn both class and modesty from the people who have come here to make fun of her for having neither!
Or the dog could have been a time traveler, sent to protect the world from FutureHitler – whose life your meddling sister inadvertently saved. Nice going, you with the face.
Aiee, this thread’s gone on too long, I’m starting to get punchy.
Hey, someone has to prevent Back to the Future-styled paradoxes from occuring.
Jesus Christ! And that woman who did that was a NURSE! (Not your friend, the woman who brought in the dead bat.) :eek:
I thought electric kettles were ubiquitous household items, too, but apparently they aren’t either. 
Kindness, compassion, and generosity above and beyond is worth bragging about. Someone’s job, not so much.
And fwiw, I’m also pretty damn proud of your sister. That was a really awesome thing to do.
I couldn’t tell if that initial comment was sarcastic or not. If it was, I’m with you. People brag (on SDMB and elsewhere) if they got a date or met a celebrity.
in all seriousness i think her age is a factor. i know i personally have grown more distant from the friends i have that are in their early 20’s because i have no patience for the drama and the nonsense that still goes on at that age. i still love them and enjoy their company, but i tend more towards people closer to my age.
this is not to imply all people in their early 20’s are jerks, or drama queens, or whatever. i know i could be an absolute shit at that age at times, as most people can be at one point or the other. i think it’s a tough age because you’re not all that far away from the drama of high school and college, but you’re now trying to establish yourself as an adult.
i don’t mean to imply lindsay is a drama queen, because that’s not really my point. i also don’t mean to sound condescending- i’m 29, so i’m still fairly young myself. however, i can say that i am absolutely not the same person i was at age 23. people change a lot throughout their 20’s, because they’re forming into the adult they’re going to me. legally, you’re an adult, but mentally, that can take awhile.
i think lindsay is pretty immature in a lot of ways, convinced she has the world figured out, and for some reason has a vicious streak a mile long. i don’t see any redeeming qualities in her from the way she presents herself, but that could certainly change, and hopefully for her it will when she grows up a bit.
Well, she does seem to know her way around a shift key.
I don’t pronounce “colander.” I have people who do that for me.
man, that’s already becoming about as played out as “hi opal”…
Nah, I’m still good with it. 