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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:07:00 JST

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> 16. Get lost at a footbal game.
> 21. Get a job demonstrating fishing tackle in a sporting goods store.
> 30. Learn to paint. Set up easel outside engineering school.
> 35. Make a lot of money.

Most of this shit would still work.

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Dymphna (f0x@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:27:10 JST

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@p @Gran3Walder when bot was talking about wanting a man who knows how to cook I said ~"have y'considered moving near a culinary school?"

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syzygy (syzygy@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:34:52 JST

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@f0x @p @Gran3Walder Cry when you're hungry, the results may surprise you.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:36:38 JST

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@f0x @Gran3Walder Just stared at the screen for a second contemplating the hopelessness: "It's a cooking school. She couldn't even bring snacks."

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:42:53 JST

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@f0x @Gran3Walder Like, she's not pleasant to be around. If she doesn't even have *snacks*...

meowski had happened on some list of superstitious remedies, stuff like curing gout by throwing a sack of live mice into the river during the full moon or making the dude that dumped you come back by putting a lock of his hair into a sheep's heart and burying it, weird shit like that, you know. But one of them was "You can fascinate a woman by offering her cheese" and I'm pretty sure this is not anything supernatural but is good advice.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:51:01 JST

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@syzygy @f0x @Gran3Walder You just lay on the floor face-down and discuss your impending death from starvation. This has worked every time I have tried it.

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roko's basilisk (vii@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:51:27 JST

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@p @f0x @Gran3Walder Completely unrelated. Give your neighbors wheels of cheese as a gift.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:51:40 JST

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@vii @Gran3Walder @f0x It's a reasonable thing to give to people.

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Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:59:19 JST

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@p Andrew Jackson has got this covered.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:02:10 JST

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@judgedread Now *there's* a fuckin' president. Killed the goddamn bank. They had to pull him off the guy that tried to assassinate him because he was clubbing the dude to death with his cane. And apparently he just dumped fuckin' car-sized blocks of cheese for people.

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Dymphna (f0x@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:13:50 JST

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@syzygy @Gran3Walder @p ... why would I cry when I'm hungry

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Ricotta :windmilloffriendship: (ricotta@yggdrasil.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:28:32 JST

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Dymphna (f0x@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:36:51 JST

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@p @Gran3Walder @Ricotta i suppose it's supposed to be a charm ..

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:36:52 JST

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@Ricotta @Gran3Walder @f0x It was this, yes! That is not a "spell"!

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Dymphna (f0x@dsmc.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:46:32 JST

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@p @Gran3Walder @Ricotta I've told you this, yeah, where the Victorian English term for charisma is "a wee bit of soap", those poor british ladies just wanted a bathed man *so bad*.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:46:33 JST

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@f0x @Gran3Walder @Ricotta Many charms and spells and incantations: "be handsome and tall" or "have some money" or "try to act like you have manners" or "bathe so you do not smell like a barn with a still in it".

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:48:24 JST

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@f0x @Gran3Walder @Ricotta Ha, yes, I recall that. (I think I went on a tangent about walls covered in waste.)

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:marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:56:45 JST

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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a woman a wheel of cheese, and you will live happily thereafter :marseyemojismilemouthtighteyes:

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 07:59:04 JST

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@f0x @Gran3Walder @Ricotta But old-timey meaning of charm, like, cheese does not have supernatural qualities.

(Also it is interesting to have a copy of the 1913 edition of Webster's around because it used to be an interesting book before the invention of HR departments and liability and whatnot.)

CHARM
Charm, n. Etym: [F. charme, fr. L. carmen song, verse, incantation,
for casmen, akin to Skr. çasman, çasa, a laudatory song, from a root
signifying to praise, to sing.]

1. A melody; a song. [Obs.]
With charm of earliest birds. Milton.
Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser.

2. A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of
magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an
incantation.
My high charms work. Shak.

3. That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract;
that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope.
The charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton.

4. Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting
ill or securing good fortune.

5. Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key,
a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at
the watch chain.

Syn. - Spell; incantation; conjuration; enchantment; fascination;
attraction.
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