Verbal Description Puns

Last summer I applied for a job at a company which I really liked. They ended up choosing a better fit back then. No big deal and they let me now the week after the interview.

Last week of November I got a call from a manager from that same company. He said he will move get another/better position at the same company but he will move to the headquarters. So his job will be available in a couple of months. Since they were really impressed with my skills in the interview last summer, he called me to ask whether or not I'm still available for a job at the company. Of course I said yes, I was really excited to get the offer. Since I'm junior, they still have to rewrite the job description and stuff. So they didn't really have an offer end of November, they just wanted to call and see if I would be interested. They specifically said I'm the only one that they asked it to.

I followed up every week to see if there were any updates. They said it's December and super busy, but they are working on it.

18/12 I got a text from the manager and he said they created my job and it's now waiting for HR approvals. So I would get the official offer every moment. I haven't got the offer now, but it seems justified by the holidays etc.

I expect to get the offer either next week or the week ofter that. Everyone will be back in the office and stuff will get done I hope.

I mean it's sounds alright to me, although I have been waiting for quite some time. At the end of the day they called me specifically to offer me a position at their company and they gave been updating me.

Do you guys think it's a normal situation? I hear people that say it doesn't take that long normally. It's a large international company so they have other things to work on at the end of the year. We also need to take into account that they still had to 'create' my positon when they offered it to me, which also takes time due to meetings and approvals. Also my offer isn't that urgent because they don't need me next week let alone next months. They are planning hugely in advance and I will be starting in 3 months or so.

I know the manager in person (I have met him) so he I can trust him. He would definitely let me know immediately if the offer got rescinded

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I’ve never posted here, so sorry if this isn’t allowed, but it seemed okay per the rules.

So Wondrey put out a new podcast called “Against the Odds” and it’s about the rescue of the 12 boys and their soccer coach that made headlines a couple years back.

There’s talk of underwater cave diving (the rescue of course, but episode 1 describes a different dive as well) and holy shit. I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts. They don’t phase me. This had me scared. It’s so descriptive.

If you want to be able to not sleep at night, give this a listen.

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So my cousin is here to stay from Europe, and is living with my Nmom and Edad. I haven’t lived with them for over 15 years, so luckily I’m removed from the situation.

Anyway my Nmom has this pattern of behaviour (let me know if you’ve come across this). Whenever there’s a minute of down time she says something like “so, what do you plan to do with your life”, or “what are you going to achieve in the next year”, or “what are you going to do with your life”. She starts intensely questioning you whenever you’re trying to relax or whenever you don’t seem directly occupied with a task. It doesn’t matter how much you try to get out of the question, she just keeps asking it, forcing herself closer to you. If you leave the room, she follows you. If you try to get out of the conversation, she just keeps asking. Sometimes, if it’s in the car, she will bang her fists on the steein

So eventually you answer with a few things like “oh, I was hoping to do a degree in science” or “I want to get a job in a store”. No matter what you say, it’s not good enough. She immediately says “No”, followed by a long rant about why that’s a bad idea and why you should do whatever her idea is instead. The conversation keeps looping until you agree with whatever she is suggesting. With me, I used to snap and start fighting back. My sister would just take the abuse and sometimes end up crying.

So this cousin of mine is like 26. She’s staying with my parents currently... and I get a message telling me that she “Fainted at the mall”. After some investigation on my part, it turns out Nmom was questioning her about her life in the usual fashion, and the girl (my cousin) just caved under the pressure and went into a full blown panic attack.

Both my sister and I had coping mechanisms to deal with our mother’s abuse, and neither of us ever had panic attacks, but it seems as though my cousin was just caught unaware, and didn’t know how to protect herself from the onslaught. She is also probably trying very hard to keep smiling and be civil through all of this, as she’s living with my parents for free.

Obviously I don’t want her to break my cousin in half again, but the panic attack reassures me that Nmom’s behaviour has always been monsterous and that it’s not just me who is crazy.

Edit: I call my cousin a “stranger” in this scenario because until now, she had never met my mom. They were virtual strangers when this happened. I think it’s interesting, because my mom was clearly trying t

I have been reading about the non-verbal ways women express their interest in you. It seems like there are 2 signs that are widely accepted: 1. Prolonged eye contact 2. If she laughs excessively at your jokes.

What are some non-verbal signals that I might be overlooking or that are commonly missed?

In general, I have a great relationship with my mom. She's very supportive of me and I can and have trusted her with a lot of truth about myself (the fact that I'm gay, my depression/mental health issues, etc). I know she loves me, I know she's proud of me.

But sometimes, the way she talks to me is very hurtful. I'll start telling her about something I enjoy, and granted I can tend to ramble, but then she'll get this look on her face that I can only describe as condescendingly annoyed/amused. She tends to make a lot of faces when you're talking, but if she gets called out on it, she's like "I didnt say anything!" I'm not the only one who's told her this or feels this way, but it never matters.

Recently, when I tried to explain myself in a more measured and considered way, she more or less told me that that's the way she is and that I need to stop taking it personally. Which, I GUESS I can see where she's coming from but it's also kind of ridiculous that she, a woman with literal decades as a highly skilled and I would go so far as to say decorated manager, doesn't want to acknowledge that maybe she still has things she needs to fix about herself, especially since she's usually all about self-improvement.

On the other hand, I'm very sensitive to feelings of rejection as a result of quite a few mental health issues. I was pretty brutally emotionally and verbally abused when in the military. As in, BMT was my favorite time in service and I spent much of the last year I was in having mandated weekly mental health appointments and had to be escorted to the mental health clinic three times as a result of breakdowns or suicidal thoughts. Basically all of the abuse revolved around gaslighting, mocking my attempts to explain my feelings, and generally dismissing me as being a child who couldn't take care of herself.

My parents are both aware of this; I haven't hidden it from them but I also haven't gone into deep detail. I wouldn't be surprised if that history has a strong influence on my ability to trust my relationships with other people; I recently impulsively cut ties with a group of friends I'd known for over two years because I felt as though they were talking about me behind my back and generally not communicating with me.

I just want to figure out how to deal with this. If it's something I need to work on on my end, as she's told me, then fine. I can try. But it honestly feels as though it should be a two-way thing and she just doesnt want to.

I recently found out that people are attempting to give verbal descriptions of artistic paintings for the blind. Is there be any value in this for a person that is blind?

My 13 year old sister decided to come out to our mom as bisexual, and of course, our narcissistic mother wasn't having it. She began to verbally abuse my sister and threatened to beat her up. I told my mother that I accept her sexual orientation and if she laid a hand on her, I would be calling the police.

I know that probably sounds like a really stupid thing to say and I kinda "asked for it" but I'm super protective over my baby sister and have taken abuse from my mother before in order to protect her. So it's not a surprise that this made her go on a crazy rage after me instead. I stood up and walked away, but she kept swinging at me and I didn't know what to do except hold her wrists and repeat that if she didn't calm down, I would call the police. Her boyfriend then comes in, physically pulls her away from me, saying,"How dare you threaten to call the police on your PREGNANT mother, she's under so much stress, etc." Of course, when I try to explain my side of the story, I'm drowned out by her fucking crocodile tears. She then points at the door and tells me to get out of the house. I'm 18, working a part-time job at a fast food restaurant and trying to graduate high school. I'm super pissed but I'm scared to death. I'm no longer upset or scared, just really angry.

Fast forward to a year and she calls me, trying to get me to come back to live with her. She then says,"I never kicked you out, you decided to move out on your own." She even showed up at my dorm before I told her I did not invite her and I would have the campus police escort her off if needed.

Not only is she gaslighting me, she told my extended family that I hit her on the head before I "stormed out of the house" and "it hurts sooo bad." This explains the dirty looks I got from my aunt and cousin at a birthday party I attended.

I'm so sick of her. I finally cut her off officially and I've been doing everything I can to protect myself emotionally and legally. She's insane and I do not need her in my life. I'm sick of all the harassment I receive from other family members and of the rumors being spread about me. I'm sick of her. I'm not going to play her games anymore.

Probably from the 2000s, although possibly from the 90s or even the 80s. I remember something along the lines of a violin playing alone, then a voice says something like "now a second violin comes in" and then a second violin playing harmony to the first starts playing.

If feels Phillip Glass like, but I can't find any of his songs that fit the description.

I'm trying to look up a music piece to use as part of a fan-made video. I had a moment of "oh yeah this will be the perfect background piece", and could hear the melody line and overall music clearly in my head (mostly only the first 15 seconds, cuz I was trying too hard to remember what the piece name was), but I tried to sing it and hum it and it came out completely off key, and tried to play it in the piano and I couldn't find the key. (I'm not very good at listening to a tone and knowing which one it is.. it's further complicated because what I hear in my head doesn't sound exactly like the sounds my piano makes - different sound "color")

So I will try my best to describe this music piece verbally:

About the Music

1. it's classic music, i think
2. the main melodic line is carried by either a piano (in the 2nd or 3rd or higher octave - very high) or some string instrument - violin maybe?
3. other instruments "accompaniment" play a soft harmonic chord. i think they are mostly string instruments
4. the part (which I think is the beginning part) that I remember starts off with the accompaniment playing four harmonic chords, one beat per chord - two of one chord (exact same notes twice), and then two of another chord (exact same notes twice). I think the first chord is a 1 (like, say, a C major), and the second one is a 5 (like, say, a G major). After these four opening beats, the melodic line starts off, while the accompaniments continue their chord progression.
5. I am however not sure if the overall music is on a major scale or a minor scale
6. here is my disastrous attempt to describe the melodic line plus more verbal explanations that may overlap with what I wrote here
7. it's a very slow 4/4 beat, at about 55 bpm I think

Social context

1. I have heard modified versions where instead of the string instruments doing the chord progressions, it's synth sound
2. I can't recall where I heard this song. I haven't heard the song in at least 15 years, that's for sure. It could have been on a TV commercial, or as a background music to some TV program, or maybe just the music directly (I listened to classical music in high school)
3. maybe the country could be relevant (if the song made it to some TV commercial that was trendy in a country in some periods of time)? lived 1980-1990 in South Korea, 1990-2001 in Chile
4. I had the gut feeling that I may be recalling a portion of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and listened t

We are doing a new sponsored video and I've always said "Thanks to x for sponsoring this video" and we also put it in text on screen as a lower third during that time. The current client doesn't really want that though but I thought legally we had to? (location is USA)

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Basically you just record a mp3 describing the scenes for 3-3.5 min. It's pretty easy if you go slow and describe every single detail. Honestly the biggest timesink is in the sites taking long to download/upload so if you have mp3 software already on your computer that'll speed things up.

(Note to mods: This appears to have been posted two months ago but it's been a long time so figure it should get posted again!)

The product of 2 less than x and 8 is 40. I understand the 2 less than x part but I’m entirely confused about the “and 8 is 40” part.

Light colored with no distinctive body markings

Short tail

Black mask

Ran by arching back to bring hind feet forward then stretching out forefeet.

I know it's not much, but nothing I find online even seems close.

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A little tough just because you have to keep talking and talking and talking for 3 minutes, but hey, you might get a more interesting picture than i did.

Hello bird friends! I need some serious help identifying some birds I saw today. My apologies for the lack of description and details I can provide, as I only saw them up close for about 3 seconds.

For context, I live in Australia, close to the border of Queensland in northern NSW. I live in a hinterland area that is heavily wooded, while approximately 5km from the beach and 50km south of the QLD border.

My 3 acre yard is essentially a rainforest in a semi-rural but established inner town location. The trees in my yard are a good mix of Australian native bush and rainforest flora.

Now, to the mystery bird I witnessed this morning. I heard quite a ruckus within the more dense area of trees on my property that line a small creek running through a small section of it. It was obviously the noise of a number of birds, possibly fighting with some other wildlife, a common event here. I couldn't see anything but the noises they were making were very loud and deep, leading me to think some of these birds were large, around the size of a large Currawong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong) or Magpie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie) that are extremely prevalent in my area.

Eventually they flew out of the tree-lined area and past me, two looked like Currawongs, though much larger in every respect. Two had the usual black and white colouring. However, another one flying second in line of the three was bright (fluro/neon) yellow, with black patchy feathers on its body and wing tips. If you can, imagine the largest Currwong you have ever seen, then imagine it on steroids. That was the size of these things! Larger than any Cockatoo or Parrot I have seen around here that could have the yellow I described. The beak was pointed like a Currawong (sorry, really my only accurate reference point!) and not hooked like a Parrot or even Galah. I don't think suggesting a full wing span of 1 metre (3 and a bit feet) would be in any way conservative. I am trying to find an image of a bird that is similar to the yellow colour, but have had no luck yet. The best description I can provide is that it is like the light, though bright, yellow commonly seen with Parakeet/Budgerigar that are dominantly yellow with some green and black; not a deep, warm yellow.

In anyone has any idea of what these, or just the yellow bird, might be, please let me know. Even re

Since my flag making skills are a bit limited to using Microsoft Paint, I have over the years wrote down descriptions of my design ideas for my own purposes. I would like to share them, but I wanted to check first to see if verbal descriptions of flag designs are allowed.

I am looking for each drug and a verbal description of the picture associated with the drug. An example(for Tb drugs):

Pyrazinamide: The Pyro

Isoniazid: The Isolated Ranger

EthanButol: Ethel the horse whisperer

Rifampin: The rifle

Flucytosine: Flute

I've always had a really strong memory of this one home-schooling incident. Forever. Always super easy to recall and frankly the sort of central memory I have of home schooling. I talk a lot about Nmom, because dad got his shit figured out and hasn't been a shithead for a couple of decades. Also, Nmom being an N has been consistently abusive up to the current day.

But emotionally healthy people don't marry narcissists that often, and an emotionally crippled alcoholic like my father was does not make for a nurturing home environment. In fact, while Nmom is a horror, my early childhood was marked much more in my memory by dad's active abuse than Nmom's more passive emotional neglect. He beat me, but this memory isn't of that. I think I've mentioned elsewhere that my parents decided to home school me, and my current suspicion that their motives were not as oriented toward my emotional well-being and academic success as they claimed at the time.

Nmom taught me soft skills like grammar and history, dad taught me hard skills like math. I was... young. Very young, if I recall correctly, because the subject I was working on was multiplication. Dad decided I needed to rote-memorize the times tables from 1X1 to 12X12. His method was to provide a chart of all the multiplication, let me memorize it for a while, then quiz me on it. Not a bad method, right? Illustrates weaknesses, reinforces through repetition.

Except by "quiz me on it" I mean "get quiet and angry after one wrong answer, get an expression like dark thunderclouds after two wrong answers, and start screaming at a tiny boy at the third wrong answer." Once he'd reduced me to tears he'd fling the memorization chart at me and stomp out of the room, demanding that I memorize it "right." So then I had the combination of the agony of being convinced I was a bad kid that was hated by his father, the panic of having an undeclared time limit to perfectly memorize all the times tables, and the terror of getting anything wrong.

This went on for hours. I can still recall every detail of the room. The squeaky leather of the chair I sat on. The birch cabinets full of books. The 80s office desk. The basement window well looking out at the huge front lawn with grass and sunlight. The screaming, the bellowing, the sound that wasn't so much sound as it was a hammer pounding on my head over and over. The hot tears rolling down my face like marbles, the uncontrollable sobbing, the absolute terror and panic, the inab

I had an old patient who had been diagnosed with vascular dementia. Although I've been able to speak with her, talking about her family, her past etc, she didn't know the current year. My colleague told me to look at her as a confused patient. Therefore I had to document a verbal GCS of 4 (confused, disoriented) instead of a 5 (oriented, converses normally), even though I disagreed with him. Was it a good decision? What's your opinion on this issue?

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