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StringedInstruments
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re: Bubble BURST
Posted by StringedInstruments on 3/1/26 at 7:54 am to N97883
How many transfer out?
Seems like these coaching red flags can be a death knell for a program. I don’t think we will - or can - fire him after one year. Especially with Bruce being a statue-worthy legend for Auburn sports.
Seems like these coaching red flags can be a death knell for a program. I don’t think we will - or can - fire him after one year. Especially with Bruce being a statue-worthy legend for Auburn sports.
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re: Parents of late teens: what are you routing your kids to?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 3/1/26 at 6:41 am to Jon Ham
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Dive bar lead guitarist.
As a 41-year-old who played a gig last night that ended at midnight, tell your kids it might be easier on the body to be a welder.
re: Jim Carrey has had some work done
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/28/26 at 3:17 pm to hawgfaninc
Y’all are forgetting Jim Carrey has always idolized Andy Kaufman. It might be a clone. Or maybe it’s an act. Like it always has been.
re: Silo (Apple TV+)
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/28/26 at 2:58 pm to BigNastyTiger417
I’ve enjoyed it. It’s not the most riveting thing you can find, but I’m hooked.
re: How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/27/26 at 11:13 am to LittleJerrySeinfield
I kind of considered it this morning when she fell down, shat, and then smushed the turd underneath the refrigerator as she struggled to get up.
re: How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/27/26 at 11:08 am to CarRamrod
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Went through this last year with my 10yo doberman and a 7,5,3 yo. We just sat them down and talked about his life, and how he is tired, and how its time for him to go to heaven with all of our family that has passed.
How far in advance did you tell them?
This wouldn't be a big deal if I didn't think my daughter will have an inevitable meltdown. She is not going to take this well.
re: How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/27/26 at 11:07 am to SallysHuman
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Does your vet agree that "it's time"?
Sort of but not really. We've been really disappointed with our vet during this process. I may even look for other vets for her end of life care.
I went in for a quality of life check a little over a month ago, and despite me telling the vet everything I wrote above, she said, "I think it might be Cushing's" and suggested hundreds of dollars worth of tests. For a 17 year old dog with obvious cognitive decline and life struggles.
When I suggested that it may be time for her to pass, the vet said, "we could give it some more time and see if selegiline can work." We tried selegiline 6 months ago and it gave her horrible diarrhea. The vet "forgot."
How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/27/26 at 10:56 am
My 17 year old dog has reached the end of her ability to live without pain and struggle. She's a German Shepherd-Beagle mix and has a been a wonderful member of the family since we got her as a tiny puppy.
I have no idea how to walk through this process with my kids, especially my daughter. She's 7 and not to divulge too much, but she has struggled with emotional regulation for most of her life. A lot of her issues are in the past, but I worry about how she will handle processing this news. I don't think she has any concept of this as a real possibility despite me bringing it up over the past year. Maybe I should have been more explicit about our dog, but I've mostly kept it at a distant topic - "when dogs reach the end of their life, it's the owners who have to make the decision to help them go peacefully." But I've yet to say, "Our dog is going to be put down."
Here's the other issue: my dog is still physically in good shape. She has arthritis and some balance issues, but she can still trot around the house just fine. She gets the zoomies. She's still eating. She takes trazadone at night and sleeps fine. My daughter thinks she's just a normal dog.
But her quality of life is terrible. She won't go for walks. She wants zero attention or affection. She has incontinence issues. She shits in the house all the time. She'll fall down and struggle to get up occasionally. She paces the house constantly--like literally constantly--looking for food. She acts like she hasn't eaten no matter how much we've fed her. She'll stand by her bowl drooling and panting super hard. She gets anxiety over the strangest things. I've found her in a corner panting and drooling because...? She's deaf. She sometimes walks into the window over and over again because she doesn't realize it's a window. She crawls underneath chairs looking for food and gets stuck. She'll sometimes stand in a room in a daze for like 10 minutes.
I do hate to say it, but if I'm being honest, she's become a significant burden. We've tried different medications over the past few years, and they always make her sick.
But my daughter doesn't realize how abnormal it is. She talks about how much she loves the dog and how she's so fun. She doesn't realize that the dog pacing through the house isn't her being silly and that she's out of her mind.
I know the OT is the right place...but I really don't know how to tell her. I think she's going to reject the idea and see me as someone murdering her dog.
And when I do tell her, do I tell her far in advance? Like in a few weeks we're putting the dog down? The night before? Two days before?
We're also so busy that there's never a good time for this. There's no break in the schedule to grieve.
I've had dogs my entire life. They've always gotten either so old and decrepit that it was obviously they needed to be put out of their suffering or they've gotten a terminal illness that made it a necessity. This "cognitive decline but still moving just fine" is way harder than anything I've ever experienced with an animal.
I have no idea how to walk through this process with my kids, especially my daughter. She's 7 and not to divulge too much, but she has struggled with emotional regulation for most of her life. A lot of her issues are in the past, but I worry about how she will handle processing this news. I don't think she has any concept of this as a real possibility despite me bringing it up over the past year. Maybe I should have been more explicit about our dog, but I've mostly kept it at a distant topic - "when dogs reach the end of their life, it's the owners who have to make the decision to help them go peacefully." But I've yet to say, "Our dog is going to be put down."
Here's the other issue: my dog is still physically in good shape. She has arthritis and some balance issues, but she can still trot around the house just fine. She gets the zoomies. She's still eating. She takes trazadone at night and sleeps fine. My daughter thinks she's just a normal dog.
But her quality of life is terrible. She won't go for walks. She wants zero attention or affection. She has incontinence issues. She shits in the house all the time. She'll fall down and struggle to get up occasionally. She paces the house constantly--like literally constantly--looking for food. She acts like she hasn't eaten no matter how much we've fed her. She'll stand by her bowl drooling and panting super hard. She gets anxiety over the strangest things. I've found her in a corner panting and drooling because...? She's deaf. She sometimes walks into the window over and over again because she doesn't realize it's a window. She crawls underneath chairs looking for food and gets stuck. She'll sometimes stand in a room in a daze for like 10 minutes.
I do hate to say it, but if I'm being honest, she's become a significant burden. We've tried different medications over the past few years, and they always make her sick.
But my daughter doesn't realize how abnormal it is. She talks about how much she loves the dog and how she's so fun. She doesn't realize that the dog pacing through the house isn't her being silly and that she's out of her mind.
I know the OT is the right place...but I really don't know how to tell her. I think she's going to reject the idea and see me as someone murdering her dog.
And when I do tell her, do I tell her far in advance? Like in a few weeks we're putting the dog down? The night before? Two days before?
We're also so busy that there's never a good time for this. There's no break in the schedule to grieve.
I've had dogs my entire life. They've always gotten either so old and decrepit that it was obviously they needed to be put out of their suffering or they've gotten a terminal illness that made it a necessity. This "cognitive decline but still moving just fine" is way harder than anything I've ever experienced with an animal.
re: Study: Young people want more "vulnerable men" in movies/TV, less "masculine stereotypes"
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/26/26 at 7:14 pm to Kinderman
We’re still accruing weak men, but we are full steam ahead with the “weak men create hard times” part of the cycle.
re: Middle school band teacher arrested
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/26/26 at 8:06 am to tigerskin
Now that looks like a torta.
re: Did you or your kids have a huge growth spurt or was it more gradual?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/26/26 at 8:05 am to SuperSaint
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SuperSaint
re: Did you or your kids have a huge growth spurt or was it more gradual?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/25/26 at 7:55 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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When I graduated high school I was 5-9. Sophomore year of college I peaked out at 6-3.
That would be a crazy entrance to the 10 year reunion.
re: Did you or your kids have a huge growth spurt or was it more gradual?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/25/26 at 5:39 pm to DarthRebel
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You can go get his hand scanned at an Ortho and get a pretty accurate estimate of final height.
No way, man. If he’s going to be 5’4, he needs to figure that out at 21. Give him some years of hope.
re: Learned a new phrase today....
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/25/26 at 4:12 pm to Hangover Haven
That’s not a torta. Too voluptuous. Tortas are seriously fat plumbers. Like Shrek.
Did you or your kids have a huge growth spurt or was it more gradual?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/25/26 at 4:02 pm
My son has been asking when he’s going to grow taller. He’s 4’11 at 12, which is right within normal range. I told him not to worry about it, but middle school is already putting pressure on them to be perfect.
His mom is 5’9 and she’s the shortest person in her entire extended family. Grandmother is 5’11. Grandfather is 6’3. Uncle is 6’5. Bit further out, they have a few guys over 6’8.
My side of the family is very…Southern Louisiana. I’m 5’7. I think I was 5’6 in 8th grade and didn’t grow much after that.
Dad is 5’8. Mom 5’2. My uncle is a bit of an anomaly. He was 5’4 going into his senior year of high school and shot up to 6’0 by the time he graduated.
I don’t know which side of the family’s genes he’s got but he’s a spitting image of his mother.
His mom is 5’9 and she’s the shortest person in her entire extended family. Grandmother is 5’11. Grandfather is 6’3. Uncle is 6’5. Bit further out, they have a few guys over 6’8.
My side of the family is very…Southern Louisiana. I’m 5’7. I think I was 5’6 in 8th grade and didn’t grow much after that.
Dad is 5’8. Mom 5’2. My uncle is a bit of an anomaly. He was 5’4 going into his senior year of high school and shot up to 6’0 by the time he graduated.
I don’t know which side of the family’s genes he’s got but he’s a spitting image of his mother.
re: How do you join Krewe of Endymion?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/24/26 at 6:01 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Not pretentious at all.
What’s the pretentious one? That’s what I want to join.
re: Is there rehab for sugar addiction? If not, there should be.
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/21/26 at 2:28 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
There’s little you can really do. If you’re still fighting it by month 2, I’d just give up.
Get into long distance running and hit the weights heavy. At least your fitness will burn the excess calories.
Get into long distance running and hit the weights heavy. At least your fitness will burn the excess calories.
re: 2013 American Idol contestant and Music Pastor, Caleb Flynn, kills “very pretty” wife.
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/21/26 at 3:28 am to chRxis
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we definitely have vastly different standards of beauty
Y’all don’t think she’s attractive?
Sad story. frick that guy.
re: Will Wade for AU MBB HC
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/18/26 at 9:22 pm to Luke
re: Grab a nail gun or a shovel and learn how to enjoy working with them. It is your future!!
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/18/26 at 4:59 pm to Penrod
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Without that there would be rebellion.
They’re going to kill most of us. I don’t know why you all don’t realize that.
re: Grab a nail gun or a shovel and learn how to enjoy working with them. It is your future!!
Posted by StringedInstruments on 2/18/26 at 4:59 pm to BCvol
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K-12 teachers should be first. I mean if AI can do the work then AI can also teach.
What the hell do we need school for if we’re all plumbers and welders?
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