➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[RUNuts]

Visiting relatives in TX, we always met at a restaurant unless I was spending the night at their place.

I wish people would believe in biosecurity on my property, but no amount of telling them to cut it out has worked.

My side of the family was fine until my one sister suffered brain damage. Not sure how she got a concealed permit. She is officially out of my life forever. No way back in. She showed up without invitation (and as my closest relative, still lives over an hour away), began ringing the doorbells, pounding on the doors and windows, tried to break the doors in... It went on for a few hours. She then waited for me to open the door for the Schwans guy. He was more than willing to move aside to allow her access despite my telling her calmly to leave. I asked him to give me my food, and he said he wasn’t getting involved. I no longer get personal deliveries from him.
My sister made a lot of threats, and finally left after five hours. Anyone remember the 4-year-old I have here?
I can’t own a gun because I would have to use it on family.

 

[BantyChooks]

You said "family". Just because we are related does NOT mean we like each other. Tolerate at times.

Drugs do terrible things to people. Watch the news. We try not to be political here.

@BantyChooks - point of order your Blueness. when ending a sentence with a quote, does the period go inside the quotes?

ex. "family."

Depends on the style guide. I prefer to use British standards because it makes more sense. If you're quoting someone, put the period or other punctuation mark where it was in the quote, but leave it outside if it's being added. Americans shove everything inside and it looks cluttered.

Some use single quotes for emphasis and double for quotations. Some use single for both, or double for both. It gets confusing. Basically, do whatever you want because it's acceptable in some style guide somewhere, but do it consistently.

 

[BantyChooks]

Y'all Texans are nuts, but I can see why. I've never had someone show up uninvited at this house, barring neighbours, of course. If I did, I might invest in a few security systems. Like spike pits. Or automated poison dart shooters. We've got e-mail these days---I expect people to use it!

 

[R2elk]

Some use single quotes for emphasis and double for quotations. Some use single for both, or double for both. It gets confusing. Basically, do whatever you want because it's acceptable in some style guide somewhere, but do it consistently.

And sometimes BYC automatically changes double quotes into single quotes.

 

[R2elk]

Y'all Texans are nuts, but I can see why. I've never had someone show up uninvited at this house, but if I did, I might invest in a few security systems. Like spike pits. Or automated poison dart shooters. We've got e-mail these days---I expect people to use it!

I'm not in Texas and most visitors show up uninvited. Of course, most times is because they want to know if I will sell them something that I don't have advertised for sale. Or it could even be like last week when the neighbor wanted two horses buried.

 

[BantyChooks]

And sometimes BYC automatically changes double quotes into single quotes.

Really? Interesting. I was unaware BYC used any type of post checker.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm not in Texas and most visitors show up uninvited. Of course, most times is because they want to know if I will sell them something that I don't have advertised for sale. Or it could even be like last week when the neighbor wanted two horses buried.

Did you save the skulls?

 

[R2elk]

Really? Interesting. I was unaware BYC used any type of post checker.

It might be as simple as them not properly recognizing the input from my browser but there have been times that it refused to accept a double quote mark and would only input the single quote mark. I have been able to get around it when it happens by copying the double quote from a WordPad document when it would not accept it from the keyboard.

 

[R2elk]

Did you save the skulls?

No. They were her horses and considered pets or she would have just hauled them to the animal pit at the dump.

I do however have cat skulls.

 

[BantyChooks]

No. They were her horses and considered pets or she would have just hauled them to the animal pit at the dump.

I do however have cat skulls.

Cat skulls! Almost as neat as a horse.