I always thought of the striking West Virginia coal miners as rednecks, and some of them were community leaders. But times and terms change.

They might not even be pervs, maybe they’re autistic and feet are their special interest.

that’s a shame. I’ve edited the text into my comment above.

Huh, you’re right. I checked the OED online (it’s a subscription thing through my library, here’s the link the OED “cite” button gives, let’s see if it’s paywalled: Oxford English Dictionary, “jig (n.1), sense 5,” December 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1036112357.)

edit: well, I’m not a fan of that. Here’s what it says, minus the examples

A piece of sport, a joke; a jesting matter, a trifle; a sportive trick or cheat. the jig is up (or the jig is over) = ‘the game is up’, it is all over. Now dialect or slang.

I thought it was “jig” like the dance, so the metaphorical dance is over

Sure would have been nice to know this when my house got invested with fleas. No need to flea bomb, I just needed to wash my hands!

(got a pup from a household with inadequate flea control measures–they’d give him a flea bath weekly, but never treated the environment or their cats. They swore up and down he didn’t have fleas.)

Also autistic. Seconding that this is hilarious. I’m with the reporter, the prisoner makes prison sound like a good place to be.

I stacked paperback books as a toddler, straight in a line. My dad taught me to do them in a brick pattern for stability.

Vivaldi also has tab groups.

Having a hardware solution to a problem doesn’t mean you had a hardware problem. You might have had a software problem that could be solved with hardware.

Basic example: I had an issue with the controls in a game, where I kept accidentally pressing the Windows key which swapped me to a different view. I’d say having the OS swap programs is a software problem.

My solution was to remove that keycap so I’d stop pressing it. The “proper” solution was some esoteric key press combination that disabled the Windows key.

Fair!

I sort my candies by color, so I guess I’d get some Skittles then some M&Ms. Are y’all out there eating unsorted candy by the bunch? Unfathomable.

I was thinking a hotel key card for a hotel that’s nowhere nearby.

Shout-out to my good friend, vitamin B12 supplements! B12 deficiency causes what I describe as “weird nerve stuff” symptoms. Pins and needles on the hands, super high heartbeat when I stand (as opposed to my normal high heartbeat, thanks POTS), a cotton wool inside my scalp feeling (similar to skipping your venlafaxine pill).

I do not recommend being deficient in B12. Luckily, it’s hard to be deficient on unless you’re a vegan or take a medication that depletes your B12.

might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?

My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.

Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.

you have to sneak up on the box

Plenty of kids go to the library. When I worked in a public library, it’d be fun to check in books and find a stack of 20 toddler books on, say, “dinosaurs” or “dump trucks”. You could tell when someone’s kid went through a phase.

My pale AF redheaded coworker had the n-slur thrown at him repeatedly while he was driving. Folks can be… let’s say inaccurate… with their slurs.

(he was kind of confused and bemused, which is why he told me about it. He had the top of his car down, his skin and hair were visible)

I love margin notes. My friends and I have a book exchange where we read a book, write in the margins, and pass it on to the next friend. It’s nice.

Could have been. AI was trained on works written before AI was released.