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And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

Evil wizard tasteful pin-up magazine but it's all photos of like, skinny old goths coyly fingering cursed amulets, long-bearded sorcerers doing the 'oopsie' pose as their corrosive destruction spell destroys enough of their own robes to show some skin, naked desiccated lich king positioning his staff of human skulls just so it leaves something to the imagination, dark knights in full armor just holding their soul-eating blades out in front of their codpieces, orc chieftain who did not understand the assignment and is posing with a monster he killed like one of those guys-with-fish photos. Or maybe he DID understand the assignment. Hmm.

Update; my fluffy 25 pound dickhead of a Maine coon mix Disapproves Strongly of the child locks on the food door. Loudly. Is now attempting to figure out how to work a child lock with his enormous crime paws.

Maine Coons (and mixes) are INSANELY SMART AND DEXTROUS. I have one. He recently got out of his Trouble Teens phase, during which he broke at least 3 bowls and 2 cups. I also found out the hard way that he can undo the deadbolt and open the ROUND DOOR KNOBS to let himself outside. He set my burglar alarm off doing this and I had to put child proof cats on the knobs. His littermate (who I adopted out) would break into the cupboards and open boxes of cheez its while I was out of the house, and purposefully make gagging noises like he was about to barf in order to get my attention because he realized the sound of a cat puking gets me to my feet the fastest. Rapscallions the lot of them

Oh yeah my cat - just a normal longhaired moggie, not a maine coon, it would take three of her to make a normal maine coon - does the fake puking thing to get my attention. At my last house she also figured out that when I pressed the button in the living room, the radiator in the bedroom came on, and started leading me into the living room when she was too cold. And then started doing it when she was unhappy with the weather - too much rain or snow, for example. I mean, she was wrong, but I think that's a pretty logical connection for a cat to make...

both of them are me

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?