Whew, it got hot today!
Apr. 8th, 2019 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly77 degrees! I took the dogs' sweaters off, poor things, but tomorrow it'll be under 60 again.
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Date: 2019-04-09 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-09 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-09 05:58 am (UTC)When most people respond to an anecdote - or several anecdotes - about a subject with "The closest thing to that I've ever seen is...." the implication they're going for is that whatever-it-is doesn't really happen and isn't a real problem.
I don't think that's what you're trying to say, but I'm sort of at a loss as to how to respond when people make comments like this.
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Date: 2019-04-09 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-09 06:08 am (UTC)