Grammar question - "meet your acquaintance? "?
i've been seeing around a lot the phrase "it's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance".. and í'm taken aback.. umm the phrase is "make your acquaintance ", faire votre connaisance. right? but a lot of peopel say "meet your acquaintance", is this actually correct or is it as moronic as it sounds to me? lets altso through in a chalk board scratcher "mediocracy" *scratch* sorry.
Why does my cat step on stuffed animals like he's mating?
It really has nothing to do with mating. It's a comfort thing, and quite natural for a cat to do, as unpleasant to see and hear as it is to us. In the cat world, it's like a child twisting a corner of a favorite blanket, or sucking their thumb. All you can really do is either keep the stuffed animals out of reach, or give him his favorite one and put it somewhere that is as far way from the bedrooms as possible.
Disturbing dream about animal cruelty. (What does It mean)?
It's just a bad dream. It doesn't mean anything
Is there a polite way to ask people to stop smacking their food in their mouths?
No there really isn't. You can't address this one without being direct. If it is just a casual acquaintance with whom you won't eat often, I would just let it go. But if it is somebody to whom you are close, I would gently broach the subject by saying something like, "You know, you may not even realize you are doing this, but....." Just be very kind and not judgmental.
Annoying friend...any similar stories?
i have a "friend" who i've always had fights over about animals she's not a big animal person for example i was told my dog who i've owned since he was 4wks old and we have an amazing bond only stays with me and doesn't run away because i feed him. this year shes been mad at me because i've gotten so much more outspoken about my riding before she always thought it was a hobby i had now she's realizing how serious it is to me and is actually quite mad about it. somehow she randomly brought up how people beat their horses with crops and it's cruel i said it's not as long as it's used responsibly and she got mad when she found out i use a crop when necessary like on a lazy horse or when jumping on a horse who can get lazy between jumps and i only give one little light pop to wake the horse up enough or get attention and its a light pop my trainers there even telling me to use it harder sometimes. then she got mad because i jump and apparently it's cruel. then she turned around and said jumping and riding isn't but western events like rescue race and barrel and poles are (which i also ride in all of those but she didn't know it) i asked her how she said she didn't know they just were. then a week later she turns around and all riding is cruel horses should be pets not ridden. now in all reality i have no idea why she thinks i'm going to listen to her when shes never been more then 10ft close to a horse and i don't plan to listen to the crap she's giving me when she has no clue about horses. shes always the one bringing it up to which makes me mad. does anyone else deal with this or what? how do you/would you deal with it? shes not really a friend shes more friends with several of my friends so thus we're together in groups alot. like i said she brings it up to so i have no idea why.
In what short story did Anton Chekov name a cat Fyodor Timofeyevich?
"Kashtanka", one of Chekov's allegorical animal tales. "In one story at least Chekhov may have practised a veiled form of autobiography. That story is "Kashtanka" (1887), narrated from the point of view of a female dog, and presented as a story for children. In fact, it is a dark, strange, rather horrible (as well as wonderful) fable that I, for one, would never read to a child. Kashtanka is a hungry and ill-treated animal who gets lost, is adopted by a kindly man, and then is reunited (by her own choice) with her abusive original owner. The kindly man finds Kashtanka shivering in the doorway of a bar during a snowstorm and takes her home and feeds her. He is an animal trainer who has a circus act performed by a cat, a gander and a pig. He adopts Kashtanka, starts teaching her tricks, for which she proves to have great aptitude, and one day brings her to the circus to perform in the act with the others. The original owner, an alcoholic carpenter, happens to be in the audience with his son, and when the two of them call to her, Kashtanka leaps out of the ring to go to them, and unhesitatingly, and even joyfully, resumes her life of privation. Chekhov prepares for the ending by depicting the household of the kindly master as a faintly sinister place. An uneasiness is always present, a kind of uncanniness that reaches a climax one night when the gander utters a horrible shriek and then pathetically dies, as the dog howls and the standoffish cat huddles against her. When read as a parable of alienation - a case study of homesickness - the dog’s return to the original master takes on a sort of tragic inevitability. We know that the sleek, well-groomed animal Kashtanka has become under the care of the kindly circus master will soon again be a bag of bones, beaten by the carpenter and tortured by the son. But she will be cured of her unease; she will be where she belongs, leading her own proper life, rather than a life that is not really hers.
How do I understand people who try to get a reaction from me?
Those who try to get a reaction out of you do not need you understanding them - they need pity.A person who has no way to entertain themselves other than by bothering someone else is pitiful. They commit a crime of opportunity - by keeping track of hot buttons, by person, and pressing them whenever they want.A variation of it is someone who has no control over their own life, yet wanting the world to know that they still exist, even if it means causing grief for someone else - again, a pitiful kind of human being. On one hand, it is sad that no one would otherwise care if this person is alive or not, which is quite a heavy burden to carry even for a mentally strong person.It would help to imagine a toddler who's stomping their feet to get attention. Yes, a toddler, but taller and able to cause more damage. And unless you have a proper education/credentials/practice of a kindergarten teacher, you should stay away from such people.They are afraid to be ignored and forgotten, well, you are not their mother to give them satisfaction of having a reaction out of you, so mentally you can send them to their room to play with their toys.