TIL I live North of Canada!

Thank fuck my grandparents were completely independent until they got very sick very quickly and died.

Two of my grandparents passed before I was born, of rather aggressive cancer. The other two lived completely independently until age-related illnesses got them in a matter of weeks.

I kinda hope that’s what happens to my parents; they’re in their mid 70s now and doing just fine on their own. My sister and I only need to help with with the occasional thing, like fixing stuff around the house that takes a decent amount of strength to do, or climbing ladders.

Whoa? Worse than Ontario? Here the stereotype is BC and ON cars are rusty.

I am now saving this picture, and spreading it as far and wide as I can.

And I will never, never, never translate it into English.

Sometimes you get article transfer as well. The English word “apron” comes from the obsolete “napron”, in turn from Old French “napperon”.

People heard “a napron”, which became “an apron”, which eventually led to the main word being “apron”.

My years of Frogger in my youth are finally useful!

Because we are old. Wasn’t the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

Yup, and 1998 was 27 years ago, that’s a perfectly reasonable age for motherhood. My kids were born when I was younger than that.