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Catriona Cassidy would rather make suggestions than actual contributions, as she's had way too many arguments on her content. This user will only log in for minor grammatical and factual changes.
(This user also believes there really needs to be a userbox that says "I love userboxes"--if there isn't one already.)
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and other shires
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This user is a thirteenth cousin of His Majesty's.
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This user is descended from a moderately significant historical figure.
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This user is a thirteenth cousin (once removed) of a modern noble.
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This user's ancestral home is in Wiltshire (see previous two links).
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| This user is of Irish ancestry. |
| Éireannach This user is Irish. |
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| This user is proud to be Celtic. |
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| This user is proud to be Dutch ! |
This user may be Belgian instead of Dutch. (No one is certain about her "founding ancestor".)
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| This user is of German ancestry. |
| This user comes from Hesse. |
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| This user comes from NRW. |
This user is German on both sides and therefore has ancestry from numerous bundeslander.
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This user is addicted to Ancestry.
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ga-0 | Níl Gaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo, nó is beag atá sí aige. |
(and French 1 might be pushing it)
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This user wishes she had graduated from ''Gaelscoil'' or a Spanish immersion school.
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This user formerly could not study Catalan without her mind complaining about "broken" Spanish. (This user wishes she was fluent in Spanish and had intermediate skills in Catalan.)
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This user speak American English and American Spanish, but recognizes the King's English and the King's Spanish.
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Mix | This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. |
This user might use "conceptualise" in one sentence and "visualize" in the next.
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Affiliations/Certifications
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This user is too lazy to make herself a homemade Sigma Tau Delta userbox. (She was inducted in 2021.)
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This user was briefly a member of the American Psychological Association.
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This user was previously certified in all three.
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Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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They | Some people are 'they'. Get over it! |
This person uses zhe/hir when gender neutral pronouns are needed.
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y'all | This user believes that y'all is a real word, but ain't isn't one. | ain't |
This user believes that ustedes in Spanish and jullie in Dutch are the same thing as "y'all" in English.
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This user writes her novels in third person past tense and believes that passive voice is a stupid concept.
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snuk | This user says snuck. |
…in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
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This user hates the use of "we all of us", "we none of us" and "albeit".
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to too two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
than then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
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your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
. The | This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. |
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ain't nobody | This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He/she wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
This user believes the use of double negatives will result in a positive outcome. Example: A grandmother saying, "I don't need no help!" will earn her assistance she supposedly did not want.
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-ly
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This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious.
| This user uses adverbs in her writing and thinks that Stephen King should get over it.
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’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
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“...”!
US vs. UK | This user uses logical quotation marks. Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue! |
… | This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately... |
; | This user is addicted to semicolons; they use them frequently. |
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GN | This user is a Grammar Ninja and says "WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" as proof. |
| This user thinks good grammar is sexy. |
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| Ths usr cn rd & rt usn txt lng |
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ENG | This user's favourite subject is English. |
ACT | This user obtained a 23 on the ACT. |
IQ | This user's IQ is 112 (unconfirmed). |
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| This user is interested in open access to research literature. |
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This user was a member of the Alpha Pi Upsilon pre-med honor society for one semester.
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This user earned her bachelor's degree on dial-up.
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This user was an Exchange Student to Ireland for USA.
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🤔📚 | Catcassidy is/was a member of a knowledge quizzing team. |
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| This user loves someone who doesn't know this user exists. |
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This user has/had a crush on a Royal Shakespearean who is NOT David Tennant
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This user has a significant crush on an Oscar-winning "that guy"
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This user's favorite play is A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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This user's favorite musical is The Phantom of the Opera. This user thought Gerard Butler made a great Erik, but knows of an actor who could sing circles around him.
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This user's was floored by SpongeBob and thinks Phantom is in serious trouble when it comes to favorites. This user also believes that someone should cast Wes as Erik in the near future.
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MAGIC | This user is interested in Magic |
This user reminds you the Masked Magician was more than twenty years ago and kindly asks you to GET OVER IT! |
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| This user believes that Mars had water on its surface in the past. |
| PLUTO is a PLANET This user will not recognize any decision by anyone that says otherwise. |
| This user loves the Moon. |
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| This user is interested in Biology. |
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This user couldn't handle chemistry if her life depended on it.
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This user could name more crystals on sight than her high school earth science teacher.
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| This user is fascinated by tornadoes, and has had an encounter with one - being fortunate enough to survive. |
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This user has been within a mile of two tornadoes (including one that came without warning!) and in the middle of a statewide downburst attack.
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This user thought Into the Storm was both exciting and frightening.
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| This user understands Physics at a basic level. |
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°F | This user uses the Fahrenheit scale, as they find it superior in every way to Celsius. |
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Vocations/Avocations
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| This user has written books, novels or plays that have been published. |
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¶ | This user is a professional editor. |
(this user has edited professionally)
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(this user typesets her own books)
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This user did paperwork for a funeral home. This user also has two family members who work at that same funeral home in their semi-retirement.
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| This user's favourite subject is Botany. |
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This user wishes she was a herbalist (with a garden). This user is writing her own herbal.
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(Officially: Major depressive affective disorder, recurrent episode, in partial or unspecified remission)
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| This user tends to cry easily. |
| This user is hemophobic and can't stand the sight of blood. |
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(This user finds that the sight of blood makes her feel like a snowy television.)
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This user is nearsighted in her right eye and farsighted in the left; she uses her glasses sparingly. (Usually for lengthy computer reads.) | |
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This user would not recommend you feed her cheese and then scare her.
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*.* | This user has ADOS, Attention Deficit OOH Shiny |
(This user also has ADOK: "Attention Deficit...OOO! Kitty!") This user has a family member with fibromyalgia and has been heartbroken by lupus. | |
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This user advocates for awareness of anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder. | |
(This user is on disability due to depression, anxiety and panic disorder.)
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, but would like to expand that number to a minimum of five.
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| This user is interested in Ireland. |
Dublin, Meath, Tipperary,Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and Kildare. (Lots more to visit!)
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| This user is interested in Japan. |
<---This user would like to visit Gion and the other hanamachi.
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| This user is interested in Spain. |
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| This user is owned by one or more cats. |
| This user believes that cats are NOT food. |
TNR | This user supports the trap-neuter-return approach to managing the feral cat population. |
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This user thinks she is mildly allergic to cats and takes Zyrtec so the cats don't put her up for adoption.
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This user's pets own them! | |
This user thinks adopting companions from the "free kittens" section of the paper (or the pets section of Craigslist) is an acceptable alternative to the shelter/humane society.
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This user has also successfully adopted siblings from Craigslist and discovered that she was unprepared for the levels of cute that came with it.
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This user wonders why there is no userbox for those who love white tigers. (This user also does not care that white tigers are technically mutants.)
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This user thinks dogs are better if they belong to someone else.
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This user and their cat firmly believe that the world would be better without the presence of dogs. | |
This user firmly believes that puppy mill operators should spend some time with this guy. | |
This user supports the fight against animal abuse. | |
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<--- In the unlikely event this user got a dog (corgis and Bosties are also cute)
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| This user knows that otters are fantastic. |
(This user also thinks wolves are pretty spiffy).
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Computing/Electronics
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- this user needs to get rid of all her Chrome boxes and switch out to Opera GX and Brave.
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| This user prefers Windows computers and is frustrated by Macs. | |
| This user's Internet service provider is AT&T. |
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This user relies on this calendar to pelt her with reminders.
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(This user used this IM until people stopped IMing.)
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This user uses LibreOffice when she needs a backup.
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| This user browses with Google Chrome. |
This user quietly wonders if Chrome uses her.
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This user has her own IMDb page.
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| This user keeps track of their books using Goodreads. |
This user also has an author page.
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and keeps her site there.
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This user has gone dark on Second Life. | |
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and thinks Busch's Chili Magic is a Goddess-send
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| This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry. |
This user had her first curry in Ireland.
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This user thinks that Nutella is the food of the gods.
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This user used to steal pineapple from atop takeaway sweet and sour chicken when she worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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unless they're in ketchup or another sauce.
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because that's the easiest non-dairy thing when eating out.
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This user is certain paella is Spain's answer to fried rice and is just as delicious.
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and last consumed some January 2020.
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(this user got rid of her Reese's Pieces userbox, as she has since realized that peanut butter M&Ms are better)
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| This user likes pie. |
This user believes cold apple pie for breakfast is fantastic.
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| This user knows there's no such thing as too much Chocolate |
with a big glass of Fairlife.
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| This user is NOT a vegan or vegetarian, but respects and accomodates those that are. |
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| This user eats at SUBWAY and eats fresh. |
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preferably with jasmine
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C2H5OH-1 | This user drinks relatively infrequently. they are probably the better for it. |
This user drinks so infrequently, medical professionals put down "never".
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| This user bows down before the awesome might of Vodka. |
This user hates beer.
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This user thinks plum wine tastes better than grape wine.
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This user is a Mopar enthusiast.
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(This user has had to explain what Mopar refers to and felt especially nerdy for it.)
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This user owns an Avenger named May, after Spider-Man's daughter. (This user also got rid of her Charger userbox, because May is quite enough by herself.)
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This user's silver userbox got weird while she was gone. no pink | This user can't stand the colour pink on most things. |
| This user's favorite roller coaster is Iron Dragon, which this user has ridden Too Many! times. |
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17 | This user's favorite number is 17. |
NEW LIFE | This user needs and wishes they had a life. |
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| This user likes to sleep. |
| My local professional sports franchise can beat your local professional sports franchise! |
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| This user does not like teh dramah. |
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This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.
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This user flailed madly when she discovered this userbox.
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This user once misspelled Peanut's name and ended up using the result in one of her novels.
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he never answers.
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