Yesterday, my wife and I stopped at the donut shop after church to get a dozen donuts. As we were choosing donuts, my wife told the guy that she wanted a couple of one kind to which he answered, “how many?” She says two. She picks another kind and says she’ll take a couple. He again asks, “how many?” Two. After we get out to the car, we relay this interaction to the kids and the teen girls defended him saying a couple doesn’t denote a specific number so he was right to question. My wife and I both said we’ve always known a couple to mean two and that it’s pretty well defined. The teens rebel and tell us why we are wrong. My wife pulls out the dictionary, multiples actually, to define the word couple which supports our knowledge of a couple as being two. The teens say a couple in the legal sense means two, but in any other sense is undefined and can mean anything. We go back and forth.. my wife gets upset. The teens get upset. I ask when did this change and got a response from the teens about how language changes over time. Yes, girl, I know that. I’ve been on this planet a lot longer than you have. But still every definition we could find of the word couple always came back to two.

I’m curious what everyone thinks the word couple means in terms of a number. What do you think?

gm, have a good start to the week

Good morning David!

Have a great day fren 🐸

gm

woke up thinking about how to retrofit a propane refrigerator to a methane producing biodigester.

because i those are the weird kinds of things i think about. 🤷

have a great day

GM 🐸

spicy buffalo turkey and bbq venison.

David, That looks awesome 💯 🧡.

When I was a kid my mother would make a Welsh version of this called 'Cawl'.

Reminds me of Christmas and winters back in the day.

"Traditional Welsh Cawl Stew:

The saying goes, "It is as good to drink the broth as to eat the meat," and in Wales, many people will agree with this statement when talking about their national dish, Welsh cawl.

Cawl is a stew made from bacon, Welsh lamb or beef (although using cheaper cuts of meat is also traditional), and root vegetables. Welsh recipes for cawl vary from region to region, and even season to season, often including whatever vegetables are fresh and available."

Northeast believe it or not, it was quite abnormal for us

And we've gotten like an inch since July XD

I'd have to look up exactly but we just finally got some much needed rain.

The onion, garlic, and bacon smells are making sure we save up our hunger till the stew is ready haha Thanks, zeph 🤙

I barely trust this note.

Lack of trust has been good to me.

I used to say, “never trust anyone that doesn’t drink or swear”.

I don’t drink. Quit 2 years ago.

Wondering if I actually outgrow swearing will the line just be, “never trust anyone”.

🧐🤔🤔🤔🧐

i get that here with a lot of sun cause ... cuban

you in vitamin d supplements or a natural alternative?

A long & kind of boring bear market. $90K’s seemed further away than mars. Yoyo 🪀 times.

i get that here with a lot of sun cause ... cuban

you in vitamin d supplements or a natural alternative?

$30K’s lasted forever too. So many memories. So many purchases.

plants probably happy 😁

How are the people?

Very true, lots of factors involved. But if they have a target in mind while already sitting on a sizeable sum, there's no guarantee it will work out.