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Jack Frost (1997)

Specifically, a prison transport van taking a murderer to be executed collides with a truck toting toxic chemicals in the middle of a blizzard, in the peaceful town of Snowmonton. It’s amazing. I love this movie for being so over the top.

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Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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A good number of years ago, I took a community college sign language class with a coworker so we could chat during meetings. It was fun, and more so because some of the others in the class were medical staff at a regional youth detention facility of some sort who specifically wanted to learn some of the “spicier” words so they could know what was being said to/about them by deaf teens and understand descriptions of physical needs. Definitely vocabulary not in the usual intro curriculum.

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Banned shows and approved shows (for young children)

My kids are much older now, but we always supported them watching Dinosaur Train, in which the clearly independently wealthy Pteranodon family with their adopted son (a t-rex) go on a mysteriously large number of vacations via a maybe-magical train to visit other dinosaurs in various climates and time periods.

We also liked PBS’s Word Girl, which mixes superpowers and grammar with kind of a Rocky and Bullwinkle style humor.

We loathed Octonauts and especially Littlest Pet Shop, both of which, sadly, my kids really enjoyed.

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GloFiber internet?

I live outside Williamsburg and have had their service since last year. It’s about ⅔ the price of Comcast for a faster connection that’s more reliable. I’ve also had a much better experience with their support the couple times I’ve talked with them than I ever did with Comcast.

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