Eden: Random Page Generator:“WJJY-FM (106.7 MHz) is a radio station that is located in Baxter, Minnesota, with an adult contemporary format.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJJY-FM
Emily: What does “adult contemporary” even mean?
Yeah, we have clearly been consuming too much of the cultural zeitgeist because my immediate thought was porn.
My brain went there too, and then, I wonder what the counterpart “adult medieval” radio stations are playing.
It’s a great question. Or is there a child contemporary? It must be a lot of pressure, holding the burden of all contemporaneity on your shoulders.
I do hope WJJY-FM feel supported in their adult contemporary format. I just googled Minnesota because my knowledge is somewhat lacking, sorry if that’s cheating, but apparently it’s the land of a thousand lakes. That feels like something I should already have heard of, but it’s news to me.
A thousand lakes is a lot of lakes… I do actually have a funny connection to Minnesota: it’s the only place in the USA that I have been to, if being inside Minneapolis St. Paul airport on multiple occasions counts.
SO I’ve just reread my tab and apparently it’s the land of ten thousand lakes. You’re much better travelled than me.
Ten thousand lakes hahahha. Could we do one every day of our lives? I don’t know how many days the average person gets through.
I always thought if I travelled to North America, which I honestly have very little desire to do, it wouldn’t be a very large middle of nowhere airport where the latest series of Love is Blind is set, but you can thank my Canadian family who live in Manitoba for that.
I’ve resorted to googling again, rather than just having a guess (that would be too much mental maths for a Sunday evening) and it turns out the average person gets 28,480 days. So all ten thousand lakes and many more days to spare. I do like lakes but would all ten thousand be worth it?
You know what I don’t know if that is as many days as I expected. Do you have a favourite lake you’d prioritise then? Since we’re generous here, doesn’t have to be in WJJY’s vicinity.
Side note: why does this feel like I am having a Hinge conversation? Is it us, facing each other on the dining table, silently typing away on our laptops as we piss ourselves? Perhaps.
Wow is this what hinge is like? I was concerned my company/responses were more akin to chat GPT so maybe I haven’t given myself enough credit.
(depends on your opinion on Hinge)
How would I describe Hinge? Like you are fifteen, on Facebook Messenger, waiting for your mate on their computer at home to reply to your wuu2? message and both of you chatting absolute shit in the name of connection and then if you are really funny you are probably there in your bedroom at 22:17 before work the next day, chuckling to yourself like a right idiot.
I myself am not a fan of lengthy exchanges on that app anymore and once I have established you have some social skills, and are not a weirdo (difficult test to pass), I’d rather just meet in person and have a conversation.
I feel this is such a digression from lakes hahahah.
If I’m just typing openly, which I think is the aim, then I was just thinking maybe everyone should move to Club Penguin instead? At least if the chat’s shit you could still get a new puffle and go skiing.
Bring back Club Penguin!! (not child grooming)
Yep let’s leave child grooming in 2006 or whenever Club Penguin collapsed. But anyway, favourite lakes?
March 30, 2017, which sadly is more recent than expected. Um lakes: can’t think of any lakes.
Oh wow many years of Club Penguin I’ve missed out on needlessly
Did you have a puffle? If so what colour and name if you can remember it. This is so like Hinge hahahaha but like Hinge when you are twenty one and don’t know how to flirt.
Ah well I’m so grateful to be experiencing this. I can’t remember any puffle names, but I’m pretty sure I had the standard pink and blue ones on the free membership, but then I think I had a month free trial of premium and then had to mourn the loss of a golden one when that trial expired, which is frankly irresponsible of the CLUb PengUin powers that be to do that to us kids of slender means.
(Neither of us can touch type can we.)
The wonderful painful thing about Hinge and about our conversation too is that you are attempting to juggle about five threads at once into some symbiotic exchange and encounter.
Loch Ness.
And trying to simultaneously figure out what your own responses reveal about you whilst also focusing on what the other person’s responses reveal about them and whether any of that is an immediate ick. I’ve never been to Loch Ness.
Hopefully we’re both in the clear. I have never actually been to Loch Ness either but it was the only lake I could think of. Trying to be more funny.
It feels like Loch Ness is one of the lakes we should have on our bucket list. My mind wandered to Lake Constance because I went there and caught Norovirus instead of appreciating it, and also to Windermere in the Lake District because that’s undeniably beautiful. I swam in it last time I was there much to my family’s dismay – something about poisonous lake fungi.
When you said Constance I thought you were going to say Como lol – we should have designed this so we could interrupt each other as we typed gahhhh – and I was going to make a joke about being basic.
Okay you’re done now and it’s actually quite sincere and lovely.
Is it?
Oh I just reread the poisonous lake fungi bit hahahah. I just read ‘Lake District’ and ‘beautiful’ and ‘family’ and went awh that’s nice.
Yeah I was really worried about the dogs swimming in it because I knew I wasn’t drinking the water but they definitely were.
Omg dogs.
I imagine dogs are good Hinge fodder. How early on do you ask if someone’s a dog person?
For my wearied five or so years of singledom I have stopped asking people hahaha. It’s actually a bit of a red flag now if someone has a picture of them and a dog on their profile unless they can prove it is in fact their own dog and not a family dog they have picked up to gain a personality.
But to answer your question: if there is a dog in the pub on the first date then it becomes very clear that I want to talk about whether that dog is a corgi-border collie mix and how the hell that is possible (hopefully collie mum).
‘A family dog they have picked up to gain a personality’ really made me chuckle. I’m tempted to loop this back to wjjy-fm but also concerned that’s too cliché and obvious
Well what they should do is perform a dramatic reading of this exchange on their breakfast show while they play “adult contemporary” soft unoffensive rock in the background and that will become the story of how we became famous to small communities in the back end of nowhere in North America.
That’s it.
Eden and Emily are the co-founders of MEDUSA and these days often forget to use MEDUSA as a space to create and have fun. They are attempting to rectify this.
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