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      …speaking as someone who just lost a fingertip in a car-door accident, i’d be all like “oooh, free finger!”…

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      Some boys have just the right combination of curiosity, mischief, carelessness, & lack of self-preservation instincts.

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    Many years ago I came across a quarter that someone had nailed onto the sidewalk. In case someone’s looking for a less disturbing but still fun easter egg to leave for future people.

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      If you use aquarium silicone adhesive, they won’t be damaged, the adhesive is weather proof, and the silicone gives a flex and wiggle that prevents sheering. We had a dime stuck to our porch for 8 years and when it finally came up, it was because the concrete had eroded underneath it.

      My dad taught that one to me in high school. He stuck $1.50 in random change to the ground in front of the soda machine at the apartments he was groundskeeper for. On slow days he’d sit and watch the local kids try desperately to get a free soda with money they can’t pick up.

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        You’d think the local kids would know better.

        It occurs to me this would work better at a motel.

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        I feel like glue wouldn’t last as long. I have no idea how long the nail was, but if it’s a couple of inches deep I have no idea how you’d be able to get it off without an angle grinder. With glue you can chip it off, or use solvent, or a blowtorch.

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          With epoxy resin it’s not going to come off without making you look like a crazy dude - which then would be totally my mission

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      Salesmen at a local car dealership would super glue quarters to the parking lot. The porters and/or customers would always try to pick them up, and it brought us so much joy to watch.

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    I hope a 1,000 yrs from now this same finger rock resurfaces on the interwebs 6.6.0.6 and scares the crap outta some cyberpunk kids cause they found it on some trail.

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        Yes, but in this context, “kind” have a different meaning so you can’t use the contracted informal version of “kind of”. It’s like instead of saying

        “oh how kind of you to hold the door for me”

        You say: “oh how kinda you to hold the door for me”

        It just doesn’t make sense.

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          kinda is just another way to say “kind of”

          “How kind (nice) of you” and “My kind (sort) of people” are both appropriate uses of “kinda”. I hear it used more for the latter than the former, to be honest.

          Also, it’s casual language anyways, so why even try to bring grammar into it, much less while being so confidently wrong?

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            I see, so when you’re complimenting people you say “that’s kinda you”?

            Or would you say “that’s kind of you”?

            Feel free to say it out loud and let me know

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              “Mighty kinda ya” would not be out of place where I live, no. A dated expression as a whole, maybe, but spoken with a casual flow, that’s how it comes out.

              I suppose one could also write it as “kind o’ ya” but “kind o’” is what is being truncated into “kinda”

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                What we say and how it’s written are two very different things.

                In Swedish we have plenty of words that are pronounced identically, but they are spelled differently.

                English is not much different. Take “you’re” and “your”. The pronounciations are almost identical, and in many dialects they are identical.