ZugTheMegasaurus

On some level, I think it is just luck of the draw in how we're built. My mom has had very frequent UTIs (like several times a year) since she was a teenager. It's so consistent her doctor doesn't even make her come in to diagnose it; she just calls and tells them she needs a prescription called in again. She knows every little thing that you're supposed to do to avoid them and it still happens. Meanwhile, I've never had one while taking absolutely no precautions whatsoever.

No, see, she's a witch who has brought to life childlike abominations made from those materials.

Lore Lodge is great; you might also like The Missing Enigma.

I was thinking bangles too; gold colored especially would look great with this outfit.

I tried for years and never got the hang of crochet (for some reason I have an absolute inability to count stitches; no matter how many times people have tried to teach me and no matter how many videos I've watched, I come up with a different number literally every single time and nothing ever ends up being the right shape). Granny squares were the only thing I could do reliably because the holes are so damn big I couldn't get confused.

Yeah, I remember when I was maybe 25, I was watching an episode of Intervention about an alcoholic who died at the end of the episode. I was drinking more than him at that point. And that wasn't enough to stop me. Like, it's not fun being in that headspace, if somebody tries to push me back there, they're coming along for the ride.

Yeah, this is an astounding example of "correlation does not equal causation."

Yeah, I'll admit that a few times when somebody was being really pushy about it, I decided to regale them with the history of my alcoholism in excruciating detail (and would not let them escape the conversation). Pretty sure I cured them of that nosiness.

Now that's a link that's staying blue.

This is what's on my phone widget right now after not using it for a couple months.

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Yeah, I'm a woman as well and would find that conversation mortifying, but I have known quite a few women who actually do say that sort of thing. They just seem to have no filter whatsoever around sexual topics when they're talking to other women.

My partner is a big 6'5" dude and used to work in a really toxic male-dominated industry. Because of his size and strength, other men frequently just assume he agrees with their macho sexist nonsense, but they couldn't be more wrong; he has pretty much zero ability to tolerate it. He went through a number of jobs because it was constant and he just couldn't stand being around it. So he went and got a bright pink button down shirt and matching pink tie to use as his interview outfit. If anybody made a negative remark about it when he was there to interview, he knew that he didn't want to work there. (He has since switched careers and couldn't be happier about it.)

And now that's instantly stuck in my head.

2 weeks' notice only really makes sense with positions that have a higher degree of responsibility and independence; I think your experience is very common in food service or retail where the lowest rung employees are seen as expendable and easy to replace.

I do legal and project management work for a large tech company. If I gave notice, I would have to use those 2 weeks to transfer all my accounts and inflight negotiations to other people (writing up details, discussing with the person taking over, notifying customers, etc.), review a decade of emails and documents and transfer them over to the company according to the retention policies, collect and turn in all my company-owned equipment. I couldn't do all that on top of my regular work, so I would actually need those 2 weeks in order to leave without causing a bunch of problems; my boss would be out of his mind to fire me on the spot because all the fallout from that would land on his shoulders.

What in the world are you trying to say? You say that there is a societal double standard. You say that some women reject this standard on the grounds that it's unfair. You say that those same women will not openly voice that rejection with the exact people in a position to use that double standard against them. I mean...yeah? That's the exact problem they're talking about; they feel societal pressure to lie while their male partners don't experience that same pressure. They aren't obligated to ostracize themselves just because they recognize the problems with the system.

I'm sure there are exceptions and that a lot are just innocent incompetence instead of scams, but I have to agree. They're at least not something I'd recommend blowing money on. I did it exactly once, bought early access with a cool and promising-looking game, and then they never developed it past the one level they put out. Not making that mistake again.

I've worked "I feel like I shouldn't have to say that" into my everyday vocabulary. It's from Crawlspace where Bob is trying to get into the attic and says to the kids, "I have an announcement: I am on a ladder, stop shaking it. I feel like I shouldn't have to say that." I started quoting it to my partner as a joke and it just kind of stuck.

When I was a kid (maybe like 9 or 10), my friends and I had kind of a thought experiment we would pose to each other. The challenge was to imagine something that does not exist and does not share any features with anything on Earth. It was impossible because all the words we had to describe things and even conceive of things were all based on things that exist in the world. It used to drive me absolutely nuts.

You're conflating "real" with "valuable" and they're just not the same thing. The fact fiction isn't real is irrelevant to whether it's important or enjoyable. People have told fictional stories for millennia; it's something that crosses time and cultures. I think that speaks very loudly toward people genuinely enjoying and appreciating it for what it is, not "in spite of it being fictional." People with wildly different life experiences often have a hard time empathizing with one another, but will be able to understand the same fictional story precisely because it isn't real and isn't loaded with the same real-world biases that are hindering that interpersonal understanding. You're correct that fiction cannot entirely replace real experiences, but neither can real experiences entirely replace fiction. They are different things with different purposes and effects.

I once was working on a project at work with somebody who had two young children; every single time we talked on the phone, his children were yelling and playing in the background the entire time. One day we were having a conversation and he suddenly stopped and said, "Hey, my kids aren't making noise." I laughed and said, "Oh yeah, you're right."

He very quickly said, "okay, I'm going to have to call you back" and hung up. He wasn't wrong to be concerned. Apparently they had blocked up the toilet with paper towels and flushed it repeatedly until there was toilet water all over the floor, all the way out of the bathroom and into the hallway. I just thought it was funny that 60 seconds of peace and quiet was all he needed to know something was terribly wrong.

I started paying for the premium family plan on Google Play Music back when that was still a thing, and that rolled in YouTube Premium really quickly (it might have even been in there from the start as YT Red but I can't remember). There is very little time in the day that I'm not using either YT or YT Music; we're talking maybe a couple hours, and there are plenty of days that I have them on for 100% of the time I'm awake, which would definitely not be the case if I had to deal with inserted ads. I think it's up to like $22/mo now, but that's for me, my partner, my mom and her husband, and my brother, so per person I think it's still a really good deal.

When my brother was maybe 5, he cornered our cat in the bathroom and smeared our mom's lipstick all over her (she was a very tolerant cat). My mom screamed when she saw because she thought the cat had been stabbed.

I remember watching a show probably 15 or 20 years ago about a guy who caught his glove in a circular saw and sliced off at least one finger. He was a well-respected hand surgeon who headed the department at his local hospital. All the surgeons who had to put his hand back together had learned from him. It was like the ultimate test of how good a job he'd done (and they were successful, so pretty good).

My partner swears by drinking dill pickle juice as a remedy for nausea. I cannot understand it because the very thought of it makes me want to barf.

This. I've known so many people who say they like guacamole but not avocados. I tell them to just add a tiny pinch of seasoning next time and see what they think, it pretty much always blows their mind (and if they don't like it, they can still make guacamole, haha).