ChexMax

Comparing not knowing a niche concept to functional illiteracy and then berating someone for playfully pointing out that the concept is niche isn’t the clever gotcha you think it is, it just comes across as snobbish or elitist.

You wanted the conversation to go exactly where you wanted it to go. You didn’t write an essay the next guy missed the point of, you made a comment, and they made a comment in an informal online forum space. Just seems like you made a “joke” and then they made a joke focused on the part of the discussion they’re interested in, but because it’s not the exact response you were looking for (which I’m guessing was simply affirmation), you assume they missed your point.

My grandfather did (does?). There are a whole lot of people who believe the earth is only a few thousand years old. I have no further details cause you couldn’t pay me to broach the subject with him.

The difference is a family member driving 12 hours home and 12 hours back during a family vacation for a 6 year old to “compete.” They take it very seriously and it is seriously dumb.

Maybe old people just look like that? I went to a rich kid college and they were certainly more attractive on average. Everyone’s teeth were white and straight, people’s skin and hair were beautifully maintained, clothing (including sweats) were well fitting and flattering. Glasses were flattering. No one was making due with anything, they just had whatever they needed.

I never knew my neighbors by sight or name in the apartments I lived in, but I knew a lot of them by sound and smell! Never learned a name, but i knew family issues, their dog’s routine, when they smoked, when they got home late and drunk stumbling on the stairs. I was constantly overstimulated.

Now in a small house my kid plays with my neighbor’s kid, and when we’re gonna be too loud we text each other an explanation/ apology. I love my neighbors. We all rent for context, so it’s not like we’re kind because it’s gonna be life long relationships or something.

Yeah, the sleep deprivation I experienced last time we lived in an apartment makes me loathe to ever consider it an option again. Now I live near an elementary school, and have kids screaming all day at PE. I don’t mind it a bit! People are fine, but when you can hear your neighbor coughing at 3am and it wakes you every night it drives you nuts.

You just have to move to a town with a one street down town. Small town life is a mixed bag

This is nuts. I lived in Orlando for half a year, and have visited dozens of times (grew up in Tampa Bay) and never once stepped on a lizard there. Genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about. Lizards are all over but they’re not suicidal

Four weeks is still way better than average if you’re in the US

The fourth factor is probably actually how poorly women are treated by doctors/ western medicine. Once all that is exposed and validated, these families are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Easy to convince someone that doctors don’t care what’s best for them after several doctors mistreat them.

My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it’s often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.

Probably an old friend reaching out and saying I miss you. That someone would have me on their mind enough to reach out would be validating. Ever since I had a child I don’t have the resources to pursue my own friendships anymore, but In a few years when the kids are a bit older, I hope to get back to having friends.

Yes, when I ask my toddler for space or privacy in the bathroom they often come right up and hug my leg. Like a cat but much more invasive lol

I mean tailor it or get a thicker padded bra. Small tiddie people don’t own cutlets for no reason. Stuff that top till it looks like you want it

But they also don’t know the not of rewatching a series for (kind of) the first time again, or rereading a book and getting surprises in it.

They probably get to drink their coffee while it’s still warm and don’t have to set 15 alarms starting a few days before in order to make it to a doctor’s appointment on time.

Ooh, I can make a little rumble thunder happen if I do that! But why would anyone want to? And weirdly, just yawning doesn’t really do it, but squeezing the eyes while yawning does. Huh.

Fucked AND that couch

I hear what you’re saying about staying away from shitty people, but anyone can lie about who they are short term, and when women are wary of all men in order to stay safe, we get hit with “not all men.” It’s a real lose-lose.

If withholding lifesaving care is murder, everyone who hasn’t donated a kidney is a murderer. Everyone who didn’t donate blood this month is a murderer. Everyone who isn’t an organ donor is a murderer.

No one getting an abortion is a murderer, they’re just not agreeing to share all of their organs with another person for almost a year.

So yeah, I just don’t understand their position. They don’t call withholding medical care by sharing organs murder in any other context.

Right but imagine that 10 year old has the ability and permission to beat you to feel powerful. That he’s wearing the patch specifically to scare you. That is scary. Psychopaths are scary, and the fact that they don’t feel the need to be professional enough to not wear these patches that mean I am here because I want to kill you is scary, whether the patch design is moronic or not.