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- Comment on Monitoring 9 hours ago:
Last time I was the pickup person for a surgery, the surgery went well and fast, then the first recovery room (the one where I wasn’t allowed to visit) took 4 hours. Poor friend was just so slow to get his mental faculties back after anesthesia. I blame his redheaded genes.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 15 hours ago:
Ah, you’re only like 5 years younger than me. I work in a college library and the young adults keep making me feel my millenial age, so maybe I over-explained.
Were you on dial-up, too? That dialtone just announced to everyone you were getting online, no way to hide.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 17 hours ago:
Nah, it was an application on family computer. You know, the computer in the corner of the dining room where your parents and baby brother could read over your shoulder. (I had my own computer in my room, but it didn’t even have a network card or modem.)
- Comment on Genius 19 hours ago:
TBF, anyone can wear any gender of pants.
Spoken like someone that doesn’t have an aggressive hip-to-waist ratio.
Anyways, I wear scrubs. They’re the cargo pants of the professional world. My 6" ereader fits in one of the pockets. Highly recommend.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 21 hours ago:
It’s more like Google chat or your contacts list of folks you SMS with. People you probably know from high school and nowadays you’d text, but AOL Instant Messager was free, used a device with a full keyboard, and didn’t require a cell phone which you didn’t have because it was 2001.
- Comment on Genius 1 day ago:
TBF, maybe they wear women’s pants. A pack of gum wouldn’t fit in those pockets.
- Comment on Genius 1 day ago:
I have a strap attached to my popsocket. It’s nice to be certain you won’t drop the thing while walking around.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
With the retroactive salary increase my union just got me, I could buy several gaming systems. [meme of dude tapping his head]
- Comment on The agenda 3 days ago:
When you sort your Skittles, do you then eat all of the same color first, or do you eat them evenly so that all colors run out at about the same time?
- Comment on Rate my grandma's setup 3 days ago:
9.5/10. I don’t see a knee speed controller.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Shot in the dark: is this about getting the white stallion in red dead redemption?
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 3 weeks ago:
Article from 2014 says it was a factory accident to an 18 year old worker. CW: pictures of his hands post-repair but still bloody. nydailynews.com/…/chinese-worker-gets-pincers-for…
- Comment on Pride month 3 weeks ago:
ooh, ooh! Ace here. I went through a period where sex was my special interest. I went deep down the research rabbit hole, learned all about sex toys and methods and safer sex techniques. Had willing partners.
At the end of the day, sex is boring and no one is hot/of an attracting gender. I guess it’s like if you were a super straight man and everyone else was men? I don’t know.
Now I’m into knitting and kumihimo.
- Comment on Stay hydrated, folks 3 weeks ago:
/me laughs in POTS. I had four 30 oz tumblers of electrolyte water before noon today. (0.94 gallons aka 3.5 liters) And yes, I pee constantly.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 3 weeks ago:
A meter is about a yard.
- Comment on Where are we heading? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and then the good stuff is more likely to survive through the ages and be shown off. I think that’s what parent poster meant.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 4 weeks ago:
tbh, I doubt any of that would get through and it would just prolong an unhealthy relationship.
It’s best to cut ties and move on if possible.
Source: my mom sucks and nothing is ever her fault. The exception to the rule was when she got wicked drunk at my dad’s memorial service and kept shouting that she’d killed him. She only stopped once a couple people stepped in to try and reassure her that she hadn’t, which brought the focus back on her. (Spoiler alert: she did. Without her actions he’d still be alive.)
- Comment on Oh you're gonna be a horny bard again thing campaign? Here's your dice. 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure there’s enough space in the dice bubble for the die to roll well.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 1 month ago:
Did you know an American 10¢ coin is the perfect size to drop behind a plug-in night light, such that it gets stuck between the power plug prongs? You can then unplug the night light and the dime drops to the floor, with two impressive marks taken out of it.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 1 month ago:
I’m face blind and your methods of telling people apart sound very similar to mine. I don’t use odor but I do use gait. I also often just assume that I know someone if they act like they know me, and I play along until I figure out who they are.
I also didn’t like hearing my name much until I changed it. Now I’m happier to hear it, and even diminutive forms of it.
- Comment on Modern lies 1 month ago:
We’ve got hard water and I’m trying to get my partner to try a chelating (mineral-removing) shampoo on his long, curly hair. His poor scalp is so itchy and I think it’s the hard water.
- Comment on Modern lies 1 month ago:
Depends on if you have hard water or not. I tried it with wicked hard water and it just never washed out, my hair ling felt so gross and greasy. (it was mid move and my regular shampoo was already packed :( )
- Comment on Modern lies 1 month ago:
I like Lush’s cinnamon one.
- Comment on Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet 1 month ago:
d:
- Comment on Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet 1 month ago:
🦜
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 month ago:
oof, that sucks.
Vaguely related story: Back in the Olden Times before ubiquitous wifi and data plans, I had a friend cancel on me after I’d already gotten in the light rail to meet him an hour away. He didn’t call or text, just emailed, so I looked for him for almost an hour before giving up.
Turns out he’d emailed me then was at the hospital with a friend who’d gone into labor, and didn’t have his phone with him (so didn’t get my calls or texts).
My partner (who’d come with to meet my high school friend) and I had a good time in DC anyway. We went to a geeky bookstore and a nice cafe.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 month ago:
My mom once blew up at me because I didn’t respond to her text for 23.5 hours.
“Sorry to bother you. I thought you might give a fuck but I see I was mistaken. I won’t bother you again.”
She didn’t call, she didn’t email, she just sent a text and then exploded when I didn’t respond (because I didn’t see it). Anyways, she’s blocked now–I don’t want to make a liar out of my mother, so I won’t let her bother me.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 month ago:
or were commuting home, having texted as soon as they got off work
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 1 month ago:
You guys have sheets?
(I sleep in a hammock and wash my blankets and hammock routinely, but no sheets)
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 1 month ago:
contrast this me picking up my dog’s prescription meds: “ah, shit, that was his last pill!” <calls vet office> “hey, could I get a refill of gabapentin and vetmedin? Let’s toss in some canned food. Sure, I can swing by after work. Thanks!”
From my point of view, the difference is there’s no insurance involved, so I pay out of pocket and no one has to deal with insurance companies. (pet insurance exists, but I’ve done the math and it doesn’t make financial or logistical sense for me.)
I do like my human pharmacy, but all my human meds are generic and not super controlled or abusable. I gave up on ADHD meds.