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- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 7 hours ago:
Pistachio ice cream was never red afaik, just the plain/salted nuts in shell. They also used to be way more expensive, so I only remember seeing them a couple times. I mostly just remember the color of my fingers after eating them.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 day ago:
It’s also about ten years out of date, 25 year olds today probably wouldn’t recognize this
- Comment on yes 1 day ago:
I always just assumed it was hard for the rest of your penis’ life, and after a certain point without adequate blood flow…
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 2 days ago:
Hmm. Fiddleheads maybe? Ferns are some of the oldest plants and you can eat the fiddleheads of any fern that’s not poisonous (but be careful, a bunch of types are poisonous).
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 4 days ago:
I can’t imagine that working out great for Gazans. Maybe Russia?
- Comment on Unrealistic 5 days ago:
It depends on whether it’s stationary or not. Of course, professionals would do what you’re advising, but that’s basically what I do now with binoculars when hiking or on a tourist coin operated binocular machine with someone to show them cool stationary landscape features.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 5 days ago:
I remember being about 6 years old and having the thought that I wished my dad had chosen a partner with less stubby toes. It probably took another decade and a half before it hit me how fucked up that was.
I don’t even know why I thought having unstubby toes would make a difference to anything. To make it more ridiculous, I have a birthmark on one foot that used to make me so self conscious that I kept my feet hidden from everyone until college. Who did I think was going to see my feet and reject me?
- Comment on Why you should always have an assistant 5 days ago:
I’d probably choose the cane over the shoes, too
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s some Žižek shit right there
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 1 week ago:
And even the school cop clearly thought he was a dweeb, which is almost impressive
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 week ago:
I’m very body positive and pro nudity for an American who grew up Catholic, but moving to Germany unleashed similar hangups for me.
Fun story: the first time I used the communal shower at the pool naked (like everyone else here), a child pointed at my nipple piercing and loudly asked “mommy, what’s that on her nipple,” so everyone turned to stare at my tits. I was doubly overwhelmed, because it was the first time I’d heard the vernacular term for a nipple in German: “Brustwarze,” which literally translates to “breast wart,” which is fucking horrendous.
If it weren’t for the fact that I remember that every time I encounter the word “Brustwarze,” I think I’d have blocked it out.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 week ago:
Her torrid freshness became an underground legend among the talent set. Producers literally held their breaths, waiting for the remarkable Brooke Shields to reach a reasonable age of fuckability, not yet legal, but oh, so sweet. Welcome to the end of innocence, Brookie.
Multiple people had to okay that. How? HOW???
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 2 weeks ago:
I recognize that that type of comment is supposed to be a joke (and I’ll react accordingly, because I’m not a buzzkill), but it absolutely isn’t actually funny (ha-ha) for me.
- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t wait until ICE goes to Nuremberg
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 weeks ago:
Sure it is. We used to have crimped laundromat coins and if you put it in backwards, it wouldn’t work. This was baffling to people.
You’ve already made a significantly healthier assumption than that strangers seeing you in need want to lie to you
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been accused by multiple customers of lying to them about how to access our bathrooms. I have no idea what their lives are like that they assume strangers would just do that to them for no reason.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve bombed Americans in the US.
- Comment on PSA 3 weeks ago:
I’m probably an egg (by which I mean I’m pretty sure I’m trans and would love to take a pill right now to make it so that I had always been a dude, but I don’t know that I’d take one that turned me into a man now, because I don’t know if it’s worth it to explain it to everyone. I also don’t think I’m actually experiencing dysphoria, just aware that I’m probably a man. I think that counts as an egg for some people, trans and closeted for others, and probably cis [lol] for transmedicalists).
If I ever do come out, it’s probably going to seem sudden as fuck to a bunch of people, because I’ve already thought about it for years, so I’ll have everything planned out as efficiently as possible and ready to go the second I decide to transition. I’ll come out to people after I’ve started hormones and right before it becomes noticeable, which I’ll time to coincide with a top surgery (my mother died young of breast cancer that was diagnosed when she was within a few years of my age, and I’m medically eligible for a full mastectomy). That might be wishful thinking, but at least from here, I think I can be patient about it.
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 3 weeks ago:
Yes, this is the joke
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 3 weeks ago:
You gotta mean it and Dumbledore was clearly too calm for that
- Comment on Cronch 3 weeks ago:
Well…….not safely and legally, at least.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought until I started working at a German bakery. Now I’m converted (as someone who isn’t from here and grew up with fresh home baked sourdough every day). You should try more of it.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but Italian bread and German bread…
Germans make pasta too, but I’m not talking about maultaschen here
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 weeks ago:
I guess you’re not into bread, because Germans have incredible bread
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.
- Comment on Indiana Judge and His Wife Are Shot at Their Suburban Home 4 weeks ago:
Totally unrelated, but this case was mentioned in the article:
In July, for example, he sentenced a father to 24 years in prison for leaving a gun unattended in his apartment; his 5-year-old son had found the gun and fatally shot his 1-year-old brother.
I understand the outrage, but I don’t think I understand the point in this punishment.
The father won’t do it again, and no other parents want to do it, so it’s not deterrence. Plus, I’d prefer 24 years in prison to the death of my child, even without going into the damage this will cause his other child, so he’s already faced worse consequences.
Now there’s a five year old who will grow up without his brother or his father, and will probably think it’s his fault. I really hope his mother’s around, but what a punishment for her as well (although I can definitely imagine her wanting a divorce a not necessarily wanting him to have unsupervised access to/shared custody of the child(ren). In that case it would definitely be an emotional reaction, but that’s how people operate in our personal lives most of the time- I expect an agent of the government to be more impartial).
The father was negligent, reckless, and should never have been allowed to be responsible for firearms, but his remaining family is harmed by his imprisonment.
Can anyone think of a tangible (non-punitive) benefit that arises from this?
- Comment on science rules! 5 weeks ago:
I would have taken it like that from anyone else, but it’s so OOC that I checked the spelling to see if it was a novelty account
- Comment on [10] Guy 5 weeks ago:
You joke, but my mom used to say she was 5’12”, because she was uncomfortable being in the six foot range.