shalafi
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- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 18 hours ago:
That first sentence is likely my answer! People are identifying with the memes, therefore they feel they belong to that group when they may truly not. I am not a smart man.
As to medication, LOL. My ADHD best friend and his ADHD wife brought some Ritalin home one afternoon. Very excited, they invited me to join in snorting a line. I was bouncing off the walls like I was on meth. They got calm and were very happy to just sit on the couch and talk.
Another funny one; When we were 17 a salesman in the department store offered us coffee he was selling. Gf: “No, that will put me to sleep.” Say what?! True enough. We met and lived with each other 10-years later, coffee knocked her out cold.
But what really turned my head was seeing my 6-yo daughter on medicine the first time. She never struck me as “abnormal” until I saw her on speed. We watched her literally stop and smell the flowers.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 18 hours ago:
Didn’t want to say it, but it sure seems trendy to me. Quick example from my daughter:
She had zero issues with eye contact until very recently. She reads memes telling her eye contact is a problem for people like her. Now she has problem.
I am NOT saying that issue is fake, but when a child is constantly bombarded with, “This is how you are!”, they become that way.
Part of my thoughts in the OP are, “We’re making normal behavior out to be abnormal and slapping a label on it. And perhaps we’re making it worse than need be.”
My mother constantly told me I was sickly as a child, and I was constantly sick. First year of college (without her influence) was my first year without a single illness, not even a mild cold. Miracle! Wait…
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 18 hours ago:
If I took her ADHD drugs, I’d be on speed. She takes them, she calms down. Yes, it’s speed, I’ve done loads, all kinds, I get it. Why else you think said drugs are so highly controlled? Shit’s nearly like meth to “normal” people.
Are you telling me to educate myself and implying there’s a genetic component to autism/ADHD? Imma need to see your notes.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 18 hours ago:
That is starting to make sense. Yet I’ve never met a human that experiences these things non-stop. My daughter can be “off” sometimes, but she’s mostly not. And yes, I understand it’s a spectrum, there are degrees.
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- Comment on genius 23 hours ago:
That’s what has me grinning! I’m not replacing a Jesus nut with anything that didn’t come straight from the manufacturer.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 1 day ago:
Gotta use a positive tone and smile:
“You’re no better than you ought to be!”
- Comment on 1 day ago:
My culture is not your 80s costume.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I know that’s a serious scene, but I can’t stop giggling
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- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 day ago:
Yeah, weird in-between dining model. Still beats McDonald’s inside where they have purposefully run off dining customers in favor of drive thru.
Still, way better food, brought to you and cleaned up, same price.
- Comment on Who care about book 1 day ago:
Can’t say which is funnier, the joke or the people taking it seriously.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 day ago:
They’ve cut corners somewhere this century and the meat turned to cardboard. Their burgers were tastier when I was a smoker.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 day ago:
My wife fries them in a cast iron pan with a little oil.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 day ago:
Wife doesn’t like burgers, had never been to Steak n Shake. Must be a Filipino thing because she cant’ cook 'em either.
First bite, “This is the burger I have been looking for!” She loved the seasoning so much she bought 2 bottles, $5 each.
Forget what we paid, but it was on par with McDonalds, including the $5 tip. The restaurant itself and waitress kinda sucked, “Do you have coffee?” “We’re out.” So make some? This is a restaurant. Something else basic was out, I forget. But the point stands, a proper sit-down meal was the same cost as McDonalds, except delicious.
And don’t start me on local Mexican dives and trucks. I can get 3 deluxe street tacos for $10, less than some of the gross combos at McDonalds. And that place is a little high!
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 2 days ago:
Been through two medical fears already, catheter up my dick (3 times) and a broken femur. Kidney stones are still on my bucket list!
Boss brought his to work one day for show and tell.
“That came out your urethra?!”
- Comment on Aldo Leopold was right. 2 days ago:
Those are nothing compared to the damage done by other means, not even worth the sweat.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 days ago:
How did Mamdani take NYC against a filthy-rich opponent (Cuomo) with literal billionaires and the national conservative machine standing against him?
AOC was a bartender and took her House seat, untouchable now.
Obama was a nobody from Illinois. People heard him speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (me included!) and jumped onboard.
Clinton took the Presidency from being an unheard of governor of a hick state nobody cared about. And a democrat of that state no less!
They all did it without big money, against wealthier opponents and won by talking to their people and listening. The formula works.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 days ago:
And like Pelosi, he received the most votes from the state of New York because, “That’s our guy!” We gotta fight these people where they live.
Mitch McConnell had the game down pat. He’d campaign like hell in Kentucky, be damned what the rest of the US thought of him. He’s shaken the hands of 10s of thousands of little old ladies who say, “That Mitch sure is a nice man!” (got that last bit from an article about how he worked his campaigns, not making it up)
Jesus, if lemmy only knew about Orrin Hatch or Robert Byrd (KKK member!). 🙄 Those dirtbags lasted for decade after decade after decade by appealing to their constituents, not the US as a whole.
Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill: “All politics is local.”
Side note, Mamdani has this game figured out! Except he went out and listened to his voters, of all sorts. Fascinating man to watch. No talking points shoe-horned in as replies, no sound bites, legitimate listening skills and answers. Bill Clinton was such a master. We will watch his career with great interest!
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 days ago:
There’s a lot more going on here than hints. It’s a nicely layered comic, quite clever.
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 days ago:
For real?! 😆
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 days ago:
There’s probably some social commentary to be made about games being simpler, brighter, single-player and less hand-holdy, but “generation war!” this isn’t.
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 days ago:
The whole game is darker, less cheerful, grimmer. The player is literally and figuratively more filled out and military. Pointing out the obvious because [OP be like].(media3.giphy.com/media/…/giphy.gif)
“Oh very nice ‘Asian’ character! Bet you killed a ‘yellow’ dragon as well, while running from a red ‘commie’ dragon!”
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Love to hear your take on the male cardinal turning into a raven. Bet you can jam a racial take into that as well.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
Not even 1/4th, and that’s counting the stupid, ignorant and disconnected. 77M of 342M voted for him.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 days ago:
Right?! I’d rather have a bunch of autistic nerds patrolling their favorite subjects for stupid changes. Turns out that works pretty damned well.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 5 days ago:
Bees fly around carrying the “sperm” of one plant to another.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 days ago:
Anybody who thinks Wikipedia is bad should have grown up on encyclopedias. Looking back at my childhood set, they are hilariously riddled with errors.
- Comment on Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen 5 days ago:
I laugh if that whole thing started again in this thread.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 5 days ago:
I’m all but about out of here. Look at this meme, totally made up problem.
- Comment on WAT DA 6 days ago:
Gods I know. Bear wandered in the dog door while I was on vacation. My 18-yo friend watching the place had me laughing my ass off at the situation. Needed that as I had just seen my mom for the last time, dying of COVID.
Wasn’t so funny after I talked to the state bear biologist and the contractor that worked for her. He set a snare in my yard, big trailer with a trap door. He was sad, biologist was sad, I was sad, but that’s how it has to go once a bear wanders in a home. Contractor went door-to-door begging people to lock their trash cans so this kind of thing doesn’t have to happen.
Yes, I thought about sabotaging the trap, but he had a trail cam on 4G recording 24x7. I might still have freed that bear if he had shown up. Anyway, kept 3 shotguns within reach for a year behind that mess. (I have a pet pig to defend that apparently the bear was after for dinner.)
He got away! Never came back thank god.
