I don’t celebrate any of them, haven’t really in a long while other than having dinner with a friend’s parents sometimes. I find the big ones rather depressing for a variety of reasons. Also could never find anyone to celebrate any of them with (going out to crowded places isn’t appealing to me anyway, so most parties and get togethers are out), other than xmas which I specifically dislike, so I gave up trying. I text people well-wishes if they text me, but I typically don’t even know when they are so..

Just another day like every other day.

The yellow ones apparently were for rectal use, white were oral. So you could genuinely tell them apart.

I still have one from my mom, who was an RN before the days of alcohol thermometers. I don’t use it rectally, but I have washed it thoroughly many times.

If you fail to think of an answer in the moment, tell them what you told us.

I’m terrible about thinking of things in the moment so but I want to be able to accurately explain some of the weird stuff I do.

It can also be a segway into explaining some of the weird stuff that might not otherwise come up. You are advocating for yourself whenever you see your doctors, make sure you tell them all the things you think they should know, even if they don’t ask.

The way my assessment was done was less about the questions and more about my actual behavior and how everything impacts my life, but that might be partially because I was diagnosed originally at 5, and then again at 32 since my records had been lost. So it was more of a confirmation of what I already knew. Apparently the assessments aren’t all the same.

I have all the rabies and microchip tags from all three of my deceased cats on my keys. It’s nice to have them. Details the history of where they lived with me

Hehe it’s seasonal affective disorder, aka SAD. Houseplants, vitamin D, and full spectrum lightbulbs on timers help a lot in my experience.

I do like the idea that you are just straight up defective for a season though. Excellent eggcorn.

How long did it take before references to ha’penny (pronounced haypenny, short for half penny) stopped after those were phased out?

There’s a song I know of that mentions them and that’s it. They were in use starting in 1672 and phased out in the 1970s, so a hugely long time, yet they are never mentioned anymore despite being in use during modern lifetimes.

Perhaps people from the UK hear the word more often, but I basically never come across it in media or anything, even period pieces.

(The song I know is “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, please to put a penny in an old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do, if you haven’t got a ha’penny, than god bless you”)

Exactly zero of my appliance clocks are set. Microwave and coffee makers all get the power strips shut off between use to reduce ghost power draw, and rofl im not setting them back up every time, and my power goes out often enough that I don’t bother with the oven clock either.

My ex used to set them all whenever they came over, cuz it bothered them. I don’t even notice. There are no working clocks in the kitchen, and I don’t need any.

Put a big beefy arm

That’s nice, I wouldn’t. Just like I never used the ethernet connection adapter I bought for it.

Mmmmmmmm I cannot wait to break my ps3-5 to get them doing all the things they were meant to do from the start.

Mmmm hmmm gimme them jailbreaks, yes yes oh baby. I have a massive disc collection that I don’t have a system compatible to play because my TV doesn't have aux inputs and I’m not paying for an adapter I will use twice. I have 40+ PS2 discs they are just a pain to use. And oh gosh would I love my playstation to be backward compatible, the thing it always should have been because why the fuck not? They literally always had all the codecs. They chose to gatekeep.

That’s really cute without the bonus panel! Like in a weird abusive aggressive sort of way.

We all got that part.

Your posts always give me vibes of mr robot, the intensity and willingess to just exist, but very interestingly, I don’t see it at all in your boymode, I only see that level of letting go of it in your authentic presentation.

Nothing negative at all, just an observation. i’m into the broody look, and have thin eye skin that has people commenting about how tired I must be as well. Perhaps it’s in how you photo yourself now vs then, you care more about your subject.

Happy to see you happy :)

This is an aggressively British post that I don’t even begin to pretend to understand.

I understand the words just fine, but that’s all.

Well done.

On the plus side, it’s probably going to be run by AI, which is hackable, and could easily be reprogrammed to see him and anyone in his admin as a threat and just wipe them all out.

I’ve watched dystopian sci-fi and have learned the lessons they meant to teach. I would not create the torment nexus only to be tormented.

A place near me always fucks with my requested spice because I’m a tiny white girl and they assume indian curry spice is too much for me (my ex grew reapers and I can cook with them even though they only bring heat and metallic flavor. I prefer the flavor of ghost peppers, but either way, a spicy vindaloo is workable)

But they always give me several mango gelato servings on top when they tone down the spice in my order, so I order the hottest thing I can, and they give me the toned-down version which is about what I want, and I get free mango gelato. Sexism win.

(and yes, I have compared what I get to what a friend gets from the same place, and it’s entirely different.)

Is that a fur coloring pattern or does he have rupturing cat acne?

If the latter, cutting grain from the diet fixed that for my cat, it was caused by allergy :)

I’ve seem what road construction in Texas looks like, and if I lived near there I would have similar fears.

The baby’s name?

Waldo/Wally. All this time, we’ve been helping!

I sometimes put my coffee mug (one of the soup-bowl-size ones) on a candle warmer to keep it warm. Especially in winter when I’m playing games, because my place is cold af to save money and my attention is elsewhere just long enough for it to go from scalding to ice before I remember it.

But also because I just continually top off my existing cup with new coffee from an insulated carafe, and that means no new warm cup, just a slightly less cold cup.

No, because all of those things are extracted, rather than suspended. It’s a broth.