My experience is with stopping drinking soda, not alcohol, so not quite the same. What helped me is just to reiterate all the bad effects it had on me, like acid reflux, teeth hurting, sugar crash an hour later and long term health effects. When I wanted to "reward" myself after surviving a sucky day, I would remind myself that it is not a reward, it is hurtful and leads to me feeling more sucky in the long term. And I deserve better than that.

That sounds great, but I really need to count my cutlery that evening.

When I get hangry or really upset and I can't manage to be nice to my partner in the moment, I always try to at least let him know he is not the problem, the world is.

I like pretending to have balls/a dick using my boyfriend's.

A billion euros would come in handy. But otherwise I would go with instant freshly-cooked healthy meals.

Shhhhh 🤫

Dogs can be like that too. We have learned to pick up microchanges in our dogs walking pattern to find out when he hurt his paw. Like dude, just tell us so we can take care of the sharp rock between your toe pads that is causing you to bleed. Wouldn't find out he was sick unless it starts affecting his digestion.

Why strange? This is quite a common age range where you exclude the children and college kids and go to middle age. Or you just cut a 100 year life into 4 quarters.

I have this shirt!

I will pet your cat and then sneeze about a million times afterwards, unless I have something important to do in the next 8-12 hours.

Depends.. if you don't eat meat for environmental reasons insect protein is a good replacement. Also, if the moths are appearing as a plague they don't sound endangered to me.

Interesting! When I visited Italy almost every meal was started with a salad with a simple olive oil and vinegar dressing.

Does it have a specific purpose to tickle rats? Or is it just for play/enjoyment?

My boyfriend, otherwise we wouldn't still be going strong over 10+ years. Even though he is absolutely not in touch with his own feelings and has trouble understanding mine sometimes, when I communicate once what I need from him in a certain situation, he remembers and he is always there.

We are here 🙂

Very boring but probably not much would change. Thousands of people die every day in car accidents (One every 26s in 2016 according to WHO) and yet no one acts as if driving to work is so terrifying. 1 person worldwide dying per day is such a teeny tiny risk compared to that. Probably you do have a bigger chance of winning the lottery than of getting killed by the hand.

And here I was imagining a diverse group of scientists, because science is rarely done by just one person anyway.

I think the cat ended up in a shelter (I don't know the reason though) and then they discovered it didn't match the other cat species known about. So it happened the other way around.

That's kinda exactly what happened. There were 4 known species. One cat ended up in a shelter that was not exactly like any of those, so they decided to take DNA from 35 cats from the 4 (now 5) species and showed the 5th was a separate species.

Great comedy about this subject: https://youtu.be/4JnlN6exqhI