almost very funny, and accurate either way

This is mine too. Pre covid, my thought process was "I'm young and healthy and have had the flu twice in the last 15 years, I'd rather save the shots for someone who needs them, not me! I'll just keep working my retail job and going to school even if I'm a little achey and sniffly, I can tough it out!"

Now I get them both every year. I still kinda feel like I'm taking a shot away from someone who needs it more, but I'm just trying to do my part!

I've got a boy named Cricket, but we usually call him Crikey! (Including the exclamation point, you have to say it the way Steve Irwin would say it)

"Lol" is just so we can joke about killing ourselves without getting sent to the hospital. Especially important since the bastardization and rebranding of "literally".

Because my generation is so hopeless that I literally want to drive off a fucking bridge into a volcano, infested with wolf-pirhanna hybrids.

Lol jk ;) 🤭

I first heard the term 13 years ago, and it wasn't new then, just new to me.

You strike me as the type of person who thinks trans people are "new", rather than having being part of humanity for all of time.

Even if it was new this week, how cool would that be?

Love when a new gender or sexual orientation drops. Means more people can find the words that feel good for them.

Gosh, "don't feed the trolls", I know, but don't be a dick.

My dad has been bow hunting and black powder rifle hunting for my entire life. he only uses primitive arms because he says "it's called hunting, not killing" and advanced weapons make it unfair. Most years he gets one or two deer. Some years he gets none. Sometimes he just sits in his tree and watches nature and doesn't even pick up his bow. Sometimes he gets incredibly emotional when he gets a kill.

A few years ago I learned how to tan the hides because I've always wanted to, and because he was becoming more and more passionate about not wasting any part of the animal. You can do it with simple chemicals or you can use the animal's brain!! (Unrelated fun fact, every mammal except the squirrel and the bison have exactly the right amount of brain matter to tan their own hides!)

I think it's great if you're doing it respectfully and consciously, and abiding by local conservation guidelines.

There's an incredible Radio Lab episode called "the rhino hunter" that deep dives into this fact, and it's honestly one of the most emotionally confusing pieces of media I've ever encountered. Highly recommend.

Is there a stupidslutsclub community anywhere on lemmy? One of my most missed subreddits.

There's also a New Boston in MA right over the border from Colebrook, CT

Two Halloweens ago, a family dressed as the Addams family came to my porch and everyone took candy, even the adults dressed as uncle fester and Morticia. I was inspired. So last year, my parents dresses up as Wednesday and Enid, and my 4'10" mom put on a wolf mask to cover her face and my dad walked around holding her hand and she came back to my house with a full bag of candy.

My dad has one on his arm and my mom has one on her butt. My dad says his sister's is on her butt too, and that they did boys on the arm and girls on the butt. He didn't know why, and I don't either, or even if that was widely practiced, but my parents didn't grow up in the same state/area, so it tracks a little, since my aunt and mom both have it. My dad's youngest brother is 15 years younger than him, and didn't get the shot. Kinda related- I had chicken pox that I got from a pox party, and then I gave a bunch of kids chicken pox at my own pox party. My cousin is less than 4 years younger than me and got the chicken pox vaccine and never had chicken pox.

I grew up in an abusive home where I was not allowed to get bad grades. I once got a 92 on a math test in elementary school and was punished because "it should have been a 100". The school counselor at my kindergarten told my parents I was an anxious child and that they should get me evaluated. Obviously they never did, so I've just been rawdogging anxiety, adhd, and maybe probably autism for the last 30 years.

At this point, idk if i would want "treatment". This is just what my life is like, and I know how to survive like this.