Crying is literally a natural response to stress. You’re meant to do it to release stress.

Play fireworks compilations on YT to desensitise. My dogs sleep through fireworks. They’ll some times bark but it’s because they hear other dogs barking down the road.

They are characteristically similar some times…

The US sees an item not referred to by a corporate brand name, and wouldn’t have it.

They’re not alone in it, but their suseptiblity to macro-marketing can only be described as “American level”.

I’ve had someone recognise I’m a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.

Yeah McDonald’s is purely for on the road. Other food in its price range is leagues above. There’s better options on the road too, but McDonald’s is so small and minimal, it’s easy to eat with one hand and steer with the other; no mess.

Things aren’t so bad if you avoid doom scrolling and comparing yourself to others. Almost any other time was worse to be alive in.

That’s fine. Being the fastest at getting from A to B using just legs is rarely a deal breaker. Though, you’d have probably tried harder if the trophy was called the “Least likely to die in an open field of zombies trophy”.

You’d win plenty of trophies if they made an event for the stuff you’re best at.

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“ball of fire”

Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.

It felt worse. Getting a recognition certificate or a white ribbon for coming fourth was a total bummer to my care-factor for participating. Kick a kid while they’re down and they’re not likely to be motivated.

Women are just as bad. It’s not a gender thing, though there are the old stereotypes you mentioned

My experience is women are very unclean if they don’t think it will be noticed or on display. Cleaning is more for appearances with little influence from hygiene or being organised. Men seem to do it out of necessity only, it’s not the bare minimum, but the state of something can be left longer, like a pile of clothes not being big enough to deal with yet. But there are those that can’t survive without their mothers.

My dog does that but they’re also nice to all people. You gotta be a real bomb of shit to break their peaceful, optimistic, and giving outlook on life.

Some cats though… You can raise as best you can, but chaotic-neutral won’t be influenced.

Gets me every time

Wet wipes and sanitiser, or stuff like that. Keep yourself feeling clean and fresh. Feeling the griminess of sweat, dirt, and smoke in the heat can really bring you down without realising. Similarly, keep your tent and gear tidy and organised.

You’re right. Could literally design anything and people that know nothing about any of it could figure it out quickly. But instead, a salad of sex preferences, gender, race, kink, specific US cities, all appearing to be under the Intersex insignia.

It’s always seemed so bad to me that it’s more likely to be done by an anti-woke troll or someone like Michael Scott discovering Pride Month.

It’s just offensive. Obviously to the eyes, but also to any group being shoved together within its borders.

grab item, close pantry, wonder how many times this has happened before, blank out memory once again, go back to cooking

For me, first immediate issue was,

“Now let me settle in with my comfy computer jeans and leather boots.”

I bet that buttoned collar shirt has never seen Cheetos dust either.

They all sprung up in that period where flags were trendy. Every little camp had to have one to feel like a singled-out tribe—and, no, this isn’t just kink flags. This meant many would be flag designers overnight.

The result is there’s some really fugly designs out there in the wild now and the idiots can’t go back. But most people are over flag phase now, so you’re unlikely to ever see this and most others out in the wild.

Nothing fails more at its job than a pride flag that people have no idea what is. It’s almost irony.

And is this one ugly? Oh, yes. Enough to turn a person straight.

Honestly, if we’re gonna be this bad on our bodies, we may as well just lay down and have monitors above us as the norm. It sounds unhealthy, but only because we’d be admitting to ourselves how unhealthy we’re already being. So we may as well take care of our skeletons over the hours and days and weeks and years of the same shit.