50 Hilarious And Brilliant Realizations People Had In The Shower, As Shared By This Online Community (New Pics)
InterviewYou’re in the shower. The sound of running water comforts you. You’re used to the routine of soaping up and rinsing off, so you let your mind wander. Suddenly, this Aha! moment flashes right through your head, leaving you a little baffled and a whole lot surprised.
There's an entire subreddit dedicated to Shower Thoughts and is all about "sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar." Whether we’re talking about midlife crises, gummy worms, or extra-terrestrial species, this powerhouse with more than 23.6m members is a collection of truly impressive insights.
We have taken some of their best posts that might leave you pondering all day long, so make sure to check them out below. And if you’re in the mood for some more, take a look at our earlier posts right here.
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I read a post by someone with the most interesting theory on this. He claimed it is in fact the western tradition for a kid to get its mother's name. Is the mother not married, kid will get her last name. Is the mother married AND has she changed her last name to that of her husband's before having a kid, kid will get her new last name. In both cases: kid will have the same last name as mom.
Load More Replies...Yet for a long time, children were considered the property (yes, property) of the father.
To be fair for a stupid long time women were classified as property of the husband Like supreme court up held that in early 20 th centurary that a man could not rape him self because that would be same as charging him for raping himself. Because the wedding vows said they agreed to be one under the man..
Load More Replies...My daughter has my last name and not her father's, because his last name is complicated and has to be spelled out on the phone all the time.
we chose to use mine for the same reason, it makes you easier to find online etc., which is good for job recruiters.
Load More Replies...I don't like my father's name, I use my maternal grandpa's last name instead. I feel I identify more with that side of the family, given they practically raised me and my sister.
You can always hyphenate your mother's and presumed father's name, but that might get messy after a few generations
If I ever publish a book, I might use my great grandmother's maiden name as a pen name. Because it sounds fancy.
That's why in Germany unmarried mother's children carry their mother's name.
Until Mendel figured out the genes thing and DNA confirmed it, people thought the name thing was a big deal. The term 'father-in-law" is called that because under church canon law he is now identical to your real father and you are forbidden from marrying him for that reason. Its the reason people honestly thought when your daughter marries my son the two families are merged so I now am required to defend your lands because she has my name.
Since its creation in 2011, the subreddit has been growing into one of the most popular pages on the whole platform. According to the moderators, "'Showerthought' is a loose term that applies to the types of thoughts you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming."
These flashes of genius are universally relatable and can let you in on the most amusing things within the mundane. Usually, when you think of such unexpected insights, you find yourself in certain circumstances: a familiar environment with no people to interrupt you and no devices to bother you.
As your body and mind relax, the overwhelming number of thoughts that are racing through your head start to slowly fade away. This gives an opportunity for brilliant ideas to appear as if by magic.
There's a world of difference between unplanned and unwanted though.
True! I was very much wanted but so unplanned I nearly caused my mother's family to implode before I was even born. Oops ...
Load More Replies...I didnt need IVF, but I did have two miscarriages before I finally had my daughter. She was absolutely wanted. I would not have gone through that if she wasn't.
Load More Replies...I don't know why people say this. There are people out here that literally choose to have a kid. Started trying and made conscious decision to get pregnant. Both adoption and getting pregnant are a choice and sometimes not on purpose.
But that doesn't mean your adoptive parents will give you a loving home and help you develop your interests and talents. My brother and I are adopted, and our parents provided for us quite well but didn't provide a close, loving family environment. Plus they expected us to work at the family business, and our innate interests and talents were ignored. But maybe it was better than what our bio parents could have provided.
Same. My adoptive mother was a monster. And we also had a family buddies I was expected to work at as free labor when I was legally too young to be hired.
Load More Replies...It's true that pregnancies can be unwanted and adoptions are intentional but it doesn't necessarily make the adoptive parents better or more loving parents though.
On average, adoptive parents probably are better (because there are background checks to eliminate the really bad potential ones). That doesn't make it true for every individual.
Load More Replies...I find this really funny. Like really funny. For me specifically, because my parents tried for ten years before they had me, eventually relying on in-vitro fertilization. I found this out last year, and my mom(who is extremely religious) said that she hadn't realized it then but she shouldn't have done it because it was "Interfering With God's Natural Plan". Indirectly telling me she regrets committing to the one process that brought me into this world. Thanks, mom.
she also told me not to tell anyone because it was "embarrassing"(well geez) and "non of their business"(valid) but here I am telling the internet so don't track me please and thank you.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda reached out to Nancy K. Napier, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor at Boise State University (USA) and author of Unfolding Curiosity who has published widely on creativity and innovation. She was kind enough to have a little chat with us about the realizations we get while taking a shower.
When asked about the power of a shower and why is it considered to be a perfect place for the eureka effect, the professor told us that the reason behind it is simply because it’s an enclosed space, with warm comforting water, where you do something you don't have to think about.
"As you wash yourself for those three or five or ten minutes, you can let your mind wander and that's often when an idea will hit. Also, during these times when we're with our families in shutdowns, it might be one of the few chances to be alone with your thoughts," she explained.
Same ppl that want to go hiking in a remote area of a mountain or such without proper equipment or knowledge
That's what I always say, Darwin award candidates!
Load More Replies...If your shadow in the car headlights is going straight ahead, you jump. Also if no headlights, just sound. Given the attention span of drivers, it can be safer to assume you are invisible no matter what.
They don’t care how long they live, they just want to look good while they’re doing it!
True story: In the 80s after a gig in a small town, went out for a walk at 2am after it, dressed in my black stage clothes and walking down the middle of the road on a sidewalk-less street wearing headphones & listening to my Walkman - total moron!! - I felt a big dog run by me and smash my elbow. Then about 25 ft ahead of me, I see brake lights. A car backs up, window rolls down and a completely drunk woman from the bar I just played at asks, “Hey, did you see what I hit?” No lights. Totally drunk. And me walking down the road in all black listening to music. I literally don’t know who’s dumber.
That's what I think of the Mars station idea. If people can't follow basic rules here, how can we expect them to follow the very high number of rules living there would entail? One person could so easily sabotage the air or oxygen controls.
Wasn't there some Mars station experiment where people had gradually disobeyed the more isolated they've become? Edit: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271632265_Main_findings_of_psychophysiological_studies_in_the_Mars_500_experiment
Load More Replies...My scariest thought is if we one day get an answer to all the messages we've been sending to space, and the answer is: Shut up, or they will find you
...to your mother(I had to-someone might get it). Also, ditto.
Load More Replies...I think we are being treated the same way we treat uncontacted tribes in the forest.
Any extraterrestrial species that is able to physically travel here while also because Ng part of our universe will most likely not be in need of us. Or our resources, of which all can be found not just here. We're just not that interesting enough. If you could choose to rest on a bench with ants or without, just right next to each other, and you had no specific interest in studying ants, you would sit on the bench without.
According to Napier, it can be hard to allow your thoughts to drift because we usually have some sort of information—music, podcasts, radio—coming into our minds most of the day. "To have the experience of a wandering mind, we need to intentionally turn OFF the extra information and think about nothing."
However, the shower is not the only place where brilliant ideas can come to us. There are more ways humans can let their minds go free: "I read recently that taking a walk is another great place for ideas, but the key is to simply walk. Leave the radio and podcasts at home."
"Then, while walking, look in three places and ideas will come: look above eye level (at buildings, trees), look straight ahead and look on the ground," Napier told us. She also mentioned that she tried it last week and came away with two new creative thoughts.
My band played at numerous football games in the freezing cold and then our concert was canceled three days before it was supposed to happen. Since when did sports have higher value than the fine arts.
Sadly, since the conception of school sports. The real reason we send children to school is to educate them, yet the ones who excel at school aren't given a pep rally, a band to play for them, nope, they are insulted, ostracized. The smart dedicated students should be hailed as the heroes, they will be employing the rest of you.
Load More Replies...LMAO, High School Band players are not necessarily in the band to show school spirit, they're in the band to be able to play music.
Yeah, I was in marching band in high school. We had to go to the football games on Fridays so the school would allow us to go to our competitions on Saturdays!
Load More Replies...At my school, sometimes the bands from the opposing teams "play" against each other
yes, basically : sports is the most important thing. That''s the message i got.
Load More Replies...To be fair the Band shows up now a days to remind people they exist, and to keep getting a budget, its not to support its because no one chars unless your their parents, so they got sell out and show up to football games or get their funding cut lol
we have discovered recently, via covid lockdowns, that being physically actives is as important to us as are the Arts, for our mental, physical and emotional health. both need encouraging, funding, and support. just not to stupid levels.
Actually, the planetary impact that resulted in the creation of the Moon reduced the Earth (1.0) to a sterile ball of magma, which eventually became our Earth (2.0.) We have no idea what, if any life there was on 1.0, but it was completely exterminated even to the end of viruses and bacteria, if there were such things.
yet it only kill dinosaurs & reptiles and leave proto-bird & proto-mammal alone
Yes I was there and I counted them and I'm hundreds of thousands of years old and that's why I'm on BP
Load More Replies...We know that birds had already evolved before the Cretaceous paleogene extinction event. Therefore, this statement is correct because one stone probably killed millions of birds. Just because they didn't go extinct because of the meteor doesn't mean the meteor didn't kill millions of birds.
Load More Replies...Hearing other people’s shower realizations attracts a lot of attention: "Many of us are looking for ways to do things differently to get better, which is the ultimate goal of creativity." The professor said that we can always gain something from another person's idea, and the most wonderful part of it is "that we can always generate new ones."
Im a single female and I love making other people laugh regardless if I look silly or not. I think this it's healthy to make fun of yourself. Keep your own self in check haha
Yes. Self deprecation for the amusement of others is the pinnacle of humor. Your audience will remember how you made them feel at your own expense. That's important.
Because you can't wear sweatpants and start boredom eating at someone else's house
You need better friends. We have pj Sundays. And I cook a ton so 💁♀️
Load More Replies...Because you can bitch and complain in your own house, you’d have to front at others
When bored at my place I go to sleep or take a shower. I get awkward look when I get bored at someone else's place
"I would apologise for the mess, but it's always like this". My greeting to everyone who enters.
I stopped apologizing when I realized almost no one cares about my slightly messy home. It's not dirty, just a tad messy with three dogs and a cat, not to mention a teenaged boy.
Load More Replies...I've always noticed with my mom. She freaks out if anything is not perfect and I'm there like "As if they think we live in absolute impeccable conditions all the time." Now I see it as just a courtesy thing but I don't go all out like she did. I just close the doors of the rooms people have no business sticking their noses in.
I try to do the same really, I'll have a general tidy up for folk coming round but learned there's no point sorting the living room until kids are heading to bed as they're so messy it just gets undone in minutes. It's hard for me as my anxiety/depression is triggered quite badly by mess and I'll feel totally panicked when I see a big mess.
Load More Replies...My house is always clean, but I promise I'll move the books, knitting, jumpers, etc off the sofa before you arrive
I tidy up my house before going to bed every night, lightly clean once or twice a week, and do a deep clean about once a month. My house is never a mess because clutter and dirt give me anxiety. There will be toys and mail here and there that I might pick up if a guest is coming, but I guarantee you I didn't clean my entire house just for a guest lol.
Load More Replies...When I was a teen, Mom made me join in her obsessive house cleaning in preparation for a small gathering of her friends. "I want to make a good impression." She had me cleaning everywhere: in closets, in rooms far from the entertainment areas, in the basement... I asked, "When you go to someone else's home do you snoop around everywhere?" She replied, "Of course not. But I know others do."
I've been trying so hard to get my house spotless for Xmas day as I'm hosting this year and while we're generally quite tidy I'm totally fighting a losing battle with 4 kids at home all day now school is on holiday - I do one room and come back to the kids having destroyed the living room, so they get told off and I tidy up, to them then having messed up the dining room.....in a never ending cycle - it's infuriating.
Remember, clean and tidy are two separate things. As long as it's clean,who cares if it's tidy. It's your home not a showhome.
Load More Replies...Just keep a few "Get Well Soon" cards on your mantle and guests will think you've been too sick to clean.
My mom exactly. She's going crazy trying to clean everything before we have someone over, and I'm just like. why? she's been in our house before. we all know the house is perpetually a disaster zone.
I also used to wonder why, but now that I am a mom myself I get it. You want people to think that you're a responsible adult and a good parent who has it all together even though you feel like a mess inside 😅😅
Load More Replies..."Lots of people have noted that we no longer allow ourselves to become bored. Laying on grass and watching the clouds go by seems to be less common and yet it's another simple way to generate ideas," Napier mentioned.
Have you ever notices that the shoppers at Costco are Costco sized?
Nope, they are heavy-duty gene pool purification packs. Seriously, why would you want people that don't want kids to actually breed? Abortion = gene pool purification of unfit parents.
Its literally the same thing this is what 98% of midlife crisis people do they snap and spend a ton of money on something they wanted to do when younger but couldn't and ultimately regret it in a year lol How did this get so many upvotes, its literally part of the definition of it lol When my dad got a corvette durring his it was because he couldn't when young, then he f*****g spent more then he had on damn thing, and my direct family to this day when we think of vettes laugh at how bad he was with that thing lol
Load More Replies...It is a problem when the "opinions" of a wife and children whose lives are turned upside down don't matter at all to the midlifer.
nice that you assume only gendered-as-men get midlife crises?
Load More Replies...It's a crises if it harms the person's family or they endanger others with their new behavior.
It's true that I care a lot less what other people think than I did when I was younger, but "midlife crisis" usually indicates regressive behavior - being irresonsible and trying to act like they're younger than they are. I *believe* I've become more mature and responsible as I've aged.
Yeah, this entry is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what the term means. Many people become wiser and less concerned with what others think as they age, but "midlife crisis" specifically refers to people who suddenly realize they're old and regress as a means to rebel against that idea instead of accepting it.
Load More Replies...Actually, you can't always do whatever you want because your body starts to complain. No more dancing and drinking until 1 am Sunday morning then getting up at 6 am to go skiing, then more drinking and stuffing your face after that; then off to bed late and up at 6 am Monday to go to work and feeling pretty good. I miss those days!
Well, you CAN, you just shouldn't. And that all just really depends on how the individual feels about their actions.
Load More Replies...Ah. Said by a cheater probably. Lots of cheating going on through those crisis'
I would agree, except when it involves decieving and/or abandoning the people you promised to be loyal too, and the people you are responsible for.
I know we hear all of the stories of wasted money and broke lottery winners, but its a little bit of observation bias as well. The people who win the lottery and handle the money well, whether they were well off before or not, aren't as interesting so do not get published. The best winners you never hear about and simply quietly live a better life for them and their family.
There are actual studies done on lottery winners, however, measuring outcomes, happiness reporting, mental wellness, etc. The idea that a lot of multi-million winners end up spending it all isn't just anecdotal.
Load More Replies...There was a family on a reserve here who won a large jackpot and have been donating much of it to improve their community.
There was a study a few years back that looked into what happens to people who win the "jackpot". They found that people from USA mostly burned through the money, like "I need two jet planes, one for shopping and one for travelling", while Scandinavians were more like "maybe we can hire a contractor to redo the kitchen instead of doing it ourselves?". Could probably be a life story in there somewhere
I wonder how much of that id the culture around spending (with influences from capitalism causing a "Keeping up with the Joneses" attitude as opposed to a slightly more socialist-leaning scandinavian culture) and how much of it is the increasing wealth disparity causing an attitude of desperation as soon as money is available ie "I've never been able to keep up with my expenses so I need to buy everything NOW before the money runs out". I know I'd struggle with not filling my fridge and cupboard to bursting if I won because my partner and I are food insecure. It's also easy to see how that could translate even into things like planes - because suddenly you CAN afford this expensive thing you want, but for how long? Though I think I'd luck out in just... not having expensive tastes. Jets, yachts, eh... but being able to buy a new bookcase and an armful of books to fill the first shelf? Ooh baby that's luxury.
Load More Replies...People who would be best at being a national leader are usually not interested in being a national leader.
Money takes maintenance. It is a skill that has to be learned. My father never learned it, but I have (in part from watching him do things like buy a time-share and take money out of an IRA without checking with an accountant).
Well, it doesn't take *much* maintenance. Maintaining wealth is 99% about just keeping your damn hands off of it. The problems start when you let yourself feel rich and allow yourself to spend it all.
Load More Replies...Or people that’s already well off in the first place and buy one and win
Here's a thought... what if, we have a lottery for people with less income or poor to buy from? I know it sounds stupid but... I'm thinking of ways it might work :)
There's a research field that focuses on people obtaining sudden wealth (lottery, lawsuit, inheritance, etc). There's a retired professor in my town that has been working anonymously with them for close to 35 years now. She has several books and articles. She says the hardest thing for them is everyone, including yourself, expect you to change and you don't. If you had problems handling money, jealousy, laziness, obsessed with work, shyness, etc you still will the day after you won X. Except now you have 500 people who think you owe them Y. About 25 years ago she set up an international support group program like AA to help people cope. Its helpful to talk to someone who has also lost a loved one to drugs they bought with money you gave them. Not everyone will sympathize with the boredom of not working now and never having time in the past to get hobbies. She retired saying she had to help them instead of remaining objective.
Or at least spend anything that closely resembles a significant amount on it. The lottery is entertainment only.
There’s a saying that creativity is like a muscle. If you want to become more innovative, you have to train it right. And as we found out, one way of achieving this goal is by simply doing… nothing. Nancy K. Napier leaves us with one encouraging thought for the next year: "Here's to setting aside 30 minutes a week to let yourself be bored in 2022!"
I've been told I could (maybe) be a good piano player due to having long fingers. I've never tried playing a piano.
Same here. My Nan would say I had pianist’s hands, I should try too :)
Load More Replies...I'm surprisingly good at archery considering I don't have the correct form nor do any archery that often.
I always think of this sort of thing. I'd show psychology and allergy tests to people and would die a horrible death for being a witch.
Load More Replies...This is one of the few misinterpretations of a creatures' bones I think is reasonably plausible. The skulls looks exactly like the creatures of myth and the bones are very recent and accessible on the island the cyclops is supposed to have come from. The Rok being extrapolated from elephant bird eggs is the other example I know of.
Load More Replies...If only dinosaur bones weren't brittle as hell. "Harald, look I slained a dragon!" "By odin, can I touch it?" *skull becomes dust* "Did you like sneeze on it to kill it?"
"Well uh... everyone knows dragon bones turn to dust after you touch them, Erik!"
Load More Replies...But that Viking would have had to explain how he could turn a dragon into stone, but couldn't do the same for anything else...
"Of course dragon bones are made of stone. How do you think they got so strong."
Load More Replies...That's exactly how dragons and other mythological creatures were invented. Misinterpretation of archaeological discoveries.
Given they would have to travel to north-west America to do this, they would have quite enough tales to tell already. They would have to walk across land 2000 miles further than any Viking we know about.
I've read that time goes faster when you're older because we no longer experience as many new things as when we're younger. When you're young you still do new things all the time, but when you're in your twenties or thirties you start to get a work/life routine that's mostly the same
It's also to do with percentage of total life and life experience. At the age of ten, one year is a tenth of your life, so the summer lasts forever. At the age of fifty it's a fiftieth of your life - you've had so many more of them, they've gone quicker.
Load More Replies...This is very true. You don't have a lot of autonomy in your life 14-18. 25-35, you're usually the one making the decisions. That makes time pass much much faster.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you are to the end, the faster it goes.
Vacation, travel, new things... These can slow days down because you are actually present. Work... not so much - - unless it's your passion (don't laugh, for a few lucky ones, it is!).
Not in the UK: Even our national parks are very human landscapes, pocked with abandoned mines and farms. Not to mention the Norfolk broads, a landscape entirely created by peat extraction.
In the US, Nat'l Parks are pretty natural, but still impacted by humans. Even the most remote parts of Yellowstone, where few people ever go, are affected - more by what predators are not there than anything else. There have been efforts to reintroduce predators, but they haven't restored the natural balance yet.
Load More Replies...Call me Pollyanna, but most humans don’t suck. But the suckiest ones make more noise and have a greater impact it seems. We all have some aspects of us that suck. But you don’t suck.
Load More Replies...That was one thing I liked about the movie "The Good Dinosaur", it was set in the Wyoming area, and showed what the Rockies would have been like if humans had never messed with nature. Too bad the movie sucked.
Come to Ontario Canada. Nothing like Northern wilderness. Sooo many places have to be boated or water plane drop off. Many places in Canada aren't even national parks. We respect the land and resources. Not big money hungry companies though. That's why we have so many protection laws.
In the US, it's more like BLM lands (Bureau of Land Management). National Parks are typically heavily trafficked.
Correction: The indigenous populations cleared forests, burned brush, dammed rivers, slaughtered animals, and damaged ecosystems long before Europeans came over. The ecological native never existed. Before humans came to the Americas, in North America alone there were 45 genera of large mammals. It took a relatively short time for them to reduce that number to less than ten genera.
Load More Replies...Fun fact they have the landscape the area, and control it, they clear brush for fire safety put in fire lines and s**t like that, we do a ton of s**t to make national parks look nicer, including even decide who lives and dies out of the animal population because to many grazing animals can f**k up the soil, but no one wants to run into a preditor on hiking trail.
Or rather, if we lived with the land, and didn't just pillage it and treat it as expendable.
Actually, it's what the country would look like if Native Americans still owned it...
Firstly, check out Charlie Taube's reply. Secondly, the aboriginal Native Americans/First Peoples weren't some sort of magical beings who, because they lacked technology, were somehow better and more "spiritually elevated" than us white folks. They were human just like us. Meaning, in their own "primitive" way, they did shitty things just as we've done.
Load More Replies...This always confused me. When the Jets came back to Winnipeg, I don't think any of the players were from Winnipeg, or Canadian at all. All fans are doing is rooting of the idea of the team being in the city.
There is a less than zero chance that the Jets didn't have Canadian players. Up until just a few years ago more than 50% of all NHL players were Canadian (it's still in the 40s now). Quick look at the Roster of the 2011-2012 Jets, of the 38 players on the roster Feb 1, 22 were Canadian (57.8% of them). Two of them were from Manitoba, with Derek Meech from Winnepeg.
Load More Replies...First off, I love sports and spend ridiculous time following my teams. But Jerry Seinfeld put it best - "Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo!"
Yes... but I've also seem some small towns go absolutely looney over pubescent athletes. Let the kids be kids. It's a balance.
This. In the UK, when they got rid of the foreign player limit, the national football team standard noticeably went down.
Your city team is on a losing streak? Shame them and cheer on the winning team. Or complain as if it's impossible that your team lose and should always be on top of ranking, as if it make sense.
Yeah but they got move there so its moot, why no one cares, many people in a good city where never born there. Its like when I see people complain about people cali moving to my area, its like you born and raised in Ohio, you Iowa what the f**k its ok for you to move here but no them because they had more money when they sold their s**t in cali to move here then you did?
Why I don't watch hockey anymore. Then Olympic hockey? Don't get me started
For Canadians, any bookmark worth more than FIVE dollars is a waste of money I guess 😂
Load More Replies...Bookmarks are so much prettier though! I brought one from my trip in Turkey and every time I'm using it it feels good! Plus I love reading so I won't accept anything as a bookmark. Same with tea, I need a pretty/funny cup :)
I think the US is the only western country to still have dollar bills though.
The dollar coin didn’t really take off...even when all of the states each had its own.
Load More Replies...Also, few people would steal a bookmark, but would not hesitate to take a dollar that wasn't being watched.
I use the cards that fall out of my magazines (known as "blow-in cards") as bookmarks...
I've done that, too. Also, spent gift cards are even more durable.
Load More Replies...You can fold the corner of your book for free. As long as you dont count the hatred of book lovers everywhere as a ''cost'
Me too. You can leave money lying around, but biscuits, chocolate and pens will not be there when you come back
Load More Replies...Things and money often "disappear" when cops handle them. Who are you going to report it to? The cops?
Which is why there need to be more checks and balances against them, not less. That's what you have to do when you give some flawed humans extra power over other humans.
Load More Replies...Police are, sadly, the most corrupt entitled group of people in the world. They act with impunity and society lets them.
Police need locks on their lockers because attorneys walk through there too.
There are locks in a locker room so people doesn not invade your privacy first, but we might be doing it more out of habit.
Because crime is part of human nature, its why even churches got locks on the donation box. We need cops and even religion to keep us from doing bad things, that fear of punishment in this life or next still isn't enough to stop people who want s**t out side their means from life of crime though
We were all sentenced to house arrest for the heinous crime of breathing.
It’s been like two years now? I honestly lost track of time since
Load More Replies...Seems like a perfect time to be sentenced to house arrest. They missed nothing.
Well if they were in for many years, it's unlikely they would know how. Culture shock.
OT; but I don't get this "lucked out". To me it suggests that your luck has run out *shrugs*
That's what OP meant. That even though they weren't in prison, they couldn't enjoy being out because of the pandemic.
Load More Replies...Studies have shown that people who are chronically homeless do develop PSTD symptoms from not having regular, safe, full nights of sleep.
What a wonderful time to be alive, now if we could only do something about global overpopulation....
Any of us who have the luxury of taking safety and shelter for granted, should be grateful.
I think about that when I see my cat in a deep sleep at night.
Load More Replies...Which begs the question, does mental illness lead to homelessness or does homelessness lead to mental illness?
Every cat crossing my path is good luck and even better if it lets me pet it.
Every time I see a black cat I drop to a squat and and say "pspspsppsps" whilst holding out my hand. Must be evil cat magic for sure.
Yeah, I automatically want to follow them and cuddle them and feed them. They have hypnotic powers.
Load More Replies...I wish I could have a black cat... I would name it Thirteen. Sadly, I am allergic to pet dander.
In the British Isles it is, everywhere else seems to consider them bad luck. I found one in my bedroom the other day, no idea how it got there but if anything I considered it a good omen. Gave it a pet and set it on its way.
Load More Replies...Ummm but they see at night and they’re really fast. I’ve never tripped over a cat 🤷🏽♀️
my cat likes to sprint across my path or just run in front of me and stop
Load More Replies...And then they freed that Orca and it tried to stay with people until it died.
I've always felt sorry for the animals. When I was a little kid I was banned from watching Lassie after an episode with a raccoon trapped in a burning barn. I burst into tears and Mom explained it was just pretend and the raccoon wasn't really in danger. My response, "The raccoon doesn't know that."
They actually tried but couldn't free W***y he wouldn't have survived in the wild
For me it's more like putting them on silent, I still get notifications but not out loud. Fibromyalgia is a complete d**k - 9.30am and I'm maxed out on dihydrocodeine already - gonna be a long day
I have fibro, and it absolutely is a complete d**k. You should try cannabis edibles; they're much better at dealing with fibro pain, since most of it isn't coming from the peripheral nervous system, but from the brain's perception of sensory stimuli. I would not get through a day without it, yet I'm on the same 10mg dose I started with a decade ago. Bonus: not only is cannabis an analgesic, it's also an antidepressant, an anti-anxiety med, and a muscle relaxer. Several studies have shown that fibro is accompanied by endocannabis deficiency, so cannabis is the proper medication.
Load More Replies...One is my friend but I really shouldn't be having it, and one could kill me. Now if only I could remember which was which 😉
Load More Replies...And my nerve damage is like having a phone that gets spam risk calls all day long, and texts for with old people names on them telling me some bank I never used needs me to contact them right away lol. Literally I just get numb to it with out pain killers and just need them to sleep some nights... But my fave is its invisible, like a phone on mute to every one else, people see me rubbing my for arm or shaking my hand when I think no one is looking "what is wrong with you?" Oh yeah nerve damage part of my arm is asleep or in pain right now." Looks at me like I am crazy "ok, you look crazy doing that..."
Having CRPS and Dystonia in the lower half of my body, unfortunately these mute notifications don't really get turned off. About 85 out of 100 notifications still come through, if not more..
I got nerve damage I just get numb to them in diffrent way, its like my phone is always on vibrate I just ignor all calls and texts, unless I am waiting for one. Same deal my pain tolerance is crazy high because my arm is always at at least a 2 for pain and discomfort and can go up to the point I want bite down on somehting while trying not to tear up, and people just look like I am crazy or sick, "its like no no just cold weather that isn't htat bad I forogt I need a hoody my nerve damage acts up when cold. Just like other day I drove 24 minutes to class, ace vent on my arm it was hot in car turned it on buy time I got there I regreted it because on of the vents is stuck and amed at my arm when I drive, spent whole class period in more pain then normal trying to mask it.
Load More Replies...Pqin is your body's way of saying something is wrong. Unfortunately, thanks to all the addicts and abusers, chronic pain suffers don't get treated properly..or at all.
B******t pain you get use to over time its people selling pain pills who got you thinking you need pills for it. I got nerve damage I am always in some kind of "pain" or mild discomfort I just get use to it and can sleep threw it now. Meanwhile if this was 2009 my doc would be shoving pills down my throat going "your a three on pain scale today, your always at least a 2, here is a f**k load opiates!" Also those pills hardwire you to feel pain when off them they create a dependency, its been proven prolong use for "chronic" pain f***s up your brain chemisty and you can't survive with out them or you feel more pain. S**t literally sells itself that way.
Load More Replies...As a recovering addict, It's putting a bandaid on a problem that needs to be fixed. They just mask the pain.
What I find even more amazing is that even though Chris Pratt has his headphones on, we can still hear the song playing!
given what i remember of walkmans i'm shocked HE can hear out of BOTH those headphones much less us
Load More Replies...I was floored that his soft foam and wire headphones lasted that long, much less the cassette or his access to AA batteries.
This bugged me so much when I first saw the movie and my SO banned me from talking about it. We watch it at least once a month because I love Groot, she loves Rocket. I used to buy cassettes then copy them to a blank and wear out the blank and repeat. In college, I went to recopy one and the original was too degraded. There's no way a mix tape would last 25 years.
I've got tapes that are 30-35 years old that still play fine, all about storage.
"Not-in-pain" is a feeling. That feeling of when pain goes away? Perhaps the best feeling in life.
I dont even remember that feeling anymore :( Although being in less pain is very nice
Load More Replies...I'd do just about anything to have a pain free day, the best I can hope for is a low level pain day - it's exhausting
Five years and counting of chronic pain. I would kill for an efficient analgesic that didn't leave me loopy and sick after it wears off.
Load More Replies...One day, about 10 years back, I woke up and went to work. On the walk I noticed no one was acknowledging me, and when I got to the office, I asked a co-worker if they could see me. Naturally assuming I was crazy, they asked what was wrong. I said "I woke up pain free today, and no-one interacted with me on the commute, so I though I might be dead."
Just wait until you are old and have daily chronic pain. The occasional day free of pain is like a taste of heaven. One savors every moment.
Many chronically ill people is very young. Dont dismiss anybodys pain
Load More Replies...Mine would be tooth pain. I have had 4 babies and would choose child birth over a bad toothache
Agreed! Toothache is unbearable at times. I can say that having just had an emergency consult with the dentist yesterday. The pain was so severe that it almost brought me to tears - and I'm a 20-stone 6 foot 2 man. For context, I once broke a bone in my hand and that was a one out of ten pain-wise. The tooth pain was an easy ten. Horrible. Just horrible.
Load More Replies...I have had a constant headache since 1996. Varies in severity..but always there. Super fun.
Right there with you. Mine's been going since 2000. It's a par-tay. 😶
Load More Replies...I suffered migraines over 20 years. I don't get them now so I thank God every day I wake up without one.
Several years back I developed a headache over my eyes every time I ate that eventually became constant. It lasted night and day for four years. I saw every kind of specialist available with little relief until I finally had two of my upper teeth surgically removed for an unrelated reason. The headache was mostly gone 24 hours later. I sympathize with all who experience headaches because those were the most miserable years of my life.
That'd be nice. I have a headache 24/7. Been that way for years. Doctors don't give a s h i t, so, it is what it is.
Then it must be extremely depressing if you are an adult raccoon
Load More Replies...That makes me a 60-year-old child, then, because I live in an apartment complex. (Which is such a nice place to live that I've been reluctant to get a mortgage.)
our bin men are nightmare , they change the times each week and you cant put bins out the night before . 7am some weeks , catches loads out
Sounds highly unreasonable and strongly aggressive. There ought to be complaints with the city.
Load More Replies...I fell asleep one evening when my wife was doing nights and missed the bin collection, she was mad at me for a while, and to be fair, I was mad at myself.
You know you're an adult when you get a vacuum / mop combo thingy for your house and you're so excited to open it and use it. (my fave Christmas gift this year next to a numbered film cell from the movie Titanic.)
Miss trash day frequently, it never ruins my day or week. So I don’t get this! 🤔
If you miss trash day, be recourseful. Find a dumpster and take it there
Stop being stressed or I can't eat you when it's the apocalypse!!
Load More Replies...'Why are you so stressed all the time?' - 'To keep the cannibals away!'
Nah, I was just able to make my own country where all vampires can live in peace. We have some human villages too, but they're there knowing full well that they'll be used for sustenance.
Load More Replies...But we think that wild animals taste better than domesticated ones, and the wild animals are the ones who spend their lives having to worry about starving or being eaten by predators.
It's about the stress levels when they're being slaughtered. The way we slaughter most of our livestock is very high stress and that can be actually tasted. More humane ways of slaughtering reduces stress.
Load More Replies...Brah, nobody will wanna eat you, you're always stressed, you probably taste like s**t.
Hey that's what you tell a cannibal, I will taste terrible, I'm always stressed and take alit of needed medicines
It's astounding how we just traded the stress of running from predators and trying to literally survive winter, for a different kind of stress about survival; being able to pay rent and retain a job. It feels less real to me.
Remember when being sent to bed by your parents was a punishment?
Load More Replies...As someone who regularly suffers from insomnia it really becomes a bit of an obsession - sleep is amazing and missing out on it sucks
i hate the fact that we actualkly need sleep. Imagen not needing it at all and being active all the time. That is a lot of free time.
I will literally be so stoked having an entire Friday night not having to worry about getting up early for 2 mornings that I will stay awake all night. Then I'll end up sleeping half or more of my Saturday and realize I'll end up staying up all night Saturday and sleep my Sunday away. Sometimes I'll wake up still tired and go back to sleep, waking up at midnight and then not be able to go back to sleep. Then a good half of my Sunday is dealing with heavy tired eyes and regrets.
I wish I could get more then 5 hours a day, I envy those that get a least 6
Best feeling ever is turning the alarm feature off on my clock when I don’t have to work the next day. Zzzzzzzzz….
Yep, and then I am wide awake at the time I would usually have to get up. Only in that case I would of course still be very tired. The subconscious mind is a beautiful thing...
Load More Replies...Its not half your life. Its between a quarter and a third. No one sleeps for 12 hours a day.
If you're not an infant and you're literally spending half of your life sleeping, you really are sleeping way too much!
I'm hoping that either they just got the maths wrong, or they've averaged it out over an entire lifetime - newborns sleep a lot more than half their lives, elderly people (again, on average) sleep less than 8 hours. Perhaps over 80 years, it all balances out (I have *not* done the maths, I've just woken up - I got just under 8 hours, I might not be coherent yet)
Load More Replies...I've had 18 years of schooling, from preschool through a bachelor's degree. I've never once had a class that taught me where my organs are or very basic anatomy. I had a minor pain today and realized I had no idea what was there in my body. It seems like a very important part of education that was somehow missed.
Where did you go to school? I have had biology classes since middle school. Anatomy is definitely a subject we learn on my side of the woods.
Load More Replies...Your brain also knows you are absolutely not starving as it can see with the eyes that we are in a house filled with food, yet goes into "starvation mode" if you don't eat soon enough.... it can also know that we have a lot of extra fat to lose and yet .... starvation mode on!!
Also, patient education anatomy pictures should be mirror images so you don’t have to mentally switch from the photo’s right or left to your right or left.
Maybe they just don't teach it anymore. Of course that'll help with"medically" based political agendas, but I digress. I learned basic anatomy around sex ed time. So, it could be the only part of that lesson that stuck for most was the sex ed part.
Humming the starting song of Harry Potter movies in my head whilst reading this...
There IS magic in life; there are beautiful and amazing things to be experienced in adult life. Spending the entire day with my 18 year old yesterday, having lunch and going shopping with him was great. Seeing the absolute surprise and delight in his eyes when I gave him his Xbox Series S early, the multitude of hugs I was given, and the repeated "thank you so much, mom" throughout the day was magic to me. He's always grateful for me and what I do for him but seeing the child-like delight in him again yesterday was über magical.
I'm 17; my dad took me to Hogwarts for my birthday. He knows how much of a Harry Potter nerd I am, so we went to Universal Studios for a week (it was also a senior trip). I loved it. And yesterday he gave me a photo album he made from pictures of that trip. At this rate, I'm wondering what's happening on Christmas...XD.
Load More Replies...Some people let them blink for minutes after they've already turned. The only thing that'd stop the blinking is because they turned the wheel later.
My blinker turns off if I turn the wheel at all. Not even turning, just switching lanes.
Load More Replies...My dear old dad, who was supposed to use a hearing aid, would sometimes drive for astonishing lengths of time with his turn signal on because he couldn't hear it ticking. He loved my Ford Focus that I bought in 2004 because he could actually hear the ticking of the turn signal. My parents bought me a brand new Mazda CX-5 for Christmas 2018 because he'd fallen extremely ill and I'd left my job to be his full time, live in caretaker. He couldn't hear the turn signal in that one when I'd drive him to his many doctor's appointments. He passed away in August of 2019 and fortunately the SUV had been bought with cash so I would never have to worry about making payments; taking on the care of my elderly, widowed mother as I have would have made it impossible for me to keep the SUV. Thanks for everything, dad. You were the best in every single way but I'd give everything I own to have you back ❣️
USA maybe, the big problem we have here is people who indicate to show what they *are* doing rather than what they *intend* to do.
What about the ones who drive with the flashers on. They're saying "Stand by, I could do anything." And the ones who only turn the signal on after they make their move. They're saying, "I just got ahead of you. Now I'll slow down."
Yahhhh... my hubby thought it was funny for a long time to hit the emergency flashers while i was driving. I started putting plastic figures around the button with that gummy stuff you hang posters with. He either forgot the button was there, decided it was getting old, or is luring me into a false sense of security before he does it again. >.>
Load More Replies...OR they think it's just fine to put on their turn signal ---- after they have turned
I went to school with 2 of 3 triplets the 3rd went to private school ! They lived in the rich neighborhood ! I always wondered why! I should have asked but then again one of them did say they weren’t born from their mothers butt like everyone else. So maybe the parents figured they would just save that money 😂
Load More Replies...Uh, yeah. Every human is unique, but twins are the same. (yes I get they can be a little different)
Load More Replies...You can also look at one of your siblings and think "that's what I will look like if I cut my hair, so let's rather not do it" or "if I made an effort with healthy eating and exercise, this is what I could look like"
I once saw three identical boys, I could feel my brain trying to work it out and make sense of what I was seeing even as I marvelled at the unusualness of them.
Ummm ok. Very interesting. Now I have a question for you: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Doesn't really count because it's not her body that's growing the baby, it's just nurturing the foetus that was formed by the egg and sperm
There are so many things wrong with this statement, I don't know where to begin. So many things.
It's the ingredients from the chef that gets put into the oven. The oven doesnt just magically produce a human.
OMG so do I!!! I'm $70k in debt, my credit is a mess and my school shut down before it could be accredited... I was 2 terms away from graduating
Load More Replies...I regret not taking a computer course, at the very least, or any kind of industry at a community college (not to be confused with university).
"Anything can be taken from you except your knowlege" my ex co-worker said a long time ago. That's why I'll never regret going to college.
Best decision I ever made was not going to college. I have a good paying union job. No loans to pay back, no debt, and at the age of 30 am able to afford to buy a house. Not many my age can say that.
Good show! My hubby did the same thing, even dropped out of high school. Union job with a pension, supported a family with a SAHM, survived a divorce financially, and was still able to retire early. Enjoy your wise decision!
Load More Replies...Since Gen Xers were severely pressured into attending college to avoid complete ruin in life, a disproportionate number of us ended up attending for-profit colleges that gave us no real useable skills and overwhelming debt. That's why so many of us regret it.
I have a doctorate theology. I really loved college. But honestly, computer science would have been a better major.
And rich people of all gens who went to college are super happy they went. Meanwhile broke milliennials aka my gen who regret it got silly degrees they could only get a job teaching that degree most the time lol. Its like um archelogy, so you are going to college to one day work at one "no no you don't have to do that.. right?" Or my fave its specialized degree and they decide last minute they hate that job area. Like I know who lot who got degrees for teaching and realized they hate kids and teens lol Or video game degrees then find out that its not as cool as they imagined, and they not very good at it, so its a worthless degree that no one is gonna go "oh you got degree in game art, that will work really well for this middle manger position at supermarket, wait no no this don't cross over at all...
Like I knew a guy who specialized in hand made pixel art, only to find out after graduation they can use a script to make 3d generated art into pixel art that looks nicer then his s**t, so he got a job at kinkos... Like I am taking classes at my local community college for game stuff, and he pointed that out wensday and you can hear threw their masks like 3 kids gasp hearing him say that most people use 3d program and just run a filter to make it look pixles or other s**t. Like he even pointed out south park converted ages ago to 3d engine and just made it look like its still made with construction paper by hand to save a f**k load of time and money.
Load More Replies...This formerly broke boomer regretted getting two college degrees, as they never profited me as much as two journalism classes did.
Unless someone was buried alive, and then that would be a haunt to avoid.
Actually there were a few people buried alive before medical science advanced enough to accurately determine death. During an attempted grave robbery a woman Margorie McCall woke up when grave robbers tried to cut her finger off to get her ring. Her gravestone actually says "lived once buried twice". There have even been patients granted for devices to alert people when somebody was incorrectly pronounced dead and buried the simplest of which was a rope attached to a bell on the surface and tied to the supposed decedent. A watch was posted in the graveyard near the recently buried to listen for bells.
Load More Replies...Logically most hauntings would take place in hospitals, but you never hear about that.
Yep those things happened, really scary to think about it
Load More Replies...Graveyards are very peaceful places. I'm more scared of the people that are still alive!
Depends on what you believe. I hear people are attached to their bodies and their spirits watch the whole process from the time they died to the moment they are buried, and have been seen at their funerals and wakes by family members. However, cemeteries are hot spots for Ouija board games and wannabe witches doing rituals they don't know how to perform properly, and are likely inviting things in the area that aren't from anyone who's buried there.
Ouija boards are a corporate invention, made for fools . Elija Bond would laugh at your comment.
Load More Replies...It's like whever I see someone offering $$$ to anyone who can stay overnite in a graveyard, or even a 'haunted house' - fine, as long as I can bring guns. If there really is such a thing as ghosts, weapons won't work - but there are such things as grave robbers or criminal trespassers. It makes sense to have wordly protection against worldly threats, and otherwordly entities won't be affected.
This actually isn’t accurate. I have an aura that attracts spirits snd have sat in many cemeteries at night and there is a lot of activity once 3 am hits. They don’t call it the witching hour for nothing
I was curious how people living in northern climes got vitamin c, until I learned pine tree needle tea had more vitamin c than an Orange
Cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, cloudberries, lingonberries and a dozen other berries I don't know in english.
Load More Replies...Potatoes have loads of Vit C, and bit off point but peas have loads of protein in :-)
And this is why there is not that many kiwi women sigh...
Load More Replies...It still should be unheard of. Please censor this immediately and never speak of it again.
There's also a practical aspect though, right? With a dead body at the bottom of the sea floor miles away from you its less likely for its active decay to mingle with you. Except maybe in a grand scheme kind of way as far as matter never disappearing. But in a pool? May as well be bedfellows
Load More Replies...In the ocean there is a whole ecosystem with critters designed to process dead bodies, in a pool there isn't.
I take issue when I'm in the lake that I can't see the bottom and I might stumble on a corpse. It's been a fear since reading a book of that happening to someone.
A lot of people who fish stumble upon dead bodies. My ex fishes A LOT and my biggest fear when I fished with him was having that happen. He's seen one being pulled out of the river by the cops but hasn't discovered one yet. I hate the thought of it.
Load More Replies...You're still way more likely to bump into the one corpse in the pool than any of the countless ones that are likely miles away in the ocean.
This makes me believe that the author thinks the websites are actually trying to filter out people. Requiring 18+ is a great form of enticement to 14 year old's.
That "18+ warning" is just a reminder that the contents might be inappropriate for some people. It's not even meant to stop people from entering the site.
People can always lie about their year of birth.
Load More Replies...Ask for the date of birth? You have too much faith in the honesty of people...
Asking someone how old they are does nothing either way. It's not like they're checking IDs.
In my past experience, if it said 18+, it made me all the more determined to see this forbidden content. And that, folks, is how you discover hardcore porn at 8 years old.
a) uses a fake date with 1900 as birth year b) put your birthdate - required to be > 18 - clears history - retry using the "right" birth year
If you ask for date of birth without giving a reason, then many people might not understand the reason for the question and fill it on genuinely
Load More Replies...If you get the Haribo Kosher and Halal Line, they use veggie gelatin and no bones.
Yup. Also more people then not, have no clue where "gummy" comes from. They also don't like it when I tell them.
I ate canned peaches today! I hope the person I shared it with is having a good day wherever they are 😍
Load More Replies...The reason that it takes so long to find the source of salmonella and ecoli contaminations and why they spread so far so fast. Importing and exporting food is good, but mixing them all together in the process is bad.
The fact that Ouija was misspelled makes this even more brilliant/relevant to me
"Yes Santa is real".....*person sitting in front of board looks incredibly confused after asking if there's a heaven or hell...
Not is the person using the board, like myself is also dyslexic
Always said this and back in the day so few people knew how to read or write but as soon as your dead your like the Oxford dictionary seems like a bit of a kick on the teeth.
I'm an engineer and let me tell you our work would be nothing without the smartass maintenance worker who get to fix our mistakes on the field.
lol... the space station is literally the most expensive thing ever built. Would you trust someone else to do this job?
And here's me in my brick house - no wolves blowing my house down! My house is pretty old so the walls are really thick brick, about 18 inches thick
And yet they call the police on me when I lick the neighbour’s door. Double standards much? 😂
So, what you are saying is that termites eat candy that is too hard for human teeth...
I stopped buying pre-shredded cheese because they use cellulose for anti clumping reasons(still clumps by the way). Also, if you're a fan of jelly beans, they use shellac which is secreted by the lac beetle to make them shiny. Yum!
The claustrophobia of being in a car you can't see out of would be awful though.
Honestly glass windows will no longer be essential. We could be in much safer completely steel vessels and just f**k around on our phones and watch Netflix or w/e instead of driving.
tbh mostly self-driving cars are out. Wipers will be there for a formality and to retain the image of a "car" and not a robot.
Forgot to add but like the Self-Driving Update is out on Tesla's for people with a high enough safety score
Load More Replies...Something needs to keep all the sensors they do need clean, windshield or not.
Almost everyone questioned recently, wanted a steering wheel and pedals in any self-driving car, which is stupid when you consider that the reason they want the self-driving car is so that they don't need to pay attention, at which point any controls would be pointless
Redundant backup systems are always a good idea. Not to mention those times when google maps isn't up to date and the computer won't take you on a new road or bridge. One glitch in the system either strands you, or forces you to drive. Which would you prefer?
Load More Replies...Once we have self driving cars you're more controlled by the government than any vaccine with microchips could achieve. Yet the sales of cars with the "self drive" option are booming...
remember, the same folks who brought you Windows, are coding the self-driving AI. Also remember that no connected computer is "unhackable". Maximum Overdrive (the 80's movie) will become a documentary. Decades in IT, I KNOW how easy it is for committed hackers (for profit, for country, for shitz & gigs) to compromise software. Next trade war, at best you car will be shut down. At worst it will become a hunter-killer robot.
Load More Replies...That's cuz ears mouths and brains don't communicate well with each other, kinda like cia, fbi, and nsa
I read that as CIA, FBI, and NASA and was wondering what space crimes you were worrying about.
Load More Replies...It's like remembering someone's name. Once that person tells you, you go aaaaah!
It’s like “you should’ve been there moment “ when trying to explain something
Story of my life - my 7yr old is going through a "tell me jokes every 5 mins" phase and minute she asks my mind goes blank - except for the one joke I got from a Christmas cracker years ago that is forever lodged in my brain
This might be a little too young for your kiddo, but my favorite kid joke is: What is black and white and red and polka dotted and slimy and sparkly and (name as many more adjectives as you want) all over? Answer: A mess! I knew some kindergarteners who LOVED telling and retelling that joke to each other.
Load More Replies...That's a wonderful idea! I'm not sure when flowers became a "girl thing." Plenty of guys like flowers too.
Load More Replies...I have offered flowers to many men - family and friends - because flowers are pretty and everyone deserves pretty.
I'm gonna buy my husband flowers today now, just in case I go first and never get to buy him flowers, haha! And I'm totally going first, my health is crap but he's never sick - so unless he pisses me off so much I plot to murder him I'm definitely dying first. Plus funerals are no fun, and expensive, I don't want to deal with that crap
More gals should do this more often, guys love to get flowers and (shhhh) don't tell anybody, they like getting teddy bears too.
Well, who doesn't want a cuddle buddy?
Load More Replies...I use to work for a florist and I would get tons of free flowers! I always tried to give men flowers because it’s usually the 1st time anyone has given them flowers! Feels special :)
where does this fall in hilarious and brilliant realizations, its just the sad truth :(
This is very true, so let's make it more of a thing to do so, my boyfriend appreciated them 🤷🏾♀️
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms. Big ones, little ones, fat ones, skinny ones, Ooohhh how they squirm. Pull their meat out, suck their juice, throw their skins away. How's a poor little girl like me gonna live on 3 little worms a day.
Now there's a song I haven't thought of in over a decade!
Load More Replies...All animal shaped candy is weird. Why not just fruit flavored fruits instead of fruit flavored bears?
Reminds me of "you're such a loser. If there was a competition for biggest loser you'd come second"
I could've won award for the laziest person, but I wasn't bothered to collect it.
I used to do this math while biking home after my shift working at a bar. I was paid $2/hr plus tips. Some nights, the bar was really slow, and I'd make less than $15 for a full shift. Sometimes I'd see pennies, nickels, or dimes while cycling and calculate if it would be worth it for me to stop, turn around, get off my bike, and pick it up. Some nights, yes. Other nights, no. If I had a good shift, I'd gamble if the coin would still be there the next day and pick it up then. (P.S. Serving minimum wage sucks. If you live somewhere where tipped employees can be paid less than minimum wage, always tip. Tipping is an awful practice, but if you choose to be cheap about it, you're only hurting the worker.)
I remember reading some factiod about a billionaire (Bill Gates I think) that said that if he was walking along and saw a $20 bill on the ground it would not be worth his time stop, bend down and pick it up.
I can't even bend over for more than 30 seconds without the lumbar region of my back locking up on me. Being 40 and having had rheumatoid arthritis since I was 7 has made a lot of movements we usually take for granted virtually impossible.
And that's why we do it. Our unconscious mind is smarter than we are...
I've been thinking about the work I do and how $12.75 /hr feels like an insult change for all the crap I endure.
It was the same for me in spain. My mum was always late (we always needed to wait for her) and my teacher when I was 8-9 was always angry with me. I tried to reason with her once and she grounded me.
Load More Replies...I was once being lectured while I was trying to get ready to leave and my mom told me to wait until she was done yelling, purposely making me late for school, and when I got to school I got in trouble for being late even after I told the secretary what happened. Apparently I was supposed to ignore my mom and just leave but I knew that would have just made my mom really angry and she would forcibly stop me. Damned if you do, damned if you don't is the entire premise of my childhood.
Are they punished? I just call the office and tell them, “(kid)’s tardy is excused. My fault.” No one ever says anything to her about it.
Eh, I felt a whole lot more personal responsibility for it in college than in elementary school. I remember sitting outside the door of a college class and listening to the lecture because I was too ashamed that I was late and didn't want to draw attention to myself. In elementary and middle school, I had zero guilt waltzing in late and occasionally serving detentions for my massive amounts of tardies. (To be fair, I definitely did lollygag as a child. My parents scrambled every morning. It was their responsibility that I got to school on time, but I was also zero help.)
And yet there are still people who deny depression exists, or that it's just feeling down and judge people for using medication to resolve the situation.
This is the absolute best synopsis for depression I've ever read. Bravo, OP.
Thank God there's medication that helps to balance it a bit...I hate being tied down by invisible chains and feeling like s**t.
I found it quite surprising that in the US wisdom teeth are extracted even when they cause no problems and are healthy.
I've never had a cavity. Strong teeth. Never an issue except the baby tooth I had extracted at age 45.... one of "consultants" said I need to extract like 10 healthy teeth to put on fake ones because I have air pockets in my gums. Wtf are fake teeth gonna do about these pockets? And why should I bother when my teeth are stronger than elephant ivory. Money making to off! BTW, California insurance rarely covers dental so this would've put me back about 5k of my own money. With this kind of tablet going, it's no wonder insurance won't mess with dental
Not true, the last time I had one of those utterly perfect days, I appreciated it at the time. You know, those super-rare days, where everything goes right and everything seems magical?
Once i was eating lunch with my friends, and everyone was talking and laughing, and I remembered experiencing a moment of true, pure happiness, which is pretty rare for me. I still feel good when I look back on that moment. It's strange how such a small moment had such a big impact
And we never apreciate certain experiences until they stop happening. I hate that there are many things that you do for the last time without knowing. I always loved xmas eve and enjoy them a lot. But this year I realised that the last "full" xmas eve I will ever have was in 2017. I wasnt there in 2018-19 (i visited in january in the spanish "reyes" (6jan) festivity), then we had the pandemic, then my uncle died and this year we canceled. My granma is going to die soon (I doubt I will see her again after i leave this week) so when we are able to gather again (2022?2025? Who knows) Both my uncle and grandma wont be there. I apreciatted a lot the 2017 party but i wish i knew it was the last one to savour it better.
But if you knew at the time, it would have been a sad, not happy, occasion.
Load More Replies...My experience with education has been that I don't know how valuable a class or lesson is until years later if/when I use what I learned.
yep, we didn't do that for several of my relatives as we're a family of heathens. we just cremated them and dumped the ashes wherever they felt it was important.
Load More Replies...Shhhhh -- you just KNOW it drives some people insane that they can't monetize every single thing we do, online or otherwise.
There is a saying - "“if something is free, you’re the product." Id say it might keep being free until they no longer need to mine our data from email.
Load More Replies...Except it’s not really free. As someone once said of online things: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product
It is not free. You are the product being sold via email tracking bits.
Some providers in the Netherlands considered subscription fees and even a charge per email. But a clever accountant told them that that would cost them money. People wouldn't want to pay for email, so all the providers correspondence would be by old fashioned letters. They would spend more on postage than they would miss on income from paid email.
Things that drink blood pump stuff in to keep the blood from coagulating and to force the blood out. That's the stuff that creates the itchy histamine reaction.
I've never heard of a vampire chewing my blood, just drinking it, so I'm going to assume the bite has more to it. Also considering, a small bite that doesn't drain the blood turns the victim into the undead.. so yeah, I'm gonna say the bite also injects something into the victim. However, being quickened into an immortal, the ouch won't last long
Load More Replies...Depends if it's vampire horror or one of those weird paranormal romances.
Load More Replies...By all accounts, the bite of the vampire bat is painless. The bat's saliva contains both an anticoagulant which keeps the blood flowing, and a local anesthetic that keeps a sleeping victim from noticing the bite. So the lucky bat meal wakes up with blood everywhere and no sensation of injury.
"since 30% of road accidents are caused by alcoholics, 70% are caused by water drinkers so they are the danger." Prof. Choron
You're not paying for bottled water, you're paying for the bottle.
I’ve definitely reported more children for foul language than adults on Fortnite! I’ve been called a bitch, a whore etc by what sounded like young teenage boys. I’ve never had another adult say anything inappropriate to me.
And if you're a woman then of course they would say that. They sound like little misogynist future incels. 🙄
Load More Replies...I don't understand where the parents are of these kids. Back when I used to play Mario with my little bro, one *sigh* or any complaint, our folks would say "If you're getting angry it's time to shut off the game." And that was before you were able to save your progress. (We were raised by boomers, what can I say?!) Now, you got kids with 0 or very loose parental supervision, online, talking to strangers. The stuff I've heard is scary. One guy who sounded very mature was coercing a very young sounding teenage girl to meet him at an airport. She was hesitant but considering it, and I'm all "No, little girl. Don't go."
That's something I've noticed about nerd/geek subgroups, there's a weird equality between the adults and children involved in gaming and fandoms and such. Is it because the children are precocious, and the adults are being immature?
I suppose it's a similar phenomenon to online anonymity. People let their darkness out when there's no accountability, and mob culture is real. Truly, all it takes is one person in a party having the balls to set the tone that we take care of each other and treat children well, and all the others follow. I've witnessed this. It is weird and disappointing but also heart warming when it goes well. But yes, the competitive spirit of certain games leads people to lose their minds a little and have tiny levels of tolerance for people who don't know what they're doing. Those people are often children (but not always.) And, the gaming industry is still recovering from toxic masculinity as well which is very degrading in general to anything perceived as weak
Load More Replies...Many pro gamers, who are often grown ups or teenagers, tend to be very dismissive of child gamers.
Load More Replies...What if there is some kind of secret owl relay service no-one but the owls know about?
Except for that terrible Alone in the Dark game where you actually had to hit a button to make your character blink. I didn't last very long with that one, as you would imagine.
what a funny dev idea, it was mandatory to be able to play?
Load More Replies...that’s also why I love these games, the character never trips and does not bump into anything!: D
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Since the player themselves blink while looking through the eyes of the game character, the game character doesn't need to blink as that would be a redundant motion.
Not true. Pre-agricultural people have excellent teeth. It's the consumption of bread and cereal products that ruin our teeth, and that's (on an evolutionary scale) a fairly recent innovation
Pre-agricultural people might have teeth in a better shape but their life expectancy was much shorter so basically if you find a prehistoric skull with a full set of teeth they must have probably die young and hence the teeth were not deteriorated more. When people invented agriculture and, later on, foods industry we started to ingest more and more sugars that are really bad for our teeth. Way more than the prehistoric people. As a result (if dental care is skipped) modern people's teeth will be decaying at more rapid pace when compared to our predecessors.
Load More Replies...Some people are genetically predisposed to bad teeth. My dad had horrible problems with tooth decay despite taking good care of them. I struggle with tooth decay myself, in spite of brushing and flossing twice a day, going to the dentist regularly, and avoiding excessively sugary, acidic food and drink. I had braces to fix my horribly crooked teeth in high school because they were hard to clean properly. My son has the exact same issues, right down to needing braces to make his teeth easier to properly care for. I'm going to the dentist today, in fact.
Elephants actually die because their teeth have worn down so much that they can no longer break down food, starving to death
Sugar kills the good bacteria in out mouths that help to keep teeth and gums healthy
I only have 3 of the 4 wisdom teeth. All have grown in without issue. But I say because I have 3, not 4 and zero cavities I'm evolutionary advanced
Most of your food has seen more of the world than you have. It sounds delusional, but I'm often jealous of my produce..
They have to travel to America first for those secret herbs and spices before being shipped all over the world.
Ahhhh the 100 monkey's typing randomly and eventually one will write Shakespeare logic.
Technically if you exit where you exactly enter you would be driving on the wrong side of the road
Not unless it’s A: a one lane road, or B: a road with no median, but the two sides are separated by double yellow lines.
Load More Replies...That’s because you take a turn to the right (of about 90 degrees), subsequently turn about 360 degrees to the left, and finally turn another approximately 90 degrees turn to the right (or everything in the opposite direction if you would drive at the left hand side of the road). So actually you do a 360 and two -90’s, which add up to a combined 180.
https://www.co.washington.mn.us/DocumentCenter/View/2296/Traffic-Circles-vs-Roundabouts
Load More Replies...This is kinda dumb. How would you do a 360 without having done a 180??? I cant count upto 10 and bypass 7 on the way as if it doesnt exist...or am i missing something?
180 by turnig his car 180 degrees and 360 by driving a full circle
Load More Replies...Yep, any number of mineral deficiencies can be healed by applications of the correct crystal!
Load More Replies...Iodized salt has prevented thyroid issues in millions of people since its introduction about a hundred years ago. So it a way, crystals (via being a transport mechanism) have saved countless lives.
Uh... salt is a crystalline mineral.. so yes. However, don't expect a piece of rose quartz on your 3rd eye to do much as a supplement replacement
They didn't say anything about *where* you apply them. And technically, since humans are donuts made of skin, the absorbent flesh inside your mouth, stomach, and intestines do help you eat through your skin. :)
Load More Replies...We're more likely to measure things in quarters, so adding 75 plus 25 feels more neat and natural than choosing to split 65/35, even though they both bring the same outcome and are relatively neat splits with the 5s. At least in the US, we grow up on quarters. Quarter pounder. Quarter to 5. An actual coin quarter. We don't have a 35 cent coin.
Load More Replies...If you re arrange the numbers 11+2=13 you get 12+1=13 also if you arrange the letters in eleven plus twelve equals thirteen you get twelve plus one equals thirteen. 😉
i guess it just feels better at an understanding point of view. 75 + 25 is like 3+1. 65+35 will need decimals to represent.
The reason 75+25 is that it's 3/4 +1/4, while 65+35 would require some complicated fraction
It's they don't enjoy these posts at all but just keep coming back.
Load More Replies...I'd like to add to shower thoughts, if I may. It may or may not be original, but I giggled: Jock straps are basically ball bras.
It's they don't enjoy these posts at all but just keep coming back.
Load More Replies...I'd like to add to shower thoughts, if I may. It may or may not be original, but I giggled: Jock straps are basically ball bras.
