Rexxitor. Biology nerd. Roguelites, indie games, and TRPGs. Drowning in unused yarn, unread books, and mandatory cat hair.
That was very nearly my exact same thought. Maybe not for curious children with carrot-sized fingers, but for adults, how convenient! Business competitor’s body won’t quite fit in your fancy frunk? Just while away on your phone for about 10 minutes, let the cat do its magic, and off go the legs! Travel-sized!
That’s what got me, too. The fucking gall. They didn’t devolve somehow into proto-humans, they have brain damage and he himself knows they have brain damage.
For all the specific type of damage is explained in the article, I was going to guess that it could be a simple balancing issue and a basic google search proved that correct: the siblings who walk like this all have a congenital defect that causes mental retardation and difficulty balancing, in addition to other things like muscle weakness and impacted speech and coordination, the latter two of which are normally present but they don’t happen to suffer from. Hence why they won’t stand upright, but they will do embroidery.
Motherfucker just referred to a handful of mentally disabled people as the missing link between human and ape. Out loud.
I only hope he sees academic humiliation for this.
I mean, I know I’m raining on an already pretty despairing post, here, in times that very well do lend themselves to despair, but that sentiment has been around as long as I’ve been alive and I’d bet good money decades longer. It’s probably one of those sentiments that’s as old as people.
But no one (or at least, comparatively very few) was rewarded for hating Elvis. He hasn’t been a thing in a long time. Same with any other risque entertainer that was also satan, they fall by the wayside after everyone gets bored. People are rewarded very well when they bend over for billionaires. As long as sociopathy is rewarded, there will always be rampant sociopathy.
I’m not saying it’s so ingrained that there’s no point in fighting it – forcibly changing the culture is of the utmost importance, especially now. But that sentiment, the battle plan can’t just be “wait around and it will work itself out.” It’s not like billionaires either of the actual or the temporarily embarrassed sort don’t have kids. I’m starting to see that’s the fatal flaw the more liberal-minded seem to have. It’s like we believe so hard that everyone is inherently good and that things will work out in the end that we never bother to make a move. It’s the death of us.
Fanning slowly – “I am married.”
Fanning quickly – “I am engaged.”
Using as a fan – “Introduce me to your company.”
…?
I have to wonder who came up with this. One would imagine it was just some idea someone had and they published a whole etiquette book about it, and it slowly but forcefully caught on from there, because otherwise I can’t imagine this just being a thing that evolves spontaneously in a way everyone equally understands. Imagine sitting all the way across the room at a ball or something and witnessing someone break up with their boytoy through body language. With perfect clarity for all to see. You might as well just say it out loud.
That would pretty clearly be the “I picked up a pencil 15 years ago and never put it down.” And it hurts me inside, that anyone would see that and jump to “obviously filtered to hell.” It is exactly this interaction:
Easy answer. Used too much. An especially weak argument when the one finding it “funny” is never from the area it’s happening in, and thus doesn’t actually have any emotional connection they’re needing to cope with.
You know there are still a couple recordings floating around from people who had tried to call family and/or 911 prior to dying in 9/11? I’ve found anyone who listens to those seems to stop making the 9/11 jokes. Strikes me odd. Must have made it real.
For context, earlier this week Hasbro (owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering) announced that it would be laying off 1,100 employees as a way to “modernize our organization and get even leaner”. Not soon after, it was revealed that an avalanche of employees from both D&D and MTG had been laid off.
In an investor meeting in October this year, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks specifically mentions Baldur’s Gate 3 as a contributing factor for a 40% increase in digital gaming revenue, alongside Monopoly Go! and Magic: The Gathering.
Well yeah, obviously you gotta fire whoever was the cause of a 40% increase in revenue, otherwise that could even raise to 50%. Where would it end?
Always safer to go with what you know: letting the ravenous mob desperate to throw money at you know just as soon as possible that you’re taking steps to remove anything they liked about your product.
Do you think they can get lean enough to break even in their future?
I figured I had worse things in my history and my personal TSA agent deserved to see this too, but nothing comes up except weird non-porn crypto stuff, a fully-clothed Shadowheart, and a magazine cover with muffins on it.
Don’t let this be my legacy.
I think we very much do understand it’s a problem and there is not a whole lot women can do about it that we aren’t already doing. The majority of feminists would love for men to see a fucking therapist. They keep fighting it tooth and nail, though.
They’ll either not open up at all for fear of being judged, or they’ll ONLY lean on the women in their life. The one or two women in their life, because in my anecdotal experience they don’t seem to stick around women they can’t sleep with.
You guys want and desperately need actual emotional support, but you seemingly refuse to support each other. When we tell you to so much as just give each other the compliments you’re looking for, it’s met with whining because the respondents want women to do it. Even though mainly the compliments we get are…also from women, and going along with this request puts us in harm’s way.
A lot of men are so beat to shit from such an early age that they can’t even put a name to a lot of emotions besides anger. Which causes them to be both unable to manage what they can barely explain, and to feel significantly uncomfortable (outmatched) in marriage counseling, watching their wife run circles around them.
But biting the bullet and improving on emotional literacy via counseling and/or self-study and deep reflection never seems to strike the fancy. Their date has to teach them. And they WILL be fighting every step of the way.
I would love to date someone who doesn’t define their entire existence through their job. That’s nearly the entire reason two out of my four relationships fell to pieces.
-I- didn’t give a shit. I met one of them when we were both homeless and said yes anyway. But if I made more money or they got laid off at any point, both of them would have a months-long binge drinking breakdown regardless of what I said.
You know you could just stop, right? That’s what’s incredibly frustrating about this for me. A lot of problems that are specific to men seem to be an issue of self-image, and are thus self-imposed, and you could just. Stop.
I can’t make anyone not pick me up by the throat, but any day you could just wake up and decide your paycheck doesn’t actually fucking matter and never date someone who thinks it does.
You could be excruciatingly nice to people for no reason instead of demanding women do it, work out what’s going on with you and tell people about it, and give them both barrels if they think a human being needing help is gay.
As much as I feel for men as a group, it’s the empathetic part that makes me want to hold them upside down and shake them till the sense falls out. Take. Care of each other. Fix the thing.
My character says, standing in a spreading pool of and in fact covered head to toe in blood.
Standing in solidarity as the grandchild of a turkish immigrant who has also had strangers decide my name inexplicably required a Q in it: this spelling. It hurts me. I was so bugged by it that I had to look up who could have done this, and of course it would be the french
Increased awareness of and respect for men who have been abused? UBI or some other welfare net generously funded enough that a parent didn’t have to care about pursuing some private citizen that wasn’t interested in being involved? I’m all for that.
Both of those would be an improvement so massive it is never going to happen, especially the second one. That would have been life changing for me in so many ways. I wouldn’t even be who I am, christ.
Unfortunately, it usually turns out they meant “How come getting them drunk has to matter” and “I don’t care about starving children and I’ll say so out loud.”
But the boxes were taken to the dumpster, yes? With time saved, even? Someone in a managerial position would rather hire, train, and pay a devoted garbage person instead of three adorably unpaid raccoons?
TIL JFK’s official presidential portrait looks like a zombie silently judging you from the afterlife, and it’s because it was only painted after his death. The artist’s inspiration was a photo of Ted Kennedy mourning his brother and Jackie chose that one immediately out of all the options, partially because they were both bored with the same generic stance every president has.
I’m not really getting the thoughtful, humble vibe she intended it to have, but I do really like it
Eh, people kept awarding me, so I do have a couple left over from all that. Wasn’t gonna use them because that would make me look like a tool, but this idea might be funny enough to sway me
Well yeah, of course the problem here would be child support and not divorce is functionally impossible in Missouri.