To anyone wondering why: they’re more akin to large cotton pads than toilet paper. They don’t break down.

Over time it’s like flushing a bag of t-shirts and wondering why your pipes get clogged. Draino ain’t fixing that.

What gets rewarded gets done

There’s a payphone by one of the elementary schools here. I wonder if it’s more likely that a kid without a cellphone is more likely to use it?

I recently got a tablet so I could take handwritten notes during meetings. I thought I’d use it for a bunch of other stuff but I do not.

Not to mention, the OCR handwriting recognition my handwriting is really bad.

These exist! Sometimes with a small fee but not as expensive as renting

This could also indicate a food sensitivity if you’re reacting a lot worse to one type of alcohol (everything else held constant, obvs)

I haven’t truly laughed out loud at a comment in a while. Thank you.

Neat. And thanks to Marilyn Manson, we’re still on target to maintain an average of 12 pairs of ribs pp

Same. I was gifted a book called the “myth of multitasking”… I feel like I don’t need to read it to get the gist.

I love them

I’m very lucky to have a friend that doesn’t try to make me “feel better”. She just sits with me and makes me feel… not alone.

I hope I can return the favor one day, but more importantly I hope she never feels this level of despair to begin with.

TIL, thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'esprit_de_l'escalier

Rehearse it a bunch so the words no longer have the same weight

Is it the skin flute?

These are great, thanks!!

There’s a reason Gen X is called The Forgotten Generation #sadNoises

Literally anything other than my work devices

She’s been released. I think she lives in QC somewhere, got remarried and maybe even has a kid? Ugh, at least he will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Thanks, I love those. They are a little spicy, I agree.

I ended up trying some nissin demae and they weren’t spicy at all and were super delicious

I can’t seem to find plain noodles that taste as good as the noodles that come in these little packets. Do you have a brand or type you’d recommend?