🌌 we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
Exercise outside (preferably in a natural setting) and with a group. Outdoor bootcamp is the holy grail for me. Reasons:
Outside air is easier to breathe than stale gym air
There’s always something interesting to look at while you slowly die
Clumps of grass don’t mind if I swear under my breath
PEER PRESSURE. IT WORKS.
At the end of the training session, trauma bonding with the rest of the group (edit: I misused the term trauma bonding)
Hobby: Telescopes upside-down or back-to-front, pointed through windows, with aperture caps on, without eyepieces, under heavy light pollution and glare, magically show Hubble-level images of something only visible from the opposite hemisphere.
Job: The Government knows everything about you and any employee can pull up any info on anyone in seconds. Ffs we can’t even get two departments to cooperate on a common database format.
And loon calls in totally the wrong biomes, even continents!
Paralives! Because fuck EA for ruining The Sims (among many other games), it’s time for a good competitor. Plus, they’re from my city!
Thank you, I saw your exchange and now I understand what was meant.
Aah I saw their comment and your reply to them. That makes sense, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Sorry for butting in, but you wait “until things get serious” to tell people you’re into them just for the sex? I really want to give you the benefit of doubt because you’ve been respectful and articulate so far, but do you honestly not see the problem here? Why not just use Tinder for hookups?
I knew they were shitty to me and my brother, but rationalized most of it as being the product of a different culture and time. What really sealed the deal was finding out how shitty they were being to my elderly frail grandmother who was living with them. They made her last years on this Earth so miserable. I have lost all respect for them, I will never forgive them, and I’m glad to be hundreds of km away from them.
Depending on how thick the line was, maybe it was a cover-up for another tattoo? (or a group of tattoos)
U2’s With or Without You cover by April Meservy and Aaron Edson. It infuses the original with raw emotion - you can feel the pain and exhaustion.
Edited to add: And Marilyn Manson’s version of Tainted Love. It sounds sickening and toxic, making the song about much more than a breakup.
In the order I learned them:
🇷🇴 Romanian: Vă rog / Mulțumesc (native)
🇨🇵 French: S’il-vous-plaît / Merci
🇬🇧 English: Please / Thank you
🇪🇦 Spanish: Por favor / Gracias
🇯🇵 Japanese: Onegai / Arigato
🇨🇳 Mandarin: Qing / Xiè xie
🇮🇹 Italian: Per favore / Grazie
🇩🇪 German: Bitte / Danke
🇷🇺 Russian: Pozhalusta / Spasiba
That happened so long ago that we wouldn’t even call those people “human”.
Police Academy
The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Tenth Kingdom
So if I get this right, your dad turned homosexual from his babysitter… Then proceeded to have two, presumably biologic, kids?
What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck
I don’t know how to explain it… Like if you tried to bring your jaw backwards but without actually moving it? I think it’s the same thing as the “ear rumbling” others have mentioned. I’ve been doing it since I was very young so I don’t even remember how I learned it.
My husband used to work night shifts. When he came home in the wee hours of the morning he would get undressed in the dark, so as to not wake me up. If he happened to make a loud noise like dropping his phone, banging his belt buckle, etc, I would wake up seeing a specific pattern “behind my eyes”, so to speak, triggered by the noise. With time I realized the pattern changed depending on the nature of the noise!
Your spectrum analyzer pulled double-duty!
(not OP) I do it by clenching a muscle in my inner ear. If I sustain the clenching for a few seconds, the ringing goes away. It works slightly better for my right ear than my left ear.
You’re right, thank you for pointing it out. I’ll change it.