I eat twice a day, I never stop moving.

I would say I’m doing better than most people at 40 if I hadn’t smoked since I was 10.

I have something wrong with some nerves in my back though. Shit tingles to an annoying level if I carry my kids around.

I personally used the same washing machine from the time I was 13 until I was 36.

Been through some dryers though, and the old washer gave out a few years ago. I probably could have repaired it but I couldn’t find the time.

I should have figured the Rick and Morty episode was a reference to something.

Makes me think about South Park and watching it as it aired when I was a kid. There were so many things I missed because I hadn’t seen any of the source material for a lot of the jokes.

Watching it all again 25 years later and damn, even better the second time around when you’ve seen all the shit they’re parodying.

That just screams that folks don’t actually read the Bible.

Well, that, or 7 year olds just took context and ran with it.

There was a lady who came in my store regularly. You could tell she put a lot of work into herself. I mean, it had to take her hours to get ready every morning.

She always seemed so sad. Not rude or anything, just depressed or something.

It took me more than a month to work up the courage to say it, but one day I got the guts and I said, “Hey, I’ve been wanting to say this to you but I know how men can be and I’ve stopped myself a hundred times. I’m not hitting on you, I’m married. I just have to tell you that you are one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen in my life and I just love the way you dress and do your makeup. You’re always a pleasant sight.”

I never seen that woman with a sad look on her face again.

Had another customer, very old lady. Very hateful. Always in a rush but doing everything so slow. One of the meanest looking people I’ve ever known. I didn’t see her smile for years. She was probably about 85 years old.

One day I said to her, “You know, you’re one of my absolute favorite customers. I’m always happy to see you coming.”

She looked up at me with that mean face and flashed a short smile. I had never seen her smile before that. She didn’t say anything, just smiled.

Every time she came in after that she’d be her usual mean looking self, but she’d always smile at me and then go right back to grumbling.

I’d love to see the bank account and hear the life story of the person who downvoted you.

I really would.

Man, my poor daughter.

This was her life. When her mom died she dealt with the guilt that followed her relief.

Having known her mom all of my life and seen everything she went through as a child, I wish some kind of ghost of Christmas past could take my daughter and show her so she can see that her mom wasn’t always like that. That at one time she was a little girl waiting on the day she could escape her own mom. At one point she was young and a lot like her.

I always figured they’d get it right when she grew up, but she never got that chance.

FUCK CANCER. Seriously.

I have a cousin with a dingdong like that. Super pale with a bright pink toadstool tip.

Haha, when we were kids I caught him doing his thing a few times. He did this odd thing like he was starting a fire with a stick.

So bizarre. Enjoy the mental image.

I agree with you, but silly baseless insecurities being expressed all the time just hurts the people around you for nothing.

I expressed it once early in our relationship and there’s no reason to express it again. I’m stupid for feeling the way I do and I should carry that stupidity quietly.

Wellll, my wife is bi. I have a constant (not really constant, just when my insecurity is dragged out by a nightmare or something) nagging fear that she’ll leave me for a woman one day. (I’m a man).

Maybe it’s just an extra layer because it potentially opens more doors.

You know how some things people say just echo in your head forever? You hear a thousand points from a thousand people and most of it just goes in one ear and out the other, but something sticks for some reason or other and it just echoes in your brain.

An idiot, misogynist, redneck said to me, “once ‘ey get uh little pussy it’s a matter uh time. They want it like anybody who wants it, and they won’t go without it forever.”

When I’m feeling particularly insecure, that dumb shit just shows up in my brain.

I’m aware that I’m being stupid. I don’t express this to my wife because I’m being stupid and I know it.

Well, overly stupid people scream their insecurities out loud constantly.

I’ve met some really, really stupid gay people. They’re people like anyone else, of course.

The truth is, if I were to hand myself over to my sexuality entirely, I’d be fucking as many people as I could as often as possible. My sexuality isn’t all I am. It’s a small part of who I am. I just have to trust that my wife is as serious about us as I am. She hasn’t given me a reason not to trust her.

I guess my point is, idiot+insecure=bigotry.

If my wife ever leaves me for a woman, I won’t let it verify my insecurity. She could just as easily leave me for a man. No point in letting my insecurities make me a bigot. Gay people aren’t immune to bigotry.

You know what really sucks? This hasn’t always been the way we experienced the world. Unlike the next generation, we had a small window where things were normal, where you could leave your house and bad news could wait. You could be free to be alone and as far away from everyone as you wanted.

Maybe the average person likes being connected all the time, but it has destroyed my brain, my creativity, just everything.

I held out on getting a cell phone with constant connectivity until 2019 when my wife made me get service because we were having a baby. My magic jack (and the app that came later) were enough for me. I could leave my home and experience true freedom from the world. Everyone knew I didn’t have service so no one was upset when they couldn’t reach me. It was, “hey, call me when you get home. You really need a real phone man.”

I feel like I experience no freedom whatsoever.

The best time of my life, the most creative time of my life, the most I ever read, the most I ever accomplished, I did by refusing to have cable, internet, or a phone back when I first moved out on my own. I wrote songs, short stories, tried painting, etc.

I require hours and hours of being completely uninterrupted to do anything and that just isn’t the world I live in anymore.

And no one did a thing when they were on the verge of having them because North Korea doesn’t have anything worth taking would be my guess.

I did that for a while, and I’ll be exaggerating my uselessness but here goes.

“No, that can’t be him. See, the man who did the robbery was wearing a pair of pantyhose on his face. This guy has no such article of clothing on his face. His friend had on a ski mask, I don’t see a ski mask on this man’s face. Yeah, they’re wearing the same shoes but what about the face coverings, hmmmmm?”

I just took a trip down south in the US and obsessively monitored the weather back home and pined for it haha.

92F (33C) where I was at, 68F (20C) at home.

I’ve been dealing with this forever.

Some issues I have that I only deal with when I’m not signed in without an adblocker:

If I try to skip back to a spot in a video, I get the loading circle and sometimes it doesn’t come back until I refresh the page. I have to make a mental note of the time and do that pretty often.

In safari and Firefox I will get a black box for about 40 seconds, no play button, and sometimes I have to refresh the page a few times just to get it to work at all.

Comments will not load sometimes until I refresh the page, sometimes more than once.

The video will sometimes stop and start “loading” while I’m watching it. The solution is always a page refresh or two.

Signed in with an adblocker, the problems drop by about 50% (pulled that number out of my ass, but I’d be willing to bet it’s close). Signed in with no adblocker on Firefox or Safari and the issues become significantly less noticeable, with exceptions from time to time. Signed in with no adblocker on chrome or edge, I experience none of this.

I believe they purposely throttle it on non chromium browsers too.

Sorry if this comment is jumbled. Woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache, got bored waiting for it to pass, so now I’m here and barely conscious.

Same here. Apollo stopped and I came here.

Holy shit, time flies. It was Apollo for me.

Damn.

You’re welcome, I guess.

Read it again, I guess.