This reeks of the villain monologuing their plan while the hero is helplessly tied to the train tracks. But also Facebook living it for posterity lmao

Firstly, that’s hella interesting.

Secondly, I did not realize that the Roma were (are? Some are/were?) Muslim. I associated the Roma with Catholicism and Hinduism.

Thirdly, how the fuck does one use a pumpkin as a syphon?

I’m very glad, I don’t think an insurance company is a responsible home for kitties

Sadly, boob appeal is lost on me. But I’ve got some guy I’m still secretly hoping send me accidental dick pics lmao

I have a very dear friend that for a variety of backstory reasons I’m not gonna go into is very conservative sexually, and not at all the type of person to talk about her sex life. Virgin until she married. Her husband has the same first name as me. Shortly after they were married, she texted a picture of her, topless, neck down torso pic, with the words “I can’t wait until you get home, I love you so much”

This isn’t exactly the scandalous text that dry cleaner got, but for her this was extreme.

Luckily, I lived super rural at that time, and routinely had issues getting calls and texts. She texted a few hours later (I’m assuming after hubby got home and she realized what she’d done) and was like “oh my God, I’m so sorry!” And I just pretended like I’d never gotten the text or pics. Saved her a lot of worry about it, I hope

I live in a semi rural area. My closest grocery store is 10km, but it’s down the interstate, meaning even if I wanted to walk it, I couldn’t. Without using the interstate it’s about 15km.

My closest convenience store is only 7km, but the road i live on is not safe for walking (lots of blind curves, no sidewalks)

My nearest bus stop is 60 kilometers away, in my nearest city.

Nearest library is about 4 km past the convenience store, so 11ish klicks

Nearest train station is give or take 300 kilometers. We don’t really have any train service here.

Straight line distance from me to big Ben, give or take 6,500 kilometers

I mean, they’ve probably been responsible for enough deaths to count

You poor thing. I’m so sorry! That sounds genuinely terrible

My mom got so frustrated at how often I needed batteries for my walkman, my Gameboy, my other toys, and my little stereo I won at the library, that she replaced all of our batteries with a bunch of rechargeables she bought in bulk. All my friends were so jealous

Same thing I was thinking. Episcopalians with the daily office read through the Bible every 2 years and most of them are super chill

That’s true. Trouble is I really, really wanted to be a dad. But c’est la vie.

Where does one purchase a colonizer 3000?

Born in 91, I had a walkman. Got a disc man when I was like 10, but never used it because a, it skipped like a mother fucker it I was walking, and b, cassettes were so much cheaper. I used to listen to books on tape from the library while walking around my town. My mom was a badass who replaced all our batteries with rechargeables and I would even listen to them while sleeping using the walkman instead of the stereo haha

Also, I never rewound a vhs by hand, always used the VCR or the dedicated tape rewinder shaped like a racecar haha

Truly a shame that these old skills have gone out of style

I’ve got all of that already. I’m mainly concerned that I’m not even close to a relationship and kids D:

It’s a start!

That’s all very fascinating, and thank you for clarifying that for everything.

But I need you to shut your lying mouth with that 17 years nonsense. I am 33. I am in way 17 years from 50 years old. Shut up. Shut up and stop talking your heinous lies.

The nickname thing is a little freaky, tbh, because it’s not something I ever used online or in any official capacity. It’s just something a few friends called me years ago.

Absolutely, but the general populace has so much information thrown at them all day, every day, I really do think most people would just move on from it, because our brains just can’t handle everything all at once. Unless there’s some specific reason to think about it, we’d move on to the things that impact us more directly.

It reminds me of that thing they do on Jimmy Kimmel, where they ask people about fake news stories, and the people invent answers. It’s funny and all, but they do that because it’s considered embarrassing not to know about the whatever the fuck insane thing the news just threw at us, while also there being so much of it that it’s impossible to remember everything. Plus, we’re super suggestable creatures

Thanks!

But don’t feel too badly. Honestly, it’s almost a good thing. Without someone stoking the fires of hatred, that same adaptability means that we’re super capable of accepting each other.