Dharma Curious (he/him)

I don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other. But I do have a fun story!

When my mom was pregnant with my older brother, they had a phone repair guy at the house. She was going through a book of baby names and trying to pick one, while her husband was yelling from the other room that his name would be the same as his (we’ll go with John for the example and privacy).

Husband: (yelling) his name will be John, same as me!

Mama: no! I will not do that! He’d be a junior, I’m not naming my son Junior like some redneck!

Husband: it’s not a redneck name! You don’t have to call him junior, call him john!

Mama: no, it’s trashy! It’s a white trash name and I’m not doing it! I want him to be able to read, not learn how to make moonshine out of an old radiator!*

*That one’s an actual direct quote

Phone repair guy: turns around I need something from the truck.

Mama looks up and notices his name tag. Junior.

Dude left, got in his truck, and drove away. Sent someone else out the next day to fix the phone

Which one?

We’re in the south. Near Beaufort/Hilton Head, SC

Chonk looks so much like your puppy, I wonder if they’re related someone down the line

She looks SO much like the dog my brother found/adopted last year, named Chonk!

That’s nothin’, can’t beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!

🎶🕺🎶🥴🥃👓🍻👨🏻➡️🏠🛏️🍆🍑🌄🕦🚪🚖⏳⏳⏳☎️👨🏻‍⚕️☹️🦠💊

I should note: this NOT autobiographical lmao

Someone exploded a beached whale and then you drive home in the rain

Well… Not entirely true. It was a comment not dissimilar to the one at the top of this thread that made me realize we shouldn’t be keeping cats outdoors. We had always had the indoor/outdoor cat and never really thought anything about it. After that comment and doing a little research all of our cats became indoor cats from then on.

I think it’s just poorly written pseudo-legalese, and it’s intended to mean that he will be unable to enjoy life in the future because of the psychological damage that poor is doing to him (unrealistic expectations and mental harm, et cetera).

While porn addiction and unrealistic ideas of beauty and sex are genuinely real things that happen, the way to prevent that is with frank, open discussions about sex and pornography, not trying to prevent your 14 year old from masturbating. I was a 14 year old boy at one point, and lemme tell you, nothing could stop me from masturbating. Nothing. It’s just not going to happen. Kids will find ways to find porn, and if somehow we completely do away with it entirely (again, won’t happen), they’ll find new ways, and they’ll read and write erotica or get into hentai or whatever. This woman is insane, Kansas is insane, and so are all the other states imposing this bullshit

Ask me this a couple months ago and I’d have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I’ve realized it’s not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That’s gone now. I’ll opt for the end date on the tin.

For about 10 years now my phone has been on do not disturb. Not just while I’m driving, but just always. The only exception to the DND is my mom, who until about a month ago when she passed, I was caregiving for, and genuinely needed to be able to get her calls regardless of what was going on. I don’t get notifications for anything, and I don’t see calls when they’re actually happening. Need me, send a text and I’ll see the little thing in the notification shade maybe. Lol.

Because I’m not caregiving for my mom anymore, I’m on the job hunt and have had to turn do not disturb off so if I get a call for an interview I can answer it. I hate it so much. Constant scam/spam calls, telemarketers, et cetera. It suuuucks. Obviously, it’s not the worst thing about all this, but it certainly doesn’t help matters

I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.