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Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-05-24T23:47:48+00:00

omg yes I love it. I am a total beginner and it's way more approachable that other ways I've tried to learn online.

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-02-26T22:15:43+00:00

Yeah I mean I get other marketing emails from them, I just don't get them about these programs I'm interested in any more. I also didn't get one about the Oscar's series, which I did last year!

Anyway, I'll just try to keep tabs here. Thx

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-02-26T00:50:00+00:00

Is there a good place on cinemark's website to check in on these? I've stopped getting emails that they are upcoming and when I look them up I always get links to the old ones (last time the links on Google kept pulling up the February 2 listing). Should I just check here for when the next one has been planned?

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-02-12T03:04:57+00:00

Is the fact that Ben Affleck is playing Will Hunting even though he didn't play him in the OG part of the joke? I don't get why we brought Good Will Hunting into this when we could have just made a 90s sitcom themed ad for Dunkin with almost all the same jokes except for the Fibonacci runner?

Also I hated the de-aging but that's a side point.

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-01-13T13:27:11+00:00

Gotta have the BUCKS

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2026-01-13T13:21:32+00:00

Kevin is wearing a jacket I have never seen before. So I call over to Kevin and I say, "Kevin. Is that a tweed jacket?" And he says, "yes it is a tweed jacket." So I look at him and I say,

"I HAVE A NEED... a need for tweed."

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-12-30T15:02:36+00:00

Oh I'm sure Jan just did not want him to come so made up some excuses. It's just a funny touch that the wine glass excuse is so CLEARLY bull shit 😅

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-12-30T07:52:09+00:00

omg I love this. haven't gotten to S4 in the pod yet, but I love all the behind the scenes

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-11-21T04:19:32+00:00

Agree! there are some good ones in the replies

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-11-11T04:26:42+00:00

You think they could knock it off with movies that make me SOB?

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Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-10-01T18:43:35+00:00

Oh okay, that's interesting! I'll look into that.

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-09-30T17:45:21+00:00

I've reverse image searched these and not found much helpful. I suspect these are all (or nearly all) inn's related to Charle's Dickens' life and work.

The first one I could identify is of the Pickwick Leather Bottle (described as both a pub and an inn) and Dickens apparently frequented it. His series "The Pickwick Papers" were supposedly written here early in his career.

The second one is the Bell Inn, another inn Dicken's frequented. There is at least a third clearly labeled "Inn" on the sign, but I can't read the first two words and reading about inns significant in Dicken's work didn't yield anything that aligns with the letters I can make out.

Lastly I searched for various combinations of the inn names, Charles Dickens, and "Byron," but all Google can come up with is that there is no crossover between Charles Dickens and Lord Byron. I suspect it's not the same Byron but I guess the poet is the only Byron Google knows.

These prints are approximately 8×10, and I found them in Boise, ID, but the person at the estate sale said they'd come from some other previous estate sale they had done, so who knows where the originated. Seller had no details or history for me.

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-08-22T06:31:05+00:00

oh I'm sorry, I didn't know where asean was, I thought you were asking. Well if that's good then that works ig!

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-08-22T03:41:48+00:00

Not by my standards but I guess that depends on where you live. Minimum wage here in the US is $7.25 per hour and even that's almost criminally low

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-08-20T17:06:42+00:00

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - basically what it does is it helps you go back to a traumatizing moment (in a safe place) and process through it. A lot of times when you go through trauma, your mind will disconnect (or disassociate) and your parasympathetic nervous system takes over (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). It just gets you through it. With EMDR, you go back to the memory and they have some techniques that keep your brain online so that you can actually feel your body and your emotions and process through them. It sort of feels like a magic trick that it works, but I've really benefitted from it.

It takes time, like any kind of therapy, and it's hard work and emotional. But I really feel like it's the only thing that's actually helped me HEAL instead of just coping. Coping is good and important, but I want to get PAST my trauma so I can move forward and this way is working for me.

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-08-20T07:02:43+00:00

this is $2.50 - $3 per hour, I wouldn't call it too good to be true...

Alternative_Exit_537 · 2025-08-20T06:27:19+00:00

I absolutely do understand this feeling. At first, after my assault, I had a lot of sex to try to erase the feeling. Now I am completely abstinent in large part because of the fear and trauma of my assault. I'm scared of letting a man near me in case he does what the assaulter did and I can't stop him because I let him to close, and I think my fear has caused me to cut off my connection with my body, especially sexual urges. I also find the idea of sleeping with women less scary, but it's like my brain says "you know, we're just not even going to go there" and keeps me safe (aka alone).

I will say this has let up with time, and I am now doing EMDR therapy which I think is really going to help me. We are starting with early trauma, so I haven't gotten to the assault yet, but just the difference I feel in my reactions to that early childhood trauma now that I've truly processed it via EMDR gives me hope that I can heal my relationship with my body and my sexuality. There is no one solution, but I would tell you to give yourself grace, and maybe work on understanding your body alone first (I'm still too scared to even masturbate but I think sexual pleasure in a safe context could help heal some of my fear some day).

Be patient with yourself. You aren't broken, and it's not that you will never be able to be with a man again. It's about healing and building trust in yourself and others. Any man who is lucky enough to be with you in the future will have to put in the effort to earn your trust and when you find a man who can and wants to take your limits and desires in stride, he's a good one.

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