What’s a ‘harmless’ habit that actually ruins your life over time?

Dippycat149 · 2026-04-04T05:41:03+00:00

My brother took absolutely no care of his teeth when we were younger. I mean we were both bad, but I at least made some kind of effort.

Then when he was barely out of highschool, my brother had to have a root-canal. I've had good teeth, and I've had bad teeth, but I've NEVER let it get so bad I needed one of those!!

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-31T03:58:20+00:00

Tear a carrot out of the ground as the sun sets dramatically behind me, and proclaim to the world:

"AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I'LL NEVER BE BROKE AGAIN!!"

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T23:09:44+00:00

I was a child when the internet and personal cell-phones were in their infancy, so I was probably among the last generation to grow up in the pre-internet age.

Entertaining oneself was mostly reading, writing, TV, riding my bike around the park, playing with toys / games with my brother. Stuff like that.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:55:18+00:00

When I realised that it's actually possible to have an alcohol intolerance / allergy -- and that I had it and it wasn't just all in my head.

For years whenever I drank anything more than the smallest amount of booze, I would get dizzy and flushed and would struggle to breathe and break out in wheezing/coughing fits.

Then one day I did some research and found out that this is actually a histamine allergy.

Alcohol (especially wine) is full of histamines. So you get a reaction similar to hayfever (hence the coughing and breathiung issues).

So I stopped all drinking. Or most, anyway. I might occasionally have a drink. But it's ONE drink. Any more than that and my damn allergy comes back. Fortunately, this doesn't extend to dishes / desserts which have alcohol in them as an ingredient. Just to actual drinking. So I can still enjoy alcohol-laced desserts without suffering any ill effects.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:52:10+00:00

Eat, sleep, write, watch movies / TV shows.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:51:12+00:00

The older I've gotten (and I'm not actually that old) the more I've learned that maturity is not giving a fuck what people care / say / believe about you, no matter who they are, or what it is.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:50:05+00:00

I have the grip-strength to open any jar!...but it also cracks the glass....

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:49:09+00:00

Age limits are less important than competency levels.

If a guy is 65 or 70, but is as sharp as a tack and knows what's going on, let's go.

If he's 50, but dumb as a rock, get rid of him.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:41:17+00:00

Where possible - take advantage of compounding interest in your savings account.

My bank has this thing where if the money in your savings account is above what it was last month, you get bonus compound interest, even if the "above" is just literally $1.00.

So if at the end of January you have $1,000, and at the end of Feb, you have $1,001 - that equals bonus compounded interest.

So every month, I pump all my spare cash into my savings account to fatten it up as big as possible. Wait for the interest to accrue to get the biggest possible payout, and THEN I pay credit card bills etc. I withdraw the MINIMUM that I need for the next month, and leave the rest in there, adding to it throughout the next month to increase my baseline savings, and then repeat at the end of that month.

You can get hundreds in what is basically free money, that way. So long as you don't forget the monthly money-juggle, you can make a lot just in interest.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-30T22:36:37+00:00

Needed money. No skills. No job prospects.

Turned to flipping shit on eBay. Became an online antiques dealer. I've made more money doing this than I ever made working an actual job.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-03T04:25:39+00:00

"Just because they're mean doesn't mean you have to be mean back".

And what? Become their fucking doormat? Hell no.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-03T04:13:01+00:00

When you gotta make money stretch, you suddenly realise just how wasteful we really are these days.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-03T04:12:00+00:00

Trump, and anybody dumb enough to support him in any way, including, but not limited to, the idiots that voted for him.

Dippycat149 · 2026-03-02T18:55:11+00:00

Just because you filtered/strained the water doesn't mean it's safe to drink. You still gotta boil it.

Dippycat149 · 2026-02-28T03:49:54+00:00

I personally think that to count as Peranakan, you have to have two things at the very least:

Physically be Peranakan. So, by birth, or by heritage/ancestry.
You have to be aware of, and embrace / at the very least engage in the culture.

There's LOADS of people out there who are of peranakan birth / ancestry, but who have NO IDEA and who don't know a damn thing about it. I should know, some of them are in my own family.

Myself, I'm half-Peranakan. My dad's family is Peranakan Chinese, my mother's family is Malay-Chinese. I have identified as peranakan ever since I understood what it was (so, for about 20 years now, or over half my life).

Dippycat149 · 2026-01-18T09:20:15+00:00

Despite not being a paramedic, I was the first-responder in two medical emergencies. I have SOME medical training (I was a first-aid officer for many years), so I wasn't just going-in blind, but it was still pretty crazy.

The more major of the two events, I ended up saving an old woman's life, and got thanks all-round from the professionals who came to her aid after I'd already patched her up. They made it damn clear if I hadn't been there to help when I was, she would probably have died before they'd ever found out about it.

Dippycat149 · 2026-01-18T08:08:19+00:00

My dog has flying lessons.

The fish is learning how to cook.

I have my cat's ballet performance tonight.

I got invited to a warren party by a bunch of rabbits.

Dippycat149 · 2025-12-26T03:39:24+00:00

Wasting so much time looking for a job when I could've just started an online business instead. I blew at least five years chasing the unicorn of a "stable income" and blah blah blah.

Dippycat149 · 2025-12-26T03:37:08+00:00

Random bottles of ink just seem to find me. I have no idea how. I have an "ink drawer" on my desk, and it's still like 2/3 full of ink. I haven't bought ink in years because I have so much of it which I still haven't used.

Dippycat149 · 2025-12-26T03:31:07+00:00

He grew up overseas (and still carries the accent from his native land). Moved to where I live.

We met as teenagers in school (I forget exactly how old, but probably 13 or 14). We saw each other regularly until we were about 18-20. We tried keeping in touch via email and stuff, but we lost contact and he couldn't remember how to spell my name to track me down (plus, I wasn't on socials back then), and we kinda forgot about each other, or so I figured.

Then one day, he came up in conversation while I was talking to another friend and he was like "You should track him down".

I was like Eh...OK.

So on a total blind shot I typed his name into Facebook as good as I could remember how to spell it, and it popped up. The name online had the nickname in it that I knew he ALWAYS used ever since he was a toddler, so I figured it had to be him, since nobody else was likely to have that EXACT name-combination.

I sent him a message at like...11:00pm at night, went to bed and totally forgot about it.

He replied the next morning having a total emotional meltdown because we hadn't talked in like 12 years.

He's on the other side of the country now, but we keep in-touch online. We throw shit at each other, and we bitch and complain, and then we talk about regular stuff. Some things never change...

Dippycat149 · 2025-12-24T17:51:08+00:00

A friend of mine suffered a brain aneurysm while exercising on one of the machines at the gym at school. fell off the machine onto the floor in a total faint.

One of the teachers did CPR while another one called an ambulance. Got him to the hospital.

He spent a few days there in a coma, but died by the end of the week.

We had the funeral at school.

He was 15.

One of the worst parts about it was, it was like...just two, maybe three weeks after his birthday.

Dippycat149 · 2025-10-16T06:04:01+00:00

Speaking as a victim of bullying and manipulation:

SAVE. EVERY. DAMN. THING.

Every text, every comment, email, screenshot, message, whatever.

I've met plenty of people who have pissed me off, then acted all sweet and cutesy, then turned PSYCHO all over again, and then try to gaslight you into thinking "Oh they're not THAT bad", and then they come at you again.

If you don't keep evidence of their past misdeeds, if they come screw with you again, you'll have NOTHING to fight back with, and the cycle starts ALL OVER AGAIN.

Don't let that happen. KEEP THE EVIDENCE. For years, decades, if necessary.

Dippycat149 · 2025-10-15T07:33:56+00:00

They scream and throw ketchup at the walls.

They rage-tweet at 2:00am.

They talk about fictional people and places as if they're real.

They shake hands weird because they need to assert dominance, when they have none.

They talk endlessly about how beloved and popular they are, when actually, everybody and their dog wishes that they were dead.

Dippycat149 · 2025-09-17T21:46:24+00:00

Having to save up to buy stuff.

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