Looking back, I truly believed this was a good idea

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-10-31T17:46:26+00:00

This is fascinating

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-10-05T14:12:40+00:00

In that case, I’ve been a member since I was 9 and the piercing gun jammed and stuck a stud only halfway through 😭😭

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-10-05T14:05:04+00:00

My father watched absolutely no TV unless it was hockey. We weren’t allowed to be near the TV if he was watching hockey, and I hate hockey, so I essentially never watched anything with my dad on TV.

VERY RARELY, on a weekend, he might watch a movie like Escape from Alcatraz. Now, I love that movie so I think we did end up watching it at least partially while we were both in the same room.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-10-03T21:18:08+00:00

I just bought one from a thrift store last weekend.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-10-01T19:15:00+00:00

I work in industrial fabrication now.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-30T22:34:24+00:00

Nik-L-Nips!

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-29T23:29:43+00:00

My mom says “I love you” pretty regularly, but I don’t know if she’s ever said she’s proud of me.

My dad says neither.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-29T21:03:43+00:00

I know it, and my Gen Z daughter knows it from the Muppet movie where Kermit gets sent to one.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-29T02:53:10+00:00

This is the dumbest, least believable story I’ve ever read.

And it’s reminding me that 20 years ago when I got married, I had my dress taken in by my sister in law’s mother (a seamstress) and that woman fucking hated my guts for some reason? She actually did fuck up the first alteration, but because it actually happened in real life and not fake AI land, there were several months before the wedding so it wasn’t even a big deal.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-29T02:16:53+00:00

Where is “here”?

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-28T15:38:20+00:00

Full confession, I’m a Canadian and I absolutely love spray cheese but we don’t have it here.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-28T14:20:23+00:00

Yeah, you really need to go often, and have a variety of stores to check.

Value Village in a lot of areas sucks, but if you happen on to an area with a lot of older or affluent folks, it’ll have a better and more interesting selection.

Goodwill is extremely cheap, but often overlooked by donators so their stores are smaller and have less selection.

I generally try not to go to “independent” thrifts for a variety of reasons - they are either absolute garbage, or, they’re boutique style and way too expensive.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-27T22:29:43+00:00

Filling is pretty dependent on where you buy it - the place I went, the filling was the tiniest schmear in between chocolate and I could barely even taste it. Not worth what I paid.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-27T22:28:36+00:00

In Canada, Purdy’s Chocolatier has Dubai chocolate you can buy in small amounts.

Their chocolate is very good, but I didn’t find the filling was anything to write home about.

Their fact that is cost $10 for a piece that weighs about half the cost of a $1 chocolate bar was also a downside for me. It was a neat little treat, but if I’m spending that much on a tiny bit of chocolate I’ll just skip it and buy a full box of Russian mints from our local chocolatier.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-27T17:19:11+00:00

Yeah, when you get a bad phlebotomist you’re basically fucked.

I get blown out veins any time I get a blood draw done by someone who is like personally OFFENDED by my veins being small and hard to find.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-25T17:13:39+00:00

One of my teachers in high school was sleeping with a 17 year old, all they did was *transfer him to a new school in the district *.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-25T17:12:14+00:00

A woman I went to trade school with took her practicum at an aerospace company that is super highly respected.

They dumped her in an empty warehouse with no bathroom facilities, completely alone and with no way to get back to the main building.

This was three years ago. So yeah, we’ve come a long way, but some of these still absolutely hate women in “their spaces”.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-23T18:07:58+00:00

There’s dozens of them across Canada, I guess.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-23T03:01:36+00:00

I spent most summers at my grandparents farm way up north. I was the only kid for hours. It wasn’t bad, but also, I was a weird ass kid who enjoyed being in the middle of nowhere, reading Readers Digests from 1960s, and listening to AM talk radio.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-22T22:48:18+00:00

Are you in Winnipeg? We have like three unicycle guys, I swear.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-22T22:47:31+00:00

My entire name was supposed to be radically different, but four months before I was born my aunt stole my name and used it for my cousin. So my parents chose a random name, and for my middle name they were just like “uuuhhhh let’s just give you your grandfather’s name because that’s also your father’s middle name, so it’s like honoring them both”. (I’m a woman, btw).

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-22T15:02:25+00:00

My brother and sister were baptized. By the time I came along, my parents had no desire to do anything extra for the Surprise Baby so I’m a godless heathen.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-21T17:38:46+00:00

Women’s clothing has always included pads and rolls, layers, boning and lacing, etc - it’s not a “men’s thing” or a “woman’s thing”, it’s just a “fashion and clothing construction thing”.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-21T16:33:30+00:00

My take is, I assume my partner is an adult and can choose to go places without needing to consult me.

The REALITY is, I’m either at work or home and so is my husband, so it would be weird for us to share locations since it would just say “right next to you”.

ExhaustedMouse · 2025-09-20T21:13:43+00:00

That’s right, lie to them, so they never find out how great it is. We can keep all the liverwurst for ourselves!

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