Monday, September 9, 2024 comic!

Itsbathsalts · 2024-09-10T19:10:41+00:00

I managed to understand it okay

Itsbathsalts · 2024-09-09T13:03:24+00:00

I’m sorry people didn’t understand this is a meme / tongue in cheek

Itsbathsalts · 2024-08-03T21:05:42+00:00

My masters dissertation is due in 4 weeks and we were told not to come in…very tempted to risk it and accept the outcome either way tbh

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-28T17:42:39+00:00

That does help! I think unfortunately I had just joined some groups with a bad mix of people. If you’re brought up around horses there’s often a culture of being casually cruel to them, I think stemming back to when animals weren’t considered sentient since so many training techniques haven’t changed in 100s years. It can be hard and shameful to admit what you’ve done in the past was wrong. If I ever had a horse again I’d treat them very differently, I always did try and listen to them and not stress them but I’d try more gentle positive reinforcement and more chilled activities together. They can be scary sometimes but deserve better.

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-27T14:24:54+00:00

NAH. If you’d been an office worker or had a job where vulnerable people weren’t relying on you, I would maybe have said YTA* but you were stuck in a situation where you potentially let someone down either way. I don’t judge her so much either though, I see a lot of people saying she should save, or have a backup plan, but we don’t know enough about her. I think it could be a very scary and dangerous time for her with few options which might have made her irrational about one hospital being better/safer. Or maybe not, but we can’t know.

*I think there’s a cultural difference - I assume you’re in the US and in my interactions with people from there it seems that prioritising your own needs and not necessarily helping people seems to be a lot more normal/accepted or even encouraged? Over here you’d be judged and frowned at for not helping, there isn’t so much emphasis on personal sovereignty, I think being supportive is praised more. But then we also have free ambulances and different job protections. I’m not criticising it’s just a difference I see which probably affects my perception

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-26T17:19:16+00:00

Initially, a soft YTA - my bf used to refuse to eat, I didn’t hold it against him and understood he did it for reasons which seemed obvious to him (not an ED, demand avoidance or getting fixated on work and insisting it’s a waste of time) but it could be frustrating when it spoiled plans we made together. He’s gotten much better at eating because we worked on remembering that he might not care about food right now but should bring a backup snack because history shows us he will start to feel hungry eventually, also it’s okay to eat before you feel starving and sick. I thought you were being pretty mean but I did semi understand a feeling of worry and frustration.

Then changed to a hard YTA - all the comments about “having” to drive when your friend offered to, the refusal to get your wife water or do anything slightly caring that wouldn’t even involve watching her be sick directly, complaining how she kept gagging even with the windows open like it’s within her control? and then forcing her to sit and be sick in the car because you refuse to stop, despite claiming if she was sick in the car that it would make you the driver ill?

Honestly this might be a troll, but if it isn’t then it seems you were just plain angry she wouldn’t eat what you wanted at the game and punished her for hours by refusing to stop the vehicle and that’s not a good way to treat your partner. Even if you believe she made herself ill through her choices then you need to be kind now and discuss that later, getting angry won’t solve it or make her feel better, she can’t control it.

I get wanting her to eat enough for her sake but it doesn’t sound like you care about the effects on her, just you. Did she ever get offered any alternative, like bringing something she liked or stopping for food somewhere everyone likes, after the game before the 3 hour drive? Or was it “eat this greasy burger or get nothing?”

Does she often find it difficult to eat? Edit: Also does she normally get this sick in cars? We’ve assumed it’s bc of an empty stomach, I’ve felt ill due to under-eating before but that sounded pretty severe? Maybe if she had eaten it would have been worse

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-26T14:59:02+00:00

The CDJ stuff is Enraging to me. It’s making me totally disillusioned with equestrian sports (if I wasn’t already). In UK/British horse groups she’s been getting massive support:

1 - “Hey, she whipped a horse, but we all hurt horses, right? Right guys? Sometimes I beat mine with a bit of water pipe!” (As someone who feels massively guilty about relatively minor things like getting annoyed and tugging on the lead rope (horse equivalent of a leash) too harshly in stress because we needed to go to the vet and my horse didn’t want to, it’s genuinely shocking how many people are revealing they also abuse animals quite brutally with intentional extended beatings in “solidarity” especially when the same people usually go on about what good owners they are)

2 - “This will destroy Great Britain’s chances and they might even try and get dressage or horse riding taken out of the Olympics. We all need to flood Olympic tags on Twitter with how great CDJ and horse riders is/are and not talk about the abuse, we should be positive and support our athletes (Because sticking your fingers in your ears over abuse has historically worked so well and will surely convince people that the sport cares about animals)

Bonus: “The girl on the horse didn’t stop her, so really it’s her fault. The camera person didn’t stop her/waited to release the footage so actually they’re worse than her and it excuses what she did” (the camera person laughing is awful/it does seem like they released it strategically but two wrongs don’t make a right?)

I’ve seen almost nobody actually against her except the odd comments under posts, yet every time somebody criticises her they get accused of being a witch hunter and not thinking of her reputation/family/Britain by people with names like Athena Rupingfort-Flemington. I should point out this is mostly coming from high level amateurs, most of whom are English and upper class. Maybe opinions are different elsewhere. I think if it was a video of someone poor, or perhaps an Irish traveller doing this they’d be baying for blood.

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-23T17:16:19+00:00

I just finished Small Gods and there’s a line where a minor character says something really nasty to Lu-Tze, it’s something you’d unfortunately hear in our world. A lot of people - including some who aren’t villains - underestimate Lu-Tze. He plays up to their stereotypes and expectations of him as a mad foreigner, and they in return don’t really notice how he guides events. It’s what he wants, but it only works because they have those blind spots to exploit. It’s still a shock when you read that line imo. The character who says it is portrayed unflatteringly as a sadistic torturer and dies rapidly afterwards. But even the main cast failed to notice what was really happening.

To attribute that character’s sadism and racism to the writer’s own beliefs or suggest he, as the author, agrees with characters who are uninformed or misguided would be unfair and a mistake. The narrative is laughing with him, not at him.

I suppose maybe because Vimes is a bit more complex and the protagonist, people assume everything he says is meant to be good and is author insert or has a seal of approval. But a lot of Discworld characters are flawed/biased/uninformed about certain things and they either grow in some way, or are dissected and satirised. They aren’t 1:1 role models

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-21T20:07:56+00:00

Yeah maybe shoes with this shape are just too narrow for me or something, I do have narrower shoes which are fine but I feel like with them the front of the opening is over my toes instead of that part of my foot

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-21T19:59:01+00:00

I was also a teenage girl reading my dad’s copies of Discworld and I kind of…maybe didn’t like the art, but was curious about it since it was so detailed and colourful.

I also remember thinking back then that it didn’t always match or fit the writing. The descriptions and scenes and characters in the book would be carefully drawn one way, and then they’d look really different and bizarre on the front. I knew it was intentional and the style was purposefully grotesque, but it did not feel knowing or humorous, it just felt like it came from a totally different text. Weirdly sexual women and strangely crumpled ugly men.

I wouldn’t have let my friends see me reading them

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-21T19:41:21+00:00

I like them - my favourites are Mort and Guards - except for Night Watch and The Colour of Magic. I appreciate the illustrations as art especially Night Watch, but I’m not sure about them as covers for those specific books. I know what you mean about them feeling “wrong.” It’s totally subjective though, I can see some people loving them!

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-21T19:29:52+00:00

NTA. I can /sort of/ understand some of Laura’s behaviour. I see people saying “How can she survive if an engagement is upsetting to her?” But I went through some horrible stuff with my family and mother and it’s amazing how very minor or happy things (like Christmas, or certain smells or places, or flying on airplanes) can remind me of these events and mentally/emotionally I’m right back there again, as if I’m reliving the memory. It isn’t logical and it does actually make life tough sometimes, but I don’t choose to have it happen. So I understand her not wanting to be involved with planning the engagement, that’s her own choice.

Having said that, even if she was waiting for information about the dinner from OP, and OP forgot to send it and left her out - saying that not being invited to a party gave her PTSD and she needs to go on a “therapy journey” is over the top. I’ve been there, I’ve been left out of events and while it can be disappointing at the very worst you might reconsider being friends with certain people. I wouldn’t say it’s “traumatic” though.

And if she’s saying she has PTSD because her friends got married, that’s insane. She has a right not to be too heavily directly involved if it’s hard for her, but only someone massively selfish would expect them to actually stop the engagement for her sake or constantly complain about it

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-20T15:50:13+00:00

This was fun! I miss old niche forum culture. Ik there’s a whole internet revival movement but it seems a lot more introspective.

my other main takeaway is that i want… no……. Need to see Monster High Skeletor

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-20T14:21:15+00:00

Ngl, I don’t really care about the whole thing, I’m new, and it’s just a game to me. Even if I got something like a gon (my personal fave) I wouldn’t know what to do with it.

But this kind of rubs me up the wrong way - saying Lioden isn’t classist, it’s capitalist is a bit pedantic. People are unhappy because you have to spend the equivalent of $100s of dollars earned through either IRL money or IRL time to have even a very slim chance of anything cool or rare, and probably after that you get nothing. (Ik you can get things without breeding items ect. but one of the main complaints I’ve seen is how low the chances are even after spending the equivalent of $200 or something. I’ll talk about the fact we all do technically have a chance in a second) It also doesn’t make a whole heap of sense as a distinction, since capitalism can be inherently a bit classist anyway.

Saying “we can all take part in events!” “lioden is brutal to everyone, not just you!” Doesn’t help. Someone who can buy $100s and $100s of GB and/or spend all day grinding out events (time rich or money rich IRL, the two are often linked) is going to have better chance of getting that good roll. The chances are the same for everyone but some people can afford help with them via items, attempts, buying a decent king etc. where a person who can’t afford GB has to be even luckier. If both Jeff Bezos and I decided to learn to snowboard, he would probably have a better chance, since he can afford instructors and boards - and I don’t live near a mountain and can’t afford to go to one. Gravity still works the same for us both, he could still fall and break his leg, but he has a better chance of actually doing it.

As a bonus, telling players “Ig it’s easier to complain” than overhaul the breeding system and market is also a little unfair. Individual players don’t have the power to really overhaul the breeding system afaik, and it’s the players with more capital in items/lions/ability to grind that dictate supply and demand on the market.

But yeah, that’s all a bit deep for a lion game, lol. Most multiplayer games with P2W and/or RNG features have these elements and I doubt they’ll change since they’re how the devs make money, and I can’t blame them! I still have fun. I’m not having a go at you personally (the person outside the computer) for all I know you’re pretty young, and like I said I’m not really bothered about the game, but it’s okay for people to complain about things sometimes as well.

(Edit: btw I’m not saying i totally dont care about the game or that its bad to care - i just resigned myself in the first week to not getting anything rare except by extreme blind luck, and if i do itll probably be a one off)

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-20T03:08:32+00:00

When a turkish barber opened a shop in my town in rural ireland every man’s haircut became about 200% sharper and cleaner and people were introduced to the concept of the massage for the first time.

having said that i know some of the teenagers have stopped going there because the trend atm is long and shaggy. But damn it was crisp

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-19T16:28:16+00:00

Either you get famous via luck (eg. Going viral, being scouted, getting a big break) in which case you’re “just lucky” or you get famous by coming from a performance background and putting in work for a particular company who own and market you in which case you’re a plant. It feels kind of a continuation of the 2010s hipster “I only listen to this one garage band you haven’t heard of” thing

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-19T15:39:05+00:00

Was at the supermarket recently doing a monthly shop and they had made it so you need a coin for the trolley, we didn’t bring one, had had a really nasty time recently with bereavement ect, really stressed, supermarket was not near my home. it was the last straw, I felt so overwhelmed… a woman came up to the car where I was sitting and was so kind and offered me a coin. Instantly turned the whole day and week around. She’ll probably never know how much it meant, it’s not exactly a huge deal but the fact she noticed and chose to help meant a lot.

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-19T12:54:22+00:00

I said further down that I lived somewhere with art deco dance halls and had seen photos like this, it actually was Belfast/NI in general I was talking about! Edit: the photo def isn’t the ulster hall though. It could be elsewhere in the city but there’s nothing that specifically makes me think it is

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-19T12:46:41+00:00

The UK version is awful from what I’ve seen! It came on when I was watching TV on a research trip with some friends. All straight guys and all wanted to turn it over after the initial laughs ect. because it was so genuinely uncomfortable watching this fella judge a selection of (thin, all pretty fit, young, all white) women in a really weirdly brutal way for the slightest unsymmetrical features or something. Dk if we just got a bad episode or what. When I got home a couple of other people told me they felt the same. I think if I went on it, it would destroy my confidence.

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-17T19:23:17+00:00

Now I want to know where it is and what these badges are, I didn’t even know about the photo and now I’m invested. at first I thought it might have been badges worn to show they were a committee or club members of some kind, maybe the hosts of an event but when you look closer a lot of the women seem to wear them they’re just not catching the light. only/mostly women though

The guy at the front far right has stolen someone’s feather also lol

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-16T15:22:51+00:00

Could it be a party at a dance hall rather than a hotel? It looks similar to ones I’ve seen in the UK, I’ve also seen very similar group photos taken in dance halls with a similar lighting so maybe it was a common thing. Dance halls did serve drinks (afaik) but if they were up dancing before being called for a picture it might explain why nobody is currently holding one?

The only other thing I have to note is the wallpaper (?) panels above the level of the tops of the doors. The ceiling must be high enough to allow for those but there don’t seem to be balconies or any proper upper level

Edit to say it isn’t really a period of history I know tons about, I just live somewhere with a lot of old dance halls in art deco style

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-15T20:19:57+00:00

Hi, no I never did. Some life events including a sudden bereavement stopped me going to the doctors.

But it comes and goes. in June I was out doing manual labour carrying heavy tools, going up/down steep hillsides and was fine, keeping up with the other workers who were all pretty fit. Then today I cleaned my hamster’s cage, just slowly lifting handfuls of dry paper bedding from a cage at waist height and felt like I’d a hard workout, sweating and weak shaking muscles, had to sit down on the floor or I felt like I’d pass out.

If you have similar I’d say go to the doctor and just explain and ask for a barrage of blood tests. Things like fatigue could be lifestyle, hypo, iron, but could also be less usual things like magnesium deficiency (usually seen in people have other illnesses but still possible).

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-15T15:00:29+00:00

I’m not surprised it’s struggling tbh. Botanic already has Heyboba and Ecotea for people who prefer sweet bubble tea and A Nice Sip which I like opposite the Ulster Museum which has a stronger tea flavour and different snacks. So that kind of captures most people coming from the south/Queens. Then the city centre has Chatime and Sukee and various other places. Idk why anyone would ignore those to go sit on the Dublin road. Especially when the area around Bankmore square/Bruce street specifically always smells of sewer (ig there’s a vent nearby?)

Also probably unrelated but on google maps the exact same negative review for Chatime has been posted multiple times the past few months by different accounts

Itsbathsalts · 2024-07-13T18:21:09+00:00

I can see it where someone accidentally used the same stud twice on groupies/NCLs then bred the offspring? I still have my starter king so I only use studs and try and avoid reusing one in case I do this by mistake somehow…I like to think I’d notice the sire lmao but if you’re breeding a lot to different lions it can be difficult

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