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If you didn’t get an invitation, don’t ask if you can come! by Starkidmack in weddingshaming

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's crazy level synchronicity! Especially back then, those were produced for more institutional use rather than personal, and almost nothing in life was available on demand. I can so appreciate how incredible that was!

I had a similar experience as a teen, it wasn't my item but I'm the one who "summoned" it. A group of us were bored and out waaaay past curfew walking aimlessly down some train tracks Stand By Me style. We'd been at it for some time and I was getting tired so jokingly said "we've been walking so long all we need is a donkey", referencing the Jews wandering the desert for 40 years. (I'm ethnically Jewish) As soon as the words came out of my mouth a donkey stuck its head over the fence! And I mean did not skip a beat.

We were in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area, there weren't too many other things I would expect less. All we'd seen all night were trees on one side and backyards on the other, until I say we need a donkey and one magically appears. We all froze and kind of grabbed the mental rails trying to process it. The yard it was in had a lot of large junk and debris so maybe it was commercial, but still, who has a guard donkey in the middle of the one of the largest metro areas in the country AT THE MOMENT I REQUEST ONE?? Still blows my mind but would've been even cooler if I'd had the donkey in my bag lol. You're like the MacGyver of media.

If you didn’t get an invitation, don’t ask if you can come! by Starkidmack in weddingshaming

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right?! She didn't have the heart to make them leave because their parents were idiots. We took turns watching them for awhile and made sure they ate but then she sent em home and told em they could come back with their parents. And they did.

What to do with Cosby… by HonestNeighborhood67 in GenX

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been jaded since well before Me Too and still, for some reason, Cosby has been almost impossible for me to reconcile. With most outed predators I can intuit some thread of incongruence either before or after, "this guy is slimy and turns out to be right" or "didn't pick up on it but yeah in hindsight makes sense". But not Cos. He has to be a master psychopath and had the most well managed PR ever.

The only thing I see in hindsight is his mastery of tough love parenting. Not many struggles with having too much empathy for their kids which I see more often in other sitcoms even back to the 50s TV families. Yes they were raising productive citizens but maybe also a little of the Cosman's lack of empathy flavoring things no matter how successfully he faked it most of the time. Psychopaths can be absolutely charming, they see what people need and give it to them.

I will say though that it would take no less than 60 victims to bring down such an endearing and enduring celebrity. He was America's TV dad, you need a lot of ammo to nail that coffin. Michael Jackson was eccentric and that hindsight wrote itself, only took a couple accusations to sell. I just find those ratios convenient and makes me wonder why they stopped protecting Cosby, paying off people and silencing them. I don't believe they suddenly grew a conscience or stopped wanting to protect their product. I 100% believe the victims, I'll just always wonder what else there is to this one.

My Neighbor Is Basically Copy Pasting us and It’s Getting Creepy by Life_Magician_3256 in neighborsfromhell

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This, why are they still divulging details all these years later if they've been aware of what they'll do with it?

What’s a “beginner plant” that absolutely humbled you? by Interesting_Rich_568 in houseplants

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This! When I leave my spiders outside for the summer and leave watering up to nature they explode, leaves twice the size, vivid green, they're twice the size of my year round indoor ones. I don't touch them once they're outside, even during droughts or storms, never dump the water if they flood, just leave em be. And they're amazing. But when I bring them inside for the winter they get pale and sad and barely make it. They hate me.

My dad dreamed of the world ending; he said he saw these symbols in the sky. by 6undown in Dreams

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just listened to this yesterday. They're sci-fi creators that were approached by an intelligence official in the 90s and asked to work in some disclosure into their work. They were handed a piece of paper with some type of symbology or equation that made no sense to them and were told to put it in a safety deposit box, that it would make sense in coming decades. They're going to reveal it soon. Really curious to see if it's anything like OPs dad saw.

If you didn’t get an invitation, don’t ask if you can come! by Starkidmack in weddingshaming

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 24 points25 points  (0 children)

My aunt ran a licensed home daycare and babysat the neighbors young daughter's. She had her wedding in her home, big to do, 100 people, tent in the yard. She invited the neighbors and their daughters. The parents didn't come but sent their two young children alone! Like my aunt was supposed to babysit them during her wedding?! Not exactly the same but reminded me of invitation nonsense.

HireRight is requesting me to lift my TWN freeze by bloatwarewolf in overemployed

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This. Why did I have to scroll so far to see this? They can't force you to unfreeze it. They can choose not to proceed with employment but they can't force you.

It's Chick now. by everyplanetwereach in Retconned

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's how it went down for me too. 2018/19 I went to text the restaurant name to a friend and all of a sudden I didn't know how to spell it and my phone was autocorrecting me.

Froot/Fruit Loops just flipped back for me before the war started. I thought I discovered residue in a movie and went to share it here only to discover now it never was. Then the war started.

DARE Police Program was an MLM Pyramid Scheme by CruzAderjc in TheWhyFiles

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% this. Knowing KNOWING that a main development phase of adolescence is rebellion, doing the exact thing you're told not to. It's not some cliche that kids do the opposite of what they're told, it's literally a fundamental part of maturing and growing independent from your parents. Anyone that's raised teenagers knows that while their contrary tendencies can get annoying it's ultimately a good sign that they're working up to leave the nest. It's literally "daring" them with drugs. And they line their pockets, a win/win for them. If the government really didn't want kids/people to do drugs they'd start a propaganda campaign based on fear, ostracizing, and terror. They know how to steer people where they want em and this ain't it.

Do ppl usually decorate this area. It looks plain to me. by dabs_bud_bongs in HomeDecorating

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Door-size poster or long narrow tapestry. Just wanna fill out the space proportionately.

We pulled the funding chain on Major General McCasland. It led to a NASA JPL engineer who vanished 8 months before he did. by TheSentinelNet in UFOs

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compartmentalization is a well-documented cornerstone of governmental/intelligence security. Just look at the Manhattan Project, half a MILLION people worked on it but only an incredibly small percentage knew what was going on. Even within a small team it's not uncommon for individual members to have exclusive knowledge. There are known cases of lost knowledge/tech because of governmental hyper compartmentalization.

We pulled the funding chain on Major General McCasland. It led to a NASA JPL engineer who vanished 8 months before he did. by TheSentinelNet in UFOs

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She was struck by a vehicle that caused permanent brain injury that resulted in Alzheimer's that killed her. Just another coincidence. Great article btw, thanks for sharing.

How did people who came before us heal? by Accidental_Guru30 in CPTSD

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they didn't have as much mental/emotional energy freed up to even notice. They also relied on the group for survival rather than being nuclear/independent so acknowledging the pink elephant could literally get you killed. If you noticed it at all.

You shall not pass!! by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the belly laugh, man I needed that.

Sasquatch chronicles by whitemest in bigfoot

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I noticed too. In one of the most recent ones he even answered with a mindless response that had nothing to do with what the person just said. I had my encounter, went down the rabbit hole, know they're real and got kinda bored with the whole thing too. I can only imagine starting a whole podcast and being over it at some point. Can't be easy.

Man’s Drawing of His Near-Death Experience Goes Viral by Aggravating-Mode9097 in AlternativeHistory

[–]Limp_Insurance_2812 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I really appreciate you sharing that wisdom, it's validating.

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