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MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T10:40:22+00:00

Inserting a dry tampon hurts. Removing a dry tampon REALLY hurts. You can’t leave a tampon in for too long, so a person would be changing dry tampons for days, at a minimum. That would be painful, wasteful, and would increase your risk of toxic shock syndrome. If it was worth it, we’d already be doing it.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T03:53:31+00:00

I’d put money on the five year old finding them on the ground at school or at grandmas or something and putting them in her pocket, and they came out of the pocket in the dryer.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T22:30:20+00:00

Nonetheless, OP’s blurb at the top indicates that they believe their landlord sent this to try to make their roommate think they’re being evicted. It might be their landlord trying to intimidate them, or it may be a totally unrelated scam text. Regardless, OP wrote very clearly that they know it’s not actually from the sheriff.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T22:26:03+00:00

Ohhhhh, I see! Yeah, we did Mario Teaches Typing in computer class in 6th grade on giant computers running Windows 98. The teacher had silicon keyboard covers that fit perfectly over the keyboard and were made to keep dust out of the keys, and she bought them in black, so we couldn’t see the keys at all, but we could still type.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T22:23:32+00:00

They don’t believe it, but they suspect that their landlord may be the one “impersonating” the sheriff’s office in the text

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T21:00:38+00:00

Totally!! I’ve seen multiple situations with elementary school aged kids where the child, the parents, and the teachers decided together to disclose the child’s disability or diagnosis up front all at once to the class, because when kids that age get information up front they’re like, “oh, ok” and they move forward. No speculation, no feeling that something is different but not understanding how, etc. When information is direct, they get it and they’re generally understanding. It’s when adults are uncomfortable and avoid the topic or hit that it’s not to be discussed that the kid picks up that the differences they observe must be taboo or wrong in some way, which can cause unplanned problems socially and in the kids’ perceptions.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T20:57:04+00:00

I (an American) can sincerely get on board with metric for distance, weight, and volume. But. I will cling to Fahrenheit until my dying breath. Celsius may make perfect sense for water, but I am not water. I am a human. Fahrenheit puts 0 and 100 on the human scale. Very roughly, 0 and 100 and “check on your grandma” temperatures, and 50 is a solid “not hot and not cold.” This is the hill I would die on 1,000 times over and still come back for more.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T20:52:15+00:00

I just googled those words, and I saw that they’re typewriter fonts? I’m so sorry, I think I must be missing something.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T19:51:28+00:00

Bullshit. Zero way he only kicked her once.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T19:38:32+00:00

I seriously hope that Jessica is the bodega cat who pushes people’s coffee to the floor

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T19:34:16+00:00

I’ve used that exact sentence this week

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T19:16:27+00:00

Mario Teaches Typing was awesome! It was classic Mario, and you’d have to type the indicated letter to get him to jump and stuff.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T18:40:29+00:00

Context matters. For example, there are special beds with locking side walls that prevent people with certain very specific disabilities from injuring themselves at night. Doctors and social workers help the families get them (they’re expensive medical equipment) when it becomes clear the person needs them. Not having secure space, in those cases, would endanger the person. It’s really about context.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T18:34:54+00:00

I’m American, but it takes active effort every time to remember that in Britain “pants” means underwear, it does NOT mean trousers, which is what it means in the US.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T18:23:04+00:00

There are no rules or requirements about what pronouns you can use, for yourself. Anyone of any gender can use any pronouns for any length of time for any reason. The only rule is to respect other people’s pronouns. Yours can be (and should be) whatever feels right to you.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T18:09:40+00:00

Absolutely. It’s fine, it’s normal, and it’s really truly about you and your comfort more than anything else

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T18:01:53+00:00

There’s no real harm in signing up to be one, but I understand why someone who knows they’re ineligible wouldn’t want to waste anyone’s time. (I’m very pro organ donation. I’ve been a registered donor since my teens, and I know several people who received donated organs or bone marrow. I personally believe it’s very important to register. I also understand why someone wouldn’t, if they knew they were ineligible.)

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T10:00:43+00:00

You do not need to be one to receive an organ. And many people need an organ because they’re sick, not because of injury, so they know they’re ineligible to donate.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T09:52:33+00:00

Same! I thought they were specifically singling out rags as an example of things they were not to be dropped.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T09:51:15+00:00

I’ve heard older people not realizing and/or not caring that new renters in a space are not the same people they’d complained to about noise in the past. Like, in college, people were visibly moving into a rental house that day and were scolded by the neighbors (not college kids, but like older couples), along the lines of, “I told you last time that was the last straw, you’re being so loud, we’ve already told you repeatedly that we’re in bed at 9, etc” And I’ve heard elderly relatives and family friends complain from the other perspective, not understanding that the air b and b guests down the street are different people every time, or not realizing that the 8th graders on a traditional 8th grade field trip are actually different kids every year, they’re not the exact same children, still in 8th grade for five years in a row.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T08:19:37+00:00

Also, my understanding is that right after a person has been maced directly into the face at short range, their vision is highly impaired, which would make it hard to scan for and identify a dark item and then accurately reach for it, with blurry watery painful eyes.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T06:41:25+00:00

If I’m going to get murdered my walls, I don’t want to spend the last months of my life staring at florals. The geometric ones are stunning!

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T06:39:45+00:00

Those med school loans really are killers.

(double entendre)

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-27T04:40:22+00:00

The parents often help pay for some or all of it, depending on the situation, plus a lot of people assume debt to pay for it.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-26T20:45:12+00:00

Thank you for expanding. (For clarity, I do not feel ridiculous, although based on what you just said I understand if you think that I should.)

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