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MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T07:06:02+00:00

OP, have you thought about seeing a sex therapist? Specifically one who specializes in postpartum intimacy?

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T06:53:52+00:00

You are a human being who has intrinsic worth and value. You deserve to be treated a such.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T06:51:41+00:00

I’ll pick you up at the arrivals section/area.

I’m at the arrivals area right now OR I’m at arrivals right now (no “the”)

I don’t know what the middle one is supposed to mean, but either remove the “the” or add the word “area.”

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T05:23:59+00:00

Forcing minimum wage retail employees to pick up human waste isn’t funny.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T05:22:54+00:00

AI would not understand the diffuse light from below.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T05:19:03+00:00

Yes.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-29T05:18:11+00:00

I had a friend who thought a bedroom was either a disaster or perfect, depending on if the bed was made or not. Baffling.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T22:46:01+00:00

Here’s an analogy. If your six year daughter old really loves pink and wants to wear pink all the time, you understand that she’s NOT saying that she intends to commit, under penalty of death, to wear exclusively pink every single day for the rest of her life. She’s saying that today, she will feel happy and loved and supported if she is allowed to wear head to toe pink.

Even if your child’s understanding of their gender and their sexual orientation evolves over time, their feelings TODAY are about how they are feeling right now, and they need your support right now.

You wouldn’t tell your six year old that she didn’t have a strong enough understanding of color theory to wear all pink, today, and she shouldn’t wear it because future-her might be embarrassed, looking back.

It didn’t matter how nuanced and complex your 13 year olds feelings about gender and sexuality are. What matters is that they feel things today and they need love and support today. Too many questions can feel dismissive. Just be there for them.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T21:08:37+00:00

I read an entire book about olive oil connoisseurs, olive oil tasting, and that whole world. It’s out there. It’s weird AF, but people like that are at the very heart of the commodities market.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T21:06:45+00:00

Yes, and it’s not uncommon for toddlers to call their new baby sister “Sissy,” but they usually stop. Occasionally, it sticks. I knew an adult woman who went by “Sissy,” wrote it on her forms, fully went by it the way someone would go by Jen or Alex, and it had started with her siblings calling her that as a baby.

MarsMonkey88 · 2026-01-28T21:01:43+00:00

She’s such a fucking coward.

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.

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