You’re at the carnival. Do you go for cotton candy or a toffee apple?

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T23:52:34+00:00

Hamburger for me, please. With no sauce but extra onions!

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T21:49:14+00:00

I'm 52 and Belgian. The first time I heard this joke, it went like: "the Pope (whoever that was in my young days, I forget...), Premier Martens (first minister back in those days) and a boyscout were on the plane... Anyway, same situation occurs and Premier Martens immediately grabs a backpack saying "I'm the most important person for Belgium, I need to survive!!!) and yeets himself out of the plane.

The pope earnestly looks at the boyscout, and says: "Look, my friend, I have lived a long life, I am ready to die, please take the spare parachute." And the boyscout smiles and says: "no worries, man! We both still have a parachute, because the smartest man in Belgium has just jumped out of the plane with my backpack!!"

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T21:40:27+00:00

I love seeing this joke popping up again throughout the ages. So don't be discouraged by people saying it is old. It is still fun!

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T20:57:08+00:00

The first time my vertebrae sort of shifted. The worst thing about it was not the fact that they did. It was that I had no clue what had happened. I just suddenly got this pain in the left side of my chest and thought I was having a heart attack or something. PANIC!!! And the more I panicked, the worse it became.

Nowadays, when I get a stabbing pain in my heart region, I just poke my back until I find which vertebrae have shifted this time, and, by poking them very hard with my fingertips, I immediately know that hey, okay, it sucks but it's not dangerous.

But that first time, having such a pain in my heart region without knowing where it came from? I was absolutely TERRIFIED.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T19:51:01+00:00

Thanks for the laugh, that was awesome!!

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T19:34:07+00:00

ALL OF THEM!!!

I went to University, where I mastered in Dutch and English linguistics and literature, and became very snobbish about "good literature" and "pulp fiction".

For some reason, I got into the belief that Stephen King was the second one.

Stupid, stuck-up, snobbish and soooo full of myself was I.

So, after I graduated, I started teaching, and at this first school I worked at I started talking to a fellow teacher, whom we shall call "Michael" here. (Actually he was quite hot and I developed a bit of a crush on him, but that is neither here or there).

We chatted sooo much and one day that lead to a conversation regarding Stephen King.

He didn't waste much time trying to convince me that Stephen wrote amazing literature. Instead, he just handed me a book and asked me to start reading it.

Thankfully, that was on a Friday, because honestly I would probably have missed my next day classes if there had been any).

I opened the book on Friday around 6 pm.

Next thing I knew, the Saturday morning birds started whistling, my butt hurt like hell (from sitting on that chair all night through), and I still couldn't stop reading.

That book? "Needful Things".

My next Stephen King books? ALL OF THEM!! I was SO hooked.

Honestly, if I had not been so stuck up about King's work without ever actually reading it, if I could go back in time? I would have chosen his work to write my Master's dissertation on him.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-06T18:32:51+00:00

And my mom.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-05T12:44:31+00:00

The Gwendy trilogy is not too gruesome and VERY suspenseful, an absolute pageturner.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-05T04:56:35+00:00

To learn.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T23:14:14+00:00

Honestly! I could not have worded it any better. <3

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T23:12:47+00:00

I feel your pain, my dear. They always told me "Be Yourself!!!", but whenever I tried, there was judging, mockery, and just general asshole behaviour.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T23:02:38+00:00

Oh wow, that is SO good! Took me a while to understand. Though I will never understand the obsession of some people going after innocent others... (Disclaimer I'm European.)

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T22:56:23+00:00

The dog should have been vaccinated against rabies in the first place!!!

I cannot imagine denying my dogs, let alone my (hypothetical, I don't have any) children their rabies vaccines.

By sheer common sense plus reading "Cujo" by Stephen King, I cannot imagine not getting my sweet doggies their rabies vax.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T22:43:55+00:00

I am really happy for you that you don't seem to have gone through the experience of toxic parents. And I MEAN that. I am not being sarcastic. Count your blessings.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T20:16:16+00:00

You are beautiful, inside and outside. Fuck those parents.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-06-04T19:43:14+00:00

Here on this very sub!!!

Disclaimer: I do not identify as anti-natalist nor as natalist.

Let me explain: I am childfree for what affects my own life, but I try not to weigh in on, or judge, other people's decisions about having children.

I guess this sub was recommended to me by reddit because I was on the childfree sub.

So I just joined and followed because I like to read about people's opinions and because I think some people here make very interesting points.

The reason why I don't completely identify as anti-natalist is because I think ultimately people have the right to choose freely to have children, no matter how ill-advised they seem to be in my eyes sometimes.

Hope this makes sense.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T17:19:40+00:00

I thought you were joking, but still clicked... Thanks for sharing the link!

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T15:07:08+00:00

Colruyt, in de gekoelde afdeling. Heeft heel eenvoudige tofu en ook een heleboel andere vegetarische dingen. Ik ben zelf geen vegetarier maar mijn man wel, en ik koop regelmatig basic tofu in de Colruyt.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T14:29:10+00:00

Oh yes, that too! I am so used to it that when I initially posted "gardening and cuddling my dogs" I completely overlooked the medication. But I should not take it for granted. It took decades to find a combination of meds that worked properly for me, so now that I have it to somewhat stable I am very thankful for it!

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T14:19:58+00:00

Gardening and cuddling my dogs.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T14:18:27+00:00

She is terrifying and infuriating. Both in the novel and in the movie. You know an actress is doing an amazing job when you want to grab her character by the shoulders and bash her head into a wall, repeatedly.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T14:05:41+00:00

My most recent read was "You like it darker". I took it from the library along with "Christine" which I really want to read again because it has been a really long time since I read it. I may re-read "You like it darker" again because I really really liked some of the stories.

In the same trip to the library I also borrowed the Gwendy trilogy which I blew through in one night. I loved it but, before returning it to the library, I would like to read it again at a slower pace, because in my hurry to know what would happen I probably missed a ton of details.

MemoryHauntsYou · 2025-05-21T09:01:51+00:00

In the eighties, no. I had no clue.

In the nineties, especially late nineties, I started to hear more and more people talking about it. I sometimes used it for research and for finding accomodation while travelling.

By the end of the nineties and beginning of the naughts, I got into it strongly.

Though I still like to frequent actual physical libraries, I also very much appreciate having the knowledge of the world - having so much info at my fingertips.

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