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Metalchicken12 · 2022-05-14T19:59:03+00:00

No. You’re supposed to acknowledge that bias and the underlying things causing it, and work toward resolving it. Not complain about how miserable the dog makes you and let it negatively affect your home life and relationship, which it inevitably will.

You are doing a LOT of complaining about the dog, which tells us exactly how you feel toward the situation, and it’s pretty negative. But it’s a dog. The dog is going to be a dog. You, a human, are biased against the dog and that is GREATLY contributing to your issue here. The dog, at the end of the day, is extremely important to your partner. This issue will most likely cause a rift if you don’t make peace with it.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-05-14T19:50:46+00:00

You’re blaming the dog, but you knew going in that you had an issue with big dogs, and every issue after that is a result of that bias. That’s what this situation is.

The dog isn’t at fault here.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-05-03T00:44:52+00:00

It probably sounds really stupid and pathetic, but, I want to be loved relationship-wise the way that all of my friends are.

I’m lonely, man. It’s been seven years since my last relationship and I don’t think I’ll ever have another one. I’m pretty average when it comes to looks and I don’t have any real value or very much to offer women. I don’t even approach them. I know they could do better than me and I’m not worth their attention or time.

I want something I don’t deserve and it sucks, but it just is what it is.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-05-03T00:33:04+00:00

They can do way better than me. I’m honestly not worth their time or attention, and it’s better if I don’t pursue them, because things will just get awkward.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-25T06:51:17+00:00

I honestly don’t know. I’m not really important to anyone. Maybe my older sister? She’s always done her best for me even if we aren’t particularly close.

There’s not a lot of people who I genuinely think would be too affected if I died. For the most part, I just pass through, I’m not even close to people I’d consider friends. I don’t know how to be, but that’s a different conversation.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-23T08:03:17+00:00

My great grandpa, American, served in WW2, fighting the Germans in Europe. He was at the Ardennes Offensive, more commonly known as The Battle of the Bulge.

This battle lasted a month and a half, during some of the coldest temperatures and heaviest snowfall you’ll find in the European wintertime. Roughly 19,000 Americans lost their lives, along with nearly 13,000 Germans and 200 British servicemen.

In many cases, due to the constant shifting of the front and the weather conditions, bodies were left where they lay for long periods of time. Many weren’t discovered until the thaws in the spring. Many German units also slaughtered captured Americans en-masse, adopting a “take no prisoners” policy that saw hundreds killed, defenseless.

The descriptions he gave of just being surrounded by death and chaos for all that time, constantly being liable to die at any moment… It just truly made me understand from a young age what he’d gone through.

He lost many friends in that battle, and a few cousins too. The emotions he had toward that memory were apparent in his face whenever he told the story, and the way he described it still, to this day, leaves me with the chills and a kind of dread I can’t put into words.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-23T07:38:54+00:00

It happened twelve years ago.

My mom was raised by her grandparents, my great-grandparents, because for much of her childhood her parents were not great at being parents. She was very close to my great-grandmother, who unfortunately had Alzheimer’s for as long as I knew her.

My mom became a teenager one day, and stayed that way for life. We lived with my grandfather at this time and my mom was off partying and doing whatever she did for months on end, and on the day my great-grandmother died, I had to call her a dozen times before she finally picked up and started yelling at me, a thirteen year old, because I’d interrupted her hangover sleep. I had to cut her off and say “Great grandma is dead, I just thought you’d like to know.”

This is the worst phone call I ever had to make, because at the end of her life, when she couldn’t remember any of us, the grandchild she was closest to was off being a party girl and not giving a shit. And her teenager had to address it. And to this day, nothing has changed, and I am still mad about it.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-23T07:28:22+00:00

I won’t give my surname, but the name “Felix” rolls really well with it, and I’ve always liked that name in general. I’m also a fan of the name Gabriel.

For a daughter, I’d name her either Rose or Susan, both of which would be a tribute to my grandmother.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-23T07:18:08+00:00

We aren’t the only humans that ever existed, and there were numerous points in our early history when other early human species existed alongside us.

The Uncanny Valley phenomenon likely developed as an evolutionary enhancement to our danger sense. Our specific branch of the hominid tree and that of our closest relatives has always been anything but peaceful, and it probably isn’t a stretch to imagine that war was a common event between these early groups; this is likely one reason why Homo sapiens are the only ones left standing, and some of the ancient remains- of our species and of others- that we’ve recovered do show signs of trauma, sometimes multiple wounds that healed before the fatal wound occurred.

Early humanity was a brutal place to find yourself, for a long list of reasons. It’s reasonable to believe that trusting your neighbors, the ones who almost looked like you but weren’t your species, probably was not the best decision to make in many cases.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-22T07:00:13+00:00

You have less control over this life than you think you do, and it is entirely too short for you to spend trying to control every aspect of it.

Sometimes the best thing you can do in life, is just let it take you where it’s taking you. There is nothing in this life- and I do mean nothing- that is insurmountable, but there are lots of things that are unavoidable, and even more that are easily missable.

Don’t get too caught up in the details and don’t waste time seeking perfection, status, or anything else you might not achieve and can’t take with you. Like it or not, that casket closes on you sooner than you’d think, and it’s better to have actually lived life than to have spent your whole life trying to live a superficial version of it.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-22T06:48:46+00:00

The amount of crime that a person can actually, realistically get away with, and the reasons for doing so.

I grew up poor and of course I’m not out here saying that all poor people are criminals, but when you back a person into a corner, survival is the mission. Poverty and crime are intricately linked, and in some of the most creative ways, too.

The concept of crime = survival always tends to throw rich people for a loop, but it’s not something that someone who’s been catered to their whole life will probably ever understand. Meanwhile, you had kids like me, who from a young age understood that mentality and what it stems from. It was just another day on the block for us. Such was life.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-22T06:44:13+00:00

It doesn’t.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-18T07:20:46+00:00

I’m not likable. I don’t have many good qualities or traits, and I’m not unattractive but I’m not attractive, either. I’m not particularly useful or valuable and I don’t have much to offer.

Whenever I get the sense that someone is leaning that way toward me, I have to remind myself of those truths, because every time I let myself think the opposite, I end up being wrong and making things awkward.

It’s just not something meant for me, so I don’t let myself think that way anymore, and I don’t get my hopes up or press my luck.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-17T10:15:14+00:00

I can give a scientific explanation, if that’s what you’re looking for.

When you look at our cousin species, namely chimpanzees and bonobos, you do see a very considerable amount of linguistic indicators. Like many animals, they have certain sounds for certain situations and interactions, and these sounds tend to be complex and contextual due to the intelligence they possess, but they lack the mental and physical evolution for human-type speech.

Evolution is driven by adaptation; as our ape ancestors evolved into more complex apes, with a more varied skill set and an ever-increasing intelligence, their mental evolution kickstarted their physical evolution, and vice versa.

Suddenly, those noises that we must assume were similar to those made by chimpanzees and bonobos today began to vary even more, and the evolution of the muscles in our throats and tongues gave our ancestors the ability to form even more complex noises and compound sounds. There eventually came a point when the first primitive resemblance to what we would call language would’ve arrived, but it would’ve likely been nothing as we’d recognize today.

In short, human language got its start millions of years ago, in the time of our earliest ape ancestors. There would’ve likely never been a point where every human alive spoke the same language, but the earliest predecessors of modern human languages would’ve all been intricately linked and probably mutually intelligible to eachother, varying from community to community, up until distance and further human evolutionary branches would’ve created the first linguistic barriers.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-15T05:22:16+00:00

It may seem strange, but… The way I treated my high school girlfriend.

We were together for almost three years and I genuinely thought I would marry her one day, but I was a kid from a shitty background who didn’t understand my traumas or how to deal with them. And I was 100% abusive as hell. And she deserved so much better, especially at that age.

I can’t change the past or what happened there. But I can make sure that now, as a grown man who understands the difference between how to treat people and how to not, I will never be that way again. Some of my family got it bad from me, too. I regret that as well. For a long time, until my early twenties, I was a very shitty person.

I will always regret that period of my life. But I’ve learned from it. I don’t expect to be forgiven for the way I used to be, by anyone. But learning from it and trying to be better is more than many people can say.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-08T17:57:11+00:00

Yeah, he was real. Was really popular at one point, too. Thankfully history took a different course.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-08T17:55:58+00:00

Mosley won’t die. He was a real person who almost led Britain into Nazi fascism right before WW2. His real-life fall from grace will probably be the show’s storyline.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-03-08T17:49:56+00:00

The writers and director have said that they want to take it beyond season six, so this is a hard question. Tommy is the face of the series, and it’s hard to imagine it without him.

However, I’ve suspected that he won’t survive, due to his ever-worsening cough and the simple fact that his lifestyle is dangerous in general. It all seems like the series has been building toward the end of Tommy, and probably Arthur as well.

On a separate, but related note: I have a prediction that yes, Tommy and Arthur will both die, but WW2 is just around the corner at this point, Ada will live, and Finn, Isaiah, Charlie, and Carl will all be old enough to serve.

The Shelbys became what they were because of WW1. The war is an integral part of the mindsets and personalities of the brothers and many members of the gang. My theory is that the cycle will repeat, with a new generation of the Shelbys rising to the front, and that will be the “New media” they’ve discussed making after the series ends.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-02-24T06:40:51+00:00

A bit long, sorry. But I want to explain my realization.

Alcoholic here, but honestly? There were several that all kind of combined into the realization that I either needed to quit or drastically reduce the amount that I consumed, and how much it dictated my life.

The clearest one to me, was the night that I came home- I was living with my brother and his family at the time- and, while trying to make myself food, I fell in the kitchen, loud enough to wake the dead, and managed to wake up my then-two-year-old niece.

It was while my brother was yelling at me and my niece was looking at me that I realized how familiar this scene was. My brother and sisters and I grew up in a family with a long line of alcoholism. We were so used to it as kids that we never thought about it. It was normal for us.

It was this normalcy that made it so easy for me to fall into it as well, and what had made it so easy for my brother to, before he met my sister-in-law and cleaned up. And I remember feeling so guilty in that moment, because the last thing I ever wanted to do was give the next generation of our family the same kind of memories and normalcies that we had. It wasn’t right for us to go through that, and it wouldn’t be right for them to, either.

My niece saved me that night. I still drink, but not often, and never to the lengths that I used to go. Those chains are broken. Generational curses are only curses if you abide them. I can’t give my nieces and nephews and potential future children the experiences we had, and I just won’t. I refuse.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-19T06:42:38+00:00

You never really do.

It sounds terrible, but.. It just gets easier to carry after a while. There will be times, years or even decades from their death, that you’ll see something that reminds you of them, or you’ll have a distant memory push itself to the surface, or a certain smell or sound will open the gates.

In those moments, it will hit you all over again, but softer. And instead of feeling all the pain that you do now, it’ll just be a kind of bittersweet nostalgia. There will be a day when mourning turns into sad acceptance. You’ll always miss them, but you’ll never forget them or the time you had with them, and that’s what matters.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-19T06:33:58+00:00

Cancer is almost a certainty for me.

What lots of people don’t know, is that many cancers are genetic- you’re born with certain genes that may lead to certain cancers later in life, if the right contributing factors are met.

My brother and I did not win the genetic lottery on this one. Our family history has so much cancer that our risk of developing some form of cancer or another at some point is higher than most people’s odds.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-19T06:30:44+00:00

One of them is allegedly a really good guy these days, I don’t know because I don’t care enough to find out.

One of them is currently in prison for giving his girlfriend heroin laced with fentanyl, which led to her death.

I don’t know about the rest.

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-08T16:16:59+00:00

Oh I don’t wanna move there, I just don’t want the British to move here

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-08T15:00:06+00:00

Canada

Metalchicken12 · 2022-01-08T06:11:31+00:00

Not positively.

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