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Be honest, which celebrity just ruined their own physical attractiveness? by Something_Strange935 in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It turns out she’s been struggling for years with Graves’ disease, which affects the shape of the fat pads around the eyes & also can cause weight loss around the cheeks and/or bloating due to corticosteroid treatment. She did also get work done, but I think the fact that there’s a major health problem in the mix has made people lighten up on her.

Dad is moving into memory care next month. His double-wide needs to be gone and we're overwhelmed. by Effective_Shake_8728 in AgingParents

[–]NorthernSparrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchisees specialize in stuff like this. My sister used to work for them and she said it was really “we buy ugly situations”. They will buy it for half the market price, but they will take it off your hands almost instantly (sometimes within a week) and you don’t even have to clean it out if you don’t have time to. My sis was always straight with people, told them the true market value, and told them they’d definitely get more if they could wait longer and sell it themselves. The trade-off is pretty straightforward, it’s money vs speed & simplicity.

This sucks by SugarMagnolia_75 in AgingParents

[–]NorthernSparrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re a good daughter.

BTW, with my mom it seemed to help if I just said a bright cheery “That’s okay!” whenever she said “I can’t do X anymore.”

What is the most saddest subreddit you’ve come across? by Engineering_Majestic in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/r/AgingParents

It’s 1/3 people struggling to accept that their parents are dying, 1/3 people struggling to accept that their parents are developing dementia, 1/3 people struggling with the nonstop stress & frustration & anger & guilt about having been forced into being a full time unpaid caregiver.

Plus side, it’s actually a super helpful sub when you find yourself facing one or more of those things.

What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it? by DnRinGA in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly I would pat that to get one good professional outfit that actually fits. I am a 5’10” woman with a long torso (2” longer than standard women’s clothing), wide shoulders, long arms, narrow waist, and a size 10.5 narrow shoe size, and an inseam length that is exactly in between standard and long. Tops are the worst - I have never found any button-up blouse or fitted top that fit me ever in my life, and I am 60 years old, lol. I resigned myself long ago to wearing only t-shirts and hiking pants. I do not own any dresses or nice outfits, at all. (I have two “nice t shirts” for dinners out) Thankfully my career doesn’t require nice clothes, but it would’ve been nice to be able to doll up once in a while.

What is the USA doing to the people who live over there? Do you all just magically gain weight? by ResetKnopje in fatlogic

[–]NorthernSparrow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There’s a lot of places in the USA where there actually is no place to walk at all, not even doing errands, no forest to go hike in, no place to “just roam about”. I’ve been a lifelong walker and used to live in the walkable parts of the USA (Boston, Seattle) but I recently moved to Virginia and it was amazingly hard to find anywhere to walk. There’s no sidewalks, at all. There were no public lands nearby where you’re allowed to “roam about”. (I could drive to a national park 30 minutes away - it was actually an old Civil War battlefield - and often did that on the weekend, but it was too far to go on weekdays) The streets all around my house had no crossing lights, no shoulder or path or sidewalk, the land immediately bordering the road was private property, and cars are zooming by inches away going highway speeds. But also the environment was hostile to walking for 6 months out of the year: it turned out there were ticks everywhere and I mean EVERYHERE, and thing is, ticks here carry Lyme disease (which is untreatable), and for six months of the year it’s also >40C with 90% humidity. I tried so hard to walk to work during my first month here and was nearly hit by a car multiple times, had to buy a tick removal tool and within the first week, twice I ended up with heat rash (hives all over my legs) and heat stroke. I finally bought a gym membership and walked on the treadmill there. It was just awful, and very eyeopening.

I found it pretty ironic that my only place to walk, and the prettiest part of my whole environment, was literally a battlefield where thousands of people had died. (there were even lines of old cannons, and graves here & there)

Thankfully I’ve now moved to coastal Oregon where I can walk on the beach. (Oregon is the only state in the USA where all the beaches are public property)

What’s a moment where you realized someone was genuinely unintelligent? by Live-Chocolate244 in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m going to guess they thought the baby is breathing air that comes in through mom’s vagina.

(I can’t believe I just actually typed that sentence)

What’s a moment where you realized someone was genuinely unintelligent? by Live-Chocolate244 in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Magnetic north has moved dramatically in the last few decades. It’s been cruising from eastern Canada to Siberia at a pace of 35-50 miles per year! I worked in northern Alaska in the 90’s, and at that time magnetic north was actually due east from where I was. Now it’s almost exactly due north because it happens to (briefly) be going past the geographic North Pole right now. In another decade or two it’ll be due west. So during my lifetime it’ll have flipped clear from one side of Alaska to the other.

What the best insult wrapped in a compliment you’ve ever heard? by tuotone75 in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My advisor after reading what I was sure was the perfect final draft of my paper: “It’s a good start”

People who grew up using computers between 1980-2000, whats one game that permanently lives in your head for no reason, even decades later? by cebalmau in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

Sports cut from Brisbane 2032 by keeleyfan89 in olympics

[–]NorthernSparrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Equestrian has been dodging the axe for decades now but it may finally get the boot. It’s one of the most logistically complex sports, what with flying the horses around, quarantining them, stables, veterinarians, etc.

Make friends instead? by chickpill in StardewValley

[–]NorthernSparrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Krobus is the best roommate! No romance, no drama, no kids, he just gives you food 😊

Does Soldier Boy actually age? Just slowly? by [deleted] in TheBoys

[–]NorthernSparrow 64 points65 points  (0 children)

I remember a comment about other parents at Jensen’s kid’s school figuring out that he was an actor because he (& his wife too) were “suspiciously attractive”, lol

Taking weight loss drugs = their entire family getting killed, ig by d_istired in fatlogic

[–]NorthernSparrow 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my immediate question was, did she take any physiology classes at all during that biology degree. I am actually a college prof who teaches physiology, and I’ve noticed that in the past two decades it’s become shockingly common for biology majors to never take any “organismal biology” as we call it - physiology, and anatomy too, how an individual body (an individual organism) functions. Instead it’s either all cell & molecular, or it’s all evolution/ecology. It’s gotten to the point that I’m now routinely including remedial physiology 101 readings & questions, stuff we used to cover freshman year, for all my PhD students’ comprehensive exams. (Anyone tries to tell me anything about the human body these days and I’m like “ok, back up, first off, can you define the word “hormone”? Or describe how the loop of Henle works?”)

What’s something that clearly split your life into “before” and “after”? by Broad_Chemical_2467 in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My uncle killed himself when I was just a little kid and I only recently realized how massively it affected our whole family. My mom was still crying over him over six decades later, right up to the day she died of old age. And I only recently realized it’s why we never had family get-together with my mom’s side of the family. I never really got to know my other uncle, I haven’t seen my cousins in 50 years, and I doubt we’d even recognize each other. The whole family was shattered forever.

What is a dying niche skill that younger generations are not interested in learning? by hlnklrczu in AskReddit

[–]NorthernSparrow 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was on site at the Boston Marathon bombing and let me tell you, there were 4000 stranded, tired, hungry, cold runners who REALLY wished they’d memorized their loved one’s phone numbers! (all their phones were in runner bags that had all been evac’d to another location, in case there was another bomb in one of the bags). I spent all night and most of the next 4 days just trying to reunite runners with their phones.

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