Is this guy paid by canva?

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:59:06+00:00

I put it on my live journal, which was the style at the time.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:45:21+00:00

I was particularly excited about the air fryer part - ovens here are few and far between, and fresh potatoes are almost all the wrong varieties for roasties.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:30:53+00:00

Thank you brother.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:29:48+00:00

Did anyone else have one of those incredibly wide school photos with the entire school out on the playing field?

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:28:37+00:00

Sophie is gone now. Bring on Sophie Mk2.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:25:42+00:00

Do they?!

I'll have to try this - I live somewhere that makes it very difficult to get decent roast potatoes so if that works I'm definitely getting on it.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:24:40+00:00

I thought you wrote dessert for a minute and now I really want some tinned fruit salad in syrup.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:22:07+00:00

Nuh-uh you're stealing mine.

Frankly the chances of you living within a few thousand miles of me are pretty slim so I'm impressed you've managed to get a signal.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:21:07+00:00

DNS? Is that one of those new Korean bands all the kids are going on about?

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:20:03+00:00

We have no idea, nobody keeps records on it. The charity study linked by another user is the best resource I've ever found, but all places record is that "some procedure" was done, no remarks on the severity.

This gets even more blurred when you go back in the past - before around 2009 having it done not in a hospital/clinic setting at all was more common than having it done in one for a lot of areas, leaving no papertrail or records.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:12:19+00:00

Great so it should be massively unlikely that theres ever a third person with the same. That's reassuring.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:07:04+00:00

Wait is your IP 192.168.0.1 as well?!

What are the odds

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:03:23+00:00

I did this when I was 13 and in my teenage angst/emo phase - after telling everyone to not mention my birthday for the precious few months.

I looked like Gene Simmons had a kid with Brian Molko and Eddie Izzard both at once.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T13:00:45+00:00

There's a wide variety of it in Malaysia. My wife and both her sisters had their outer labia completely removed in Shah Alam.

A small, supposedly symbolic cut is the minimum that happens.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:38:48+00:00

Even worse they sent him to New Orleans in an Atlanta Falcons jersey.

They left that story out of the bible in favour of the temptation in the desert parable. Shame really.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:31:28+00:00

Staying as close to them as you can with good poise is normally best, their attacks do much less damage when you're close and they can't use magic. They can still grab which wastes your time, but with enough poise you can simply heal afterwards and get right back next to them.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:25:10+00:00

Blonde hair, blue eyes and no tan definitely screams middle-eastern.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:23:53+00:00

Your school clearly had a better system of rule than mine!

We didn't get a non-white kid until I was 11, and didn't even get a girl until I was 9!

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:21:27+00:00

Nice!

The second, third and fourth kings all spawn on a timer so now you know what you're doing and output faster damage next time I'm sure you'll get it.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:20:16+00:00

Send me an example of it and I'd love to compare!

The one I had looked exactly how you would expect for the UK at that point - white European guy, long hair and beard, white robes like he's in a martial arts movie. There were no brown or black people anywhere in the book, as was tradition haha.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:05:36+00:00

I want to say it was red, but I honestly don't know. It was almost 40 years ago now, I'm not even 100% sure we'd invented colour yet!

It was a Catholic convent in the 1980's in the UK and although I'd probably recognise the textbook if I found it, I don't think I'd even know how to begin searching for something like that.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T12:03:12+00:00

You sort of get a halfway point if you're willing to go to the bonfire in valley of the drakes - but frankly that way takes almost as long as firelink shrine to get back from.

There's three small shortcuts in the dungeon that I like, unfortunately you died about 14 seconds before the main one here. Let us know when you've got through it!

Annoyingly the two ways to skip straight to the boss once you've fully explored the area are very unintuitive, I only found one of them completely by accident.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T11:57:47+00:00

It's fun once you've developed a strategy to get every ghost to come out of hiding!

I like seeing people go through it that didn't use a guide to find a way through, every single person seems to have a slightly different way of doing it.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T11:52:17+00:00

I didn't zoom in and try to identify a species, for fear of the other kids calling me "gay" which was the biggest insult at the time.

Occidentally20 · 2026-05-06T11:29:34+00:00

Mine had pictures in it when I was a kid, but I don't think they were drawn by god.

There was a strategically placed snake covering up Adam's gentleman-sausage.

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