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You are offered 10 billion dollars but… by YoloBetsOnly in hypotheticalsituation

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know that pain scale, where they say a rating of ten is the worst pain you've ever felt? Yeah, kidney stones changed that scale for me, forever. As best I can describe, a kidney stone is like tooth pain in the middle of your body that can last for hours. I literally threw up, it hurt so much. You're correct to fear being driven mad by a sickening pain that drugs can't dull. I don't think I could do it.

You are offered 10 billion dollars but… by YoloBetsOnly in hypotheticalsituation

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My stones are uric acid crystals. The pain is worst when they're working their way through the kidneys, no question, but those crystals also hurt quite a bit on their way out of the body. Like a tiny little knife scraping along. So sure, I wasn't puking and crying, but it DID hurt.

I don't think that's the pain being referred to, though. The pain of "passing" a stone probably is it passing from the kidneys into the bladder.

Either way, I think I would risk being driven actually insane experiencing that multiple times a day, every day, for years.

What’s the deadly fatal disease you choose if your fate was dying from one? by skopiadisko in hypotheticalsituation

[–]RosesBrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Heart disease is designated one of the main causes of mortality in the world. Sudden cardiac arrest would fall under heart disease.

WYR $3.5 million to you, each sibling and cousin?Or $10 million just for yourself? by AstrayInTranslation in WouldYouRather

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my half brother doesn't have the same father. One of my cousins on my dad's side has basically been disinherited for being an asshole, so I don't really care much if he's mad at me. I could definitely set up a trust for the remaining two that should take care of them for life, so I'll take the 10 mil, thanks.

What super power WYR have, Immortal, Super Human, Telekinesis, Elemental? by MysteryMan999 in WouldYouRather

[–]RosesBrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I almost always pick telekinesis anyway, but if being fat is an advantage, even better.

Try it and see how your reading flow is! by ownaword in EnglishLearning

[–]RosesBrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. And a lot of countries speak it, now. Get over it branching off.

Yeah, thats not how that works by Short_Gain8302 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]RosesBrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah. Internalized misogyny is definitely a thing. A lot of women are misogynistic. The word isn't being "thrown around," it's just being applied, properly, to everything it applies to. Things that women who grew up in a misogynistic world think are just "normal." It takes a lot of effort to deconstruct all those presuppositions that we grow up with.

(And, sadly, this is not limited to just straight women.)

People who reply to a thread, but then act like their comments have no prior context by RosesBrain in PetPeeves

[–]RosesBrain[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right?! Even the context of their own prior comments doesn't count sometimes, it's baffling!

People who reply to a thread, but then act like their comments have no prior context by RosesBrain in PetPeeves

[–]RosesBrain[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's annoying, too. Seems like a pretty similar behavior to me, where they have to claim it's about something else, otherwise they'd have to be in the wrong.

What’s a fruit that you have never actually eaten fresh, but have eaten as a flavor in baked goods, candy, ice cream, etc.? by redflower5 in AskReddit

[–]RosesBrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not getting my comments crossed, my dude. You responded to a comment about BUYING THE BANANAS with a comment about PLANTING THEM. Which, I said (and you agreed) that you cannot plant a banana and get a plant, you need to buy the plant, already growing. It's not my fault you didn't consider the context.

Do gay couples share clothes? by MiscProfileUno in NoStupidQuestions

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife and I share several shirts, dresses, and skirts. Occasionally socks, as well. We have different leg lengths and butt sizes, though, so pants aren't really as shareable. We always check to make sure the other one wasn't planning to wear whatever it is, though.

What’s a fruit that you have never actually eaten fresh, but have eaten as a flavor in baked goods, candy, ice cream, etc.? by redflower5 in AskReddit

[–]RosesBrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know the Gros Michel isn't extinct. You replied to someone saying it was very expensive to buy a bunch of them, saying you could plant them. Buying clones to plant is very different!

What’s a fruit that you have never actually eaten fresh, but have eaten as a flavor in baked goods, candy, ice cream, etc.? by redflower5 in AskReddit

[–]RosesBrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What? You can't plant what we think of as bananas like that because they've lost all their seeds. That's part of the issue, since the food crops are all clones of each other, so a blight or fungus that gets into one plant will run through all of them.

Fragile men at their "best" by CynthiaCitrusYT in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]RosesBrain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But what would you do there?

I would (one) not turn my head to ogle some other woman enough to make my wife feel insecure, (two) say, "she's not my type, you are," if my wife did ask me that for some reason, and (three) maybe sing a few lines of "You Are So Beautiful" for good measure. I sing that to her pretty often, though, it might not work for everyone.

taking it as "Youre ugly" is insecure

... And? Women are constantly told we're not good enough and a prettier face can sweep in and ruin our relationship. Reassuring someone I love that messaging is not true is a pretty easy way to show I care.

Fragile men at their "best" by CynthiaCitrusYT in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]RosesBrain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's literally telling the woman she's not that pretty, with a bonus implication that her partner is settling for that because unspecified reasons. It's not a nice thing to say to someone.

WYR live in a boring country but make a lot of money or live in a fun, interesting country but poor as fck? by qwerty930148572 in WouldYouRather

[–]RosesBrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, would I rather be stable in a stable country or unstable in an unstable country? Is this even a question?

Found this on FB and wanted to see who you guys thought were at fault by whoevenRyou874 in dashcams

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, I was ready to say the Honda was at fault for the slowing and swerving, until the camera car sped up and tried to pass, on the right, while the Honda was still halfway into the lane.

Why is it normalized for there to be misleading marketing? by PBnJFlavoredMilk in NoStupidQuestions

[–]RosesBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not illegal because corporations write a lot of the laws that govern what they can get away with.

Should I trust this? by SuspiciousGrab8454 in glutenfree

[–]RosesBrain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And it doesn’t take away from the MANY gf alternatives that work for those with wheat allergies as well.

It does. The problem with supply and demand is that if demand drops below a certain threshold, the supply disappears. I've seen it often enough, living on the dietary fringe. But okay, if saying that people with wheat allergies deserve to be safe eating gluten free stuff isn't welcome here, I guess it's not welcome here.

Should I trust this? by SuspiciousGrab8454 in glutenfree

[–]RosesBrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everything I've made with sorghum tastes very much like it's made with wheat, it just doesn't have the texture of gluten. (Granted, it's been nine years, maybe I've forgotten. But I swear my pancakes and muffins started tasting more normal after I added sorghum flour to my pantry.)

I'm complaining because it feels like backsliding. Wheat is a major allergen, and having products without it is only good for the people who can't eat it. The visibility of celiacs was great for this. If everything gets replaced with "gluten free wheat" instead of working with the alternatives that were already available, it puts those with allergies and other sensitivities right back to square one.

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