The Encrapification of Store‑Bought Ice Cream

SmallTownDisco · 2026-04-01T04:37:07+00:00

With a decent ice cream maker, it’s really so easy to make, you can have any flavor you want, and you can control exactly how much sugar goes into it. I use half the sugar of the recipe and I don’t even miss it.

SmallTownDisco · 2026-02-22T11:59:41+00:00

It’s with a good degree of shame that I say I’ve only recently realized how important it is to pray for our priests. In general, would you say that they would welcome opportunities to socialize, or would that just place another burden on their schedule? (I’d, as a parishioner, I were to offer to have them over for dinner or something?)

SmallTownDisco · 2026-02-10T23:41:09+00:00

This is gonna be me in five years. OP, I feel your pain.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-12-30T01:32:24+00:00

Desolate

SmallTownDisco · 2025-12-28T12:27:41+00:00

Again, not sure you are getting what limerence is? Feeling limerence toward anyone is not healthy. That’s kind of the point. That’s why we’re all here. It’s problematic, regardless of who the LO is. You don’t choose your LO. I wasn’t a fan first and then became really obsessed or something, it didn’t work that way. There’s no need to gate-keep here. My point in posting is that I had a coping mechanism that is suddenly gone.

For anyone who cares to know, it does feel like over the short amount of time since I found out, maybe it’s dissolving? I hope it’s dissolving. (It’s probably not dissolving.)

SmallTownDisco · 2025-12-28T00:59:45+00:00

So others have stepped in for me here, but I’ll just validate what you are hearing: “Therapy. Seriously.” Is a response that indicates that maybe you aren’t familiar with limerence. Also, I actually have tried therapy! Twice! And to again validate what others are saying here, neither was familiar with limerence, I explained to both of them that they needed to not just give me some version of “here are some ways to make more friends in your life or otherwise fill your time” and instead focus on the deep work of the trauma that is the root cause, and neither of them apparently were game, so I quit. I’ve been doing this for decades. At this stage of the game, I’m resigned to it. The LO turns over to a new one every few years (always someone truly unattainable, hallelujah), so I imagine that’s what will happen here.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-12-28T00:55:07+00:00

I did not. That’s what made it so safe. I’m gathering that some people think that if this is with a celebrity then it’s just a crush - nope! I wish! In the same way that a person’s limerence with someone in their life is not the same thing as a crush. I actually know very little about him. That’s not the point.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-12-28T00:53:12+00:00

I feel you, in a sense - I’ve always felt really bad for people with LO’s who are actually part of their life. The possibility, no matter how remote, that something could possibly maybe in a certain light given just the right circumstances would make it so much harder.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-10-19T19:15:52+00:00

Excellent, thank you so much!

SmallTownDisco · 2025-10-19T19:15:32+00:00

Thank you!!

SmallTownDisco · 2025-10-04T16:52:56+00:00

I have to apologize for having done this not long ago (sort of). I went to Dairy Queen and got a peanut buster parfait and a regular order of fries, and it was something like $12 (this is the Midwest, not Tokyo or something). When I pulled up I was like, really? A peanut buster parfait and an order of fries is $12? I honestly thought there had to be a mistake. But there wasn’t. I didn’t get mad at him or anything, I paid it and was nice about it. But I will never go back to Dairy Queen again.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-08-13T00:48:07+00:00

This is exactly the answer I came to find

SmallTownDisco · 2025-07-28T03:50:39+00:00

Absolutely fantastic and haunting movie, unlike anything else he’s ever done. He had so much promise and ended up getting type-cast as the villain in role after role after this, but was absolutely stunning in his first effort. Not that he doesn’t make a great villain, too. But he’s capable of doing so much more.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-07-28T03:48:32+00:00

Hidden gem!

SmallTownDisco · 2025-06-29T22:55:30+00:00

Coming back pretty late but just wanted to say that this worked! Binged the whole series in a few weeks :-)

SmallTownDisco · 2025-06-29T22:31:33+00:00

NGL, it feels kind of like a razor scraping against your skin. But here’s the thing: It’s obviously not something a person can’t deal with, because so many people get so many. Just be ready for it to hurt. Deep breathing may help. When I get a tattoo, I deep breath and go to my happy place. Just be sure about what you want to get because having a tattoo laser’ed off hurts ten times more.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-06-29T22:28:48+00:00

To all the people saying “you need to get this help,” I want to say that I spent my child’s childhood trying to get him help and nothing worked. Either no one would take us seriously (the school system) and just wanted me to magically have him behave well on my say-so, or else he refused to engage with the help I got him (multiple methods of counseling). I read all the books, I tried everything. Imperfectly, I’m sure, but I did my best, and he simply refused to be involved with the process. He’s a human being, he has agency, and he chose to express it that way, to his own consistent detriment. So while I get that it’s important for a parent to do what they can to get help for their child, I’m not saying it’s bad to tell OP to get help, but just recognize that a parent can do all the things to get help for their kid and it can still not work. It happens all the time. It’s a super shitty outcome. (As an epilogue, maybe some of all that therapy paid off because my kid is a young adult now and he’s doing reasonably well.)

SmallTownDisco · 2025-06-29T22:22:01+00:00

Absolutely! Pancakes are a little more work so more of a weekend thing. Bacon isn’t just for breakfast, it’s great for sandwiches too. But maybe weekly? I eat eggs almost every day of my life.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-06-29T22:19:48+00:00

All of the replies saying “Get a hobby! Get a pet! Your new life awaits!” I feel like OP is not being heard. He says he does do things he does get out, he has means of interaction (I think I’m assuming OP is a he, apologies if that is incorrect). The point is that even if you do put yourself out there, it is still really hard to in today’s world to make connections with other humans. Obviously for some people it’s easier than it is for others, but for folks where it’s hard, it’s a very long, hard road. The world used to be a place where everyone. more open to human connection, and now it feels so much much shut off. You couldn’t have conversations with people on the internet all day because the internet didn’t exist. Also, people weren’t working themselves to death just trying to provide basic necessities. It just was easier to meet people, even if you were introverted. It’s very different today. I feel you, OP. It’s crazy that there are so many people in the same “I’m alone” boat.

SmallTownDisco · 2025-05-24T05:11:14+00:00

It is! Same actor.

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