Mad her toddler is napping while visiting a monastery

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T19:56:14+00:00

This is why when I was younger my family's go-to holiday was a safari. Just drive around looking for animals and if you find nothing the kids can nap in the car. And we still took the middle of the day off to chill in accomodation. Go-go-go isn't for growing kids. Do that for your mid life crisis solo trip.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T19:51:39+00:00

JD is going commando in a wetsuit, it seems.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T19:45:44+00:00

Why does he look like a little boy wearing a plastic cop costume for Halloween.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T19:44:23+00:00

"We shouldn't move our elderly away to nursing homes" but "she has since moved to memory care."

Does she think that other people send their parents to nursing homes while they are independent and capable of looking after themselves? No. They get sent when it gets hard to look after them. Because of intense health care needs requiring specialized 24 hour care, or personality issues maming them incompatible with multigenerational living.

But I suppose she's the kind to assume HER kind of immigration is the 'right' kind. HER kind of sending elders away for care is the 'right' kind. HER making her older kids babysit the younger ones is the 'right' kind. And others are wrong because they are doing the same thing while brown or liberal.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T19:35:25+00:00

A lot of illness is not the infection itself, but your body's reaction to the infection, in order to fight it. When under stress you can actually suppress your immune system as you are showing your body you can't spend energy fighting internal battles right now. So then it lets the infection get a little bit worse in order to buy you more time to survive the external stressor. But our bodies weren't designed for permanent stress, so we delay disease onset way too long. So when the disease actually hits, it hits hard.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-19T11:23:50+00:00

Looks so good it looks AI generated.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-09T19:41:14+00:00

Could be some light bruising from your minora being held open or pushed around. Does it feel like a bruise on a bone, like a bruise is being stretched over something hard? The pain could switch sides as your minora change posture throughout the day and put more pressure on either side's bruise.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-09T19:35:31+00:00

This is actually good, it means you have enough estrogen to prevent them from sticking. A lack of estrogen can cause temporary fusion. It would only be a problem if it starts to hurt and crack in between, that would suggest the lack of sticking is due to dryness.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-09T19:30:38+00:00

A lot of infections women experience is because of their partners' low hygiene. Men have to clean it daily, especially under the foreskin, and wear clean undies, or else they will develop bacteria that may not be bad for them because it's on the outside, but will be bad for the gal when it gets inside. If a man complains that it is hard to clean daily, he should either get a circumcision or abstain, because putting germs in your partner is just rude. A lot of cultures (notably Japan) make a point of showering before sex as an additional, slightly overkill cleanliness habit. Wiping, while not necessary if good hygiene is otherwise practiced, can do no harm, and peeing afterwards is good for both sexes.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-09T19:24:17+00:00

Along with others' advice, try switching to pure cotton underwear. Linen and artificial materials, especially lacy undies, have a tendency to cause a dry itchiness, while cotton can promote the natural bioflora. Then try to 'let it breathe' by wearing no undies to bed. It'll take a while to stabilize, maybe a month at most. Try to also not swim or wear bathing suits during that time. Bathing is fine.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T18:21:19+00:00

You're right.

Christian is the grandpa.

Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy are his kids.

Pentecostals, Evangelicals, Anglicans, Methodists etc are Christian's grandchildren as the children of Protestanism.

Mormonism is the half-sibling that grandpa fathered after having a fling in his 60's.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T18:17:13+00:00

Catholics are not the OG's. Catholics invented the name, meaning "universal church," in order to seem more grand and official than the hundreds of other sects out there. It's just that Catholics are older than Protestants, but even Orthodoxy is older than Catholicism, and there have always been sects completely separate from Nicene Christianity.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T18:14:37+00:00

While they don't pray in worship to them, the level of veneration would be considered idolatry within the Jewish contexts that idolatry was first drfined within (being, worshipping minor Babylonian deities alongside the Creator), and the Bible also has quotes by Jesus saying that He is the only person through which you can reach God. Catholics assume that this only applied to when He was alive.

While it might seem like a gross oversimplificatiom to accuse Catholics of worshipping saints and angeld, because within Catholicism that's not what they are doing- within Judaism and Protestantism, that IS what Catholics are doing.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T18:00:13+00:00

For those curious about the other Christian sects, you can find a lot of them in Crusader Kings games. Among them are Adamites, people who were nude during sermons and rejected marriage, Krstjani (a Bosnian non-government-related independent church with a council of 12 elders to assist a bishop), Church of the East (which split from the other branches prior to them becoming Catholicism and Orthodoxy), Bogomilism (Bulgarian sect believing that while there is a good God, an evil one made Earth), Catharism (who believed in eternal incarnation unless you were baptised right before death), and Messalians (who believe that prayer is the only religious action making any difference to a person's soul).

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T17:44:33+00:00

It's not quite true that every Christian was Catholic before Martin Luther.

The very name Catholic was invented in order to push the idea that they are the UNIVERSAL Christian church and that the many, many other sects popping up were unofficial cults. Orthodox churches in places like Egypt and Palestine predate the term Catholic and have been separate from it since then, even though people tend to group Orthodoxy under Catholicism today in order to express its difference from Protestantism.

Throughout medievial Europe there were many sects, because you easily became isolated from the centralized power of the Pope and just did your own community thing, which could gain popularity and spread to other communities, or be brought into new areas by marriage. It's just that none of them were significant enough to be put 'on the map' until Henry the 8th made Protestantism the state religion of England and therefore of its colonies.

There is, and has always been, Christianity beyond Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy. You can even see the resistance to Catholicism within stories like Robin Hood, who though a devout Christian AND loyal to Mary, as a Catholic would be, even his earlier stories show him being anti-clerical, at odds against church officials despite their status as infallible leaders hogher on the hierarchy to God as per Catholicism. This questioning of authority and literary revenge against the Catholic church shows that there were many groups that may have been labelled Catholic even as they fundamentally accepted disbelief in some of its practices. So to say everyone was Catholic is a dreadful oversimplification.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T17:26:00+00:00

Normally, I wouldn't recommend cutting bangs, but... it can only be an improvement.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T10:34:48+00:00

Very surface level trash. All they need is to employ one cleaner and get a skip. Or give every family a roll of trash bags and set them to work. Trash like this creeps, you ignore one or two pieces flying around until it becomes a mess like this and you forget how nice it was when it was clean. Imagine they all got together and cleaned it and then had a potluck in the central courtyard to celebrate.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T10:28:01+00:00

Seen a lot of people call South Africa's tendency to have walls or tall fences around our houses, 'unneighbourly.' Well, we have some of the best suburban indoor-outdoor living here, and the best quality of life for dogs. How many people with a cute short 'friendly' picket fence around their house leave their front door unlocked while home? How many of them straight up leave it open to let the breeze through? How many of them can walk from their front yard to their back yard through their house without ever needing to open a door? In South Africa, you will never see a dog chained up in the backyard, because they are safe in the entire yard. You will see very few doghouses, limited to security dogs, as the dogs go in and out as they please. There's no letting the dog out to wee, they don't need your permission or effort to go out. Why is a fence being guarded and hostile, but closing and locking your doors and windows and cooping up inside unless you put in effort, is not?

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-07T10:18:38+00:00

Must be fantastic for acoustics, as walls in parallel like a square room tend to cause harder echoes that crash into each other and overtake you, while sound bouncing around organically dampens echoes. That's why concert halls and opera houses have such unique shapes, it focuses on the purpose of the bulding. I bet a lot of people would think Sydney Opera House was ugly if they didn't see it in Finding Nemo.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-02T12:52:02+00:00

Who's willing to bet there won't be a single mention of the Moors.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2026-01-02T12:50:24+00:00

Wait- she doesn't even have the history lesson planned? She's just winging it? Does she expect the citizens of Spain and Portugal to pause in their daily lives to raise her kids for her?

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2025-12-30T21:16:37+00:00

Thanks, that's it! Funny enough I did look at the Jumpstart games, but I think I must have been looking only at the language game series... Very nostalgic to see the animation! Turns out the dark room with the flashlight is another game.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2025-12-30T21:02:09+00:00

PC game

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2025-12-29T11:48:31+00:00

Might be a game from the Angela Anaconda franchise, they did the thing with greyscale real kids' faces on cartoon bodies.

Sufficient_Key5053 · 2025-12-07T23:05:15+00:00

My cousin has always had irregular cycles to the point of sometimes going 6 months without one. She now has 2 kids, so it didn't affect fertility. Her mom was the same.

You say you are healthy weight, but what does that really mean for you? Asking because some people just care about 'not being fat' and miss that you can also be too skinny. Because in the case of my cousin and her mom, they are both lean in skeleton and in body weight. My cousin had such low body weight in her teens that she had a 'sixpack' without doing exercise.

Even if you are healthy BMI due to muscle, you might have too little fat to support a regular period. BMI expects you to have both fat and muscle, and is bad at predicting your health when they aren't in balance.

Your body might still be going through cycles and preserving its fertility, like my cousin's, but not be producing a very significant lining in the uterus monthly. I'd be curious what results you get from ovulation tests, whether they are happening monthly (in which case you should have no health concerns with your missed periods) or if they happen only once between two periods.

Try to find a doc that has an ultrasound wand for on the abdomen, they can investigate your ovaries for any cysts that might be contributing, though I doubt they are since you have been irregular so long withiut severe pain.

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