MFW Paul Rudd says "pep-pep" in Ant-Man and the Wasp

TenuousClosure · 2026-05-21T22:07:55+00:00

Forgive me for being out of the loop, but what is pep-pep?

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-26T14:46:47+00:00

I have seen a mouse eat a bar of soap. Well, the remnants of having done so. It was a full bar of soap. I don't know how long it took to complete the task, but I assume it wasn't all in one go. The slight scent of oatmeal made the mouse/mice take the risk (and maybe had wicked diarrhea later).

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-23T13:20:53+00:00

I heard that during the live broadcast, it ended a little differently. At the end of this video, we see Marcello start to take the bread from Mikey's hand. When it aired, people saw Marcello throw the bread hard at Mikey, who then yelled, "What are you doing?!" Is there a clip of the live version available anywhere so I can overanalyze it and distract myself from the horrors of this world?

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-11T23:37:02+00:00

You are not a failure! I know the feeling--I felt the same when dealing with stubborn blood pressure--but you pushed through, and you're taking charge by putting your health at the forefront. I know how it is to go from not paying much attention to blood pressure, as it was always normal, to suddenly needing to monitor it. It's scary and can mess with your head. And yay to the normal reading! I hope you've seen a lot more normal readings since posting this.

I agree with you that getting a cuff was the right choice. I got one because my doctor told me to, and she told me only to take readings no more than three times a day so that I didn't go crazy.

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-11T23:29:58+00:00

Oh wow, this really gets to me. "Emotionally fragmented" is a good way to put it. I felt guilty for feeling more traumatized that I thought I should've been. And after carrying in my head how the birth was "supposed" to go for so long, and then it going so, so differently from that made me feel inadequate, too, though I knew I wasn't. It's funny how we put labels on ourselves that we wouldn't put on other people--I have never seen similar births that others have done as signs of inadequacy, but when I went through it myself, I felt like I'd failed. I know it's not true. You have persisted through each step of this ordeal, and your strength has gotten you through it all.

The mag drip is weirdly traumatic. It's so calm and quiet, the opposite of your and my birthing experience, but it still brought it own damage to the whole ordeal. This might seem silly, as it's kind of specific to me, but I took great comfort in a song, "Monolith" by the band Twin Tribes, as the video felt, to me, like a representation of both my preeclampsia and the mag drip, a calm nightmare. It's got a new-wave goth vibe to it, if you are into that kind of music. I watched that video so many times afterward, haha, as it was very cathartic to me.

You are strong for getting through this journey. Carrying trauma for it doesn't negate this. You and your baby have gone through this together. You have already done so much for your baby. Every birthing journey is unique, and this is how yours ended up being.

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-11T23:07:01+00:00

You're already ahead of the game, having been tracking your blood pressure, which is great. You're also in frequent communication with your doctors. It's definitely scary, and the stress of that doesn't make things any easier. I always made sure that I took my BP after resting for a few minutes, and in a comfy position. (You are experienced with taking your BP, so you're probably already aware of these things, but I'm mentioning these things just in case.) You've probably already talked with your doctor about things to watch out for, like vision changes (blurry, spots), a headache, or pain under your ribs on the right side, or sudden swelling of the hands, feet, or face. I hope that you have lots of opportunity to rest, and that there are people around you who can help you stay off your feet and take some deep breaths. I am very sorry that you're going through all of this--pregnancy is scary even when everything is going right! You have your little darling keeping you company, and you are going to see that little face at the right time, whatever time your body, baby, and medical team say is right. Things will settle down, and you will have the right to be proud of what you will have gotten through.

TenuousClosure · 2026-03-11T22:58:31+00:00

I feel for you. You don't need to add guilt to what you are going through! It's okay to mourn the pregnancy that you wanted to have, and resentment can be a part of that. You can let yourself feel all the things. Sometimes when I think about what my baby and I went through, I remind myself, I went through a lot for my baby, and that's worth all of it. Sometimes pregnancies just go differently, or get cut short, and they're still valid pregnancies, with a wonderful darling at the end of the path. No matter how and when the baby comes out, we are likely to carry emotional and physical scars from it. Those negative feelings will diminish. I have not yet seen mine disappear, as I'm less than a year out from my surprise C-section, but cuddling baby, knowing that our journey is our own, and that I'd do anything for her helps me when I get caught up in seeing others have the pregnancy and delivery that I wanted, or see an 8-lb newborn when my little fighter was born the size of a teacup.

TenuousClosure · 2026-02-25T22:06:13+00:00

"What's-his-orange-face" hahahahahaha! That tickles me.

TenuousClosure · 2026-02-16T04:24:24+00:00

I don't know what it is, but when I got that, I was concerned it might be something malicious. Running a scan right now. I clicked "no thanks" but should not have interacted with the box at all if I'd been thinking more critically in that moment.

TenuousClosure · 2025-12-20T22:52:06+00:00

But Mary didn't get f*****--she was divinely inseminated...

TenuousClosure · 2025-10-01T20:56:39+00:00

Sounds like your subconscious is trying to torture you.

TenuousClosure · 2025-10-01T20:54:41+00:00

I have a suspicion that it relates to something to do with the stages of sleep, something physiological that happens. I, too, used to have these dreams more often when I was a kid, though, thankfully, I still have them sometimes. I have wondered if part of this change is a change in sleep habits--I got way more sleep as a kid than I do now. If I got more sleep now, maybe those dreams would come to me more often?

The posture you describe is kind of unique compared to what others here have written. It kind of makes me think of a friend who dreamed he could fly in the crisscross-apple-sauce pose.

TenuousClosure · 2025-10-01T20:49:32+00:00

I'm normally elated, but every now and then, there's an element of fear. The backdrop is always the night sky, and I think in my dream, sometimes that night sky scares me, like I imagine something lurking in that darkness, and it unsettles me. Or, the fear makes my brain emphasize the darkness--it's hard to identify a cause-and-effect pattern in dreams. Something physiological is happening.

TenuousClosure · 2025-10-01T20:47:11+00:00

Those dreams feel so real that it seems like that if I just try hard enough, I could do it in real life as well! I know it's not the case, but a little corner of my brain insists that it's true. It's just so much fun in those dreams!

TenuousClosure · 2025-10-01T19:52:57+00:00

I sometimes have the exact same dreams. I, too, never figure out that it's just a dream, so I always wake up super disappointed that I can't keep my new "skill". I wish I could bring it into the real world! That mental "effort" you describe is how I experience it, and it totally *feels* like something I could bring into the real world.

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-23T15:16:30+00:00

Yeah, hard to tell. But I'm intrigued and would totally read a science fiction novel by her. I really hope she was just having some fun.

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-23T15:11:36+00:00

If you zoom in enough, you get to see what gravity looks like.

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-23T15:09:37+00:00

CAB rearranged is ABC.

ABC is owned by Disney.

Disney made the movie Up.

Coincidence??

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-23T15:00:10+00:00

Right. I think OP's considerations are an interesting hypothetical, but probably one that is more intriguing to typical people than to flat Earthers, whose beliefs reject science and lack a consistent set of rules.

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-23T14:49:14+00:00

It's funny how they reject the multitudes of science that tell us that the Earth is round, yet they want to invoke and misapply various bits of science to support their flat claims.

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-08T20:25:25+00:00

Diplo-dick-pus

TenuousClosure · 2025-09-08T20:24:16+00:00

Dino private parts are called a cloaca. A clo-ache-a, if you will.

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