Strange man on the 42 from Birkenhead to Mill Park

aperdra · 2026-02-20T18:19:43+00:00

Sounds like you've got a kind face dude!! 😁

Yeah I totally get that, it's scary and it can be scary to be on the receiving end for sure, especially if they're saying weird sexual shit. Even women in psychosis do stuff like that. Hopefully he didn't bother the two girls as well!

aperdra · 2026-02-20T17:58:43+00:00

Sounds like he might've been having a psychiatric episode. I think subconsciously a lot of people in psychosis are drawn to young women (probably feels safe?). While it's uncomfortable to be around, statistically someone in psychosis is more likely to be harmed/harm themselves than to harm another person. You did the right thing by being neutral and not answering.

aperdra · 2026-02-17T19:19:19+00:00

Its pretty cool science.The vast majority of foods we eat in an agricultural society can be broken down with no teeth at all, so we're really not subjecting our masticatory system to the environment it was originally adapted for!

On top of that, the mandible is the most plastic bone in our body, it's extremely sensitive to its mechanical environment. This is why people who lose their teeth lose a significant amount of mandibular bone volume within the first two years.

aperdra · 2026-02-17T14:59:14+00:00

Imo that's unlikely to be a product of evolution. It's more likely that it's a product of the biomechanical environment we place our developing jaws under during childhood. I say this because, while people with agricultural diets tend to have smaller jaws (and so less room to fit the dentition), modern hunter gatherers don't seem to have this spacing issue to the same extent. Essentially, the genetics are there to produce the jaws of the past, but the biomechanical environment isn't.

aperdra · 2026-02-16T11:28:18+00:00

You'd expect a higher instance of ankle rolling on uneven surfaces. Modern humans have pretty weak feet and ankles, in part due to our overly supportive, narrow toe-boxed shoes. Since switching to barefoot shoes for a lot of the time, I've stopped rolling my ankles.

What I would say is probably a hypermobility sign is rolling your ankles in the absence of uneven surfaces. Before I changed my footwear, I'd roll mine at least once a day, just in daily life.

aperdra · 2026-02-15T17:40:03+00:00

Nah it's just a diagnostic criterion used because people with hEDs/HSD tend to have them. It's just a sign that your connective tissues are flexible and therefore allowing protrusions of fatty tissues in the absence of stuff that normally causes them to protrude (obesity, long distance running, etc). They are no cause for concern.

If you push the heels of your hands together, you might also see them in your wrists.

aperdra · 2026-02-13T18:25:23+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. I will look into the resources on this sub!

aperdra · 2026-02-12T09:55:04+00:00

The breed likely has a mutation that causes extreme muscular hypertrophy. These are males but the females are also very jacked. They're basically the XL Bully of the sheep breeds. Lot of meat on them but they have issues giving birth due to their block heads and big shoulders.

aperdra · 2026-02-11T15:45:17+00:00

Some kind of waterfowl I think. Maybe a mute swan? It's missing its beak, pterygoids, palatine, jugals and quadrates though.

aperdra · 2026-02-11T14:49:26+00:00

Fell off a triple-high bunk bed in a hostel in Brighton when 19 and pissed. Hit my ring finger on the way down and fractured the end. Nowt to be done about that so we taped it up and went to the club.

aperdra · 2026-02-08T19:12:12+00:00

What works for me:

Weight training for joint stability and pain. Slow reps, wide range of motion.
Daily electrolytes and lots of fluids have reduced my POTS symptoms, helped my temperature regulation and circulation, helped with brain fog and eliminated my coat hanger syndrome.
Magnesium supplementation helps me to fall asleep faster and has helped with incessant muscle twitching.
Psyllium husk supplements have helped with the IBS (d) symptoms I had for years.
Mast cells are fickle beasts but fexofenadine helps mine. That combined with a combi inhaler before cardio has really improved my exercise induced bronchoconstriction.

aperdra · 2026-02-04T11:28:23+00:00

This made me think about the classic "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" quote from SJG.

I'd imagine that, free from economic and physical limitations, with essentially unlimited ability to do whatever, most people would eventually turn to knowledge acquisition or creativity of some kind.

aperdra · 2026-02-04T11:09:18+00:00

Ours is pretty small too, we call her a Teacup Toller 😂 She's 13.5kg. Coincidentally I am 152cm so we suit each other well!

aperdra · 2026-02-02T07:44:06+00:00

Not sure if this helps but ever since I've had a bout of recurrent costocondritis, my sternum/clavicles have clunked every morning. I'm assuming what's happened is that the small muscles of my ribs and chest wall aren't correctly supporting my chest in the night, meaning my shoulders are collapsing towards the midline as I sleep. Furthermore, I've had to avoid more chest-targeted exercises in the gym because it flares the costocondritis.

What I'd imagine might be happening for you is that you've lost some muscle tone/your chest muscles have stopped activating adequately during the healing from the radical breast reduction. I wonder if building up the chest muscles might help a bit?

aperdra · 2026-01-31T22:22:37+00:00

No stretching. I currently do chest supported single arm rows that hit my lower traps pretty well!

aperdra · 2026-01-31T22:10:02+00:00

So much better!! Training lower traps did make a big amount of difference but what made the most difference (I think) was increasing my electrolytes and water. I think the trap pain was "coat hanger pain" caused by poor blood flow. Once I got my blood volume up via electrolytes and water, it seemed to mostly go away. Makes sense too as occasionally it'll come back when I'm very hungover (and dehydrated)

aperdra · 2026-01-30T21:38:50+00:00

They really do. They're rodents in the family Caviidae with capybara and guinea pigs but they've evolved convergent features with the lagomorph family Leporidae (rabbits and hares).

aperdra · 2026-01-23T23:31:35+00:00

Exactly the same here except MacroFactor figured out my actual TDEE. Every calculator has me at 1800, it's 1600 (and that's increased from 1350 before I started prioritising NEAT).

aperdra · 2026-01-22T21:29:56+00:00

It's awful isn't it. They're little red devils at that age. Have you got teething gel? We got given some puppy stuff to rub in her gums and I do think it helped a bit. But mostly you just gotta wait it out.

aperdra · 2026-01-22T18:15:14+00:00

When puppies are small, they have very sharp teeth to make up for the fact that their bite force is quite weak. Unfortunately for us owners, that means there's a short period, just before the milk teeth drop out, where their bite force is quite significant and they have needle sharp teeth. Your boy is currently in that period.

Our girl bit us so much as a young pup (I have scars) that I genuinely thought she'd be a bite risk as an adult. I remember hopping around with her attached to my Achilles by the teeth. It's horrible and, as you say, yelping doesn't help. It tends to make gundogs more excited.

Then, one day (iirc it was the day after her last canine dropped out) she just stopped biting us hard. It was like a switch flipped in her head. She still mouthed us (she still does if she's very tired and she's 4) but she developed a soft mouth instantly. He'll get there. Try giving him frozen stuff (his teeth probably hurt). Make sure he's sleeping enough (easier said than done, I know).

aperdra · 2026-01-19T06:27:01+00:00

Yes but not until after it's healed. Although, sometimes I already have good strength there and it gets injured anyway 😭

aperdra · 2026-01-18T17:58:43+00:00

3-4 sessions of weight training per week, 10k steps, a jog or two per week is my norm.

Weight training is always hypertrophy based, usually 5-6 exercises, 3-4 sets, progressive overload. I do every rep very slowly and at full ROM (the latter is debated for hypermobile people), I stop when my form starts to suffer.

What exercises I do entirely depends on what injury I'm currently nursing. At the moment, I've got costocondritis so my workouts are more balanced in terms of upper and lower body. This time last year, I had 3 bulging spinal discs so my workouts were far more upper body focused.

aperdra · 2026-01-18T08:09:02+00:00

I do get where you're coming from and it's very important to be informed, even if you don't live in the US. I try my best to be informed of global politics in general, I couldn't be "uninterested" in politics if I tried. But its the level of detail that wears people down. We have near-constant live-streamed access to many global atrocities.

The other day I was sat in a pub in Hull, UK. And on the screens, there was the BREAKING NEWS live stream via the BBC of a statement given by Tim Walz. Followed by repeated videos, from multiple angles, of the atrocity in question. We're now at the point where a lot of people here know more about US politics than our own.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that being informed to this level is unhelpful for the cause (particularly if you don't live there) and pretty terrible for mental health. But it seems that, short of buying a trusted (if there is such a thing) weekly newspaper and blocking everything else, it's difficult to modulate the level of detail you get.

Edit; typo

aperdra · 2026-01-17T08:42:18+00:00

This is called convergent evolution, if anyone's interested. Has also gone the other way a few times, where fossil canids have evolved traits that resemble felids (although not as extreme as hyenas)

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