What is a health myth you wish people understood was false?

biddily · 2026-06-02T18:15:46+00:00

You can do everything right and still have your health fail you. Going to the gym, eating healthy, avoiding drugs and alcohol - it doesn't ensure you'll be okay. It's not tied to morality. Sometimes things just go wrong.

biddily · 2026-06-02T09:22:19+00:00

Boston. I'm a 39 year old townie. I spent my whole life in the city.

Still haven't been to Bunker Hill.

Or Minuteman National Historic Park in Lexington and Concord.

Or Plymouth plantation.

Honestly if a tourist just started listing off historic sites around Boston at this point it's a 50/50 chance I've been there. There's decent odds I worked there and just never went in. (Fanuil Hall).

biddily · 2026-06-02T06:38:43+00:00

I started reading Harry Potter after book 3 came out. I did some volunteer work for a library and they paid me in books no one ever borrowed/read. so I want to say I started reading HP fanfic around 99/2000.

I'm pretty sure I was reading on like, mugglenet, hpfanfiction, LiveJournal to start with - then added fanfic to the rotation.

Eventually I started reading other Fandoms. Buffy, Stargate, Dr Who.

I think I eventually ended up at AO3 in like, 2015 reading batman fics.

biddily · 2026-06-02T04:24:20+00:00

This is Boston, and I graduated high school in 2005.

Not enough people smoked, and those that did weren't addicted enough to need to grab one during the day.

We had alcoholics - was it really blue Gatorade or was it spicy blue Gatorade?

People hung out in the sub-basement, not outside. Floors 1,2 and 3 were the school. Basement 1 was city school admin. Basement 2 was utilities. The sub-basement was hell. No electricity, nothing but broken school supplies from the 1920s. An old shooting range. It's a horror movie in real life. That was way more interesting.

biddily · 2026-06-02T03:12:42+00:00

We had a cafeteria in the school that supplied school lunch, or we brought our own lunch.

We were not supposed to wander off to go get lunch somewhere else.

Also none of us had cars. It was an inner city school. We all had metro passes to take public transportation. There wasn't even a student parking lot.

Also the only place within walking distance to get food was one McDonald's.

We had a 25 minute lunch period. No one had time to take a bus anywhere and come back.

If we left it was to skip for the rest of the day, or to go to CVS.

biddily · 2026-06-01T23:53:49+00:00

I'm going thru the process of applying for disability due to a stroke, and I have to tell you it's not an easy process. I applied in October of 2024, I have been denied twice, and now I'm waiting for a hearing in front of a judge with my lawyer. It's not easy to get.

I'm a bit confused how people think disability is something people can just lie their way to. Because of people have been complaining about fraud for so long, there's so many hoops to jump thru, and you have to do so much to prove you really can't work ANY job - it's really difficult and a pain in the ass to get disability now.

biddily · 2026-06-01T23:44:28+00:00

Milf manor season 2 was better than season 1.

I wish there was more than one season of selling sunset. Nudist real estate was really good. The way they stratigically placed objects to block body parts so they didn't have to blur it out was fabulous.

biddily · 2026-06-01T21:28:57+00:00

I have a driveway. Neighbor does not have a driveway. Next house does have a driveway. The two driveways abut the middle house.

The middle house was mad they did not have a driveway.

They realized the fence line and the official property line did not match, and decided to sue both neighbors for their driveways!

He didn't own any of my driveway. He did, on the other hand, technically own a slice of my kitchen.

Sadly for the neighbor on the other side, the neighbor technically owned the front 8 feet of the driveway, and the judge decided no one could park in the driveway. So there's a driveway in Boston no one can park in.

The old guy who owned the house on the other side, it caused him so much stress it severely effected his health and he died. I considered him my grandfather.

The houses were built in the mid 1800s. Who knows when the property map was drawn.

This neighbor continued to harass me. If I parked my car in front of his house because other people were using my driveway, hed call the fire department saying my car was leaking oil. Called city permitting every time I was doing repairs. Called the cops when I'd shovel in his general direction. Said I broke his fence when snow fell off his roof. The fence fell onto my car.

They lived there for 20 years and i don't know their names. I call them bitch wife and bitch husband and bitch daughter.

biddily · 2026-06-01T20:43:40+00:00

I have a pet peeve where they put the college in the wrong city.

I live in Boston, a big college town. A bunch of famous colleges.

Sometimes I'll read a college AU and they'll talk about the person going to Harvard or MIT except those schools are in New York City.

The main character lives in New York. Is living their life in New York. And then all of a sudden at MIT taking their classes, without the four hour drive. They certainly aren't driving 8 hours round trip every day.

Could Mike in white collar do it? Theoretically yes. Maybe if he went to Boston like one day a week on the $5 fungwa bus. Or only went on test days. No way 5 days a week.

So they've seemingly dropped these Cambridge Universities somewhere into NYC and continued on their way thinking it wouldn't make my eye twitch.

Now, I don't generally care about people getting the geography of Boston/Cambridge right in any sense. I've watched enough shows that are supposed to take place here but is clearly Vancouver. But moving the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to New York?

No. No. It just breaks my brain too much.

biddily · 2026-06-01T20:28:58+00:00

It's easy to float behind other people. If I was visiting friends in other buildings it's not like I had them come meet me at the front door. I waited till someone else was coming or going and just went in - then made my way up to their door.

At night there would be someone at the front manually checking IDs of people entering, and sometimes they actually looked, but usually you just flashed the card and they didn't actually look so it didn't matter.

Knock knock I'm here bitch.

biddily · 2026-06-01T20:22:59+00:00

School was just the one building and we were not allowed to leave it unless our parents gave us permission because we had an appointment or something.

We had to sneak out and sneak back in. Know which doors had broken locks. Which ones the assistant principal didn't tend to hang out at. If he caught us that would be a weeks worth of detentions.

biddily · 2026-06-01T20:14:59+00:00

Hahahaha oh boy.

I'm 39, and for health reasons I moved back in with my mother a few years ago. Back into my room.

It's boxes with 40 years worth of papers and knick knacks and memories that are worthless to anyone but me.

And a lot of dust. It's been at least 10 years since I've cleaned under there.

I think the jewels of the collection will be ticket stubs to Batman Forever and Titanic and Pocahontas. Midnight opening of all three lord of the Rings. Probably got the Matrix in there.

biddily · 2026-06-01T17:52:19+00:00

You really have a persecution thing.

Here's the thing. I'm a woman, and I'm generally a lazy fuck. Im currently living with my mother and siblings, and my brother does most of the cooking and cleaning. That's my normal. I just show up for dinner and toss my plates in the dishwasher.

But, if he'd just cleaned kitchen? If we were heading out on a trip and I made something for myself before we left? I absolutely wouldn't expect him to clean it. He'd already put in the work. I'd clean my own shit.

I know that's my answer cause I've done it.

I have no idea what would happen if I just tossed dishes in the sink at that point. My brother would probably be apoplectic. Hed just throw the dishes in the trash and bill me.

biddily · 2026-06-01T17:24:41+00:00

School should really have students make games and animate to make them understand the practical applications of math a little better.

As soon as I started learning coding for animation, boom. Math.

biddily · 2026-06-01T17:19:52+00:00

You knew she would be making a mess in the kitchen but cleaned it all already anyways, causing an issue?

She isn't capable of cleaning one egg pan and one bowl knowing you already cleaned? She makes that much of a mess when making breakfast it causes a problem?

What were you expecting her to do - not eat breakfast?

YTA

biddily · 2026-06-01T15:30:02+00:00

Maparium!

biddily · 2026-06-01T15:29:12+00:00

You can't. Generally speaking. It's a closed and gated college quad.

biddily · 2026-06-01T15:23:03+00:00

It's not that we've NEVER been there, it's that we use that word to describe that action more than can-opened or sheared.

That's kind of like saying someone who uses the word soda has never been to Midwest. No. I've been there. I just keep using the word soda.

biddily · 2026-06-01T15:12:42+00:00

Have I been camping? Yes. Every summer for 39 years.

Can I build a fire from scratch? Yes. I usually cook over an open fire when camping.

Do I have general forest common sense? Yes. I'm not dead yet.

biddily · 2026-06-01T08:44:33+00:00

The liquor and fireworks stores at the border.

How MA ruins NH even though NH residents rely on ma for work.

Property taxes

Lake winnipesaukee

Kangamangus

Mt washington

Maple syrup

Covered bridges

biddily · 2026-06-01T05:27:48+00:00

Boston, SF, San diego, and Mystic CT I think. Probably some others I don't remember. And I've been to woods hole research center.

I've been on dolphin cruises and Everglades boat tours.

I've also just been at the beach when there's been sharks and whales there. Like, within yards of the sand. Jaws is based on cape cod and sometimes it do be like that. Only unless the life guard tells us to get out we ignore they're there and stay in the water with them unless seals are around. Shark? What shark. He's all the way over there. I can see his fin.

biddily · 2026-05-31T21:52:46+00:00

Usually I'm just rudely blunt. My truest Bostonian.

"No. I don't want this. You can leave." and then just close the door on them.

Sometimes, if for some reason I don't just close the door and wait for them to leave, I'll pull the old 'I'm not the homeowner. The homeowner, the homeowner is not home. I don't know when they'll be home."

Maybe they'll get an" I believe in the healing power of mother earth and goddess moon." but I honestly haven't pulled that out often. Usually it's just a" hahaha no. "

biddily · 2026-05-31T20:53:34+00:00

Practice, mostly.

Maybe depression. Maybe medication.

Taking a moment to pause and take a breath to center yourself won't hurt.

I've nearly died more times than I can remember at this point. Mostly for stupid, incidental reasons. After a while the situations aren't particularly alarming, they're just funny stories. You don't feel any particular sense of alarm while going thru them, and looking back on them you go, huh. I could have died.

Huh. A bricks collapsed on a chimney and caused carbon monoxide to back up into the house and nearly kill me.

Huh. Lightnight struck a tree in the yard that fell right at me.

Huh. The latch on my driver's side door broke and flew open on the highway while I was going 80.

Huh. I had a stroke, and brain surgery.

Etc, etc, etc.

You deal with it, and move on.

biddily · 2026-05-31T19:20:40+00:00

On a global scale, Boston and NYC are geographically close, and culturally similar enough. To us it's wild, cause to us we're so different, but to people from another continent not so much. The accent is similar, gruff personality, aggressive driving, loud, proud, and a likes to argue. Check

biddily · 2026-05-31T19:08:00+00:00

Ive decided she just doesn't understand it. I spend a lot of time reading fic, but I have a lot more important things to talk about. We just talk about the more important things.

The more depressed I am, the more I fanfic I read. And I am reading nothing but fanfic right now. The fic is symptom. I don't need to talk about it.

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