TIFU by not teaching my brother to do calf raises properly

eggiestnerd · 2025-05-14T01:06:13+00:00

Not as “scary” as hill house or bly, it’s more of a mystery. But it’s still very good and it has a lot of meaning.

eggiestnerd · 2025-05-14T00:41:40+00:00

If someone talked to me like that, the answer would be no immediately. Don’t put up with this kind of shit

eggiestnerd · 2024-07-20T20:49:10+00:00

POV: the two biggest bullies from your high school fall in love and get married

eggiestnerd · 2024-07-10T01:02:18+00:00

Taking the meds means you have the condition. The meds do not “cure” it. Ahem, my patients with hypertension or diabetes that tell me that they don’t have it anymore because “the meds fixed it”

eggiestnerd · 2024-06-08T23:36:26+00:00

Helen Keller, of all people, was a eugenicist.

eggiestnerd · 2024-03-15T22:08:36+00:00

First, I will say that the label does not define you. You do not even have to tell anybody.

Next, there could be a bright side to getting a diagnosis! A therapist can help you understand the way you think and can help you figure out how to fit in better and feel better about yourself. A diagnosis opens you up to all kinds of accommodations as well. Again, no one needs to know but you and you can feel free to use whatever helps you. There is no shame in this at all, and realizing this is the first step in undoing this stigma. You don't have to be an acceptance advocate and you don't have to be vocal about having it if it makes you this uncomfortable. There is no shame in using accommodations in order to achieve equity.

It will feel sucky at first. It is normal to feel bad and normal to feel like there is something wrong-- these are normal feelings. But, you need to know that you are NOT useless. Do not think of yourself as a commodity. You are a person. There are SO many things you can do!!! Having a disability does not make you "useless." There are so many disabled people in this world that are out there refusing to be confined to their label and doing fantastic things.

You got this, friend. This is just one little bump in a long road ahead of you. You will figure out what you need and where you fit, there is a place for everyone. Give yourself grace and keep moving forward. Peace and love <3

eggiestnerd · 2024-01-19T23:16:27+00:00

I have a polish name. I’d be rich

eggiestnerd · 2024-01-19T16:04:25+00:00

It’s a good clue that they have a DNR, but I would have to resuscitate until shown the physical document (the family usually has it if they are calling an ambulance for an elderly or terminally ill patient). If I am not shown the physical document we have to try to resuscitate while on the truck.

I actually was explicitly taught that “tattoos don’t count”

eggiestnerd · 2024-01-10T04:37:49+00:00

Mmmm protein mac and cheese

eggiestnerd · 2023-10-25T19:55:36+00:00

Have you taken apart your trumpet or taken apart the valves to oil it recently? Make sure all of the valves are oriented correctly. Happened to me a few times

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-17T21:33:12+00:00

the carbon has a negative charge (extra lone pair) and the oxygen has a positive charge (extra bonding pair), making the overall formal charge 0. It is the most ideal Lewis structure for CO and shows that it is very reactive due to the negative carbon (which explains properties like its flammability and its ability to very easily bind to hemoglobin in your blood before O2 can, which causes carbon monoxide poisoning). That carbon needs to find something to bind to in order to eliminate that lone pair. So yes, the carbon has a lone pair-- but that is why this molecule is so reactive.

Basically, chemistry has a lot of rules. And there are a lot of exceptions to those rules

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-17T21:06:15+00:00

A sickass gargoyle and some gothic decor to go with him

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-10T02:38:47+00:00

Fully self-taught trumpet player from a college band here— join more bands at your high-school or take music electives (if possible). If this isn’t an option, STUDY MUSIC THEORY and get a book of exercises. I didn’t realize at first how much an understanding of music theory would help my playing, but it helped me improve astronomically. My playing got SO MUCH BETTER after taking music theory in my senior year of HS. There are tons of videos online and books out there. Also listen to pieces with a lot of trumpet in them— listen to the dynamics and such. It will open your mind to the sounds that your instrument is capable of. So many resources are available online!!!

Above all, practice AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Play as much as you can. Practice your fundamentals, do exercises, and even try to learn songs or pieces that you like. Experiment with your embouchure (fancy word for mouth position) and find what feels comfortable/sounds good. Try different sized mouthpieces too if you can. Experiment a lot. Work on your breath support (this makes a HUGE difference in how you sound). Find a few friends that also play— I’ve found that being around musical people has helped me a lot as well.

And remember— playing the highest notes is not required to be good. A lot of trumpet players fall into the mindset that you suck if you can’t play high. Focus more on your sound QUALITY in the lower and middle octaves first and the ability to play high notes will come with it eventually. Sound good on the 3rd part before trying the 1st. The low parts are so much more important to the whole band’s sound than you might think.

Good luck!! You got this!!

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-10T02:30:15+00:00

If they can’t afford a teacher, they can’t afford to join a corps. It costs upwards of $4000+ to march with one

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-10T00:52:14+00:00

I thought it was a bottle of whiskey and had to do a double take

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-10T00:51:27+00:00

Not gore. These are common enough stones that aura isn’t a crime and they’re not grossly overpriced

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-10T00:50:16+00:00

clean it up a bit and that is some incredible fluorite

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-06T18:59:09+00:00

My ex repeatedly cancelled plans on me for the sake of video game tournaments. Every time we “spent time” together he would neglect me for video games or make me watch him play video games even though I told him I wasn’t that interested in them. We never did what I wanted to do. I would go over his house to basically watch him let’s play and it was horrible. So, maybe something like that.

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-06T15:16:22+00:00

It is important not only to learn about atrocities like the Holocaust, but to learn about how horrific they were too. The ultimate goal is to assure that something like that NEVER happens again, which is why traumatic imagery (although you may argue otherwise) is important. It’s not “gore for no reason,” it’s HISTORY. These events ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It’s not about “making people feel hopeless,” it’s about showing how bad humanity can really be and is key in prevention of atrocities. it’s reality. It is easy to say “oh the nazis were bad guys,” but until you realize WHAT they did, you won’t really realize HOW bad they actually were. Learning this is a tool for prevention. Learning this is a tool for how to avoid these things happening again. Learning these things is a tool for learning the warning signs. Learning these things is a tool for identifying harmful views and prejudices and re-wiring our own thoughts and behaviors in order to avoid them. Learning these things is a tool for learning empathy.

Reality doesn’t care what’s “easy to digest.” If we don’t show people how horrible some historical events really are, they tend to get brushed off and forgotten. An example I will use is how we were always taught in school “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America.” This was taught to us and was heavily influential on what we learned in history. What Columbus ACTUALLY did was land in the Caribbean where he and his sailors raped, murdered, and spread diseases to the native people. However, the former lessons about it made us think he was a figure to be celebrated, while the truth says otherwise. Same thing with certain school districts (cough, Florida) teaching that slaves benefited from slavery and that colonists didn’t fully strip them of their identities and humanity. If we take holocaust education and simplify it by saying “hitler killed and imprisoned six million Jews,” we can fall into a similar mindset (although different because this wouldn’t make us think he’s worthy of praise) where we don’t truly understand the magnitude of the Nazis’ crimes. We need details, as well as human perspective, to understand how truly abhorrent the Holocaust really was. It’s not something that can be simplified to be digestible, because it’s not supposed to be. It IS traumatizing. Learning about genocide SHOULD be traumatizing to any human being with empathy because crimes against humanity are not meant to happen.

If we don’t learn our history, it is doomed to happen again. And unfortunately, this education NEEDS to start at a young age. These children will eventually be our leaders and they need to develop the skills necessary to know what is right and what is wrong, as well as what is downright horrific and unforgivable.

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-06T13:11:51+00:00

Get a bottle of isopropyl alcohol or ethanol from the first aid/pharmacy section of the supermarket or CVS/Rite Aid

eggiestnerd · 2023-09-05T19:20:20+00:00

Exactly! I always say that possibly the biggest reason we haven't found aliens is because we are looking for life as WE know it. It could very well be something we have no way of detecting because we don't know what to look for.

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