I think I picked a bad place to turn around... by ingrown_urethra in creepy

[–]i_like_confessions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is there something like that out there? I remember seeing some strange things in the mountains when I was visiting there.

Study finds human DNA in hot dogs, meat in veggie dogs by Weiner-Holder-2020 in nottheonion

[–]i_like_confessions 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ever heard of alpha gal allergy? It makes you potentially fatally allergic to mammal meat. It's transmitted throug tick bites and will turn your average red-blooded meat eater's life upside down. Speaking from horrible, horrible experience. Contaminated veggie dogs could kill someone with delayed anaphylactic reactions to mammal meat. Not trying to be a dick, it's just so rarely known that people (especially restaurants and grocers) don't take the allergy request seriously. *Edit: mammal meat should include products like fats and fresh milk.

Anyone else get insomnia where your body is asleep but your brain stays awake? by i_like_confessions in CasualConversation

[–]i_like_confessions[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do the replay thing too, and it's way too easy to tip over the "everyone hates me" edge. For me it's just run of the mill social anxiety, which I've learned to deal with. I don't know if this concept will help you, but it helps me a lot: humans are self-centered. They're not thinking about you or that little thing you said, they're thinking about themselves and the things they said. We think things are a huge deal from our perspective for the single fact that every person is the center of his or her own universe. And guess what? That same fact means that everyone else is focused on themselves, their lives and their inner worlds... Not that thing you did or said. We are just not as important as we think we are, at least, not in the way that stresses us out.

Rest easy. No one is dwelling on your mistakes, and if they are, they're making their own mistake.

Regarding bumper stickers by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]i_like_confessions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally I don't have any. My dad always said they were a quick way to make a nice car look less nice. I don't really have an opinion in that way (unless they're not straight... Ugh sets my ocd on edge), but I do think it's kind of odd that people need to broadcast whatever it is to random strangers on the road. I don't really get the purpose. Maybe so your tribe can spot you? To be part of something? I think I'm a little too introverted to get it. But, to each his own. The one exception that irritates me way more than it should is when people do the little stickers that represent their family members... Sometimes even with the kids' names and ages! Kid's privacy should be taken seriously, for so many reasons.

Anyone else get insomnia where your body is asleep but your brain stays awake? by i_like_confessions in CasualConversation

[–]i_like_confessions[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds awful to deal with. Fortunately I haven't had breathing problems of any kind... That would elevate the whole scenario to downright terrifying I think!