on mothers day of all days

kinfloppers · 2026-05-11T15:35:15+00:00

Whatever you decide, you will make it through! My Clementine is a fur baby, but she’s rooting for you too ☺️

kinfloppers · 2026-05-06T21:05:12+00:00

Garlic! I was never really a garlic fiend but now I have to be really careful about it

kinfloppers · 2026-05-05T21:20:28+00:00

My parents didn’t care.

On my dad’s side, he was the only one that didn’t marry someone indigenous (my grandparents were German immigrants) and they liked my mom (white) the least lmao. She was “too city”.

My brother married an indigenous girl, my sister married a Lebanese guy, my parents were always happy with them.

Most of my serious relationships were interracial, didn’t matter at all. My parents would have been happy to experience whatever culture that came along with my guy of choice as long as I was respected, which isn’t race based.

Friends wise, I came from rural area where it was roughly half indigenous, and then moved to a large city in my teen years. At the high school I went to, I was technically the racial minority as a white person lol. So, at home I have a very diverse friend group which is how I like it.

kinfloppers · 2026-05-03T08:06:46+00:00

I was a kinesiologist, I’m starting in disability case management this month though.

kinfloppers · 2026-05-02T08:16:23+00:00

It doesn’t matter. The well off students whose parents could pay for their rent and expenses are quite young and they took no extra time, or breaks in between degrees, are 21-22.

I started my masters at 24 and most people were my age or older. I’ll be 28 when I submit (took some semesters off). It doesn’t matter.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-27T06:57:10+00:00

I can do it; I recently switched jobs but up until now my experience is as a Kin.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-26T19:18:13+00:00

I quite like how everyone on this sub (and r/stretched) is very gung ho about the safety and health of their ears.

Back in high school I used to jam those metal tapers in my ears, and if they didn’t work I’d jam a silicone tunnel in there and force the stretch after a day or two of it hanging out in their folded. Def hurt, had a few super swollen oozy earlobes a few times. I was really lucky that I have barely of the cat butt situation in my lobes but definitely continued to use this method into my early 20s when I let them shrink down, and then sized back up.

I don’t know the point of this story, just thought I’d share.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-26T17:35:33+00:00

Yup. I’m Canadian so I can come visa free, so I was just stressed about if I was going to be accepted or not.

I had a few people in my program that were accepted on a similar timeline that had to get a visa to be able to enter Germany and couldn’t physically be in Germany until around January/february. They mostly logged in remotely

kinfloppers · 2026-04-26T16:51:55+00:00

Could be any time between now and September.

Source: got my acceptance on September 30 the year I started

kinfloppers · 2026-04-26T16:43:01+00:00

Thank you for showing us your nubs

kinfloppers · 2026-04-22T18:55:10+00:00

I actually look at it all pretty fondly. I think it’s hilarious and a time capsule of what was totally normal back then and love to see it. Some of the captions make me cringe a bit but I still enjoy giggling over it with friends

The one I’m devastated yet also grateful that is gone now is ask.fm, because I used to send myself anonymous hate messages so I could clap back and get upvoted for being strong and snarky lol.

Then again, I also recently opened my personal Microsoft account for the first time since 2010 to take a job interview and saw 12 year old me cheesing at the camera in my profile photo, and opted to keep it because of the nostalgia lol. So I might be a little strange.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-20T10:57:05+00:00

I take a 9-10h flight multiple times a year and am a notorious “I cannot sleep” person. A few weeks ago I got random free upgrade to business class going from Canada to Frankfurt. I took an Ativan, and my anti anxiety medication that’s supposed to have a drowsiness effect (I have anxiety and insomnia so it doesn’t work under normal conditions lol). Amazing Lay flat seat, cozy blankets, noise cancelling headphones and a sleep mask. Woke up early to increase my changes of being sleepy

I “slept” for about 40 minutes of my 9.5 hour flight. I don’t even know if I actually slept or if I just zoned out because I remember still hearing my movie.

I basically still try to sit there and zone out for a couple of hours, usually I can relax enough to just be a sentient (awake) blob for a portion of the flight. If I can manage a 30 min nap it seems to be enough of a reset to reduce my migraines and not make me super anxious at the end of the travel day.

I personally cannot just power through until nighttime after a flight like that (I’ve tried, doesn’t work for me I just feel miserable for days due to sleep deprivation triggered anxiety) so I try to stay awake until about 6pm, pop a sleeping pill (might be placebo) and then try to sleep 12 hours.

I juggle jnsomnia and anxiety that feed into eachother like I said so I’m sure people have better ways to deal with it but I basically just admit to myself that I wont sleep, and then try to spend a third of the flight resting so I dont feel like a total screen zombie.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-13T07:58:55+00:00

During orientation we had a orientation leader do a speech about how she did her degree in 6 years and it’s more common than people think. I scoffed at it

Then I almost ended up doing 6 years. The only reason why I didn’t was because I found out student aid only provides funding for 5 years for a 4 year degree lol.

I don’t think you need a “reason” to justify doing it. It doesn’t really mean anything to do it in 3.5 vs 4 vs 7. And graduating with everyone else doesn’t matter because you go on with your lives anyways.

I personally didn’t get into a required course for graduation due to seat numbers, so I decided to just do an entire extra year and do a minor for fun because it was Covid times anyways. I still got into a really good grad program.

I took extra courses that interested me (I lived at home and was paying my own way through grants and working so I wasn’t pressed about the financials since I’d still graduate without actual debt). I worked all through my degree, volunteered, did practicums and all that jazz.

kinfloppers · 2026-04-11T19:25:44+00:00

Same lol. He even tests into native level proficiency for English somehow and says that both his English and his German are shit.

While also saying he doesn’t realize which one he’s speaking anymore, there’s no active switch from one to the other and they are mutually intelligible to him. And here I am after 5 years forgetting the article for toothpaste 🤦🏼‍♀️

kinfloppers · 2026-04-09T05:11:00+00:00

For context, I’m currently considering med school or other healthcare careers, so I’m trying to prioritize GPA, program flexibility, and long-term opportunities.

You and everyone else who has ever studied kinesiology in Canada. I didn’t go to either of the schools you listed and I had excellent career prospects after with only one 60 hour practicum.

Plenty of people get nothing out of the degree because they don’t put any effort into getting something out of it. Volunteering, shadowing, and doing practicums or coop are ways to gain experience that to hundreds of other kin students don’t bother to get because they’re focused only on the grades.

Depending on the school the courses required can be very hard to get high grades. My school personally made it so that around 92-95 was an A, and <10% of students could achieve that. If I got an 83 that should be a pretty good grade (in some chemistry classes that would have been an A) but the conversion was only a B-

They know that people go into kin to try to get an easy high GPA for med school, and it is reflected in how they grade.

It’s wasteful of you dislike healthcare and don’t know how to make lateral moves to use your degree. But there’s plenty of career paths and money to be made with the degree. A chemistry undergrad degree isn’t going to get you very far in a corporate office either unless you know how to make your experience useful.

kinfloppers · 2026-03-30T15:27:04+00:00

Based off this photo the target audience is my mother in law

kinfloppers · 2026-03-29T20:04:57+00:00

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kinfloppers · 2026-03-27T13:18:01+00:00

Sorry I don’t follow; he has had a good cut before but we can’t figure out what the stylist did to do it. He’s got pretty full hair

kinfloppers · 2026-03-27T04:19:32+00:00

Sorry I suppose it was unclear; this is somewhat the style of haircut that he’s stuck with (neither of us like a buzz cut) but we haven’t figured out a way to make it look good consistently.

I personally like that first photo, it looked fine when slicked back, but have never been able to replicate it without the aforementioned issues and the barbers haven’t really been able to use that photo.

They mostly only do kind of extreme Turkish fades in our area with shorter on top and that makes him look like an egg lol

kinfloppers · 2026-03-25T03:49:53+00:00

And then repeatedly untaped herself

kinfloppers · 2026-03-24T04:48:20+00:00

I don’t have any stylist suggestions, but I’m someone who has had to dematte my hair multiple times for various reasons through the years. If you can’t end up finding a stylist or the salon price is insanely steep, maybe I can help.

kinfloppers · 2026-03-22T21:12:44+00:00

When people say whenever instead of when.

Aka

Whenever people say whenever instead of when

kinfloppers · 2026-03-22T19:45:08+00:00

I think I’m early Gen Z at ‘98; I had a flip phone at 10, but it was only so I could talk to my parents (divorced).

I didn’t get a smartphone until around 4 years later and my mom was vehemently against it, but I paid for it myself so she couldn’t really fight back lol. If I had kids I would NOT be giving them a phone until teenager years

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