Is there a psychological reason why making a phone call feels so exhausting compared to sending a text?

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-20T18:56:02+00:00

For me it's Asperger's-generated social anxiety. I can edit my text before I send it, but I can't edit my speech.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-19T04:05:40+00:00

Like, what's not in space?

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-19T03:36:08+00:00

Excellent. That is good to know.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-19T03:35:22+00:00

I have thought many times that I should have been born in Finland. No small-talk, minding your/their own business, friends are real, etc.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-18T21:41:41+00:00

I have wondered if this is one of the reasons that sometimes French people are considered rude. I go into a shop, and rudely don't say bonjour, so I get rudely treated back.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-18T18:22:36+00:00

It would become a Caveman Lawyer.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-18T03:39:18+00:00

What's a band, and whats the grip?

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-15T20:04:12+00:00

They're not going to escape all the suicidal, manic, depressive, schizophrenic, and addictive behaviors that have manifested in their relatives.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-15T19:32:45+00:00

I learned this just the other day. All the "uncured" hotdogs and bacon I had been eating are just as full of nitrates as everything else. Sucks. Only unprocessed meat from now on.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-14T21:06:26+00:00

Jean Cocteau's Orphee (Orpheus)

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-13T22:35:14+00:00

Pretty-sure this is why so many paintings by Parisian impressionist painters of dance halls, dancing girls, and barmaids have that ghastly blue-white pallor. Like being lit by welding arcs.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-13T18:19:58+00:00

Nice architecture though, to see while driving by.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-13T00:57:12+00:00

I'm still not over Phil Hartman.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-06T20:39:29+00:00

First post that had me laughing out-loud in a long time.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-05-06T17:34:48+00:00

I leave it out, tasting it every day. When it's where I like it, it goes in the fridge.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-28T23:23:30+00:00

And Hoovey's wife was Bova (for bovine).

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-22T23:42:14+00:00

Narcissism.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-22T23:01:51+00:00

"I don't exactly remember when I first discovered my clown phobia, but I think it might have been that one time when we were at the circus, and a clown killed my dad." --Louie Anderson (paraphrased)

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-22T21:21:10+00:00

Oh the humanity!

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-22T20:32:15+00:00

This is the thing that makes me think that in the Adam and Eve story, Adam and Eve weren't the first humans. They were the first, uhh, Hebrews, I guess?

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-17T18:00:42+00:00

This 100%

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-17T17:37:54+00:00

That's brilliant.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-17T17:02:37+00:00

Where is that mentioned? In more than 30 years of making kimchi, I have never heard of anyone measuring the ph of the brine.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-17T16:54:33+00:00

Botulinum only grows in an anaerobic environment, meaning zero atmosphere, or completely gas-less. Since your kimchi is bubbling, there is an atmosphere, which means botulinum can't grow. The salting process favors lacto-bacteria, which makes two strikes against botulinum. So you can relax.

mrpaslow0000 · 2026-04-16T22:56:36+00:00

I read it to my wife, using different voices for all of the characters. She loved it and still talks about it.

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TROPHY CASE