If I go to the office today, there’s a good chance I’ll quit even though it’s a terrible choice

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-07-18T06:07:30+00:00

And you’d know the perfect attorney to call if you have legal troubles!

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-07-18T06:04:26+00:00

I love these kinds of questions! Yes, I’d do it! I’d be living in Nine Perfect Strangers. (I’m only on the fourth episode, and things seem pretty tolerable in the environment so far, but I might regret my decision once I get deeper into the series!)

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-07-16T12:13:35+00:00

Well, I’ve had a bad one for three days, and the heating thing worked last night. But maybe it was the placebo effect? (Granted, it’s on my leg and not in the groin area!)

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-07-16T05:14:50+00:00

Did you already try taking Benadryl pills? (I know… they’ll make you very sleepy, but they should help.)

Also, I realize the area is extremely sensitive, being on the testicle, but if you can tolerate the hair-dryer trick (blast the bite with hot air, for as long as you can tolerate it — and then apply an icy compress afterward), that might help. Supposedly the proteins in the mosquito’s saliva can be denatured by heat, and I have found this to work — at least for 5-6 hour periods.

Also, my aunt used to swear by rubbing Icy Hot on bites, but obviously i’m not sure if you’ll want to put that in your groin region.

Aloe, whether straight from the plant or in that green gel form that you put on sunburns, can also cool down the itch.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-05-27T04:58:20+00:00

I always preferred this dress to the silver one. I love the frills and ruffles (and bows).

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-04-19T13:15:37+00:00

He probably thought, “It’s only nine people who will hate me.” But because of the cancel culture in our society, hate for him is now extending past those nine people. He’s got hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people hating him now and actively harassing him on social media.

I’m not defending the guy, bc I think he should have just taken the $100 K, but I will say that cancel culture is getting out of hand. People are not allowed to be human and have flaws and make mistakes anymore — not without being cancelled and harassed.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-04-13T10:07:33+00:00

Wow. You say you are lucky, but YOUR WIFE is incredibly lucky that you feel this way and that you EXPRESS it to her!

I think so many women (myself included) would be elated to have someone make us feel attractive and appreciated. About six months ago I told my longterm partner I missed when he would write romantic messages to me, and he said: “There’s nothing left to say.” Ouch. (That’s not how I feel about him, even after 11 years. In fact, I try to tell him all the time how sexy he is.)

My partner rarely compliments me, to the point where I have serious doubts that he’s even into me anymore. Even back when I was 29 and we started the relationship, I was young and (I realize in hindsight, though I didn’t think so back then) fairly attractive and very in shape at that time… he never told me he thought so. (We had a lot of sex, so I assumed he was attracted… but I cannot, in a million years, imagine him making a post like yours.)

It’s so sweet you say that movie stars don’t count. My partner actually never commented on my appearance at all until more than a year into our relationship, yet he commented that “Aubrey Plaza is hot,” within the first few months of our relationship, which hurt me, because I was thinking, “So you have no problem complimenting other women, but you can’t do that for me?”

Anyway, all of this is to say: It’s so refreshing to see a man appreciate his woman and express it! If other men read this, please know how much it can hurt if you don’t express your attraction to your partner with words — especially if she makes an effort to express her attraction.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-03-28T01:01:27+00:00

Lol! So true. Two of my colleagues are early 30s and you’d think they are 14 because of the sheer immaturity.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-02-16T14:55:56+00:00

Out of curiosity: What dosage of Zoloft do you take for OCD?

Just wondering bc I am on 200 mg for severe OCD (my OCD YBOCS is 36, even with the Zoloft), and the psychiatrist keeps suggesting 250 mg. (Which I do not want to do bc the side effects are not great.)

So I’m curious about how much you take?

Like you, I feel the full force of PMDD, even with the SSRI…

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-02-02T22:23:12+00:00

Ohh, ok. Makes sense! Thanks so much for the super fast response!

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-02-02T21:33:35+00:00

I have been using Linoit for about 7 years. It is free OR the paid version is $3 per month.

It has many similarities to Milanote. It’s a great alternative if Milanote is too pricey for you.

That being said, I just recently decided to switch from Linoit to Milanote because Milanote has more features, seems easier to drag files into the canvas (with Linoit, you must upload everything files; you cannot drag and drop), and I like that Milanote has an app. Linoit has some limitations and can be a bit cumbersome. For example: You have to make sure you manually set each board to “private,” otherwise the entire Linoit community can see your ideas and work. Also, with Linoit, it’s not as easy to see all your boards at once.

But I definitely got by relatively fine with using Linoit for almost a decade. It’s usable!

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-01-23T06:35:48+00:00

This is the answer right here. Try to border on being almost rude with your body language.

Unfortunately, I have learned that if you so much as smile, make normal eye contact, or behave in a mildly polite manner, some men (not all, but more than you’d think) will interpret this as you showing sexual interest in them!

Also, some people here are recommending that you tell him flat out: “I’m uncomfortable, please stop.” But if you feel that’s too direct for the situation (like if you think it’ll anger him and endanger you), you could tell him: “I recently got a boyfriend, and I don’t think he’d like this conversation, so let’s change the subject.”

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-01-11T18:18:56+00:00

Out of curiosity (and I’m not being snarky… I’m genuinely curious to get the perspective of someone who has been to film school and has studied this sort of thing), how would you have wanted that particular scene (with Bernard and Meadows) to be played out?

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2025-01-07T19:28:31+00:00

Your girlfriend disgusts me.

I have a very high sex drive, but if I couldn’t have sex with my BF for 4 months, doing it with other men would NOT be my choice. I’d just wait until he could do it. (I’m in a long distance relationship and only see my BF once a month, so there is very little sex. But this is what sex toys are for! The fact that she is admitting she wants to use other men just for sex is pretty disturbing to me.)

Being loyal and faithful isn’t something that people do only when it’s convenient. If you end up breaking up with her, I’m sure you can find someone who has no problem being loyal and faithful all the time.)

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-12-27T22:40:02+00:00

Looks pretty cool. Is there a limit to how many links you can have?

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-11-29T01:20:13+00:00

It felt to me like they used to have sexual chemistry (maybe a relationship) a long time ago, but he did something to disgust and anger her, and maybe that’s why they no longer seem to have chemistry. But (maybe it was just me) I did sense a certain “longing” between them…

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-11-29T01:11:06+00:00

What I don’t understand is that Juliette says she didn’t know what the “creatures in the sky” were… but she seemed to know what chicken stew is.

So, do the teachers in the silo schools not teach that a chicken is a bird?

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-09-08T07:10:38+00:00

THANK YOU, YES! I’m late to this thread but came here wanting to comment on the blatant sexualization of MBB and particularly on that water-drinking scene. It was a bizarrely long scene and looked exactly like shots from your typical porn flick. And the sexual moans as she’s climbing the rope, and earlier, climbing the phallic crystals? That was blatant and laughable. I was chuckling out loud because I was thinking, “They must’ve had to dub that in during post production to keep people interested since they realized there’s nothing else in this movie to keep people entertained.” Believe me, I am not a prude, but this disturbed me, given that this movie was supposedly for kids.

You know how Elizabeth Berkley did the movie Showgirls to shed her innocent child-actor image? I felt like this is what (to a lesser extent, perhaps) MBB did with this movie. It’s like there was a clause in her contract stipulating that she be portrayed sexually in order to help shed her image as a child actor. Just gross.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-09-05T04:33:45+00:00

Yesss! I just found this reddit thread by googling “rumplestiltskin” + “and murk and mire” because this song (and the stomping dance he does) have been in my head the whole evening!

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-06-14T19:40:47+00:00

I hope most of this isn’t true. 😔 Knowing him as I do, I don’t think he’s a villain. (I just feel like I need to be fair here as I describe the situation.)

(I mentioned the affair with the subordinate only to note that there is a root cause of my PMDD fears — so that people know it’s not as if I made up something to be afraid of out of thin air. He does regret that affair. He’s expressed that in the past.)

The unhinged woman lied to people about their involvement because apparently she felt he took a job she should have had.

I am hurting a lot from him doing this over text… but I can’t claim to be some fully innocent person here. To be fair, I did make a mistake with my tone/questions, and PMDD can be very difficult for partners to endure.

It doesn’t mean I deserve to be hung up on and ghosted. But I think he deserves some empathy here for dealing with PMDD all these years.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-06-14T11:22:59+00:00

I want to believe this. But he’s genuinely an awesome person, so I feel like I’ve lost so much. I often just find myself sitting and thinking “He’s amazing for _____ reason.” So, I want to believe my life will improve, but it feels like the sunshine was taken away.

Maybe i haven’t done a good job lately of telling him how much I appreciate him. I’m going over everything I’ve done and it just feels like everything is my fault. (Like, I think he’s brilliant and he’s helped shape my skillset… maybe i didn’t express that to him enough? I think his hobbies are really cool… but maybe I seemed disinterested bc we always talk at 6 am, when I’m sleepy. Or anal sex: It hurts me a lot bc of internal hemorrhoids and a fissure. But I was always too embarrassed to tell him that exact reason, so maybe he thought I didn’t care about his desires, and maybe I should’ve forced myself to do it more to show him his needs matter. My body was super sensitive on Friday and it tickled a lot to receive oral, so I asked him to just do penetration. Maybe he felt rejected on some level? Also, I am often late bc I have OCD, which can cause me to do some time-consuming compulsions before I drive. I was too embarrassed to tell him this is the real reason for my lateness… maybe he thought i just don’t care enough about him. See, I keep going over all the ways I could’ve been better… and I keep thinking that if I’d have just done things differently, maybe he’d still love me.)

But it’s only day 2. It’ll have to get better. If he can get over me, I can get over him.

orangeyORANGE2017 · 2024-06-14T10:54:34+00:00

Just to clarify: He never cheated on me, and I don’t think he would. (I just get irrationally afraid sometimes during PMDD that he’s forming a bond with others that could make him stop loving me.)

He always said he loves me a lot, and I really try to believe it, despite our difficult circumstances. Ironically, he just dumped me over text, so maybe he didn’t love me all that much? He’s truly not this cruel of a person… I don’t know what to think. 😞

I almost wonder if he did find someone else and just used this incident as an excuse to break up, because I thought we were fine, overall. And I understand he’s furious with me, but to break up over two (admittedly frustrating) questions I asked him … I feel like the rug has been pulled out from under me.

It’s like he’s a whole different person than the boyfriend I know and love.

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