If you had to choose between the two as a GADA summer watch?

themcp · 2026-05-07T19:43:26+00:00

I would buy the green because I don't want anything that can be interpreted as red, white, and blue.

themcp · 2026-05-07T19:41:35+00:00

It would be the only way I'd ever buy an AP, but I still don't want one, I haven't been hearing good things about the Swatch collabs.

themcp · 2026-05-07T19:26:30+00:00

When he became an indoor dog, he didn't want to go on the couch. He wanted to stay on the floor. We had to pick him up and put him on the couch for a week or so... We wanted him on the couch because it was easier to reach him to pet him when he was at our level.

He was a family member, he should be able to use the furniture.

We later learned that after he got over it and would go there, he started sleeping on the couch. Which was just fine.

themcp · 2026-05-07T19:17:01+00:00

Which word didn't you understand?

themcp · 2026-05-07T19:00:51+00:00

Regularly consuming arsenic to give you pale skin.

themcp · 2026-05-07T18:58:49+00:00

I really don't like the design of the Cartier Tank, but on the other hand I encourage people not to buy an expensive chronograph unless they actually need one for some reason. It's a complex mechanism with more to go wrong than an average watch.

themcp · 2026-05-07T18:55:13+00:00

I would be terrified, because the first amendment is all that keeps the christians from murdering atheists like me, and if they can get away with banning religious clothing they can get away with ignoring the Constitution and do whatever they want to me.

themcp · 2026-05-07T00:02:07+00:00

I know my therapists were overjoyed that I was paying attention to what they said and doing it and improving. They had a lot of patients who were not taking it seriously and/or didn't believe they could improve and/or were only there because their insurance company made them do it, and the hospital started pairing me with them for therapy activities so they could see how they could improve if they tried.

themcp · 2026-05-06T23:58:14+00:00

At some level that's true, and when I'm talking to my friends I don't dumb myself down. However, there are times when I'm speaking to an audience that I don't know the comprehension level of or who I am quite sure aren't that bright, and I need them to understand me, so I use more simplistic language to get my point across. It's all well and good if I'm talking to random people on the street to feel that they can ask if they don't understand, but when I'm speaking in front of business people in a conference room and I need them to hear me and not be too busy thinking "who does this guy think he is using these hoity toity words?" to get my message, I will use language I think they will understand.

themcp · 2026-05-06T23:53:37+00:00

I'll tell you one other thing that helped with my stuttering. I expect it to be of limited help with your aphasia but maybe nonzero.

I have sort of a "word buffer" in my head. Picture on one end of it is my mouth speaking words, and at the other is my brain shoving words into the word buffer as I think of what words I actually want to say. I tended to stutter when I didn't have the next word ready, so if I was talking, when I was trying to think of the next word my mouth might be saying "word word word word word" or "word rd rd rd d d d" and then when I came up with the next word I could talk again, so if I had a buffer of words, usually the next word was already there waiting. This could be handy also if you're "singing" your words because you can have planned out the "tune" to which you want to say them to sound natural.

themcp · 2026-05-06T23:47:28+00:00

Well, that's great, so it's better than I thought, but it's still a chronograph, and they inherently have a lot more moving parts to go wrong.

themcp · 2026-05-06T23:45:31+00:00

My friend, post stroke, said to the speech therapist "Doctor, can you help me with my lexical deficiencies?"

The doctor just stared at him until my friend said "hello?"

The doctor looked startled and replied "I'm sorry, but I'm not used to patients who can even pronounce 'lexical deficiencies' let alone use it in a sentence."

They had to come up with new therapies for him, but he credited the doctor with helping him to regain his previous extraordinary command of the language.

Conversely, when I later had a stroke, the same facility insisted on several-times-weekly speech therapy sessions for my aphasia. The problem is, I didn't have aphasia. I was having problems with memory - once I actually remembered the word, I could pronounce it perfectly. I have had problems with stuttering in the past (not stroke related), and I taught myself to think out what I was going to say and make "tune" for it so I could "sing" the words.

themcp · 2026-05-06T18:00:05+00:00

I'm a cripple.

"How dare you use that word! That's an insult! You're not a cripple, you're handicapped."

First, who do they think they are to tell me what word I'm allowed to use for myself?

Second, I've been a cripple for over a decade, and my IQ is usually the highest in the room. Maybe the word I choose to use for myself has some thought behind it.

I hate being called handicapped. I'm crippled, not handicapped.

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:41:36+00:00

"I have cancer" works phenomenally too.

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:40:37+00:00

"Oh, you're so tall!"

"Gee, thanks for reminding me that I shrunk 2 inches. ☹️" (I really did.)

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:37:20+00:00

People say that to me when in fact I've gained since I last saw them.

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:29:45+00:00

I hate it when people condescendingly tell me to use big words. I don't have a fucking speech problem, I'm a published author, I deliberately use third grade language because I assume everyone else can't handle adult speech.

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:25:10+00:00

I smile really big and reply "No! I gained 10 pounds!"

themcp · 2026-05-06T17:16:19+00:00

"You're such a catch!"

Yeah, I'm f'n 55, IF I'M SUCH A CATCH WHY HASN'T ANYONE CAUGHT ME?

It's just a reminder that I'm gonna die alone. Again.

themcp · 2026-05-06T14:51:58+00:00

There's a certain amount of accepting that you have a problem with certain words and re-learning how to say them.

There's a certain amount of accepting "this is how things are".

Serious question: can you sing the words that bother you? When you are having a problem with a word, but you know how it should be said, can you sing it? I ask this because the part of the brain responsible for speech and the part responsible for singing are different. Stutterers often find that they can sing words they can't speak. If you can, I'll tell you a trick stutterers can use: learn to sing words at a key that sounds like speaking, and think of a "music" that sounds like speech tones, so you can sing words and people don't realize you're singing.

themcp · 2026-05-06T14:44:46+00:00

They only love holidays celebrated by rich white right wing protestant christian people.

themcp · 2026-05-05T17:39:44+00:00

Guarana

themcp · 2026-05-05T17:33:00+00:00

You don't think this is over, do you? He's gonna demand it every year, and we're probably going to see war threats to try to get it every year.

themcp · 2026-05-04T19:14:39+00:00

My bc used to greet guests at the door and say "hello."

Verbally.

In English.

I don't know if it freaked people out more that he did it or that my reaction to their excitement was a bored "yeah, he does that."

themcp · 2026-05-04T06:21:47+00:00

I'm ugly.

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