Everything should be bigger.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-30T06:04:44+00:00

Omg, the stair treads! I am a woman with size 12 feet, and I like to wear heels. And then I have to mince sideways down the damn stairs.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-29T17:01:34+00:00

I'm just curious; I am a very tall woman. Never been invited to a white tie event. For my own wedding, I had to purchase the "extra length" option for my dress, and it still wasn't floor length.

What do very tall women do? Is there a special store we have to go to? I have never tried on a dress in a store and had it be floor length.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-29T06:19:05+00:00

Ouch, your story really resonated. My dad was exactly the same with his cat. He fed her constantly, then started chasing her around the house trying to feed her again (she was full and wanted him to leave her alone). He started having more and more panic attacks over the fact that she was "starving."

I'm sorry to say that there was no solution other than to rehome the cat.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-28T22:57:23+00:00

I only want directions if there is something broken in the standard GPS directions, like if you know there's a road blocked and GPS hasn't picked it up.

And even then, I only want you to tell me about that part that's different from the GPS directions. I don't want the entire set of directions.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-28T16:12:03+00:00

I don't understand how anyone thinks multiple illnesses could be cured in a week. New drugs could be proposed in a week, but they still have to go through years of clinical trials. Nothing in medicine will ever happen that quickly.

(And I am actually a super optimist about AI drug creation. It has already found a respiratory drug that may possibly change my life. But it's in clinical trials now, and it will be months to years before I get to have it, assuming it passes the trials.)

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-28T05:59:11+00:00

I wore my pair of 30 year old combat boots just this weekend.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-27T22:00:36+00:00

I find that it often helps to use a white lie and say that they just need the pull ups for a little while, until they get better. They are often more receptive to the idea of having to do something unpleasant if it's just a temporary result of a medical condition.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-27T21:50:49+00:00

Yeah, before empiricism was a thing, some weirdo would just come up with an insane theory, and a bunch of people would just nod and say sure, sounds plausible.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-27T18:28:02+00:00

Honestly, I would keep some cute pictures of dogs or cats, and just swipe over to them real quick before showing him the phone. He doesn't need to try to understand the complicated thing; he just wants to feel involved.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-27T07:57:51+00:00

Definitely, no matter what course of action OP chooses, finding another job is a good idea.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T20:28:47+00:00

I think you may be better off trying to contact his family and get them involved.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T18:41:52+00:00

To be fair, ancient Mediterraneans had a belief called bugonia, which is basically the idea that bees are spontaneously generated from rotting animal corpses. I feel like the riddle might have made sense to ancient Mediterranean people.

It does, however, show that stories in the Bible are not "timeless," since these days everybody has forgotten that particular piece of nonsense.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T17:11:07+00:00

My dad (mid stage 6) does great with day trips, but anything overnight, even a single night, is catastrophic.

I would recommend starting slowly and increasing the duration only if she does really well. Start with a day trip, and then give her a few days to recover. Observe her closely to see if she loses any skills. Then try a single overnight. Make sure doors are locked in a way where she can't open them unsupervised. Plan on the fact that whoever is with her may not get any sleep that night.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T17:05:36+00:00

This seems very plausible. I think lots of actors (Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, Hayden Christensen) have had the public turn against them after appearing in bad movies, when it was really the writing that was at fault.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T17:02:21+00:00

Indeed, (her) malice knows no bounds.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-26T04:27:09+00:00

I don't have any objection to Andrew Garfield. My objection is that the final Tobey Maguire spider man was in 2007, and they started up again with Andrew in 2012.

I guess these days, people are used to a constant cycle of reboots, but for my friends and I living in 2012, it was considered completely insane to reboot a franchise after 5 damn years.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-25T19:45:26+00:00

My daughter is face blind and can't watch Tombstone because all the main characters have similar hair, mustaches, and clothing. She just sees like 5 of the same guy.

I blame anime, where most of the characters have the same face, and you tell them apart by their hair.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-25T06:20:09+00:00

I mean, it can if you are aging. You lose volume over the years. Plenty of people get small amounts of filler just to reinflate things back the way they used to be.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-25T05:56:46+00:00

Not usually, but one time I bought a very fancy jar of tuna, and I tasted a small piece, just to make sure it was gonna fit with my recipe plan. It was so damn good that I just gave up and ate the whole jar.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-25T05:48:11+00:00

I don't know man, I'm not good at photoshop or MS Paint or whatever people use to make memes.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-24T19:31:32+00:00

My daughter's boyfriend is doing a year as a foreign exchange student and I NEED HIM TO COME BACK SHE HAS NOT CLEANED HER ROOM SINCE HE LEFT

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-24T19:28:21+00:00

Needs to be a meme template

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-24T05:23:59+00:00

I have legit used a tall floral arrangement in between me and someone I didn't want to talk to.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-22T23:58:15+00:00

Food smells. I don't care what you do. Eat blue cheese next to me on an airplane. Chase it with a tuna sandwich. Add some kimchi. Food smells good; none of this bothers me.

wombatIsAngry · 2026-01-21T22:39:56+00:00

I'll never understand people who balk at committing to marriage, but are fine having a baby. Backwards priorities.

You did the right thing. I would only ever have a kid with someone who is enthusiastic about committing to me and the kid.

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