What’s up fellow size 14s!

I often joke that I’m the person happiest that malls have died off because as a kid I was always forced to go there and try on a a bunch of 12s and 13s that never fit.

These days I’m still upset that so many good looking shoes only go up to 13

Honestly kinda miss when the drugs I did were illegal. I used to buy weed from this online seller that was really into designer drugs. The amount of time I used to spend on Erowid just to figure out wtf I was about to take.

I’m claustrophobic just thinking about that nightmare

I’ve always said that waving to your neighbors buys a lot of favors.

I might forget my neighbors name but since he waves to me every time I see him then I’d die for that dude

Eh that seems like a major stretch. NJ used above was prefaced with “somewhat niche US info”

I even replaced what the guy said which was Chris Christie with NJ gov because I hardly expected anyone abroad to know him

I feel like if we’re going to start thinking that someone’s putting the ass in assumption just because they used something others might not understand then we’re in trouble

You’d have to kill off any slang or expressions for fear that people might not understand them

As a US citizen I think we forget how much of our shit gets out.

I’m always surprised when I go abroad and people are up to date with somewhat niche US info. I was in Hong Kong and some local dude made a reference to the fatass NJ gov who was chilling on the closed beach during lockdowns.

I do feel like I see far more people complaining about US people making assumptions than I do US people assuming. When I’m replying to someone I don’t put any thought into where they’re from unless they drop a context clue.

Billion user platform that’s popular with young people has young people interested in easy to get drugs. Won’t someone think of the children

Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments

See also Panda diplomacy

In the late 2010s and early 2020s, with China–United States relations straining, China began declining to renew panda leases for U.S. zoos.[27][28] The San Diego Zoo pandas returned to China in 2019, followed by pandas at the Memphis Zoo and National Zoo in Washington, D.C. in 2023.[29]The Memphis pandas, Ya Ya and Le Le, became a rallying point for Chinese calls to repatriate the bears after accusations of poor living conditions circulated on Chinese social media sites and the sudden death of Le Le in February 2023.

What I learned trying to turn gamers into board gamers is that most people don’t want to read so we end up making our own bullshit rules.

I found a different group to play board games with irl but then they suck at online games funny enough.

Yeah who else is going to pay for 1GB speeds knowing the most they’ll ever get is 400MB

Yeah it’s the social life that really suffers. When my wife and I were dating I was doing night shifts 10pm-7am then classes starting at 8am.

We’d hangout after classes but I’d pass out trying to stay awake to watch a movie which would cause my body to jolt awake and scare the shit out of her

Oh nice I was wondering if there was like an all in one place to put my shitty automations. I’ve been oddly fixated on automating my blinds.

It survived and lived for a good bit longer.

I wish I knew what species it was. If anyone knows what type of live eels they sold in Asian markets in central Illinois like thirty years ago lmk lol

Nah it survived and lived for a good bit longer. I think it pushed the cheap lid/light combo off of its tank.

Some things just bring back memories you haven’t thought about in a while 🤷🏻‍♂️

When I was a kid I bought an eel from the local Chinese grocery store. We went away one weekend and came back to it dried up and covered in hair on the floor. I thought it was dead because it was so dried out but the thing was still kicking when I went to bag it.

Half Asian here and yeah I never assume someone’s coming from a bad place when they ask.

I hope people don’t become too afraid to ask where someone’s from in fear of looking racist or some dumb shit. It’s natural to be curious and I’ve had people take guesses from Indian to India.

Besides for the gay hating chicken place, every fast food and drug store I go into is running a skeleton crew these days.

It’s always some teenager and a middle aged manager stressed tf out like it’s their fault the lines out the door

It’s hard to highlight the problem because you don’t want to be recording these poor people. At the same time I think that works in favor of places like Walgreens because then you’re just hiding their trash for them

$2.50 Cones were my breaking point. The tourist trap general store next to me does a decent waffle cone for $4.