That’s why they make that empty hollow carton sound when they finish sucking all the blood out.

They should paint this as a fresco on the ceiling of the promenade of Deep Space Nine

I do this on purpose to myself every time because if I buy chips, I’ll just eat them all on the first day. If I have a chance I’ll buy more next time and on and on and on.

Instead I just cut myself off because I know I can’t trust myself.

My own worst influence is myself.

I’m Indigenous Canadian and I grew up in a semi remote community where my family only spoke our Ojibway/Cree language. That was my first language for about the first ten years of my life.

I went to school and learned English and could understand it from a young age but I never needed to speak it.

At 14 I had to go high school in a city where everyone spoke English and I didn’t. I could understand everyone but I had a hell of a hard time speaking or even to be heard. My brain knew what to say but my mouth parts were so out of practice that I couldn’t speak properly or be understood. The software was working 100% but the hardware didn’t cooperate.

I had a hard time speaking English all through my teen years. I didn’t get comfortable with it until about 20. Even after that I spent about another five / ten years before I got fully comfortable with the language. I’m almost 50 now and I can comfortably speak English now and I have no problem making myself heard. Sad part is that in all that time, I’ve lost some of my ability to speak my Indigenous language.

Basically it’s just practice and sticking with it. You won’t sound right or you won’t sound good for a few years but keep at it. Make mistakes, make yourself sound goofy or silly … who cares … keep practicing and eventually you’ll get better with it. It took me a long time because I just don’t like interacting with people. I saw others like me who were more extroverted pick up the language a lot faster and within a year or two just become as normal of a speaker as anyone else.

Practise … it’s like saying you want to learn to sing … you won’t be good at it at first so you have to practice and not be afraid to fail and fail often … keep at it and eventually you’ll be just as good at speaking as anyone else.

I’m mid way through life and I haven’t even left the first chapter

I used to go visit a friend of mine often because we’ve always been close. This was all before the pandemic.

They kept a really clean immaculate house. Even the bathroom looked like it was cleaned almost on a hourly basis. They kept a little basket next to the toilet with trivia books and comics. I read them for years while sitting on the toilet … until I realized one day that these things get splashed with pee water every day … for years! … I never thought of it until several years had passed.

Never floss … floss for three days leading up to dental visit

Dentist pokes around and makes my gums bleed

But I floss every day!

(this was me about ten years ago … I floss every day now, mostly because I really, really, really hate seeing the dentist)

Why are you reading comics at the urinal while you’re trying to pee?

Hallmark: get this person a $10 million budget, we’re making a movie … hurry we’ve only got one week to release it in time for the holiday rush!!!

Where in pornhub can I find these

Cancer man! … sing me the cancer song!

Lead Paint Girl and Asbestos Boy were just here!

It is a nice line … I didn’t quote anyone but I’m sure someone came up with the same line or a similar one years ago.

Wow … thanks for this

I basically grew up in a world were Kirk and Spock were a normal part of the background of our lives … seeing Shatner and Nimoy was just part of growing up.

This really made me feel sad, nostalgic, happy, bitter and overjoyed … thanks to these people, my life was a bit more fun and happy and it still us through communities like this.

I don’t get it …

… is Kirk pushing something in?

… or is Kirk pulling something out?

either way … I’m disturbed :(

The safe word is … Emissary

Sauron shot his eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle?

I’m no historian … I just remember reading about this history a long time ago. The most famous story is about Cincinnatus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

The most famous story related to Cincinnatus occurs after his retirement from public service to a simple life of farming. As Roman forces struggled to defeat the Aequi, Cincinnatus was summoned from his plough to assume complete control over the state. After achieving a swift victory in sixteen days, Cincinnatus relinquished power and its privileges, returning to labor on his farm.

Whether or not it was true is anyone’s guess as it was written Roman history and it is debated as to whether or not it happened but there are enough examples through Roman history of government being handed over like this to a ‘Dictator’ and then handed back. It was considered just a way of getting things done as quickly as possible during emergencies and then when things normalized again, senates and groups of elected officials could take their time debating stuff again.

He was a great warrior … but Ralphie shot his eye out