Don’t give anyone ideas.
Don’t give anyone ideas.
“Johnny Dangerously” came to mind once.
Once.
Thank you! This last one was really a leap of faith, someone I barely knew at all who needed a place to stay. We’ve all been lucky!
A few times I’ve been there for friends and helped them through rough times just by being someone to talk to.
But I also helped my best friend and roommate by paying most of the bills while he developed his IT/engineering skills. He’s got a good career now but struggled for a few years.
Then I took someone in a couple months ago and she’s staying in my attic now. That’s going well, my wife and I get along great with her. Hopefully it’ll all turn out well.
There were three women who were best friends, took their breaks together, etc. And in the Christmas season they wore matching knit sweaters and would walk down the hall side by side so it would read “Ho! Ho! Ho!”
But one day when I was leaving the break room, they approached… and one was out sick. Before I could stop myself I asked “Where’s the other Ho?”
Might’ve gotten a visit to HR from it if I hadn’t looked so shocked at myself.
Amusingly, the phrase Crypto Fascist does and does not apply here.
And they are so damned short sighted.
Trump wants to be Putin.
He wants his half of the US economy. Including half of what they have now.
And they fund him while being obsessed with the pennies he will save them.
When I was in high school I was up way too late playing D&D and dreamt I was the general of an army.
In the shower I was questioning how we’d all get clean in time for school.
I did that and my wife got annoyed… then started wearing my socks. Now we buy more and just use athletic socks
She’s still got her colorful, playful ones that are a pain in the ass to match up.
Thank you, that was a long standing problem for me, and it got a lot easier to just put myself out there and see what would happen. Not just romantically but socially in general.
It served me well.
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While tripping on a large dose of LSD, I decided to practice with my new and incredibly sharp wood chisels on a block of pine.
Amazingly I didn’t cut myself at all.
My friend found a stop motion animated clay Don Quixote, where the clay work was rough and you could see thumbprints. It was the perfect vibe for tripping and carving, the gouges I was making in the wood looked like the clay, and bit by bit I made that block into a volcano.
In order to do that I kept twisting my right arm (I’m left handed) clockwise, and when I came down from the hallucinogens, the nerves in my arm went dead. Hand just slid off the keyboard.
It was fine twenty minutes later. And that’s my story, the best acid trip I ever had. Worked through my obsessions a bit and let go of them.
In the following weeks I asked three women out and got shot down each time instead of thinking about doing so for a month and being a creep.
When you’re in that deep, a honeypot is just getting laid. Why overthink it?
Because the Evangelicals believe that Israel must be in existence at the end of the world of the Antichrist cannot rise and Jesus can’t come back.
They don’t give one fuck about the history of their own faith, let alone about the Jewish people. It’s just pieces on their dominionist gameboard.
No, this is big. Someone committed to the cause looked at the evidence and reconsidered her opinion.
This can be useful to get through to some that they have been manipulated, that they have been made terrified of education for unfounded reasons.
Anyone converted away is a win, even if not statisically significant.
$265 each per year. That’s wild.
My wife got a used car with a Sirius in it. She used it for the free trial but we don’t do talk radio so it seemed completely pointless.
All you can reasonably do is help him get in touch with resources to help him recover.
And then, if he gets sober and starts to get his affairs in order, you can be supportive.
But his multiple severe challenges coupled with the fact that he has a family who could be supportive of him if he had been supportive of them lead me to warn you to limit your exposure here.
It’s too much and you’ll get overwhelmed, even if he’s able to cope.
But being a supportive friend, knowing he has someone in his life who hasn’t fully written him off can still be valuable.
Inspired by Michelle Bachmann.