There are three things you don't mess with

Mother nature

Mother in laws

And my mother fucking money

No pay, no work.

I hate most scarves. Mass produced ones are terrible.

Someone knit me a scarf out of merino wool, and it was super duper soft, didn't fuzz up, and was one big möbius strip.

Having worn (admittedly ill-fitting) heels at several points in my life for an hour or so here and there, I cannot understand why anyone wears them.

They're painful as fuck even when you dont roll your ankle.

🎶The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.

There it is again, that funny feeling.🎵

Gentle(people), it's been an honor shitposting with you.

Went to church as a child, saw a lot of this.

One of my mother's former friends was absolutely furious when she found out my sister and I had gone trick or treating and that was basically the end of their friendship and their kids weren't allowed to talk to us anymore, their family began sitting across the room from ours like it's a fucking high school lunch room.

The church started doing "Bible dress up day" on trick or treat night encouraging people to dress up like their favorite Bible character and doing games and shit with candy rewards for things. Some people left the church over it and attendance was low since most people still went trick or treating.

The masculine urge to wear pretty things and act feminine.

It's totally normal to wear women's clothes and research breast forms and practice walking in heels.... Right guys?... ^Guys?^

My guess?

Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

I mean, after a certain point, yes.

Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says "were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils"

The second frog turns to the first and says "you're being alarmist, things aren't that bad."

This sounds like the second frog.^‡^

It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it's certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life...

You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

I'm not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, "any day now they'll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)" and no end of bullshit about how "mentally ill" and "unstable" they supposedly are.

Besides, if my choices are "concentration camp v0.95" and "best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo" then I know which choice I'm making.

You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I'm a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

^‡^(frogs don't actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)

I'm not bi but I like frogs...

So.... I have nothing here. I'm at a ~~:.|:;~~

And what about very old fiends?

Well I know who I think I am.

bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship

I'm so glad my wife is basically no contact with her parents, because I never have to play nice with them.