In the same year I put my head through a plate glass window (to a shocking lack of injury) I also attempted to lift an engine block off a cherry picker… WITH MY HEAD… to hilarious results.

Well the TBI, seizures and utter disregard of my mother to the suggestion of a neurosurgeon that I needed surgery to relieve swelling at the injury site weren’t too funny. The latter is my favorite as she ‘treated’ me with nightmarish vegetable smoothies consisting of spinach and not much else.

I still hate spinach. And it’s been 47 years.

You magnificent bastard(ette).

Also, reminds me that I need to revisit The Gallery of Regrettable Foods.

https://deepcast.fm/episode/part-one-the-zizians-how-harry-potter-fanfic-inspired-a-death-cult

Utterly bonkers.

It’s jeenyus you moran!

All I can envision with that alternative is Whoopi Goldberg with a very fanciful hat serving drinks in space.

I don’t agree with your tastes in food, but I agree, fuck New Jersey.

It’s great to have you back!

The ironing is delicious

Far better than trying the Knifey-Spoony defense.

Always has been. They can slap on a genteel veneer with their faux progressive popes, but the structure is always the same.

Good point. The Behind the Bastards on her was pretty wild.

Is there any other kind?

This has been my experience… forever.

Not autistic, but light sensitivity, tinnitus and chronic pain make me look angry basically all of the time. And since I’ve had all of those since I was a kid, I’ve been hearing variations of “what’s wrong”, “are you OK” and “are you angry” for the past 45 or so years.

I now just describe it as resting bitch face and let people do with that as they will.

Also, “empaths” fucking suck. Spare me your vast insights gleaned from dodgy authors. I just don’t care.

Pay for Cool Zone Media. I have no qualms supporting their work, even if most of what I listed to is the work of the Honorable Doctor Reverend Robert Evans.

Thankfully not always. But damn it sure happens far too often.

He fit so much disgust and defeat into the delivery of that line. Absolute perfection.

You too :)

I foolishly had dental work done in 2023. LONG overdue.

The tech doing my x-rays had an n95, full face shield and gloves. The idiot dentist starts poking in my mouth with NO gloves and is completely unmasked.

The 3 years of being hyper cautious, getting every damned booster and treating every stranger as a plague vector down the drain. Thankfully only a week of what felt like one of the worst bouts of influenza I’ve had.

Still getting yearly boosters, still masking and still assuming that every one I run into in public is on a holy crusade to spread mega measles or the like.

I never stopped. And I damn well won’t be anytime soon.

A large enough proportion of the populace has deemed it their God Given Right to infect anyone and everyone under the doctrine of “It’s Just the Flu, Bro”.

You have a very good point. Not even remotely remorseful for being motivated by blind hatred, but able to at least consider the babies of a basic ethical framework based solely on pragmatism.

A piece of garbage that has a far better legacy than he deserves.

Worse than that, he was part of a group that carved out special exemptions for their churches with Hitler. And was a raging anti-semite until his death bed iirc.

So a traditional conservative who only saw evil when it affected him. And only insofar as HOW it affected him.