Anyway, upvote for the kids matter-of-fact response.

A child understanding how other humans are born seem like the most natural thing in the world. For the almost the entire time of the human race, except the last 100 years or so, it must've been a normal thing to understand reproduction and birth. Tragic that it has somehow become special for a kid to know it as something natural and seen by some as damaging.

Heh, quite a surprise I imagine. The closest I've been to that is an image of a friend and his band in a train magazine. Not quite as interesting

Did you recognize her from the tattoos?

I don't think DFW was saying to silently accept everything, just that in every moment you have the possibility to try to change how you think about that very moment. There is nothing depressive about this way of thinking. There are an infinite amount of ways to think about (and change) seemingly mundane tasks. Some ways are more enjoyable than others.

Certain parts of life will be boring, stressful, repetitive, anxiety inducing, and so on. A lot of things you can (more or less) change, others not. Every moment there is the potential to move from one's automatic default state to consciously choosing what to do and how to perceive what is happening.

My take on it, anyway.

I really wish I could upvote this twice. Touching to say the least.

Protip: open it in a bucket filled with water. Keeps it from going everywhere.

It is basically very fermented fish that is very salty and smells disgusting as hell. Eating it pure is way too salty (not that I would know, since I refuse eating stuff when I almost vomit from the smell) and you are supposed to drink schnapps with it. Neither of my dogs eat it and they eat almost everything; that's how salty it is.

Wow. I work with people every day whose lives have been ruined by bullying, who have tried to commit suicide over bullying, who feel worthless because of it. This spoken word captures what they tell me every day, like nothing I have ever heard before. Thank you cricket.

Damn, that thing would scare me half to death if I saw it flying towards me. Beautiful, but scary.

He probably has mild arachnophobia. Fear of spiders, snakes and other potentially poisonous animals was a good thing to have to survive.

No it's not stupid (and you are not stupid for thinking that it is stupid). Social anxiety is a spectrum, and it is a normal, healthy reaction to be careful around strangers. Most humans are especially anxious around people we know only a little, since we think the first impression is important and the relationship is fragile and new. Total strangers don't matter as much and people we know well we often trust not to judge or hurt us.

That said I do not mean to come of as condescending and to belittle your fear (I know from personal experience how crippling it can be), but rather that nothing constructive comes from judging yourself and adding self-criticism to your anxiety and shame. You can not control your emotions directly, since they are a basic, instinctual, almost immediate reaction to a perceived (potentially deadly) threat. What you can do is try to change how you react to them afterwards, what you see as a potential threat, what you assume are truths about yourself and others in social situations and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Being shy or having social anxiety is not inherently good or bad, it just is the way it is.

A lot of text to answer a few words, but it's just that I hear a lot of people call themselves stupid because they can't do what is more or less superhuman feats (in this case to directly control emotions). Try to be kind to yourself, and to forgive yourself when you fail to be kind to yourself.

Sorry if I assumed too much and interpreted what you wrote in a wrong way, since a lot of what I wrote assumes a whole bunch of stuff about you.

Personally I'm a mix depending on mood and need both social situations and solitude to recharge. I don't much like bars, but I love to be on a sparsely populated dance floor when I'm drunk enough.

Hehe, surprisingly funny and the video matched the lyrics as well! Thanks for the laugh of the evening.

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39 and I've still got mine, I've always wondered how necessary removing wisdom teeth is because my dentist always seemed to eager to remove them, but never said they actually had to be removed. But if I ever need to have them removed I want to be 10x more out of it than even this chick is.


Don't remove them unless you have to. If intact they are often the last teeth to remain and are very good to anchor the "fake teeth" to.

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Dentists in my country aren't doctors, so they can't put you under without an anesthisiologist there, thus most dentists just use local anesthesia for this kind of thing.


Same here as well. I removed one wisdom tooth about two years ago. Just local anaesthesia and then took a bit more than an hour since it was a new dentist doing it under supervision. It was pretty annoying, since the new one gave up after about one hour and the experienced dentist took a look, drilled like hell for a few seconds and then pulled the tooth loose... Sure wished he would've done it immediately.

Pretty cool video. I've done eggs, aluminium foil, CD's, disco balls and probably a few more which I can't remember. Pretty fun, but nothing close to what people fear. Things exploding due to heating up and pressure not being able to escape is not exactly hard to understand or predict.

I would've preferred it if they had shown the egg and fruits shortly before the explosion when the pressure is still contained but tries to escape.

For a second I thought it looked like something other than a finger...