Masking is how I get through the Christmas season as it’s a time of year I really struggle mentally.

That said, I think their use of it is more tied to the Japanese concept of “your three faces”. One you show the world, one you show your closest friends and one you only show yourself.

https://www.pranshuwrites.com/2025/01/The-Three-Faces-Japanese-Psychology.html?m=1

I’m certain the leaders at Amazon will take the time to carefully consider the issue and choose a course of action that best fucks the consumer.

You call around to nearby dentists and collect em from anyone without a digital xray machine

Lmao

The idea of beach sex is very appealing, I get it.

The practice of beachfront property balcony sex is far more practical and gets most of the same experience. Plus, easier to get tiki drinks in hand shortly after.

I don’t think ibuprofen is safe to take with alcohol either.

Pretty sure the label warns against this here. But lots of water and sleep is a good idea.

Do I have to get shit faced to get braised beef tongue for breakfast or can I just ask nicely? I’m open to either.

Thanks, I intended to listen to it over the weekend! Got that, Tarkus, and Rei Momo for under $75. I was pretty pleased with myself!

…I bought this vinyl for $25 last week. I haven’t opened it yet, is it worth much more?

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Oh honey it happens, it’s not a clear sign of any larger problem, sometimes people just get too drunk.

…if it becomes a pattern, that’s a different story. But he was probably a bit nervous meeting the family and overindulged. If he’s doing it out of boredom, make the boy cook!! Anyone can peel or chop vegetables. I got mine a lil apron and call him my sous chef (don’t tell him he’s the actually the garçon de cuisine)

Oooo The Christmas War is gonna look interesting in big letters in the history books

In the moment? Put him to bed. Tell him he’s too drunk and he’s causing problems, acting inappropriately and put him to bed. Tomorrow, explain what happened, if he’s not immediately remorseful hit him with the “Are you proud of your actions? Trying to touch my cock in front of my family?” be explicit. Explain that is unacceptable and if that’s how he’s going to act while drunk, he can’t drink that much around your family. Set these firm boundaries.

If he’s a decent man, he’s gonna feel really regretful. You can explain you still love him, you still wanna be with him, you understand people get drunk and make bad decisions and ask him if he wants help metering his drinking and try to work out some code phrases to remind him to pace himself while saving face. Revelling drunks hate to be told “Slow down” or “Haven’t you had enough?” Something like touching his shoulder and saying “Whew, these drinks are strong! I think I’m gonna get a buffer water, do you want one, honey?”

Also, get him a Gatorade before he goes to bed and one for when he wakes up, that should help the hangover in a big way. Any electrolytes will do. I like the Brode pills.

Edit: Might wanna reassure him he didn’t ruin Christmas, buuuuut he might have made a memorable story 😏. Also if it’s too early in the day to go to bed, impress upon him he needs a lil nap and can rejoin the party after.

I have a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra from 2020. Phenomenal device. The folding phones intrigued me, though, so I looked into it.

The specs are meaninglessly better, anything you get today is bundled with AI bloatware, I’d lose my stylus and any choice, even the Chinese ones (which are tricky to get and use in the US grrr) cost at least $1,700 for the privilege.

No thanks. I cracked the screen on this device and paid $250 to get pretty much the entire phone besides the main board replaced (another bitter grr, I used to swap digitizers off smart phones myself for $20) so I don’t see any reason to swap for another few years.

In this economy? It just doesn’t make sense.

An ex and I fucked in an abandoned music classroom after hours while someone who had a huge crush on them was unwittingly playing beautiful piano music for us in the next room over (with headphones on).

I hated that teacher, went at it right on their desk.

Yah that is really annoying you’re so right

I think, in part, the speed at which things can be done now, sweeping, systemic, horrible things, is simply much much faster than when these systems were created.

It does still seem backwards but maybe they make more sense when you don’t have instantaneous digital global communications.

If it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi…

This seems to be the way the Trump presidency is showing the weaknesses of American style democracy in a nutshell, isn’t it? The president can defacto rule as king faster than the courts can reprimand and order an end to the breaches of law and even when they do, there seems to be no recourse or punishment for violating the court.

I think I remember reading that similar laws placed Jews in other industries seemed as dirty, such as legal and medical fields. By happenstance those ended up being very desirable as society changed. Jews were often persecuted and blamed for a lot of social ills in that era, that, in addition to resisting cultural assimilation, meant they kept in fairly insulated communities, which made it easier to put them in the category of “outsider”.

For what it’s worth, I read your reply like you meant it, but I see the ambiguity.