I feel called out. I feel proud, but also sad. I feel proudsad. I feel prad.

Ootini!!!

I mean, it’s literally vege refried beans, lettuce, hot sauce, tortilla lol

I have variations with the hot sauce- my fave has always been habanero Tabasco! but sometimes I’ll use el yucateco, any high heat marie sharps, many unique sauces from stores all over, or any homemade sauces I have. Sometimes ghost pep salsa makes an appearance, but salsa makes the tortilla drippy so not always. I was adding x sharp Tillamook cheese for the first half of this diet but I’ve stopped craving cheese/dairy in the past 10 years or so

Vege bean burrito with too much hot sauce and extra lettuce.

I feel palpable guilt if I don’t eat one every 1-2 days. It’s funny to see this post; I was just talking myself out of making one because I’m not hungry (but I had something else to eat so I feel like I cheated in some way)

ETA this has been the case for 20 years. I had to take a 5 day DOT ferry and all I brought to eat was a cooler with 2 cans of beans, a package of tortillas, a head of lettuce, and 4 different hot sauces.

I honestly kind of thought that everyone did this until now

Must be havin a BBQ with all those BUNS

Periscopin’ that they gon’ catch me jibin’ dirty

I moved to contiguous USA (am from AK) when I was 18. I had never experienced allergies before, so was literally taking cold medicine a few times in the summer. I always assumed I was just coming down with something (summer colds weren’t that uncommon in my childhood, but that’s for me to reflect on), until I had scratched my nose open with a snotified face and a friend of mine said “…do you want a Claritin? I have one in my car…” Then I had an existential crisis realizing that I could suffer from plants that I didn’t stumble into or something to get myself an allergic reaction. Basically, once upon a time I thought seasonal allergies were for people that were just TOO sensitive to everything. womp womp

This is incredible. I’ve had 2 friends grow up with one of their parents suffering through MS. It is one of the cruelest diseases I’ve ever seen. Imagine eradicating it! I get bummed out nonstop… but, this is truly a giant step forward.

Youthful me, up for anything : shit, I’ll have what she’s having! Deeply depressed me in the world today : dang, and she wasn’t even on drugs…

Please put the phone down or give me a doll

Tbf, where and when I grew up (USA, 1980s-1990s), it seems like at least 90% of people taking pictures said “ok everybody say cheese!”, including school photographers/sears photographers etc. I think it was so common because they were limited takes of tangible negatives, so “say cheese!” improved the chances of getting a smiling picture

I was kidnapped in the night and taken to one of these in 2002. My mom finally figured out how awful it was after 14 months and came to get me. The school convinces the parents to not believe any bad things their kids might sneak through on one of their once-a-week call privileges, and they also make older students sit in the phone room and listen to the phone calls in case they need to cut you off.

If you’re being punished for anything (which is basically solitary confinement in public- you are limited to a booth 16 hours a day and nobody can talk to you unless they’re assigned to bring you homework from the school you’re forcefully missing) you also lose your rights to talk to your parents.

Further, there are a series of brainwashing events called propheets (some overnight or multi days long) that convince a LOT of students that they very very very much deserved to be taken away and that they must essentially repent and accept the program to “heal”. It was really upsetting to see kids who ordinarily struggled socially to 100% immediately fall im line and then become hall-monitor manipulative snitches.

I’m trying not to really get going about it bc I think the comic covers a lot of it, but only some of the kids come from rich families (and they’re ordinarily just spoiled, nothing more). Most of us learned that our parents mortgaged their houses or took out other high high interest loans. So, that got thrown in your face too “you’re such a piece of shit person that your own parents had to almost lose your house!”

And yeah they’d get in your face and scream as loud as adult men could scream until you’d break the fuck down and weep and scream as well.

I wish more parents would have been vocal when their kids told them the truth. They could’ve spared more families the trauma.

My school was in Idaho, where parents could petition for custody until their kids turned 19, so there were fucking ADULTS there that couldn’t leave without being tracked down and physically (violently) brought back and then put immediately “on a booth”.

Two of my friends I made there killed themselves not long after release.

“ask not for whom the bone bones. it bones for thee.” -bender

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I am legitimately asking- is suddenly having a problem processing words attributable to anxiety?

Is this not something everyone has experienced? If you say a word 2-4 times it loses meaning for a little while? (It sounds absurd when I type it out)

I have not had head injuries lately. I have started a new position in my company as of November, but my work area is pretty well regulated air-wise… head injuries I’ve had occurred more than 15y ago. I am just curious if anyone else has had this experience happen suddenly

Was this a good stick?

You don’t remember, but we shook hands a while ago and through some Freaky Friday transitive biological process, I took all your bruises and combined them with my own. I was embarrassed my hex backfired, so I didn’t tell you. Sorry!

Well shit, I loved the pun chains!