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So many married couples I know tend to talk as if they absolutely hate their spouse. I never understood it. If you hate them that much, then why are you married??? Very rarely do people seem to have a mutually appreciative relationship with one another. As someone who never really bothered with dating, the whole concept of people staying with someone they hate so much has forever confused me.

As a general thing not related to relationships…I’ve noticed that most people I interact with at work have strong tendencies to be randomly unkind for no reason. The people who I have always gravitated towards either don’t seem to display random acts of unkindness or very rarely do so. I wonder if the problem is simply that most people in general are assholes??? Maybe if both of them are assholes then each one is the best they could have come up with or something??? Idk just rambling off some ideas here.

Imo mirror selfies do on average tend to look a lot better. I think a lot of it must be that the photo is taken from further away. This causes two things…

1. The picture isn’t a detailed because the shot is simply further away. Wrinkles, acne, and other imperfections are not as clear or pronounced.

2. Features like your nose, chin, eyes, etc. appear smaller in far shots than close shots. In close shots, there is a bit of a “fisheye” effect due to the perspective, even if you aren’t using a fisheye lens. It exaggerates a lot of facial features and isn’t how you normally see yourself when you’re looking into the mirror because you just aren’t that close.

No, it’s just just “because the image is flipped” which is what is repeated ad nauseum online. The biggest thing is the second point I mentioned.

There was a gif out there somewhere that very simply and easily demonstrates this phenomenon of how wildly different your facial features can look from this.

Lol well I generally can’t stand when my nails are too long so that helps! Yeah with all of the benefits of contacts, the downsides ended up ultimately being too significant for me which is why I went permanently back to glasses after years.

It took me an… embarrassingly long amount of time to be able to put in and take out contacts. It took multiple long, separate sessions and mental breakdowns to be able to do it. I was similar to you. Couldn’t even handle drops in my eyes. But once you finally get it down through all of the freaking out, it’s easy as pie. If a ridiculous person like me can do it, you can too!

Contacts are such a different experience too. You actually have peripheral vision! Never in my life have I had that. Your prescription is exactly the same the entire way around your field of vision. With glasses, you don’t have any correction for peripheral vision. And if you have a stronger prescription, you can only really see perfectly outside of the dead center of the lens. Anywhere slightly off center and the correction isn’t as good.

Not to mention with my prescription, I still always see lights as kind of a puff ball at night when I’m wearing glasses. It’s not a matter of having the wrong prescription. There is just light distortion from the lenses themselves. With contacts, you don’t get this distortion effect and lights don’t have the puff ball.

I wore contacts through my teen years and early 20s. But tbh I eventually stopped and went back to glasses full time. Comfort and flexibility just won out for me…even with all the amazing things that contacts have going for them.

People say this all the time, but I’ve never really understood it. You can’t help who you are attracted to. Do a lot of people just have relationships with people they don’t find attractive?

I don’t find like 99.9999% of people attractive. So I never really bothered attempting to date. I don’t blame people for it like an incel would…it’s just a slightly unfortunate thing that means I’m incompatible with other human beings. The few times I tried, it felt awkward and bad that I couldn’t reciprocate what the other person felt. It felt like lying and I’m not really sure what I was supposed to be getting out of something like that.

Legitimately curious.

Glad they were able to censor such fowl, offensive words like “when” and “someone”.

As a long time glasses wearer, no it does not mean there is necessarily something wrong with your eyes. Glasses can cause visual aberrations. Lights at night always look a bit like puffballs to me no matter my prescription. Not sure if it’s just because my prescription is a bit stronger than most or what. Something about contact lenses makes this go away entirely, but I prefer wearing my glasses for comfort.

It’s crimas

Idk I wash my laptop in the dishwasher all the time

I like this one. I call mine Robot Slave. I’ll be the first to be killed in a robot uprising.

First of all, my parents have never had much if ever at all in the way of savings. Tbh not sure what’s going to happen when they aren’t going to be able to work anymore.

But I’m with you. I absolutely never understood why people ever feel like they are entitled to their parents money. Your parents earned that, not you. If my parents were never able to leave me a dime, I wouldn’t give a shit. Even if they had a million dollars. I didn’t earn that. I have no right to someone else’s money.

I would feel different in scenarios where we are talking about a minor. If a 12 year old becomes orphaned, then yes, they should 100% be entitled to their parents’ funds.

But why in the everliving fuck do people as adults feel entitled to money that is not theirs and they didn’t earn? Incredibly bizarre concept to me.

Idk about cats, but my mom’s dog absolutely never minded wearing clothes. What she doesn’t like is stuff on her head. But shirts and stuff she doesn’t give 2 shits.

Wow, what a windfall, OP! You sure are fortunate! Don’t go spending it all in one place now.

Omg glad you were ok! New fear unlocked!!

Don’t you have to use their stupid app for the reduced prices like that now?

I remember years ago when I went to order one of those $5 meal boxes at Taco Bell. I asked for it by calling it the “$5 box” or something. The person over the speaker replied with “it’s $9 here” lmao. That was pre-COVID and it had been advertised as a $5 box where I was from.

Well I know they aren’t. I just don’t understand why they aren’t.

Yeah, I’ll be honest and say that I do not understand what it means to be transgender. And I will never understand. It doesn’t matter how many trans friends I have or how many times people try to explain it to me. I won’t ever fully get it.

But why in the ever living fuck should it matter whether or not I get it? Just let people live how they want to live!! I don’t understand why it’s so complicated for Christian fundies to understand that. How in the world are trans people harming anyone by existing? You don’t have to “get it” to understand that people just want to live their fucking lives in peace.

One of the biggest things people bring up is the sports issue, like you said. To people’s credit, I actually don’t think there’s a great solution to the sports problem. But pro athlete trans people make up only a tiny fraction of trans people so I don’t understand why it should randomly be used to invalidate all trans people.

Is the red one a real pic or a photoshop? It seems to actually look decent with some color as opposed to its normal appearance as a stainless steel fridge.