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Cake day: October 27th, 2024

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  • Fair enough, I get it. Been there with far too many topics.

    It just made me think of an old South Park episode where the boys try to redefine the word “fag” to refer to obnoxious motorcyclists instead of gays. So they start using it that way, but the adults around them think they are homophobic, and its confusing all around. The boys know that to them its an insult to obnoxious people, but its misinterpreted because everyone else thinks it means something else. When they finally get to explain themselves fully the gays in town rally with the boys to officially change the meaning of “fag” and I laughed my ass off.

    You shouldn’t get shouted down over semantics, but it still needs to be acknowledged to have a dialogue and educate people. Unfortunately I agree, many people just aren’t open to learning, so uh yeah. That sucks.


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    11 days ago

    I mean, ok? Did someone hurt you recently?

    I think the big bird is right, mostly, but it can be both. You can treat it as a diet and a philosophy. Many words have more than one meaning and context matters, but in most day to day normal conversations the average person is probably going to interpret it as a dietary thing. You can always explain further that to you, personally, it is also a philosophy, but that doesn’t really exclude the dietary aspect. Of course, if you act like this :::gestures upward::: they won’t care because they’ll just think you’re an asshole.






  • I feel like an old man cause anime girls look weird to me. I see this stuff, the obviously hyper sexualized cartoon girls, and I’m always like “you guys know about pornhub, right? Pictures of real women, videos, millions of them are a click away!” So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish? I’m not shaming it, I just don’t get it.





  • I gifted the kiddo Lego Monkey Palace board game. I’ve never enjoyed the Lego video games, they feel like such a missed opportunity to encourage creativity through building, but this board game is pretty great. The instructions are a little overwhelming at first but once we got the feel for it everyone had a great time. It’s got a spacial puzzle feel to it while everyone collaboratively builds a palace structure and competes to make it taller. The little guy didn’t want to tear it down because “it looks so cool” but was very excited for another round.