My wife would agree. She has… so many womanly issues, but can’t find anyone to yank the damn thing out.

She wants no children.

I, her husband, had a vasectomy before we ever met.

We have no use for the damn thing and it just causes so many problems.

I felt pressured into it.

I was 19, and struggling.

No branch would take me, despite having a nearly perfect ASVAB score. Missed one question, and its because I never had access to fucking diesel engines growing up.

I’m epileptic.

So, after multiple attempts, I don’t qualify as “disabled” enough to receive benefits, but I can’t even sign my flesh away for an hourly rate like the dregs of society to die in some foreign shit-hole.

I’ll just die in my local shit-hole, thanks.

Plenty of firemen start fires to put them out, wind up with arson charges.

I’d feel safer at a waffle house deep in the hood, wearing a red shirt while everyone else had blue on.

I’m a gamer, and I do…

Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.

I think you’re trying to lead them on too much.

Obviously, you want to see chaos, explosions, fire, and mayhem. Of course you do, so do I, and if its in the process of destroying a fascist foreign interloper who somehow gets a pass for being an illegal immigrant from this joke of an administration, then all the better.

Bury the lede a bit. Let them think they came to that conclusion.

People don’t like being overtly manipulated. Covertly is a different matter.

Reminds me of a boss I had.

He seemed almost proud that he has never met his grandchildren, because his own children hate him so much that after they left the house, they cut contact.

Yet all he talked about was how family was the most important thing, and that if your family needs anything… yada yada, I caught hell for trying to support my wife when her father died. Fucking hypocrite.

Had a coworker who decided during his shift that he was going to buy “that” TV that he pointed at.

Of course he did not have the funds to do so.

So he went to the payday loan place in the parking lot.

He didn’t last long at that job. Wonder if he ever paid that off…

I worked at an elementary school (public) in a very red state.

I had been overhauling the library computers (I was IT) all day and had been chatting with the librarian. Cool chick, probably 10 years older than me, so late 30s. I was dating my wife at the time, so I wasn’t looking to date, but got invited out for drinks with other librarians from the district.

After a few rounds, the topic turned to censorship, book bans, etc.

Every single one of them, from the churchy prim and proper lady, to the more alternative types, we against banning books and discussed how to get the kids access and and encourage them to read them, without losing their jobs.

I had to shutdown their plan to distribute cheap flash drives with banned material on them a la guerilla distribution - ie, leave it where kids would find them.

And that is why next week Mr. Case’s cyber security BS thing was about how we don’t plug random shit we find in to computers.

Mea-sles? Ohhh, my freedom rash.

Nah, its fine. Not contagious or potentially life altering for the worse even if I survive.

I don’t know where I picked it up, but my toddler son came back from preschool with something similar! Any way, I’ve got to get to his funeral. Merica!

I mean, chemo is primarily used for cancer - however it is also used to treat some autoimmune and blood disorders.

I assume you mean as a healthy person though, which yeah… sounds miserable if you have no reason.

Grew up in Texas. Moved recently, to another state.

The bible, or lack thereof, isn’t the issue in Texas schooling. Nor the countrywide issue of gun violence.

This is clear governmental overreach and defies separation of church and state.

Fuck these clowns. Sideways, with a two foot dildo covered in shark skin. Twice, so they don’t forget the lesson.

PS: As an anecdote, up to fourth grade I was enrolled at a christian private school. Parents had money at the time, and they were touted to have the best education. I learned more about the dark, nasty, terrible side of life there than I did any other time in school - and I watched a kid get dragged down the hall by his ear by a former marine for smoking crack in the bathroom when I was in public school. I also would have never learned how to play poker or blackjack in a public school, lol.

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I rocked long hair from grade school to my mid 20s.

Then, a lady friend (platonic) sat me down and had a talk with me.

The thinning, now seemingly always greasy, strands of hair was not a good look. Like, don’t visit a playground or I would be arrested on site lol.

So, being a metal head there are two main options, or at least were at the time. Long hair. Or take bare clippers to it.

So, I did.

That first winter fucking suuuucked. Still to this day, I tend to rock a hoody in cold weather, and toss my hood up to cover my head for warmth when outdoors.

Sometimes I let it grow out for about a month before taking clippers to it again, out of sheer laziness. A month of growth, from shaved, isn’t much in the way of hair, but temperature wise it is very noticeable.