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31 Mar 2024, 12:31 pm

Yeah it's something to work on. Set yourself a challenge


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31 Mar 2024, 12:35 pm

babybird wrote:
Yeah it's something to work on. Set yourself a challenge


I will will do this :)


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01 Apr 2024, 10:36 am

Some young reporter on cable news absolutely DESTROYED himself on air for me.

He was talking about climate change, AND ...he pointed out the little known fact that folks were already observing climate change due to humans putting smoke into the air way back in the late 19th Century.

So...he was gold star up to that point.

But then he said that these pioneering warnings about climate change due to air pollution became "a self fulfilling prophecy".

Thus he exposed himself for being an illiterate dumbass...because he doesnt understand the meaning of the phrase "self fulfilling prophecy".

Not every prediction or "prophecy" that comes true is a "self fulfilling prophecy".

To be "self fulfilling" a prophecy has to come true BECAUSE someone is predicting it.

Man made climate change over the last 150 years would have happened if folks were predicting it or not.

If a billionaire tweets that "the stock market will collapse and we will have a recession" and because he is a big billionaire and investers take his words seriously...it causes a panic...and then a big selloff, and causes the stock market to crash...then that would be a "self fulfilling prophecy". It wouldnt have happened if he had shot his mouth off about it.

If the weatherman says the hurricane will hit Miami, and it does, that would not be "self fulfilling" (even if it came true) because nature doesnt care what the weatherman says.

The predictions in question from back in the day are examples of the later.

Just gets me steamed that folks misuse phrases like that.



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01 Apr 2024, 1:23 pm

Yeah I know what you mean

I hate it when people call the vacuum cleaner The Hoover even when it's not actually made by Hoover

It gets me every time


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04 Apr 2024, 3:50 am

I can't believe you told me "we're all a little bit autistic"
WTF?
I've lost all respect for you.


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04 Apr 2024, 4:52 am

Yeah I hate that too

It absolutely invalidates every struggle you've had to endure in your life.


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04 Apr 2024, 5:57 am

I wonder if my new trainers get here today

f*****g hell I could have gone to the sweatshop and picked them up personally during the time it's taking for delivery


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04 Apr 2024, 7:41 am

babybird wrote:
I wonder if my new trainers get here today

f*****g hell I could have gone to the sweatshop and picked them up personally during the time it's taking for delivery


:lol:



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10 Apr 2024, 7:01 am

Is it too much to ask a 10 year old to get herself to a sink, or a toilet, or a bucket, or a waste paper basket or any sort of receptacle, or at least to any one of the 99% of areas in our house that aren't carpeted when she is going to vomit?

She was even sick on my dog's head. FML.

If I sound like an uncaring parent, may I present my defense? She only vomited because she decided it was a good idea to eat half a tube of toothpaste. Jesus Jazz-handing Christ.


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10 Apr 2024, 8:21 am

They need to invent car washes for houses. Pry the roof off and push your house through. ^


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13 Apr 2024, 8:01 pm

I'm still putting my foot down on the unwanted endless pile of clothes and the damn dog being a huge pest downstairs.

Still won't do most household chores as long as those things are in proximity.


Yes, it's an ultimatum that still remain.
I (still) refuse to clean up my own parent's mess and maintain the house unless those things solved for good.

Else, it's fricking pointless -- and I refuse to be used that way. I'm not the parent, I'm not a damn caretaker and I ain't a fricking maid.


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18 Apr 2024, 10:01 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


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18 Apr 2024, 10:03 pm

I don't like this girl on Deviantart and r/looneytunes who fetishizes Elmer and has done a lot of other things. I always run into her when I google something Looney Tunes related.


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19 Apr 2024, 2:13 am

g 8) 8) dday
oh the nb stood standing ready to scream menaces already
why ? all the b-c's? attacking women/things deemed defenseless
- because they can, the only thing they can

then others say, "why do ppl do things to each other?"
what did i do? exist?
that's also the weak but prevalent stance, everybody must be equally at fault

the revengefull take doing nothing as an attack too,

and aaaaallll others think its ok,
to virtuously stand on the "good-social-crediblity" peoples side
its a trend,
dare i mention or complain im the bad & negative person
here we go again, wow



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19 Apr 2024, 10:17 am

I feel like I'm not allowed to selfship anymore... :cry:


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19 Apr 2024, 7:27 pm

Last night, I had another quarrel with my roommate. As I expected, he suggested that I change my dormitory. He has been laying the groundwork for this goal for a whole year even more, including daily sarcasms and smears.


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