When I was a kid, someone gave me a Transformers toy. After I came home with it, we destroyed it ritualistically to ensure that the demons within it would not plague our home.
Or, more simply: oh you sweet summer child.
indepndnt
joined 2 years ago
Hahaha I didn't even notice that, that's perfect.
It probably doesn't help that a lot of things will take your emoticons and automatically convert them into emojis for you. Like you type :-) and it changes it to 🙂 without even asking. I've run into this in a lot of chat clients.
I mean you're right that we all form opinions based on emotions and the social pressure from our tribe, and it takes deliberate effort to counter that. I guess you're getting downvoted due to the echo of "both sides", but that wasn't how I read your comment.
I just pushed a major update to prod on my QuickBooks app. I may have made a terrible mistake.
It's not the same thing, but it looks like you haven't got a match yet. I'm in my 40's and just had jaw surgery about 6 months ago. Everyone I could find seemed wildly glad they'd done it. I'm relatively early in recovery and still somewhat annoyed with the process. However, my teeth line up how they should now so that's pretty sweet. (That was the reason for it.) Also my face isn't crooked any more and my tongue has more room and apparently I don't snore any more.
It sounds like the tongue tie surgery is much less invasive and stuff in your mouth heals pretty quick. (All I'm waiting for at this point is nerves and bone.) I ultimately decided to go ahead with it even though I feel like I'm pretty old, because I figure I should live at least another 40 years, and 40 years is a long, long time. May as well make it a little better if possible.
I keep getting more and more glad that I moved here.
Less now that I've learned to give up before I start.
My first car, a 1973 Dodge Charger. This is a representative picture, not my actual car. 
I bought it for $750 with no engine or transmission (but it came with a bunch of tools). It was a stock automatic but I converted it to a 4-speed manual in the process of building it back up.
I probably spent twice as much time working on it than I did driving it before I totalled it. That was very sad.
Honestly you wrote your post on a fairly polarizing way. If you wanted calmer discourse around the strange idea, you could have gone with something like "What are your thoughts about this?" instead of "Doesn't that seem rather fucked up?"
Edit: also maybe be less combative in your comments, but I'm starting to recognize that this complaint was not made in good faith.
Hmm, interesting, I'll try it. Here are my chapter titles.
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Ignorance is bliss.
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Loneliness and anger.
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How to ruin your life with one simple marriage.
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Growth, healing, and self-discovery.
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How I became an ethical billionaire.
Haha, jk about 5, I'm still in chapter 4 and there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
Man, I read these comments and I can relate to so many of them. But honestly, this year, nothing. We've recently moved to an area that's more healthy for our family. I have a partner who's not abusive. My kids and myself are getting the mental healthcare that we need. It's snowy outside! We have a Christmas tree and presents! It was not amazing; there was nothing over the top or spectacular. But there was nothing bad. Damn, that feels nice.