• Brave Sir Robin ran away (bravely).

Frasier and to a lesser extent Cheers.

Yet another example of media conglomerates and sympathetic governments helping increase the awareness and sophistication of piracy while doing almost nothing to prevent it. Good job guys! Slow Clap

My childhood did suck. If you offered me $1M to go back and relive it, I wouldn’t do it.

That said, it’s pretty common for people to feel like their younger years were the “best years of their life.” Some of that comes from being ignorant of or not having to deal with adult level problems. Some of it from just how the human brain stores long term memories; by creating a lot of shortcuts and glossing over details.

One thing I’ve learned is that life is hard. But being hard doesn’t also mean that it can’t be good.

This is one of the things I don’t understand about people who think having tigers as “pets” is a good idea. I’ve had a cat randomly decided to latch on to my arm, claws, teeth, and all a few times. Not a lot. Just a few. Obviously I was fine. Now imagine this house cat weighs 450 lbs. Not super confident that I’m going to be fine in that scenario.

You get a lawn and white New Balances at 30. At 40 you get nearsightedness and additional back pain.

“jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone.”

QA: “Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?”

Reading ticket details…

Me: “Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?”

QA: “Yeah.”

Me: “Get him to fix it.”

QA: “I tried. Like four times.”

Me: Sigh “I’ll take care of it.”

QA: “Thank you!”

What kind of idiot can’t see the difference between “I’m going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to” and “I’m going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to”?

Pretending to care about baby photos isn’t hard. Keeping up the act when the baby isn’t in remotely photogenic, now that’s award winning acting.

Probably creating my own fake ID and buying booze and cigarettes under age.

Edit: that or forging my parents signature on my (not so good) report cards. There were lots of things you could do with a pirated copy of Photoshop and an inkjet printer, back before everything was digitally verifiable.

“We’re gonna make a fully functioning e-commerce website with only this WYSIWYG site builder. See? No need to hire any devs!”

Several months later…

“Well that was a complete waste of time.”

Remember when “The Cloud” was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?

This is what it looked like the first time I visited the skydeck at Sears Tower. The place was completely dead but I had already paid for the tickets and wasn’t going to waste them.

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Nothing special. Just my Pixel 9.

Best case scenario you regain your balance but throw your back out in the process.

I’ve been in your position. If you really want to regain your wife’s trust, the only thing you can do is be someone who is trustworthy. The rest is up to your wife.

In my experience, the worst part of cheating isn’t the act itself. It’s starts off simple enough. You just tell some “small” lies about where you’ve been or where you’re going and your spouse most likely shrugs it off. But lies compound and suddenly you find yourself stacking lies on top of lies, trying to hold back the sea of lies. You begin to feel like the story of the dutch boy trying to plug holes in the dam with his fingers, except you built the dam and filled the sea behind it with shit. And you know if you don’t keep plugging holes all of your shit is going to come spilling out. It becomes fucking exhausting.

I looked at the person I had become at the end of my affairs (as in multiple) and I hated him. He wasn’t me. At least he certainly didn’t feel like me. At some point I decided I didn’t want to live like that anymore.

There’s a lot of merit in the phrase “the truth will set you free.” You can tear down the dam and drain the sea of lies. But when I say the truth, I mean all of it. Your wife has a right to know the whole truth, down to the last detail. To her, your life has to be an open book. She needs to be able to ask you anything and know that you will be honest with her, even if it’s something she’ll be hurt by. In fact, it’s ok to preface answers with something like, "I’m afraid my answer is going to be hurtful but if you really want to know I will tell you.

Living your life with integrity is hard sometimes but it’s still much easier than living without it.

I don’t want a knife anywhere near my baguette.

If they at least pretend to be Christians you can always quote passages from the Bible (aka “liberal talking points”) that condemn their ideology. Really good chance they’ll scowl and stare at their shoes. You might even see just the smallest twinge of guilt before they shake it off and go back to parroting the latest OAN headline.

But, you’ll have so much ammo you can just keep at it all day if you want to. Not that it will change any of their minds. It probably won’t.