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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • My friend broke his arm by punching my shoulder when we were kids. Must have hit it exactly wrong or something because I felt almost nothing, and it snapped his arm like a twig. That made me feel pretty strong too lol.

    I felt bad for a while but 30 years later he still credits me for his career as a musician because he took up learning guitar that summer since he couldn’t play outside for a couple months.



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    15 days ago

    Yeah thankfully we seem to have nipped that in the bud, credit to the new mods ofc. That was a very frustrating ~1 month of back and forth.

    And then at the same time we had overly horny comics happening at the same time without NSFW tags.

    We definitely could use more content, but at least I’m not constantly annoyed by what we do get.






  • Lol I actually learned a long time ago that self deprecating humor was the easiest way to manipulate difficult people into being friendly to get a job done.

    I had a guy once tell me that when I answered my boss’ phone that I had wasted 37 sec of the guy’s time by not just letting it go to voicemail. From that point on I never answered the phone if it came from him unless it was directly to me, and when I needed to talk to him I would immediately say something like “well my dumbass screwed up, do you have a moment to help me out?”.

    The best part? When that guy was in the process of retiring, it was me who he chose as his replacement (which I accepted and have been there for 4 years now). I still like the guy despite how much of an absolute dick head he was at times, but he never realized how much I had to manipulate him to make him amenable.









  • When I was signing the paperwork for my first mortgage, there were literally dozens of places where I had to sign or initial the documents. It was beyond excessive. The first papers I took my time, signed it all pretty like … By the end, you’d have been lucky to guess the first letter. I was so over everything and just wanted it to be done and didn’t care if it was even a legal signature anymore.