They want to be his “nightmare” before Christmas.

Is this like the breans thing?

I get what you’re implying but in the literal sense you’re wong.

Both men and women have a single primary sex characteristic: the equipment between one’s legs.

Just getting a close up picture of any set of equipment is ok but it doesn’t show the whole package.

The rest are secondary and girls have been constantly listing things like really liking buttocks, arms, shoulders, chest, eyes, smile. If you want to take better spicy pictures, think about how to frame other physical attributes as well.

It’s an income stream and therefore taxable (above a certain threshold). As it’s from self-employment you have to either file these earnings yourself or pay an accountant to do it for you.

Track 1: 'Tis a silly place

Track 2: Fuck tha Rabbit!

Track 3: 8 Fall (into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)

Now that’s a loop-de-loop!

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Luigi was with me the whole time.

No it says he’s an artist, clearly this is high-quality artisanal cheese.

Yes, whilst you can’t “swallow” it, the term is still used for teaching first aid courses, because it’s memorable and having people memorise proceedure correctly is more important than grammatical correctness.

The tounge muscle is always tensed one way or another. Whilst it wouldn’t slip all the way down your gullet to be digested in your stomach it when fully relaxed, which only happens when unconscious (not asleep) there is a risk that it can slip back and block your throat passage. This phenomenon is known as “swallowing your tongue” on the multiple basic first aid courses I have attended as a thing you check for when rendering first aid to someone that’s unconscious: check for blocked air passages and remove visible blockages including the tongue if it has slipped back.

Also you’re all now aware that your tongue is never fully relaxed in your mouth.

If it was, you’d swallow it.

True but this is why you hypothetically look at the administrative staff not the field agents: field agents signed up for conflict, administrative staff didn’t and therefore they want to avoid any sort of confrontation.

And a large organisation cannot function without administrators.

Lib-right: We’ll just make them work to cover their upkeep.

I am so conflicted about this meme; on the one hand I’m in awe at this bodge into the RCA port and on the other the caption made my eye twitch.

You haven’t been to enough regions of England mate. I’m only slightly joking when I say it can get bad. Not “it’s a difficult to understand dialect” but “how the hell did you even make it through the state school system?” bad. Genuinely some of the first generation immigrants speak better English than some of the locals.

Source: grew up in one of these regions.

I can’t comment for the whole Anglosphere and I certainly won’t comment on NI, Wales, and Scotland, but for England:

Pick any point on the map and move in any direction. As you move, if the average wage increases, English proficiency increases and vice versa.

I’d say at the lowest level equivalent is France and the highest level equivalent is Denmark.

I love Hobbes

Why do I get the feeling this kind of logic is used by modern day economists to justify inflation?

Usually in the form of asking questions:

1. “Does this task take 5 minutes to do and do you have 5 minutes to spare?”

If the answer is yes, then just do it. It has helped me keep things tidy a bit better rather than spending a full day cleaning up everything. Now, if tasks get left, rather than a full day cleaning & tidying it’s only an hour or so.

My space being tidier has brought me some much needed stress relief.

2. “Do you need this item right now? Can it wait until the end of the month when you get paid?”

Struggling with impulse purchases so this question has helped me stop spending as recklessly though I do relapse sometimes but nowhere near as bad as I was.

3. “Got paid? Great! Have you money-potted your paycheck?”

Further aiding my financial responsibility efforts, every time I get paid I use my bank’s money-pot feature to portion it out to make sure rent, bills, phone, food, transport, subscriptions, activities, etc. are budgeted appropriately. The rest is stuffed into savings to resist the temptation to spend it.

4. “What would a healthy and active person do?”

To lose weight and improve my fitness, everytime I want to get something unhealthy for lunch or dinner I ask “would someone who’s trying to lose weight eat that?” or “would a healthy person chose that fizzy drink or have water instead?”. On my way home from work I go to the gym and on the days when I don’t feel like it I ask “Would someone who’s active skip going to the gym? Sure they would if they’re feeling unwell and sick, are you feeling ill and sick? Ok you’re tired, but can you at least do 5 minutes on the treadmill?” because I don’t want to be breaking that habit that has been going really well for the last 8 months.

Honestly at the moment my life has been a bit of a rollercoaster so I’ve not been asking myself these questions and been slipping on the good habits recently, speaking of which…

5. “Did you keep the habits up? No, that’s ok you stumbled a bit there. Now what small changes can you make to make the good ones easier to do and the bad ones harder to do?”

At the end of the day, I’ll take the path of least resistance so I’ve got to make sure that path is the one that will lead me to the outcomes I want. I’ll be having a think about these this weekend because I am determined to get back on track, so I’m going to sit myself down and work through it like a friend would.

Which leads me to the final question:

6. “Would a friend talk/act that way to you?”

I struggle with self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. Some days I really feel like I just have no value and the self-loathing is immense so when I get overly critical and verbally/physically beat myself up I try to hold onto a moment of calm and ask that question to myself. I don’t need to answer it because I know the answer and just need a moment to just breathe and chill to try and break the negative thought spiral.