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Yeah that's about as cheery as I get. What really irks me about the thread is the title is "christmas and other year-end holidays thread 2023" like the other holidays (of which there are many) are lesser than it and don't bare mentioning. Could have just called it "Year-end holidays thread 2023" and it would have been all inclusive and not "otherizing" the rest. As I posted there's a video about Festivus but there is also Yule and Saturnalia among many others (Hanukah and Kwanzaa come to mind as well.)

I mean you better. If they said it and they welch on it that might be legally actionable. Or they'll try some cop-out bullshit like "no we meant that it was a possible door prize."

Okay, so a bonus to go and literally walk the line of social interaction and an uncomfortable meeting with H.R. I'd probably still pass, but I can see where money and free food would be hard to pass up for many. You could sell the gift card for money too: https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/side-gigs/ways-to-sell-gift-cards/ I'd much rather pay a bill than buy some crap I probably don't need with it.

I invite you to things as much as I can but you never seem to want to come, but the offers still stand. You have my #. Maybe just get a few close friends and go out to eat or something. I stopped making a big deal of mine a long time ago. I mean sure I have parties but it's really just an excuse to have a party for and with my friends. Perhaps a little late now, but make this weekend all about you (well as much as you can anyway.) Self care is way more important than we realize and we shouldn't feel guilty for that at all.

I'm using J's as a cop-out to avoid seeing family on the 24th. It's not that I hate them, I just resent that they only really make time on holidays I don't actually celebrate. Work is work, so I'd go and just do work if I absolutely had to be there. If it were optional I'd just not go because I'd probably rather be literally anywhere else. Most underpay and will stab you in the back to save themselves a penny anyway.

Hope you feel better, no one should feel bad on their birthday, but I do know it can be hard especially during this time of year.

I think non narcotic pain management does exist, but it does also kinda suck. Pain management is a joke in this country though. They look at you and judge you for wanting pain meds, and you're fucked if you even look just a little bit odd. They somehow think you're faking it just to get high. Yes, the high of not being in fucking pain anymore. I knew a goth girl who looked great but got tired of dealing with the bullshit (also CPS which is another story) and she gave up the look to go all Donna Reed/Betty Crocker/1950s bullshit by wearing normie clothes, dying her hair natural colors, removing her piercings, and hiding her tattoos as best she could. Society forces you to conform or it shuns you and pretends like you don't exist. Either that or it tries to imprison you to where you actually don't exist in it for a while. I love those who refuse to conform because they make it better for everyone.

This was the battle for the boomers that is akin to the lightbulbs for the millennials (and let's be honest also the gen-x/boomers.) I remember my father bitching about our new "low-flow" toilet because you could not find any of the older styles anymore due to being regulated out. Now I personally get it's better for the planet to do away with both of those (and a bunch of other older tech while we're at it) and everyone switching would really help with things. But I still hate change. Although I honestly wouldn't mind a taller toilet since most of them feel like I'm sitting on a kid's chair or something. Maybe a bidet too since that would help save on toilet paper production and waste, but then you're using more water in the process.

Looks like a great show, too bad I won't make it

Yeah, Mark does some good work. His thing on bedbugs was enlightening if not gross. I learned about him through his porch pirate antics (that he mentioned in the video.) Need more explosive glitter bomb setups for those fuckers.

That's news to me since it seems like to them that I'm the second worst person on the planet because I'm friends with their ex (who is the first.) They literally told me to "pick a lane" and I went with the person who didn't ask me to choose. If They're over that though then that's fantastic, but still fuck them for being that petty in the first place. Sorry, I meant Small's. I had this formatted better in my head. I'll fix that to make it more clear. Also, fuck Trump.

I like how Musk wants everyone to call it X and the internet is just like... no.

Bat within easy reach? In an office? He grabs for it instantly before he even starts screaming? I'm calling fake.

Archive.org has done great work to try to save much of it at least.

Best of luck with that then.

....and a pedo.

Well I went, and there were no real issues. Though there were some musings about how Small's announced a ReCure night on the same night two days after this was announced. They are the Trump of goth clubs. Turnout was as you would expect. As my friend Mike said, I'm also silently judging everyone who didn't show up. I took off early to go to Black Salt, which now closes at 1 AM instead of 2 AM on Friday/Saturday, so it's a good thing I left at 12:45 PM. I'd have gone back but Noelle S. was working the door (so I may skip out on the next one) and whether or not they'd give me shit and try to charge me again is anybodies guess, so I just took off for home. It was good seeing @DJ Saint, @DJDeadbeat, and Sharktoof though, plus my other friends who showed up. Though I missed @Serxera, Aria, and Tanja since they went to Asylum first and arrived after I left. So they're the only ones with a good excuse IMO.

If they were I'd stick it in the daylife events.

The first season had a bit of a rough start but after they hit their stride it went from being great to fantastic. But even that first season was great:

Never look down on yourself for being human. We try to control our bodies but sometimes they don't listen. I'd say go work out (since already gross) and then go shower (to stop being gross.) (Unless you mean some other type of mental grossness.) I just hope you're well.

The term "grippy-sock vacation" sounds fun. It's not fun though it's a trick. Sorry you were in such a dark place, this time of year is rough on many (on top of any regular depression that already exists.) I hope you are doing better and if you ever need people to talk to we're here

Do tell everyone I've actually met hello. Y'all are nice folk and I wish her many more enjoyable birthdays.

Those were just remakes of older shows as well, though with a bit more drama added and less episodic (well, still kindof but with the overall story.) It's all the same formula though, even going back into literature. Nothing but rehashed tropes with some pop-culture sprinkled on top to make it palatable for the youth of $current_year. In a few more we'll have AI generating it all for us.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clever-girl Though that's more about the Velociraptor rather than Dilophosaurus (that is closer to your... scalesona?) which kills Newman... I mean Dennis Nerdy.