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Dharma Curious (he/him)

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Check out DharmaCurious.neocities.org for ramblings on philosophy and the occasional creative writing project!

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  • A friend I had not seen in about 15 years, upon seeing a picture of me while we were on the phone, without a skipping a beat, no hesitation, blurted out "You like look bubbles from trailer park boys!"

    I played it off, got off the phone, and cried. Straight up cried.

  • Sometimes people dont understand what they are signing up for

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  • It's not totally unheard of. Firefighters do it. I imagine back in the day when doctors lived at hospitals (does this still happen?) they did it, too. People who do live in caregiving often practice waking up routines in case of emergency.

  • Sometimes people dont understand what they are signing up for

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  • Basketball shorts are my normal attire. I've also been a caregiver for many years for my mom, and I can assure you, in an urgent situation, I can have the shorts on before I stand. I'm a pro at wake up, reach down and grab, and slide my legs into them as I'm standing. It literally takes no more time for me than it would to walk out of my room naked. They sit directly on top of my flip flops that I also slide into as I stand up. Shirts take more time, but that's less important for me as a guy (still pretty important as a fat guy that hates being shirtless beyond what I can even explain).

    That said, not everyone is such a seasoned professional. Robe is probably the better call. I'd wear a robe more often if I could find one that wasn't so hot, I can only handle them in deepest of winter

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  • We had "the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan" and sometimes really old people would finish it with "on Sunday"

    I seriously have no idea where the fuck this comes from, and it's so weird and I love it

  • Dang ol' beautiful, man

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  • Bill's is so accurate it hurts

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    What do you love the look of despite it being impractical, uncomfortable, or high maintenance?

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  • They did you dirty, my friend. I'm so sorry. I will observe a moment of silence for your loss

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    What do you love the look of despite it being impractical, uncomfortable, or high maintenance?

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  • You talking that weird orange with the bits of brown in it they used in the 70s?

    You talking that high maintenance, orange brown shag?

    You talking that deranged, I'll never-have-to-clean-it-myself carpeting?

    Best shit ever.

    My best friend bought a house that was last redecorated in the 70s, and had been unoccupied (but maintained and cleaned regularly) since the early 80s. I loved that carpet so much. Eventually we pulled it up and redid her hardwood floors, but my God did I miss that carpet when it was gone

  • Catception

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  • Story time!

    I had a grey tabby named Lucy. She was a wiz at sneaking out, and I would frequently get calls from neighbors and friends telling me she'd been spotted, and to come get her from under their house or out of their doghouse or whatever.

    Got a call one day, "hey, man, Lucy's over here, I tried to get her for you, but she's acting all mean"

    I went and got her, and sure as shit, she's being just hateful. She's normally sweet, but it's super hot outside, and the yard she was in had a dog and it might have freaked her out. So I take her home, and she hides. Over the next three days whenever she comes out of hiding she alternates between being my sweet little baby Lucy, to being the spawn of an ancient demon bent on the destruction of mankind (and their upholstery). Hissing, scratching, biting... Just weird and crazy.

    After about 3 days, I'm sitting in my mom's room and she's laying there in my lap, being so sweet. I'm telling my mom I think we need to take her to the vet because of the mood swings. We're actively calling to make the appointment for her when Lucy walks into the room and starts trying to shred the blankets.

    Lucy walked into the room.

    Lucy was laying in my lap.

    What the actual fuck.

    I had straight up kidnapped someone's cat.

  • Mocha claims another box

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  • I was going to ask if she was a Cornish Rex or a desert lynx! She's so pretty!

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  • Huh! TIL. I had that for years and years on both feet, then one day it snagged on a pair of jeans as I was putting them on and the one on my right foot got ripped out. Hurt like crazy and bled like you wouldn't believe. Still have the left one, but the right never grew back. Always wondered why, and I guess the answer is it had its own nail bed and I ripped that out

  • Respect fire guy

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  • It is insane how much that dude looks like my brother. He even has the exact same shirt and shoes. Like I genuinely thought some random picture of him had been put online. When I texted him about it he had to text his best friend to find out if the chick in the picture was maybe one of the friends old girlfriends or something he'd forgotten about. Even my brother thought it was a picture of him. Lol

  • Respect fire guy

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  • 100% agree. Fucking hate tiktok. Even beyond the data they collect and shit, how skeezy they are about watching the videos makes them so shitty.

    That said, open it in a browser and then set to desktop site it you're on mobile. It allows it to play without the popups. Mobile browser tiktok feels like a late 90s porn site with the popups

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  • That's 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I'm genuinely not sure that's not my brother.

  • Respect fire guy

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  • My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like "no-vee-ay" instead of "no-vee-ah/oh"

    I have adopted that generally when it's come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.

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  • If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • As an aside, the rating thing at Walmart self check out is for the cashier, not the store. If the clerks get below a certain average rating they get penalized (or at least they don't get certain benefits or some shit, from my understanding). I don't know if they count purchases that don't rate at all, but I know some people rate 1 each time because fuck Walmart, but that ends up hurting the cashier, not the store.

  • xkcd #3124: Grounded

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  • About to go through there tomorrow. Is it as bad as I've heard? Only flown twice before (to Mexico and back from Tennessee), went through Knoxville and Atlanta on the way in, then Detroit and Knoxville on the way back.

  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • How about reread what I wrote?

    I'm not a vegan; I'm not a vegetarian. I'm far too broke and dependent on other people to be so picky as to choose what I get to eat. My dogs are also not on a vegetarian diet, neither is the cat.

    I am not making an argument for or against veganism, and especially not for or against a vegan diet for pets. I was explaining what the difference was between a carnivore and an obligate carnivore is. I'm also not the originator of this thread, in case you missed that, too.

    Normally I'd try to be nicer and more respectful, so as not to further inflame a situation, but honestly, the transphobic dig at "people like me" screams of someone who isn't worth my time or respect. Be better. You can get your point across without needing to disrespect trans people and indigenous people. 'sfucked up

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  • I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled "on looking eleven..."