Something Weird Happened to Me Today

grmblfjx wrote:

I frequently read Regretsy... *snip*

Offtopic question: do they require you to be a paying member to view password protected entries? Because I registered at that site just to see them but my password doesn't work.

Eh. We're weird about parent-child nudity here. Everything is abuse to a lot of people. Personally, I grew up in the kind of house where nudity wasn't a big deal, because we were all female, so it's never bothered me. It's a really big deal to a lot of Americans for a parent and a child to be nude together, even same gender nudity though. We're very paranoid.

So it is a cultural thing, then. Because, I kept thinking there's something really obvious and I'm not seeing it.

Aggie wrote:

Offtopic question: do they require you to be a paying member to view password protected entries? Because I registered at that site just to see them but my password doesn't work.

Ha, no, that's just to fuck with people. The password is posted on their facebook page, which you don't have to "like" to see, and after 24 hours all passwords get changed to cf4l.
You don't even have to register on Regretsy to see the password protected posts, but people get confused and that pisses them off and I think that's the whole appeal.

Oh, and trying to guess how the password is going to relate to the post. :D

My 2-year-old niece has a new nickname for me:

Auntie Bubble

Lapin wrote:

Eh. We're weird about parent-child nudity here. Everything is abuse to a lot of people. Personally, I grew up in the kind of house where nudity wasn't a big deal, because we were all female, so it's never bothered me. It's a really big deal to a lot of Americans for a parent and a child to be nude together, even same gender nudity though. We're very paranoid.

My brother, his wife and their daughter used to shower together to save water. That changed when his daughter started referring to her father as "Apple Booty". Three guesses as to what she would point at in the shower. XD

Lady Anne wrote:

My 2-year-old niece has a new nickname for me:

Auntie Bubble

Okay, I'll bite. Why?

Spotts1701 wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

My 2-year-old niece has a new nickname for me:

Auntie Bubble

Okay, I'll bite. Why?

Because when I come over to baby-sit, I always bring a big bottle of bubble soap and a toy called the Unbelievabubble, which makes giant bubbles several feet long. My niece loves playing with it.

I must be losing it,an episode of fucking South Park has turned me into an emotional mess.

...I got invited to a baby shower.

Oh gawd, I'm getting old.

One of the lids we refurbished in our company crushed a man to death yesterday.
It was one of those one-in-a-million freak accidents: he tripped and tried to hold onto something for balance, the "something" turned out to be the brake lever for the hoist, and the lid fell on his chest.
Life goes on, and our customer already arranged to bring back the lid in our workshop for due repairs (the paint chipped where it hit the ground).
I think I'll be on leave.

My iTunes has a very loose definition for '70's Pop. I've been listening to my Genius Mix, and so far I've heard "Animaniacs," "Other Father Song" from Coraline, and "RE: Your Brains," none of which are from the '70's.

o.O

I think I just saw one of my characters appear in an ad for MapleStory on GameFAQs.

The ad went "some and such are ruthless pirates...some and such are powerful magicians...and one dude...is a mime?"

Odd thing is...the mime they created kinda looks like one of my own characters.

Sorry to double, but...I'm scared now.

I had the theme song to "The Greatest American Hero" running through my head earlier and I just now checked the TV to see what was on...

There's a "Greatest American Hero" Marathon on SyFY right now.

HIDE ME!!! I don't want anyone dissecting my brain for psionic secrets! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

My store has started our annual charity drive. We have little cards that the customers can write their names on if they want.

This morning I came in, and the top card sitting on my register said Q.



Q was in our store? When? How did I miss him?

EileenK98 wrote:

My store has started our annual charity drive. We have little cards that the customers can write their names on if they want.

This morning I came in, and the top card sitting on my register said Q.



Q was in our store? When? How did I miss him?

Omnipotent. Duh.

Sakurelf wrote:

EileenK98 wrote:

My store has started our annual charity drive. We have little cards that the customers can write their names on if they want.

This morning I came in, and the top card sitting on my register said Q.



Q was in our store? When? How did I miss him?

Omnipotent. Duh.

Now see here, Double-O Seven...are you QUITE sure it was that Q? After all, MI-6's master of gadgets could just as easily sneak in unnoticed just as long as he doesn't bluster about his genius.

grmblfjx wrote:

So, guys, I need your help.

I frequently read Regretsy, which is a funny snarky site with a low tolerance for bullshit, and I enjoy it a lot, even if, sometimes, they are a bit narrow-minded.
So today, this was posted:


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...cue a whole slew of comments about INAPPROPRIATE and MOLESTATION. Some of them funny, even, but I just.... didn't get it. I don't get what is inherently inappropriate about this picture.
I asked, and what I got was some downvotes and a comment about slapping me upside the head, which, as far as I know, hasn't helped anyone ever understand anything better, at least not without an accompanying explanation, and there wasn't one.
Further down the page was a comment about the man being apparently naked. Is that what all this is about? That his bathing suit doesn't go down to his knee?

Please, WGW, enlighten me. Is this a cultural thing? Am I blind? Is there a big penis elephant in the room and I keep missing it? What?

Look at the way they're positioned--the father seems to to trying to pull the child towards himself while the boy appears to be attempting to keep him at least at arms' length, as though he dislikes the contact. Add the fact that there is minimal clothing involved and viola, it looks like molestation.

I find myself excited about a tropical depression in the gulf. We need the rain desperately.

I'm on vacation in Mammoth Lakes, and today I went to Devil's Postpile. When I was getting back on the bus, who should I see getting off the bus but the most obnoxious principal from my district. I didn't know he was in the area, he didn't know I was in the area, and he's not someone I would seek out. Seeing him at the same random spot as me, hundreds of miles from home, was .

I met a former Marine named Neptune.

...Where are people getting their baby names?

From space.

^Or mythology.

It's my 21st birthday and all I've done is panic about it for two weeks.

Jesus. wrote:

It's my 21st birthday and all I've done is panic about it for two weeks.

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Jesus!