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@selentelechia
dishrag psychopomp; zesty timewaster
Joined April 2018
- Don't. Do. It.You were lied to about nicotine. It's actually good for you (when used right). Give me 60 seconds and I'll blow your mind:
- one thing I learned watching my dad go through Mom's pictures before her funeral: you know how women stereotypically hate certain kinds of candid photos of themselves? turns out the men who love us aren't kidding when they say they love those pictures
- 4yo: "mommy, are the Disneyland princesses real?" me: "what do you think?" 4yo: "oh no you don't. first you say what you think."
- if you line up all of the "Princess Movies," from Snow White to Moana, you can identify the specific five-year period in which everybody at Disney started going to some very specific types of therapists
- 4yo: "do you like my picture? it's a sad monster. he is sad because there is fire and no firefighters and he thinks he is going to die. do you know WHY there aren't any firefighters?" me: "tell me" 4yo, conspiratorially: "because I don't know how to draw them."
- getting little gifts from a child is so tender you are so SMALL and your property rights are so minimal! why are you giving ME a STICKER! I love you!
- ordering grapefruit juice in public is a flex bc it strongly implies that you're not on any psychiatric medication
- famous: well-known for Good reasons infamous: well-known for Bad reasons therefore flammable: catches on fire for Good reasons inflammable: catches on fire for Bad reasons
- wait do kids actually have a natural affinity for language learning, or is it just that almost no adult gets to spend 2-5 years in a total immersion environment for their language of choice, one in which every single native speaker around them adores them and their efforts by
- 4yo: *marches by with a stepstool* me: "whatcha doing" 4yo: "go sit down and relax, mommy, I'm doing something that isn't destructive."
- there's an open-to-the-public meeting with the city planner to talk about what parents with kids want from the park down the street from my house it's in twenty minutes and I'm gonna go
- 4yo, gravely: "mommy, since you are pregnant, would you like to have a craving?" me: "haha I don't have any cravings right now but thank you" 4yo: "well...all right...maybe later then..."
