It sounds like he might have gotten something out of studying the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path (which is not to say that he had to agree with our follow them).

Simplified explanation: https://buddhismforeveryone.com/the-four-noble-truths/

Can relate.

Did you know that it’s possible to bleed to death (or, in some of our cases, almost bleed to death) as a result of chronic hemorrhoids? Because I do now! Also, blood transfusions kind of suck.

I’m curious how you were free at the time in your life when you have the least amount of freedom to make any decision whatsoever (0-6).

And I think part of the point is that you are not free in your retirement years because your body is old.

Parents are the ones who should be grateful for their children. Parents are the ones who wanted the children.

A significant minority don’t see that as inherently positive, much less providing meaning. Random chance and now you had to deal with all of this.

I used to get downvoted to shit for saying things like this, but enjoy and use your youth.

No matter how you treat your body, you do not know what will happen to it. You may be athletic, rarely ill, an extremely healthy eater. You can still end up with a genetic condition you didn’t know about, with a cancer you never fully recover from, losing all of your limbs, losing your bowels or bladder. Dying. All kinds of things.

All of this can happen at any time in your life. Any time. You are not safe from bodily ailment just because you are young and apparently healthy.

Even if nothing happens until you are old and decrepit like a healthy person ought to be, you will still have lost the best years of your life.

Can this (I hAvE tO mAkE mY pOiNt…) just die already? It was kind of amusing twenty years ago.

I recently had to explain to my cystic fibrosis therapist / social worker that the thought of living another thirty years is not a good thing. And she knows that I have other, unrelated and equally bad chronic health issues (genetics matter!).

Fuck’s sake, I don’t want to live to be 70. What a nightmare.

I don’t think it’s that they don’t care so much as they often don’t care very much and/or forget to care once they have gotten too worked up over the state of their own genitals to focus on anything else (so, more of a lack of self-awareness and self-control). This is speaking only to heterosexual sex with straight and bi men.

Also, some women aren’t very into it if you don’t bang their brains out, if that’s what they’re feeling.

/thathappened

That’s not really a myth but kind of is. Orgasm can cure a headache but only very temporarily. Like, the headache may be gone for less than a minute. Maybe don’t or ten minutes.

Having sex with somebody when you don’t want to.

Using an em dash, yes.

“tax right off” is the kind of text you might get using voice-to-text. I know because I use it every day and it is obnoxious as fuck. On a related note, it does not know that “every day” is two words unless you mean “everyday”, even if you carefully pause in between the two words. Sometimes voice-to-text transliteration will even show the correct input and then “fix it” to something like this.

Also, simply bad autocorrect when typing is still a thing.

Don’t get hung up on that.

Well, the question was if it’s rude. Whether or not it’s rude depends on whether or not you should be tipping and whether or not you do.

Sounds like you’re fine. I would just go, maybe try to chat a bit with the attendants to see if they are miffed for future reference.

The tubes from empty paper towel rolls

When people ask me what I will be doing or did for the weekend: As little as possible.

Run they said to a promised land Run and find us a helping hand Don’t come back till the sun is gone Don’t come back till the war is won

We all set out with our hearts in hand A cold wind covered up a line in the sand All so young Nothing to lose Pieces of silver and a dead mans shoes

See: what China calls itself

You can say whatever you like and be wrong at the same time. The idea of being a “western nation” and the importance thereof long predates the United States being a great power.