i remember my grandma showing me a film she liked from the sixties. it was a noir thing that included a scene in a seedy club. teenage me was astounded to see that the strippers were bigger than me. they had double hips and wide thighs and looked like people i’d seen in real life - and yet they were painted as desirable. i wasn’t even larger than average, but i’d just never seen anyone that looked remotely like me in films/tv aside from as a joke.

the degree to which conventional beauty standards (despite often being considered objective) have changed is wild, and how much my reaction saddened my grandma is why i started trying to be nicer about myself. women like us have existed forever and always will

i’m so confused. does she somehow think she’s cooking? are usamerican evangelicals genuinely this insane? how has she been allowed to preach this shit on a university campus for long enough that a crowd has formed before security got there? how tf does she know what pegging is?

also the “awful absurd socialist wait times” are either for very specific treatments or wildly exagerated. i’ve haven’t needed medical stuff since pre-covid, but i’ve never had to wait more than a few days to see an NHS doctor. i’ve heard family complain about ‘wait times’ for routine benign shit and it turns out they mean like, a few weeks.

dentists on the other hand? it is more or less an impossibility to see a public dentist this decade

i’ve been promised that keir starmer will sort it all out

yeah potentially, i didn’t mean to imply that he did it on purpose, although now after a nap yeah that does look like kind of accusatory language (although the ‘he doesn’t know’ option does make me worry about the potential state of his clothes lmao). I was more upset about how upset i was than anything else.

maybe this is just a consequence of not being american, but i genuinely don’t know what else that could possibly mean. like. that seems to be an explicitly cum-based game

oh yooooo i didn’t know heel lifts were a thing that existed, those looking like exactly what i need, thanks. i haven’t heard that lacing could do wnything either, i’ll give that a try

i hate getting sad about unreasonable shit. like, my roommate misled me about what settings do on our washing machine - he’s like “yeah, you select ‘cotton dry’ because it washes cotton and then dries it :)” and i believed him because he’s lived here way longer. and a few ‘washes’ later i assumed i wasn’t using enough detergent because my washing didn’t smell that clean. and this morning i actually stay and watch the process to see if somethings going wrong and there was no fucking water involved. i’ve been putting my stuff on an exclusively drying cycle. now i’m going to have to strip and re-wash and re-fit my bedclothes. i figured they still smelt weird because i’m uniquely disgusting or something.

this should be a haha mistake but sometimes small things like this ruin my fucking day and i hate it this shouldn’t make me want to cry

nooooo my shoes don’t fit right, but they’re the only weatherproof footwear i own and they were a gift and fucking expensive (by my standards lmao). They’re perfect apart from the heels. i’ve worn through the heel of almost every pair of socks i own over the course of 4 months and my heels always hurt after i’ve worn them for more than like 20 minutes.

i’ve figured out that its because my heel is entirely leaving the floor of the shoe and coming back down with every step. but can i bothered to do anything?

also the cheap insoles i’ve found online seem to want to REPLACE the insole of the shoes rather than just go on top of it??? and god knows i’m not about to risk fucking up these fancy ass $100 boots

i can’t speak for this specific knife, but generally knife serations are fucking phenomenal for rope (or anything you’d need to saw). like, i used to work on a farm and carried a half serated knife and loved it - the normal part is for general use while the serrated part is for opening hay bales and emergency untangling animals from fencing/nets/etc.