going down a rabbit hole about Another Thing looking for The First Thing, ADHD culture right here
"every possible kind of content can be found on the internet" yeah sure except for the One fucking thing I'm looking for. why does no one want to talk about the One Singular thing I'm looking for. but yeah other than that everything is on here.
yoou guys wont be laughing when i suddenly collapse unconscious and have to be taken to the hospital. then youll all see <- normal thought process to have while doing anything i dont want to
Hearing other peoples' stories about when they were in school confirms my suspicions that some people only become teachers because there's a limited line of careers where it's socially acceptable for a whole grownup to be personal enemies with a 12-year-old, and they lack the creativity it would take to become a saturday morning cartoon villain.
Someone here could make a post like "kicking a baby is never ok", and one of you nuance-snorting enlightened intellectuals would barge in like "but what if it's a genetically bioengineered chimera baby who has been spliced with the DNA of a football, who will get rubber bone cancer if they don't get kicked around regularly. you can't ever just make a generalised blanket term statement ever that doesn't consider every single outlier possibility that may hypothetically exist. uwu."
I was doom scrolling your page and saw a lot of stuff about Finland
do you live there or were you like born there and moved?? of you have lived in a different place, how different was it?
Oh, I'm a native, born and raised here. The reason I'm seemingly implausibly fluent in english is a combination of random factors, both odd and not that odd. When I was like 3-4 or so, mom put me into an english-speaking daycare for a while so that I could pick up the language properly when she noticed that I was learning to understand english faster than I was learning to read subtitles on TV (unlike in many other countries, finnish TV is never dubbed save for children's cartoons).
Both of my parents needed english for their jobs - my father was an IT wizard and my mother an international sales agent - so they were both fluent and understood just how important knowing the lingua franca du jour is going to be in an increasingly international world. The fact that they were willing to put this much thought into our future wellbeing but I was still bullied at school for being filthy because nobody kept an eye on my hygiene probably illustrates what kind of a odd mish-mash of being neglected, materially spoiled and randomly well-provided for my childhood was.
Then I turned 11 and was allowed to free-roam unsupervised on the internet. This was back when "grammar nazi" was a scalding insult and not a government job title, so whenever I got into arguments on the internet with strangers who had no idea they were arguing with a child, aggressively correcting the opponent's grammar was considered a winning move. My grasp of english grammar rules was honed on the brutal battlefields of obscure 2005-2010 forums with no sympathy for angry teenagers with an undiagnosed Something Wrong With Them.
So I am not "officially" bilingual by many formal parametres since neither of my parents were native speakers, but the same standards also don't recognise "the living room TV" as a parental figure, or consider "feral child abandoned into the wild who was found and raised by a wild pack of internet strangers" a valid backstory.
The goal of a first date isn't to impress a complete stranger. It's to find someone that you think is pretty and mutually inspire the thoughts
damn bitch you live like this?
can I join you?
Some subtle ways to honor Hermes πͺ½π
- Help guide or instruct lost or confused travelers to their destinations if you know how to
- regularly text and keep up with your loved ones and friends
- donβt snitch on shoplifters
- play string instruments like harp, guitar, or violin.
- be kind and respectful to your mail carriers
- enjoy your road-trips, vacations, or other travels.
- watch or support gymnastics events
- pirate media kept from you by corporate streaming services (hehe)
- watch and support those speaking in public
- engage in nuanced and eloquent conversations with people you interact with.
- invest in something that will bring you monetary wealth
- go for a nice drive or bus/train ride
- eat strawberries or strawberry flavored things
- be respectful and understanding of clerks, wage workers, and shopkeepers.
- watch the Olympics and especially the gymnastics.
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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh
"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
my rants to My Lord that i dont have anyone else to talk to about. rhet. comp. and literary studies grad, TA for creative writing and history
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