My brother’s wife bought me a pair a couple years ago and I was really skeptical but they are great. They also help me not get stressed out when I’m around loud children which was another big issue for me. I actually enjoy going to family gatherings now and don’t have to step away to calm my nerves every 30 minutes or so.

I always wake up like 3 hours early and then start to get sleepy again about 30 minutes before I’m supposed to get up for work…

Same. I hate eating with other people unless theirs a loud tv/music in the background. I have found that those loop earplugs help with it at least but then you have to answer questions about what those are.

I’d put them in an aquarium.

It sounds like we’re on the same page.

My mom beat my ass on the regular for any and every reason. Fuck this post.

Most of the dudes I know who aren’t currently married just don’t expect to have a relationship at all at this point in their lives (mostly middle age IT guys). The consensus is online dating isn’t worth it to even bother with and it’s hard AF to meet anyone in the real world so they focus on their hobbies and socialize with their bros instead. There’s no animosity towards women and there are a few women that come out with us when we go to the bar but nobody is pursuing romance.

I can see how this would be a concern in theory but currently google can’t even find me the products I’m looking for even when I type in exact parameters so we’re a long way off from it predicting not only what you need but how desperate you are for it.

Ive read through this entire thread and I still don’t know who or what this is referring to.

I was clearing 3 Goosebumps books a week at that age (Until I ran through them all and switched to the Redwall series). I didn’t have the internet back then though and had to share the TV and game consoles with my brother so there were less distractions. Good job to the kids.

The Star Wars OT. Probably ROTJ specifically. That was like an every weekend thing when I was a kid.

They offer a check on healthcare providers that want to over -treat and -prescribe to charge more money, or doctors that go rogue with whacky ideas. Since the general population doesn’t know much about medicine, doctors would be able to prescribe all sorts of illegitimate treatments if we didn’t have a body making sure that their recommendations were legit.

My dad can’t get a medication that actually resolves one of his health problems because it’s not on whatever list of medications his insurance company has for that issue. Even though his doctor prescribed it and it worked up until he got a new insurance. Now he has to use some other medication that barely helps. Insurance companies are bullshit. Doctors should be reviewing what other doctors are doing. Not some office peon who probably gets a bonus for rejecting claims.

When I was a kid there was another kid who printed out and was selling the item duplication cheat for Pokemon. So I printed a bunch of them and started giving them away. Then he got some goons together and they jumped me on the playground. It was all very stupid.

One time one of the cooks at the BK I go to for lunch a lot recognized an error the person at the counter had made on my order. It made me happy that someone gave enough of a shit about me to remember my order but also made me think I’m probably going too often.

Replace the iphone with a current android and you probably won’t have to change much text.

That it’s 7 years old and I can’t find a replacement that isn’t a downgrade in functionality.

Last one I had was when I turned 21. Which was great, but yea I’ve been lucky to get a dinner out since then.

A long time ago. Now I just do it on the side but knowing how to fix cars has always been a good “in” to get girls to talk to me but from there I still had to actually get them to go out with me and see where it went. It’s not like I was just straight up trading car repairs for sex.

It’s not totally de-valued. Being able to fix cars has gotten me laid more than probably anything else.

Yea, that’s how mine is too. I fucking hate this thing. At least with mine there’s separate lights that are not controlled by the fan I can use.