[ SECRET POST #5408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5408 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Horrible Histories]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[Incarnations of Immortality]


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Comments

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General comments:

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[(Anonymous)]

So I have to ask... did anyone share a link to F!S as an attempt to gain new regulars here?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't found a group annoying enough to send here yet.

Things that grind your gears

[kaijinscendre]

There is nothing more frustrating than knowing mentally how to fix a problem but physically not having the arm strength TO UNSCREW A RUSTY FAUCET.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[pantswarrior]

Ugh, I am so there right now.

Water coming into the basement from somewhere and I think I know where but due to my GI tract not letting me eat or drink for a couple days, I don't have the strength to move stuff away from the area to get a better look so I just keep mopping. Mops are not as heavy as my 150lb old TV. -_-

Re: Things that grind your gears

[bur]

Yooooooooooooo.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

Forgetting to use the clutch.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

My husband had to go over to his friend's house to unscrew the oil cap on her car. There's a lot of stuff that really isn't that accessible.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[philstar22]

Tailgaters. People who don't use their turn signal. People driving below the speed limit in the fast lane. Trucks in general. Honestly driving is always stressful for me, Texas drivers are as a group so terrible.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

Well tbh, if it's rusty, EVERYONE is going to need a wrench to unscrew it, because it's rusted shut.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

I only have a single debit card, no credit cards or anything. My gas and electric and water bills come directly out of my bank account, and I can do the same with my property taxes, but my phone and cloud storage are linked to my debit card, which was supposed to expire at the end of this month.

My new one was sent out on October 6 and never showed. No one took it, because my old ine was still working. I rush ordered one yesterday for delivery today, and no dice. But as soon as I placed that order the bank deactivated my current card, so right now if anything autodebits I'm fucked.

If the new card doesn't show tomorrow I'm taking Thursday off to be a nightmare customer and yell at innocent bank employees until they print me a new card right then and there, even though they're not allowed to anymore; I guess over the last couple years there's been a massive increase in fraud.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

“Either it's very far away, or you've invented the world's smallest drink,"
says Ratchet.
"It's free. Shut up." Swerve answers.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

My BIL is visiting. He and my SIL have a habit of insulting my spouse. They seem to think it's banter but it actually hurts my partner quite a bit. My partner's asked me not to say anything or react. I respect their wishes but damn it's hard. I just want to throw him out of our house.

Re: Things that grind your gears

[(Anonymous)]

How about the DOT lying that they could get roadwork finished in half a day and the road would be open and you starting a trip the next day not realizing that you would have a detour (with 10% grades! and other roadwork) taking 1 hour and 45 minutes when that portion of your trip was supposed to take 30 minutes? And having an extra hour built into schedule before the appointment you're supposed have so you can get some things done beforehand and then having to race, full of anxiety, to get there just a little behind schedule, only for the person you were supposed to meet not to show for 1 hour and 45 minutes after they were supposed to be there? And not getting finished with your own stuff until way later than you planned? Plus forgetting to bring something to eat? Then going to the gas station afterwards (because that detour) and the attendant has stepped away and you are too done and hungry to wait? And deciding on a different route back (a little longer in distance but no roadwork), one that is unfamiliar, thinking you could stop for gas and something to eat on the way, but not realizing there wouldn't be anything for a long stretch and worriedly watching the gas gauge, trying not to think about your hunger? Finally getting home about 3 hours later than you had planned and having to do other chores now that you're back? And having to make that trip again tomorrow (and the road still won't be open)?

That was my day.

Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

Why are you so insistent on making your kids eat foods they don't like? I can understand asking them to taste stuff before saying yuck, and not just shovelling candy and desserts down their throats, but if you know that your kids hate beans or cauliflowers, why keep making them dishes that contain those things? Just substitute a different foodstuff for them to eat with a similar nutritional profile, or plan a different meal entirely. Is the whole eat your #foo such an important hill to die on?

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure if I'm ever going to be able to find this podcast anymore (it was devoted to brassica plants, the origin of so many vegetables we eat), where one of the episodes was over the topic of parenting, and the psychology of how people came to enjoy bitter vegetables as a child. The researchers interviewed a child and asked him what he thought about brussel sprouts. The little kid said that it reminded him of his mommy and daddy.

Me personally, if you want to instill good dietary habits of wanting to eat vegetables, just make sure it's well buttered and salted first. I have a cousin who hates every single vegetable in the world and won't eat any, and I'm not sure how they're alive.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god this was my mother all the way right into my teen years. What was worse was when I was showing signs of getting sick and told her that I thought I was allergic to pork (turned out to be celiacs which made more sense since a lot of pork products uses gluten in their products) - her solution was to keep making me eat pork stuff with the belief that I would 'get over it'. Thankfully I was able to get a diagnosis from the doctors and was able to move out when she started tampering with my food to prove I was lying.

Re: Parents, question.

[tabaqui]

Man, this. I asked the Monstrous Bebe to try stuff, and I and her dad ate a lot of different things, so she got to try lots of stuff. But when she said something was gross and she didn't like it, well - that was that.

I recall being forced to eat lima beans as a kid and good gods, they suck, and I hate it, so - didn't want to go there for sure.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

My parents split up before I was born and had 50/50 joint residency. My mother was the "You'll eat what I make" type. I'm pretty sure she only ever took my preferences into consideration at all because it saved her the effort of having to bully me into eating. By contrast, my father never made me eat anything I really didn't want to eat. I do think my father was maybe a little too indulgent, but for the most part I feel his way was far superior parenting in just about every respect. ​

In my opinion, the "You'll eat whatever I make" approach is a hallmark of a very particular style of parenting. The type that views children as second class citizens: you owe them nothing, and they owe you obedience. 'Life isn't fair; because I said so; if you don't smack them how will they learn obedience,' and all that bullshit. It's a whole mentality that I don't really understand, but it seems to be one of those things that is more common with some demographics than it is with others (I think it's more common among working class backgrounds, for example, and speaking very much from personal experience) and it gets passed down through generations, i.e. they cannot conceive of parenting in any way but the way they experienced it as a child themselves, so that becomes the right way, and any other style is wrong.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

My parents definitely had the parenting style of 'you have to try atleast one mouthful bite' and that every different way to prepare the vegetable counted as needing to try again to see if I would like it better now. Granted this did lead me to finding out what ways I really liked my foods prepared and cooked growing up (parents were also big on being culinary adventurous and trying to cook different types of cuisines to encourage my own exploration)

If it was something truly disliked it was a very occasional side dish (more for my parents then for me). And they were usually OK to cover it in cheese or eat it with a condiment like ranch or ketchup if it helped me eat a bit. Though it was also ok to load up on the second vegetable side dish if the first offered wasn't liked.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

power trip, that's literally it

I CAN M A K E YOU EAT IT, I CAN M A K E YOU DO WHATEVER I WANT.

this was my egg donor. both of us kids had texture issues but honestly, we ate most vegetables with no issues. broccoli, beans, tomatoes, corn, salad greens, spinach, carrots, peas, asparagus, potatoes/yams, cabbage, even turnips/rutabaga. lima beans and eggplant were just...gross, but she would force us to eat them until we puked. then she'd yell at us and we'd get smacked. of course the simple, non-traumatizing solution would have been to use any of the literal dozen other vegetables i named there that we would eat with no problems, but nope, gotta be lima beans or eggplant. bEcAuSE I sAiD sO.

straight up power trip. she wonders why im no contact with her bitch ass, too.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, I have no kids and my dad especially was much more concerned about my not being allowed processed anything including white sugar, white flour, artificial flavors and colors, etc, than in making me eat specific vegetables, so long as I ate some green ones. But then, I would've starved if I didn't eat beans because beans and tofu were 90% of the protein we ate/could afford, and I liked broccoli and cauliflower so long as they weren't cooked to mush.

My dad force fed me massive doses of nutritional supplements, though, even if I threw up or cried afterward. He believed in healthy eating like evangelical Christians believe in Jesus, and he was abusive in enforcing food rules in the same way any zealot enforces rules their kids don't share.

But otherwise normal parents? Probably some control issues, not enough time/money/energy/knowledge to make meals their whole family will eat, or they were raised to eat whatever was put in front of them and never questioned it when it came to their own kids.

If my mom didn't eat everything on her plate, she wasn't allowed to leave the table until she did, and if she tried, the same food would be put in front of her at every meal, until she learned to choke it down before it grew mold and she had to eat it or get beaten.

Re: Parents, question.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, this is a fun question. My parents were mostly not like this, with some exceptions that all occurred when I was very young but most likely fell into the "We bought a ton of this because it was on sale and we're poor so this is what we're eating" category. There was probably a better way to handle it, but they were also young and dumb at the time.

My grandmother was totally like this. Some of it was the ground-in, Depression-era "If it's on your plate, eat it and be grateful" attitude that she was raised with. Some of it was leftover '50s and '60s era parenting bullshit. "Children must eat [various things that children don't want to eat] for their health" was an actual thing that doctors and parenting books enforced for a while. But a lot of it was just... her needing to win a battle of wills with a 7-year-old, for whatever reason.

Okay so that Spuffy kiss in Tabula Rasa is still hot.

[(Anonymous)]

I shipped Spuffy as a young teen, but haven't really been into the show or the ship since, like, 2003. Someone mentioned they liked the version of Goodbye To You that plays in Tabula Rasa better than the recorded version, and I was like, "Huh, I didn't even realize they were different," so I went and watched the ending montage scene of Tabula Rasa. And my main take away is that the Tabula Rasa Spuffy kiss is still really hot. IDK, I remember being extremely into it at the time, because duh, I was fourteen and I shipped it like burning. But I've been basically neutral on Spuffy for fifteen years now--I just didn't expect that kiss to still be fire. Damn.

Power Outage

[(Anonymous)]

So we had a sucky power outage that lasted from like 6pm to 2 or 3 am. mobile data / phone masts were affected as well so zero internet for some hours. I'm worried some pipes got damaged or sth with the heater (runs on gas and electricity) happened. My apartment never went under 15 degrees Celsius (i have a mobile weather station) and outside temp was roughly 6 or 7 degrees so theoretically everything should be fine. But idk where to ask to het stuff checked
my yearly gas heater check is happening next week, so i might ask that person for tips :/
on the bright side, i was too lazy to do a big grocery trip and im DO GLAD bc im sure a lot of stuff would have spoilt.