start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

mister, sifter sold me tongs

i like the shovel/scoop they have at taquerias
same thing they use in fast food places, like these —

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61pzGacwlRL._SL1500_.jpg

i can't say it anywhere else:

i fucking HATE all the new-age bullshit a lot of my friends are into. i hate tarot. i hate runes. i hate reiki. i hate CST. i hate kambo. i hate crystals.

it's all fucking quackery.

and i hate that whenever i express even a modicum of these opinions in a friendly way, i'm accused of being "brainwashed by western rationality" and shit.

i teach decolonial literature courses at the uni level, Lauren, and you're not a fucking witch.

okay, end rant.

I totally agree with you on all that. People who buy into all that b.s. pseudoscientific woo tick me off, especially if they value it over regular medicine or try to evangelize for it in lieu of traditional medicine. Knowing what you're going through makes the situation even worse, because I'm sure they view you as a vulnerable sucker who'd fall for any old crap. That's why whenever I enjoy meditation or ASMR I'm very careful not to partake in the elements of both that touch on elements of quackery, and why I appreciate the content creators who don't engage in either.

Oh, and speaking of tortilla chips, the legit Mexican restaurants around here that serve pre-meal chips and salsa scoop up chips with a regular scoop, not tongs or that huge "McDonald's fry server" monstrosity. This is a good example of the kind of scoop I'm accustomed to seeing at Mexican restaurants:

http://bulkmart.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/chips-scoop.jpg

imo, anyone who wants to think of themselves as a witch and embrace all the various mythologies and paraphernalia of witchcraft is welcome to do so. however, they are not entitled to a society that values witches and witchcraft to the degree they do, no matter how much they want one. if they sneer at us, we get to sneer back.

as for reiki and other similar pseudoscientific healing arts, any intelligent physician will tell you that they can't and don't heal anyone. it is a mutual relationship. all they can do is assist their patient's internal healing processes, sometimes through drastic means and sometimes by providing a gentle nudge. stuff like reiki is limited to the nudge-level, by making people feel actively cared-for and loved, because being touched is helpful to healing, it just isn't helpful in quite the way reiki practitioners claim it is.

come on man. people who believe in CAM are probably the one demo most likely to be anti-vaxx https://i.imgur.com/0wWumgj.png

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:27 (one week ago)

oh man, that's a depressing image

just when I was thinking maybe I'd go back to the chiropractor

(who my orthodontist recommended to me regarding TMJ issues, and I didn't know was a chiropractor rather than a more conventionally accredited physiotherapist until I'd already agreed w/the orthodontist to see him, and then I thought "wellll I'm not sure about this stuff, but we'll see" and actually he seemed... OK?)

imo, anyone who wants to think of themselves as a witch and embrace all the various mythologies and paraphernalia of witchcraft is welcome to do so. however, they are not entitled to a society that values witches and witchcraft to the degree they do, no matter how much they want one. if they sneer at us, we get to sneer back.

I'm sorry, I need to clarify that I regard witches as purely practitioners of a pagan religion and while I'm not religious, I don't object to people practicing their own religion so long as it doesn't harm others. I deeply apologize for neglecting to address that part of the post. OTOH I find pseudoscientific b.s. completely unacceptable, particularly since it's so often targeted to people with legitimate physical issues that require actual medical intervention. Yes, it's good to hug people and help uplift others and everything else that helps improve one's mental state, but it should never EVER replace legitimate medicine.

I thought with Reiki there was not even any touching, they just move their hands over you.

I find pseudoscientific b.s. completely unacceptable, particularly since it's so often targeted to people with legitimate physical issues that require actual medical intervention.

I'm a bit more tolerant, but to qualify for my tolerance these practices need to fall within some rather narrow lines:

- the patient needs to be an adult capable of accepting responsibility for their own health.

- the practitioner should not charge a fee, or if there is a fee, it needs to be very slight and basically just compensate a bit for the time spent.

- the practitioner should not discourage the patient from seeking other kinds of care or medical intervention, or disparage medical science as invalid.

- the practice may be based on any airy-fairy theory of how it works and I don't care, but false claims about effecting cures of serious illnesses are never acceptable.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who just dabble around with this stuff and do meet those criteria. They're mostly harmless. It's the quacks who are in it to make a profit who deserve contempt.

it should never EVER replace legitimate medicine

I agree fully. It's almost entirely placebo effect, but that can be a useful adjunct to healing and shouldn't be rejected out of hand.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/New-Upside-Down-Exhibit-at-Museum-of-Illusions--511476562.html

These types of places are not museums!!!!

I was just on a 12 hour redeye that was not full at all so I had the 3 seater row next to the windows to myself. After the door closed, an older dude brought his blanket and slippers over and sat in the aisle seat. I lost my mind. He wouldn't make any eye contact. I asked if it was his seat. He said an attendant said he could sit there (which I doubt because they don't want you to move until after you are in the air). I spread aaallllll my shit out and kept waking him up everytime he nodded off at the beginning. MF'er. He stayed the entire time, went back to his seat after we landed to get his stuff. I got up right away to move to the aisle and he totally had to do a reach around without saying anything to get his stuff out of the seat pocket.

Oh god

I was texting my spouse and a friend about it as it was happening, before takeoff, with pics. My spouse was like "why are you so angry?" My friend was like "sit in the middle seat really close."

why

why were you so angry tho

Thread title, my dude

fair, withdrawn

The first time I had to get up to use the bathroom he wouldn't get up and just turned his legs like I was going to crawl over his lap. I loomed and just kept making the upward hand motion. I actually did sleep ok lying down on the 2 seats.

I loomed and just kept making the upward hand motion.

dying @ this

If you’re ever lucky enough to get another three seats free, sit in the aisle seat until takeoff so no fucker like that can invade.

There were multiple seats everywhere free. I was trying to explain to my spouse (again) that this type of thing always happens because I look like a 'nice lady' and that is such a misguided assessment to make.

Sheesh, I'd be livid if this happened to me. Suzy otm, that seems to be the trick.

The guy behind me was sitting in the aisle seat to save his row. He was on alert. xpost.

I have to say though, deep down I knew he wouldn't move because he was an older japanese dude and I am a younger asiany woman. I knew that fucker would go all stoic. I was trying to creepster/shame him out.

God, if he was trying to be all creeper/alpha male on you, no wonder you were so pissed. You were totally in the right when it came to making him as uncomfortable as possible.

What's gotten me completely batshit mad lately (and not in a completely rational "this nation is fucked up" way): the weather. Fuck you, May 1 - September 30; your weather always sucks.

my former boss who i love won the Hamilton ticket lottery for a second time and between him and hid wife they’ve posted 97 photos on fb and instagram and I have such irrational fomo hatred right now

also why is 50% of everyone i follow constantly on vacation & posting photos on social media i hate them

stop having fun all you cunts & be miserable like me

It's when every picture is a separate post on Facebook that gets me, scrolling scrolling scrolling post photos of pints of beer or food with slightly different backgrounds.

yes exactly

I have the worst kind of curiosity. I keep it to myself mostly.

But there was a recent murder-suicide in our quad-county region, where it was it was a 22-year-old husband killing his 22-year-old wife.

So I looked 'em up on Facebook and it was all dreamy wedding days, families dressed in all-white clothing on the beaches of Destin and cozy little date nights at the taco place.

Just remember that Facebook is ALL LIES.

I assume the people who post dozens et dozens of pics from the same event are doing it for immediate family and they don't know how to filter audiences. These are people who will die first in the zombie apocalypse.

pp otm

maniacally posting photos of your vacation in real time for e-validation is symptomatic of not being present and for sure speaks to a deeper dissatisfaction

One thing which shits me immensely is when the user interface on macOS or iOS "pops up" an alert or something a split second before I click or tap on that part of the screen. e.g. if I go to tap the Messages icon in my phone's top row, and some inane alert from an app I forgot to disable dives underneath my finger when it's too late to react. I feel like the UI should be coded such that if you are clicking on something you couldn't possibly have seen because it appeared 0.05 seconds ago, it should treat it as if you clicked on what was there before. Also applies to e.g. rolling banners on websites - I go to click on a story but another one dives in front at the last instant.

totally rational reax imo

When there is any kind of linguistics-related content needed on the BBC and they without fail call up Stephen Fry to do it.

Learning about Mandela effects.

Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.

I hate button flies.

Thank goodness it's not 1987

Been shopping for jeans lately? They're as prominent as ever!

afaict

button flies vs. button duvet covers.

Admittedly, I buy all my jeans from Old Navy, which is hardly fashionable, but I manage to consistently find ones that look un-embarrassing.

xpost I fucking hate the latter, too, I usually just leave them unbuttoned. Buttoning duvet covers is like hanging a shower curtain, just an annoying waste of digital dexterity.

Old Navy jeans are OK, but I find getting nicer jeans force you to take better care of them, which makes them last longer. Sort of like spending money on a nice pair of sunglasses.

You know what else I hate? Throw pillows. They just get in the way.

sometimes I don't even put the duvet cover on, I just lay it on top of the duvet.

No no, then you get the duvet dirty. You have to turn the cover inside out and use it like a sleeping bag, with the duvet on top.

i love throw pillows. but they need very large and deep sofas to be useful.

currently have duvet cover as sheet, and naked duvet on top of that, as an optional extra. though not very optional with the weather we've been having lately in London :/

throw pillows are the herpes of decor

otm