[-] [email protected] 139 points 6 months ago

Actually, that's amazing. Like even if you believe in these things, the karmic "payback" for trying to do evil with it is paid immediately by being scammed.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So my cat (3yo standard issue neutered indoor boy) and I moved houses. He came to the new house three days ago.

I put his litter box, food dish, and water in a large walk in closet in a spare room. I left the door cracked. Here's the issue. Every time he gets near the door, he sees the ceiling fan. If he sees the ceiling fan, in any of the rooms, he freaks out, slinks down like he's in danger, and runs and hides. I know it's the fans because I carried him through the house and every time he saw a fan, he would cling to me like his life depends on it.

He's never lived in a house with ceiling fans. All the fans in the house are off but he still panics when he sees one. He's taken to hiding in his litter box, and he isn't eating. And his litter has only a little dirty litter in it (for the move, so he knew it was his), the amount of which hasn't changed.

I was able to get him to come out and eat a soupie (his favorite) but then he immediately went back into the litter box and hunkered down.

I'm worried. The house is new construction so it's definitely the fans. He almost came out when I said his name when I got home, but when he got to the closet door and looked up and saw the fan, he darted back to his litter box!

Do I just keep giving him soupies and hope the stress eases? Do I rehome him? This would kill me, but if he can't eat or drink, it'll kill him! I can't believe my feisty little boy is being defeated by something I can't change! (I'm renting. Taking the fans down is off the table.)

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[-] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago

Nutty Putty Cave is his Nutty Putty Grave sounds better for whatever reason.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago

Sounds like ADHD.

[-] [email protected] 115 points 7 months ago

I'm white. I have blue eyes. And when I was young, my hair was red. I was working retail, and this old lady said "Merry Christmas."

Me: "Happy Holidays!"

Her: "It's Merry Christmas. I know your boss doesn't like it, but you should say it to me. So Merry Christmas."

Me: "Are you Christian?"

Her: "Yes."

Me: "Well, I'm not. So Happy Holidays."

She got so stunned, like I'd slapped her. I was quite ready to get called in for being some kind of way with a customer but I guess she was too afraid of dealing with a heathen. Still, if you've ever worked retail, you'd know why this felt like a victory.

[-] [email protected] 87 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I just wanted to say these comments are off the chain. This is how the internet used to be- just people chatting, making jokes and telling stories.

I didn't know how much I missed it.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago

They're trying to do a "gotcha." What they mean is, "Are even the dead children responsible for the situation they were in?"

It's a fallacy; appeal to emotion. Obviously the dead children aren't reading this, or hearing the words that "all of us are complicit." Instead of thinking as a rational person would that the audience being addressed by those words are the people to who that phrase would apply, they did a rapid-fire, emotion-based response because they want to feel right and superior, instead of taking the mature, nuanced approach.

[-] [email protected] 175 points 8 months ago

You know what's extra fun about this?

Those secretions bleach underwear. That's right, my cute black panties are all inevitably doomed to have a white spot in the crotch over time!

[-] [email protected] 96 points 9 months ago

Back in the dark times when I was an admin for a very popular website, some very hateful nazis were sharing images of a dead Jewish child and laughing and claimed to be literally jerking off to the image. They claimed she was 9.

So yknow. Not in a hurry to see pics. Just want a trusted source to verify that they exist.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago

To add on to other's stories- my cat will come and hop into my lap 100% of the times I call him, even on another floor, and I didn't even train him to do this, he just really likes my lap.

Sometimes he does cute stretches on the way to me, or makes mrrps and other sounds to tell me he's coming (and I assume ask if there might be treats, because one time he mrrp'd and I somehow remembered that there were treats that exact moment like two years ago) but yeah. Cats can come when you call them.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago

Even if she does I say we leave that be. Women grow facial hair and society's stigma around it should be eliminated.

Source: women I know with PCOS and the way it affects them.

[-] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago

My nightmare of a previous boss called my moissanite engagement ring "cheap" and "trashy," and treated us to a 30-minute speech about how if it's not "real" diamond, it doesn't count.

I hope sucking down those Marlboro blacks takes care of that problem of a woman sooner, rather than later, and in the meantime the gorgeous rainbow sparkle of my pretty ring is made all the more beautiful for the complete lack of child slavery that went into making it!

... I also just realized that horrible harridan didn't have an engagement ring, or even a boyfriend, and now some things make sense.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago

This is the wrong take. Instead of saying he got too much time for "date rape" (and considering the harrowing story of Jane Doe 1 and the way it was suppressed by the Church of Scientology I'm not so sure you've read about the severity of these charges) you should ask why a drunk driver got so little time.

But killing one person drunk driving is a less severe crime than a serial rapist in my opinion.

I usually don't respond to people with 88 in their name but I figured if an ignorant person read your comment without someone addressing it they might get the wrong impression.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

YSK: Just because something is easy for you, does not mean that it is easy.

ETA; Why you should know; everyone has natural talents, everyone has skills they developed with practice or over time. Something that feels easy to you might be difficult for someone else to grasp, or they might have a different background or a different way of doing things. When you show someone else how to do something, or when you ask someone else to do something, you need to set aside your expectations on how they might do that thing, or how quickly, or how well.

Be patient. Understand not everyone comes naturally to every new skill or new talent. Some people have learning disabilities or just a lack of familiarity with skills you consider "basic." And try not to belittle someone for needing extra time to master something you find "simple" or they may never try again!

Edit2: Kind of like how I can't figure out how to edit this to save my life. I've been belittled in the past for being bad at things so my instinct was to delete this, but seeing all the conversation, I couldn't bring myself to do it! Consider me a lesson in action!

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