11mo ago

Shape of these potatoes

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Guaranteed that manager has had a toddler. You either get used to handling unreasonable anger or develop anger issues of your own
- Heartbreakingly accurate assessment of humanity
  
  Arousal cycles (The mental health kind, not the sex kind) are absolutely useful info to use, not just on low functioning individuals, but on everyone to a degree (ONCE AGAIN, NOT THE SEX KIND)
- That reminds me. I ordered Uber eats and the driver, a black girl, drives up and it's hysterical. She's telling me how her last delivery was a racist PoS, threatened cops on her, and she's so sorry about my order but angry about the situation. I'm just standing there hungry for my food.
  We sat on the porch and I let her calm down, then I dont know why, but I asked if she wanted a hug. She was taken back but she agreed, and it was a super weird hug. But she felt better I think. I dunno.
  
  I just had a mental image of an awkward hug while shoving french fries into your face over her shoulder and fuckin lost it.
- Resonate this super hard, and I'm in the second camp.
  Everything seems to set me off at home. I just want to rage against everyone and it's fucking shameful.
  
  Sometimes it’s just as simple as changing your perspective a little.
  My uncle has pretty bad anger issues. Almost every workday he’d have to drive downtown, usually when the traffic was the worst (and he hated downtown driving to begin with), and he’d get super stressed and rage about it. He’d try to make it so he didn’t have to go downtown, but almost without fail something would come up and he’d be stuck doing it.
  He told me he realized it wasn’t healthy, so he tried fixing it by changing it from thinking of it as ‘goddamnit I have to drive downtown again after I tried so hard not to!’ to ‘oh well, have to do my daily downtown trip’. And then when he occasionally didn’t have to go downtown, it became sort of an extra bonus treat.
  He was amazed at how much anger he lost, just with a small change in thinking.
  
  The best way I've found to deal with deep dark rage without collapsing into a broken ghost is to focus on gratitude. Thinking on your blessings can be the antidote to the poison of anger.
  
  Knowing that is half the battle
  
  I know fixing that is quite complex but my friend started kick boxing and it really helped her. Sometimes it helps to simply let the negative energy out so it doesn’t eat you alive and then you can see more solutions with a clear head

WAAAAY better than the fantasies I see posted of revenge for someone’s behavior. It’s possible to be the bigger person and still not tolerate bad behavior.

What's a home fries? Isn't fries just short for french fries? I don't speak american
- I think home fries is when you cut the potato in cubes and wedges (the recipe says 1 inch chunks) and then fry them.
  
  Almost. Home fries, in my area, are flatter. So 1*1 square but 1/2 to 1/4 tall.
  
  We just call those chunky chips.
  
  Isn't that called "country potatoes"?
- That's called country fries here.
  
  So, potato wedges?
- Depends on where you're eating honestly. Some places call long flat fries home fries and other places call just like cubed fried potatoes home fries. Basically any fried potatoe shape that's not shoestring French fries might be called "home fries".
  
  in Pennsylvania it's grated or flaked potato pieces fried in a skillet, like only one coarseness step above hash brown

So did she get a hug?
- Asking the real question

Actually that's sexual assault. You can still ask if she's okay without threatening her with sexual assault.
- Asking for consent is now sexual assault?
  
  Got it, so don't ask first right?
- What part of !asking! if they want a hug makes it sexual assault? What part of a hug is sexual???
  
  This type of person probably thinks two guys hugging is gay. I'm straight but I'll take a hug from anyone. I love hugs.
- Hey! You dropped this 🧠
  
  I've been looking for that for ages. Cheers.
- Outstanding effort!
- Hug = sexual
  Asking = assault
  Okay, buddy.
  
  Maybe we should... hold hands
  No no youre right. Too salacious.
- Even if you count a hug as sexual assault, that wasn't a threat like I'll hug you if you don't shut the fuck up, it was just an offer of a hug.
- Do you need a hug?
  
  Potentially, A/S/L?
- Excuse me, this comment it literally rape because it uses the word sexual and I wasn’t prepared. Please escort yourself to your local PD.
  
  Shit!
- It isn't assault if you get permission first. WTF.
- If a hug is sexual assault, then all kids are sexual predators 😂
  
  You laugh, but look up no touching policies in schools. Some of them prohibit students from hugging each other. We're going to end up with a bunch of traumatized adults who received no human contact as children.
  On that, I'm one of those oh so delightful high functioning spectrum types who can't fucking stand anybody touching me. In spite of this, I also recognize the base human need for touch for people who aren't me. These policies are going to hurt people.
- I love this site LoL. The people here are all the dumbest parts of Reddit, Tumblr and twitter rolled into one glowing repository of stupidity.
  
  Certainly on the bigger instances. If you go off the beaten track a little bit you tend to fund the old small subreddit experience. You know all the ones that are about cats in trees or wood working.
  
  🎣

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