MICE DIE IN MOUSE TRAPS BECAUSE A METAL BAR SLAMS DOWN AND BREAKS THEIR NECKS.

THE SAME THING HAPPENS WITH POLICE BRUTALITY.

I’m a psychopathic dog molester

Please don’t take this out of context

What a ridiculous idea to put cheese underneath your beans. Only a demented madman would even consider such an idea. That’s just shitty, ruined cheese on toast…

Also the queen’s dead now so… yknow

WTF is “beans and toast”? The beans should be ON the toast

It’s required by law in Ireland that you wake up every 30minutes to pray and curse England. You might as well check your emails since you’re awake anyway

:o now I am the liar!

There’s a lot of freaky porn out there that I don’t want to see

You’re not a good driver if you look at your phone whilst driving.

😤🐜

It’s best to just say “cross ant” because then people know you’re saying it wrong on purpose and you don’t have to feel bad about pronouncing it wrong

I’m quite certain this isn’t true. Not Trump’s writing style, plus it’s a riff off of a thing from Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Shift-1 is ! Shift-2 is "

That’s how it is on a standard British QWERTY keyboard.

~I’m assuming you’re American given that you can’t comprehend anyone’s technology or way of life being different to yours…~

“Listen to the prophecy, my child. When this candle burns out, I will have finished pooping. See you on the other side”

Drivers in Britain should give way to pedestrians at all junctions, including entrances and exits to all roundabouts. It’s literally in the highway code.

Admittedly it’s only a “should” rather than a “must” for most roundabouts, but still. This is the what driving standards are these days, and it is a good thing. It’s all about protecting the more vulnerable. Car drivers are more dangerous to others than pedestrians are, so car drivers have to take more care and should give priority to the more vulnerable pedestrians.

EDIT: But once again I’ve fallen victim to a classic blunder. The sort of people who would say a roundabout is woke would never care about a well-reasoned argument. And I’m just preaching to the choir in this community anyway!

Ah, I see we’ve reached the stage were 90% of posts will now be complaining about Ed Sheeran. How Ed-citing!

It sounds to me like you want a person to go to work, and the other person to stay at home. Doesn’t matter which is which. So not mysoginistic at all, if I’ve understood correctly

When LGBT people say, “I SEE THROUGH YOUR BULLSHIT”, we’re not saying please do even less. We’re saying, “please back up your superficial displays with real, meaningful support”. Do more, not less!

That’s what I’ve heard other people say, and it just sounds insane. You’re in a world of fantasy literally seeing things that aren’t there and somehow that’s normal behaviour. Crazy!

But I guess it seems weird to you how I can do anything without seeing things. I’ve had someone online get very angry with me for saying I have no visual imagination, because how can I even read and recognise letters if I can’t see them in my head?

Humans are very weird sometimes! It’s nice that there are so many different ways to exist :)

I sometimes have to trace back because I often skip parts that look description-y and some authors like to slip in some piece of crucial informatio

Ugh, me too! I kinda hate when that happens

You’re asking the wrong question. How do you guys without aphantasia manage to read when there’s pictures whizzing around your head all the time??

Mechanically, whenever I read about someone’s or someplace’s introduction and it describes their appearance, I’ll just skip that section. If it’s more than a sentence-long description I’ll often unconsciously just move on to the next paragraph - it’s literally meaningless to me.

I read a lot when I’m not stressed. This week, I’ve read the whole of the Robots series by Isaac Asimov (four books, around 1500 pages total). Several times, I’ve read entire books in one sitting without even moving.

I can’t really tell you if it affects my ability to enjoy books, because I don’t know how I’m “supposed” to enjoy a book. So instead I’ll just talk about why I like to read.

1. Emotion Being able to feel something that really doesn’t happen to me in my daily life. I feel much stronger emotions through reading (and films or TV as well, to a lesser extent) than I ever can about myself and the real people in my world. For example,

2. World-building This is something that I think Alastair Reynolds is really good at. He writes science fiction books that are grounded in reality, and being able to see what he imagines. Another good example is old science fiction where there’s the dichotomy between humanity having conquered space thousands of years ago and yet the cutting edge of technology developed a few years ago is recieving the news on a paper ticker tape! Seeing what what the authors imagined vs things we take for granted today but was so advanced it never even occurred to them, like the Internet.

3. Mystery / plot There’s a certain beauty to seeing the web that’s been built up over the course of a story all coming together at the end. A good example would be Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time where all the threads come together and the resolution at the end wasn’t what I expected but, in hindsight, nothing else would have done it justice.

4. Character growth Gravity Dreams by LE Modesitt is my favourite book and I don’t know why. I think it’s just that the journey the main character goes through really speaks to me and gets me thinking about my own philosophy and life.

In summary, I’ll say that you don’t have to see something to comprehend what is happening and to be touched emotionally. As for your other question, I also watch film and TV but I definitely prefer animated over live. I can get easily confused between different actors which doesn’t happen with animation for me. I find that TV or film takes less effort to enjoy, but also that I don’t enjoy it as much as a book.