Then why aren’t we all getting rich from it? Hint: not just because we don’t understand it.

The only way you could use ‘thirty two’ correctly for that number would be ‘one and thirty two hundredths’ which would be pretty unusual.

You say it like you think cultural relevancy were a good thing, and not just a marketing tool.

Weird! Ok, I’m less horrified now.

Come to think if it, centipedes are too fast for the thing your dad did. I bet millipides are a lot crunchier though.

But that very impulse is inimical to making friends. You make friends by being open to making friends, and by being interested in other people, regardless of whether they are ‘friend material.’

You shouldn’t even be assuming you know or can predict what makes someone friend material for you. One can be surprised.

Keep trying. When you visit the ER, you are seeing individual people. Some people are better or worse than at their jobs. Some care more or less, have different biases. Keep trying until you get someone who takes you seriously. Try different hospitals if you can, some are on average better or have ER rooms that are less overwhevlmed. Be insistant that your problem is serious and getting worse.

Millipedes or centipedes? I always used to get the names backwards, but centipedes are the nightmare fuel one (to my mind), lighting fast and all legs. Millipedes, the legs are less dominantly noticeable an I think of as more of a forest-floor, under-a-log kind of thing.

I just found and smashed a couple of centipedes in my house the past couple days. My reaction is instinctual and violent. It freaks me out to wonder what they’ve been eating to get so large.

Did work end up being more like being on a Klingon ship or Borg?

I think as a kid, I’d have found this scene funny without really getting it. I’d probably be OK with my kids seeing it, if I had kids.

So the first guy bought it for 100, suggesting the price used to be 100, and all those purchases may not have been crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXT_IOt81Xs

I want to say it was much less on people’s minds in the U.S., but I don’t 100% trust my memory.

What if you’re in the middle of one of these?

Idk but that looks like it would be an awkward time to get an erection.

Whoever thought that was strange needs to get out more.

This. It can be exhausting. I feel compelled to reassure the person that I’m not upset or whatever. It makes a big deal out of something i’d rather not be expending any social energy on.

Here’s an exaggerated analogy of what is like: imagine that every time you sneezed someone came over all concerned, like 'are your alright? are you sure? do you need a doctor? ’ and you had to explain that it was no big deal and that you were ok.

It also reminds me a little of people who cut themselves down, making you fell like you need to tell them, ‘oh no, you’re not ugly / stupid / a jerk’ or whatever.

Freshness is key. A lot of the taste / smell qualities that put off people who aren’t big on fish increase rapidly with time. So make sure you buy your fish from a source you really trust to have fresh fish, keep it cold (put it on ice, even, on the way home from the store), and use it right away. Like, that very day if at all possible, or at least the next day.

Soaking it in water with some lemon juice can also reduce some of those flavors.

I also don’t like many fish I think of as ‘fishy’ and salmon is not one of them, meaning I don’t percieve it as fishy. So I think maybe not everyone means the same thing by ‘fishy’.

I skip the mental process of ‘my mood is X so let’s listen to composer Y’. How I feel simply makes me feel like playing some Y (or some specific piece, or some type of music since composers often have pieces with different moods, and the type of piece and instruments plays a big role).

Are we having fun yet?