At least one

Home brew that shit! Fuck balance!

I can’t wait to develop my natural immunity to polio! Or smallpox!

The flu, why, without the vaccine you can develop a natural immunity every year, twice a year if you really want to!

Legit dude, what the fuck do you think “natural” immunity is? It’s catching whatever it is, being sick, and surviving it. You specifically chose colds and the flu as examples, and they’re the worst possible examples because they mutate so fast you never actually achieve immunity to anything; the version you have resistance to might come around again, or it might not, but you damn sure will eventually run across a strain that your body isn’t equipped for.

Like, I get that vaccines are confusing to someone with little education, but this is the internet age, you can look up the terms you’re using and make sure you aren’t fucking up your entire point. Like, the time it took you to type the post up, you could have looked up what vaccines actually do, and why they are/were the single greatest achievement of the human species.

You can go and get a shot of something stable enough and never get sick from it, ever in some cases. In others, you might get sick but it’ll be a few bad days instead of a week or more of misery (as is sometimes how the flu vaccines end up because of the aforementioned mutations, but other viruses are just a bit harder to stop entirely).

So, nah, fuck your natural “immunity”, that’s just a recipe for lost health and time better spent on something like reading up on why vaccines are fucking awesome, even in the rare cases of allergies or bad reactions.

That’s almost my motto.

It’s actually “old and beat-up”, which is why being tired is my secret.

You gotta dig deep and understand your own mind. It doesn’t mean you won’t experience the intrusive thoughts, but you’ll be better able to kinda surf on them with reduced or eliminated stress from them.

Cognitive behavioral therapy can help faster than any home brew methodology to get for to where you can ride the experience out and not have it mess you up a lot. But meditation, specifically mindfulness meditation (though any type you can do will help), gives you part of those tools with less/no need for guidance from the outside.

Progressive relaxation helps too, where you go through your body clenching then relaxing the muscles of your body from head to toe (or toe to head) so that you’re using your mind to control your body. This allows the brain a chance to kinda reset, and it leaves your body in a neutral state conducive to good rest.

What those have in common is breath control. Panic comes from a spiral of both mental and physical sources. Since you can’t directly tell your adrenal glands to stop dumping on you, or flip a switch to shift brain waves instantly, you have to engage the part of our system that can be directly controlled.

Luckily, controlling our breathing is a magic key to open up our autonomic systems. It slows heart rate, which in turn slows down the brain (eventually) and ramps down the fight/flight response that makes panic attacks so damn horrible.

And, truth is, even though there’s drugs that will stop or slow a panic attack, they tend to take roughly the same amount of time to work as any of the stuff I mentioned, once you practice them a while. So, while the drugs will help short term, you can’t always take them, and they don’t help fix the underlying issues.

What’s great is when it isn’t even anything you said or did, you just thought it.

Can I have that with a side of irrelevant, minor mistakes that nobody but me cared about. Ideally, they would be from decades ago, but not every place carries vintages like that

You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.

The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.

Absolutely gleaming :)

If it helps, I am totally seduced

I didn’t see the title at first, and “fuck yeah” was exactly what popped into my head

I wrote that book!

Or could have

Obviously, tastes vary, but the nostalgia crack part of the show is fairly minor compared to the actual story. It’s really there more to establish that it is set in the past and give a quick handwave to character background.

It gets used less after the first episode or two of each season, which do tend to be a bit more focused on set-up and “vibe” building to some degree or another each season.

There’s no guarantee you’d like it, but the first episode of the first season isn’t really a good example of the show as a whole, nor are the first episodes of each season. Imo, they tend to be a way to let both established audience and new viewers “settle in” rather than being integral to the overall plot arcs. They do tend to serve as character updates (after season one where they serve to establish characters) though, so skipping them entirely wouldn’t be ideal. It is doable though.

Which only matters if you’re remotely interested in watching it at all

Annnnd ear wormed

It’s not so much the foods, though both were amazing cooks in their own ways, with some amazing standards meals they’d turn out. It’s them making it that really hits as a loss.

Both of them contributed to me learning how to cook, and in some ways I ended up improving on what I learned from them by virtue of having both.

But, if I had to nail down one specific meal/dish from each that I miss the hell out of, I think my paternal grandmother’s breakfasts are the most missed of hers. The woman could put on a spread! Eggs, grits, sausage, liver mush, biscuits, red-eye gravy, with her home made jams and jellies. Gods, you want to talk about feeding an army, when all of us grandkids would stay over at once, there would be her, my grandfather, one uncle, and eleven kids ranging from toddlers to teenagers at one point.

And she never missed a step, while doing it all with us young’ns under foot. She was damm fine baker, and a master of country cooking/soul food, but her breakfasts were next level.

My maternal grandmother could do that kind of cooking too, though not as well. Where she was a standout was with more of the suburban American cuisine. The roasts and casseroles and traditional holiday meals. I think those holiday meals are what I miss most, though her meatloaf and spaghetti were both amazeballs. My grandfather was a hunter, so some kind of bird would be featured often, be it goose, duck, or turkey. Sometimes as the only meat source, sometimes alongside a store bought turkey if a lot of the more distant family was showing up.

Even after she decided she was done babysitting a bird and my uncle took over that part with a deep fryer, her sides still wreck those I’ve had with other people. Sweet potatoes, three-bean salad, seven layer salad, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, asparagus, peas, all kinds of options, sometimes with all of those, plus others, plus desserts. Most of the veggies were from their garden, though they would be home canned fur Christmas, and some would be for Thanksgiving.

It wasn’t that any given item was so good (though they were), it’s that all of everything either made was so consistently amazing. Never a flop, never a dud.

Much appreciated!

The Chicago rat hole, also called Splatatouille,

That is the only reason Chicago is worthy of existence. Splatatouille. Pure genius.

I almost get this one, but I’m not sure why LOGe would be In

Just don’t speak enough maths lol

Well, calling it misogyny isn’t a directly accurate issue, though if you step back a ways, the connection is there. Part of why Hillary caught so much shit was the fact of her being a her in the first place.

However, the joke has existed for decades, long before she was a relevant name in the public consciousness. I’ve heard or seen it applied to politicians since the eighties at least, sometimes with long ex presidents. Hillary wasn’t the first woman to catch that kind of generic joke, Geraldine Ferarra (spelling?) was the target of pretty much every cookie cutter joke like that, and she was nowhere near the hot target Clinton still is now (even after the collapse of her public influence). So there’s room for debate on the joke itself being misogynistic.

But the mods in question definitely nailed that it’s a stupid, unfunny, cookie cutter joke. It’s the kind of unfunny crap people complain about being subjected to at holiday gatherings by an asshole relative that can’t drop their identity politics long enough to be decent company at fucking Christmas.

Also, backhanding the back of someone’s head is an awkward movement when both people are seated close enough together to talk, and it makes this specific use of the joke format fail hard because it engages the logic filters, so if you’re going to use it in the future, consult a professional joke crafter.

My own lol.

Any of them