klemptor @ klemptor @startrek.website

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Chutzpah is great! There are tons of great Yiddish words. Some of my favorites are schvitz (to sweat; alternatively a sauna), schlep ([traveling] an annoying distance), mischigas (nonsense or nutty behavior, or kinda similar to a clusterfuck), noodge (kinda like a pest, but said with some affection), zaftig (pleasingly plump, like Christina Hendricks), and kvell (to be really happy/proud, opposite of kvetch).

Smeg is actually a well known appliance brand

Google Korean fan death.

Same here haha

They only have 4 toes total.

Fat acceptance people have a weird love affair with their obesity. It's part of their personality. And I guess that makes sense - when it's the first thing people notice about you, when it inhibits the things you can do (not just physical activity, but also basic things like fitting into a restaurant booth), when you've managed to convince yourself that diabetes is normal (maybe because you come from a family where everyone is fat and many of them are on diabetes meds), and when you feel that you're being judged for whatever you eat, or for how out of breath you get just going up a flight of stairs, etc - yeah, these people become really defensive. They know they've eaten themselves into disability and disease, but don't want to take responsibility for it. They don't think they can lose the weight and they think the world should cater to their size.

I'm not unsympathetic. In my late teens/early 20s I went through some bad shit and turned to food as a comfort. Predictably I ballooned up from a BMI of 20.5 (105 lbs) to a BMI of 34.6 (177 lbs). It was a struggle to lose that weight but I did (most of it anyway) and I've kept it off. At 42, I don't expect to weigh what I did at 18 years old, for a number of reasons (a huge one is weightlifting). But I do expect to be a normal weight, be capable of strenuous physical activity, have healthy bloodwork, and be comfortable in my clothing.

I fought against obesity and it was hard but I won. These fat acceptance folks took the other path - they leaned into it and made it a defining characteristic of their existence. It's really sad but also frustrating because they're choosing to continue a lifestyle that only leads to grim outcomes. They may not be able to get pregnant or safely carry to term. They may not be able to play with their pets or children. Their self-esteem will always be low. They are likely to develop skin infections due to poor hygiene. And it gets worse from there: hypertension, diabetes, certain cancers, bigger danger of breaking bones if they fall, etc etc etc. And it's all avoidable if they could just commit to fixing the problem.

David Duchovny too!

This is one of my all-time favorites, right next to this:

I wish! My mom is DEVOUT. She has no sense of humor about it. If any of us tried to joke about it she'd send us right to purgatory (aka the catholic pattern buffer).

Merci pour le partage, c'est très intéressant! Moi je trouve ça assez surprenant que les Français s'intéressent au bluegrass du tout. C'est pas très populaire ici aux États-Unis, bien que récemment y a un peu de regain d'intérêt. Moi j'aime bien le bluegrass de Billy Strings - il est très talentueux et innovant. (Je m'excuse pour des fautes, mon français est un peu rouillé!)

Yeah my dad is a Jewish atheist (or agnostic, depending on how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol)

The severity of this storm is likely due in part to climate change brought about by the oil industry.

It took him months to grow those peppers!!

Please tell Peeve he's purrrfect!

I've already mailed in my ballot. Not sure what you're suggesting in terms of stopping my neighbors from voting but that sounds highly illegal.

I live in the Philly suburbs and it's disturbing how many Trump signs I see in my area. I really really fucking hope he doesn't win this state.

This lady sounds so interesting, I bet she'd be a blast to hang out with!

You skipped DS9? Why??

Girl get you some metrogel....

Hazel, you are precious!!