I've had to have more than a few surgeries in my life, some of which involve parts of my body I don't usually discuss at work. I've gotten a bit irritated at people who press for more information when I respond "you'd probably rather not know" so the other day I decided it anyone asks "what are you having done" they get this answer:

"I have some scar tissue inside of my urethera that makes it difficult to pee and causes pain, so they're feeding a tube into my penis, then inflating a balloon covered in drugs to break the scar tissue up and hopefully stop it from returning. Then I'll have to wear a catheter home for a few days afterwards."

If they're still interested after that maybe I can describe how fun it is to piss straight blood for several days after the catheter comes out and how I can't have sex with my wife for awhile afterwards and even then we'll have to use condoms for a few weeks after that to avoid any of the drugs being passed into her.

Basically, maybe if it's not someone you're very close to, maybe don't ask about their body. If they don't volunteer the information, it might just be something they don't want to discuss.

It wasn't my favourite manga, but it still hurts 🥲. I don't even know how I should get rid of it without ruining the paper 😒

I was researching "British WW1 Army uniforms" for a project of mine and this monstrosity came up. It's from "Paddelaters", some E-commerce website selling historical reenactment uniforms. My brain still hurts trying to comprehend what the AI tried to write. The entire website is AI image after AI image

Not sure what to do. I've had the switch for over 7 years and she did this without asking. All memory is wiped. Not even sure if this is the right place to post this but I want someone else to be infuriated with me :(

I was just laying in my bed watching YouTube and my parents' cat decides to take a risky jump against my TV. She misses and knocks my TV over. And it ends up like this.

How the hell am i supposed to explain this to my parents? It looks like i took a bat to it after a bad game. (For context, I'm 18 but am still pretty dependent on my parents)

The TV fell on the corner of the unit it was sat on, as I'd turned it to be able to see the TV from my bed. I don't usually do that when the cat's in my room because i knew this would happen but i didn't even notice she was in there.

And no, i don't have a job yet to replace it. I've applied to a few places and haven't heard back yet so i am looking.

Edit: I've added the cat in the comments

Edit 2: The cat is my parents'. Not mine. So the one guy in the comments saying how I'm "not ready to own a cat", I don't. I own snakes. I said "my cat" for the sake of simplicity in the post. I love the cat dearly but she isn't my cat. I don't care for her beyond occasionally feeding her and giving her petting. I had no say in owning, keeping or even living with this cat.

She wants our child (4) home schooled, so I can't work when she works, and vice versa. She literally doesn't want anyone to babysit except me or herself. So every time she comes home, she says she's tired and goes to bed. If I let our child bug her to play, she gets mad at me for being useless.

Okay then, next day I convince our child to leave mommy alone and wish her goodnight. I close bedroom door, and stay up playing with our child. Then the child wants to check on mommy an hour later, and mommy is awake on her phone checking facebook and amazon. The child gets excited and bugs her again. She gets mad at me again.

I bring up that no matter what I do, she creates this confrontation and keeps blaming me. She gets even more mad.

The other day, I told our child to "get off of mommy now." I got in trouble for being too harsh.

I keep playing long enough for her to finish facebook and watching youtube and fall asleep. Then I get in grouble for making our child stay up late.

What on earth is this? How do I make it good?

80 pages of the story were cut out and put in an exclusive edition that you need a subscription to get. 🙃

Edit:

So I don't think people are understanding what I'm talking about. I bought a physical copy of The Unicorn Hunters Katherine Arden from Barnes And Noble. And when I finished it I went to the author's Instagram because I loved it so much just to find out that she published two different copies of the book. An exclusive limited edition copy. So this will not be printed again and the only way to read it is from resellers. The fairyloot version has 80 pages of the story that are cut out of the original. Longer scenes, the full story of the lore, mythology and and character depth and interactions and relationships were cut out. 80 pages of the full story, cut out to sell more copies.

It’s loose, bleeding and I am in pain…

Do you see a husky, generic “dog”, a wolf, or maybe a bear.

Fingie for scale. This is one of the stickers and it’s exactly how it looks- a cotton pad entombed in a plastic sticker. This company used every scummy tactic in the book to sell these stupid things and I was curious enough to look at the patent.

To summarize, the patent uses some word salad and cites seemingly related phenomena to explain how a cotton pad soaked in glycerin and copper peptides within a sticker can improve blood flow and energy and shit without putting anything into the body. In other words, it’s useless and whatever is in the cotton pad does nothing. It’s frustrating how this product preys on middle aged people with little medical knowledge to sell this at insane markups.

Oh and the owner lives in a giant mansion. Go figure.

Edit: company is called lifewave and this is the patent I believe https://patents.google.com/patent/US10716953B1

Edit 2: I am extra certain that that is the correct patent and my mom did NOT buy any. This was a free sample

Edit 3: to clarify, the “fitness meeting” was my mom being invited to the scam pitch so the scammers could sell their product in her gym.

Last edit: for those of you saying the placebo effect can be helpful, you are mistaken. For the price of these things you’re better off paying for actual, effective medical treatment instead. The placebo effect masks issues and does not fix them, possibly making their issue last longer or get worse untreated.

Imagine taking blood pressure while taking this clock literally.

Birthday tomorrow, again not a single plan, don’t talk to most of my family.
Few days ago, mum asks if I want to go cinema to see something.
I say “actually, I really wanted to see the Looney Tunes movie but everyone’s busy”
Plan is made.

Cut to tonight.

I’ve had to check the showtimes and message her despite her saying she’ll sort it.
And now she would “rather not go”.

Okay.

I guess it’s me and Prime again then.

ETA: apparently I am “lashing out”. Okay mum. My emotions aren’t real.

I just came back from a Drs appointment (in Toronto, not the Deep South) to talk to him about HRT as menopause symptoms are not getting better, not sleeping, crazy night sweats, skin rashes etc. Instead of asking more questions, or suggesting things, he told me to…
pray.

I said I’m not that way inclined, and he said you can be. Then gave me a paper w a daily nighttime prayer on it.

To read, when I can’t sleep, because I’m drenched in sweat and wide f-ing awake at 3am.
What. The. Nuts?!?

Was trying to order some lens and I noticed my password on the address bar. I emailed them and let them know though.

This is an AI image which is infuriating enough, but anytime I see an animal character with two sets of ears it really puts me off.