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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • I heard many similar stories like that from friends and it’s always a bit shocking to me. I’m no go getter or anything, i run my own business, but even then, i don’t want to work more than i really have to. But i just really can’t imagine what that must be like.

    I had a friend who worked as a static engineer. He then worked for a company that made bearings for big machines, which wasn’t his line of work but he liked it. The company got bought by another company who did something different and he just fell through the cracks. At first he was super anxious and just pretended to draw on his drawing board and had excel open on his computer. But no one cared, a lot of people switched jobs and suddenly he didn’t really know anyone anymore and after a few month he told me that he doesn’t really know what his job is.




  • I was in a bar i used to hang out in almost 20 years ago. It was kinda weird to see the same people still sitting there. There were two guys on my table that i knew from back then, but even then, not too well. They talked about how these days, they can’t say anything anymore, not like in the good old days. They said it over and over, just phrased it differently every time. So i asked: sorry, but what can’t you say anymore.

    One of them shrugged and said: you know, things that were okay in the good old days?

    Like what?

    Things.

    You want to be racist and homophobic, which by the way you still can, but you don’t want to deal with the repercussions.

    It used to be okay

    FOR YOU!!




  • I have a friend who is super car focused. Where she lives, there is a bridge where people often cross the road, and they painted the road with some blue waves, to showcase that. I often drive whe. She’s with me, because she drives like a maniac. Anyway, people were crossing the road and i waited. She told me that cars have the right of way here and i could just go. I just gave her a look and then drove off when people were done, like 5 seconds later. The next time a few weeks later, she said the same thing and i told her: I don’t care how often you tell me that, i’m not gonna run over people to save 5 seconds. She told me that she would usually just honk or rev up her engine, or “pretend to run people over” it’s so weird to me what they get out of that behaviour





  • I had a friend wo wasn’t at all into video games. Like to her videogames were still the Smurfs on the nes, the last game she played. At some point i figured that she might like the sims. I fired up ky laptop and sowed her the sims. I haven’t played the sims since the very first sims came out, and even then i played for maybe 3 hours in total. I got intrigued myself, so i let her play and went up to my pc and played myself. We absolutely got lost and played for like 5 hours straight.

    I went down and she proudly showed me her sims family, nice home and all the neighbours liked her. She threw a nice party and had her third baby. She wanted to see what i did. And i was like: uhm, i don’t think we play these games the same. My sim was a multi millionaire in a shitty house with a sweatshop in the dungeon.




  • There’s a few episodes that actively showed gow much they struggle. Like one of their biggest vacations is going to a waterpark in a car that has the heater on full blast so it doesn’t cook the engine. They only eat super cheap food and mystery meat. They lived in a camper because they could barely afford to get termites removed. Hal has no money to go to a dentist. As soon as hal lost his job they are cooked. They lived paycheck to absolute paycheck. They never pay all their bills. I would say they struggled a lot. They struggled more than al bundy.