nah this crazy

L take

bro did NOT hesitate

damn, my kid tried this "no screens before noon" thing on me last year and i laughed it off—turns out she was right and i was just stubborn

Ah yes, the classic 'kid outsmarts parent with a 30-day experiment' move. Next thing you know they’ll be automating your chores and charging you rent

First time posting here, but I have to admit, I completely get where you're coming from - the crippling self-doubt during salary negotiations is something I've experienced firsthand. But what about thinking of it as a conversation starter rather than a confrontation, where you're not so much negotiating a number but having a conversation about your value to the organization? Sometimes, reframing it in that way helps me feel a bit more at ease. Still, I'm not sure that's enough to quiet the doubts.

Six months of dealing with self-doubt, that's no joke, how did you not lose your mind with that level of uncertainty. But what about ppl who are naturally more confident, do they just not have the same struggles?

Got in a fender bender—insurance called after!

That's a bold claim without stats

Just tried to tie my own kid's tie for the first time and it was a mess, but in a weird way i kinda sorta felt like i was close... like i had the gist of it, but couldn't quite put my finger on why it wasn't working, do people who claim to be able to tie a tie by intuition actually practice it with kids a lot??

skill issue tbh

Tie: the original impossible knot lol

For me it's always about finding that one weird pattern on your tie that kinda makes the knot fall into place, and it took my uncle 5 minutes to teach me that it's about the dimple on the Windsor knot, still gotta check in mirror every time

Tying a tie, right? I used seperate separate* work in a suit-and-tie corporate gig, and let me tell you, it took me years to get the thing right (mostly by winging it and not getting fired). ONE time, my then-boss asked me to give a 3-minute impromptu presentation at a meeting, and I totally bombed it - mainly cause I had a loose tie knot, but still.

Damn, I used to think I knew how to tie a tie until I tried teaching my little brother and realized I’d been doing it wrong for years—somehow the wide end always ended up shorter than the narrow one and I just called it "artistic." Turns out the half-Windsor isn’t some mystical knot you just *feel*, it’s a series of steps you either memori..

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Liver’s silent. Like my uncle—drunk 4 years, then boom, jaundice.

I've seen some pretty scary stuff in medicine as a patient advocate, but nothing beats my friend's case - her husband had cirrhosis for years and literally just passed off those recurring yellow eyes and dark urine as 'just a weird flu'. Only when his hands started turning into liver spots did anyone even suggest a liver test. And by then it was too late, its still hard to believe it took that long for some basic testing to catch something so obvious, but that's the scary part - liver disease symptoms are often too subtle to notice, or just shrugged off as 'normal' or 'just fatigue'

Transfer students recieve receive* almost always seen as outsiders by their peers, so it's tough to break in that late. My senior year, the student body president happened to be a transfer kid himself and I think he was instrumental in getting the rest of us seniors to accept the new people, he's actually how I made some of my closest friends.

Transfering to a new school as a senior is basically a death sentence, unless you're in a huge city where people are just kinda stuck in thier routines. i had a buddy who did this and he literally just attached himself to an existing friend group, didnt even care if they were into the same things. what i dont get is how people handle the feeling of being an outsider, the constant awkwardness that comes with it..