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I love the idea of a different way to tie my shoes. In practice I was never able to get the Fast Knot secure enough. It just always tied too loose and came undone for me.

Granted, I only tried for like a year, but it was far enough back I don’t remember if I tried the Secure one or not. Just that I eventually gave up and went back to the standard double knot, which really is secure for me.

The horrors persist, but so you do. Continue to exist to spite the universe, if nothing else. <3

I never haggle.

Haggling always feels incredibly confrontational and disrespectful to me. Watching others do it makes me annnngry. Usually because I’m wanting to pay and leave, like 99% of the others in line behind them.

If someone is trying to scalp me for a few bucks on some used tech I’m selling online, it’s even more pointless, as the web is full of used stuff. Why force me to get dressed and meet you somewhere if you aren’t even interested in honoring the price I’m asking?! I’m typically more inclined to walk away or drastically increase the price at that point, because it feels like the buyer isn’t respecting my time, just fucking with me. Why not reciprocate in kind at that point?

As others have pointed out, it’s also very time-consuming: personally I’d rather pay what’s on the sticker and move on. Wasting energy on mere cents or dollars is never worth my time.

Definitely a Stellar’s. And they definitely love emptying bird feeders. Typically looking for something they like that’s not even in the feeder, seemingly. :/

I’m so sorry. It’s tricky for everyone, I suspect. Maybe more so for some.

I wish I had some expert tips, but I never had any luck myself, and eventually gave up. It just always hurt too much when everything was secure enough not to “pop out” on me. Which made leaving the house that way untenable as all heck: who wants to walk or drive with their groin aching from the deathgrip of pain holding them by their tender bits? :c

I hope you have more luck with the gaff. It’s something I never got around to exploring, as I figured for me it would be more of the same constant dull ache. I’m old enough not to worry too much what people think if they notice, which I know isn’t a solution for everyone.

Not sure!

I have insane PVCs that have so far made other classes less attractive. Even when I’m well-medicated with my atenolol I still get the “anxiety” feeling as my heart valve leaks. Unmedicated I feel like I can’t breathe at all, which is awful. And my BP then goes into the 200/100 range (I am not exaggerating, I wish I was).

My liver basically can’t metabolize CYP2B6 or CYP2D6 mediated drugs, so anything believed to be carried into the body by those will screw me up so badly I often won’t even try. (I’ve nearly ended up in the ER several times now trying 75% of the anti-depressants out there, which I needed badly once I realized my ADHD an fribromyalgia would never be medicated. As an example. ;)

I would agree with you if any of the others I’ve tried had the desired effect. I’m already not medicated for several things because my body simply cannot metabolize whole classes of drugs. Having my kidneys shut down would suck a lot more, though.

My resting heartrate is fine, 60-70 BPM. BP is well controlled. No orthostatic hypotension.

Two cardiologists have told me it’s fine if this is what works for me. I hear you, but I’m not taking something newer just to make my GP more comfortable and me less so. They’re my doctor, not vice versa.

I had a doctor try to force me off my atenolol and metoprolol to amlodipine. Ostensibly because she “didn’t like” that I was taking such a high dose of two separate beta-blocker meds. Not sure if she thought I was going to take them all in a fit of despair, or what, but it went really badly. My anxiety and ADHD were a lot worse, rather than better, and my BP skyrocketed.

I can’t take stimulants. My body can’t metabolize them well (or at all?), so I end up knocked unconscious for half the day. Basically, 6-8 hours where I can stay awake only by fighting tooth and nail. Even on fractional doses! Wild stuff. While their results are interesting (especially for those like me who failed every single non-stimulant, hard) this could be helpful. Oooor it could just be more big pharma BS with no up-side. So hard to tell anymore.

Ew. Is that a text editor? (I use KDE and that kind of UI WTF would irritate the hell out of me enough to switch, too! I don’t use kate, though, if that’s what that is.)

Nice, I don’t know why, but I was picturing the pink car going fast enough to squeal their tires like they used to in the one nearest where I live. We only got roundabouts here a decade or two ago, so they’re still a novelty to most. I don’t drive much, as you can probably tell.

Glad to help! XD

I’ve been meaning to try Logdy out. Thanks for the reminder!

I don’t know what to tell you. I’m glad your experience was better than mine and you enjoyed them!

Haha, yeah! Most home theaters don’t have a decent set-up, either. (I sure as heck can’t afford that hardware if I can’t afford theater tix…) When even headphones don’t help me understand the dialog, then something is really wrong in their process. :b

I don’t follow the rules only because I don’t drive at all. Otherwise, yes, you are correct, I don’t follow rules which endanger my life. Just weird that way.

Haha. I had access to subtitles when I watched Dark Knight, so it wasn’t as awful an experience… For Inception, Tenet, and Interstellar I just had no idea what was even happening, at all. (Bounced off Inception in the first few minutes because I just didn’t GAF.) My experiences have been so frustrating I vowed not to watch his stuff until he improved his craft.

Like, I get that he’s not interested in anyone else’s opinion about his art. That’s cool, he should be doing his own thing! But he’s making a lot of inaccessible shovelware crap that’s gonna be on sale in discount bins in only years, and really truly doesn’t care. Bleh!

I tried, I really did. It just made me uncomfortably bored. (Which from someone who’s rewatched every MST3K I could get my hands on a dozen or so times each, is saying something. :)

I love bad movies as well. This one was too far over the line for me, I just wasn’t interested in its specific brand of “meh”. (Admittedly I have never read the book, and have never heard anything good about this author before, despite reading a ton of sc-fi. Maybe you need to know the author to enjoy it?)

I love how the meme assumes everyone trusts everyone else’s driving. Utopian ideals, man.

Great. Now if he’d invest in some sound techs, microphones, or ADR studio time, he’d be making films that might interest me…

I can understand less than half the dialog in his works, which is pretty frustrating. If I remember correctly he’s actually gone on record that this is intentional, too.

They made an unwatchably-bad movie based on this, too, with Don Johnson. I tried to watch it a month or so ago, and the acting, pacing, and set-work was so cringey I only made it a few minutes in before noping out. (I only skimmed the interview, but it sounds like they intended it to be bad?)