My job came back !!!!! Got the call today to go back in a few weeks, I really didn’t think it was going to even happen but I’m employed again !

America doesn’t have a violence in the media problem, it has a hero worship problem. It’s weird AF to people in every other country how you guys worship law enforcement, and vets to the extent you do. It’s cringe because in America appreciating vets is theatrics. This kid went to that place because he worshipped law enforcement, ran around trying to get their attention and now he’s going to get the shit kick out of him in jail. People joined up after 9/11 because of hero worship, got all messed up and returned to pretty thank you signs followed by a swift kick to the curb.

They’ve already said the studies don’t back up that violence in the media caused this, so look at the same situation and consider what else could be the issue. Hero worship is a strong contender, but it has nothing to do with the violence. If anything it pushes the violence out of mind.

That statement reeks of privileged white male that doesn’t give a damn about anybody but himself. Truthfully that’s what this election solidified for me. That nearly half of Americans are self serving assholes who are willing to support a coworker or boss that bullies coworkers as long as it isn’t them.

In every other situation you can try to swing it differently, but here it is laid out for the world to see. You can’t blame low voter turnout, or ignorance anymore. Nearly half of Americans watched what he did for 4 years and still voted for him, because they couldn’t give a damn about anybody else in the country.

Oh except the troops of course, the ones who get welcomed home with glitter and cheers before promptly having the door shut in their face at every turn.

Back during college round 2 I was sitting in a coffee shop and overheard a guy who was just finishing school say something alone the lines of “ I’ve done everything I was supposed to do, I’ve worked so hard to get to where I am, but like where am I ?”

Anyways, I got the fuck out of my hometown so although I still might not know where I am it’s not the same place forever. Where are you gonna go ?

As someone who works in tourism and makes bank the author here is pretty out of touch with the bigger picture. American tourists are great, they tip more than anybody else. I can’t stand smug European or Australian tourists who act like their culture is better than everybody’s since they don’t. Obviously that’s not everybody, but it’s annoying when they don’t even realize their attitude sucks. It sounds like this author just wanted to rip on Americans.

It’s just like, why go with everybody in the industry is underpaid and then slag on Americans the people who will throw money at you if that’s your countries thing. It’s also crap, because as someone in the industry I know how much somebody can make working on cruise ships and it’s not peanuts. What experience does this person have ? Do they know what people working for this company make or are they just assuming ?

There’s a valid conversation about limiting tourism so the places are actually enjoyable again, but this article went in such a weird direction.

I noticed a while back that people tend to use the hubwheel to sort of acknowledge the other person/conversation when said conversation is coming to a close. Like a I have nothing left to add here but I want you to know I saw this and I feel like it’s a natural human reaction like nodding or smiling at somebody to acknowledge you did in fact make eye contact instead of just blankly turning away. Considering the community vibe here I think it’s bound to happen in some fashion.

I mean, I’ll bet people who clicked that post also agree it’s not a like or upvote button. I think we are conditioned to acknowledge things in general and that goes way back. I don’t know, it’s like we’re just humans trying to connect with people online as we might in the real flesh n’ blood world. You show people you are welcoming of future interactions by acknowledging them with a smile/nod/whatever.

I have a habit of picturing everybody in a room together when I read through threads though so maybe I’m over analyzing this.

Like fuck. Then you read that they suspected him of already firing and I’m reminded of every other American shooting where people were such hero’s for trying to go after the gunman. But these people “attacked” an active shooter ? Are you fucking kidding me ? Oh it wasn’t him shooting ? He was just with that group ? Kind of like how he shot into a group of people and could have easily hit people who weren’t posing any threat to him ? The people this guy just disregarded as dumbasses and tossed aside like trash. I don’t even agree with the pointlessness of the prison system but damn lock this one up.

A 17 year old who goes out of his way to bring a gun to an event where he fully intends to use it doesn’t belong in society and should be locked up. Mad school shooter vibes going on here. We act like other people are asking for it by just existing while this white kid crossed state lines, put himself in this situation and your dumb country still calls this self defence ?

This town didn’t mean anything to this kid, why the hell does a 17 year old in another state care about a grocery store here ? Because shooting up schools is too predictable for these white boys nowadays.

Living in a national park does really weird things to your psyche over time. I've been here long enough that it has started to feel weird when people ask me where "home" is. I know they're asking me where I'm from but home is currently a 3 minute walk down the road. I've put down roots here but being in the service industry was always meant to be a means to an end so this really isn't where I intend to spend the rest of my life. Even so this will always be a home that I picked and it feels weird picking a new home. Especially when the criteria for the new city is which ever one happens to have a University that wants me, but even that might not stay home. Most people I know have one place they consider "home", or the original home that they tend to gravitate towards. It's very weird feeling like that place is a split over about 3 locations across a huge country and none of those places are anywhere I lived before I turned 20. The original home doesn't feel like home at all and I haven't even been gone that long.

Got a new housemate and I already don't like him even though I haven't given him a chance at all. That's another thing that is weird about living in a national park, your current situation never last. We have a lot of staff who return to work for their summers during school and every year it will be different for them. This isn't the kind of place where you can ever really just get comfortable with a routine existence like you can in a normal place.

The problem is every week the place looks slightly more beautiful than it did last or I look at it from another angle and I decide I'm not done with it yet. This place can really grab hold of you, people return after years of being away because they aren't able to get whatever it is we get from this place anywhere else. I don't even think anybody has successfully described that feeling either.

Oh, also I tried my first scotch the other day. It was the Glenlivet that every bar has. It was sweet but so is a lot of alcohol so I don't know about it. I'll probably head over to the fancy bar the next time I get a chance and see what I can get with more flavour.

I honestly can't remember the last time I went to a chain restaurant that wasn't McDonald's or Wendy's. With fast food I know I'm getting junk, but the annoying thing with chain restaurants ( and restaurants that value profit over all else) is the food is junk that the employees don't give a shit about because how the hell are you supposed to be passionate about reheating packaged food so there's no point in pretending. I know I'm eating junk when I order in so why put pants on to eat it in public ?

It's just greedy corporations wondering why they can't keep increasing profit by cutting costs. The graph is a parabola god dammit. Then they try being "hip" because old people trying to "get" young people has always been the best business model and it just seems so forced.

They make it seem like anybody can be a nurse or work in a hospital. I'm the only woman in my immediate family not working in healthcare, two are nurses and one is in housekeeping while my grandmother was also a nurse and it really isn't a job just anybody can do. You have to be empathetic and you have to be okay with getting shit on yourself. Not only that you have to go on break and share stories about said shit while laughing so hard you cry, it's the only way to survive. I still remember when I was a kid and my mom took me up to her floor to check her schedule. We ended up packed in this elevator and my head was at the exact height of a stretcher this paralyzed man was laying on. He stared at me drooling with the saddest look on his face and I know adults who couldn't handle that situation. My mom works in palliative care and I remember her saying after she returns from sick leave that every patient was different. A woman I used to work with mentioned that you have to be a pretty special type of person to be able to work there after she told me her husband passed away there but before I mentioned my mom worked there. Not everybody can work somewhere for probably about 30 years where people die constantly.

Hey kid, this post is about people with disabilities and touches on how something seemingly simple to somebody like you and me can actually be very difficult.

A while back I had a family of 3 sitting at my bar: mom, dad and their daughter who happened to have Down Syndrome. I told them what city I was originally from and they asked me if I found it was accessible for somebody like their daughter or if the people were accepting/kind. I responded I wanted to say yes but I could really never know and that there’s probably so many small things I don’t even think about that make her life more difficult. I had a great conversation and got a very nice tip, but I also realized I likely wouldn’t have responded that way years prior as my first instinct really was to say yes.

Life isn’t just about trying to be the funny guy, sometimes it’s cool to have a little compassion and expand your horizons.

I mean, his wording was weird here but you’ve just become one of the website’s bullies since you decided he was ThatFanficGuy. If you already know you don’t enjoy engaging with him then why do it ? It’s honestly just cringey to have message threads talking about somebody when they can see it. I don’t think Hubski was ever supposed to resemble the hallways of a junior high.

I’m not going to pretend to know what she’s thinking, but normally when a girl starts making her plans on her own/telling you she won’t force you to be apart of it it’s just because she needs to start thinking about those things and you’ve made it clear you don’t want what she wants. It would be like preplanning a funeral or suggesting an elderly person write a will, it’s just stuff you have to do. She’s already 6 weeks in, it sounds like she’s not down with an abortion for whatever reason so she’s looking at what type of support single mothers have and how she can make it work. She’s counting you out because she doesn’t want to be the girl who trapped a guy, or forced a guy into fatherhood. Those women are given a lot of grief whether they deserve it or not and most women put a lot of effort into staying free of negative female stereotypes. Seriously, the effort we all put into not being that girl is ridiculous.

I know it’s easier to push her away by making her the selfish villain in this case but you will only end up shooting yourself in the foot with that kind of thinking.

in the meantime, should serve as a warning for parents that if their teen spends lots of time online they may be at heightened risk of depression.

Or they are already depressed and experiencing things like disassociation that freaks them out so they go on the internet to try and ignore it. Generally speaking being an alcoholic doesn’t heighten your risk for depression, depression heightens your risk for alcoholism.

Ya I feel like this should be evidence that he likes to hang around situations and wait for his chance to fight while skirting the consequences because he “didn’t start it”. Like tall chick was trying to back away and this group of thugs kept following her. Then beat her up when she tried to defend herself from crazy short chick. But again, people will try to villainize the random tall chick.

I had to serve a Trump supporter the other day and we all wanted to ask if they were in the country legally but you can only really call on license plates. But then this guy went and tried to order butter chicken before actually ordering a burger. I was very confused until I was reminded that American’s sometimes think butter chicken is just chicken soaked in butter and THEN THEY ORDER IT. So suffice it to say, I don’t have a lot of faith in a positive outcome to this whole situation.

What strikes me and what I’ve seen from other people is the double standards. Hillary Clinton was questioned for 11 hours and didn’t cry. She remained poised because she knew she would be the hysterical woman otherwise. Even if we’re saying it’s possible she mistook somebody else for Kavanaugh, Dr. Ford remained poised throughout discussing her past trauma because as a woman she had too.

I don’t disagree with you, I just think he came across as somebody who’s never had to worry about how he’s coming across in his life. This was a job interview for fucks sake, the crying wasn’t his only major blunder in my opinion. He acted combative and refused to give straight answers through out. I guarantee she was coached to be likeable by her lawyers before going on. He clearly wasn’t but considering law is his field he would have known if it was actually required of him.

I see women paying so much careful attention to this everyday during the most minuscule activities and this guy got up there being rude to everybody. We can act like men aren’t allowed to show emotion but in the business world it’s the complete opposite. Another example of that is Elon Musk’s meltdown, a female CEO doing that would just be proof women couldn’t handle it. For those reasons I’m too angry at the world to give a shit about how sad he is that he’s hurting his family.

Seriously, narcissists always have a few enablers. Are we supposed to be relieved that they stopped some bad ideas while baby snatching slipped through ?

Honeslty, if a server is quality checking you every 3 minutes she probably likes you since that is excessive or you’ve looked angry about receiving service since you walked in the door and since she doesn’t work in the tourism industry she doesn’t understand that’s a UK thing. People from the UK are some of the most annoying people to serve, I’ve had so many people be outright rude to me because I’m doing my job, and now they’re mad they feel like they need to tip. Like, I actually enjoy my job and make a living wage stop being an asshole to me for checking if your food was cooked properly. Its not about tipping, it’s about what we consider service here. The ones who are capable of getting passed the tipping thing and just understanding the service is different relax and enjoy themselves. Naming the point “tipping” instead of something like “dining” makes it pretty obvious he couldn’t get past one cultural different to just enjoy the rest.

I can guarantee you this author would put down American travelers for thinking servers should just check up on them instead of making them get up and serve themselves in their country. I actually like serving Americans and find that they’re some of the best travellers at least to Canada. They’re also the most self conscious and it bothers me so much when I’m almost always happy to see them. The high horse Europeans put themselves on for traveling is ridiculous, the only people I would rather serve less are people from countries that have extremely different cultures that are harder to adjust from.

Americans are fine, this article is just another pretentious European needing to shit on Americans.

So you can tie certain people up and burn them alive ? So you know how many to add to your kill count when you board the whole thing up and burn it down ? So you know how many bags of chips to buy ? The "why" in my first response was the important bit.

You're attempting to oversimplify this.

The article would work better with a title like " Why yoga pants are bad for me". I thought this was going to be about germs growing on the crotch area of these pants or something instead of some self conscious woman going on about how nobody wears sweatpants anymore. We love sweatpants.

Anyways, I've noticed a lot of self conscious women tend to write articles/post statuses about something they are going through and then try to preach about it to all women. It normally starts with an experience they just had followed by their magnificent realization and deep thoughts with something like this to close it off:

So step into some slouchy pants with me. We don’t have to look quite so good when we’re just trying to look a little better

Read: Join me in doing this because I can't actually just focus on myself and I need validation.

I decided to regularly start wearing the glasses I was prescribed roughly 2 years ago that I gave up on so when I see another optometrist I can tell them how that went. It's been really tripping me out, I keep getting irritated that I would 100% be able to see something without the glasses but realizing when I take them off that it really is to dark to see. I also realized at work today that I haven't walked into anything, or smashed a glass into something else in my peripheral vision. Then there was filling the water pitchers which is always the worst because they never look as full at eye level as the do when I'm filling them in the sink so I have to put it back like 3 times. Even that didn't happen and I just thought there was some weird explanation for why that happened. They don't fix the whole problem but they do help a little which is exciting. Hopefully I can get set up with an optometrist who can fix a little more of the problem without having to drive 2+ hours.

Edit: I finally found a little gif that looks close enough to my major vision problem that I don't have to sound like a crazy person trying to describe something whoaaaa. Happy fucking Wednesday.

I won't pretend I'm the healthiest person ever but I'm fairly certain we just aren't supposed to be harsh in general. Hell, I'm pretty sure you've told me to be less harsh on myself.

Lies, you go home to see her when you get the chance.

The guys a one man walking-talking version of a Reddit thread after a tragedy.

I want you to be right. I'm just a huge pessimist because as a young woman I've seen a lot of men get by unscathed while being sexist disgusting pigs.

I slept for a solid 6 hours last night which is my new record ever since I stopped being able to sleep for longer than 2 hours at a time like 2 months ago. The plan was to get super baked and pass out but instead I told myself I would just smoke after the first time I woke up. Apparently that was enough to calm some anxiety and get 6 glorious hours of continuous sleep. Followed that up by seeping all day now, god damn. Now I’ve got to start working out until I collapse to calm the remaining anxiety.

On one hand, having to work out to function mentally is a little annoying and on the other I guess it’s solid motivation to stay in shape.

Man, we get a lot of American tourists where I live and I just watched 2 try to figure the internet out for a solid 15 minutes until they found his tweets and one chuckled and said “ so I guess that’s what’s considered racist these days”. All hope is lost.

Common conversation in my life before I switched to a restaurant that calls mayo mayo:

guest: "What's this.. aeyeo...eyeo...aeyolie... ?"

me: "Mayo, it's mayonnaise."

we just stare at each other for a bit here

My favorite was when customers weren't sure if they should complain about food being cold because like maybe that was in ? Maybe it was supposed to be ?

guest: "What's red hot ?"

me: "Franks red hot, the commercial with the grandmother"

This makes me so mad because I know every nurse in my family would stand up for your rights in the same way this nurse does. It's ridiculous not to expect that from a cop and ya fear of them is completely reasonable.

Life is good. Applied for my benefits today in Canada and they simplified the hell out of it. You literally just promise them you’re eligible and they warn you that they’ll get the money back if you’re lying. Took all of 3 minutes with a bad internet connection. They made that process so easy they’re probably saving money at the end of the day by cutting out 99% of the process.

On another note I decided a while back that I would try microdosing mushroom when I had some time off work and well the universe provided. Gotta find those silver linings people.