The other reality of being a parent is that regret comes with the job.

You try to do the best you can do, and you deal with your mistakes as best you can. None of us is perfect.

I was talking to a work colleague about how I was agonizing over mistakes I made. He said if I’m concerned about my mistakes, then I’m doing ok. He said his parents never thought they made any mistakes or they didn’t care if they did. His attitude was if you’re trying, you’re a good parent.

Of course, I didn’t stop agonizing over my mistakes. After all, what does he know? He had shitty parents!

It doesn’t.

Parents who perform unnecessary surgery on their children because society says they should are bad parents.

That might seem harsh, but it’s true. You have a responsibility to make the right choices for your kids, and “society” doesn’t get a vote.

I faced the same question, but found it to be a no-brainer. You don’t perform unnecessary surgery on a baby.

The reason it is performed in the US is to stop boys from masturbating.

Ignore any excuses for doing it that people have come up with since. That’s the only reason the US started doing it, and every other reason is just people trying to rationalize why they keep doing it.

The “reasons” people come up with to explain it now are based on extremely unlikely events. All the serious issues that come up are avoided with proper hygiene. Unless they still have a stupid masturbation hangup, it all comes down to this:

Parents feel icky about having to explain to their child how to wash their penis.

If you can’t handle that, I’ll tell you right now that you’re going to have a hell of a lot tougher conversations.

What I told them was to imagine they were wearing a hoodie in the shower. You’d need to pull the hood back before shampooing your hair. Same thing goes for the little head, but don’t use shampoo, that might burn.

Not circumcising my kids only caused me one problem:

My mom reacted like it was a direct personal attack on her, because I was circumcised. She saw it as me saying she was wrong. I found it difficult to convince her that I was not judging her. She didn’t have the same information available to her as I did. When I was born, she didn’t really have a choice.

I like to find a balance between being worried about bacteria and trusting my immune system to deal with anything that comes along. However, my immune system tends to over-react to things that aren’t a threat (allergies to cherries, peaches, cats, dogs, kangaroos, pollen, dust, etc.) so I’d be pretty pissed if it couldn’t handle some bacteria.

I’ll cut the bad parts off an old pepper and still put the good parts on my omelette in the morning. I’ll cut the moldy bit off a piece of cheese and use the rest. Bread…nope. I can handle it being a bit stale, but moldy is too much. I’m not afraid of bread mold, but I don’t like the taste.

Last year I tossed the Thanksgiving turkey out the next day because my wife and I forgot to deal with it and left it sitting on the kitchen table next to the radiator. That seemed to me like it would be a bit too much of a challenge to my immune system.

Franco’s fascism died with him. Trump won’t live another 36 years.

That’s a good one.

I’d say drunk driving because it’s more common and results in more deaths.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8888777_The_fast_and_the_fatal_Street_racing_fatal_crashes_in_the_United_States

You are saying I should have said:

“It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me.”

The personal pronoun, “me” is used when it is the object. However, that’s not the case here. I’m not being held. Thoughts are the object. I’m comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.

The sentence, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I”, has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.

The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can.”

We had one in an auditorium where I work. Only problem is it was underneath an MRI scanner. Every time they’d open the door to the MRI, the magnetic field would knock the projector tubes out of alignment.

The technician who came out to work on it said it was hopeless. He told us he had a customer whose projector would get out of alignment if he moved a speaker in the room.

I was so happy when we finally replaced it with an LCD projector.

I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my wife about her uncle, who has also had multiple divorces.

I said that if anything happened and I was no longer married to her, I would never seek out another long term relationship. It’s too much work. I said I can’t imagine putting all the time and effort into a relationship only to have it fail, and then doing it again, and again, and again.

My wife pointed out that her uncle isn’t putting any effort into the relationships. That’s why they fail, and that’s why he can just jump into the next one.

Edit: also, “never cheated” is like the absolute minimum effort required. It’s like saying, “I feed my kids.”

That may not be as uplifting as you thought.

No. It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.

If you have a bit of memory retention

Ah. That’s my problem.

You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?

Franco was the first one I thought of. However, his fascism didn’t outlive him, and President Pedophile doesn’t have 36 years to go.

So, if you’re sore, eat a banana. If your surgery scar from an appendectomy when you were twelve opens up, eat an orange.

Mid 50’s. I haven’t noticed any increase in recovery time from injuries or illness so far.

I went through a period in my 30’s when I’d get sick with a cold in October/November and stay sick until March. I think more than anything else it was just catching every bug the kids brought home from school, and just going through a series of overlapping illnesses every year. It stopped when I hit 40.

One thing I’d point out is that we never really recover from an injury. Our bodies are just in a perpetual state of trying to hold everything together.

Lack of vitamin C will result in Scurvy. One of the effects of scurvy is that scars from injuries and surgeries just open up again. I interpret that as your body not being able to fake it anymore.

If you’re having trouble healing, maybe eat an orange ;-)

Then share what it would be for you.

While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness:

https://youtube.com/shorts/c7lSg0T0dJ0

If we’re going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.

Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.

Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.