boogetyboo

boogetyboo, 23 days ago

So many people I know through the workplace have done the Myers Briggs nonsense and hold onto their persona like a badge of pride. They’re well meaning, intelligent people who don’t know the background of MB and how it’s as scientifically rigorous as those paper chatterboxes we made in school to help you find out which boy you were going to marry by picking a colour.

I don’t say anything when people bring it up. I also have a few star sign friends. Sigh.

boogetyboo, 1 month ago

This woman had access to a gun.

In my country, I literally don’t know anyone who owns a gun. I wouldn’t even know where to start to get one. I suppose I could drive out to the bush and a farmer would have a rifle. But that’s about it.

I’d otherwise need criminal associates to access one.

How did she have one? Why was it so easy for her to get in a very isolated, specific state of psychosis?

boogetyboo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I feel for him, and for his mother who gave up her seat so he could go. Fuck the billionaires but he was 19 - I can’t feel any humour about his death, or for what this must’ve done to his mother.

I’m sure the others had family members too who have gone through hell while the world laughed.

We can have compassion for those people while still shrugging at the stupidity of the willing dead.

boogetyboo, 2 months ago

This just reminded me of a moment I had, years ago.

I was so stressed from work, working on my 6th burnout for the year.

I was meant to be getting stuff for dinner from the supermarket.

I had money, that wasn’t the issue. But I didn’t have a shopping list. My partner and I had just briefly discussed myself ‘picking up something’ on my way home.

I was paralyzed. My thoughts wouldn’t align or connect. I couldn’t think of any dinner option we’d ever had. So I couldn’t configure a shopping list in my head. I think I stood in the canned vegetable aisle and just stared ahead, trying not to cry.

I ended up sitting on a bench in the middle of the shopping centre trying to write a list on my phone. Eventually I had to call my partner and tell him I wasn’t okay and he needed to come get me.

Long story lacking events I know. But this meme made me think. Short of family emergency/death of loved ones, work is the only thing that has placed that kind of stress on me. Even in grief I have a sense of one foot in front of the other for any particular task. But burn out made me immobile. Completely saturated my brain and made it stop working.

Our brains aren’t built for that. They shouldn’t be.

boogetyboo, 2 months ago

Schitts creek.

It was pushed so hard by Netflix when it first came out that I ignored it. Just seemed like an overdone rich fish out of water idea and I just wasn’t interested.

I finally got round to it when I think they did another promotional push. After watching it I basically forced every person I know to watch it and it is now a comfort show that I’ve watched a bazillion times.

But it is just so good.

boogetyboo, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The part people keep missing with all their “I don’t even eat there so I don’t care” and “fine, I’ll go somewhere else” comments is that every other large chain will be watching this little experiment very, very closely.

People are still going to go to Wendy’s. Any boycott is unlikely to make a dent. If this is profitable, watch this become commonplace. I don’t even live in the states and this concerns me.

Enshitification may well extend itself to the hospitality sector.

boogetyboo, 3 months ago

I guess it says a lot about the Lemmy demographics but it’s getting really sad that every time something about nightclubs appears here, there’s a whole bunch of people explaining why they don’t like night clubs.

I’m assuming Lemmy trends towards a more introverted group and that’s cool. But I’m here not caring about Linux or Baldur’s gate, while at the same time understanding that it’s very important and interesting to a bunch of people.

I’m an elder millennial. I spent a shit tonne of time in clubs, as did the majority of people I know. I still did other things in places that were more quiet, had conversations and met people. It’s true guys - you can actually like both!

I went clubbing to sometimes meet boys, but mostly to drink and dance to extremely loud and often very commercial music, sometimes on drugs too. Because people, that kind of activity is really fun to some people.

But these threads always read like a Boomer pile on on a Facebook post, yammering about how they played outside as kids and walked to school.

The reason younger people aren’t clubbing as much is cost. That’s it. Talk about that. Not how you think it’s an interesting take that clubs are loud and dirty.

boogetyboo, 5 months ago

Fuck me there’s a tonne of Boomer humour ‘i hate my wife’ and incel prophecies about relationships in here…

boogetyboo, 6 months ago

I reckon the censored version is funnier. His expression with the pie is perfect

boogetyboo, 6 months ago

Cisgender woman here, so my advice is only in relation to makeup. Lipstick is like the icing on a fancy cake. Some days or events you just want to be a cute cupcake rather than a 3-tier fondant covered cake.

If I don’t fully make up my face but then add lipstick, it looks quite harsh and unflattering. Similarly if I made up my whole face but didn’t use lipstick or mascara - it would look odd. This may be what you saw in the mirror that day. So please don’t be disheartened.

Start with light, day makeup. Little bit of mascara, a hint of blush and some tinted lip gloss. That’s one cute cupcake. Work your way up to that fancy cake!

boogetyboo, 6 months ago

Laser is a thing. I haven’t had to worry about bikini lines in about 15 years…

boogetyboo, 8 months ago

Have you asked the women with the painted eyebrows? They probably like it. Not all things people do with their appearance are to appeal to others.

boogetyboo, 8 months ago

Haha I admit to using a ragebait headline for attention

boogetyboo, 9 months ago

There’s no way of avoiding it. Regular weed smokers think they don’t stink of it when they do, so you’re not going to get helpful advice from the smoking community. Smoke outside to avoid a lingering smell in your home. But your hair, skin, clothes (and breath if you’re slack on oral hygiene like most smokers) will still smell of weed. Stick to edibles if you don’t want to smell like a teenager.

boogetyboo, 10 months ago

Obliviously about a cat.