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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • My dad died young. He was only 52. I like to think he wouldn’t have been brainwashed by the qult, but honestly who knows? He was running in circles that are now full of trump clowns. He ran a construction company and was a registered Republican, but gave up on them after W and voted for Obama twice. I wonder how he would have reacted to this shit. I like to think he’d have been logical and stayed on the Dems side, but I always wonder if he’d have gone to the dark side. There’s a real chance I wouldn’t be talking to him right now if he did. I’m glad I never had to deal with it because I was very close to him. I feel for you OP.












  • My grandpa’s name was Larry. I had always assumed it was short for Lawrence. I just found out recently like 8 years after he died that it wasn’t even short for that. Apparently my illiterate great grandparents wanted to name him Larrington (which I’m 90% sure isn’t even a first name in the lexicon). Apparently my great grandmother wanted him to grow up to be Larrington the Lawyer. My guess is that was a name of a local law firm she had heard of something because it definitely sounds like a surname that you would hear on a law office advert, (i.e. call Larrington and Mitchell). Turns out they couldn’t spell Larrington and just decided to name him Larry for short. So his fucking birth certificate has a nickname on it for a name he wasn’t even born as. My mind was fucking blown hearing this.







  • I worked as a cashier years ago and while I will say, it’s probably better for your health to be standing (I work a desk job now and have definitely put on some lbs since leaving that line of work). It’s still absolutely ridiculous that employers won’t allow cashiers to have a chair. It’s just so they can pull that if you’ve got time to lean you’ve got time to clean bullshit on you. Instead of resting your body during lulls, they want you cleaning your register, stocking shelves, facing product or “fishing” for customers who need to checkout and are too dumb to get in the check stand with no line and head straight for the 4 person long line because of herd mentality. It’s really rough on the feet and back to stand in one place all day without being allowed to sit.