Downhill creep Puns

I could have sworn he raped me in his mind!

Any late bloomers out there? I'm 35, at a kind of cul-de-sac in my career, if you could call it that. Unmarried, no kids. I feel like I'm staring at a long decline that will end in a whimper.

Next year I'll be starting school to get my Class A. I've already driven the vehicle I'll be driving once I get CDL, but only on my bosses property, mainly a 2 mile stretch between to job sites, no clue if that's legal but that's not the question (no public roads). The vehicle is a stakebody Mack, 10 speed, no jake brake. So anyway I've driven the truck quite a bit, I can shift up and down fine, but it's all flat ground where I drive. I've been looking at my surroundings and trying to get a feel for the conditions I might be driving in for local deliveries when I have my CDL. The biggest issue I see is a section of highway that is very hilly and always have heavy traffic. How do you handle creeping traffic when you've already gone over the hill? I know shifting on a downgrade is a bad decision. But how do you get to a low enough gear to not lug or stall the thing or do you just ride it in whatever gear you're in? I'm sure I'll be taught all of this next year, but I always like to be prepared. Let's say I've ready downshifted to 7th on the top of the hill but I end up needed to downshift again, maybe down to 3rd or 2nd half way down because of traffic how do you do that without coming to a stop? I work nights and I load up the Macks and secure the loads for morning deliveries so I usually don't see any of the drivers. Any advice?

This post is dedicated to a bondha I have the utmost admiration for. Vaallaki directly chepthe "Veedenti thega feel aipothunnadu pichi sannasi" ani anukuntaru ani ikkada post chesthunna.

Recently AskBondha lo recently oka post chusanu, whether guys genuinely love the girls they propose or raayi vesi chusthara ani.

Ippudu flashback. Nenu 3rd class nunchi oka ammayi ni chala chala ishtapaddanu. Class lo almost andariki telusu thanaki thappa. Ye Maaya Chesave chusaka, thana na kante 2 years peddha ani, murisipoya. Daddy ki kuda cheppanu. Nee ishtam nana, nee pelli lo kalagachesukomu ani chepparu. Naku ee relationships ante peddha ga interest ledhu, endukante thanaki kuda ishtam ledhu. So baga chaduvukoni, kashtapadi baga dabbulu sampadinchi, vaalla intiki velli vaalla parents tho mataladadham anukunna.

Life lo most crucial point. B.tech chedham ani anukunna nenu, thana nenu oke college ki vellali ani nana kashtalu padi, BITSAT clear chesa, inka second counseling lo CSE vachesedi. Thanu chala smart but edi clear cheyalekapoyindi. Thana kosam nenu almost 6 colleges exams raasanu.

Appudu thana badha paduthunte kalisi, console chesthu, thanaki life lo first time na love ni confess chesa. We were good friends but she couldn't handle it. And she told me she really liked me as a friend but eppudu ala chudaledhu ani, and nothing would change on this side even in the future ani. Thanu US ki vellipoyindi. Nenu konni karanala valla, B.tech vadhilesi BA chesa.

Life lo worst case scenario gurinchi alochinchina, antha worst situation undedhi kadhemo. Chala low aipoya. Inka life lo move on avvanu anukunna. But I learned a lesson. Nenu naa intention lo entha pure unna, if I'm not able to give her enough time to know me and like me, I'm just gonna be rejected ani. At least she didn't call me a creep and hurt me more.

College join ayyaka I became friends with a lotta girls, making sure they're in a relationship so ye misunderstanding undadhu ani. And I won't ever move on ani. So I now myself many female friends, a decent social life and was slowly becoming  better.

Then oka roju new admission vachindhi. Thanani chudagane I just wished thanu nannu chusina chalu ani. Thanks to my female friends, we got close. And mundhu chesina mistake eesari cheyaledhu. I spent all my time at college with her, we went out, she slowly opened up, and she slowly started liking me better. Roju na kosam lunch thechedhi. Everyone were quite happy for me, and some even assumed we wer

I am a 21 going on 22 year old male who has been balding since 17. This disfiguring disease has ruined my life. This completely destroyed my confidence and stopped me from making any friends. It also made me a acceptable target for teasing and humiliation. This disfiguring disease stopped me from making friends and forming relationships.

I remember the horror and humiliation I felt when I stepped in the shower and saw my hair covered with hair. I felt like my youth was stolen from me and I will never be able to get it back. I hate my father for giving me his shit balding genes. I wish that my parents would have aborted me instead of making me go through this horrible fate.

When girls look at me they see a lifeless middle aged creep. Whenever I attempt to smile at them they look back at me with disgust in their faces. No girl have ever shown even the smallest amount of interest in me since I started losing my hair. I have tried online dating but no girl responds to me and when they do it never goes anywhere.

I work out, I dress the best I can, and I have a good job but girls just see me as just another piece of genetic trash. I hate the way girls just see me as worthless and unlovable trash just because of the number of follicles present on my head. I tried reluctantly to shave my head and I really hated it. I looked like a total egghead and was made fun of a lot by my co-workers. I hate the ways balding/bald people are the only segment of the population that its okay to make fun of in any situation.

I feel like my entire young life has been ruined because of my balding. Most of the girls my age considering balding guys my age as worthless genetic trash. I know its not like they can help it. Its in their programming to reject genetically inferior trash such as myself. I hate my father for giving me his shit genetics.

I feel like life isn't worth living at this point honestly. My youth has been stolen away from me and its all downhill from here. No matter how physically fit I get, no matter how much money I make, no matter how good my personality gets I will always look like a lifeless, middle aged, piece of worthless genetic trash to the entire world.

Girls my age hate balding men and I am acceptable target of ridicule so I have every reason to feel this way. I hate the looking in the mirror and seeing a balding corpse staring back at me. I will forever resent my father for giving me his shit genetics. I hate how you can be a complete scumbag deadbeat

The cracked screen fizzles in the darkness.

It’s the only thing still working in my immediate vicinity. It’s littered with dead pixels, and a faded magenta bar strikes down a segment of the screen’s left half, but the visuals and the sound are still quite clear.

“Welcome to Mr Sunny’s FUN-HOUSE RETREAT!” warbles a cartoonish voice, and a soundbite of cheering children rumbles out from the speakers along after it.

Sparks burst from a distended cable to my left. It hangs from the ceiling, with exposed and dangerous wires.

The screen shows me the POV of a camera, one held at the height of a child. The viewer is taken on a compressed, fade-cut tour of the Fun House Retreat.

It’s an amusement park. The sun is shining and all around are smiling children and happy families, eating ice-cream and running from ride to ride. Colorful arches stand tall overhead, and friendly faces sell popcorn and stuffed animals from path-side carts and stands. A rollercoaster whooshes by overhead to the sound of thrilled screams and cheers, and the camera pans across the food gallery: inviting-looking restaurants and milkshake bars.

Mr Sunny himself appears on-screen. It glitches for a moment as he does so.

Mr Sunny is a costumed character. He has an orange, humanoid body and a large, soft yellow head. It looks like a grinning sun.

The expression is fixed, of course. His mouth does not move as he speaks.

The grin is stretched just a little too wide.

The eyes are staring, and dead.

It is impossible to tell who is wearing the costume. There is no exposed skin.

The voice is masculine.

“Where the sun ALWAYS shines!” he boasts, putting one hand on his hip and throwing the other out in a comical wave, high-fiving a young boy who scampers past him.

“Collect an autograph from ME for a FREE Mr Sunny stuffed buddy! Have ya seen me yet today? Be sure to keep an eye out and come say HI if you do!”

He chuckles.

The camera spins round in a circle, showcasing the best that the park has to offer as another rollercoaster flies round in a spiral in the near-distance.

The camera completes its spin and Mr Sunny is closer.

“Unless of course I SEE YOU FIRST!”

He laughs.

The screen glitches again. It shows us more of the park. More well-tendered trees and clean pavements. Posters adorned with grinning characters and immersive, interactive games and stands.

The camera shows us the Retreat’s water-park. Large sprinklers send out blasts of raining water, and children s

Do your worst!

Heyo, it’s SnakeBeater69 GeometryDash_Gamer with another season review. Gonna be honest, I’ll be really glad when I get this done. Doing this is kinda taking forever and way longer than I anticipated. Tho it is kinda worth it in that I have figured out some more accurate rankings. Speaking of which, I think I actually might have figured out some calculations for the other factors I take into consideration whenever I rank a character, besides their mathematical average episode by episode (ex: ‘Stan’ points, ‘anti-stan’ points, character improving or just devolving, etc.). Or at the very least, I might have figured out how to hone in on some of said characters scores more accurately with said other factors. It isn’t 100% fool-proof tho, so there are still come cases where I just more so have to go with my gut feeling. Thankfully, now I can move to the short seasons after this. But then…I also gotta do RR which will take the longest. I’m a bit more than halfway through tho. I aim to hopefully get all the seasons done and an official updated character ranking by my next cake day (mid March). But realistically, I’m not 100% sure if I can do so tbh

Here's my ranking charts first. And here's a more in depth explanation on the numbers and each ranking category

Part 1

Part 2

Overall thoughts on the season (way longer analysis this time)

I think this is one of the better seasons, despite having some major flaws. There’s a good amount of plots or characters that are pretty controversial (DJ’s Animal Curse, Love Triangle, Cody’s characterization, Blaineley’s debut or general character, and etc.). Though I actually don’t mind most of these. Yes, even the Love Triangle

I pretty much share vast majority of u/JakeClipz’s thoughts when it comes to the Love Triangle, but I’ll elaborate in sorta my own way. Now I’ll admit there are things that could have been handled better. Gwen and Cody especially go downhill. And I certainly could’ve done without Duncan cheating, or him trying to hide it afterwards (I mean, it’s as if he lost his balls from Courtney back in TDA /S; credit to u/withjust

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

When the first corpse was pulled out of the Velveton Lake it was as if it had brought an infection with it that spread through all of town. People were surprised, they were scared and nervous. Nobody understood who this person was that had died in the lake or was killed and disposed of in the water. Some were scared that a murderer might be among us, one of the unsuspicious residents of this town that possibly wasn't entirely innocent.

I can’t tell you who that dead person was or where they came from. Nobody in our town could tell you and if there are ones who could, they never would.

We weren't told anything either when the other bodies followed. It became normal to us. A good thing even. There was a lot of whispering about those people with unfamiliar faces. Though when the people of our town realized that none of the corpses came from this place, not one of the dead bodies was identified as former residents, they suddenly weren't that scared anymore. Especially when for reasons that were unclear, life became more and more prosperous in our little town.

I was young when it all started, only six or seven and I had no idea what all of it even meant nor did I have a grip on the concept of death. But of course, in a small town like ours news travels fast. Other kids had older siblings and even if we didn't understand it, we knew about it. When all the adults acted as if the death of those strangers was no issue to us, we children started believing that in fact, it couldn't be as terrible as our guts told us it was.

A few years passed, I grew from a child to a teenager and the occurrences became far more seldom though it never stopped. During that first year around a dozen bodies were found. Now they find maybe one in a year and as always it's the face of a person nobody in town could know.

I never understood why no measures were taken, why nobody from the outside was informed.

"That's because their faces don't belong to anyone we know,” my mother would say.

My parents couldn’t care less about who those people were, as our family was one of the many ones whose life improved after the appearance of the dead strangers. My parents owned a restaurant that never got many visitors. Every now and then strangers from the surrounding towns would pay us a visit but not very often. I suppose people around here either didn’t have much money or simply didn’t enjoy themselves very much. We were on the brink of bankruptcy quite often though I was too young ba

The "Rick's Rants" section of EMRAP seems to have moved on from normalizing PA/NP independent practice to normalizing corporate takeover of outpatient pharmacy and telehealth. I really think they need a counterpoint representing the "majority" of people who apparently wrote in to the show expressing their disgust with the summer's podcasts in this section.

For those out of the loop: He started off the early summer with a platform for two non physician providers, an NP and PA, who are probably in the top 1% outliers for their level of training (NP had 3 masters IIRC, and PA had many years of frontline battlefield experience) to lay out their view of the future of EM without another independent ER doc (besides the host, Rick) to offer any meaningful dialogue or counterpoint. They painted a rosy picture of the "very successful" implementation of APP coverage with boarded EM docs providing teleconsultation, "at the press of a button". It only went downhill from there with each successive months installment disappointing the majority of their physician listener base and leading to a tremendous amount of letter-writing. It makes me question EM:RAP's incentives when they are so continuously at odds with the vast majority of their EM physician constituents. What is their incentive in taking this position without offering a legitimate rebuttal?

These segments were all future focused. With an overabundance of EM doctors being trained I really don't see how promoting telehealth and non physician providers benefits patients at all. Nor will it benefit EM doctors as they seem to claim. The relationship between large for-profit healthcare systems like ACS and HCA (who contracts with envision, the telemed company providing the services described on the show) and educational resources like EMRAP is concerning and should be scrutinized by our field. In addition to scrutinizing the residencies they support, which has been a major ongoing point of discussion in our field. EMRAP stands to benefit significantly from a growth spurt of EM-bound APPs who don't get enough EM training in their 2yr programs and therefore will be more reliant and willing to pay for their services. When that financial incentive creeps into their philosophical musings its problematic.

hi!! this is my first time posting here but i really just had to share my thoughts. i saw this drama on netflix and watched it on a whim bc of the preview but it honestly got worse as it went on. i was quite surprised that this came out in 2017 bc this kdrama feels a bit outdated?? ngl it made me smile at times bc of the actress and actor's chemistry and bc it's that non dramatic, cute, cheesy kind of show, but the ML was just so creepy and obsessive and the FL had absolutely no backbone

• so the ML and the FL had a one night stand 3 years ago. he's now her boss and she works as his dietician. we later find out that the ML kept the FL's bra pad in a jewelry box after all these years and when he returns it, she's fine with it and even thanks him?? i thought that she would be more creeped out after finding it

• this show is honestly giving sexual harrassment vibes in the workplace. there was a scene when the ML kept going closer to the FL inside his office and it was lowkey so uncomfortable to watch. he invades her personal space A LOT

• ok i get it, he's the boss but the SML was right when he said that her boss was abusing his power. he keeps her after work hours to make these dumb meal boxes like a school child just to spend time with her and prevent her from seeing the SML which he thought was her boyfriend

• if you wanted a date with her, why didn't you just ask her?? he made up this stupid rule that she has to eat meals with him 10 times bc of the jewelry box that he thought she broke

• the second male lead was a million times better than the ML and i was internally screaming at the FL to pick him instead

i don't want to hate on the show but it really went downhill so fast. i'm now on ep 9 so i'm debating whether to finish it or not

but i did like the OST and the outfits tho!! the art in the intro was so cute too and the song that plays during the outro is so addicting to listen to.

did anyone else watch this drama, what are your thoughts on it?

They’re on standbi

I'm sure you all have read the following advice: Be prepared to throw out your Birthplan! I took it with a grain of salt, thinking that I would certainly keep that in mind if things went awry but let's be honest, it wouldn't happen to me. I read the Ina May books, I meditated, I used the Peloton until 36 weeks (until hemorrhoids got the better of me, but that's a different post), I walked, tried to eat fairly healthy, etc. I had an idyllic plan to go to the Natural Birth Center at my local hospital, was pre-registered and everything. All of my prenatal appointments were stellar. She's measuring 75 percentile, everything looks perfect, etc.

Somewhere in the 37th week, it started going downhill. Out of nowhere, the healthcare worker at my clinic told me I had high blood pressure. She shot all of the pre-eclampsia questions at me (any changes in vision, headaches, abdominal pain?). No ma'am, I felt great! Maybe it was a mistake? She insisted I go to triage at my local hospital to get checked out, and I saw my 'natural birth plan' fall away. High blood pressure equals gestational hypertension diagnosis, equals triage, equals induction. I did NOT want an induction. My husband packed up our hospital bag and we went, me crying (of course). We got to the hospital and they drew blood, took urine, hooked me up to a BP machine that went off every fifteen minutes, to constant fetal monitoring to check out our baby.

And everything came back perfect. Not a single high reading in over four hours. No protein in my urine, baby's heartbeat was a beautiful 150. They basically said the provider took a bad reading and sorry for wasting your time. Go home. Relax.

So I did.

I went to the clinic next week, and my BP was fine. Must have been a fluke?Go back a week later: High blood pressure reading. Once again, off to triage! Once again, crying in the car! We drive to the hospital and repeat the same old rodeo, and with exactly the same results. Perfect BP reads every fifteen minutes for four hours, no protein in my urine, perfectly normal blood tests, baby's heartbeat was great. They send me home again, this time slightly irritated (and not hiding that). Tell me that I likely have white coat syndrome and to take a breather before they do my BP. They tell me to have an actual doctor perform it. I say okay, and we go home. Again.

I go back to the clinic and they have put "gestational hypertension" in my chart. Now every nurse and midwife is asking me the pre-eclampsia quest

Pilot on me!!

This isn't exactly a case of 'men writing women', but it is a case of a masculine-presenting individual completely and totally screwing up a situation involving a woman via writing. Plus, I thought you all would get a good laugh from it. If it doesn't belong here, I apologize and will delete it promptly.

So the background for the situation: I'm an aspiring visual novel developer and I had an idea for a game. The overall idea is that the game would be about 6-parts business management, 4-parts slice of life with some optional romance thrown in. in the game you manage a business with the ultimate goal of paying back your business loans before a certain point. But I am genetically incapable of doing the 'straightforward' thing, so I wanted to incorporate a gender dynamic into the game. My idea is that the player can choose to play as a masculine-presenting character or a female-presenting character and through that difference, they would encounter different challenges and advantages throughout the game.

As a part of that, I started trying to conduct some research into the differences that masculine-presenting business people encounter compared to those that feminine-presenting business people encounter. So I reached out to some people I know seeking to talk to feminine presenting individuals who run businesses hoping I could ask them about challenges they had encountered that they felt were because of their gender presentation and what advantages they felt that they had for the same reason.

My sister-in-law pointed me at her cousin who runs a Salon in Maryland. I'd met her cousin... I think twice. I know one time at her wedding, and I think I met her once before. But I was still convinced I was CIS male at the time and had a lot of fucked up notions in my head regarding women, (that is to say I fully believed I was some sort of existential threat to them by virtue of my existence so I avoided interacting with them in person), so at best I thought she might remember me as "That big guy who on the far side of the room by himself". So I texted her, saying hi, re-introduced myself, and asking if she would mind if I asked her some questions about running a business from the perspective of a woman. She said sure and I typed out my first question.

What I thought I typed:

Can you tell me about any sexist encounters you've had with entities like the banks, your vendors, your suppliers, etc?

What I actually typed/got autocorrected to:

`Can you tell me about an

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

So I've decided to give tankery a try since it has been the one role I haven't properly looked into and it seems like a ton (in fact several tons) of fun... or so I thought.

I've found myself become more and more frustrated with the driving aspect. After quite an embarrassing ride which I'm sure caused my Tank Commander to retire (he just left without a word... I did warn him about my lack of ability when I joined though), I've decided to waste about 2,5 hours on an empty server again, trying to get a grasp on the driver spot with little success, so now I've come here for help. I know there are all sorts of resources out there but strangely enough there is very little on the basics of driving the tanks aside for "shift up at 25 RPM" and "the lower gears are better for turning".

Here's my understanding so far:

• 1st gear: get your tank moving, wait for the pop before you do ANYTHING, then either turn essentially on the spot or gear up
• 2nd gear: transitional gear, useless
• 3rd gear: transitional gear, useless
• 4th gear: top speed

And that's pretty much it. I'm not sure if it's just general knowledge that your steering locks up completely when shifting up or down (it was a surprise to me) or that the RPM stay exactly the same when shifting down (again, a surprise to me).

So basically if you have to shift down, you've already lost. Unless you're going downhill you just won't get the 20 RPM necessary to get the pop again, even in second. Back to first and start again! There is barely any discernible difference in the turning speed between 4th, 3rd and 2nd, so the advice to shift down to tackle corners only applies if you shift all the way down to first.

So here is a very simple question:

What is the best way to corner a 90° t-intersection?

Obviously I'm not talking about a combat situation where you'd probably want to creep up anyway. I'm also not talking about any map feature exploits that make your turns tighter.

btw I'm aware that I'm rather ignorant about the topic. I'm sure I'm missing something and I'd appreciate any other general advice on driving tanks. I got the feeling that there's a lot that isn't being said judging by my experiences so far.

Thanks!

EDIT:

So I've gone and checked and it seems I was wrong about downshifting.

Basically I'd shift from 4th to 2nd (I never break) by holding down Ctrl which you just can't do with a Luchs without stalling. Funny enough neither the Panzer IV nor the Tiger mind it, provided you didn't reduc

TL;DR: Hey folks, here's a SCBS for Camellia, keeping her same class and subclass (Shaman, Spirit Hunter). Instead of tanking, this build makes her a deadly ranged-damage dealer and exceptional support character. The Respec Mod is required to change her initial feat and background (or you can use Toybox). This build is viable from start to finish.

***SPOILER WARNING: This post contains item spoilers***

• Other Single-Class Build Series and Guides
• WOTR Respec Mod

*****

Camellia, you absolute psychopath.

You frustrate me as a tank with your mediocre hit points and average BAB. You have a minimal amount of feats. You stroll into combat late, rarely getting off a full round of attacks. For being such a homicidal maniac, your lack of carnage is deflating.

*Sigh*

So, I came up with this build for Camellia after trying about half-a-dozen tank builds that all proved passable but lackluster. I found she rarely got off her full round of attacks and was often caught flat-footed during the first round of combat. All that noble potential wasted with her silly rapier and buckler. Instead, I tried taking her out of the fray shoving a composite longbow into her hand. And I was well-pleased with the results.

This build focuses on...

1. Full-round attacks with a high damage output (which decimates swarms, btw).
2. Single target and party healing.
3. A strong array of Hexes.
4. Full casting progression with 9th level spells.
5. Buffs, buffs, and more buffs!
6. Maxed Trickery skill to disarm traps in and out of combat, along with high Perception that goes perfectly with her strong WIS score.
7. Summons to distract enemies if necessary (Animate Dead, Summon Monster) or damaged-down insanely high AC enemies (Creeping Doom coupled with Seelah's Mark of Justice).

Level 10 Camellia using Hampering Hex to help land 3 of 4 hits on bossman Darrazand.

For Starters

For our build, we'll need the Respec Mod (or Toybox) to change Cammy's background and initial starting feat.

• Background: Wanderer (Hunter). This gives her access to the longbow and shortbow, along with Perception as a class skill. Perfecto!
• Starting Stats: I kept Camellia

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Bob

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.