The long, stainless steel or ceramic troughs in male toilets are unfairly open and exposed, making men get partially naked in public, just to urinate. It is animalistic, positioning men to pee like dogs on a wall.
Men deserve privacy and at least a wall in between each urinal.
I’ve learned this from experience, namely when I’ve said things like “I’m horrified that I unintentionally disrespected you” while apologizing. Making hyperbolic, self-deprecating statements like these violates your own right to dignity, and may even backfire by having you come across as manipulative or insincere. You deserve to have self-respect, which is incompatible with using language that makes you be (rightly) perceived as desperate. I say rightly because language begets thoughts and actions.
When you’ve done something wrong, address the person you’ve wronged in a measured, level-headed way, without inauthentic behavior that gives off a pathetic impression.
I always knew it was off putting to Tony because it showed Johnny immediately let the power go to his head and changed, but the part I just realized is that it's a hilariously strong dig at Tony's place in ther relationship. All these years, Tony, a BOSS Met Underboss Johnny Sack everywhere and even talked to him while John was taking a shit in an open stall at his cousin's welcome home party.
But the second Johnny's got a promotion to Tony's position after being inferior in technicality all these years, it's undignified for him as a boss, but not for this *pygmy piece of shit from Jersey. And a really piercing dig at Jersey as a family also from John.
Fast forward and John has Tony meet him at his house and ends up face down in the snow and arrested.. Tony treks 3 mile through the snow, through streams end up cut and bruised and torn clothes.. undignified.. that Chase what a genius
I'd assumed he was out because he'd not be able to sleep through the banging if I couldn't? Anyway, he saw me hanging at the window like Dracula and made such a frightful noise. You know when you're dreaming and you think you're shouting for help but you wake yourself up and the noise you are making is, "nuraghrurARAAAGAHAH!" It was like that. Pitiable, really. No sangfroid whatsoever. And vampires aren't even real.
Anyway, after the initial screaming I was able to explain my reason for hanging there, and he agreed that the window banging was a problem, but he blamed his landlord for not mending it! Which also, to me, showed a lack of gumption. As a renter I'd fix problems as they arose without bothering the landlord. I wouldn't just sit there in my room blubbing like Lucy Westenra as some helpful neighbour took matters into his own hands. It was an easy fix, too, I just wedged it shut with a load of blu tak. Which I never got back, actually. Also, it was quite a tricky climb. It's not a hobby I've ever gone in for. At one point I had my feet on something but my hands down near them pulling upwards to stay on the wall, which really didn't feel safe.
This happened years ago but another post on here about someone coming in to a house at night reminded me of it. I won't say it led to a rift between me and the neighbour, but there was a coldness thereafter.
Edit: Reading your judgments has been interesting! I do seem to be a less sound person than I thought, both ethically and mentally. I can accept that I am an asshole, if maybe a rakish, gentleman diamond thief kind of asshole. A loveable rogue, if you will.
Thank you all for an entertaining and enlightening evening.
Edit2: this is probably me being too sensitive but I didn't like people saying I had made it up so I got my diary out of the loft and took a picture of that page. I don't know if anyone can zoom in and see that it was printed on a word processor? Also the details aren't quite as I remember them. I know it doesn't constitute proof and I guess I could have faked it if I still had a word processor.
Final Edit, sorry: This has really taken up a lot of my thoughts lately so I wanted to just explain (for anyone who comes back to reread this post) what was going on in my head when I wrote this. Everything that I describe doing is true, but not what I was thinking. I didn't think that the guy was making a fuss and that vampires aren't even real so what's he scared of.
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Oh my goodness my players are the best! I've been running Hoard of the Dragon Queen for them for a little over a year and a half and they're in the last episode at Skyreach Castle. Some slight spoilers ahead if yall are also playing HotDQ for the first time.
Through clever playing they've been impersonating cultists since the beginning and their blue dragonborn wizard has fashioned herself into someone of matching rank with Lady Talis and the rest of the party follow suit in her escapades as her body guards/servants. It's been great! Since they're new players I've tried to foster their creative side and give them plenty of opportunities to roleplay and get rewarded for it.
So they make it to Skyreach, sneakily make a deal with the giant king to take back his castle, defeat the dragon before taking on the cultists, stomp the small force of cultists through clever poisoning of their food, and draw Rezmir, Captain Othelstan, and the 2 red wizards out of their hidey holes. The vampire is in a couple days, but this last fight was brilliant! They killed one wizard, the captain, and with awesome roleplay and great use of intimidation, they got Rezmir to surrender momentarily before executing her.
However.
Now that the castle has been taken they feel safe to loot it. The dragon was their biggest fight so far, the healer went down, the rogue went down, both fighters succumbed to the frightful presence and couldn't do much, and the barbarian and wizard were left alone to deal with the dragon. So that was a great kill for the party when they finally beat it. They thought the worst was behind them. And then they met the rug.
The wizard and barbarian decided to go and loot everything themselves while the rest of the party rested for the day preparing for the vampire. Their first stop was lady Rezmir's room. Where the wizard fucked with the rug of smothering. She's already squishy, and that rug fucked her up 😂 the barbarian couldn't roll higher than a 12 to break the rug's grapple, the wizard only got off her sending spell to the rogue to bring him and the healer and she ALSO couldn't break the grapple. She went unconscious, and failed her final death save right as the rogue and cleric enter the room. She's revivified by the cleric, they all leave the room and she 4th level fireballs Rezmir's room.
They can beat a dragon, but get bested by a rug. I love this game. 😂😂😂
Are there ways to balance or curb the effects of a debilitated or diminished planet? Speaking specifically of the Sun and Jupiter. Thanks.
