r/FacePalm - is it GAY to be Straight?

[@UnseenCruelty]

As a German and a person who studied history, I'm still shocked and concerned how many hardcore Nazis lived a normal life after the war whilst they denied so many people the same.

[@Arkylie]

One of the stories I'd like to write was prompted when my mom pointed out that men who were in a gang violating women a few decades ago were nowadays just seemingly normal grandpas and you wouldn't even think about it if you met them. I wondered about the drama in befriending a person who seems normal but turns out to be the one who hurt you decades ago.

[@bearo8]

I do also think it's concerning what are the reasons for it in your opinion?

[@pixeltcat]

I think a good book if you wanna get an even closer perspective is “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning and how people who have done awful things were quite literally just average people before and pretty much the same afterward to some extent. Hence the name.

[@girl1213]

It's not a defense, but I do wonder how "normal" they actually lived. People around them have had to have known. It's not like the world kept quiet about it when the number and weight of crimes was found out. I can't see anyone truly living normally with that kind of baggage over their heads no matter how much they ignore it. I guess it's cause I am of German AND Poland decent and relatives on both sides of my family escaped Nazi regime for not supporting the rule using the Underground. According to them, no way can any Nazi live normally after the war because when you force others to live a lie, you end up lying to yourself and living one too.

[@bearo8]

@@girl1213 in Germany a lot of people who were born after the war did and do not know what their parents and grandparents did during it. Most don't think they were part of the "bad bunch" but reluctant followers at most. That is statistically not possible. I have to include myself in that group: I don't know what my great grandparents did in the war(my grandparents were under 10 in 1945). But I can't assume that they were all innocent. At least one great grandfather was in the NSDAP.

[@thelazygamer2195]

“People who make evil choices can look normal.” *And that, laddies and lassos, is why serial killer documentaries exist.*

[@thephantomspectator407]

... You might know too much... 😈

[@breakfaith3031]

Documentaries exist to convince, not inform.

[@thelazygamer2195]

@@breakfaith3031 It’s… a joke.

[@breakfaith3031]

@@thelazygamer2195 nah b'y I thought it was taco

[@aRandomMe987]

Or maybe they are just normal people but evil

[@PidgeyHowler]

I like the person who not only got the meaning of bilingual wrong, but ALSO bisexual. No, good ma'am, bi people are not attracted to only the same gender.

[@samboi123]

“That’s biweekly. I’m bisexual”

[@andreaplatz_yt4086]

Isn't that the definition of gay I-. Truly amazed at people's stupidity.

[@Roadent1241]

@@samboi123 "Oh the twice a day, I gotcha" XP

[@DarcOne13]

@@Roadent1241 No, that's biscotti.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

@@DarcOne13 isn't that folks attracted to Scottish people?...

[@thunderborn3231]

parents: sends child to be educated to a higher degree than they were child: knows more than parent parent: *upset*

[@Michelle.G.S1003]

“Childcare is $41,000 a year that’s like another persons salary!” Yes, they have a nanny who is making around $15-$20 an hour. It is another persons yearly salary. Source: I’m a nanny

[@mikacakes]

Click not knowing nannies exist

[@Cruznick06]

It could also just be daycare. Its really expensive to have kids in daycare in the USA.

[@EweOlive]

@@Michelle.G.S1003 how many tuitions and are they covering any kind of premiums such as extended care, excursions, and travel/chauffeuring during the childcare. Also, not sure because "prestigious" anything is outside of my tax bracket, but anything like camp/extended stay/sleep away also adds to childcare cost and few extended/boarding camps cover the whole set of school break times, so it's possible the general childcare provider also offers this service and then they were paying for a separate camp so it would affect two parts of the budget.

[@fightvale57]

I just commented this.

[@directrix777shinyshinyamyt4]

Ohhhhhhh

[@Master_Conner]

Click flirting with himself in the first few seconds of the video has just unlocked a new feeling I didn’t realize I have.

[@f-ingsimp]

you into selfcest??? o-o

[@tonykhang1984]

horniness or fear?

[@BlackOctoberFox]

@@tonykhang1984 Those are not mutually exclusive

[@BLEBBLEB]

@@tonykhang1984 Maybe both, who knows

[@Master_Conner]

@@tonykhang1984 both

[@Athlynne]

"Honey, we're gay now!" I'm pretty sure Topicy's aware of this.

[@Forest_Cryptid]

Does this mean he just admitted to being a sub...

[@LushiaKyobi]

@@Forest_Cryptid Sounds more like he admitted being ridden 😂

[@mangaanimefan3089]

@@LushiaKyobi Or that she sits on his face. 🥲 I'm glad they have a happy, healthy, passionate relationship but I didn't really need to know that.

[@TheSentientCloud]

I love how Click casually announces he's a bottom by shouting to his partner "honey we're gay now" to the "men bottoming is gay" meme

[@TheSentientCloud]

@Linda Les I really want to take it out of context and make an out of context click video lol

[@AliothAncalagon]

Having a cowgirl doesn't turn you into a bottom xD

[@RatPfink66]

Ya think maybe he was speaking in the voice of a str8 person reading that item to their partner? But if ya wanna get that way about Click i can't judge. If I were gay I'd feel about him the way I do about Charlotte Dobre. Which would be too bad because Charlotte doesn't make me laugh so hard. She's insider funny. Click is free-range funny.

[@sarahpooler2330]

@@AliothAncalagon "having a cowgirl" LOL You know that's an adult funtime (hey onetopic) position, right? Not posessing a cattle-wrangling girlfriend. Sorry, I'm being a smartass. I just liked the idea that dating a farm girl makes you gay. So silly. (Well I'm female so it would make me gay, but you know what I mean.)

[@carniethedat7071]

Click is totally calling himself a subby boy through that joke. We can all see it, right?

[@akane9959]

One of the fun things about having a large diverse family is having a German great aunt who doesn’t believe the Holocaust happened and another Polish great aunt where only her and her mother escaped being sent to concentration camps.

[@missnaomi613]

I'm a religious, bisexual Jewish mama in the U.S., and I'm part German. We are all valid. We are NOT responsible for our 💩 relatives, just our own choices. Hugs to all! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@missnaomi613]

@@GretchZ thank you. Artscroll is okay, but I like my Etz Hayim best. Not to be obnoxious about it, but you may appreciate the content on my channel...

[@dominiqueritchey6795]

A Kane, that's quite a situation

[@missnaomi613]

@@GretchZ wow, that's a lot of information...

[@circomatic6124]

So where is the fun part?

[@verbodenmagi]

When Click goes on these subreddits, he should have a bingo board for all the stereotypical shit people do 😭

[@Artistic_Brainrott]

Ngl id be up to see that 💀

[@LilithBytes]

ikr

[@bobtdm190alt5]

he definitely should

[@gummywormee41]

I can even imagine some of the bingo cards: Karen Homophobia Scientific Inaccuracies (Totally incorrect facts, flag earthers, anti vaxc) Someone misunderstanding the meaning of a word Trump Supporter Scam Product

[@certifiednerd542]

@@gummywormee41 UPVOTE

[@rosemarie1817]

"Can I sue for new eyeballs?" I felt that. The $42,000 is probably the nanny's salary for raising the children.

[@AC8X]

It could be any kind of daycare, not just a nanny.

[@Jelleybean18]

Like the previous person said - could be a regular daycare too. If you look at the break down. 42000/12 months is 3500 for two kids a month. 3,500/2 is 1,750 per kid. That’s about $58/day per child. Now you have to account for the BUSINESS budget. Food, snacks, licensing, electricity, water, gas (in the building), fuel, the worker’s salary, equipment, maintenance, toys, cleaning supplies and so much more. That is a pretty understandable price.

[@devinwillis7077]

My best friend owned a daycare I worked at in the 90s early 2000s it was about 250 to 425 a week per child depending on their ages. Now my niece pays 450 for her 4 yr old a week. She has thought of being a stay at home mom because she has a 6 month old now and daycare is going to be close to 750 a week. She makes about 100 more a week than she pays in daycare

[@BenevolenceBlack]

The saddest part about the soldiers digging trenches in the red forest is that the soldiers themselves were probably all aware of how stupid the plan was, but they weren't given any choice.

[@seigeengine]

It's also possible they didn't know at all.

[@malia_ej]

@@seigeengine maybe but i think that if someone told me to dig somewhere known for being radioactive i'd know it was a bad plan y'know lol

[@RailfoxStudios]

@@malia_ejI think they mean that you actually know and/or have been educated on what the word “radioactive” means. Imagine if you’d never heard the word before, would you think it automatically means something analogous to poison? Tbh I imagine the word probably sounds like some American word for “cool” or “awesome” to those unaware of its meaning

[@malia_ej]

@@RailfoxStudios I suppose, I didn't think about the fact that someone might not know what radiation is

[@niofo7713]

@@RailfoxStudios children learn what radiation is in school, it's not rocket science. not to mention that those soldiers or at least their parents were alive when chernobyl disaster happened, it was kinda a big news in the region when the news got out eventually. source: i'm from eastern europe.

[@Complexicon_of_a_Startist]

"A woman topping a man is homosexual" Oh piss off bro Submissive partners are fucking adorable and that doesn't make them any lesser than a top/dom; let bottoms be bottoms and subs be subs, dammit

[@spiritbx1337]

Nah bro, a man having sex with a woman is PEAK gay! Nope, nothing gayer than a man having sex with a woman.

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

I think you're getting a little _too_ angry at a random person on the internet that most likely won't even see this comment.

[@Complexicon_of_a_Startist]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 My apologies, this is just something that really gets on my nerves While my comment was technically directed at them, it was intended to be more of a general statement; I'm inclined to agree that they're not gonna see this comment

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

According to that guy, I’m gay, I’m the gayest thing to exist in his eyes

[@Complexicon_of_a_Startist]

@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Yeah nah, pretty sure that's not how being gay works lmao (as a lesbian, I should know) You keep being you 🥰 (Edit: Well this is now outdated and I'm fairly certain I'm not interested at all, but I believe my point stands in that being a bottom is not what makes you homosexual, being homosexual is what makes you homosexual)

[@lonelyfroggy5787]

12:00 one of the history teachers at my high school (Who was a US navy vet) said it best: "You know what the best thing we do for veterans is? Stop making them."

[@goldengryphon]

Most vets I know have this attitude and a heavy cynicism towards the government.

[@MsLemon42]

As a veteran (US Marines) who also teaches history, I have said this. As an aside, teaching history through the lens of a veteran is far easier to help my students understand why all these wars happened and some aftermath issues, like how PTSD contributed to certain post-war events. Even things that I never understood as a student, like why knights would waste their time and physical health jousting, make perfect sense now.

[@erinyes3943]

@@MsLemon42 why did they joust?

[@MsLemon42]

@@erinyes3943 Thanks for asking! They did it for fun, and for money, and for local fame. When I was in the Marines, we’d do stupid things, too. We had a fight club, or would punch each other’s knuckles, drink too much, smash stuff with fists or foreheads, that kind of thing. The type of person who becomes a Marine is usually the same type of person who likes to push themselves and take on unnecessary challenges, and I would assume similar in the knights. This is a hard job, no one would choose it unless they were already inclined that way. So they train us and then just…leave us to wait? We get fidgety. We lift heavy things. Some start boxing. We put our efforts into something physical and sometimes dumb. While I’m disabled now, you can still see this mentality on my channel with some of my food videos. I have one where I’m eating expired protein bars. They stink but I don’t hesitate to take big bites. I even vomited a little. But to me this is fun. A recent video I’m eating spicy noodles that weren’t spicy enough so I drenched them in hot sauce. Even though I don’t punch walls anymore, I can’t shake that “push yourself for absolutely no reason” mentality

[@SingingSealRiana]

​@@goldengryphonfor good reasons, Born in the USA and all . . . Soldiers are often the ones Most invested in ending or even better preventing a war . . . There are so many Stories about soldiers having positive interaction with the Other Side but politic fucks Something Up so they have to Fight for BS reasons only to Return desillusioned AS hell to a world they do Not fit into anymore and that does Not want them . . .

[@Elliot_o]

Ah yes, being straight is now gay lads! We’ve done it.

[@Mewse1203]

So...everybody gay now? 🤣

[@rapperblut1617]

they wanted to be included so much they made straight gay

[@spiritbx1337]

I mean, the wokes are currently saying that a lesbian not having sex with a man that claims that he's a woman means that she isn't a lesbian.

[@esmepipkin6087]

Finally!

[@Sr_ECO]

I mean, gay means happy too so, maybe they're happy straight people

[@reaperscythe4579]

I don't get bad period pains but my friend did. Seeing this usually strong woman who brushes off other pain like a champ in tears each month made me so god damn thankful for my slight discomfort and sleepiness. She has that thing in her arm now that stops her periods completely. She really needed it.

[@SingingSealRiana]

I scare people with How little pain Response In Show . . .but If you are regularly in enough pain, that IT has you faint, then a broken toe, burned Fingers or teeth Treatment are nothing

[@Dani-Claw]

PCOS is the super evil psycho version of periods. Existence is pain

[@Silver_drag0n]

"We should just put all the Karen's on an island" No, Click, they would tear each other to shreds, and that's too much paperwork for anyone to handle. Edit - OK, this is hands down the most liked comment that I've ever got. Thanks to everyone who liked and/or commented ^-^!

[@amberkat8147]

Why would you do paperwork afterwards?

[@mizquitl]

I am pretty sure you could make this an insurance claim if you have the right lawyers.

[@JacquelineUnderwood]

Eh Russia managed it just fine, I'm sure we'd manage _(it's a joke, cannibal island was an awful tragedy that should never have happened let alone be repeated...google at your own risk)_

[@MeFreeBee]

Can you imagine being the manager of Karen Island?

[@Silver_drag0n]

@@amberkat8147 Karens have families two, believe it or not- a majority has kids

[@OverAnalytical7]

On the whole anti-LGBT topic, I have been told about “tolerance without acceptance,” but I feel that I should outright accept LGBT relationships. I know people who are likely part of the LGBT community, and they’re just as great as anyone else.

[@syrelian]

Tolerance without acceptance is a real concept, but usually wielded like that, or as a veil for nazi grade shit as a defense alongside calling out minorities failure to be stopped by the paradox of tolerance(said paradox being the fact that if you tolerate everything, you tolerate nothing because you enable and give space to those who act to tolerate nothing) Rather than as something more... sensible

[@langer1122]

This, just this. No one needs to accept who you are, just be you, love is universal and everyone should experience love in which ever way they want. If you hate someone because a 2000 year old book told you too you should reconsider life Sorry for the rant

[@OverAnalytical7]

@@langer1122 Thank you. I’m pleasantly surprised that someone can understand my personal views.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

It would be quit nice if no one cared at all. That we could just not be an issue or needed to be talked about. Just something that we did back in the past.

[@OverAnalytical7]

@@charisma-hornum-fries I wholeheartedly agree.

[@lilharm]

“my religion doesn’t make me hate people, it just says that I should hate people and I listen”

[@jillbecker9535]

Despite my grandmother being in the Nazi party, her grandparents had Jews hiding under their farm, and her aunt and uncle had a bakery in town that they used to give the soldiers food made with the least amount of ingredients and save the extras to give to people that they were helping to get out of the country. Apparently everybody in the family helped, but it was the kids that had to be the most involved in order for it to work. My Nana said she was questioned frequently about her grandparents. She said she had to lie, but that she was proud too, because she helped a woman give birth in her barn when she was 16 and she got to know in her heart that that woman would be free and safe with her newborn baby. My Nana is the kind of person that died, never wanting any recognition for these things, but in death, I know she deserves to be known as a woman who risk her life whose family risked their whole lives, and the lives of their children to save hundreds they are not Nazis, but they are the true heart of the German people. Dependable, practical and kind natured to a fault. I miss her every day Hearing these idiots on Twitter argue about how actual Nazis supporting the Nazi party are equivalent to people like my Nana and her family makes me physically ill … In life we make choices for what’s right and we stand up or lie down. So many stood up and continue to stand up today. ❤ never give up never surrender.

[@stevendorries]

Your nana sounds like she was metal AF, her memory needs to live beyond us

[@SingingSealRiana]

People actually, Like you where Safe and a Monster a s a German at that time, without any question, all Nazis . . . . compleatly Missing how Not complying, being disables, being queer, trying to Help any of the percecuted groups could get you killed Just as easely! And still there are Stories over Stories of about people hiding and helping whoever they could risking their own lifes and families to do the right Thing . . . The people reducing everyone to Nazis and monsters Miss one vital Part . . . Many many of the victims where Germany too! They could Not euthanise people in Other countries after all . . .Just as people in france are Just as responsible for their deported jewish Population . . .they Love to blame IT all on Germany, but IT was french Police WHO collected them, the french goverment, which Made this executive decission! Had Not they helped, those people would have been Safe!!! So yeah, judge people for their own actions, Not asign g some aubitrary group for convinience! People Like your grandma and her Family where Heros!

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

As an engineer, i can say for a fact that 5'8 people are better than 6'2 people. This is because their center of gravity is lower, meaning it is harder to push them off balance, which means you can lean extra hard into them whilst hugging.

[@arizonaexplorations4013]

As a male, 5’4” is even better when dating a 6’2” well endowed lady. Fun times

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

@@arizonaexplorations4013 As another male, who is like 5'7, apparently I'm short by some people's standards.

[@liviwaslost]

@@justafurrywithinternet317 in most places you are considered somewhat above average.

[@alansmithee419]

@@justafurrywithinternet317 If someone refuses to date you because of your height you've dodged a bullet right there.

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

@@liviwaslost I mean, in Poland, where I live, I'm like... very average, maybe even a tad little bit on the short side but only a little bit.

[@randomsomewhat-kinda-quasi1065]

I once heard "if there’s ever going to be a zombie outbreak, only some of us would be at risk". This video shows why

[@adrianblake8876]

Spoiler: We're in the middle of a zombie outbreak and they're the zombies, trying to suck out our brains...

[@charliekahn4205]

We are in the middle of a very ineffective zombie outbreak. It's called rabies.

[@michaelschmid2311]

@@charliekahn4205 evangelicals ?

[@Annie_Annie__]

Click freaking out over not being familiar with the term “childcare” was cracking me up. It never occurred to me how that term could be misinterpreted. To those equally confused: “childcare” generally means things like daycare, after-school care, babysitting, etc. Given the cost on this breakdown, I’m guessing they had one or two full time nannies.

[@TheClick]

haha thats even funnier if they consider 2 full time nannies an average family thing

[@tinytealeaves]

Ty! I was going to help clarify, if no one else had, but you did it nicely!

[@bobtdm190alt5]

this is definitely a good clarification

[@cookiecraze1310]

The funny thing is that they're assuming the average 4 person family makes half a dollars per year.

[@jake8748]

Childcare in Australia is expensive. As in many mothers dont go back to work because the salary is barely worth it after the childcare cost until they get to school. 21k per child a year, say they work 5 days a week and work 40 weeks of the year thats 200 days of childcare, @$100 a day. The average cost in my city is $105.29 per day. That couple is delusional though if they think a combined income of 500k is average. 3 holidays a year alone is above average. Also 40% tax. Holy hell that tax rate is scary. For how little people in the USA get for their tax dollars via social security and health care that is insane. I think I pay around 12k on 100k salary here in Australia. Even at 250k my tax would be less than 60k total. If the US taxes people that much you should have universal healthcare, free education and college and a really good social security unemployment benefits.

[@Conformist138]

At first I was amused that he didn't realize "childcare" means daycare, nannies, and babysitters. Then, I realized that most countries don't have this system where parents pay a huge chunk of the money they make working to the people who watch their kids while they work, leading to cases of poor families struggling to figure out how to afford a job. Now, I'm just sad for my country.

[@seigeengine]

If people had to pay that kind of money to have a child, nobody could afford to have children. The reality is that non-rich people just leave their kids alone, or with family or friends. There's really only a few years of your life where being left alone is highly non-viable, and often in households with multiple children, older ones are drafted to take care of the younger ones is absence of the parents.

[@BringMayFlowers]

​@@seigeengine "If people had to pay that kind of money to have a child, nobody could afford to have children." Cough cough, cough. Ka-hack. Aaaugh. Now where was I?

[@seigeengine]

@@BringMayFlowers Thanks for spamming.

[@trickyagent127]

The fact that we have people still justifying Nazi's just kills my hope in humanity

[@badstate]

You mean like in Ukraine?

[@bombdotcom2168]

I already hated Nazis and Neo-Nazis before and wouldn't hesitate to slap one of the racist jerks- But now that I'm older and have family and very close friends who would be harmed if Nazi ideologies were still in practice I won't hesitate to slap anyone like that straight to hell.

[@KyrieChii]

We truly live in the worst timeline/dimension/simulation (whichever iteration of existence you subscribe to). 😩

[@Sienisota]

Adam Vickers... Seriously?! 🤦‍♂️

[@lunaticbz3594]

@@Sienisota The Azov battalion are a Neo Nazi paramilitary force, that was made a part of the official Ukrainian military. Granted Russia also uses Neo Nazi's in its own paramilitary merc forces. Both sides in this conflict like to downplay their own use of these kinds of people. To be fair, I'm pretty sure if the U.S. was being invaded I'm sure our Neo Nazi's would probably fight as well... Maybe we shouldn't judge countries by fringe groups that sadly still exist.

[@KyleRayner12]

One time, due to poor planning/reading on my part, I accidentally booked a night at a campsite instead of a hotel the night before an interview. I flew in well after dark and didn't realize I'd screwed up until my Uber was pulling up to the campground. My driver agreed something was weird and hung around while I investigated and tried to find a key/room/anything. Then, he waited while I found a nearby hotel and drove me there instead, just because he didn't want me to have to wait outside in the middle of the night in winter for another car. And *that's* how I found out that Uber won't let you tip more than 100% of your original fare. F*ck those restrictions.

[@tabaluke2584]

That's why cash is gold! In Germany you don't have this problem, you can always tip cash 😁

[@ZeorikDragon]

To be faaair... not putting a restriction could be used to launder money. "Here lemme tip you $100,000 for a job well done! *wink*"

[@QuikVidGuy]

@@ZeorikDragon there's gotta be numbers in between those though

[@KyleRayner12]

@@ZeorikDragon I suspect that frequency-wise, that's less common than wanting to leave a decent tip.

[@SiffrinISAT]

@@ZeorikDragon that is like not allowing online payment because they could have hacked the money The measure would be done for a problem that hasn't even happened (or not enough) to be a real concern

[@lucideandre]

It’s true that it’s homosexuality when the girl is on top. That is, as long as there is another girl on the bottom. It’s really the best.

[@alex_blue5802]

The logic in that one was a little off.

[@lassea]

But that makes it lesbianics

[@foxinabox5103]

@@lassea homosexualianic

[@lucideandre]

@@lassea which is still homosexuality

[@LRM12o8]

@@lassea ah, lesbianic: the new language of the lesbian separatists in Spain. 😁

[@thesebi]

Ahh yes, nothing says love more than making the wedding all about yourself and not giving your partner any say in it.

[@RatPfink66]

its a symbol of how straight couples traditionally live in separate worlds, playing separate roles. because this is about being one and together and they still can't stop with the separate roles.

[@thesebi]

@@RatPfink66 I think it's more of an example, how entitled and selfish many people get in modern society... I would not directly attribute that to a sexual orientation and the traditional role models. But it should definetely be a warning sign... I'd never want an intimate relationship with such an egomaniac.

[@foolsenigma]

I think "childcare" in that budget doesnt mean the cost of caring for the child, but rather the cost of hiring someone else to take care of your child. Usually when talking about childcare expenses people mean, like, a babysitter or the cost of sending their kid to daycare or paying for an afterschool program their kid can go to so theyre not left alone until the parent can pick them up. But the amount that this budget sets aside for childcare makes me think they might have something like a nanny

[@benjie128]

this was my interpretation. they spend more on childcare than I make in a year.

[@Celairiel]

Agreed. That sounds like a full-time, in-home nanny.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

If they can afford a nanny to cover enough time that it nearly is a full yearly income on the low end, you're officially well off, no questions about it. These people are deluding themselves.

[@Shalakor]

@@VelaiciaCreator I mean, is it truly "nearly" a full yearly income if the "full-time" nanny is being paid that much? Also, you're really only as well off as you have liquid assets. If you make a lot a money but are constantly spending as much or more than that as fast as you can make it, you're living beyond your means. Constant debt is still constant debt even if you make enough to where if you were more restrained with your finances you'd be well off. By my estimation, they're still deluded, but in-so-far that they don't make enough money to be paying a full-time worker's salary and vacationing and all that. This is why the middle class is often said to be a dying concept, since the cost of living ends up outstripping increases in wage bracket for most households. For an extreme example, many lottery winners end up broke and destitute because they spend so much money so quickly that they end up placing themselves into an unsustainable continued cost situation.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

@@Shalakor Being "well off" is not about bank account balance, but what amenities you can consistently have access to. So if you make a lot and spend a lot on luxuries, you are STILL well off.

[@pedroantoniodesouzasilva2068]

Seeing Click going from a playful tone to "OMG, WTF" in the vampire girl part was the best moment of the video.

[@goldengryphon]

Vampire Girl is pretty Outside The Norm, even as young crazies go. I'd heard the whole story from a different commentator and it's just completely WT(and I cannot stress this enough)F?

[@kototamopeva5]

@@goldengryphon I'm sorry for the boyfriend, like did someone tell him what she was doing in time? 😭

[@ebbenazor7857]

It's not a FacePalm moment, it's a GagReflex moment.

[@nonchip]

6:00 "christians speak english" literally all other european languages, especially italian and latin: _are we a joke to you_

[@jakemarie828]

Fr tell me you don't understand history without telling me.

[@NerrawGnap]

Bilingual people: 😐

[@ashleycook6025]

As a mom, can confirm. You can get so used to holding the baby that you forget you're holding a baby and when baby is too big for constantly holding arms can feel empty like you've forgotten something important. And at one point I switched from a crossbody bag to an arm bag to fix the feeling bc I wandered around the house putting groceries away while carrying a single bag of groceries and flipping out when I noticed some of the groceries were missing.

[@rolfs2165]

She might also have been running on several days' lack of sleep. Which isn't particularly good on the brain, either.

[@kahleiaforrest5854]

if she's been planning this since she was a little girl and she knows what her dream wedding is why does she need so much time to plan something she already planned????

[@johanhalvarsson2148]

And why is it her wedding and not theirs?

[@missy2375]

Yeah, and what about the dudes dream wedding? Their relationship is definitely gonna fail

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@missy2375 Hopefully it will before the wedding.

[@FurNixen]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 It probably did. I mean I would leave my fiance if they were acting like this

[@NecrochildK]

Unfortunately, getting the ideas out takes nothing, putting them into actuality (calling caterers, booking a venue, etc), take a lot of time and work and all the planning traditionally falls on the bride. Those things typically need to be done during normal business hours, when most people are working. You can't just call a florist outside of their business hours and set up an appointment outside of business hours to look through their portfolio and see what they can do is closest to what you want. It's a lot of unnecessary pomp, but most want a nice wedding at least, some want really extravagant ones and that does take actual work, time and it's exhausting. Typically, the groom doesn't really care what the wedding is like as long as it's memorable and is with his new wife and with family and friends around, so, again, the planning falls to the bride. All the groom has to worry about is getting his crew fitted with tuxes or suits to match the color theme. Sometimes he might have to worry about the rehearsal supper, though usually the groom's mom plans that. Though she's an idiot for quitting her job for planning a wedding she can't afford without it. If her job isn't flexible enough to afford her a day off here and there for her planning, you know, like using vacation days (which she should have been holding onto for this anyway), then she shouldn't be gunning for a huge wedding. Just book an officiary and a place. Screw decorations, screw flowers, screw big dresses, just find something nice off the rack, screw an after ceremony dinner and dance. Maybe after work hours grab the maid of honor and make a trip to a craft store for some artificial flowers for your bouquet and maybe something you could easily make into light decorations to hang on the ends of the chair rows. It wouldn't be flashy or visually as memorable, but what should matter and be memorable in the first place is the two of you joining your lives together.

[@samiraperi467]

The solution to the 80k wedding problem is obvious. She's obviously not all there and the wedding would be a mistake.

[@barrylangille3523]

Yes, my advice to the couple would be to re-evaluate the relationship, and possibly (probably) break it off. I'm surprised her fiancee hasn't come to that conclusion

[@sadwasdead5065]

she was talking like it was all about her, even though she's not the only one getting married.

[@annnee6818]

Yes she's clearly not all there but also SO manu US girls tell me they planned their weddings at the age of six which is a totally alien to most of my fellow Europeans... So to a degree this shit is taught. She just took it way too far. It's a lot of pressure to put on one day which can be spoiled by a random weather change...

[@barrylangille3523]

@@sadwasdead5065 that seems to be a very common attitude. It's "The Bride's Special Day". It seems like it should be more about celebrating the partnership instead of a girl-woman playing Live Barbie, but what do I know? By the way, the best wedding I ever attended was a gay one...

[@barrylangille3523]

@@annnee6818 if they were six I'm betting they were playing Barbies. That chick has a lot to answer for 😀

[@ravenstormchild6491]

Couples would be so much further in life if they spend more effort on the marriage than a SINGLE day of wedding celebrations…

[@annnee6818]

Indeed

[@chatboulon743]

My sister was kind of smart with hers. Instead of a ton of expensive wedding gifts, she requested help with her wedding, from splitting costs to buy a cake to making decorations. You can have a nice wedding without going broke.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

A single day? She quit her job. Weeks and weeks of spending and preparing for that single day. I don't even know how she expects to do it. "I need $80,000 so, I'll quit my job. Yeah that's the sensible thing to do." Even if her fiance does get a second job, that doesn't exactly make up for the loss of one full time employee.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

@@chatboulon743 Yeah we had a great time. We basically just threw a party. We just preprogrammed music ourselves and there's the DJ. We bought a ton of disposable cameras and passed them out, the photographer. This was when those were a thing. I don't know if they still exist. We happen to have a family member who's an amazing chef and he catered as his gift. It was a blast and it wasn't all that different from an expensive type wedding. We still had nice decorations and stuff.

[@MsLemon42]

I will be another veteran echoing that I am *thrilled* that today’s youth are not currently being deployed into a war zone. I’m glad they can deal with social issues and have us rethink things we never thought about at their age. I’m very happy for them. I teach high school and I’m so glad I don’t have to worry that some of my students will be living with war-related PTSD or not be here a year after graduation. Of course there are other dangers to face and I am sorry for them, but those dangers don’t disappear during a war; war is in addition to those other dangers. And now they can fight more against those dangers instead. Many of these students are already politically-focused and so smart and compassionate.

[@dylandreisbach1986]

I like how that racist woman was constantly hitting the car with her door. Just another proof of how she is the one in the wrong here in all regards.

[@dolofonosesostrefis]

"Is that a kind of Lion?" Well yes but actually no, Lions are a type of Panther. So saying "He's a Panther" doesn't really work. Panthers can be Jaguars, Lions, Tigers and Leopards so technically it's a valid question.

[@charliekahn4205]

Personally I think lions should be classified as their own thing, since they have very different behavior from other felidae.

[@RikudouNoPain]

I'm so glad somebody mentioned this. It was when i checked for black panthers, when I learned that that could tecnically be any of the above as long as it has the colour mutation. Thank you :)

[@pebbleshy]

Was about to comment something similar. More people should learn that black panthers are not their own seperate species.

[@pebbleshy]

@@charliekahn4205 Thats not how relation between animals are determined though. Its a whole genetic thing and not so much a behaviour thing. Me and my cousin having vastly different personalities, beliefs and values, doesn't make us any less related.

[@CommanderDarcy]

@@charliekahn4205 if I am sure it's not about behaviour but genetic, they're all from the same genetic family, so close that they can even have kids with each other (like ligers, tigons, leopons, etc)

[@Creepy_shortcake]

I've actually never seen the extended version of the "is the pink panther a lion" conversation before. Seeing more of those dumb texts was a treat.

[@sorenjensen3863]

Plot twist: the dumb one was the one arguing he is a panther. "Panther" applies to many species of big cats, including lions

[@michs342]

@@sorenjensen3863 Panthers (both black and white) are variations of jaguars or leopards and not lions. Panthera is the family that includes lions, tigers, jaguars etc. There is a distinction between the two. So the question is really when the Pink Panther animation was created were they trying to depict it as a panther or Panthera? The Pink Panther itself in the movies is a diamond.

[@--CHARLIE--]

@@sorenjensen3863 false. While lions are part of the panthera family, they do not classify as panthers. Only leopards and jaguars do.

[@chatboulon743]

The pink panther is a diamond.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

@@michs342 That's not really so. The panthers you're talking about, that's just a colloquial name for them. It's like saying puma or mountain lion. In fact the scientific name for lions is Panthera Leo. I'm certain most scientists refer to these animals as panthers in reference to the clade panthera. There are only two kinds of extent cats. Panthers and felines.

[@EzraHarkness8254]

Click is the CEO, an employee, HR, accounting, sales, IT department and the PR department, all in one person. I think Click needs a raise.

[@gothica3605]

If I ever hear a man state that my periods “shouldn’t hurt”, I will gladly buy one of those machines that simulate it and, use it on him.

[@lune8533]

Crank it up to the highest setting 😎

[@CraftyVegan]

@@lune8533 I can’t get over the video with the guys trying it and reacting like it’s the worst pain they’ve ever felt and they’re hunched over or falling down, but then the one woman puts it on, cranks it to 10, and is just like “oh, that’s not even close to my cramps”

[@lune8533]

@@CraftyVegan yeah, I've seen it as well, it's bonkers.. I suppose it has to do with the fact that they aren't used to it at all. We go through that shit every month so I suppose we are prepared, while they aren't at all. It's so silly of them to deny the fact of period pain, even if they don't experience it first hand. I've never seen a clouded leopard irl, only on TV, but that doesn't mean they're mythical and made up... You know?

[@CraftyVegan]

@@lune8533 I’d be less upset if it was just regular guys saying this… but it’s also male OBGYNs too. I had one tell me I was exaggerating my pain (I had ovarian cysts) and another tell me that a procedure didn’t need a local anesthetic because I wouldn’t be able to feel it… And then another tell me that my labor pains were some sort of rite of passage to being a mother, so I shouldn’t get an epidural (my baby got stuck and they ended up loading me with pitocin and giving me an episiotomy) And I haven’t even had it nearly as bad as some… It’s just mega annoying that I (and many others) are automatically doubted when we say something hurts.

[@109367]

I've been pretty lucky that my cramps aren't usually too bad, I used to not even cramp at all but as I've gotten older they're more noticeable, especially if I'm on my feet at work or something.

[@peppermintmoon7354]

My friend: wants to go home with a guy she just met. Me: "He seems a little off to me." My friend: "But he looks normal." Me: "Yeah, so did Ted Bundy."

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

Statistically it is incredibly unlikely that he's a serial killer.

[@gray9741]

👏facts👏

[@robertwilloughby8050]

This in the 50's "Who's Ted Bundy? This guy's called Fred Rogers....."

[@thismustbeisaac]

8:30 I remember my drama teacher once saying that people like this put so much importance on a wedding because it’s the only play that they’ll be part of, starring them as the lead character.

[@BadPenny3]

That feels extremely accurate.

[@Mark73]

That whole issue with abortion at 10:55. What you have to understand is that the people who are trying to ban both abortion and comprehensive sex ed _want_ people to live in poverty and misery and for there to be so many people that it floods the job market so they they aren't in a strong negotiating position. They're also mindful of the fact that poor people have the hardest time getting to the polls to vote, and when more people vote republicans tend to lose.

[@piperjaycie]

“Childcare” is just money spent on a daycare or preschool for the child outside their own home usually while the parents are at work. Could also be a nannies salary or childminder fees.

[@romandaniels2415]

“I doubt periods are that painful though […] they happen soo much that you must get used to it.” Right. Except it comes once per month. If I were to get kicked hard in the balls once per month, I would definitely not get used to it.

[@Picking.a.name.is.hard1]

Honestly yes! I mean it's true (for me who's periods aren't that painful to begin with) that I've mostly gotten used to it and it barely bothers me anymore, but that's not true for everyone and if, as you said, somebody has super strong periods/feels more pain, yeah good luck getting used to that....

[@TXRider]

@@Picking.a.name.is.hard1 I've had periods since I was ten and am 33 now. The cramps got increasingly worse over the years to the point that it feels like my uterus is trying to carve itself out of my body with a butcher knife. You don't get used to that.

[@lazypanda4079]

@@TXRider if period pain got worse over the years for anyone of course that person wouldn’t get used to that, cramps already suck I really hope they don’t get worse over the years for me! :c

[@azukib2230]

Have you checked for endometriosis? Sounds like some of your symptoms matches

[@SoulDevoured]

​@@azukib2230 most people get diagnosed with endometriosis late because the only way to 100% confirm it is to see it and biopsy during surgery. And if it's not a severe case it's likely to not be seen. There's likely alot of women suffering with endo that don't know it and can't know it until their doctor feels it warrants explorative surgery.

[@boatingbrookcosplay7447]

I've done the eyeliner thing once. Yes it looks epic but it burns like crazy

[@popstel2286]

OMG TELL ME THE WHAT HAPPENDED AFTER IT PLEASEEEEE

[@boatingbrookcosplay7447]

@@popstel2286 it just burned for a while. I didn't go blind or anything but I had to rub it out a bit.

[@popstel2286]

@@boatingbrookcosplay7447 OOF! Nice to know the tiktok lady is okay though

[@SaPiek]

Try harder...🧚‍♀

[@crystalgemgirl731]

It burns my eyes just watching it and I ain't never gonna do it.

[@somnaw]

That childcare cost is having daycare or babysitters (or maybe they even have a live-in nanny). It only counts towards the having somebody other than the parents watch the kid, which is a major expense in many households with children, especially if both parents have to work. Some households will have a stay-at-home parent because it's more economical, which really tells you something about single parent families and how difficult that must be.

[@darrenhemingway7121]

The medical diagram looks to be about recovering a “swallowed tongue” where the tongue falls back into the throat and causes suffocation. It was a significant problem for early surgery and often was prevented by safety pinning the tongue of a patient to their cheek.

[@darkdragoness5]

I remember hearing somewhere that women are better equipped at dealing with pain and discomfort, as a biological thing for dealing with childbirth. It's not that women don't feel it as much as men, it's that they can think about other things easier while in pain. But then different people have different sensitivities. I'm pretty sure that the man who thinks that periods shouldn't hurt would probably be incapacitated if part of his body shredded itself, though considering how dense he is, maybe not.

[@hailbones666]

The childbirth thing applies to hormones released during childbirth that stop you from passing out from the pain of another entity clawing its way out of a sensitive part of your anatomy. It doesn’t apply to everything and it isn’t about getting your mind off pain. If a person breaks a bone, you can’t just “la la la think about something else” the pain away.

[@darkdragoness5]

@@hailbones666 Thank you. I know my knowledge was vague, and mostly brought up in a rant about the guy who thought periods don't hurt. I definitely wasn't trying to suggest that women feel less pain, just that they can process other things better while in discomfort than men, more like multi-tasking than pain suppression. I do love to learn new things, so thank you for your response.

[@hailbones666]

@@darkdragoness5 It may depend more on the person and culture rather than hormones. When I was in the Marines, we were discouraged from talking about being in pain. However, some Marines absolutely complained as a way to get out of work or something. I’m female and live with chronic pain, including chronic migraines so bad I’m vomiting at work…but some female coworkers have stomach ache and call in sick. Another factor with periods especially is that some people have larger cysts on their ovaries, and this can press on nerves differently, causing even more pain than normal. I used to deal with this and literally couldn’t even breathe during pain spikes, or pull myself out of the fetal position. Im on hormonal birth control to stop this. Yet, I also went through a 15km “hump” ((gear-laden hike)) with 45kg in my pack and a broken foot, kept up with the other Marines while some non-injured people “fell out” ((dropped behind the group)). So I guess there are lots of factors.

[@darkdragoness5]

@@hailbones666 Oh definitely it's influenced a lot by the type of person experiencing the pain and it's not really like I'm an expert on this. I just notice that at work women were more likely to continue working while in pain while men called in sick. They still complained about it, some people a lot. It's not really an accurate representation, just something I heard and seen. (Also one time my grandma had a fall, and she decided to get up and drive 10 minutes to the hospital)

[@hailbones666]

@@darkdragoness5 May I ask what the percentage is of women workers, or the type of job? I’m studying Psychology so I think about these environmental factors. For example, being a female Marine, you don’t want to show weakness because some male Marines already assume you’re weak ((they don’t know we did the same training…)) So you end up toughing it out more because you’re constantly having to fight against the “weak woman” stereotype. But if you’re in a field where there are more women, you may notice more when men take time off just because they’re more rare. So two totally different ratios, and we end up with a similar feeling for different reasons. I love studying people and also it’s so hard to study people haha

[@literalsarcasm1830]

"A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they shall never sit."

[@VelaiciaCreator]

Tbh sometimes the roots of the tree cause unforeseen problems to the area it was planted in.

[@MLiskindagay]

@@VelaiciaCreator okay but that’s completely unrelated. This is about philosophy, not actual trees

[@musewolfman]

@@MLiskindagay but that's the thing. The roots are just as easily taken as a metaphor as the shade. Plenty of people have done things that have negative consequences, (like the roots,) because they were only thinking of one good aspect of their actions, (like the shade,) but not the big picture (the whole tree.) Bam. Philosophy.

[@MLiskindagay]

@@musewolfman ah, I see. Thanks :)

[@VelaiciaCreator]

@@MLiskindagay What I said was figurative. We as society are facing the unintended consequences of many decisions in "improving the system", and now it's crumbling.

[@deijix]

I relate so hard with the walking around looking for your phone while it’s in your hand thing. Once I was on FaceTime with my FMIL and I said “hold on let me get my phone I’ve gotta show you something” and she let me run around for 15 minutes just watching me desperately trying to find my phone until I finally realized and she’s never let me live it down😂

[@fireboaserpent]

FMIL?

[@lacytaylor1501]

​@@fireboaserpent I'm guessing it's like first mother in law maybe, I don't know what else F could mean unless it's a typo somehow

[@ObtuseMori]

I've started looking for my earphones while they were in my ears playing music before. Also, on at least one occasion I suddenly panicked and thought I lost my car key... while I was driving 🤦‍♂

[@lacytaylor1501]

@@ObtuseMori I've had my headphones around my neck or even over my ears and started looking for them.

[@ObtuseMori]

@@lacytaylor1501 Our brains really are silly sometimes.

[@girl1213]

"Honey, we're gay now!" "What?!" (Shows post) "This person has relationship issues and is taking out on people in perfectly healthy relationships, aren't they?"

[@PutoMedicoBrujo]

THANK YOU!

[@vampsarecool]

I'm both bilingual and bisexual... ULTIMATE POWER!

[@breakfaith3031]

@vampsarecool do you also enjoy tricking your SO into drinking your... Nevermind, I don't want to know.

[@Roadent1241]

All hail!

[@behindzerosp]

If you ware noninary it would have been ultimate in between XD

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

Same!...I think

[@knrdvmmlbkkn]

"I'm both bilingual and bisexual... ULTIMATE POWER!" I beat you anyway... Trilingual here!

[@Ki-Wi-]

Mac has a point. Panthers aren't specific big cats- they're a sub category called panthera which does indeed include lions

[@birdybathtime389]

So the pink panther can be like a lion, leopard, tiger, Jaguar, snow leopard, hell who knows maybe he’s an extinct species of panthera but we don’t know it. Who knows

[@Ki-Wi-]

@@birdybathtime389 yup

[@rixtunz3625]

In the movie the Pink Panther is a rock.

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

@@birdybathtime389 Not only that, but the gene for leucism is more prevalent in lions and tigers (the Pink Panther doesn't have stripes so the latter is kinda irrelevant) than any other big cat. Leucism can cause a lion to be a variety of pale colors ranging from completely white to a pale pink. So tbh the pink panther is more likely a lion than any other big cat.

[@Gloomdrake]

@@rixtunz3625 David "a Rock" Jackson

[@KitsuneYashaX48]

Dude at the end was sorta me before finding out I needed back surgery. "I'm alright. I'm okay. Everything's fine. How am I on the ground?"

[@fredly5795]

Wait... If a straight man being a bottom and a straight woman being a top are considered "commiting homosexuality"... Does that mean bottom lesbians and top gay men are commiting heterosexuality ??? My head hurts

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

Exactly you succulent cheese! Edit: Okay I kinda zoned out while writing the comment, what the fluff is wrong with my brain?

[@Human-ui4uo]

Exactly! I new every time I had sex with a dude I was actually straight!

[@notascottishgirl2543]

No, no, no. Everyone is gay now with very few exceptions

[@foxinabox5103]

@@justafurrywithinternet317 succulent cheese is a good combo word

[@tatiana4050]

You see, gay is a verb, not a noun ir adjective

[@Liggliluff]

(8:45) Also she's saying it's _her_ wedding. No, it's yours, _both_ of yours wedding. Not just one of you. I think this attitude of "it's the bride's wedding" has gotten to her head.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

Eh, it sold dresses, magazines, cakes and so on. With capitalism, who cares about long term impact?

[@charliekahn4205]

@@VelaiciaCreator economists.

[@NerrawGnap]

⁠@@charliekahn4205 The people who will then have to live with said long-term consequences?

[@LRM12o8]

That last clip is just so impeccably motivational: _"If you can barely lift something up, you just need to throw it over your shoulder faster. You can carry anything if you throw it over your shoulder fast enough"_ 🤣

[@user-ft7fq4ou4v]

Gonna be honest, now I kinda want to make DnD character that's a cleric or something, and their prayer of healing is just a ten minute televangelist speech

[@AuntLoopy123]

I once spent almost an hour looking for my glasses, THAT WERE ON MY FACE THE WHOLE TIME, while my brother watched me and laughed his butt off. I do love him very much, but I got very salty about that.

[@wolvie1618]

Omg I've done that myself. Even was like "gee my eyesight is surprisingly clear right now, that'll make it MUCH EASIER TO FIND MY GLASSES"

[@thekingwhostitches]

Whereas if you’ve put your glasses down somewhere, you’re at the greatest disadvantage to finding them. I need glasses, to look for my glasses. Note to self, always buy two of EVERYTHING.

[@celestiagalaxy7571]

But then what do you do if you lose both of those

[@playercircuit]

@@celestiagalaxy7571 Buy another

[@Tasoq]

I once had them sitting on the top of head while looking for them, and when I looked down at a table, they literally fell down onto my face 😂

[@noxthedremoralord2683]

“We can all speak in ancient norse” I VOTE WE SPEAK THU’UM FROM NOW ON hit them all with those dragon shouts

[@shazerbake8430]

Amen brother

[@PROPAROXITONO]

"nazis look normal" yes, Hanna Arendt wrote an entire book specifically about it.

[@ladylucyofNewEngland]

5:25 Well technically, a Panther refers to any big cat that can roar, so yes it could be a lion. Edit: Sorry to be the "um axshully"

[@SingingSealRiana]

Yeah, looking lions are panthera

[@meroddaglenholm7924]

I once (during my MUCH younger and dumber days) was part of a 'real' vampire e-mail group. I never drank blood myself, but from what little that I remember the people who did drink were VERY careful about blood they drank. Usually self sourced or from a willing partner who has had their blood tested at a health clinic or hospital. Monthly 'leftovers' (OK. That is probably the absolute worst way to put it but ...) would not have been classed as a safe source by the people I used to know.

[@FoxFireNaruto]

At least they had some standards then.

[@breakfaith3031]

Even just reading this statement on what that wacko said makes me wanna throw my guts up

[@Fuchsschwester]

@@breakfaith3031 Same!

[@breakfaith3031]

@@Fuchsschwester could it be... Have I finally found my dude?

[@Fuchsschwester]

@@breakfaith3031 Well, I am female. But, how about a soulmate?

[@river-collective]

The one about manning up about periods is pretty similar to how people with chronic pain are treated. People who never experienced either seem to not understand how pain can come back and be just as bad if not worse. Like, some days I can walk mostly fine and other days I will limp with a cane. This can also be the same day.

[@annnee6818]

Oh god that sounds so bad. Like thinking about hysterectomy bad. I'm so sorry!! You've had endometriosis checked I presume? Oh sweetie I'm sorry that blows chunks!!

[@miciarokiri5182]

My pain isn't chronic but I have always had bad joints, some days/weeks are fine, and other times I am wearing a brace or walking with a cane to avoid worse pain. I am over weight (issue is way older than weight ) so we are working on getting that down, but it is hard when I can randomly feel like my ankles/knees/hips are made of glass

[@LRM12o8]

_"Man_ up about periods"_ ?! 😬 They're women, that's why they have them! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣

[@mildlymarvelous]

I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome that wasn’t properly diagnosed until I was 16, I feel this. My mom never understood why I cried and said I couldn’t do it and needed to rest so much at the end of a mile-long nature walk… thankfully she is now my biggest advocate and is the reason I even got a proper diagnosis.

[@enigmajindra460]

Exactly! It’s frustrating to deal with both

[@Geitungur]

Wait, Click is married? I didn't know Eldritch forces from the fourteenth layer of wholesome hell were allowed to!

[@alex_blue5802]

I think he just lives with his partner.

[@greencharisard1444]

I'm italian so the mozzarella made me cackle hard. And the lady looking for her baby with the baby in her arms is SO RELATABLE

[@Cecona]

As an Italian American I think I can explain the mozzarella thing. It’s either regional, or a version of the word no longer used in modern Italy. The kind of Italian stuff Italian Americans know tends to come from two or more generations ago. I’ve learned things they knew from back then don’t always line up with what is known in Italy today.

[@logitimate]

More specifically, to the best of my understanding, "Jersey Italian" tends to resemble *Southern* Italian dialects from several generations ago, before "standard" (i.e., standardized *Tuscan*) Italian became dominant throughout the peninsula, because Italian immigrants to the US came primarily from the poorer South rather than the (relatively speaking) more prosperous North.

[@Cecona]

@@logitimate yup! My great grandparents were from Sicily and Naples. This is definitely something common in New York Italians as well.

[@inkthekitsune]

Click yelling to his partner and confirming that he’s bottom… not what I expected when I clicked on this video. And flirting with himself at the start. He is the most wholesomely cursed being to ever live. Teach me your ways oh wise cliccy.

[@charliekahn4205]

He's professionally apathetic

[@scienceandponies]

I mean, the 6'4" guy has more "biological value" in a caloric sense. Gonna be eating well with him in the freezer.

[@0gammag0]

They had us in the first half not gonna lie

[@zirconblue1249]

Lmao

[@goldengryphon]

Depends on other things than height. Skinny tall guys are mostly bone. Even if they have decent musculature, there's a higher bone content in the carcass. It's one of the ways meat is graded - how much bone per the amount of meat. That's why "meat chickens" are different breeds than "egg chickens", and why "dairy cattle" aren't considered "beef cattle". Very different genes give very different body types even if the size is the same. And that's not something I ever expected to use in butchering humans, but the other, other white meat is valid.

[@scienceandponies]

@@goldengryphon I feel like I've wandered into a Rimworld thread.

[@goldengryphon]

@@scienceandponies Love the game. The latest update is trippy though. But, yeah. I can see that.

[@JadianRadiator]

26:35 Reminds me of another haunted house story. Two girls went. Girl 1 grabbed her friend and ran out. Except she grabbed a performer. And said performer grabbed Girl 2 so that the two friends wouldn't get separated.

[@obsidianicalmusic6993]

fun fact: In elementary school i used to be able to write in runes WAY better then in my native language, and a teacher actually supported it lmao

[@HaliaStone]

I used to do that when I was bored of schoolwork and wanted to write random shit. Then if it got confiscated no-one could read it.

[@Techy404]

can i see the runes?

[@dandelionmosssycamore8218]

Teach me your ways!

[@natnuss98]

I'm glad you had a supportive teacher

[@adio5071]

Which kind? Futhorc? Elder Futhark? Icelandic?

[@Kronopticon]

So, I'd wager the Childcare portion of that yearly expenses thing is probably to pay for someone else to look after their child, so they don't have to

[@chrispitchforth621]

$80,000 for a wedding is mental. Partially since she wanted him to get a second job. I spent £4,000 on my wedding. That included £600 behind the bar and £300 for a minibus. My wife was still trying to see if we could cut corners. Don't get me wrong, as long as you can afford it, have a big a wedding as you need.

[@nyandoesthings]

Yeah, the problem was her not being able to afford it (this isn't like, trying to argue with you, I think you know this already)

[@SaPiek]

The bride is clearly showing what she expects from her future married life.

[@andrewolson5471]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate that the anti-Asian racist Karen was getting into a Honda? The $42k child care is the nanny.

[@TwinMamaCrafts]

Not even a nanny (that would probably be more), that's likely day care at a facility.

[@ethereallum1nescence]

The one kid whos parents named them click: FINALLY SOME REPRES- Click telling them that his shirt would look better... off The kid: ent...ation-...

[@irenerichards9533]

I get so tired of people saying period cramps can’t be that bad. I literally fainted in class on the third day of high school because of the pain and proceeded to spend every fourth Wednesday home from school with my heating pad. And I have a high pain tolerance, less than four months after fainting in class I fractured my ankle but never realized it and kept walking on it. I found out it had been a fracture several years later during an MRI for an unrelated issue. Those period simulators should be a requirement in sex Ed classes

[@indrimza]

If people say that period cramps dont hurt, then we can just kick their balls and see if they feel pain :D

[@ginathecookie]

@@indrimza Repeatedly.. but i think the simulators might be a more humane option and involve less paperwork

[@indrimza]

@@ginathecookie eh good point

[@imalionimaqueen7234]

Fr we still have men and boys insisting that GIVING BIRTH is the same or less pain than being kicked in the balls. Just now doctors have finally confirmed that average period cramps are as painful as heart attacks, we do that for 5 days straight, and boys still insist they have it harder💀

[@jsrsprite9867]

See on the complete opposite end, I have fast periods (typically 3 but sometimes 4 days rather than 6 or 7 days) and relatively painless cramps, but even still it hurts. Unlike most other pain I never "got used to it". I thought I would get used to it because it makes logical sense that something happening over and over again would get less painful each time so it always made me mad that even my light period cramps didn't suddenly vanish, which js why I hated the argument of "getting used to it"... Once me and my friend had to help carry out my other friend to the nurse because she had a cramp so bad she couldn't walk and she sat with tears streaming down her face, like deadly silent. It wasn't fun. I feel bad knowing I don't share that experience, but also grateful I got a longer straw. My teacher asked if everything was alright when we got back and when we told him he looked concerned as well saying his daughter had those problems too. It wasn't fun. Most periods aren't just something people can handle, and holy crap yours sound horrible, I send my condolences.

[@00Temporary00]

The “Childcare” category probably refers to the cost to send the children to daycare or having a babysitter so the parents can go to work. I don’t have kids, but I have friends who do and childcare is one of the things they constantly complain about being way too expensive.

[@350606]

Or somebody had a divorce...

[@00Temporary00]

@@350606 Yes, that can also be expensive.

[@Ragness10]

15:33 No no, Florida's TOO south. We don't claim them

[@NerrawGnap]

Fun fact, Hawaii is actually the southernmost US state.

[@Zualio]

The laser rays above telescopes are "Laser guide stars". They help to keep the telescope steady and to correct for atmospheric disturbances. There are very cool images of this on wikipedia, too.

[@thelazygamer2195]

17:30 Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t feeding someone else your blood a form of bioterrorism? Also, isn’t tampering with someone’s food a felony (at least in the US.)

[@gaxalee7392]

I don’t know if it’s considered bioterrorism, but it is considered attempted poisoning, can be considered attempted murder, and is highly illegal. Also, yes, tampering with someone’s food is a felony because that can very quickly turn deadly.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

It's illegal if they don't know you're doing it. If they know you put blood in the food and decide to eat it anyway it's not illegal because they consented. At least in the US. On a related note, cannibalism is also technically legal if the everyone involved consents.

[@Gabi-vt4ex]

It's definetely a felony in most countries

[@Arkylie]

It's also a fail of basic Informed Consent. If you know a crucial fact that would make someone reevaluate whether to do the thing, and you withhold that fact so that they do the thing regardless, that's... that pretty much makes you a horrible person. Applies to "would they have sex with me if they knew X?" and "would they eat this if they knew Y?" It doesn't matter if *you* don't think it's a big deal -- if it's something that the average person would at least have to stop and think about, then there's a moral imperative to be honest about it. "I dropped the food on the floor, but brushed it off and he'll never know" is bad enough; "I ran out of chicken so I added pork, even though I know he's Jewish/Muslim" is horrible; "I added my own bodily fluids to this meal for my own effed-up reasons" is horrific and this woman should go single for the rest of her life because she lacks the ability to care about her partner's rights and free will.

[@circomatic6124]

@@gaxalee7392 So this is why every chef who put just a little bit of bacon in my vegetarian order " Just for taste" is in jail right now? - oh. Wait. They're not. Where was it again you achieved your doctor in law, medicine and Dining? And please google the meaning of " Bioterrorism ", if you are not sure if this falls into the category. Well, there is indeed a big queue to the hague., all Sushi Chefs and Steakhouse Owners. I mean who in their right mind would eat raw animal tissue or bloody things? And who are these 45 people that thought: I will just give this a like, even though it obviously doesn't make any sense?

[@MsLiaria]

To be fair... her book wasn't titled "How to Murder Your Husband AND Get Away With It"

[@indrimza]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@irrelevant_noob]

That's the sequel if she can win the case. :-)

[@indrimza]

@@irrelevant_noob unfortunately she didnt

[@WestGarbage6]

@@indrimza Dang, I was looking forward to reading that book/j

[@Kate-is5mz]

3:43 "Love should be between a man and a woman", well shit. I'm going to call my mother now and tell her that my love for her is unngodly and we need to sease immediately and repent for that god awful sin.

[@BigMythicLizard]

Self affirmation is important

[@lazygoat]

Fun Fact: Panthers are not animals but are instead a genus of big cat which includes, yes, Lions. The iconic Black Panther are a melanistic variant of a leopard or jaguar. Fun Fact 2: There are pink panthers in the wild, although exceptionally rare some leopards can have a pink colouration to their fur.

[@anakinoliver]

Thank you. I was going to do post this, but took the time to look if someone had already done it

[@Doublemonk0506]

Fun fact 3: The Pink Panther originally was the name of the diamond that the feline fiend stole, but because the Pink Panther was pink and a big cat, people thought the name Pink Panther applied to the Pink Panther, thus the name for a diamond was given to a panther

[@jockeyfield1954]

i actually found this out by doing research on cheetahs. ngl, big cats are always my favorite type of animals so it was a pleasent surprise to find out that most of them are panthers. on a somewhat related note, cheetahs are not panthers. this was a less pleasent surprise to me. my favorite of the cats is just an outlier, an impostor. not even a panther. WHY MUST GOD PAIN ME LIKE THIS?!

[@lazygoat]

@@jockeyfield1954 If you really think about it that just makes cheetahs extra special

[@jockeyfield1954]

@@lazygoat wow. never really thought about it like that. btw, i love people like you. you find the positivity in just about everything there is which i could definitely use more of in my life. thank you for making me realize that cheetahs are even more special than i ever thought. good little unique big kitties

[@icenerdy]

“Let’s speak ancient Norse” Me an Icelandic person: already one step ahead of you 👀

[@charliekahn4205]

It's a bit different. Closer, but not quite the same as talking ancient Danish.

[@chickenpermission1861]

Honestly the funniest thing about the “pink panther” convo is that lions actually ARE panthers. Panthers as an individual species aren’t a thing, it’s a genus(?) called Panthera that includes many big cats, including Lions. Since the “Pink Panther” is obviously a funny play on the Black panther, which is the name for any melanistic cat in Panthera, it is entirely possible that the pink panther is in fact a type of lion.

[@ruthfischer7615]

Isn't it actually from a series of French (?) movies where they hunted a criminal by that name. I think it was a comedy but I'm mot sure anymore.

[@MedionSinger]

@@ruthfischer7615 It wasn't a criminal of the same name. The Pink Panther is a massive diamond with a flaw in the middle that looks like a big pink cat. Bit late on the reply, but only just seen the video.

[@ruthfischer7615]

@@MedionSinger Thanks! I'm not sure I have ever seen a complete movie of this so I didn't know that.

[@IDOLL_Dev]

You're absolutely right for bringing up Falcon when that person asked about black superheroes. In their defense, a lot of people used to call him 'Black Falcon' up until at least the Bronze Age, to the point that some fans believed he had dropped the 'Black' from his name when he appeared in the MCU, but in fact that has actually never been his name ever. This is even addressed in his Disney+ show. The Black in Black Panther is redundant but powerful, but it might not have been what they meant, considering there was the Black Adam (who's NOT a superhero) movie coming up, Black Lightning, Black Vulcan from Superfriends (with that quotable "White Fish" line in Harvey Birdman) Black Racer, Blackwing, The Black Spider and Black Eagle who are all PoC. They're lesser known of course but might have contributed to the misunderstanding about having "black" in the name.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

Then we have Spawn, Cloak, Falcon(obviously), Bulletproof, Darkwing1 and 2(his sidekick successor), Ironheart, Green Lantern, Blade(though he's kinda iffy), Spider-Man(Miles), Warmachine, Superman on a variety of different Earths, Hawkgirl, Green Arrow, Cyborg, Captain Marvel, Batwing 1 and 2, Aqualad, and sure, lets throw in Taranee Cook from W.I.T.C.H. because she cool. This is not even that many names from the full list and I saw fewer names than this that even had "Black" or something indicating the colour in the list. Sure, Darkwing could be conflated as such, but in the comic the Darkwing we first saw was white and his sidekick was black, so the name did not come from his skin. I get that most normies don't really know about how MANY black superheroes there are, but it's literally a google search away. I'm probably going to be reading a bunch of these one day if I have time.

[@Flufux]

I guess black panther kinda works because it's also a reference to the animal his costume is based on. However, at the same time, a black panther is really just a dark-furred leopard or jaguar, so...yeah.

[@chatboulon743]

I don't know why people are complaining about "black" being in the name. It sounds cool and powerful. Are people THAT sensitive with a color?

[@a3r0dy89]

This is why I dont click read more anymore

[@Zachary-]

Black Panther is named Black Panther because he's named after the black panther which is...a black panther.

[@thearoaceartist5463]

Me and my mum spent 15 minutes searching for her glasses after we did face masks. They were in her hair. In my defense, I _also_ wasn't wearing my glasses.

[@Vahlee-A]

This is actually how I lose 90 percent of the polarized glasses I buy, even though I'm always too lazy to put them back in their storage bag.

[@amarisfrede2]

I think that's a cute story. Hope you two had lots of fun!

[@Luubelaar]

One time I was going crazy looking for my glasses. Could not find them. My husband was just laughing at me. I was furious and called him an asshole for not helping me look for them. He walked up to me and pushed them off my head and they plopped down onto the bridge of my nose. He then said "will these ones do til you find the other ones?" Ratbag. 🤣 (We're still married. 22 years now. And I stopped putting my glasses on top of my head.)

[@tiptoetallyhoe4439]

“What’s the child care for” I don’t know why but I was nearly screaming at my screen saying “ it’s paying for people to look after your kids”

[@alexmcd378]

Right along with "the youth invading Normandy", in my area it went from "I hope my kids never have to work in a coal mine " to"my grandparents raised our families on coal, bring back coal jobs!" Actually, the grandparents fight against fascism too. I'm seeing a disturbing pattern

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

I remember learning english as a kid and once I was thinking and I formulated a sentence with the singular they. I thought "funny how "they" is also used in the singular" and that was it. I only found out what non binary was years later.

[@heatherduke7703]

Except that ‘they’ is never used to refer to a specific singular person, only to a generic where the gender is unknown. I was in a situation where we were trying to use “they” as a singular replacement referring to a specific individual and it created a lot of confusion. It’s not how the language works. If I’m referring to a person who doesn’t want to use gendered terms, I’ll just use their name as much as possible

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

@@heatherduke7703 No, I was thinking of a specific person when I formulated that sentence. A man. But "them" felt more natural than "him"

[@hailbones666]

@Heather Duke Language evolves, and this is just one example.

[@ItsBrittanyBirch]

Every time Click laughs in vids, you can feel his sanity crumbling away as he regrets having to pay his bills like this

[@dodgermutt]

Related to the Eye of Sauron thing when I worked at Convergys they promoted a coworker to manager and we were happy for him until he turned out to be a really shitty boss. I started calling him Quisling and not long after everyone started calling him that. Years after I left the company I ran into someone and told them about this and they informed me that not only did Quisling still work there but he loved the nick name and never picked up on the origins of the name or the negative association the name has since WWII.

[@TheZincMaster-on1fy]

Wait what's the negative conations for Quisling?

[@dodgermutt]

@@TheZincMaster-on1fy The name means traitor. When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, Quisling attempted a pro-German coup against the government. He headed a pro-German administration from 1942 to 1945. His betrayal of Norway to Germany has made his name into a label for all collaborators and traitors.

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@TheZincMaster-on1fy it basically mean traitor

[@chinacetacean]

@@kaiseremotion854 could you elaborate a bit on this? What's the origin

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@chinacetacean A guy name quisling was a traitor? kinda like benedict arnold

[@MaskedReviews]

Childcare just means paying the people that watch your kids while you work. Like a babysitter or daycare

[@amandag8629]

i just cracked up so much at this section, since he’s from Sweden, I can assume he didn’t know that Americans pay for childcare outside of school so the parents can work their jobs.

[@Lil_Warrior_Princess]

I'm a Satanist learning Norwegian, and I will now call myself The Clock.

[@Sr_ECO]

Let me guess, you like viking helmets with horns?

[@Lil_Warrior_Princess]

@@Sr_ECO no, actually there's no historical evidence that any Nordic tribe had horns on their helmets. I do however make broadswords and axes, and more recently custom tools.

[@Sr_ECO]

@@Lil_Warrior_Princess yeah i know they never had horns in their helmets, but you know, sometimes fantasy is cooler than reality, even if it's ridiculous like horns on helmets or war hammers that weight 100 kg

[@Lil_Warrior_Princess]

@@Sr_ECO it really looks ridiculous though. Sorry.

[@missy2375]

Jeg lærer også norsk, lærer du bokmål, nynorsk, eller begge deler? For tiden, jeg lærer bokmål

[@Mojo_3.14]

That Mom who forgot she was holding her baby is also probably operating on less than four hours sleep. She has a baby after all.

[@Roadent1241]

I assumed two kids, that's really not a lot of sleep, if I had to guess. But yeah, the brain is dumb sometimes. Very good at blanking things out though.

[@progdragon9218]

"Honey, we're gay now" he said, not realizing how much information he just conveyed to his cult

[@alex_blue5802]

I like this interpretation, but the comment painted some pretty normal heterosexual stuff as gay.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

@@alex_blue5802 True, but people have imaginations and many have the hots for Click. P sure the math calculates itself there.

[@Zappy_Jax]

"I’m gonna burn in hell and I’m gonna enjoy it" That’s a "*straight*" mood right there-

[@gachagames9035]

Hell yeah