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Cake day: April 3rd, 2024

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  • Go right ahead. I don’t want them anymore. Be a bit hard to explain at the ER. Ballus Spontanious Explodicus isn’t covered at med school I don’t think. Not sure, doc, they just sort of exploded, you know? Isn’t that always the case? No, no replacement testosterone please, I’ll manage. Just stem the bleeding and I’ll be out of your hair. What was that? Psyche eval? Nah, I’m fine. Really I am. No need for that.

    It might sting a little, but it’ll be worth it. Do it now, before I lose my courage. I can always say I had an accident and fell on the lubed up light bulb and it sort of got stuck up there. Then my balls exploded as well. Talk about unlucky.



  • I’ve badly played some competitive table tennis and I’d not take a single point. There is however the chance that the pro fouls a serve. Not a big chance if they are just making safe serves and prepares to murder me on the off chance I get the serve back over the net. I doubt I would, even if I’m better than average.

    I played someone at a corporate event who obviously had played quite a lot for fun and with friends, but he hadn’t played anyone who could spin the ball. After I noticed, he hardly got anything over the net or on the table anymore, even if he was good for an amateur. The same goes for playing the pros. Even if you know how to handle spin, the amount of spin pros can put on a ball is unbelievable and your ball will hit the net or be way off the table. Every time. No exceptions. None.

    Spin is only one aspect of the game. Speed is another and at that level it is unbelievably fast. The speed the balls have that the pros are able to return is fantastic. To even produce those speeds isn’t something most can do, and to do it on a ball from a pro and also hit the table? No. Just no.

    I’ve played lowest league players where I went without points and even they certainly wouldn’t get any points in the Olympics. Your chances in all this? Figure it out.








  • Yeah. Gets expensive. I’ve been buying a lot of second hand which for base items like tops and tees works pretty well. If it doesn’t fit, I just return it. I buy the very cheapest ones for just wearing around the house or for working in the garden or the car and stuff like that.

    Depending on where you are, online second hand may not be an option, but if it is, it can save you some money.

    I haven’t found my look yet so there is a lot of experimenting and to keep the cost manageable, second hand is a great choice. Although I may love an item I’ve bought, I may never wear it again, because I’m over 50 and not a 16 year old punk girl. I’m still in denial about that.

    I too do the “maybe it’ll work despite being two sizes too small” thing. It never does so back it goes. I’ve learned from my ex wife to ruthlessly send back things that doesn’t fit or doesn’t look good on you when you try them on. She easily sends back 70% of what she orders. As a baby trans, I have no idea what I’m doing so I don’t feel bad about sending a lot of stuff back. That said, I do keep a lot of clothes that I most likely never will wear again.





  • His whole look is very not butch. That beard is very well groomed and his hair is immaculate. His skin also looks very cared for. I do believe his dear papa may have been a lumberjack.

    Nothing wrong with that of course, but I think he would be a lot happier if he just embraced it, poor thing.


  • Yeah, there’s no umlaut in Bifrost. Umlauts may look very 70s - 80s heavy metal cool and it arguably worked for Motörhead, but not for anyone else, sorry. No, Mötley Crüe is not a valid counterexample.

    Btw, “ö” is pronounced like the “i” in “girl”. Now pronounce the words above out loud and you’ll realize how you look to half of Europe. (Much less actually, but why let facts ruin a perfectly good argument.) Ø is pretty much the same letter and is pronounced similarly, except maybe in Danish, but Danish sounds eerily similar to goats choking on their second helping of shrooms, so there’s just no way to know which sound is meant to be “Ø”. Or any other letter, but I digress.

    Bifrost is actually pronounced like “Bifröst” in several Swedish dialects, but that too is severely uncool so my point still stands. If I were to make a comparison, those dialects are about as sexy as, say, a Yorkshire, a Cockney or any US dialect. You don’t want to sound like that, now do you? Of course not.