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Cake day: November 2nd, 2023

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  • Seeing this post made me physically cringe. I am “The Public.”

    In my late 20s, my ear started hurting. I was utterly convinced it was just a stubborn clump of earwax. I went to the pharmacy and bought one of those bulb syringes for rinsing ears. The pharmacist calmly and explicitly instructed me: “Make sure you only use lukewarm water.” I went home, washed my ear canal, and nothing happened. I figured I’d just give it a few days to loosen up.

    Over the next couple of days, the pain escalated to an excruciating level. I’m talking find-chair, put-my-head-in-my-lap kinda pain. And as my son had just been born, I was operating on a good mix of extreme pain and severe sleep deprivation.

    Eventually, i came to the conclusion that hotter water = more wax melting, and if lukewarm water didn’t work, maybe it just needs more heat. The hotter the water, the better chance it has of melting the wax, right? So, I boiled some water. And with zero hesitation, I injected boiling hot water directly into my ear canal.

    It was not earwax.

    I ended up at the doctor, where I learned that the initial agony was actually a severe case of otitis media (a middle ear infection). And thanks to my brilliant home remedy, I had managed to add a scorched ear canal and a secondary outer ear infection right on top of it.

    So yeah. When that optometrist said, “Look at me. I want you to understand that I mean water that has been boiled and has since cooled down,” he was talking to me. I am the guy.



  • Well, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like the man any more than you do. But I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people on the planet does not give a fuck, or might even know who the guy is.

    My critique is not of the intent of the message, just the fact that ppl from the US think that all that happens in the US must be on the world agenda, and is probably that most important thing in the universe right now…

    This self importance is tiring, and stretches from left to right in US politics.









  • I fucking hate LinkedIn… and the way peoples post their “achievements” like anybody care. “So proud to announce I was promoted to Assistant Regional Manager of Paper Clips”… and then 500 comments sayin “Congrats!” “So deserved!” “Ur an inspiration!!” STOP LYING!!

    The worst is them “influencers” who post fake stories about how they hired a homeless man and now he’s the CEO of 7 companies. Or the “I woked 25 hours every day for 10 years and now I successful, you could to”, I get physically sick of reading that rubbish.

    And don’t get me started on the polls!! “Do u think workers should get bathroom breaks? Yes/No/Maybe/LinkedIn Premium™️” WHO IS VOTING MAYBE?? It just engagement bait shit!!

    Every morning I open the app and see people I went to school with pretending they Steve Jobs of selling insurance or whatever.

    But the company I work for keep saying “we want engagement on our LinkedIn posts, please like them”… and I guess I’m not better that all the other corporate sheep