I was talking to my wife about the feeling of underachieving relative to unrealistic childhood goals, and she mentioned that she never thought she was smart or special enough as a child to dream of being THE anything. Like she wanted to work in science, but never took that to mean that she wanted to be THE one to get famous curing cancer or writing a Malcom Gladwell-type book or running her own lab.
I, of course, think she is the most special genius I know, and I think she’d do a great job in any of those situations, but the depressingly realistic expectations she set out of lower self-confidence as a kid have now served her well in terms of job and life satisfaction. It made me sad to hear and angry at her parents for not communicating that she was and is exceptional, but I am also sad and angry that I am not the next Bob Dylan with a universal acceptance of my genius and no need to do anything but write poetry and receive accolades. At the same time, I’d hate to actually live on the road and/or have the life of most ultra-famous writers, but I still feel like I’ve betrayed my childhood potential by not doing so and by being unremarkable.
Hard to say if that disappointment is worse than growing up without being told you even could achieve something like that. My wife is healthy now, but had a lot of shit she had to overcome in her childhood and adult mental health journeys, and while/since I have as well, I don’t think we’ll ever get answers about every different thing that affects our current and past contentedness. So I am just left with the contradictory disappointments of having failed to live up to grand self-determined goals and that no one ever told my wife she could set hers like the incredible person, thinker, and worker she is–even knowing that just may have led to her feeling my current disappointment in place of any she felt as a child.
Long and complicated, no resolution, it’s just been weird to see and think about our two very different experiences.
While your instincts may say so, not according to any one of the major style guides (AP, MLA, Chicago, NYT, APA, Columbia). An apostrophe is only added for possessives rather than plurals with acronyms, but a lot of people still add them erroneously. Most sources online will say “don’t do it but some people do by mistake.”
That and, depending on the stylebook you use, some specific words and uppercase letters that could be considered confusing when pluralized, like “Oakland A’s” and “Do’s and Don’ts” (according to AP, while I much prefer Chicago’s guidelines).
Folks should just remember that apostrophes are never used to pluralize. Of course there are like 2 exceptions, but better to be right 98 times out of 100 than guess every time.
Surprisingly hard. Confused me in just the right way, made me ask just the right questions about who could have written this and how someone ended up with it in an entirely unhideable spot. Also reminded me of how many people there are out there making decisions every day that I can’t imagine…
I’m afraid you have too much faith in the decision-making of certain people. Apparently this text is from a preexisting meme, and even if 99.999% of people would never permanently put a meme tweet directly on their neck forever, there are 7 million people walking around with tweets tattooed on them.
Just look at all the copycat “shrimps is bugs” tattoos out there…
This actually makes me laugh pretty good. Side of the neck is an insane place for it, but the joke lands perfectly and rewards rereads. 9/10 humor, 0/10 decision-making.
Thank you Kanye, very funny.
Context/original memes video?
“Where’s the body!” “Where’s the steering wheel!” “Where’s the father!” One of his classics…
Images stitched together in order capture the amount of time that passed, yeah. They’re just not from the right years for that.
Yes, trust AI, that’s what Ryan Gosling looked like 14 years ago.
Definitely seems to work better/more consistently now
I thought the snail was garlic
"Yeah? The jerk store called! They’re out of you!
Did they manage a fix?
Opening external works; the bug is that the gifs don’t load in the app
Nope, I can see all NSFW posts that aren’t linked to redgifs and maybe 25% of redgifs links load correctly, but 75% stay loading until the “Exception: failed to retrieve…” pops up as a banner at the bottom of my screen.
Good call, hadn’t even thought of that as a possibility!But nope (thankfully!), in a sane, blue, porn-friendly state, and looks like everything works for me in my browser.
The OCs, (aka Osees, the Oh Sees, the O.C.s) are a lo-fi psych garage rock band with over a dozen albums. Their sound is unique, but could best be compared to other psychedelic and punk-influenced bands like Witch and Ty Segal.