chat

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Asking the cigar smoking community on hexbear, what are your favourites? How you usually enjoy them and perhaps with what?

I personally don’t smoke that much, like to get a good one(be that Romeo and Juliet or other brand, don’t really have big preferences, much just the quality of it and Cuban origin) and then smoke it trough a hike. Goes nice together while sightseeing.

This shit really shatters my fantasy of post gen x people fostering a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture.

Not even joking.

She's a full foot shorter than me and she dresses punk and kinda masc and emo, has a pink mohawk she's growing out into a deathhawk, she's a huge weeb and nerd and we're into a lot of the same stuff, she makes her own cider and leathercraft and even blacksmiths sometimes.

Spent the night at her house after work Monday night, then spent the entire day with her. Cooked breakfast for us, then we took her dog out to a park so her mom could see pilates clients, then met one of her friends for drinks and some card games while we finished watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, then went to bed together one last time before I had to leave at midnight. All told we spent over 24 hours together and it was great and I'm super happy and I feel like she was the exact type of person I was looking for.

So it is worth it to go out there and use the stupid apps and try to date people because you might get lucky and find someone great. It can happen

you too can go from to

Was this one added today after Assange was freed or has it just been cooking in the backend for 2 years?

Come on fess up

• Javier Millei
• Emmanuel Macron
• John Fetterman
• Yoon Suk Yeol
• Donald Trump
• Elon Musk

lmfao fuck these guys. tho i probably should have seen it coming and job searched during my FMLA.

I caught her sniffing my foot like some kind of hexbear freak.

got appointed to a position with the federal government with onboarding scheduled to start in about two weeks.

took an at-home THC test after a month abstinent and it was positive

i was recommended for the post by someone I knew and now they're going to look bad to their higher ups

feels bad man

This guy! 👍👍

Seems like this is the new fad everyone wants to make content making fun of these individuals with deep deep mental problems.

I don't like it, I know when I consumed "lolcow content" I was not in a good place at all and thought laughing at someone else misfortunes would make me feel better.

Everyone wants to make "Cyraxx" or "kingcobra" content on YouTube. I'm not saying these individuals are always the best of people, (they aren't) but well you guys know what I'm going say

Tldr lolcowcontent is not healthy for anyone and it's irritating how much it seems to have taken off recently

Seriously. He's a piece of shit

They're basically full incels who claim women are shallow and hate men below 6 foot....

and dudes 'dick sizing' posting selfies of their faces to each other "no I'm more handsome than you" pure incel weirdo shit

Bonus points if the author first mentions a specific trait, physical build, or whatever else halfway through the novel and totally fucks up my mental image.

I don't expect a biology model description for each character, but write me something brief and evocative of how they should look, you fucking dork author. I don't even know how tall she should be, her hair colour, anything. Why are you like this, author?

I did not and now I feel like ass mentally and I'm just gonna wallow in it until tomorrow.

That's all I guess.

Bit me

I’m temp banned from /c/mutual_aid. I could really use some help—please DM me for links to my CashApp and stuff.

Everything sucks.

I refuse to stop mentioning my wife

You know, oscillating fans, the little 12"-20" fans that rotate on a pedastil with three speeds, usually? As a relatively poor kid, the air conditioner in the bedroom is the first one I've ever owned in my life. I grew up around these rattly white plastic fan things. Three-blade, cheapo plastic, bought-from-walmart $20 specials. Usually Intertek branded in North America, because lol. For most of my life these goofy things have just been ambiently existing objects in my house, I'd dust em when needed. Recently though, one of the older ones, (mfd Oct 2013) a real generic 16" job with a garbo aluminium stand, started running really slow.

At first I assumed it just had electrical issues, y'know bad caps or a short or resistance, whatever. When I took it apart today though I noticed there was a ton of hair wrapped around the center shaft that turns the blade. (We both have extremely long hair) Cut it all away with a utility knife, but at that point, with the fan's cage open and the blades off I got curious...

Unscrew the back of the cage from the front of the fan body, (where the motor is housed) look inside, turns out the entire thing is clogged with dust and hair, mostly cat hair. Got a duster can and blew it all out, the thing expelled a cloud of fuckin' dust on my balcony but when I got it back together, while it now ran fullspeed (wow!) it made a pretty painfully loud squeaking/scraping noise while spinning.

I wasn't real sure what to do, but my wife suggested oil... not motor oil, we don't have any since I'm not a gearhead, but like, canola oil or sunflower oil? Just applied with the hard end of a cotton bud along where the shaft connects to the motor, and it'll trickle in??? I assumed canola oil would be conductive and this sounded like a really bad idea to me, I was sure it'd explode. I even put the fan outside, closed the balcony door and ran a cable inside to test, in case it magic-smoked itself.

Sure enough though, dumping food oil down the motor of a standing fan results in perfect silence...?

Reassembled the thing, buttoned it up and it was literally good as new. Oscillates smoothly, spins stronger than when I first got it, and is dead silent. We did it to our other two goofy canadian tire special fans the same way, and it's been great for them too, somehow. Fucking canola oil...

I make this post mostly because I have never even heard the concept of repairing/servicing these standing fans entertained. It's like toasters, or how non-techbrained people view computers: just a simple appliance. I knew about dusting them of course, but otherwise for my entire life whenever one crapped out, BANG instantly trashed! Another $20 down, unlimited disposable replacement upon standing fans! Turns out that curiosity and basic disassembly ability (all we used was a phillips head screwdriver, a duster can, the aforementioned oil, windex and paper towels) will probably let you keep these dumb things running for a lot longer than ten years. Whoda thunk it??? This does make sense, given that many oscillating fans are on 24/7 in the summer. Something like that easily earns a bit of maintenance, and this is gonna be a yearly check-up activity for us now!

So I guess the point is, if you're not rich enough to air condition every room where you live, or even just have standing fans anyway, give em some love and they might benefit a lot ✨

Some pretty cool stuff, but the standout was a socialist group handing out flyers. I told my friend they're probably Trots. Passed by them and they tried to get me to sign a petition to get their candidate on the ballot. They open with telling me that they're Trots lol!

I made it 546 kilometres in 19 days, with ~350 left to go. Idk if my water filter failed or there was a hygiene slipup, but I woke up Thursday feeling super fatigued and that quickly slipped into beaver fever symptoms (or some kind of infection/parasite).

Now I've spent the last few days recovering on the couch and picking up reading again. Still feels like a big achievement, but I had a bit of a short time window to finish the trail. Now I'll probably be too busy for the rest of the warmer season and have to wait until next year.

Ok so I'm newly single after a very very bad marriage. I had tried the dating apps a few months ago and go literally ZERO matches. I was frustrated but realized they are mainly just scams now. I deleted my accounts and gave up on dating for now.

The past week I uploaded a video of me hitting baseballs in my yard onto IG and literally got 3 women who slid into my DMs within a day 🤷

Thinking outside the box, folks.

the forest is sparkling

So, I went to a fancy dinner at a country club over the weekend, and ate the caesar salad (rookie mistake).

Naturally, I woke up Sunday with food poisoning.

After a brief study of literature regarding the effectiveness of Gatorade compared to $20/litre pediatric ORS, I went to the supermarket, only to discover that powdered gatorade was apparently not a thing anymore in my neck of the woods.

So instead, I bought iced tea powder, thinking that I would just add salt to it (you can probably see where this is going now)

I chugged down multiple litres of delicious iced tea with a few teaspoons of salt in them over the next few days as I shat water.

On the third day, I stub my toe, and wake up with an intense pain in my big toe.

I go to the clinic the after calling into work, beleiving that I had dislocated my toe due to the pain when moving or putting weight on the toe.

I get the requisition for the X-ray, and I am able to get the results reviewed the same day.

The X-ray is normal, and lo and behold, I found out that I have fucking gout as if I am King Henry the whatever

I'd been making and chugging 2l Jugs of 50% less sugar partially stevia'd iced tea.

For a week straight.

I bought a 715g container of powder that has maybe half a cup left.

TL,DR: The 3:1 sugar to salt ratio for diarrheal re-hydration is sacred, and violating it will hast thou smote by divine retribution.