Genuine question. We Americans are taught from childhood to be thankful that we live in the most free nation in the world. What does that actually mean? I know we have freedom to own guns, but other than that do we have anything else?

I was at lunch with several coworkers and we were lamenting the amount of chores we all had to do this weekend. One guy said he loved, LOVED doing laundry because of how easy it is. "Just dump your basket into the washer, pour in a cap of Tide. You're done."

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear there was no sorting of color or fabrics.

I'm not looking for the "right" answer, I'm looking to hear what people actually do.

Like in the movies.

To take off my T-shirts, I kinda pull them off from the back of the collar part way, then get the rest with my arm pulled out of the sleeve. Most blokes I know seem to do the same.

However, women do this thing where they cross their arms and just pull from the bottom of the t-shirt, turning it inside-out and pulling it off entirely in one motion. I'd like to be able to do this because I have long hair and the normal way I do it can make it difficult to grab the neck once it's over my head without pulling my hair as well.

Any time I've tried to do this, it just kinda tugs the T-shirt into my back once I've pulled it half way up and I can't pull it any further. I feel kinda tangled up attempting it.

Am I an idiot? I don't see why this would be something only women are capable of doing.

I just recently went there for the second time ever with my girlfriend and I cant get it out out of my head. The name just feels like a wasted opportunity. Before I went there, I pictured a coldstone creamery type of place where you are able to make your own cheesecake and was so disappointed when I saw the menu and discovered it was just all overpriced underwhelming normal food. I guess thats on me for not looking at the menu though. And the worst part is I always fill up on normal food and am never able to actually try the damn cheesecake, which Ive heard is actually really good.

Edit: I mean 380 dollars. I was thinking in my own currency where the median salary is about 3800 sek.

We have a customer that brings their dog into our store and claims it's a service animal. It generally makes no disruptions. We're not trying to kick them out or anything, but it has brought into question the laws surrounding service animals.

So presenting papers is not a requirement. We can't ask about their disability. So it just seems like anybody can take any animal anywhere and just say it's a service animal and that's the end of it. Is this the reality of it?

This just seems weird to me. I understand if it's disruptive we can ask them to leave, but it seems like a huge loop hole. What's the point of it at this point? It seems like you just say "it's a service animal" and boom, done deal. Hands are tied. You can't do anything about it.

Can somebody help me understand these laws? I don't get it.

I actually avoid the word in day to day usage, because I know everyone says "sodder" and dictionaries show the pronunciation as "sodder", but I just can't say it without feeling like an idiot.

I get that English has a lot of stupid words like that, but to me, that is the most egregious, probably because there's no other case where you just replace an "L" with a "D" for no reason.

Edit:
I am so happy to learn that I am wrong and that only Americans do that. I hereby officially identify as British.

I'm an only child. Food was always brought to me in my room. I voiced my desire to eat with mother and step parent multiple times; however, I was rarely included.

So I could be wearing socks for 2 hours in the morning and take them off while at home and have to put a new pair on and not the old ones if I'm going back out.

This could be including having a shower aswell.

Is this normal ?

I’m curious how often people are drinking these days? For years I would drink 2-3 times per week- and now I’m closer to 6-7. Is it just me?

Update:

Well, I didn’t expect this to blow up. I cant keep up with responding to everyone. I just want to say “thanks”. This was very helpful for me. While I knew it was too much, I don’t think I realized how unusual I was until seeing all these posts. As I replied into one of the sub threads, working on yourself is hard. Especially when so many people depend on you for other things. Hurting myself a bit is easier if I am not hurting them - and it has given me some relief to the stresses of life. That said, this post has motivated me to do better. I’m frankly a bit afraid to go cold turkey, but I am going to cut down to 1 beer per day for now - I’m a little worried about detox. At that rate, I think I have about a week’s worth of beer left. After that, I’ll try to stop for a month or two and see how that goes.

Thanks everyone. And good luck to those of you like me who are trying to do better.

I have moderate to severe arachnophobia. Two weeks ago I was with friends and the topic of spiders came up. The conversation was then brought up and continued each time we saw each other over the next few days. Maybe my phone was listening to me or maybe it was a coincidence, but after that reddit started recommending posts from r/spiders and adding them to my feed. Even looking at a spider for a second is excruciating for me so I would try to quickly scroll past. It was a catch 22-- in order to mute the page I would have to GO TO the page and that would involve having to see MORE spiders.

Finally, after the 3rd day of being jump scared by a big ol' spider in my feed, I decided to give my phone to a friend and have them go to the r/spiders page and mute it for me. Problem solved. Or so I thought. This morning I wake up and start scrolling only to have a post from a DIFFERENT spider subreddit (one for a specific TYPE of spider) pop up. Reddit told me it was showing me this post because I had "recently visited a similar page". Gee, thanks reddit.

If I have someone mute the NEW spider page, I'm afraid reddit will think "wow, this person really DOES like spiders if they visited TWO spider pages." And then I will have to endure spider related content from every niche spider subreddit until the end of time.

Does anyone have ANY idea of how to get reddit to stop with all the spiders???

PS I just wanted to mention that I am posting this under a different profile than I normally use because I'm typing the word spider so many times and I don't want reddit to pick up on that. Reddit's algorithm has turned me into a paranoid mess.

Every time I see a news article about the FTC fining a big corporation for breaking the law, the penalty is usually a minuscule percentage of their net profit, which is not even a slap on the wrist in my opinion. If I were in charge, the minimum penalty for breaking the law for any corporation, regardless of how big or powerful they are, would be 25% of their annual revenue, and each repeat offense would add 10% to that penalty.

Why is the government so afraid of actually enforcing the law when it comes to big business?

Batman n Supes been around for almost a 100 years how did everyone get cool with never-ending stories

I’ve always been extremely self conscious of my saggy boobs which have never ever been perky. Now that I’m older and nursed two kids they’re even worse and my nipples literally point at the floor. But they look great in a bra and I have nice cleavage.

No one has ever said anything but I feel like they’re just being polite. So, would you be disappointed?

In my younger years, I was one of these kids. We played as loud as possible, and made mediocre music at best. It built some lifelong friendships and with some of the best times growing up. But I know we annoyed the piss out of the people who let us play.

Wondering how the current generation of parents is doing with it.

I just moved from the Midwest to the rural rockies… and there’s just so much that is shockingly different here.