Anon learns to love the bath bomb ( sh.itjust.works )

drop your childhood stories:
>be me, age 12
>hate showering more than anything
>it feels gross and i hate getting wet
>my mom starts telling me that if i don't shower every day then i can't eat dinner
>i want my dindin so i come up with a genius plan
>let the shower run for 10-15 minutes while i sit in the bathroom
>quickly wet my hair with sink
>mom buys it, i get dindin
>after a month she gets suspicious
>realize i have to step up my game
>now i run the shower and rub my arms/neck with hand soap
>also run my hair under the shower so it's dripping wet and not just moist
>she asks why i haven't asked her to buy shampoo yet
>come up with final version of my genius plan
>i'll stand next to the shower, let the water run, rub soap on my whole body and also use shampoo on my hair so it smells like shampoo
>then i'll rinse off in the sink
>all while the shower runs

i did this for four years until i realized i was just showering on hard mode

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

This has nothing to do with bath bombs.

Gullible OP ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

thorbot ,

Anything that starts with "be me" is pretty much universally idiotic, so this is no surprise.

Jax ,

be me

come up with a new synonym for idiot

EvolvedTurtle ,

I mean
I hated being told to do things so this would 100% be something I would at least consider doing

MindSkipperBro12 ,

You’re allowed to say Retarded here on not-Reddit.

I think.

Gullible OP ,

You’re allowed to do anything anywhere. All acts are permissible, in the grand scheme. I just don’t care to. Now bothering the people who want to say it, that’s my jam.

archonet ,

ok retard

trustnoone ,

You’re allowed to do anything anywhere. All acts are permissible, in the grand scheme.

Feel like I should remember that more often in life.

echodot ,

It doesn't work as a defense in court though

can ,

Depends on the instance! Our dot ml friends can't say or even see it from others.

someguy3 ,

Are you not allowed to on Reddit?

MindSkipperBro12 ,

Instant three day ban, I believe. Site wide.

TheFriar ,

Really? That’s retarded.

Kedly ,

Lemmy seems to hate that word more than reddit funnily enough. It was my first instance of learning that Tankies have a FUCKED sense of priorities

abraxas ,

A lot of us are really hoping Lemmy doesn't turn into tankie-voat to the extent a lot of lemmy instances are staying away from tankie instances. Being uncool with some shit (like making fun of mentally handicapped people) is part of that.

Kedly ,

1: The vast majority of people using the word Retard are NOT maming fun of mentally handicapped people, its a word used for someone who made a very stupid decision they were perfectly mentally capable of not making, both people who are and who arent mentally handicapped are capable of being retarded.

2: Its the tankie servers that gave me a 3 day ban for using the word, the fucked sense of priorities I was talking about was their supposed heavy support of social justice issues while simultaneously supporting/believing Russia/China have done nothing wrong

abraxas ,

The vast majority of people using the word Retard

I have had too many mentally challenged folk in my life, and they are offended by it. It's something to keep in mind.

the fucked sense of priorities... believing Russia/China have done nothing wrong

Oh yeah, they're idiots. Thank god they're not smart enough to make their dystopian wet-dream happen.

Kedly ,

Thats fair, and tbh I'd never use the term around someone with a mental disability unless they told me to (which HAS happened) in person, but on the internet where a thicker skin is required in general, or around friends I dont really see a better blunt term for stupidity, idiot has the same problem as Retard and any term that works now will eventually be tainted by the few who DO use mental health terms derogatively

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

I've tried saying removed but it got censored.

This is a test to see if it's instance or community based.

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

I said fag-got and it got censored. What a fucking joke. Why is a British suet pudding fucking illegal to say? What do they have against British food? Fucking faggits

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT ,

God I was a pig headed, grubby little preteen I relate to this in spirit so hard.

Pushing boundaries by never doing exactly what you're told: always put your own idiotic spin on it, or else the adults win!

bugs ,
@bugs@lemmy.world avatar

Are we ignoring the fact they did this until they were 16? I mean like, if this ended when they were 12 that'd be pretty par for the course kid idiocy. But 16? Damn dude.

can ,

4chan

Droechai ,

The person might be autistic, the sensory issue of shower but being fine with sink rinse sounds a bit similar to my own sensory problems and in that case the age range wouldn't be that off. At least the parent got the kid to clean itself so hopefully it worked enough to be hygienic

MaxVoltage ,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

He is still at his moms house bro in the year 2024

dangblingus ,

Also, anon is autistic.

TheJims ,

And still doesn’t shower

leftzero ,

Had to do x km/day on the static bike, because fat.

Got no time for that.

Old static bike, with mechanical revolution counter.

Unscrew spinning cable that feeds from the bike into the counter.

MacGyver Lego contraption, with motor, with a pointy bit that fits where the cable would go.

Motor goes brrr, do required km in seconds, plug cable back in, rinse and repeat;, parents never find out (I "exercised" while they were working).

Still fat. 😞

RoyaltyInTraining ,
@RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world avatar

Stationary bikes suck, riding on a real one is way more fun. I don't blame anyone for hating that

Nepenthe ,

This seems like some "Einstein working at the patent office" type shit to me. I would have never thought how to do that and I hope that mechanical aptitude has stuck around somehow.

echodot ,

Yeah but Einstein actually did work. This guy's just come up with an incredibly convoluted way to make it look like you've done work.

It may have been easy to just do the exercise

Zeppo ,
@Zeppo@sh.itjust.works avatar

That aptitude could be repurposed to do something useful. Programmers spend hours figuring out how to automate stuff due to laziness and desire to avoid tedium.

Illuminostro ,

Thus is a troll. No one says "dindin."

Kusimulkku ,

People write it like that because it's silly

Hikermick , (edited )

This is a right of passage. Growing up there are times when you find out that the easy way to go about doing something is the way your parents were trying to pound into your head all along

stevestevesteve ,

Rite* of passage

Hikermick ,

Thank you

feedum_sneedson ,

Write-off passage

can ,

you don't even know what a write-off is

Baines ,

some of ye all were just highly regarded

Cordyceps ,

I first read that as highly retarded, and thought it was a bit excessive.

can ,

There's a reason you read it that way

PatFussy ,

are you guys that bitch made that saying retarded on a 4chan sub is crossed out

Gullible OP ,

A kid named saying retarded on a 4chan sub

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah ngl as someone who grew up being called retarded for being autistic I really hate how this word has become a slur.

Like every time people create a word for a specific type of person it becomes a slur. At some point people need to just get the fuck over it.

Anamnesis ,

It was a slur the entire time millennials were growing up. It hasn't not been a slur since...the 70s?

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

So was removed and the n word. The fact that I can spell out one but not the other is also kinda my point.

I'm retarded. It takes me longer to figure things out than most. I'm not ashamed of that. In fact when I finally figure something out, I actually understand it better than the average person.

Edit: Wow you can't even say f a g g o t on lemmy. From a bisexual standpoint that's fucked up

can ,

Wait what the hell? Why is it censored? I thought the filter was all or nothing.

can ,

For testing purposes: "faggot"

zip ,

I don't know why, but this comment caught me off guard and made me laugh. It's even funnier if you take away the context of the rest of the thread.

can ,

Glad you enjoyed it lol. I did it as a self reply because I realized it would be a really weird reply notification to get with no context.

MindSkipperBro12 ,

Lemmy is just Diet Reddit

can ,

I think you mean lemmy.world and that appears to be by design. Someone was going to want to fill that void but at least with lemmy we have options.

can ,

I think maybe that's a lemmy.world thing? I did a test and I can say it. I see removed in your comment though and if you view my test from your instance (not my sh.itjust.works link above) I suspect you won't see it.

Unless you're trolling.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah it's apparently specific to my instance. That's pretty fuckin annoying. Is sh.itjust.works still federated with hexbear?

can ,

That's an interesting question actually. We had a vote and the result was to defederate but I still sometimes see the odd comment from a user. I never see their communities though. Might be similar to what lemmy.world did to kbin.social

LwL ,

I also just don't get the point of censoring. I don't have any particular feelings about the word retarded, but I'm also autistic. Do I get annoyed when people use autistic as an insult (i hope it never reaches actual slur status because I'll never accept it as such), esp for stuff that has nothing to do with ASD symptoms at all? Sure. Does it make it better if someone crosses it out in a screenshot, or censors it in a quote? Lolno.

smeg ,

Censoring is stupid and people self-censoring just makes me think the user is a child who's scared of being caught saying the naughty words or is just copying what TV does as if they also have to adhere to broadcasting regulations.

A lot of people online don't seem to understand the difference between referencing a word and invoking it. For example, we're in a 4chan community, you should really expect there to be very offensive language in the posts themselves, but we're adults here and we can look at the word "retarded" without thinking that it's OK to use as a slur ourselves.

Brandonb0013 ,

I was 75% that... I was just dumb and my parents heard the sink running at the same time and opened the door and confronted me lol.

webghost0101 ,

If this isnt fake op may actually be on the spectrum. Washing yourself with the sink Is also called a catwash.

been plenty of times i ve been way to overtimulated to handle a full shower its much more manageable to wash and dry hair and body parts separately one by one.

Op learned what many autistic people do. Inventing an alternative method while masking it into the socially acceptable method.

Jerkface ,

It's also called a whore bath. He might just be a whore.

massive_bereavement ,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

I'm a whore expert and concur with this diagnosis.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Dad? When are you coming home?

doingthestuff ,

Soon. Any day now.

Gullible OP ,

Reminds me of a snippet of conversation I overheard at the grocery. Kid’s talking to their mom and yells “child prostitution, ever heard of it?” She was pissed.

Kusimulkku ,

"IT'S REAL WORK MOM"

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Daaaaaaaayyyuuuummm, I wonder what was the chatter before the kid yelled that

Gullible OP ,

I was split between the kid problem solving their personal money issues, or unintentionally acting obtuse with a word they’ve only heard in passing. Sadly, we’ll never know as my partner felt disinclined toward listening in any further.

frosty99c ,

A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with 'English as a second language' students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a 'horse bath' in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he'd misheard that phrase for his entire adult life.

Jerkface ,

That story's as spicy as whore's radish!

massive_bereavement ,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

Well, he shouldn't look a gift whore's mouth.

somethingsnappy ,

We always called it military shower.

klemptor ,

I thought that was just pits and bits?

arin ,

Retarded ass OP doesn't know what a bath bomb is

Gullible OP ,

Not a film buff, are you?

grue ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f52f97ab-d0a8-45b2-966b-6849d2541816.webm

Gullible OP ,

Any chance you could describe what I’m meant to see? .world webms no longer load for me.

grue ,

Major Kong riding the bomb, except with the person labeled "@arin" and the bomb labeled "ignorance."

dangblingus ,

Clear your cache. Works fine on dbzer0.

Gullible OP ,

Unfortunately, it’s an issue with iOS/safari and I’m entirely too lazy to fill out a bug report on an issue that so rarely affects me. It is my unnecessary whore bath. Or, effect-wise, I guess whore nail clipping? Whore toenail clipping.

guyrocket ,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

That's pretty retarded.

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

I'm gonna assume you said autistic but it was taken to be derogatory and while the phrasing you used implies that, it is literally a reaction to symptoms of autism. That hypersensitivity to physical feelings fucking suuuuucks

guyrocket ,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

More than a little confused by your comment.

Retarded is crossed out in the 4chan post. Did you read it?

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

It's a 4chan post, so it's implied.

can ,

lemmy.ml instance has a slur filter enabled. You cannot post slurs in any context and users from there will see it filtered everywhere. It's pretty broad too. Can't say shorthand for a female dog

That's gotta be a bitch sometimes.

Its completely removed so they have to guess from context.

Ilovethebomb ,

What a shithole.

onion ,

What a

can ,

removed

chicken ,

Word filters are fun but if everyone has a different filter that seems like it would get ridiculous real fast

can ,

There may be others that follow it. It's built into lemmy and was compulsory at one point iirc.

chicken ,

Maybe idk. It reminds me of the whole recent defederation drama partly caused by a false assumption that pronoun tags would be visible to everyone. If you don't know what other people are seeing, that's a big source of misunderstandings.

can ,

I was already under assumption pronoun tags were visible to everyone. Actually always assumed they were part of a users display name.

chicken ,

Well apparently that assumption is wrong for certain clients or instances

can ,

The ones like hexbear users have?

seth ,

Really? What do mine show up as, on your instance?

heatiskillingme ,

Not your OP, but I'm on kbin and I don't see any pronouns.

can ,

Do you see a display name when a lemmy user has one set? I don't so you can't use me as an example.

Have you ever seen a user with an emoji in their name?

can ,

Nothing? Is this a new feature? My instance is still on 0.18.5.

snugglesthefalse ,

I don't see any, what client?

can ,

Come to find I don't see any either I don't think.

Ilovethebomb ,

Automotive subreddits used to run afoul of automatic moderation all the time because of this nonsense.

can ,

What would trigger them?

fogstormberry ,

transmission

Ilovethebomb ,

Developmentally delaying your ignition timing.

smeg ,

I guess I can see their reasoning and it's good that we have different instances where you can choose what rules you want applying to your lemmy experience... buuuut who the fuck would choose to live in children's land where your precious little eyes can't be trusted to see the bad words?

tostiman ,
@tostiman@sh.itjust.works avatar

That's retarded

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, fuck. I completely misunderstood. I tend to overanalyze things. A lot of times on the instance I use certain words will be "removed" from comments

Ilovethebomb ,

Well that's removed removed

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

You're really just dropping slurs for fun huh

can ,

Oh buddy, he got you so hard lol

thrawn ,

Think he was just playing along

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

No he actually got me, it's the autism

thrawn ,

Oops, it would’ve been top tier playing along though

can ,

The what? I just see removed.

zip ,

It's like I'm looking at a reflection of myself with everything you do/say in this thread, my fellow autismo, lol! Also, your username always makes me smile and gets a kick out of me. Thanks for that!

It's totally understandable how you interpreted things considering how the word filter works, by the way.

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

I'm glad my username makes so many people smile :D

I get comments on it all the time and it makes me glad I picked it

can ,

Probably. I just liked that my comment could be interpreted either way.

thrawn ,

Jk I was super wrong!

MindSkipperBro12 ,

Go.

Away.

can ,

Booooo

Let someone make a mistake, admit it, and move on

Kusimulkku ,

How I feel reading 90% of the stories how anons go through their days.

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