Your local bi(polar) schizo fluffernutter.

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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • Sombyr@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlPulling it off
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    10 months ago

    I agree about BMI often being a bad measurement. Even my own doctors ignore it on me because my BMI is well into the obese range and yet every other measurement of health is in the healthy range, most well into it. My body fat for instance is just below 30%, which is perfectly healthy for a woman. My waist line is well into healthy range as well. Additionally, all my tests such as blood tests come back more than healthy and show that I’m not at risk for any obesity related conditions. Of course, I don’t look like the standard “healthy” body most people imagine a woman should have. I would look fat to anyone who doesn’t know the full picture.
    That’s why I always hated that whole thing people say that “If you’re BMI is high and you’re still healthy it’ll be really obvious.” People just assume that high BMI and healthy means muscular, when you can have a normal body fat percentage as well as other measurements but still have a high BMI.
    This is even ignoring the fact that even when you are genuinely obese and unhealthy, it often stems from body image issues in the first place. The same way a depressed person often goes “I’m doing everything wrong anyway so why bother even trying?” A fat person often is having the struggle of “I’m ugly anyway so why even bother trying to be pretty and healthy? Healthy just means I gotta live longer being ugly.” That’s why berating people for being fat usually doesn’t work. It just makes them feel worse and reinforces that idea they already have that they’re too ugly to bother. Sure, some people it might kick into gear to try their best to lose weight to prove they’re not ugly, but that’s the difference between somebody who still has hope and somebody that’s already lost it all.





  • Trans, wasn’t ready to use my new name IRL, or come out to anybody, so I took the word “Somber” and shoved a Y in it because it makes it really similar to my chosen name, so I could feel like I was being called my preferred name every time somebody said it.

    Now that I’m this far into my transition it’s nothing but a relic, but I like the username anyway.



  • Where I live they seem to come and go. Some years there’s literally zero, then a few years later there’ll be so many you almost don’t wanna go outside because they might get in your mouth. Although admittedly I haven’t seen the usual swarms lately either. It’s long overdue and yet they’re not here.
    It’s a big change from when I was a kid, still living in this same area, but we had a consistent, manageable number of fireflies every year.



  • Sombyr@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlRelatable
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    1 year ago

    I wasn’t getting that vibe at all. Feeling sad because your wife is angry isn’t “wife bad.” It’s empathy. The meme just seems to be a joke about using unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with it causing a cycle of misery.
    In other words, my interpretation of the meme is more along the lines of acknowledging the self destructive cycles marriages often fall into via humor.



  • Sombyr@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlEdgar Allan Paw
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    1 year ago

    Also, if they’re repeatedly getting up on areas you don’t want them to, it probably means they don’t have enough perches they are allowed up on in the area. Cat’s naturally like to perch to observe their territory. If they’re getting up on the kitchen table for instance, put perches or even a whole cat tree near it. Eventually they’ll learn to use the new perch instead of the table, sometimes even naturally if the perch is higher and more comfortable.


  • Not exactly a coherent collection of a specific thing, but I like to gather older video game consoles and retro tech to hook them all up in the most interesting way possible. I’ve currently got an SNES, N64, GameCube, and Sega Saturn hooked up to an old decent quality CRT security monitor over s-video. I plan to get an s-video matrix to hook up all the consoles at once and switch between them easier, and I also plan to at some point add a PS2, Xbox, and Dreamcast into the mix.

    I might also at some point try to find an old early 2000s or even late 90s computer and hook that up too. I don’t have a lot of space, so I might have to hook it up to the TV, but as long as it can play the games from my childhood without issue, I don’t care what wonky setup I need. Old games just aren’t as fun on an LCD.
    I do probably need to degauss the CRT though. When I first picked it up it looked fine, but I ran a metal fan a little too close to it for too long and now it’s got distorted geometry on that side.

    So I suppose I collect retro electronics. I don’t even collect games for the consoles I own. I just bought them for the fun of hooking them up.





  • Feel free. The whole “no one” thing has gotten a bit annoying for me too, since the initial memes of it showed up well into my adulthood, well past when my sense of humor had already developed and mostly solidified. I suppose we’re all becoming old people shaking our fist at those darn kids we can’t understand. It’s just good to keep in mind they grew up in a different world with different jokes and games, so their humor is always gonna seem a little weird.

    I prefer to embrace it and just use the memes even more wrong to make them cringe. I think that’s hilarious.


  • Put simply it isn’t a joke. It’s evolved to the point where it basically means “prepare yourself, a joke’s coming.”

    It’s just a meme that got so overused that it doesn’t mean anything anymore.

    Think of it like how 90% of knock knock jokes don’t need the setup of answering the door, it’s just a familiar setup. Why is a banana knocking on the door? Why does there need to be a door in the setup of interrupting cow? That’s what “no one” means to younger people. It’s a familiar way to set up the joke.

    Edit: I forgot to mention, correct usage would be something like:

    Nobody:
    Me: A trillion lions could totally defeat the sun.

    The joke being nobody asked, nobody cares, and I said it anyway.