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Cake day: May 18th, 2024
  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•you do what you eat or something idk
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    3 days ago

    Demonise is a bit strong. They’re just offering an alternate interpretation that’s more negative than yours.

    I think it has some merit. A lot of people are forced out of a work/life balance. I’ve tried to stay out of careers that demand my whole life, and I still get sucked into doing nothing but working from time to time. That’s life.

    I can appreciate the fact that Beatrice has clearly stopped caring about the corporate machine, and that the author is trying to convey that we could all be the same, while still recognizing that the implication of the comic is a little half-baked due to the fact that the real-life financial capabilities of the working class are usually decided by how much they brown-nose and eat shit at work.

    This sets two people up as enemies when one could be teaching and the other could be learning. Instead, they’re locked in a battle of semantics. The comic has a little bit to analyze, I think. This discussion could even go further.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone have any crazy stories to share from Mental Health facilities?
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    19 days ago

    Yeah, I was new in the common area and struck up a conversation with this guy, and I asked him what his tattoos meant.

    He said they were mafia tattoos. Now, I didn’t necessarily believe him because he was just this big, ginger, teddy bear-looking white dude. But, he went into a little detail and told me he was affiliated with multiple syndicates. He could have been messing with me, and I’m also aware that familes don’t really play nice with each other, so again I took this with a grain of salt. But, he told me his Capo was coming to meet him later so I figured I’d see then.

    There was this black woman (race is relevant to this story because race is usually relevant to mafias and the areas in which they operate) at the psych ward that was a little loopy. She would constantly pester the nurses to use the phone, and about every hour she would get access to it. She would call the same 3 people and say the same 5 things over and over again, about how she shouldn’t be in there and all that. The people she was calling would try to explain, she wouldn’t get it, rinse and repeat. Heartbreaking situation, but my main point is that I don’t think she was all there.

    Well, visitation time comes around. This 30-something white guy is visited by a sharply-dressed black man in his 80s. They sat in the corner, speaking quietly for about an hour. During their conversation, the woman I mentioned earlier walked into the common area and saw the elderly gentleman. She stopped dead in her tracks, eyes wide open and mouth agape; she slowly raised her arm to point at him and said, in an ominous tone, “I know that man.” The younger fellow replied quickly, “I’ve been knowin’ him for years, love,” and she just walked away. That pretty much confirmed it for me, and I do believe he was mafia-affiliated to this day.

    Later that night, I was sitting with the big teddy bear fellow in the common area. I was flipping through the channels and saw that Comedy Central was about to air 50 First Dates, the romcom with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore where she plays an amnesiac. Offhandedly, I commented that I had never seen it. He immediately rose up alert in his seat. “You’ve never seen 50 First Dates? That’s one of the best movies of all time. Honestly, I’d say Adam Sandler is the most underrated actor working today. You need to stay up and watch it.”

    You’re damn right I did, too.