What state are you in?
I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I do know that I don’t ever want to know how you are feeling right now. If you don’t have people nearby you can rely on, I would absolutely be willing to help however I can.
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I didn’t expect my post to be the thread killer, lol.
@Brant_Drake
I sincerely hope your son is doing well. My offer was genuine, and was coming from the perspective of another father, not some autistic internet weirdo.
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I appreciate all the well wishes. He’s doing great.
That’s everyone on this site - all radios, but tuned to different frequencies.
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Thats a relief. Nothing gets to me like a kid in pain/hardship.
When my son was 4 mos. old, he caught the flu of that year and ended up in the hospital. I was truly terrified at the possibility of losing him.
Am I off-base here: is “talking with your mouthful” no longer a social faux pas?
I’m watching Eddie Hall talk about his experience with the carnivore diet, he’s eating his breakfast, and rather than wait until he’s finished with the bite to talk, he just keeps on smacking and slurping his way through the dialog.
Eddie, of course, has always sold himself as the “blue collar guy”, so perhaps it’s part of the act, but 2 of the dudes I work with are the exact same way, to the point that I’m fairly certain I’ve heard these guys talk MORE with their mouthful than when it’s empty of food. It’s as though they specifically wait until they are eating a snack to have a discussion. One of them even does it during food calls. He has the added benefit of no longer possessing a uvula, due to some sort of extreme sleep apena correction surgery, which means he’s prone to choking on the food he’s smacking down in the middle of these conversations, I get to listen to him hork up the food so he can chomp it down again.
Did I miss something? Do we no longer teach this to people?
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Damn dude, I would never have clocked that you were going through something like that. I feel compelled to say, you hold it together really well, I’m very impressed.
I don’t have the life experience needed to really know what to say in this situation, but I hope things get less difficult for you and your son.
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I appreciate that, thank you. He’s a fucking rockstar.
The gym helps. I’m pretty angry at the universe, so a barbell is the best therapist.
Embrace the suck.
I’ve seen it used as a device in movies the past few years. Like, to emphasise power a usually villainous character will eat while pontificating to minions or captives.
I hate it.
Your co-worker with no uvula though? Thats way over the top. There is no way I could tolerate that.
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No. This is just bad manners.
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Same as the post above. I think the concept of manners is slipping away.
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It’s just patently absurd. To top if off, both of these dudes LOVE hot sauce, and will share new bottles of the stuff with each other…which means I get to hear them cough and choke on their food as part of their capsaicin arms race before they spend the rest of the afternoon blowing their noses like a bugle at reveille because their sinuses are in revolt.
I tend to refer to this as “non-mammal behavior”. Like, it transcends being a decent person: these dudes aren’t even being good mammals.
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I feel for you. I’m glad I work and eat with very few people, and the ones I do are ultimately focused on getting the food down. Like, it gets really quiet at our table.
One funny one though was when I was making egg roll ups for everybody and put out some ghost pepper sauce to give em that zing.
One dude unknowingly put it on like it was Frank’s red hot! 
He did finish it though. And quietly!
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Filled up the tank at Costco and noticed the gap between premium gas and regular gas is now up to 90 fcuking cents. I remember the good old days when it used to be about 30.
I knew I should’ve voted for KamalalaDingDong so she could go bash those price gougers.
How was the Chimi??
I’d rather put toothpaste on the steak.
Thats what cilantro is for me.
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My wife has that same gene. Such an interesting quirk of biology.
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It really is. It was actually here on this site after a bit of discussion that I realized it wasn’t just me being weird.
Bruh… chimi is good stuff
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