Sticky In Thought

Stroop (They/them) Trekbian and also wherever fandom holds my fancy at the moment. Occasionally talks about books if I feel I’ve bothered other people with it enough | early thirties

[fluff-e-boy]

@demilypyro & @sophibeans

[galileosballs]

Let's say I really wanted to reduce the number of children who die in car accidents. Car accidents are really bad, right? Nobody disagrees about that. And it would be much better for both the environment and the kids' health if they spent more time walking, or taking the bus. Perfectly reasonable. More cars off the road, safer roads, fewer kids getting hurt, healthier kids. A win-win!

Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!

[kael-writ]

SUCH a good analogy because we have no problem teaching kids a lot about cars. How they work, their anatomy you might say, how they can operate one safely when they are of age.

And no one questions that this is exactly what we need to do in order to have more safe drivers on the road. No one questions that a child could want to know about and even desire how to operate a car someday, even if they are too young to do so now. No one even questions that sometimes kids even drive cars before 18.

But when it comes to sex we all of a sudden lose our goddamn sense because of the notions of people hundreds of years ago who thought witches were why their cows went dry and murdered random women about it.

[qcharlie]

i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness

[qcharlie]

"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.

[qcharlie]

i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights

[feetdavidson]

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

[feetdavidson]

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

[servalias]

oh my god the original out in the wild

[phoenixyfriend]

Game show called "What's Wrong With You" where a bunch of doctors compete to see who can diagnose a mystery illness (chronically ill patient whose lab results keep coming back normal despite obvious symptoms) first and most accurately.

Pros:

Doctors paying off their medical loans with prize money

Chronically ill people getting free testing (MRIs, CAT scans, X-Rays, bloodwork, etc) and possibly a diagnosis

You can ding points for 'anxiety' and 'you just need to lose some weight'

Doctors are incentivized to find an answer, not just find something billable

Cons:

HIPAA

Wrong Diagnoses made because they were rushing

[epicmusic42]

HIPAA can be bypassed via agreement to air/be on the show. There'd need to be lawyers heavily involved with setting up the specifics of how the paperwork works, but its absolutely doable.

I don't knkw how to handle the issue of wrong diagnosis bc folks were rushing tho

[phoenixyfriend]

More lawyers prepping the young docs to avoid triggering malpractice suits, probably.

[cazort]

I want to watch this show.

How would it be judged though? The problem is it sometimes takes weeks to months to figure out whether or not a diagnosis is correct and/or a treatment is working,

[roseapprentice]

Do one of those long-haul reality show competitions where you come back months after the main filming to dramatically reveal the results.

Each doctor can order a limited number of tests. You win the most prize money if a test that you've ordered comes back positive for something that makes sense with the symptoms. (Additional checking is required for tests with a high rate of false positives.) Prize money is split if there are multiple winners.

If no one gets a positive test, there's a smaller prize for suggesting a treatment that the patient uses while measurably improving over the course of 3-6 months. And an even smaller fallback prize for subjective improvement.

Since the patient is not required to take the treatments the doctors suggest, there is an element of bedside manner in this aspect of the competition. If your patient trusts you enough to use the treatment you suggest, then you will have a shot at the fallback prize.

[phoenixyfriend]

Yeah, it would definitely be a very 'we filmed for months and the show compresses that into a weekly hour-long episode' kind of competition. My major references for that sort of thing are GBBO and Project Runway.

I think a fun element would be "if a chronically ill person with no degree can identify what's wrong with the patient before you do, they get a cash prize (you are still in charge of actually doing the tests that confirm or disprove it)." So if you spend six weeks doing genetic tests and X-rays but some MCAS girlie listened to a five-minute description of symptoms and went 'yeah, you've got [thing]' before you officially considered it, their chunk of the cash comes out of your winnings

And for everyone saying "this is just the House MD tournament arc"...

NGL I forgot that arc happened... but I was thinking "imagine that SNL sketch about the podcast-doctor-appointment, but it's a competition show about chronically ill mysteries, like House MD in real life, but someone put Sam Reich in charge (Katie Marovitch is there as his right-hand comedian and chronically-ill-herself host)."

[phoenixyfriend]

As I said in the other post where I mentioned dropout: they could NOT do this. The liability insurance would be insane. It would not be accessible to a production studio of that size. There are other things that make it unlikely for anyone, but also some things that make it unlikely for dropout specifically (liability insurance, the ability to award prize money that would actually make a difference to medical debt, the very structure of the company around actors/comedians rather than Random Real Life People).

HOWEVER

I can imagine a game changer episode where some contestants, probably youtuber guests like Dr. Mike or something, have to guess already-diagnosed chronic illnesses of audience volunteers.

No medical testing. Just 'describe some symptoms, and watch as the medical youtubers that are here for a day have to figure out what you've got.'

[tongue-twists]

actually the hottest thing a woman can wear is her pair of comfy pants with no underwear and a tank top that has stains on it because she intends to stay home and can’t be bothered to find anything else.

[tongue-twists]

she's doing the dishes with her hair sort of held up in a half broken clip and I pull down her pants to eat her out from the back.

[bumbelbee]

[pathogenflock]

"he would not fucking say that" but about injuries. he would not fucking recover that quickly. those scars would not fucking heal like that. he would not be fucking able bodied after that. he would not be fully lucid after that.

[blackforestbride]

WHEN HE FALLS FROM A WHAT INTO THE WHAt

[blackforestbride]

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[blackforestbride]

WHAT IS GOING ON IN ACE ATTORNEY???

[aceattorneygame]

Nothing good.

[hballegro]

[marcchurch]

[youtuder]

I think you need a break

[ijustwannawritepls]

Underused Microexpressions for Attraction

We’ve done lip biting to death... Let’s evolve.

• Eyes flicking to someone’s mouth mid-sentence • Forgetting what they were about to say • Leaning in unconsciously • Mirroring posture without realizing • Smiling at something that wasn’t that funny • Adjusting hair or clothes when the other person enters • Noticing and remembering details no one else bothers to • A pause before pulling their hand away • Shoulders softening • Looking away first and then back again • Swallowing before speaking • Voice lowering slightly • Turning their body fully toward the other person • A delayed reaction to a touch

[obimomkenobi-deactivated2020062]

[kitchikishangout]

MY NAME, IS FRICKIN MOON MOON. I’D BE THE MOST IDIOTIC WOLF. ‘OH SHIT WHO BROUGHT FUCKING MOON MOON ALONG?’

[amusette]

the post that started it all

[star-spangled-jackass]

oh god

[danthefrickinking-deactivated20]

Never not reblogging.

[clarinetfool]

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots

[salamencerobot]

I’m very surprised this post hasn’t broken a million.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[chrombits]

date night!

[thebutchmessiah]

Dyke arm wrestling, Leeds, May 2026

[klappersacks]

(via File Photo)

[mudwerks]

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

[pricklylegs-deactivated20250727]

Tasty obelisk fries..

[memewhore]

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

[gingerhaze]

“It’s digestible”

[rhea314]

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

[nianeyna]

I have learned a new thing today.

[soupwife]

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

[nianeyna]

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

[dancinbutterfly]

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

[mr-elementle]

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

[papapastoral]

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

[elf7knight]

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[suchastrangemess]

@giles-cxrey

[kimberlychapman]

@entropicthymes @mimewithteeth @koawebster