But do you know the trucker's hitch?
Come to academia. At least 25% of my coworkers have visible tattoos (generally ankle or forearm).
I'm strongly considering a wrist tattoo, on the side facing me but not the underside.
Nah, it's just not as deep as they're making it out to be.
Graciously, I think they're coming from a place of ADHD and assuming that engineers, artists, and scientists either don't have ADHD or have the superpower "hyperfocus".
Sadly, hyperfocus is a fickle muse who has chosen not to grace me today. [sobs in ADHD techie]
He got the John Brown [abolitionist] treatment
I sure hope not. I don't want to have to deal with new plumbing at my age, the factory-issued set gives me enough problems
I'd expect everyone is robed in heavenly garments, to save the embarrassment from having been raptured with your pants down.
Thank you for clarifying. TBH I got who was saying what a tad mixed up in the thread.
I can get behind not outright mocking folks that seem interested in leaving the cult. I just also think the sadistic and casually cruel folk are the norm rather than the outlier, based on experiences growing up in a Red State and visiting as an adult.
Bad joke. I have distant elderly relatives (my aunts' cousins) in Fall River. Now I'm worried I'll get bad news at tomorrow's family stitch 'n bitch.
I'm not convinced that "showing empathy" is the way to court Republicans. It's just seen as weakness, and weakness is a joke to them.
I'm thinking back to my grandmother's funeral in Appalachia. She had a small terrier as her companion in her final years. They were inseparable. Multiple of her male relatives made the joke "I thought we were just going to toss the dog in the grave and bury him with her". Hardy-har har. The dog was small and therefore weak and therefore a joke.
There were similar scenes between my mom and her coworkers when my dad was in hospital dieing of COVID-19. I'm not going into them because I already done triggered myself.
Anyways, that's how I ended up with a surprise dog to take back home to a blue state. He's still a good boy, even though he's now a grumpy teenager.
[Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.
Maybe, if something speaks to me. Downside of face tattoos is wrinkles. I'm middle-aged, and wrinkles are right around the corner for me.
Right now a cute critter on my wrist would make me happy (and, side-benefit, keep me from biting my wrist when I get super stressed--no biting wrist friend! [I've tested this with temporary tattoos and it works for me.])