Most of the music is annoying

How can you not like Kaliki Kaliki waka is the thing to say? Seriously though, I’m not very interested in the new stuff, but Nat King Cole and Favorite Things is a time honored classic in our household.

I love the buildup through December! I hate that it starts in fucking July now.

I love Christmas, and Thanksgiving. Opportunities to spend quality time with family are hard to come by these days, but it’s just as important as ever. I also like the core message of “the holiday spirit”, but not the gross consumerism it has been turned into. Love your brethren, peace on earth, and all that good old fashioned shit. Fuck yeah!

Of course it’s a very hard time of year for people without family or loved ones, and for people with emotional issues. I sympathize with those people. I’ve been one of those people at various points of my life. My mom gets super depressed every Christmas because it reminds her of a bunch of shit I don’t want to share on Lemmy. So I’m sorry that it’s hard for you. You do matter. Merry Christmas.

I have no chill in the kitchen. I need to learn chill. But if someone gets in my way more than once I’m like “get the fuck out of the kitchen!” while pointing. It doesn’t make people feel good, but it does produce results. I blame it on years spent working at restaurants in early adulthood.

Well, like every other promising cancer treatment I’ve read about, I hope it becomes available to everyone as soon as possible, and that it’s safe and doesn’t lead to I Am Legend.

Wait! It’s a vaccine that you can administer after you already have the condition and it’ll work?!?!

To be fair, that guy looks like his hands are probably grimey. I wouldn’t want to touch them either.

There’s always something that’ll potentially cure cancer, just out of reach. It’s like cold fusion.

I guess you’ve been lucky then. Most people can feel the negative side effects pretty quickly.

The scene at the end of About Time between the father and son. I won’t describe it, since I don’t want to ruin it for anyone.

Yet one often follows closely after the other.

Well they certainly didn’t fight for the government to make its way into every little crevasse of our lives, deciding how we will live at every turn, instead of us having the freedom to choose for ourselves.

How much do you smoke? I smoked a pack per day, and it was obvious within a few years that it was fucking with me. I still had better cardio and fitness than most people I knew, because I was a distance runner, soccer player, martial artist, dirt bike rider, and a bunch of other physical activities that most people don’t do, but it was still obvious that it was impairing me.

I am, and you’re probably right.

Anyone who smokes for more than a few years and is honest with themselves, knows it’s very bad for them. You don’t need scientific evidence when you can feel it in your chest. It’s also very addictive, so it’s easy to push all of the physical evidence aside.

I had a jar of Levi Garrett Snuff when I was younger. I found it at a store in a little mountain town. It looked like it was bottled in the 1800’s and had a little cork stopper. There was enough in the jar to last basically forever. It is powerful, like POW! right in the brain. It’ll give you a headache if you do too much. Otherwise it’s a mild stimulant that hits way harder than it should because of the shock of it. We’d pull the jar out when we were playing poker and all very drunk. Idk what ever happened to that stuff. I must have lost it during a move.

Pretty unhealthy actually, both physically, and emotionally.

Fat is a necessary macro, and the public’s ignorant obsession with fat-free is crazy, especially since it almost always corresponds with more sugar, like you said. Guess what the body turns sugar into.

Then remove the fucking subsidies! What you’re proposing is that taxpayer money in the form of subsidies goes into the pockets of wealthy agricultural corporations, and then more tax payer money in the form of sin taxes goes to the government to purchase those products, which the government turns around and gives right back to the same corporations. Sheesh! Should we tip them too while we’re at it?

It’s amazing to me how many people respond to everything with “tax it” or “ban it”. WTF happened to liberty as a national ethos?