Was it that long ago? Wow.

It’s not irrational at all. Falling from heights hurts. I’m afraid of being hurt (including from heights). It makes perfect sense.

Perhaps you could compromise?

Many recruiters are reluctant to answer which company because, if you knew, you might circumvent them and apply directly.

How could you use such an offensive word in a casual post!

Quadruply so, I suppose.

I read this book when I was an innocent kid and therefore completely missed the genius of

“What’s so bad about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”

(It’s been a long time, might be paraphrasing unintentionally)

Lunchtime doubly so.

When I was but a little kid, I once told my mother what could charitably be called a joke:
“Okay, picture a cowboy riding a horse down the road. Suddenly he hears a bang behind him. Looking back, he sees his horse’s feet. ‘Shoot!’ he says. ‘Flat hoof.’”

I had forgotten about that until I saw this post.

Personally, I initially saw a version of it in Sluggy Freelance.

Indeed, it is always wise to be a hoopy frood.

You misspelled “delicious.”

Sorry, it didn’t occur to me that that might be a problem. Yeah, cysts of any kind are pretty gross. Pilonidal cysts are near the butthole, so grossness is not reduced. Unless you have an interest in such things, I agree, don’t look them up.

Back when bash.org was functional, there was a quote that went basically like this:
“Sex in space sounds epic.”
“You need to have regular sex before you can be choosy.”

This isn’t any kind of commentary on you, I just miss bash.org and the replacements that have popped up since are challenging to search.

edit: accommodating markdown.

I far prefer it when someone refers to themselves as the parent of a pet over when someone refers to the pet as a kid.

Ideally neither, but one is less off-putting than the other, IMHO.

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My first three surgeries were for the removal of a pilonidal cyst. According to the doctor who operated in my tailbone, this and similar events are common causes of panic.

It’s concerning that all of those words are past tense.

As I read this, I had on a YouTube video of the Game Grumps playing the children’s game apparently entitled Freddi Fish and the Missing Kelp Seeds. About five minutes in, they face a series of arithmetic questions and Dan, faced with providing an answer, says “panicking.”