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Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Keeping a girlfriend/wife is easy. Just eat pussy. It's like the skeleton key to women's hearts and minds.

If you're consistent and eat with joy, even after breakups...you will find they want you back. The simple reason is....the other guys just don't eat like you did.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The really steep one that'll give me a heart attack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Yes but the icing is what i want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Percentile dice (two ten-sided ones) are read with one die representing the 10s digit, the other the ones digit.

00 and 0 = 100

10 and 0 = 10

The shit people come up with as alternatives to reading the results are wrong

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

That this question has been posted every single day for the last week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Calling Buddhism or Confucianism not a religion is a political claim which the speakers usually have zero knowledge of and I’m sick of it. The history of what is religion in China from the republic onwards with the very Protestant understanding of what is a world religion is very important to understand this question. But most people either claim this for their hippy means or to be derogatory

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

People will all change. In the past, I strongly opposed my wife's purchase of luxury goods, such as LV handbags. And we even quarreled because of such matters. Looking back now, it really wasn't necessary at all. So, people's concepts will indeed change.

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