I think in the original, she just throws it against the wall and it dies.

She’s missing, so technically all we have is their side of the whole story. Once it’s in court, and we have other players (like staff at the psyche hospital she stayed at) speaking to what they know, then we will have enough info.
At the moment, we have the police charging abandonment, and the adoptive family denying it. From the perspective....yup, sure does sound like a movie many, many people know about.

Not fun to be in a relationship where you feel like you’re being gaslighted. Hopefully this will help her end it and 100% move on, not taking him back. Support from the community, even a person you don’t know, can be helpful to feeling like it’s not just someone saying ‘there’s no problem’ versus your sense that there is.
That uncertainty can keep you in a cycle where you’re not sure. Maybe the relationship is/was great. Maybe I’m just paranoid, maybe I wasn’t fair. I just need to adjust, like he says. That’s where you get expressions like ‘Girl, stop wasting your time and makeup money on crying. RU dating a man or jalapeño juice?’

South Park was about confronting absurdity and being your own person regardless. It’s an excellent show to cultivate giving entrenched narrow minded folks a poke in the eyes.
(Family Guy is not my bag, boring and not funny, so I can’t speak to any appeal it might have on its fans.)
Look, the root behind “no one can take a joke!” is what you’d expect. People who are used to have their feelings considered first are upset all out of proportion when that doesn’t happen. So they get angry and make statements like always-never-everyone-no one. Their world is them. They’re not used to being challenged for lazy thinking. Rather than (1) accepting other people disagree or (2) reconsidering if they are being lazy or thoughtless, they developed an outrage culture. They decided to double down on feeling special by insisting it was *everyone else* who was being unreasonable....

I’m sure it’s a copy-paste, but geez. Just scroll past like a normal person.

Nuclear Spiders

Rude

No. We have that system already. No. No. Absolutely not. No.

*of this. And the answer is ‘nothing good’

TWO Good Shepherds

Beautiful!

Sorry, what is it?

Ooooooh noooooooo

Well.....you could record static or high-pitched crinkle feedback. (The kind of sound a speaker/mic makes when its all the way up but not being used yet.) Then you can play that at various volumes to see what’s most effective at getting the room quieted. It should be effective because that kind of noise is unsettling.
I think you just mean you want an enforceable physical zone of peace, achieved without noise cancelling headphones, and that won’t help you there. I agree it’s an awesome dream, though.

BEST use of Space Oddity ever. David Bowie would approve.

@under_fire Yes, the original meaning was the second sentence; it’s a pun. I looked through my family history and discovered crazy people.
However, I’m now all taken up by the masturbation angle. It made me laugh. That’s a high quality pun; works on multiple levels. Good...job? :D

It’s a button that pushes in at the top. Once I figured that out, I would push it in and the lights would go off. I felt sooooo much more clever than is reasonable.