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WTF are you people doing?
“How did you die?”
“From a highly contagious old timey disease we thought we’d eradicated over 20 years ago until some people chose to bring it back.”
The measles is super contagious.
Someone with measles could breathe in a room and leave, and then you come in two hours later and catch measles.
It is airborne. And not like “I have to breathe this disease directly on you for you to catch it” airborne but as in “This nightmare sickness can stay alive in the air for two hours.”
If you catch the measles, it can make your body forget all previous immunities.
Like you survive the measles, and then you catch the chickenpox again.
I don’t know if you have to get all your vaccines redone after you survive the measles. I just know that the measles in conjunction with like polio or whooping cough or whatever would mean having a super terrible time.
No thanks to measles.
Vaccinate your children. And spay or neuter your billionaire.
Pax.
Are the Underworld movies set in The Matrix?
I was watching an “Underworld” recap video that went over all the movies, and there was some mention/jokes about the leather pants.
And it made me think: Someone needs to make a “Back to the Future”-style time travel movie where someone gets dressed up to fit in with the times and goes back to the late 90s/early 2000s, and they’re like wearing leather pants and just basically dressed like they stepped out of “The Matrix.”
And there could be jokes where someone calls them Columbine or like the dude farts in his leather pants or… Just everything WRONG with leather pants is pointed out in the funniest way possible.
And I think that if there’s mention of Columbine, the time traveler could point out that “No, it wasn’t about the trench coats and goth makeup, but about being raised as a Nazi.” And then when the time traveler returns back to the future, they find that they’ve completely changed the timeline with their shenanigans. And EVERYONE is wearing leather pants–like even babies and old people. Which is like, “We’re 100 years old, but we’re so fashion conscious that we’ve given up the comfort of elastic waistbands and knitted sweaters for leather pants and belly shirts.” or “It’s super hard changing the diaper of a baby wearing a leather onesie, but that baby looks FIRE!”
And the time traveler is horrified and has to go back and fix the timeline like when Marty was traumatized by his mom’s boob job in “Back to the Future.”
I think I would watch that movie.
Life is a mystery
Sometimes I have thoughts that I just blurt out. Not all of it is complete nonsense from a nerd.
“Cotton” can be a nickname. It’s not illegal (outside of Florida).
Plus it’s better to have a childhood name to be known by. Keep your child’s legal name outside of peoples’ mouths!–February 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Nicknames are great. Nicknames are fun. Nicknames are one of the ways we can anonymize our children enough that they can’t be kidnapped by someone you had a beef with online.
There are people that gather statistical data on our population simply to make fun of the parents for giving their children such dumb/silly/ridiculous/awful/great names. And while the information is public facing knowledge… you don’t have to draw skeevy peoples’ attention to it.
How many kids in the country have the legal first name “Cotton.” Who were born within a certain span of years. With a parent likely to use [whatever social media platform].
It’s much easier to track somebody down if they have an uncommon or somehow noticeable name.
Go ahead and call your kid Cotton. Let everyone call them Cotton (to the point that they THINK it’s related to the real name). But give them a normal sounding and spellable legal name.
To do otherwise is to draw peoples’ attention to your children.
If I were flipping through paperwork, I’d be like “Another Robert. Clickety-clickety, all filled in, moving on to the next” about an easy to type name. But if his name was spelled “RahBurt,” I’m going to remember that name. It’s going to stick in my head. Along with any other information associated with the name.
You could have 9000 people pass through a hospital’s doors with an object inserted in their body, but you’re going to REMEMBER “RahBurt with the tangelo.” And somehow, someway, dozens of steps later, some YouTuber is going to make a video talking about an incident. And they’re going to mention RahBurt’s name.
And that’s his LEGAL name that he would have to pay money to change.
And all the people that have EVER seen RahBurt’s name written anywhere, is going to immediately memory-flash back to WHEREVER they saw his name. A Highlander-the-1990s-TV-Show-style flashback will strike down some ex-hospital worker somewhere and they will remember the embarrassed person desperately trying not to die from sepsis due to the “easy to remove” tangelo that never should have been used for that purpose and was bad at the job.
And a funny comment will appear below a video or post.
And suddenly your son RahBurt is wishing you were dead for not giving him the nickname Cotton.
Because life is a circle. Destruction and repair or destruction and replace. An ouroboros where we can never know exactly where we are in the process of the snake eating itself.