oh my god you’re so dumb i love you
i went to the dentist today and my dentist honest to god said “can i ask you a question…….what the hell is in your mouth”
it was in awe lmao
then the hygienist and assistant all came over to look too and they were like “wooooow” and my ass was sitting there like
oh my god i posted this and then went to work, and
story time
okay so to preface this, my hometown where i’m originally from is a really fucking weird place. like from the outside it seems like a normal suburban town, but once you’re there for awhile you get the feeling that’s something’s not…quite all together. a lot of people are really fucking weird there — so much so that that was a running joke in school growing up, that people in the town were just like that. everyone knew not to go out to the farm lands surrounding the town especially at night, we called it “the cuts” and people used to disappear out there all the time or get shot at by the especially weird people that would live out there. the news was and still is truly a thing of horror. every time i come back i’m regaled with even more stories of crazy shit that has happened there.
to put it in perspective we generally never had “normal crime” like robbery or anything like that when i lived there, though that did happen sometimes. the news stories were always like, “a kid was kidnapped by local residents and tortured in a house around the corner,” “a random person was chased down and shot for sport in a really nice neighborhood,” “someone was gored to death by a bull while out car shopping,” etc. (these are all real, btw). everyone does drugs and the whole town is located really close to a government site where they test nuclear weapons and chemicals and shit. this is how i grew up, in this bizarre environment.
i need to preface it this way so that you get that it’s weird. it’s a fucking weird place. i used to listen to the welcome to night vale podcast and make comparisons from it to my hometown, that’s how weird it is.
i only say this so you know that this town is where i got my orthodontics from.
all the kids in my town went to this one particular orthodontist. i also used to go to a dentist in town that a lot of people went to as well. i had a permanent retainer put on my bottom teeth after braces and no one had ever said anything to me about the model of retainer itself or it being weird type of retainer at all. i saw a ton of other people (mostly other kids that were my age at the time) that had the same type of retainer as me too so i never thought about it.
so i kept my retainer in — it’s never caused me problems and it keeps my teeth straight, why not?
however i went to a dentist for the first time in a metropolitan area now, and when he saw it in my mouth his literal first reaction was to say “uh can i ask you a question….what the hell is that”
LITERALLY the words that he said
which in hindsight makes almost too much sense. of course my town of all towns would put these weird unnecessary contraptions in kids’ mouths, and of course it happened so much that everyone just thought it was normal. that sounds exactly, to a T, like my hometown.
my permanent bottom retainer is apparently this prototype that is so rare that he’s literally never seen it before in his life, not in dental school, nowhere. it’s not that it’s an outdated type, it’s just rare as fuck. they were still staring at pictures of it on my chart in wonder when i left the office.
so just know somewhere out there, in a weird ass suburban town where they test nuclear weapons and a good portion of the residents go fucking nuts, there’s probably hundreds of people still walking around with this same contraption in their mouth that exists nowhere else in the world thinking, “yeah, that’s cool. that makes sense. let me go drink the definitely not-contaminated water now and never move away from here.”
Ok I’m not from a weird place but my friend has basically a permanent retainer too, it’s just a wire glued to her bottom teeth. It’s not weird? Is it suppose to be weird?
For the first time in its 127 year history, the APA has finally admitted misogyny is a serious issue in the psychological realm of individuals. They definitely didn’t know this when they deemed hysteria a valid diagnosis in the DSM until the 1980′s. They definitely didn’t know this when homosexuality was deemed a mental illness in the DSM until the 1970′s. After women have been lobotomized and died because of the APA, I guess we can congratulate them now! Baby steps!
They don’t even admit that they’ve significantly contributed to the mess they’re now addressing. They really think they’re doing some kind of social good instead of taking responsibility for their crimes don’t they.
This is the Magical 11/11 & 11:11 Post
May you receive what you wish for with live, grace, & wade and keep your heart and mind open.
Likes charge,
Reblogs cast
*strokes my laptop camera three times until the fbi agent comes out in a cloud of smoke*
me: hi! how many wishes do I get? :)
fbi agent: what in god’s name did you just do to me
this meme is so stupid but cracks me up
me to my cat: pleas stpo pushn every goddamnd thing off my desk im beggin pleas
my cat:
The above picture is from National Geographic’s Instagram feed - this guy is a master’s student at BYU, is studying black bears, and went into the den armed “with only a short aluminum pole attached to a tranquilizer dart. The tunnel was only as big as the bear with no escape except a very quick 50 foot backwards crawl should he decide to charge.”
HA HA FUCK THAT
This is natural selection at its finest…
WAS a masters student!!
The bear was happy. It for breakfast in bed
life is back pain
i once heard a scientist in a documentary about evolution refer to the human spine as an “architectural nightmare” and then procede to explain why every back is a bad back. it was so validating.
I adjusted my bra straps wrong one day and I’ve been in a ridiculous amount of pain for the past week.
Because some days you want a small private gathering…and some days Arthur and his Knights drop by.
That last comment
Regular table vs thanksgiving/party table
DEADASS!!!
Aaaaand they will disbar a lawyer QUICK but these cops get paid vacation.
All I’m saying is you need a master’s to be a social worker, but you can be a cop with a high school diploma. Like, on what fucking planet do that make sense?
Cops don’t have to know the law.
There was a supreme court decision recently that a cop is not falsely detaining someone if they’re doing something the cop reasonably believes is against the law, even if it’s actually legal. I think the specific case was about someone driving with a broken taillight in a state where a car is street-legal so long as at least one of its taillights works.
Meanwhile, as a civilian, ignorance of the law is not a defense.
Cops are not required to know the laws they enforce. You are required to know every law you might conceivably break. But then, of course, if you backtalk a cop because you have better knowledge of the law than they do, and they respond violently, good luck winning that.