underreacting

How did you like it? I assume it did ring a bell...?

I don't think we should use House, or any TV show, as a guiding tool or example for actual real life medicine.

One could even consider it good news that the company doesn't get a tax break from money donated by the customer.

The music piece Shchedryk and any dish with saffron in it.

I've noticed that when you want a question answered it's best to put your own answer in a comment and let the post only be describing or clarifying the question. When you put a question and your answer together in the post, the question reads more rhetorical since you've already given "the answer", and your answer will be what people discuss rather than giving their own answers.

My sexist stereotype that needs to stop is that men are not good with kids, or unsafe.

I want to see more men playing with kids, being handed strangers kids to hold at gatherings, men hugging and cuddling kids. It's no more suspicious or odd for a man to enjoy and appreciate and be caring with children (not just his own) than it is for a woman.

I have no qualms asking a strange child if they want help if I see them struggling (seeming lost, trying to reach something, scared of the escalator, whatever), and I want men to feel equally comfortable stepping in without being afraid of what people might think they're up to... Because people need to stop thinking men are up to something when they are clearly trying to have a positive impact.

I think there are different words depending on WHY you think you shouldn't share your inner thoughts and feelings.

Huh. I tend to interpret "deep feelings that one feel like they shouldn't share", to be feelings that are heavy for others to hear and risk affecting them negatively/emotionally in turn. Like depression, shame, disgust, suicidal ideation, anxiousness, hopelessness, anger or betrayal. People might not want to share for fear of illiciting sadness, pity, shame, worry, or withdrawal in the listener.

What different associations we have learned to make.

I have no hard and fast rule for this, it really depends. Some things are a hard no, others I play fast and loose with.

Or something like Snot Flickerman, am I right?

Unless that's your current name... In which case I've really put my foot in my mouth.

This question made me actually go into settings, and I can sort automatically by new instead of have to resort every time I open! Thanks!

There's a setting to sort comments to, on Voyager at least.

I don't get the metal on metal reference, sorry... Is that an imagery you want tattooed?

I don't know if a tattoo is material.. I guess the ink is, so I'll go with that.

Before coming of age I had plenty of ideas that I would be slightly embarrassed of today (and being slightly embarrassed is, as we know, the worst possible outcome with tattoos from a past you've outgrown).

I've changed my mind enough over time that I now know I could never decide on a permanent design. But right now I'm really into face spiders. Hopefully that notion fades by the time I feel secure enough in my career to do face spiders...