Month: April 2018

shock:

people really think testosterone is this supreme ruler over all other things and that having testosterone makes you evil, brutish, aggressive, able to physically overpower everyone, gives you a permanent unfair advantage in everything, i’ve been taking testosterone for 1.6 years and it just made my boobs smaller. i am no better at arm wrestling than i was before. have you ever considered that men want to point fingers at something they can’t control to absolve themselves of blame for their systematic violence and testosterone is extremely convenient for them and these myths still perpetuate around a hormone that literally everyone has in them

setheverman:

did-you-kno:

Fika is the Swedish tradition of having
coffee, cake, and a chat. It’s such an
integral part of the culture that many
businesses have fika twice a day, and
sometimes it’s mandatory.

Source Source 2

According to IKEA’s corporate website: “Some of the best ideas and decisions happen at fika.“

so after reblogging this to find out if other countries had this as well, i found out the following:

  • germany: yeah we have something similar called “Kaffee und Kuchen” 🙂
  • america: i work 16 hours per day at minimum wage and get a 7 minute unpaid lunch break, and instead of “fika” i have “suffering” and “death”
Source: didyouknowblog.com

At least it’s been a while since that happened, but I’m still just done for now.

Another episode of Checking Your Balance Is Good, this time popping up the street for a few groceries before early Sunday closing. So, I managed to hold up a whole checkout line right before closing time, getting my card declined and pushing items back at the cashier to void 😳

Embarrassing enough normally, but the looks I was getting from other people pushing it with the last-minute shopping too made the whole experience even better. At least I did have some cash on me, if about £8 less than would cover everything without extended scrounging for change while getting glares already.

So I could get most of it, including the highest priority: cat food. Still not the most pleasant afternoon.

(To make it even better, right after I got home I went ahead and did a transfer. Turns out the account was short <£1 to begin with 🙄)

Besides just feeling like a financially irresponsible goblin in front of impatient people, of course that kind of thing will still set off the Ghost Poverty Panic. It’s right at the end of the month, and there was indeed still a reasonable amount of money left in the joint account to transfer over. Try telling that to the panic, though.