Whenever I casually answer "yeah" to something, my boyfriend hears it as "no". The frustrating part is that he insists he isn't just mishearing it, he claims that the sound I make literally sounds like the word "no".

I just cannot wrap my head around how a "yeah" can possibly sound like "no", and it's starting to cause actual arguments because both of us are getting so annoyed by it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a phonetic reason why a quick "yeah" can sound like "no" to someone, and how do we stop fighting about it?

I went yesterday and ever since I was a teen I noticed a lot of the women were sexualized and it’s alienating as I don’t feel attracted to that stuff real or fictional no matter how hard I try over the years. the one section that does feel comfy is the shojo stuff and the stuff that has romance between cute adult guys and I imagine I’m a fujoshi woman gushing over their romance even though I’m in a male body. for the most part I stopped watching anime stuff due to the constant sexualization of women but I like to stick around for the frilly shojo stuff.

Bush's baked beans are good, but their marketing is so weird to me. When I see their cans at the supermarket, my brain immediately thinks "dog food." I don't know what it is, but something about Bush's branding makes me associate them with the same category as Alpo and Pedigree. It also doesn't help that they even had a dog as their mascot at one point. I'll still buy it, but every time I need to overcome the idea I might be buying dog food for myself, and I don't want to eat dog food. lol

I recently moved into a new apartment and the toilet is different than what I’m used to, so a few times I have gone on autopilot and done this. And yes my Johnson might be small and I’m not afraid to say it, just wondering if this happens to anyone else.

I don’t know if I should hold it in for days?

the first couple times you give them the benefit of the doubt but after like the third time its clearly a pattern. i just started saying oh no worries venmo me right there at the table and suddenly they started remembering their wallet again lol

So to explain a little bit I love the idea of sushi and a bunch of seafood and I even like the taste of a lot I’ve tried, problem is my body rejects it!!! Like no matter how much I like it I can’t eat it cause my body will like start trying to throw up and I get extremely nauseous and it just upsets me huge anime fan and always wanted to do like sushi dates and stuff like that but my body doesn’t care I can’t eat any I’ve tried all the different kinds even like crawl fish and crab and oysters shrimp thinking maybe it was just fish but it’s honestly anything that lives in water besides alligator and like tuna in the cans which my mom always gave us a kids so that might be why that’s okay but I also read that it’s almost fake 😅 so idk am I alone in this?

At a wedding last week, I honestly couldn't help but feel a little bored while dancing to what the DJ was choosing.

They opened with Dancing Queen (10/10 perfect song btw), then 'Stayin Alive', followed by a bunch of top hits songs from the 70s and 80s. The only somewhat modern song that played was 'Shut Up and Dance' and 'Uptown Funk' and those were 12 years ago .They honestly could have just put a 'top wedding hits' playlist on shuffle, and no one would have noticed a difference. Don't get me wrong, I like dancing to all these songs, especially when they're spread out, but when it's just the same top songs over and over, it seems to take the life out of them. I even talked to some friends the day after, and they all agreed.

As a Zillennial it's weird to think the wedding songs I grew up dancing to are the exact same as I'm dancing to now. It's a pattern I've noticed for the past 2-4 years where I can't help but feel the dance song selection seems to be slimming down and getting more and more repetitive. As the years go by, it continues to be the same songs from the 70s and 80s with maybe a 'Crazy in Love' or 'Sexyback'.

I got married a couple of years ago and purposefully sought out a DJ friend of mine who I knew would keep things interesting and I had a handful of people come up to me saying they usually don't dance at weddings, but our DJ got them dancing. I know these songs are crowd pleasers, and you need to play crowd pleasers to keep people dancing, but relying on them too much seems to lessen the fun of many of these songs.

It's honestly dimmed much of the excitement I have towards upcoming weddings because I know it's just going to be the same overplayed songs over and over and the song selection I hear at these weddings seems to be the same as I went to 10+ years ago.

Now this exact situation hasn't really happened to me (yet) but I've been thinking about this.

Imagine there is something you are incredibly passionate about. İt could be a niche band, a hidden gem restaurant, a specific video game, or a brilliant book. You love this thing. You know it inside out. You're thinking about introducing it to your friends or family because you know they would love it too.

But let's say, even though they know you're somewhat knowledgeable in that specific niche, they just stumble upon it by themselves and come talking about how amazing it is to their circle and it's just... İnfuriating a little you know...

Like they didn't even really cared about it, before they've taken a little closer look at it via some way or other and I really hate these kinds of people.

There was a local youtuber that was specifically talking about this experience in one of his videos I can't remember, he said that before even the movies of Harry Potter came out he read all of them till to the goblet of fire and he said that no one around him gave a single cent about his interest in the series and just when the movies started coming out he said everyone has have had started talking about Harry Potter near him and he said that how infuriating that experience was.

Can anybody relate to this?

I've just been getting way more clips of her lately (RIP sweet angel queen), both old clips and new clips, and its no secret Dolly ended up getting a lot of plastic surgery as the years went on.

It hit me though while watching her, she might've even technically fit in the "botched" category near the end, it sometimes looks like her lips cant close fully, her face was frozen in lots of spots, big bleached hair and big thick makeup.

Yet never once did it actually give me uncanny valley vibes like faces with that amount of work usually do. Her smile couldn't technically reach her eyes when i paused it but if you're just watching her talk it still felt like it! Even though I could objectively tell she had a lot of work done, it didn't make her look less "human" like it so often can. I wonder if anyone else has noticed that?

Oh Dolly, always gorgeous inside and out no matter what form you take! You will be missed!

ETA: im sorry for those that are being hurt by the word botched! It's a very intense word, I get it. To try to be clearer, im specifically talking about the type of plastic surgery that prevents the body from doing what it naturally is supposed to do. Im defining it as "lips cant fully close, eyelids cant fully close, cant smile or frown". For me im defining more by the surgeons job. If the human face cant move like the human face, i believe they messed up their job. I do NOT mean to use it synonymously with "ugly".

I think objectively, Dolly's face couldn't move quite like how it's meant to by the end, I do NOT think that makes her ugly, or even that that's not what she wanted for herself! She always spoke of freezing, and nip and tucking herself.

I solely meant that, while there was less movement (and so supposedly less capacity to express emotion) it didn't come off like that when she was interacting with someone. And I think that's really cool.

Also; I know that bringing up the discussion of plastic surgery in and of itself makes us start walking the line of talking about health, but this post is not meant to be somewhere we theorize about her health, just a fan talking about how "real" she felt to the last. Please try to refrain from health judgements even if it feels tricky. This isn't a plastic surgery bashing post. Thank you

I’m sure this is probably a pretty popular one, but I’ve been feeling really irritated lately at the amount of people that just watch my stories and never interact with me ever. A lot of these people are supposed to be friends or at the very least peers that at one point cared about me and still do some degree due and watch all my stories and follow me yet. Never like them never really respond to them never reach out to me… It’s starting to feel really heavy. I’ve been trying to weed out people that just watch and don’t interact but lately I feel like it’s nearly every single person and I’m starting to wonder why I even bother.

“You’re a grown ass man taking a day off work to play a video game?”…. Well yes.

Watching back on all the photos/videos from a night out and cant help but feel like I missed out on a great night even though I was there. I was just blackout drunk and dont remember alot of it

every checkout counter has a tablet spun around at me now asking for 20% on a coffee i watched someone pour in 4 seconds. i still tip at restaurants obviously but the counter-service guilt trip is wild. am i the only one who freezes up every time

I just noticed that a few years ago, I was unstoppable and had so much energy to do things I wanted, and often felt understimulated because of it.

Now, I feel like I don't have energy to do most things and settle to doom scrolling. Mind you I doom scrolled a lot back then, I didn't see anything wrong with it, but now I know it's detrimental to your health but at the same time it's all I feel like I can do. I have hobbies I want to do but feel too tired physically and mentally.

My lifestyle has changed a lot; I was living at home and working part time while going to college. Now I work full time, go to gym, take care of pets, and have a significantly larger friend group than I did before but I just feel so **exhausted** to the point I'm canceling plans, craving to be at home, and struggle to even take my dog on a walk half the days.

Add on top of that, my job requires constant learning so I'm studying a few hours a week on top of the schedule and I'm just thinking, this is not sustainable how are people doing this for the rest of their lives?

I want to know what is a healthy balance people have discovered that allows them to continually develop and grow their lives without feeling so tired.

That it's not being treated, never will be, and what that means for the rest of our lives.

I remember that this user to happen all the time to me when I was a kid playing Hide and Seek with my friends. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has experienced this.

Today I had a sudden thought and looked up my ex-boyfriend, whom I dated for over 5 years. It’s been 15 years since we last saw each other, I felt kind of embarrassed doing this. Turns out he moved to wales, married with kids, Honestly, I don’t miss him, especially thinking of how he treated me. But, strangely, I wish he all the best, and I also hope to never see him again. 

Has anyone else done this? What’s you thought at the time?

I don't really eat candy, but recently bought a bag of starbursts since it was my favorite as a kid. I've tried eating it a few times, but the first couple I eat turn my saliva into an acidic, very irritating phlem once I swallow the candy. The saliva has trouble going down, and the burning makes me gag and cough bad. It also leaves a poor taste and lingering mild burning in my throat for a while. I'm pretty sure I'm not allergic, so I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

In the bathroom, I am very picky with what my hands touch. I have hands assigned for different roles in bathroom. For example my clean hand is my right which is assigned with taking down my pants and the left hand is associated with toilet paper and touching my privates, and I only pick up my pants with one hand which is my right hand. If I see myself intstinctivy picking up my pants with both hands I get agitated, and I may repeat the process again, pulling my pants down and then pulling it with the right hand.

I’m 30 years old and it’s like everything is hitting me at once

- I miss my grandparents, I only have one left and dementia has turned her into a shell of her former self.

- I miss going over to my grandparents house.

- I miss when my parents were much younger.

- I miss elementary school

- I miss middle school

- I miss high school

- I miss my childlike innocence

- I miss my childhood pets

- I miss playing outside as a kid

- I miss when my parents could make any of my worries go away

- I miss being tucked in at night

- I miss being told bedtime stories

- I miss watching cartoons before school

- I miss my only worry being homework or what I was going to do with my friends the next day

- I miss when the world wasn’t so connected and dependent on clicks and content

- I miss when physical third places to hang out actually still existed.

- I miss the overall more positive attitude of society

- I miss when I didn’t have existential dread

- I miss when I wasn’t negative all the time

- I miss swinging on swings at the par

- I miss when things weren’t so partisan and when we weren’t all at each others throats

- I miss having optimism for the future

- I miss when I didn’t have health issues

- I miss my childhood

- I miss when my old neighborhood had kids playing. Now nobody goes outside

- I miss……. ME

Hi there!

I noticed that people crying leads to me feeling confused and also like I am about to laugh or it makes me feel partially strangely positive in general.

I believe due to the fact that crying sometimes sounds so much like laughing and it just is an incredible weird situation that I do not know how to deal with.

Still, I never spoke to anybody about that and I am wondering.

Thanks for taking your time to read my post and answer!