If this is an honest question: slaves in the US would sing songs as they toiled to help them cope with their hardship. From the slaveowners view the songs often seemed silly or full of hope, while the lyrics actually contained veiled instructions about insurrection or escape.

I miss the clutches of people that would congregate in smoking areas on breaks at work, kinda forced to socialize but all walks of life would be tied together by their shared vice.

Now the smoking area at work has dwindled so I feel like a pariah sucking on my electric nicotine pacifier for a couple minutes, staring at my phone and ignoring the other pariahs that come outside.

Hell, I think I met the larger part of my 2000s friend group striking up conversations outside of bars when you could no longer smoke inside.

Sorry I’m romanticizing am unhealthy dirty habit, but I do think that we, in the US at least, have vilified one more means of social connection.

To be fair, it has the most boots to be licked and some people have urges that the rest of us will never understand. /S

Crap, now I have to change all my passwords.

As a child of the 80s and former smoker, I actually find the lingering smell of cigarettes in a smoking room super comforting, to the point that if a hotel has a smoking room option I take it.

You can tell you did a good job if an ethereal slide whistle plays as you do this.

My grandma got mighty upset when I tried to polish her whole head.

That’s just our mascot, the “Lemmdigo”.

-Lack- of magnesium can cause cramps.

Supplementing magnesium can help lots of people since it is lacking in many people’s diets. It can also help you get more and better sleep, just avoid magnesium oxide, that will just make you poop and is unfortunately the form used in many supplements and multi vitamins.

I got backstage access at a U2 concert pretending to be delivering potatoes.

Self defenstration! Genius.

I paid for an argument!

Whatever.

Go to Abercrombie and buy another polo shirt, conformist. /S

I just know that their military has the best MREs.

No shit. My mom got a kitchen aid from my aunt and it has day unused under a hideous floral pattern dust cover because it was white and not pink like she wanted.

Next to the unused bread machine which is next to the George Foreman grill which is next to the panini press…

I still have my great grandma’s cast iron kitchen cube that she brought over from the old country.

I can’t even describe what that thing can do with pork chops.

Imagine how massive the camera that took that picture is!

Ugh, the whole renovation thing is a pain in the ass. My mom watches renovation shows all day while the house has fallen into smelly disrepair over the last twenty years.

She keeps talking about painting this or knocking out that wall or installing all new fixtures 'so it can be nice for the next people (she’s in her 80s and plans on dying there).

I keep telling her that no matter how much money she wastes ‘fixing’ the place up, the people that eventually buy it are going to gut it and do their own thing.

One little old lady using a total of three rooms in a 4br3b house.

She dreams that I’ll settle down and want a quiet place in the suburbs, but I hate the neighborhood and most of the people that live there. If she were hit by a bus tomorrow I’ll call the first Cash For Houses scam I see so I don’t have to deal with any of that.

/Rant

Its kind of like a Boise Corn-dog, but it requires jumper cables and four cinder blocks instead of two.

Will I take "From Russia, With Love ’ for $400, Alex?