Jokes on you - I'm quick to smile, non-judgemental and a patient conversationalist! 😊 The last time someone have you a compliment in public it might've been me and you'd never know! 😘
Hegar
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In Trump v. United States (2024) ...
That is the most accurate possible name for the supreme court's recent decision.
I wasn't trying to comment specifically on you or your teeth, it's just one of those weird things that people notice about our culture, but people from here don't realize is not the same in other cultures.
normal oral hygiene
Cranial deformation is just normal infant care in groups where it's practiced.
Many western cultures practice dental hygiene in a way that doesn't produce the "bleached wall" look that so many in US culture deem high-status. Teeth slowly change color and natural misalignments develop with less need to artificially modify that.
Teeth in the US are just a way more important site of identity than elsewhere. When people make fun of the US, teeth are often part of it because it's something we're way more intense about than other people are.
I use an unsweetened charcoal toothpaste, it's definitely the least unappealing one I've found.
a great feeling when your teeth are ... clean.
Yeah I've had people describe such a feeling but I've never experienced it. Closest I've experienced is a pleasant feeling of knowing it's the maximum time before I have to endure that again.
white
I was not raised in the US so that artificial wall of unnaturally blinding white teeth has no value to me. TBH it seems like foot binding, neck-extension or cranial deformation - an extreme status marker that's fascinating from an anthropological perspective.
The threat that chinese EVs pose to north american consumers has been vastly overblown by paranoid US nationalists and protectionist automakers who don't fancy the competition. I'm not saying the chinese government is amazing no notes, just that this is a nothing issue.
I fucking hate brushing my teeth. I cannot understand how so many people seem to just willingly do it like multiple times a day. How do they deal with the feeling of open revolt that washes over every cell in your body when thinking of teeth brushing?
This is a story of one bootlicking employee who was in desperate need of fucking off and minding his own business:
However, just as the movie started, an employee told them to put their snack bags away, the report said. They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.
A few minutes later, one of the children popped a Skittle he was already holding into his mouth, and quite frankly, all hell broke loose, the women said. The employee started shouting at them, and said that the police would be called unless they left. This is when the children started crying.
“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’
It was $88M for 0 recruits, per that USA Today article:
The Guard received 24,800 recruiting prospects from the program in 2012, documents show. In those cases, potential recruits indicated the NASCAR affiliation prompted them to seek more information about joining. Of that group, only 20 met the Guard's qualifications for entry into the service, and not one of them joined.
The $88M was National Guard spending on nascar from 2011-13. The 20 recruits who made the right choice were just in 2012, but the military.com article that daily beast is reporting on says 'potentially no recruits' when describing the whole nascar deal.
The craziest part to me is the 25k prospects yielding 20 qualified candidates. 99.92% were unfit for service.
There's no reason democrats should still be honoring a backroom deal made with manchin.
I think it's interesting to note that in WW1 PTSD like symptoms were called shell-shock, and were believed to be a consequence of exposing the human body to artillery fire. Compare that to this quote from the article:
he was grappling with sleeplessness, depression and severe memory problems.
“A lot of us are like that,” he said. “It’s not psychological — there is something physiologically wrong. And a lot of guys struggle.”
Surely it can't be that dumb?
Ok, it's that dumb.
Doing a great job of not being weird.