Probably on the lips. Could also be the feet.

Yeah, I just looked at the Winchester Super X i usually get, ut is plated. Idk why I thought it was jacketed.

Well, now I am going to have to go home and check my copy of Thomas. Because I totally remember that line.

Henry wasn’t sorry, it was on purpose. He was celebrated. I have read the entirety of The Railway Series to my daughter twice (I do substitute in “coal” for the aforementioned slur). There is some crazy shit in there. Engine body horror.

If everyone has their needs met, who will they be better than? They need a hierarchy. They’re already poor and powerless, so they have to lord it over the destitute.

It is on Wikipedia’s “List of Ethnic Slurs” and I remember it suddenly being kind of a big deal out of nowhere in the mid 2010’s (not it being on the list, just in general on the corners of the internet I inhabited at the time). Like, my wife watched a lot of Kathleen Lights videos on YouTube at the time, and she had a sign in her background that said something like “gypsy soul” and she got backlash from her viewers.

I don’t know that anybody in my daily life even now, here in Metro Detroit, considers it one or uses it as one. I know I don’t use it anymore, really besides this comment chain. There are tons of immigrants from all over around here, I definitely don’t want to offend anyone. I will hear it from time to time, in a general way to refer to people who are or want to be kind of nomads. Like, a positive thing. Idk, I still don’t say it anymore.

But it’s anatomy class, and I’m my own presentation!

I’m American, but my grandma was a 1st generation immigrant. She always threatened to “sell [me] to the gypsies” if I didn’t behave. I didn’t have any idea what a “gypsy” was! There was no context for a 4 year old in the States. Hell, I didn’t even know it was a slur until I was in my twenties. That was pretty gross, Gram. Boomers gonna Boom, though, I guess.

It was easier just to find an old Penthouse in the woods. Why were the woods full of porn when we were young? It was shocking the amount of Playboys, Penthouses, and Hustlers that were just in the woods. Forest porn.

Yet here I am, not rich.

Time to try to make a nipple out through the scrambled cable channels.

Sweet, TV to myself. Time to play some Ocarina.

I found one of these at a thrift store, sealed. Just used input remapper to tell it what to do. You can even assign mouse functionality. I use it all the time.

Channel up/down switches browser tabs. Green windows button switches applications. Button for “F” since that’s pretty much universally full-screen. I think there are like, six buttons left I haven’t assigned.

For what it’s worth, I’m team spider. Centipedes are way creepier. Spiders are cool.

I do this with spiders. I like spiders. But centipedes, ants, and box elder bugs receive no quarter from me.

I’ll just leave cellar spiders where they are, they’re pretty chill. They always go to the same spots and never bother anyone.

Dude’s transforming into Cyrax. And I don’t mean from Mortal Kombat.

Oh, man. I’m sorry to hear youre having such a bad time with it. I’m a mechanical engineer, and love it. I only have a bachelor’s, though. So maybe I got out of school while it was still fun. It took me a couple years after graduating to get something in my field, I came out of school during a recession. I worked 3rd shift on an assembly line those years. Good luck, and I hope you enjoy Mech Eng at some point.