I don’t mean this harshly, so I find it interesting when an entire family goes to Costco for a quick trip and just a few items. I understand it if it’s a special outing, and for places you go to regularly, it feels unnecessary to bring everyone along (kids, in-laws, grandparents, extended family), when one person could easily run in and grab what’s needed. What’s happening here?

This is going to sound ridiculous but I genuinely need to know.

I'm 28 and I've always showered at night before bed. Like, that's just what I do. I come home from work, have dinner, and then shower before I go to sleep. I thought this was completely normal.

Yesterday I was talking to some coworkers and someone mentioned they shower every morning, and a bunch of other people agreed. Then someone asked when I shower and when I said "at night" they all looked at me like I was weird. One person said "but then you wake up all gross" and another said "don't you feel dirty sleeping in your day sweat?"

Now I'm spiraling because I never thought about it that way. But also... don't THEY feel gross going to bed in their day sweat? Like they spend all day outside, touching stuff, sweating, and then just... climb into bed? That seems way worse to me?

I shower at night specifically so I'm clean when I get into bed. My bed stays cleaner. I don't have to rush in the morning. I can actually enjoy the shower instead of being half asleep and stressed about time.

But apparently a lot of people think this is backwards? Some people said they shower both morning AND night which seems excessive but maybe I'm wrong?

Is there like... a "correct" time to shower? Is showering at night actually weird? Am I missing something obvious here?

I've literally been doing this my entire adult life and now I'm questioning everything. My coworkers made me feel like I'm walking around dirty all day because I showered 8 hours ago instead of 1 hour ago.

Please tell me I'm not the only night shower person. Or if I am, please explain why morning showers are "better" because I genuinely don't understand.

i hope they meant it when they named this sub.

I’m a girl myself, but i am very small chested. not completely flat, but i can’t fully fill out an A cup bra. the other day a thought occurred to me and i’m curious, if you’re in the bath or swimming in the water and you are bigger chested, do your boobs sort of float, sink, or just stay neutral to the rest of your body? i would assume that you can feel them floating slightly since breasts are naturally constructed of fat tissue, which is lighter than water, the same way oil floats on water. i also wonder if this differs if you have implants. or, if you’re in saltwater, would they float more since things are more buoyant in saltwater. fellow boob owners, what’s you’re experience?

Long story short, I'm here after a reddit argument. About fanfiction and the use of "virginal blood" (don't ask, I don't even get it fully and I've been in it for hours)

OP (I assume a guy, bc I have to, no woman would have such takes, I hope) has this idea that "It's common for women to keep the sheets where the blood fell as a memento; that's instinctive."

And I have to know which one of us is the crazy one here. Because there is either a very cultural take I am not aware of, or this person is just. Like that.

I won't/don't plan to use anything posted here to harass anyone, I moved on from that thread, but it did make me genuinely wonder if some cultures *today* put such importance on the blood part when a woman loses her virginity. Edit: And I'm not talking about proving ones' virginity during the wedding night, since this is the first thing people think of. The memento part is baffling.

I know how weird this sounds, but I can't google that. Let me rephrase, google doesn't have relevant answers I could find. So. Yeah. Help?

Edit 2 bc this is getting out of hand, and I think I'm getting mostly men's perspective here: is there any woman here who has kept the sheets where the virgin blood fell (wtf is my life!?)

How does it make sense for a developer to have a building sit 40% vacant with $3k rents rather than lowering the price and filling it? Is there some weird tax loophole that makes "empty and expensive" better than "full and affordable"?

I don't know what the proper term for it is anymore, but why are the cold icy countries the ones with the infrastructure, the health insurance, the solid governments... And the hot tropical countries are the ones with puppet courts and governments being overthrown etc. ? My friend and I were talking and just seems weird. Maybe because the cold countries are indoors too often to have civil unrest?

edited to say there probably are cold countries with bad governments, I didn't mean to make a totally blanket statement! (Russia 😒)

Im stuck :(

I'm usually get my girlfriend flowers for valentines, she really likes flowers and I guess she expects it for valentines. But, on the 16th we're driving to her parents place a couple hours away to stay for a couple days for an important event.

I don't really expect her to want to bring the bouquet back but at the same time I feel like she might? But if she doesn't, no one will take care of the flowers and theyd probably die once we're back :(

So I was thinking of get a bouquet of roses lego set instead. Is this a bad idea? She does like lego but not super like it I guess.

I've picked out two really nice actual bouquets. One wrapped in paper and another in a vase with water hoping it'd last till we're back.

What option do you think is best?

So my dad had the worst rancid smelling farts I’ve ever smelled before. Nobody came close to the amount power in his farts. He could fart in the bathroom and the smell would penetrate the whole downstairs of the house for at least the next half hour or until we eventually got nose blind from it. I’ve had friends come into my childhood house and instantly ask me if I’d farted. lol

Anyway, I ate an edible a few hours ago so I’m in my head atm and for some reason this thought popped up. My dad had 3 bouts of colon cancer throughout his life. once in his mid 20s, once in his early 30s, and once in his late 50s. could this be the reason his farts were so rank?

I saw the summary for Landman on Paramount + a while back and thought it might be a good show to get into. I visited a friend yesterday and she mentioned she was watching it, on season 2, and that she really enjoyed it so I told my husband last night we should start it.

All was going ok until the FaceTime call with the wife came up and then the appearance of the 17 year old daughter. Why are women so sexualized in these shows? Especially when they are portraying what is supposed to be a minor, very sexually as she is walking around in underwear with older men trying not to “gawk” at her. She’s talking to her dad about her boyfriend cums on her instead of in her (pull out method to prevent pregnancy) and I’m like damn, I wouldn’t even be able to say those words to my mom let alone my dad (if I had one lol).

By the end of the second episode I was really turned off by it. I’d like to think I’m not a total prude; my husband and I own and run a blue collar business and I’ve done some pretty wild and crazy things. I would consider myself attractive but have dealt with low self esteem over the years, and this kind is shit just makes me uncomfortable and question my self worth.

I’m probably not going to like the responses I get but is this a “me” problem? Or do others feel the same why? I just don’t understand why there’s so much half nudity and vulgar sexual comments in shows or movies. 80’s movies with nudity have always made me cringe too. It also gives me the ick about men in general if this is norm and what they’d like to see. Like why can’t they show regular women, wives and daughters??

My cat likes to sleep and play inside the box spring under my bed, and I swear, every morning he wants me to join him in box spring playtime. He just meows and meows under there and will jump out and looks at me and then goes back like he wants me to follow him.

I really don’t think he knows that I can’t fit in there. Is he stupid or is this a thing that cats just don’t understand?

I grew up in a single-level house. No basement, no nothing. A few years ago, my partner and I bought a house with a big wood staircase leading down to hardwood floors, plus another staircase that ends in cement floor in the basement. Ever since, I've been terrified of falling down them. It feels like it's bound to happen at some point. The other day, I missed the bottom step going down to the basement and messed up my ankle pretty good, which has only reignited my fear. Plus, we now have a toddler who is very mobile. Obviously we have doors and baby gates, but those will only protect him for so long. So how inevitable is it that one day one of us will fall down the stairs and get more than just a sprained ankle?

Basically the headline- I have seen videos and read articles of ICE arresting people at home and at work etc. how do they know who to arrest? Are they just roaming around looking for people who look foreign ? Or are they working off tip-offs?

I will never give it up.

What's the significance of the "steel" in steel cut oats? Why can't it just be called cut oats? I'm very curious.

Wondering what women actually do when they say “Let me go freshen up” before sex?

Like I never understood how they work. is it actual electricity or just poison like jellyfish? and if its electricity how do they do it? and if I hooked a usb-c charger up to a tank of eels could I potentially charge my phone?

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I don’t have kids, and neither does my brother. How to deal with fear of feeling alone in old age and guilt over the family dying out (mine and my husbands)?

So I've got a bunch of cash on hand after cashing out from Stаke US and wanted to pay my rent with it but my landlord is forcing me to use some bank portal thing instead

Like isn't cash legal tender for all debts? I thought that meant they had to accept it but apparently not. My lease doesn't specifically say anything about payment methods except that rent is due on the first

The landlord claims it's for "security and record keeping" but honestly it feels like they're just making my life harder. I've been paying through their stupid online system but the fees are annoying and I literally have the exact amount in cash sitting here

Is this even legal or are they just being difficult? I tried looking this up but got conflicting answers - some people say cash is cash and they have to take it, others say landlords can set payment methods however they want

The whole "legal tender" thing seems to apply more to like buying stuff at stores, not necessarily rent payments. Has anyone else dealt with this? I'm in California if that matters for any specific laws

Just seems weird that I can't use actual money to pay for something but maybe I'm missing something obvious here. Don't really want to start drama with my landlord but also don't want to keep getting hit with those processing fees when I have perfectly good cash

When I was younger, I remembered my mom telling me that breathing with the mouth full of water helps you get more oxygen out of the water and into your brain. Is this true or was my mom trying to joke around with me.

I have been scrolling through reddit rarely these days, and it feels like every time, the posts get spammier, lower brow, deliberately extremely divisive, constantly about reductive US left vs right "politics", ragebatey as f, just edgy takes meant to upset etcetc.

Up to the point that all meme channels are flooded with this pseudo political slop.

And the comments are also written with what seems an infinity of time and patience. also seems bot-like. or are people genuinely biting on all the bait?

Isn't there like an Emir somewhere in the United Arab Emirates or some Prince of Persia or whatever that's wealthier than Elon Musk? What about the Kings of England or Siam? The ominous current head of the Rothschild Family, or his Orangeness in Chief, the Surpreme Leader of the United States? Did somebody do the math?

Does anybody else have a problem when it comes to eating someone elses cooking? Restuarants excluded Im talking like food from a potluck and stuff like that?