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u know what a rly good cuticle softener is??? micellar water

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let my dad try salt & vinegar chips once and asked him to guess the flavour and he said "citric acid"

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i hate having big bones why can't i just be small and cute like the other girls

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my mom has a huge problem where she either oversalts or undersalts the food she makes and everytime she undersalts it i hold the salt grinder up to her like i'm showing her lip gloss in a makeup tutorial

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i fucking hate myself

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anxiety is eating me up rn🤞

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I love visiting people who have some kind of pet reptile because they're always like "would you like to hold the reptile" and I'm like "of course I would" and then the rest of the conversation happens with me just holding a random reptile and the reptile Has No Feelings about the situation. They always just sit there, probably vaguely wishing to return to their heat lamp but clearly exuding an energy of This Might As Well Happen. and then I put it back in its enclosure and go home and the reptile very clearly has no strong feelings about the situation.

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I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.

I've seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid's clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it's considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who's seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.

It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.

But if you went to the bank today and there's some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he's getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.

Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like "there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that." And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It's not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.

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i've been sick since feb 3rd,,,, this is crazy.

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retroactive jealousy i hate u !!!

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bc my bf is a pt I've been going to the gym quite consistently the last few months and i am pleased to announce to everyone that I have defined abs now

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I'm going to have a mental breakdown over this actually because we don't know if I have it yet, however I gave him oral before we read up on the fact that it's infectious before an outbreak

now i have to live with the knowledge that I might have just given my boyfriend genital herpes, and the only way to know is to wait a few weeks to see if anything happens

just noticed a herpes thing on my bfs lip after kissing him all day

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this looks like shit i hate myself

i didn't get my boyf anything big for valentines day and I feel so fucking guilty cause apparently he got me smth and i can't explain how much i fucking hate myself

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i didn't get my boyf anything big for valentines day and I feel so fucking guilty cause apparently he got me smth and i can't explain how much i fucking hate myself

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just noticed a herpes thing on my bfs lip after kissing him all day

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i got it bitches!!!!!

my period is like a week late and I'm getting a lil nervous I'm gonna b honest

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my period is like a week late and I'm getting a lil nervous I'm gonna b honest