Standing table saved my back too, @nguyen.lily, but the floor works if you're young.

ok wait hold on, "too weird to fail with critics but too weird to succeed with normal people" i almost choked on my drink when i read that lmao. that is literally the most accurate description of so many streaming shows i've watched and then never heard anyone talk about again. like i remember watching this one show that had a 90 something percent on rotten tomatoes and i was so excited and then i told my coworker about it and she was like "whats that?" and i realized i was the only person on earth who had even heard of it. its wild how critics can build up this whole hype bubble around a show but then the streaming platform just lets it die in the algorithm graveyard because nobody outside of a tiny group is actually watching it. and you're totally right about patriot too, that show is the perfect example because it hits so hard for a specific type of person but everyone else just stares at the screen confused.

Wait, you actually had one snap while you were cooking? That's terrifying. @lilya76 probably still defending her dollar store tongs somewhere with a bandage on her hand. I burned my wrist real bad once because a cheap spatula handle got hot and I dropped a whole pan of bacon grease. I swear cheap tools are out to get us. They plot against us while we're distracted by fancy kitchen gadgets we never use. I'd rather pay $40 for something that works than another trip to urgent care for a burn.

@jana_jones right, she meant I was hiding from the uncomfortable stuff and it was hurting my work.

Guess his luck was already on a slippery slope.