catbum

@catbum@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, this is the only explanation for the closure of the lone Italian place in town a while back.

  No Italian restaurants exist in a 50 mile radius.

  Town’s haunted now.

  Zpoopa del giOHNO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you do a squat right after putting on your thong or string so it sits correctly between your buttocks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi human, I’m high. Are you high, too? Because this reads like something I would write while high. And I’m for serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this! Free cat scratchers might not seem like they have much value, but has anyone seen the price of those ready-made things?! They’re pushing $20 for a large-ish flat scratcher at lower volume places like TSC, but Target isn’t much better, still $10 for a 10" x 18" flat cheapy.

  Down with bougie cat cardboard!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Amazon user intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the rectum bleacher! You’ve gotta whiten up all your pearly bits when grooming personally with these here personal grooming products! From teeth whiteners to skin toners, nipple brighteners, and our ever-popular melanin relaxers, they’re all conveniently listed in this one incredibly inconvenient list! No matter which part of your body, which end of your digestive system you want to whiten up, Lighten Up, We’ve Got You (Un)Covered!®

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign of the times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the effect would be akin to mixing every paint color and getting “super dark weird black-brown” as a result.

  My guess would be “super icy horrifying franken-fruit.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is just laziness and they have a blanket scapegoat to use to get out of doing their job if you walk in and are overweight.

  (Please take the following as pondering general discussions of obesity between doctors/patients and not specifically directed at you.)

  This was a really thought-provoking summary for me, your belief that doctors are telling people to lose weight out of “laziness.” If a suggestion like this is lazy, are patients who don’t listen to their doctor somehow not lazy?

  The idea that doctors make weight a scapegoat seems prevalent in American healthcare (probably because we’re generally obese, myself included). It feels a lot like projection of one’s laziness onto a doctor, even though that doctor has probably seen hundreds of cases with the same predictable outcomes and knows that appropriate weight management would head off more serious treatment.

  Frankly, I think doctors are anything but lazy when they are “forced” to order and perform risky and invasive treatments on a patient who refused to meet them halfway before the treatment became necessary in the first place. I get it, nobody likes being told what to do, especially when it seems (and literally is) so personal. But doctors also don’t like to be told what to do (“fix me!”) when a patient deigns even the gentlest suggestion to take some control of their issues at hand.

  I am 15lbs into the obese BMI category myself, but 30lbs below my highest weight. The severity of my issues (joint pain, lethargy, depression, etc.) has palpably lessened losing that 30lbs very inconsistently over the last four years. If anything, I think doctors need to better read the psychological resistance many people have with weight loss and then illustrate to, rather than tell, patients how to attain weight loss in ways that don’t seem restrictive.

  That 30lbs of mine, could I have done that in 30 weeks or fewer? Sure, but I didn’t want to feel perpetually hungry. In fact, I never even set a goal weight. Instead of thinking “Idgaf about my weight” or “I must lose 20lbs by Christmas!!” I just made the tiniest changes, the biggest one being taking advantage of times I wasn’t hungry by (gasp) not eating.

  … Shit, I guess lazy weight loss works, too!