An unstoppable spiral of vaguely connected hyperfixations

The delusions on that grandpa, yeah I'm sure the scheming chaebol family is so full of love and not backstabbing siblings all trying to poison each other and whatnot. Sir, have you paid attention to your own family or perhaps watched a Kdrama?

Ou, that is very King Lear (king asks his 3 daughters who loves him best, two flatter him to high heaven, one gives a realistic answer. He disowns the 3rd and divides his kingdom between the flattering ones. They try to assassinate him and the 3rd one saves him)

He 100% thinks that fake flattery is love, and that (apparent) obedience to him is the highest form of expressing that love. As @fake-married-my-dead-fiance pointed out, this is a Lear narrative all over, with the interesting swerve that his bio grandson is in the Edgar role and Kang Dan-Shim is the one in the Cordelia position - especially pointed given what happened right at the end of ep 10.

have you ever seen a fictional male character that is obviously designed by straight people to be ugly as possible but you KNOW would be extremely popular with gay men???

Happy Pride

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

@/teaboot

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

@macavitykitsune IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE?!

EXTREMELY BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I AM SURVIVING THIS BUT YES. YES IT FUCKING IS

Tbh it never registered as odd at all until I tried telling an American friend that something was X hours away

On a personal level, the pool temperature thing is the most baffling apparent-consensus measurement thing. (Cooking instructions these days increasingly come with both Celsius and Fahrenheit, so that's gotten less bizarre at least.)

The pool thing is throwing me for a loop. Are you saying you use different systems to talk about the air outside the pool and the water inside? Surely the point of a knowing a pool’s temperature is to directly compare it to the temperature of the air around it

You would THINK, but apparently liquid temperatures and air temperatures have to be formally segregated. Or something!

@valoniel look!!

@/teaboot

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

@macavitykitsune IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE?!

EXTREMELY BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I AM SURVIVING THIS BUT YES. YES IT FUCKING IS

Tbh it never registered as odd at all until I tried telling an American friend that something was X hours away

On a personal level, the pool temperature thing is the most baffling apparent-consensus measurement thing. (Cooking instructions these days increasingly come with both Celsius and Fahrenheit, so that's gotten less bizarre at least.)

BE INDIGESTIBLE GROW SPIKES has rocketed up the list of tattoos I want to get, tbh

@/teaboot

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

@macavitykitsune IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE?!

EXTREMELY BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I AM SURVIVING THIS BUT YES. YES IT FUCKING IS

@tippedoverteapot for your current mood tag!