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It definitely helps. You can sometimes logic yourself out of a spiral by acknowledging the emotion and why it's there, while simultaneously rejecting the need for feeling it right now.

It's like "hey cool thanks brain I get that you want me to make sure that the bad thing doesn't happen again so you're looping that memory and the feeling that came with it. But actually that's not helpful, that situation actually (wasn't dangerous) / (won't happen again) / (isn't something I can solve right now), so let's move on."

With practice, brain usually says "ok no worries", and you can move on. It's not really that simple but that's the idea.

At 10 he's alllllmost at that age where anything a grown-up relative buys for him is gonna be cringe and not the right brand/style/whatever. You can't go wrong with a voucher so he can get exactly what he wants. Maybe a voucher for a skate shop? You could even take him there and help him get something so it's still an uncle/aunt purchase.

It's the same animator, cyriak!

Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it's opaque and convoluted. That's what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you're part of the culture.

If you're eating with an Australian and they ask you to "pass the dead horse", it means they think you're Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won't know what it means and they're fucking with you intentionally.

nods Lady, of Gaga.

Fun fact: in the rest of the world it's just called "licorice". No black. That red stuff isn't licorice at all.

Fun fact: Lady Gaga chose that name because of that song.

You can tell it's made up because it has "it's said that" in it.

Looks like one of these babies

Borat voice my wiiiiiiiife

Wow, haven't seen a roflcopter in a long time.

They have played us for absolute fools.