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[Frumple]

Iirc lead's, like... pretty soft? So even an ingot, just touching it could get some the nasty stuff on you, which can then get in you, etc., etc.

[Il Palazzo]

It's soft, but doesn't flake or anything like that. Used to play with it. It's dangerous when you let it leach into water, inhale vapours, etc. It's generally an issue with chronic exposure, not just getting into contact with.

[Great Order]

I imagine it's a bit like mercury, the element's fine because the body doesn't readily absorb it, but once it's bound up in something the body will and that's when it becomes dangerous.

You can actually swallow liquid mercury and it'll pass through you mostly fine. Probably absorb some because it's bound to react with something or other in there in small amounts, but it used to be a solution to constipation which is a hilariously brute-force method. Can't shit? Swallow something heavy so it pushes it out.

[Great Order]

In light of having lost a fight with a piece of furniture, I have a question:

Why do bumps swell up? Both mechanically and what use does it have, if any?

[Egan_BW]

Bruises are minor internal bleeding, right? I'd think it swells because the blood is getting out of the vessels and also coagulating. I don't truly know, though.

[Magmacube_tr]

How to not go insane?

AsKInG fOr A frIeND.

[Egan_BW]

Have you considered getting hit by a hurricane? Helped for me.

[heydude6]

How to not go insane?

AsKInG fOr A frIeND.

Get a girlfriend and have sex.

Didn't say my advice would be practical, but if you could pull it off it would genuinely help. I read a book recently, and it turns out that the physical and mental health benefits of sex are really underrated. Religion got it way wrong! Kellogg was an idiot.

[pisskop]

yoga for me.  meditative silence where I confront my thoughts and, as importantly, let them go so I can conceptualize nothing.

I would liken meditation to running a tap that has been shut off for a couple days.  Brown water and air bubbles keep coming; until they dont and the water is clean again.

[Eric Blank]

How to not go insane?

AsKInG fOr A frIeND.

Get a girlfriend and have sex.

Didn't say my advice would be practical, but if you could pull it off it would genuinely help. I read a book recently, and it turns out that the physical and mental health benefits of sex are really underrated. Religion got it way wrong! Kellogg was an idiot.

He's gay, in a nation where being homosexual is a crime, and his father threatened to kill him for being gay.
Although, if he can find a woman who would cover for him and pretend to be in a relationship, perhaps a lesbian herself needing to find cover...


Honestly, one of the best ways i find to relax is to go for a walk, or spend time with pets away from family. Spend your time somewhere else, even if that's a store or market in walking distance, or library if you can find one.

[heydude6]

He's gay, in a nation where being homosexual is a crime, and his father threatened to kill him for being gay.
Although, if he can find a woman who would cover for him and pretend to be in a relationship, perhaps a lesbian herself needing to find cover...

Aw shit, I was being tounge-in-cheek in my response. Now I feel really bad.

I can only imagine living in a society that hates you for who you are.


Wish I could give real advice, but I'm failing to deal with my own mental health crises right now. I've historically coped with video games, but that only does so much to take the edge off.

Sometimes when I find myself in distress, I try to think of things I want to see in the future. I have some pretty ambitious Christmas plans this year that I'd like to see through, and hopefully when that time comes, I'll find another thing to look forward to.

I just take life one step at a time, and I find it's enough to keep me going.

[Magmacube_tr]

He's gay, in a nation where being homosexual is a crime, and his father threatened to kill him for being gay.
Although, if he can find a woman who would cover for him and pretend to be in a relationship, perhaps a lesbian herself needing to find cover...

Aw shit, I was being tounge-in-cheek in my response. Now I feel really bad.

I can only imagine living in a society that hates you for who you are.

Eh, actually pansexual but whatever. The thing still applies. I mean, there is also the epsilon chance of me falling in love with a woman and show a heteronormative image to the outside, but... you know? It feels wrong to have an entire side of you crippled like this.

On another note...

I can perfectly accomplish an outward projection. I am doing it now. Sure, I have he/him pronouns and have two boy names and all, but I only look masculine, and display little traditionally gendered behavior, if at all. It is strange how easily others fall in line with that too, almost unquestioningly. Men don't quite treat me as a fellow, yet never give any disparaging remarks that would suggest that I failed the masculinity check. Woman seem very comfortable around me, and take my joking around in a non-flirty way, yet the hotbloodedness they preserve for other woman is absent for me. This is strange for a highly gendered society such as this one, but I guess it is much easier to notice things that stick out rather than what is absent all together, and when gender roles and stereotypes are solid axioms, you tend to not question it at all unless agitated and prompted.

[Egan_BW]

I think that's generally true, but there are probably a few people out there whose conception of gender rules is SO integral to their world view that they'll short circuit if they can't nearly categorize you as manny man or ladilike lady.

Anyway, sending hugs, MC.

[Magmacube_tr]

I think that's generally true, but there are probably a few people out there whose conception of gender rules is SO integral to their world view that they'll short circuit if they can't nearly categorize you as manny man or ladilike lady.

Anyway, sending hugs, MC.

They don't notice. They don't short circuit. They do not become confused. They do not notice at all.

[Maximum Spin]

I can perfectly accomplish an outward projection. I am doing it now. Sure, I have he/him pronouns and have two boy names and all, but I only look masculine, and display little traditionally gendered behavior, if at all. It is strange how easily others fall in line with that too, almost unquestioningly. Men don't quite treat me as a fellow, yet never give any disparaging remarks that would suggest that I failed the masculinity check. Woman seem very comfortable around me, and take my joking around in a non-flirty way, yet the hotbloodedness they preserve for other woman is absent for me. This is strange for a highly gendered society such as this one, but I guess it is much easier to notice things that stick out rather than what is absent all together, and when gender roles and stereotypes are solid axioms, you tend to not question it at all unless agitated and prompted.

In my experience most people really just don't care about gendered behavior anymore (and where I am, haven't for generations). This doesn't seem to be true everywhere, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's true in Turkey, somehow. "Masculinity" and "femininity" just don't matter much. I've never spared a thought for them in my life, myself. You may be the one worrying about it most out of everyone around you.