POG PUB 2025-2026: About damn time. For a lot of things. But not everything.

trying to remember the keeping my door open thing....

I think maybe what I would do is open my door instead of turning on the light? cuz the hallway was lit up.

and it wasn't cuz I couldn't afford it. I think in that place electricity was included anyway. and it wasn't for permanent light... but like if I needed to turn the light on just for a second to see something in the closet by the front door... i'd just open the door instead of turning on the light.

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Finnegans Wake

I think sometimes we ascribe random attributes to filthy.

Oh filthy, he claims trees and eats bees! Keeps his door open for heat. Eats xans like tic tacs.

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not sure who makes more absurd posts, me or rick

maybe you didn't get the part where I actually had an addiction(for about a day)... and learned from that to do it safely so in the following 800 days I took about 50 xanax

if you think taking one xanax every 16 days for years sounds addictive... it's gonna be hard to have any kind of dialogue with you about addiction.

aslo i've never, and will never take Xanax recreationally. it is not a recreational drug. at least not for me.

found it, can see how the wires got crossed

this would be true only if you didn't drink while you were on it

missed this lol

filthy, i say this with love as someone who's been around a lot of addicts during their “i got this under control” phases.

i’m not even saying “50 xanax in 800 days = addict.” i’m saying the constant need to frame it as controlled, exception-based, and carefully managed is what sounds familiar to people who’ve been around addiction.

maybe you do have it more under control than most. maybe you don’t. all any of us can go off is what you choose to share here.

and honestly, that response is a bigger red flag to me than the occasional morning post about being drunk and loving it. because the drinking itself is not the issue.

if you left it at “i had a fun” i wouldn’t be nearly as concerned. it’s the immediate shift into explaining why it was fine, controlled, or different that stands out.

i spent 5 years with an alcoholic partner. what stood out for me wasn’t the drinking itself, it was the reflex to justify it instead of just acknowledging it

Are you trying to kill him?

Mark I got a free billion dollar idea for you.

A free standing food court called "Nostalgia".

Idk what the outside is yet but you go in and there's a classic pizza hut with the red cups and galaga. A 50s diner with the jukebox at your booth and the waitress is Mamie van Doren. Or Mamie Eisenhower. The Wendy's Taco Bar. Other Lost Dining Experiences.

None of these things can survive on their own but you pack them together and it's a regional draw.

Everything sucks now and people just want to be reminded of when things seemed OK.

I am a sucker for nostalgia! I like it.

The Wendy's Super Bar! I loved all those fastfood salad bars.

Now I'm weepy over the demise of Souplantation.

yes! souplantation! slightly problematic name, but I loved it! I only went there once.

where I lived we had fresh choice. and I would always eat myself sick, but it was sooooooo fun! maybe my favorite place to eat. I always loved salad. and soup!

people would stare at my gigantic mound of food I was bringing to my table and think I was wasting food, but I always ate it all, and went back for more

Fogo de chao has a similar feel, but costs 20x as much.

also, I'm not a drug addict

A guy I did IT work for took me to Souplantation once. Big ole boy 6'3" and 350 pounds. Trained as an opera singer. It was alright.

An IT Director always used to take us to a Brazilian steakhouse at the end of Sales Meetings. He died at like fifty of a heart attack during the first month of covid. Which is kind of how I ended up in the place I am in the company today.

We had a huge sloppy Exchange Admin who died at like 33 of a heart attack. Just incredible.

The average IT worker is FIFTY POUNDS overweight. Including me!

white people LOVE a plantation

if you had a restaurant
that looked like a southern mansion
all black staff
saying yes massa!
right away massa!

you'd make a billion dollars. talk about nostalgia.
that's why they fly the confederate flag.
they need slaves and they know they are nothing without them.

I am going to hell for this but

OBVIOUSLY

you separate the staff into
house workers and the field workers who park the cars etc

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it's SATIRE

i've never understood the psychology behind letting oneself go

i periodically realize that i've gotten fat but then i go make changes and work it off

every single time i see an obese person, which is all the time, i'm always like "how and why?"

idk if it's out of arrogance or self consciousness, but i just can't comprehend how anyone would be ok with looking at themselves in the mirror and seeing that

one thing that's been super helpful for me is whenever i begin to gain weight, i never buy bigger clothes, this meant during covid when i gained 20 pounds i had much more restricted wardrobe but rather than embracing it i powered through, lost that weight and can now wear those clothes again

i think the big thing i hate most about american culture is the normalization of being fat, how people don't view it as serious health problem due to lifestyle choices but rather believe it's just genetics or what have you

like it pisses me off so much that so many americans, when they learn of my time spent in asia, declare something like "oh i wish i had an asian metabolism and could just eat what i want like they do"

no, they are very disciplined in their dieting and exercise, that's what it's from - and the proof is that the more generations an asian has been in america (ie the more of their cultural influence is american) the fatter they get - so it's crystal clear it's not a genetics nor metabolism issue

it's a culture of making horrific lifestyle decisions

The psychology is that the pleasure/emotional regulation of eating outweighs any ramifications. Like any other drug.

but they're not mutually exclusive, you can gorge out and then go to the gym, take a half hour walk every day, etc

You can eat a thousand calories in five minutes.

see this is the problem - you are treating this like it's normal

The damn closet shrinks my clothes!
and
sweatpants ftw!!!