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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Sorry, are you suggesting that able-bodied people never take a seat, or that we always ask if someone would like to sit even if they don’t look ill? I hope you realise why neither of those are practical. It is reasonable that an able-bodied person with a seat should ask if someone who looks like they need it if they want to sit instead; but if your illness is invisible, it’s also reasonable to expect that if you need a seat you’ll ask. It’s not reasonable to expect me to know you have an illness and to offer my seat if you’re not outwardly ill, though.

    I suspect you may be thinking of people refusing to give up their seat when you ask, because you don’t look ill. Those people are jerks and that reaction is bad, but they are not what I’m talking about here. We’re discussing the best way to ask if someone needs a seat, without offending by assuming the reason they might need one.





  • Don’t you hate it when you reach for a napkin but then your hand gets stuck to the dispenser and you watch in horror as the sides of the dispenser morph into tentacles that reach out and mercilessly beat you into bloody mush - or they would, if it were a full-sized mimic, but instead the angry lil guy can only pitter-pat against your wrist and you’re all like

    Nyawww, lil napkin mimic, so angry and vish! But bro I kinda need my hands back now

    So you pat and stroke the napkin mimic until it calms down and even lets you take a napkin like you wanted?