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Jerome is a mild hero
Just get too excited and lore dump your homebrew everywhere
Be prepared
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
#2 Well, yes. Students are conditioned to believe and trust teachers they view positively as authority figures that Should Not Be Doubted.
seregsarn
#47 A customer approaches your desk at the local sex toy shop. You ask, "looking to protect yourself, or deal some damage?"
claydhd14
Me, after reading #2: Oooohhhh, free BEE! Clever
inchoroi
#19 I do this thing while writing. I'll have a full conversation while looking straight at my wife and still be typing something else.
Cyrilion
Happens to me all the time, people think im not listening but the rooms just loud af and i cant differentiate their speech from it :(
ambiencenever
#13 Pick's disorder. Read the symptoms on webmd. Spot on diagnosis.
GreenFox
#2 jfc Im in the "my school taught Civil War was about state's rights" camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)
GreenFox
I was reading this thinking "this can't be real, wtf". Then looked it up. holyshit.
Raxiel
#47 ok, but I reserve the right to break into your room at 2am to wake you so you can buy what looks like the proceeds of a burglary.
Raxiel
It's ok though, it's not technically from a burglary because I killed the previous owner before I took it.
Illyriel
I know it's a tumblr fake story but goddamn professional therapists don't talk like that.
DonteHaversham
#11 dude i cant even explain how fast id drop that person off.
ITellBadPuns
ZombiesAndZoos
#2 My 8th grade teachers turned our classrooms into a full Holocaust recreation just like this for 6 wks. The lessons have never left us.
kookiefear1
I stole some new meme so here is your upvote
sykotic1189
#50 *rolls nat 1* uh oh spaghetti-o's
doAngelsFart
Whenever people tell the Third Wave story they always leave out the two students who dissented, Alyssa Hess and Sherry Tousley.
DIINKELBERG
#2 that movie is awesome.
Kurgan42
Jerome sounds fun but with questionably loose boundaries for a personal therapist!
taxiviolence
Some types of therapy are based on sharing personal information to build trust. The loose boundaries could be part of the process.
BuckCake
#15 That thing is sick!
Dogeus
Not something I would throw at a party its CR recommends. +7 to hit and 2d6 extra on advantage also insta kills you if you go down. Cool tho
Fuzzynubz
#1 a buzzers dozen
llortamai
A keepers dozen
phridoo
#19 / I heard you just fine but I heard all those other things too & saw a leaf blow by & I have shoes that'd go perfectly with the dress ½
phridoo
that person who just walked by was wearing & I have all that equal attention so I'm processing a lot of input & I say "sorry, ⅔
phridoo
.. what was that?" Just so I have a sec for my brain to catch up.
CobaltAzurean
wineisfine13
I think I love Jerome.
illeatassbutnotthebruisesonbananas
#18 yep, that's me
donutposse11337
In my town someone stole all the urinals from the police station. They’re looking for the perp but said they have “nothing to go on.”
AlkeneThiol
Nice
Noldona
#2 TIL: Apparently I was a high school history teacher in 1967.
LadiesInboxMeYourInsecurities
Okay time traveler tell us your fucking secrets.
Noldona
It's quite simple, i have a time machine, it looks like a cardboard box with time machine written on the outside, only goes forward at
Noldona
A second per second though. Still trying to figure out how to fix that.
DrProfessorRocketSurgeon
#13 He stands like that because, in his deluded state, he thinks it makes his fat, bloated gut look smaller... that and the brain damage.
xyxyxyxy31
maxstout808
He obv has a demon on his shoulders to balance the weight, or else he would tip forward. Just look!
ambiencenever
Pick's D: lack of empathy, language and picture problems, coordination, speech, muscle weakness, irritability, lability, repetition
thebowlllama
I assumed he was locking his knees to keep from shaking since hes clearly not in good health
Pseudobatrachotoxin
Great way to faint. Don’t lock your knees for extended periods.
turdturdleton
I thought it was because he wore lifts in his shoes to seem taller but it's probably both
phridoo
The lifts explanation irks me. Lots of people wear high heeled shoes & don't lean like that. If I can wear 6in spike heels & stand up ½
phridoo
straight & even run (if absolutely necessary), he should be able to do it on 3in lifts.
wolfbro86
It's also potentially a symptom of frontotemporal dementia. Or lifts in his shoes, as another commenter mentioned. Or he's just f*cking odd.
phridoo
It's not the lifts. People can stand up straight in 6 inch high heel shoes with no problem. If anything you lean back to compensate.
Lucky246
Lifts aren't like heels
phridoo
Yeah, they're way easier to balance on
Lucky246
Depends on the heel
DrProfessorRocketSurgeon
Yeah, the brain damage I mentioned.
Base841
For #2, you can see the made-for-tv movie here: https://youtu.be/ICng-KRxXJ8
Girapple
Beer pong stands... But then you can't re-rack or bounce.
Iihavegas
Our house rules were no bouncing and only one re rack at 3 so this could work
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Ugh. There were just too many grammatical errors for me to enjoy it at the end.
blockedtrem
Why couldn’t Jerome drink the coffee? I must be missing something…
FrozenGif
I just assumed he received a cup with a lid, and didn't have a straw
jnet1985
Zoom call?
quitepossiblygettingold
I’d be way hesitant to drink a coffee I didn’t order from a person I only know on a professional level
TeachMeHowToLurk
My guess is they had virtual appointments in the past year. You can't drink a coffee over zoom! The thought is nice though.
HypnagogicHallucinations
Would be reasonable, but he says he put it in front of "him", not in front if the screen. Shortly after mentions being in the waiting room.
theproofisinmypudding
Maybe he has to keep his mask on
grumpykumquat
same. maybe someone wise in the way of Jerome will enlighten us.
Ayizkitt
I, aswell
vidmagnuson
Wrong context; Jerome's not asking how does one complete the act of drinking coffee, but how do they prefer their coffee prepared.
grumpykumquat
Thank you! You mean how does Jerome like his coffee prepared? I had assumed the client had known that, but maybe not.
vidmagnuson
It's a guess, but it makes the most sense. I'll say that while it's not a private thing, it's not the sort of thing people just share.
grumpykumquat
tbh, I thought they had had coffee together, so the client made a note of Jerome's tastes, but that's on me. You are prob right.
randomwalrus
Unaware of how to open the lid on the coffee, I imagine. Might never have partaken of store-bought coffee before.
ProphetOfTheFirstClaw
Because Jerome does not exist
vidmagnuson
Wrong context; Jerome's not asking how does one complete the act of drinking coffee, but how do they prefer their coffee prepared.
GeekyRafiki
Weird how some people speak with such confidence as if they KNOW the answer
vidmagnuson
The presumed context implies that a trained therapist doesn't know how to consume a beverage, and that seemed wrong enough to ask what it 》
vidmagnuson
could mean. As a heavy coffee drinker "how do you drink your coffee" has a very straightforward meaning to me; black, or with cream and/or 》
vidmagnuson
sugar. It isn't that I personally KNOW exactly what happened, but that's how language works.
GeekyRafiki
Except it wasn't asked how someone else wants their coffee, but how oneself is supposed to drink it
GeekyRafiki
But that's exactly how the author explained it. Never had Starbucks before, not familiar with that type of coffee cups
HypnagogicHallucinations
So more like "How do I take it?", but how does that explain this exchange?
vidmagnuson
The coffee was purchased for Jerome without considering how Jerome takes their coffee. The statement was to point out that the intentions 》
vidmagnuson
were good, but the full consideration and forethought were missing.
themullusk
This makes sense to me. I did get the feeling that english may not be the OCs first language or they are quite carefree with their wording
MisterNoName
https://annoyedlord.tumblr.com/post/187611204785/hello-i-found-your-thread-about-the-conversation It was his first time having Starbucks.
bananaisntfriend
blockedtrem
Thank you!
BonumVitaeEst
You are awesome
KRicci
#19 This is me-- what causes this? I always describe it as having only one audio input
IfIOnlyHadAName
Same! I always said if there's too many sources I can't hear anything!
IfIOnlyHadAName
But also, I dislike have too few sources of sound! ?
phridoo
Haaaa I totally missed this one because.. ADHD. & yeah ADHD causes that. Other things can too, but for me, ADHD
Retrikaethan
idk what the word for it is but it's common in the autism part of the spectrum. 100% get the same thing, am asperger's/something thereabout.
venomlash
Same. Friends and family insist that selective hearing can be developed, but I have yet to accomplish such a thing.
KRicci
I've noticed lately a lot of autism symptoms that kinda describe me... I wonder if I'm on the very outskirts of the spectrum
Retrikaethan
wouldn't be surprising, especially if you adapted well at an early age.
Kaboom36
For me it's my ADHD
orchidaedra
My husband has this from ADHD and hearing loss on the left- my mom used to piss me off when we'd go over there she'd have two tvs on in-
orchidaedra
Basically the same room even after I asked her to stop so we'd always leave early because he couldn't hear anything and if I turned one off-
orchidaedra
She'd "forget" and turn it back on at some point and I'd tell her outright it was rude but she kept doing it- she wouldn't even be watching
NariEllie
Lots of things. ADHD, auditory processing disorders, other stuff probably, but my baked potato is getting cold.