My brother’s girlfriend had HPV, so he went to get himself the HPV vaccine. There is a fee to pay (nothing much, something like €87) but it’s completely free if you’re in one of the “at risk” groups.
“What does that mean,” he asks. “It’s free if you’re gay,” he’s told. “Ah. Would I have to like, prove it, or…?” “Just put in a check mark here.”
My brother is in no way, shape or form attracted to men, but also he’s stingy as it gets. So now he’s officially gay. Congrats bro.
“Doctor, give it to me straight” “You sure, there’s a fee” “… Give it to me gay”
I was about to make a post about like… how my family has this lemon tree out front, and one of the funniest things about having a lemon tree is occasionally I’ll be out in front doing whatever and I’ll see someone walking past and quickly grab a lemon off the tree and stuff it in their pockets as quick as they can like they’re shoplifting.
I was about to make a post about how that’s funny and how, y’know people can have our lemons, it’s not a big deal because the tree pumps them out like gangbusters, but I really can’t make that post without thinking of… them…
I’ll admit it, OP. As soon as you mentioned your family had a lemon tree in their yard I wanted to ask you how they were dealing with the whore infestation.
The polio one infuriates me to the point of tears, just because bringing back preventable diseases, really dangerous ones that crippled generations, to be able to take that for granted is such a blind-eyed privilege that only the “first world” is afforded. The state of progress and “development” in third-world countries was always tied to how we were doing in terms of preventable diseases. India eradicated polio in 2011.
2011. Just 12 years ago.
This came after mass campaigns that went on for years to ensure that every child in India was getting their polio drops by age five. In global politics, countries would always be considered “developing” or “backwards” if they couldn’t even provide a basic safe living standard such as the ability to NOT worry about getting polio and being affected for life. If lucky. Eradicating an entire disease from a billion+ population was no easy task. It was decades of work. Decades. To see countries that had already crossed that threshold ages ago, just throw it all away, take it for granted, undo all the work the whole world has put in to make living a little safer for everyone… it’s draining. It’s demoralising. It’s so fucking selfish, it’s infuriating. What is the US a first world country for?
