Wow it's been ages since I've seen VG Cats.

RAT-MACE!

Yeah, that's the secret. All of the crap you shrug off as a kid just bides its time to come back when you're old. Like, 30.

Hahaha! Yes! You may live until you're 90, kids, but 60 of those will be spent suffering! You'll be old by 30! Boomers! Hahaha! Boomers everywhere!

I have seen toddlers fall over and be fine until their mum started freaking out, THEN they start crying.

It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you'll learn that's how you're supposed to respond to minor injuries.

I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it's eminently possible for me to just 'step wrong' and have to wrap up an ankle.

the kid is gonna die after it wears off

Ah yes, the SUV is basically the bride from Kill Bill, doing the five point palm exploding heart technique.

I feel this. I can make my ankle audibly crunch on command by rotating it the right way

I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.

hahaha holy crap i am laughing out loud, thank you, dang that's so funny

Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.

that's really interesting. I listened to a podcast with one of the writers, or maybe the creator, I can't remember right now, and he talked about how sincere everybody was about creating the superhero who could actually change the cultural lack of concern about climate change.

and what's super cool is like statistically and culturally, it looks like the show worked.

like yeah everything is still fucked, but it would have been way worse a generation earlier if a bunch of awesome nerds didn't make Captain planet for generation x so they would become horrified over climate change.

[here it is] (https://share.google/H4LaAuoFDf6AS01Al)

I won’t even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because I’ve learned this lesson.

Just do the dance in reverse

Unfortunately, it was a jump, so I think a reverse jump is just a jump, right?

Last panel: Turns around too quickly to look after the kid, now has a painfully stiff neck for a week.

Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!

Per merriam-webster:

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

crawl
creep
drag
poke
hang (around or out)
linger
lag
poke
dawdle
    loiter
    stroll
    tarry
    shuffle
    saunter
    amble
    slow (down or up)
    lumber
    decelerate
    plod
    dillydally
    dally

I didn't know we had free fortune telling on Lemmy!

I'm so cooked

I’ve definitely been doing a lot of those things since it happened. Much shuffling, tarrying, and slowing down. I just started back on working out today, but nothing with my hip.