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For some reason I read this as "garbage disposals are scary" and then I got a flashback to reading a Stephen King novel as a child (iirc it was Firestarter) where a character commits suicide by sticking their arm into their kitchen garbage disposal, it horrified me at the time and appears to have remained deeply embedded in my personal neural network...


Thank you for giving the rest of us an opportunity to have that concept deeply embedded as well…


Hopefully I didn't trigger too many folks... judging by the "votes" on my post, I may have done. Ah well, you can't please everybody!


I believe the kiddos refer to this as "trauma dumping".

The topic was programming. You switched it to horrific mutilation.

Don't do that.


Oh come on, kids are watching movies like Goodfellas and Casino. Me mentioning someone losing an air is hardly going to give anyone sleepless nights.




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