"You are required to innovate a solution by this date." I dig it. They'll either do themselves or hire someone for the right price. Or pay a fine.

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Lol, and are we brothers? You just described my dad perfectly 🤣!

She has scoliosis !!

Mattel, the makers of Barbie, has introduced its first-ever doll with scoliosis.

The toy company has launched its new Chelsea doll, who is Barbie’s little sister, with a curved spine and a removable back brace.

Citing the “power of representation”, the brand aims to normalise the equipment and encourage children to celebrate inclusion with its latest addition to the Barbie family.

Mattel worked closely with Dr Luke Macyszyn, a board-certified neurosurgeon and specialist in children’s complex spinal disorders, in order to develop the doll.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/barbie-scoliosis-doll-chelsea-b2272781.html

I got my first (and so far only) cat there.

Yeah, I’m always nervous going solo on a trip and partnering up with a rando.

He obviously failed out of that dive and I don’t know if he ever went back to finish. Crazy because he had been totally fine on every skill we’d done in the pool and the first couple of open water dives. But when panic comes, it’s not easy to swallow it down.

You mean Cropsey…

Probably never even knew they were in the sewer.

Spent my high school summers as a lifeguard. I was at a local reservoir at the end of my senior year and swam out to the bouy with some friends. We passed by some acquaintances on the way back to shore attempting the same thing. I watched them from shore and could tell they were struggling so I swam back out to help. By the time I got out there, one of the guys had ditched his friend to drown. I swam over to him and grabbed him from behind and dragged him back to shore. Apparently he was chewing tobacco because his mouth and teeth were plastered with it. This was 16 years ago.. I ran into him and his daughter a few years ago and he told her that I was the guy that saved his life. I’m glad he still remembers and acknowledges it.

Thanks for the kind words, it's been tough but I feel like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I'm less stressed, I'm enjoying the time to myself and not constantly worrying about someone else and focusing on myself. Sorry your sister had to go through that, it's a painful experience but teaches you alot about your self and other people.

When I was about 10 I saved a kid who fell down a sewer and into the pipe after a heavy rain. My friends and I took off the lid and I climbed in. Then I dropped a rope down the 20' pipe and pulled the kid out. The kid didn't speak English and as soon as he got out him and his brother ran away. The cops stopped by later and patted me on the back.

Next day another kid did the same thing and he was on the news and the mayor of Los Angeles gave him a fucking medal.

They just wanted to float.

I thought these were before after transformations, after breast reduction surgeries on both of them

No, but their bandanas were...

Thank you for your service.

> Jesus Christ

... was clearly absent, it was Brian with an air mattress

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It’s true what they say, nothing gets by Cunt_Bag

Enough time underwater and you see some scary moments.

I won't buddy up with strangers on a dive. I have seen the full range of people that manage panic very well and very poorly... and it is valuable to truly understand a dive partner before dropping 60ft with them.

I hope the diver you saw found some inner calm along the way or chose to quit diving.

Not that alright….they still live on Staten Island.

"Armed with the makeshift flotation device"

this is so important - anything that floats will make it heaps less likely that the rescuer will drown in this situation

This guy still waiting

Wait, wasn't there an ARG about this?

Were those turtles different colors?

They had to save their past selves from dying or it would have created a paradox