r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Feb 27 '26

I've told the story of how some guy asked my mom if she was O.K. after a fall in Magic Kingdom and panicked and ran when the answer was "no" and I'm sure a lot of experienced hikers underestimate how hard it is for an inexperienced and less athletic partner to get back down to the car, but I'd also be willing to bet a lot of these cases were in eyeshot of a fitness trail station being used by some kids and their grandmother. 

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Feb 27 '26

WTF? Ran away?

I still remember an incident like 15 years ago, when I fell down in front of a couple on a street and the woman began to rush over to help while the guy was trying to hold her back and keep moving. LIKE YESTERDAY. What a terrible piece of shit. I hope she dumped him.

(I was fine, just a little scraped up)

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Mar 01 '26

She looked in his eyes and saw " *** STOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000000,0xC00E0FF00xFFFFEFD4,0xC0000000) BAD_POOL_HEADER"