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Nothing says "I'm a keeper" quite like someone who exclusively uses DD/MM/YYYY and refuses to acknowledge the existence of ISO 8601. While the rest of us are drowning in timezone conversions, locale-specific parsing errors, and that one database that stores dates as strings (yes, really), this guy found his soulmate who thinks there's only one true date format. Meanwhile, your production server is somewhere screaming because someone in the US entered 03/04/2024 and now nobody knows if it's March 4th or April 3rd. But sure, let's pretend other formats are just "a bit confusing" and not the reason we have 47 different datetime libraries in every programming language. Fun fact: There are at least 20+ common date formats used globally, and they all hate each other. The only thing developers can agree on is that whoever decided to make JavaScript's Date() start months at 0 deserves a special place in debugging hell.

Nothing quite screams "forever alone" like spending Valentine's Day debugging SQL joins while everyone else is out there forming actual human connections. The punchline? Your database has more relationships than you do. So naturally, the solution is to abandon relational databases entirely and switch to MongoDB where everything is just... unstructured chaos. No relations, no problems, right? Just like your love life! The beauty here is that MongoDB doesn't judge you for being commitment-phobic—it literally doesn't enforce relationships between data. It's the perfect database for people who can't even maintain a relationship with their houseplants.

So Oracle's origin story is literally a CIA project. Nothing suspicious about that at all. Your database vendor was born from intelligence agency funding, which explains so much about their licensing tactics—they've been extracting information and money with the same ruthless efficiency since day one. The CIA was their first customer, which tracks because both organizations specialize in making people uncomfortable and charging obscene amounts for the privilege. At least now we know where Oracle learned their interrogation techniques for license audits.

Nothing quite like the existential dread of sitting through a standup meeting where your manager is cracking jokes while you're internally calculating how many backup jobs you forgot to verify before running that UPDATE without a WHERE clause. 42,700 rows is oddly specific too—not catastrophic enough to make headlines, but definitely enough to ruin your entire week and possibly your performance review. The forced laughter while your soul leaves your body is a survival skill they don't teach in bootcamp. You're just standing there hoping nobody checks the logs before you can quietly restore from yesterday's backup at 2 AM. Pro tip: always wrap your destructive queries in a transaction. And maybe start looking at those backup procedures you've been putting off.