Ask Lemmy

About 10 minutes ago my plumber said my problem may cost in the neighborhood of $30k to fix. Yay.

I had a girlfriend many years ago who asked me to disconnect the ventilation fan in her bathroom. When I asked why, she said, and I quote "That's for people who smell when they go to the bathroom".

This fellow human was literally telling me her shit don't stink. I was flabbergasted...

Talking to a relative about people in his retirement community, he told me “A lot of the people here can’t afford health insurance on their fixed incomes. If something happens to them, they just die.” And, as I was thinking how horrible that was, he switched gears to “Did you hear about how those democrats want to try and mess with healthcare again? I swear they won’t be happy until I’m broke!”

Well, when I tried to explain in a privacy community that ditching WhatsApp is nearly impossible in Brazil, then the guy answered me with "either you're a part of the problem, or you're a part of the solution".

A few years ago, I'm having lunch with a friend, we're talking about how bitcoin is all over the news. He then asked me, "Where are these mines they make those in?" We've both worked in high tech for many years.

My sister and I were chit chatting about our kids and their milestones, etc. Super normal type of conversation, especially for us since we don't get along well to begin with and we try to stick to topics that aren't inflammatory. The topic of what age we were when we started menstruating came up.

She stopped me mid-sentence in order to correct me about what age I was when I started my period. Not her age, she stopped me to correct my own retelling of my own personal history because "she remembered better".

It was one of the only times I told her to her face that she was being rude.

My wife works in a cancer center. One patient undergoing chemo told her, "If I wake up and can put two feet on the floor, it's a good. day."

Was going to the gym for a while back in like 2015 (still do, but I used to too) and was feeling so much better than usual.

I asked my roommate who was one of my best friends at the time if he'd be interested in coming too as it would probably be really fun and motivating if we went together. Dead serious he hit me with "nah, I don't wanna get too buff."

🤨 WAT

I think I offended him a bit with my incredulous response. I honestly couldn't even believe what I heard. Dude was a string bean and would have needed a hard year at the gym to even get remotely "buff". I was truly dumbfounded.

A dear friend of mine claimed my actual advice is always beneficial, and that he likes having me in his life to talk him through his struggles as a parent, as a provider, as a husband; all that junk. And he promises he wasn't taking the piss. And here I am just faking my way through being a human in this existence that I was at an actual loss for words. I now hope to one day fulfill that role. It's not just quips and spelling corrections, guys!!