Okay, so it is a problem specific to fish. Thank you for replying!
DharmaCurious
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Gather round, ye honored men I have a tale to tell Bout a Klingon named Kum And his battle with a mighty whale He ventured out upon the sea And unfurled his massive sail He travelled all round Kro'nos And ended in the east A mighty man, never once morose He sought out the vicious beast Searching high and low And when he found the great white thing Kum knew it was time to blow
That's the best I can do at 3am. Lol.
That did it! Thank you!
Sometimes I feel like the only one. It just grossea me out. I don't know why. :/
I gave in and made out with a dude during a hookup two months, though. Got. Fucking. Mono. -_-
Curious, are you against eating animals at all, or is there something specific to fish I'm unaware of?
Tried to phrase that in the most polite way, but I can't get the phrasing to not sound like I'm being a snarky dick. I'm genuinely asking. I'm not vegan, but I do try to limit myself as much as I can given the diets of the other people I cook for. Also not a fan of fish in general, but I'll cook and eat it when someone in the house goes fishing at the local lake or river. We never buy fish.
Okay, so, basically, you know how like, 99.9999% of everything is empty vacuum? Like, the vast, vast majority of space is just empty nothingness? Quantum foam says that that's not exactly the case, and that constantly particles and anti particles are being created and destroying each other. So instead of empty nothingness, you have this sort of cosmic, bubbling, boiling foam of creation and annihilation.
Or, at least, I think. I'm no rocket surgeon.
Meant to mention in my first comment, I haven't met many other people who like to randomly imagine the ways major structural changes would take place. Lol.
I like to pick a huge project. Like, say, single payer healthcare, or the nationalization of an industry, and then imagine the individual steps that would need to be taken to get there. Doesn't necessarily have to be a project I'd support, I just have fun imagining the ways it would need to happen.
I'm glad you have a good relationship with your son. :) I'm one of those weirdos that's super close with my mom, and it's an absolutely awesome relationship to have a parent that you're close with. Not enough people get that.
Honestly, in a relationship, the closest I have gotten to is essentially friend with whom I bone. :/ Part of the problem, I think, is that it takes me quite a long time to really consider someone a friend. Like, I need to know someone really well before that bond forms, and none of my relationships have lasted that long. I also saw my mom try in a bad marriage, she thought she could "fix him," and that's a fate I've always wanted to avoid. I think sometimes I bail because I realize they're not the person I want to spend my life with, so what's the point in dating them, y'know? What I want out of a partner is someone with shared interests, and someone who has a similar approach to life. Someone I can talk to about philosophy, or the books we're reading. The culture where I live doesn't lend itself to that, generally speaking.
Yeah, it bothers me to a degree. Less because I really crave that relationship, I do to an extent, but more because I desperately wanted to be a dad, and the only way that'll happen for me as a gay man is to be married so I can adopt.
I'm also not what you'd call a great looker, so finding a person to go out with on something other than a hookup is kinda rare. Not fishing there, just acknowledging a fact. I'm at peace with that on most days. Lol.
That sounds terrible. I'm sorry you go through that. internet hugs
Existential cocktease is one of the best phrases ever coined, and exactly the phrase I have needed for years to explain many of my dreams. I don't fall in love. Like, I've dated, and had a few relationships, but I've never really connected with a person in a romantic way. I love my family deeply, in a non romantic way, so I know I'm capable. But I just have never had that with a romantic partner.
But I routinely do in dreams. Several times a year, I'll have a dream where I fall deeply in love someone. And then I wake up, and I'm depressed for days thinking about it. It's an existential cocktease.
Thank you for giving me the language to describe that.
Do you have any suggestions on sir/ma'am? I'm from the south, and genuinely don't know how to stop saying sir/ma'am. I always try to go with whatever the person is presenting, and I have tried not to say it at all. But that southernism is deeply ingrained. Like at a drive through or something, where you only have a voice to go off of it's especially bad. I do try to avoid it, but I wish there were a gender neutral version, because language just feels rude without it to someone who grew up with that instilled in them. All adult people must be addressed as ma'am or sir, regardless of age in any kind of setting that isn't close friends. If I forego it, I feel rude as fuck, and most of the time whoever you're talking to also acts offended. But the last thing I want to do is misgender someone, especially with words like sir/ma'am, that are such... Strict terms. Halp?