EmptySlime

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[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

If I had to guess I'd say either sensory issues with drinking alcohol itself, or the fact that drinking is another one of those social things that many only do because "it's what people do"

In my case it's a sensory thing but I also apparently have that gene that that makes you really sensitive to bitter. So even the fruitiest "you can't even taste the alcohol" drink tastes to me like paint thinner smells.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't figure out I was nonbinary and asexual until my mid twenties. I had an entire gender crisis in high school too. But at the time I didn't know either were things you could be so I'd just concluded that I was cis, but that I was deeply uncomfortable with the expectations society puts on boys/men.

Sexuality was an even wilder journey. Not only did I initially think I was heterosexual but I was outright homophobic. Turned out to be that I was mistaking being uncomfortable at overt sexual advances as dislike of gay people. I didn't have the same problem with women because "of course I like girls, I just haven't found The One™©® yet" lol. Then when I finally thought about it more I realized that I didn't really feel any differently about men and women so I must be bi. Finally I eventually realized "Yeah dumbass, 0 = 0. Good job."

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

That is definitely significantly scarier. If only because it means I might have to talk to someone from Québec.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

That's a tough question. At the time I thought that I was but I didn't figure out I was asexual until my mid twenties when my then girlfriend told me it was a thing you could be. So while I felt like I was interested in them I felt no real desire to be anything more than friends and I was already there.

I'm also a dense motherfucker so between the two I spent all of my adolescence waiting to meet The One™©® because I thought that when I did I'd have that "I can't live without you" feeling people kept telling me I would feel.

As for whether or not I told any of them. The answer to that is no. Everyone I ever crushed on like that are either happily married or I've entirely lost contact with them.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's not common in my experience but I absolutely did have several girls say that to me verbatim when I was younger. In my case though many of them thought I was gay and just not interested in women at all (they were half right lol) so that's why they said it. I wasn't attracted to them and they wished they could find someone like me that was interested in them.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 6 months ago

Their justification is almost certainly as simple as "only gays and addicts get this, let it kill them"

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Not gonna lie, that's significantly less scary than the snow speaking Finnish.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

I find this funny because where I live in Western NY they didn't even offer service. I've been stuck with Spectrum for years. Especially infuriating was another fiber provider came into my neighborhood and one asshole refused to give them an easement to access the pole on their property so literally my block is one of the only spots in my neighborhood they don't have service. I want to drop Spectrum so bad but they're pretty much the only provider in my area.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 months ago

The White Tiger and the Azure Dragon get all the attention man. Never any love for the Vermilion Bird or the Black Tortoise. Smh

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

According to the Wikipedia page the phonetics would be [ˈblôːhaj]

Or as one of my twins says it "Hello hi"

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I might be wrong in this. My understanding is that it is flammable, but not when it's "solid" if that makes sense. That a fire would have to be on it and burning hot enough for long enough to start melting the tar then that could burn. But the asphalt itself isn't likely to just catch fire from a lighting strike or something and just continue to burn.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Nah I've definitely done a quick heel-toe walk across an area to get a ballpark of distance. Along with basically any other body part I could reasonably use to measure something when I don't have a tape measure on me at that moment.

I've also previously measured and I know that for example my bare foot is about 11 inches long heel to toe and that my shoe makes it about 12. I could do exactly the same thing with metric.

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