... Have you really never enjoyed an entire album? I'm not sure I believe you?
boogetyboo
joined 2 years ago
Sunday just past was mother's Day in Australia.
Multiple women I know asked for 'a day off' from the family as their present i.e. their husbands took the kids out for the day, or they themselves went out to lunch by themselves, shopping etc.
I have my partner and my dog. There is no experience that they both don't enrich. I enjoy my own company and have an active social life. But I'm also drawn to opportunities to be around them, or include them if I can.
Women especially just seem to have the life sucked out of them by their families - both by the experience of raising children but also, more often than not, the uneven distribution of labour/parenting in their relationships.
I don't look forward to Mondays, even though we both work from home, simply because I have to spend more time at my desk than hanging out with my partner outside in the sun, or cuddling my dog. Those are the things I'll look back on fondly. Not getting time by myself to organise other people. Sheesh.
My take is pretty simple. Guy sounds like a massive douchebag that I wouldn't want to be friends with (it appears that's not what he wants anyway) let alone to see me naked.
I wouldn't sit next to this knob on public transport.
Move on. He's not worth your energy.
Picking at my cuticles and cracking all my joints, while staring into the middle distance.
Late 30s woman in Australia. Work in tech adjacent field. Progressive leftie.
Used Reddit for news, memes and funnies. Here for the same. Sometimes get involved in discussion but more often than not get too angry and have to put the phone down. Feel like you can have better discussions here than the old place, but I've noticed an uptick in right wing nut jobs and incels.
Absence of low effort 'this' and copypastas style responses is great. But I'm seeing a bit of that coming over too.
Thank you for summarising how I feel about the debates.
I sometimes go to respond to the more extreme takes and then think, haven't I said this before? And wouldn't they already know this?
The ability to counter misinformation is so diminished now. Everyone can just stand on either side holding up signs that summarise their views and leave it at that.
'Beyond the black stump' was a famous Australian comic strip but this doesn't look similar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Black_Stump_(comic_strip)
It doesn't look like the Ettamogah pub series. Or ginger meggs
You might enjoy this other brand of Australian high speed madness. Water world edition:
Everyone knows you have a hard deadline and work backwards to today. It is immaterial whether that is enough time for the work or to line up appropriate resources. Duh.
So many people I know through the workplace have done the Myers Briggs nonsense and hold onto their persona like a badge of pride. They're well meaning, intelligent people who don't know the background of MB and how it's as scientifically rigorous as those paper chatterboxes we made in school to help you find out which boy you were going to marry by picking a colour.
I don't say anything when people bring it up. I also have a few star sign friends. Sigh.
I finally kicked it too... Though, If I could stop picking at my cuticles I'd be soooo happy