latenightnoir

Fair point, we eat smoked slabs of pig fat (not bacon, just a layer of fat with the skin still on it) over here, guess that doesn't sound all that appealing either when showing/talking about it...

I sincerely apologise if my ignorance caused offence, and thank you for clarifying!

Said it better than I did, exactly!

Plus it's so much damned work for something I don't respect! Folding that one flag is like having to fold half of my wardrobe, ffs!

I honestly don't think letting go implies giving anything up! I see it as letting go of the emotional load of some memories, but not of the memories themselves. I still choose to remember everything which happened to me, because it's my past and I can do what I want with it, I just don't let them burden me with emotions past their Best Before date (which is nonsense in practical terms, but I'm using it metaphorically).

Plus letting go of old things makes room for new things, like how one will never appreciate a current partner if they're hung up on an ex. I see the same thing applying to everything else, including humanity ourselves! Gotta let go of the old in order to make room for the new.

But, like... are they supposed to look that unappetising?

Edit: I'm not trying to be insensitive to cultural differences (I'm Balkan, we have plenty of weird dishes), I just approach all food from this appeal factor, regardless of origin, and my only hang-up is that I cannot consume organs (brain included) - my body physically rejects any ingested organ. Yes, I peel my sausages (heh).

HAH! AAAHAHAH!

Jesus Christ, the meatballs look like something from Scorn... And that hot dog is just... no. Just fucking no.

Horus looks like he just got turned down by his crush.

Congratulations!

Probably just an engine glitch. Delayed spawning of the birb, which means we're seeing the Z buffer when the birb model spawns. Happens all the time, nothing Major - push to Prod.

Punk shows up when it's needed, no sooner or later. And it's fucking needed...

Honestly, I think that one of the reasons for such scenarios may be that it's easier to try to demolish the idea of there being an actual woman present than accept that she has no romantic/whatever interest in them. And I don't think this is driven primarily by an ego impulse, but by hopelessness.

Of course, there are many other things which factor into such situations (a partially justified caution in the example you've described, for instance, as catfishing can end up being very painful for vulnerable people, even in "milder" forms), like societal norms ("gurls aren't supposed to like icky boy things!"), maybe some elitism, some group resistance, a sort of hazing, etc. But I still can't shake the feeling that even these stem from hopelessness in various ways.

I'm sorry your friend experienced this type of behaviour, and I'm sorry it did some splash damage on you as well... It is, indeed, very disappointing to see such behaviours still being not only prevalent, but even frequently reinforced as standard nowadays... It's a disappointingly hostile world in many places. But if I may point out the silver lining in this, at least nobody can take away your friend's passion!