Never felt more identified with a post. I’ve been saying this for a while and all they tell me is “just dance!” :(
Anon is an introvert
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r_ffer23@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Op would love Finland. Only ever talked to one stranger (who is now my wife) and the only thing we shake is the umbrella. And booze, well you will need it too.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
introverted and alcoholic? Please tell me more about this wonderful place called Finland
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 hours ago
Their mountains so lofty
Their treetops so tall
Archer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Only ever talked to one stranger
Scandalous!
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
no. Scandinavian
treadful@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
What is the umbrella reference about?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Umbrella gets wet. Ya shake it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Kirp123@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
When you go inside you shake the water out of the umbrella so it doesn’t drip inside your house. Yeah, that’s it, no reference or anything.
thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Oh god. Very close to me. Exactly why I left and refuse to date latinas and for the most part make friends with latinos.
A bit over the top tho. You can definetly be a ladies man even if you don’t dance. Not easy as if you dance, but totally doable.
Now to the serious thing:
Fake: Anon has internet in Colombia Gay: Anon wants dosn’t like booty.
Before you downvote me, I am Colombian and don’t really dance to anything remotely latinICastFist@programming.dev 2 hours ago
As a Brazilian, I can relate
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
It’s a similar experience being an introvert who isn’t into sports in Australia.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 hours ago
I’m mostly baffled that when people don’t even understand the concept of “not liking sports” I have a lot of smalltalk at work with dudes and it’s always something like: wait, so you have no idea who won the football game? What happened?
Oh i don’t watch football.
Never?
Nope, i have never seen a football match.
Huh. So you just watch the big games.
No, never.
But you watch the World championship.
No.
Not even when your country plays?
Is it still millionaires chasing a ball in a really boring manner? Then still no.
It’s not even just sports, somehow, some people can’t comprehend that someone doesn’t like or even know of “insert mainstream thing”. C’mon, stop pretending you don’t know famous artist who sells out stadiums. For fucks sake, why would i? I maybe read their name at some point or maybe a song was once playing in a mall, but other than that we don’t live the same life.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Fine, if you don’t like sports we can talk about the stock market. Tesla and Palantir, bro. Oil futures to the moon. Selling reverse vix puts. Alpha beta gamma I’m going to be rich.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Turns out these people identify with the teams and feel a victory as if it was their own. The “We won!” crowd. Some other folks have a stronger separation between self and other and don’t have any emotional attachment with some sports team that did something.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
indeed, came to point this out, nothing much has changed in 1000s of years though. Pie 'n footy os the new Bread 'n Circuses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority
Loving in Has main a the biggest concern of the public is a es AFL football stadium and yet we have the worst health outcomes, the worst educational outcomes etc etc
9point6@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m an ambivert. I’m also not particularly into watching a good percentage of sports, but I’ll pretty much go to anything if a friend asks if I want to join them going to an event or even just watch it with them somewhere.
Doesn’t really just apply to sports either, up for anything really: gigs, art exhibitions, hikes, cinema, visiting a random town for some reason, you name it.
Firstly, I can’t exactly knock something until I’ve given it a good go, but more importantly for me, it’s time I get to spend with one/some of my mates and might result in some good memories. Reminder that introversion is not the same thing as social anxiety, introverts generally also like to hang out with their friends.
Plus I also like photography, so random days out are a good way to get pictures you wouldn’t otherwise.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Oh yeah, I definitely know the difference between social anxiety and introversion. Social anxiety is when it’s intensely uncomfortable to even talk to my dad, or my partner. Introversion is being capable of having a nice day all on my own, but still being totally up for hanging out with friends, as long as I get time alone often enough in between.
Ironically I even like sporting events if me and my friends are actually there in the stadium. The feel of the crowd is magical. But that’s not really about the sport
PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
To be fair, if you go out to a loud party you’re not likely to meet many introverts there - they’ll all be at home, unless their own extravert friend dragged them out to the party.
StillAlive@piefed.world 9 hours ago
I understand anon. I understand. 😶
argarath@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’m in a similar boat, but I guess thanks to where I work I haven’t had that much of a problem, STEM still has some dancers and partiers as well as a lot of soccer fans, but thankfully we can talk about many other subjects too
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Same thing in sweden when I grew up there, except nobody dances, nobody did booty shakes, only football and drinking 😑😔.
I left.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
To be fair American culture is also mostly football and drinking
Sabata11792@ani.social 15 minutes ago
Don’t forget Jesus, racism and military cosplay.
nerv@fedinsfw.app 8 hours ago
I can feel this to an uncomfortable level.
ximtor@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I really liked the Jodel app many years ago. Hyperlocal social media that led me to meet and interact with quite a few interesting people that i would never meet in a bar. Okay i am maybe not that introvert, but i hate disco shaky booty
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
You’re a techie vegetarian and you attempt to stifle your inborn bigotry? Are you really…
spoiler
I’m not doxxing myself lmao
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I felt this way in my own home culture as well. I grew up in a red bubble in a blue state in the US, where the underlying currents were no more than “conformity and hometown pride.” Oddly, the only things to be “proud” of were conformity itself and high school football (the pride-surrogate of adults with nothing better to celebrate.) It was all so hollow, and when 9/11 happened it all turned up to… well, 11. Being 12 and saying, “I don’t think this war makes sense” was enough to ostracize one’s self and be bombarded with the brain-dead argument of, “iF yOu hAtE AMURICA tHeN yOu cAn JuSt LEAVE!” Yeah okay, parrot. It was always obvious the kids just absorbed whatever mindless take their parents said (which was, itself, picked up from other people or Fox News.)
Man, thinking of my hometown always brings out a rant… Anyway, I grew up always feeling like a stranger in my own home, bullied and cast aside for not being like the rest. Thank goodness I was able to GTFO and meet people who use their brains as more than a copy/paste bin for other people’s thoughts.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
I grew up in the US from the age of five and the level of culture shock that hit me in kindergarten even no one knew who the fuck Manchester United was and that’s not a real jersey etc etc etc. it had Best on the back and everyone thought it meant i thought I was the best and I still remember that feeling today.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
lol same bro. same upbringing. nobody understands how common this is in most of small town america. probably because they only ‘small towns’ they are familiar with are all the tourist hot spots.