frog_brawler
@frog_brawler@lemmy.world
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 10 hours ago:
I see nothing unique about this pair of jeans.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours ago:
Welcome to 2025
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 1 day ago:
Did you get her number?
- Comment on Thats fair 2 days ago:
Rethinking this… no. I’m UPGRADING the liver to keep me drunk for 3 years and 9 months and not be sober. The upgrade is drunk and not dying.
- Comment on Thats fair 2 days ago:
Yes, but which organ do you upgrade to do that?
- Comment on Thats fair 3 days ago:
But I’ll die
- Comment on Thats fair 3 days ago:
Upgrade my liver, stay drunk for the next 3 years and 9 months.
- Comment on Super accurate 3 weeks ago:
Yes, for Elon Musk
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 3 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself… I use my Brannock device each morning to check my feet and see if my junk got bigger from the chemicals.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
You might enjoy it - it feels like a successor to the first EQ: www.pantheonmmo.com
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
Are you playing Pantheon?
- Comment on Do it 4 weeks ago:
Billie Jean in my ass.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve put myself into a position that I should never have to iron again.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Bullshit
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
No complaints about Fedora KDE specifically. I’ve had it on my spare laptop since version 30 or so. Desktop is on 41 now. The only “issues” I’ve had running this full-time is lack of support for Fidelity Active Trader Pro (which kinda sucks anyway), I haven’t been able to make my bluetooth shipping label printer work yet, and I haven’t gotten my Logi MX Keys / Master S mouse working as it works in Logi Options (on windows or mac) to switch over to my work mac as intended. Otherwise, I prefer it to other distros I’ve used.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I run Fedora KDE now, but I’m going to keep my Windows 10 install on Windows 10.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, the point still stands 100%. I just wanted to make sure that the timelines were clear.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
Well, if it clarifies things at all – most of those dates were pre-pandemic. The only date I described that was post-pandemic was the woman who was cool but came on too strong.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
Yea I wasn’t going to get into that, but you’re absolutely right. I’m in the best psychical shape of my life right now, since I’ve been going to the gym almost daily since I have no one to socialize with in person.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
I think the rejection of the hard pass was maybe me more deciding that I wasn’t attracted to her. Maybe something else though, you could be right.
Atheist (but maybe Buddhist after a lot of stuff I’ve been reading recently), so the religious thing is mostly a no go. Perhaps I’ll explore Buddhism a bit more though, and see if there’s a temple or something the sort local to me. That could be interesting.
I’ve not gotten up and told a story, no. I don’t really have one that I’d like to share yet. I just enjoy listening to other peoples’ stories for the most part. There’s also the aspect of not necessarily knowing if it’s fact or fiction sometimes that adds some excitement.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
Most speed dating events don’t actually exist. It’s just a scam to collect money and put you on an indefinite wait list.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 5 weeks ago:
I’m 41 now but I haven’t gone on a date-date in 3 years or so. The TL;DR online dating is absolutely not worth participating in. Neither is speed dating, and people are isolating more and more.
I’m not wildly attractive but I’m not unattractive either. I’m probably like a 6 or a 7. I think I’m interesting and can hold a reasonable conversation. I’m intelligent. I’ve been told I’m funny (sometimes). I am a bit clumsy sometimes though. I’ve been in two long term (3+ years) relationships in my life but one of those relationships ended due to alcohol (we mutually sucked at the time), and the other due to financial reasons. Both hurt pretty deep when they ended and I didn’t date for a couple years after either of those.
In the time that I wasn’t feeling some form of loss from relationships that meant something, I tried online dating. I tried OkCupid, Bumble, PlentyOfFish, some bullshit regarding a bagel, Tinder, match.com, etc. I probably tried any of them that were active at the time. Not once did it ever amount to a relationship, in probably 15 years of using those sites off and on. I’ve unquestionably had more bad experiences than good. 9 out of 10 dates are bad. 1 ouf of 10 are ok. The worst time I recall was when a woman drugged me after our date. Another bad time I can recall, my date showed up on drugs or drunk or just incredibly stupid or something. She racked up a $110 bar tab during our 30 minute meet and greet and dipped out without saying anything at all or paying the bill. I was once catfished (is it catfishing when it’s just straight up someone else’s picture, or does it have to be your own picture doctored up / photoshopped to be considered catfishing?) by a co-worker on Bumble. I’ve been stood up for a first date at three or four times. I’ve been cancelled on an hour or two before a date at least 15 times.
The last time I had an online date, everything seemed to be going fine, we had a drink at the first bar, established that we seemingly got along, went on a walk around downtown, check out a show and then all of a sudden I’m being told about a sex kit that she purchased from a vending machine while I was in the bathroom that she wants to try out. I thought she was pretty cool before that. I wasn’t 100% sure if I was attracted to her, but I knew we at least got along on a person-to-person level. Telling me about a sex kit like that on the first date was a “eh, hard pass” for me. Maybe as I’m getting older I need more time to get into that idea. I don’t know. I never really mentioned it to anyone.
Speed dating is also, completely shit; and it’s a scam. The first time I tried speed dating, it was some website where you pick your city, your age range, and then what event you’d want to attend based on your other parameters. They take your money, and then send you an email a day before the event saying the event is cancelled because they couldn’t get enough people, but you cannot have a refund either. Then you attempt to re-schedule and it gets cancelled a second time for the same reason, then a third. Finally - you attend one of these things in person, end up getting “3 matches” emailed to you, and then you attempt to make contact and never hear from anyone ever again.
I felt like a complete horses’ ass when I attempted to do speed dating a second time 12 years later and had a very similar experience. This second time around though, I did a charge back on my credit card after the 3rd cancellation because “they couldn’t get enough people to attend.” Thanks for nothing Troy.
After soooo many bad experiences, and never having any success with what are the now conventional methods, I feel like I have a trauma response to the idea of dating now. I’d still like to be in a happy relationship, but thinking about trying again causes me stress.
I’m introverted by nature, and as of 7 months ago, I live alone in a state, where I also work remotely from home and know no one. I tried a few events from Meetup.com thinking, “hey, maybe this is how 40-year-olds make friends,” but didn’t enjoy anything that I went to, other than the events where people sit in an audience quietly and watch someone else on stage. I found a really cool thing that I like attending where anyone is welcome to get up on stage and tell an 8 minute story about pretty much anything - fact or fiction. I really enjoy attending these, but it’s no way to meet people.
I imagine I’m not alone in my experiences.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Healthy snack 1 month ago:
What a great invention. I’ve always avoided transporting bananas in case the skin might get dirty.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
Yes! And have the Statue of Liberty holding an AR.
“Just because I have COPD doesn’t mean I won’t shit on your floor.”
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
Saying they know the second amendment is giving undue credit.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
I dunno… have you been to a Target recently? Anyone shopping there at this point is probably either a proud boy or one of the daughters of liberty and probably walking around with 3 guns on them. I’d feel safer around those people with an AR of my own.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
It’s entirely possible that his brain didn’t forget how to be violent but it’s clear his body did. So this is basically a billboard indicating, “if you sneak up on me and restrict my arms, you can probably find my concealed weapon.”
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 1 month ago:
Pretty sure the chart was made by someone born after 2000.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 1 month ago:
The entire chart is wrong. There’s no “happy” alignment at all in 90’s bands. Replace “happy” with “heroin” and it makes a lot more sense.