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- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 4 hours ago:
People definitely do interpret customer service as flirting though
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 7 hours ago:
I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 4 days ago:
Very dependent on what they’re jacking off to, unfortunately.
- Comment on Turkish Delights 5 days ago:
They sound so good in the narnia series, but then you remember they were written during rationing and Lewis’ taste had probably adjusted enough that he was happy about any kind of sweet.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I did ask him about it and he admitted it, but if he had done it with his own brain, it would have been worse, because we went over it in class a bunch first and he was capable of it then.
It was totally pointless though, because the homework was for extra credit. Luckily, I didn’t have to pursue it further, but there are some programs that would have expelled him for it. I can understand that, but I don’t think things would be much improved if he got expelled for it.
I just told him to stop being an idiot, because he’s not learning anything and the other teachers are probably better at spotting it. He was relatively dismissive at first, but he really didn’t learn very much German during a study abroad year, which is actively difficult to do. Now that they’re leaving, he’s realized that he didn’t get much out of the year, academically. Not a big deal, but he’s going to delay his graduation and see some minor consequences. Hopefully it’ll get his head on straight.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I had a student give me handwritten homework for German class. He’d written directions, and there was no instance of the word “left,” but the word ”remaining” was in every other sentence. It was very obvious
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 5 days ago:
I talked in depth with a doctor friend about this, and there’s a chance it works, but it’s most likely just your immune system and you paying more attention to keeping your feet dry
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Babies trapped women far more than marriage could
- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
If anyone disagrees, I’d love to hear your reasoning, because this is now stuck in my brain.
I don’t want to become stupider, but if I had the choice between finding out today that my IQ is and always has been 70 and that it is and always has been 170, I’d be much less disappointed in myself with the former. Obviously, if I could then learn how to harness it, that would be different, but it’s not like I haven’t been trying my whole life to do well and use my talents.
- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
Nah, that would be great news. Being dumber than anyone you’ve ever met makes you less responsible for things like climate change and political violence than the people around you (morally, at least; you’re probably literally more of a cause, because you’re more likely to be right wing, but if you’ve already jumped that hurdle, maybe you aren’t). Plus, if your own life is a wreck, it feels better to blame an inherent limitation than something you could change, if only you had the discipline. If your own life is great, you’ve overcome a serious obstacle and should be proud of yourself.
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 1 week ago:
I had a housemate who insisted the best way to treat his athlete’s foot was to piss on his feet in the shower.
- Comment on Fitness experts: You can't out-exercise a bad diet......The entire U.S. military: 1 week ago:
I went to a community folk dance and fell in love, then started dancing for fourteen hours a week. I went from a BMI of 25.5 to 19 and lost forty pounds within four months, at which point I started to worry and eat to bulk up, but I literally could not eat enough food to gain weight back.
Then the pandemic hit and I gained a lot of weight the first month, until I adjusted my diet. I don’t dance anymore as a negative side effect of my very positive international move, but I do now get enough exercise to relatively easily adjust my food intake to gain, maintain, or lose weight when I want.
- Comment on [politics] she never recovered 1 week ago:
I don’t know who that is, but it’s incredible nominative onomatopoeia. She does look like a fucking Punsie
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 1 week ago:
It’s also partially just the truth of supply chains. I’m from the US, but live in Germany and the peaches here are simply always going to be more expensive for a worse peach (I’m sure somewhere in Italy or Spain can produce good peaches, but I haven’t had them yet).
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 1 week ago:
Slutty spaghetti
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 week ago:
That’s a reasonable opinion, and I honestly don’t know how to determine why I like the songs I like, nor do I feel qualified to identify a good beat (I was in the percussion section of my middle school band class for three years, but I’m a special case of nonmusicality, and nothing sank in), but there are a couple of Beatles songs with strong beats that occur to me. Maybe Love to You or Eight Days a Week, though the former is a more driving beat, imo.
Definitely don’t feel obligated to listen to music you don’t like, though please. I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles, I just grew up on them and find many of their songs enjoyable (if you ask me, Octopus Garden should be erased from our collective memory, though).
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 week ago:
The Beatles were any good
George Harrison was a Beatle, and he was objectively a great musician.
I’m also personally obligated (happily so) to like Paul McCartney, because he befriended my cousin while he stayed at Sloan Kettering and taught him to play the guitar (my cousin was already skilled with string instruments, so he picked it up pretty well) over a period of months before he died. I’m not aware of him publicizing that (and my cousin was a rando in his late twenties- definitely too young to die, but not young enough to make a great news story, given that he was unmarried and had no kids) or getting any personal benefit from it other than being able to increase joy in a horrible situation.
So at least 2/4 (or 2/5, if you’re a Pete Best fan, I guess) are/were good in some way.
Plus, at least Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby are great songs IMO, but that’s less objective.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the one in “believed” now seems off and the one in “life” definitely seems right. I can’t quite tell about the other two, especially with how weird the I in “if” is generally.
- Comment on Rotund 2 weeks ago:
He looks like Alf
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation 2 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah, they chose the job, but I’m assuming they can be reassigned and have to move if their boss moves. I’m sure there’s a long list of applicants, but it’s still kind of fucked up, especially considering that their boss definitely has enough money to pay for each of their employees’ rent, but they don’t. I guess I expected the work conditions to be better (like, some of the best in the commonwealth), but I don’t know why.
- Comment on Yin by Nicolas Fong 2 weeks ago:
Oh, absolutely. If people understand you, it’s successful language, even if you don’t vocab traditionally :)
I just suspect it’s a mistranslation from the original author because the only English existence online of this word that I can find is various postings of this animation.
- Comment on Yin by Nicolas Fong 2 weeks ago:
Atrabilic should probably be translated as atrabilious or melancholic (the latter is a better translation, imo)
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation 2 weeks ago:
There is a formula to make out the level of rents staff have to pay to either the Crown Estate or the royal Household because they have to live on the estate.
It works out as equivalent to 16.7% of their gross pensionable salary.
What the fuck??? That’s for staff, not working royals, so the guy who used to iron Andrew’s shoelaces had to pay 1/6 of his pre-tax salaries in rent to live somewhere he didn’t choose.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 2 weeks ago:
My phone has a speaker, but I’ve never had an mp3 player with one
- Comment on Caucus raucous over AUKUS as Labor backbencher casts doubt on submarines 2 weeks ago:
It did make me realize that I’ve been living in Germany too long, because I was pronouncing it ow-coose
- Comment on High fashion 2 weeks ago:
I like it inside me, unfortunately it always stays there until the worst possible moment and then comes out all at once. If I’m at home and not doing anything, that’s fine, but it’s pretty unpleasant for a morning quickie before work.
But yeah, thank you as well! It’s good to talk about stuff like this with people who aren’t partners.
- Comment on High fashion 2 weeks ago:
I’m not gonna say I enjoy my own cum but i’ve certainly enjoyed scenes involving me swallowing my own cum.
That’s about where most people I know who aren’t especially into semen are, myself included. Maybe I made it sound like a more negative opinion than it is. It’s just one of those things where the reality doesn’t live up to the fantasy for me, so I’ve got opposing desires for the semen deposit location (I’m sorry, this is a horrible way to describe it) based on arousal and pragmatism.
For what it’s worth, the ranking for me for most to least pragmatic goes: condom, mouth, body, vagina, hair. For arousal, it depends on the situation, but hair is also always last, lol.
Finally, I’m autistic and I don’t think this is the exact same metric allistic people would use (and they might be less bothered by the feeling of semen leaking out of them), so take this with a grain of salt.
- Comment on High fashion 2 weeks ago:
I’m also very down for vaginal mucus, but semen is different. Do you like your own semen?
- Comment on High fashion 2 weeks ago:
There’s sex stuff, and then there’s the sticky, fragrant, bitter, salty, hard to wash off remains of sex stuff.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 weeks ago:
And? Your dad will bury and/or incinerate you. At least the cats get some use out of you.