Sportsball is kinda a shit term - you don’t have to like sports and yes society venerates it over far more important achievements/pursuits, but it’s a bit childish to refer to it in that way.

My theory is that a lot of that kind of poor behaviour is generally from men who have grown up with the toxic masculinity traits of believing that sad is bad, angry is manly. I’ve seen people openly weep over the outcomes of a game - I think these people are feeling the same emotions but haven’t been given the societal permission to express it in its true form. So they do angry instead. It’s not acceptable at all but that’s what I think the reason is.

This was great, thanks for posting!

Be together in my ass

Uh yeah… Some did say things to that effect.

And there are other behaviours that can demonstrate that mindset.

But thank you for mansplaining my lived experience, champ. Couldn’t have navigated that one with my pea sized, woman’s brain.

I go through life making snap judgements of people I hire and don’t at all try to find common ground or empathise with their position, because I love pissing money up the wall and endless recruitment processes. Just floats my boat, you know

Used to work in digital design. By pure happenstance the foundational initial team on a major project was all women and we recognised that wasn’t a good balance in terms of external perception but also in terms of getting different perspectives on design approaches.

We managed to recruit some great blokes, but they were hard to find. So many of the new dudes didn’t work out because it was so obvious how inferior they perceived us women to be. Very few of them had the skills to warrant any level of arrogance, let alone full blown superiority complex.

It was disappointing.

I’ve never tried lucid dreaming. I’m an insomniac so I’m just chuffed if I manage to get any sleep, let alone control my own universe.

But often when I do dream, I die in my dreams. Usually violently - gunshot or blunt instrument sort of deaths that I’m cowering from prior to. So I’m in genuine terror and horror before my death…And I swear, the millisecond before it happens (and I always wake up at the time of death) I feel the pain of it.

It’s pretty fucked, tbh. I’ve lived a peaceful life with very little violence in it, and guns certainly aren’t a thing here. So I don’t know my brain can’t just chill out.

Anyway - it’s why I’m a little frightened to try lucid dreaming. At least in spite of the fear there’s a sense of inevitability about my deaths in these dreams (i.e. my murderer has found me in my hiding place), somehow I feel like it’d be worse if I was trying and failing to fight back, or if I prolonged the inevitable death by trying to outsmart the person? Or could I just shut down that plot completely?

Thanks for the session, do I just pay the receptionist on the way out or will you just invoice me?

Haha wut

Yeah probably in school. Children are children.

Well rounded adults don’t spend their time obsessing over thee size of people’s genitalia.

You said women

You’re the only one who mentioned it mate

You started with ‘people’ but now you’re just saying women … Dude

People… Who?? Are you hanging around museums listening to people commenting?

I think you’ve invented something to get upset about

Wounds heal poorly for smokers. People who smoke after getting a tooth extraction can get dry socket.

I know someone who ate some rancid food, and was subsequently very, very unwell because they literally couldn’t taste or smell that it was off.

It affects your cardiovascular health so good luck outrunning danger.

Everything is worse if you smoke, in real time and in terms of what it does to your body’s ability to heal or respond to trauma.

Don’t smoke. And if you do, try and quit.

Everything except the Grindr one. Endangering people is never cool.

In the, admittedly terrible, movie Moonfall (2022) they use his tech and one of the main characters keeps saying things like “God I love Elon”. I guess it was under development in years previous but we long knew that he was a babyish edgelord (see behaviour over the rescue of the Thai soccer team in 2018).

Seems shortsighted to make him such a focus.

YKK zips. On anything I’ve ever owned, they don’t break. And I find that more durable clothing brands will use YKK zips.

Overworked janitor who wanted to reduce the number of bathrooms they had to clean

Only Steve Irwin did that shit with animals, and it was fucking irritating.

It seems to be the actions of a heterosexual so I’m not sure what you think is ‘gay’ about it. Can you explain?

That’s what we call them in Australia, so I assume the poms call it that too. Probably the case in other Commonwealth countries also.