Be boring rather than arrogant. If they ask what you did this weekend or what you’re doing later just say nothing really or watching TV and relaxing. Few words answers, when the conversation isn’t flowing naturally they will just think you’re boring and leave you alone.
Obviously this might not work for everyone but it’s worked for me everytime.
My partners best friend was dating a guy very briefly. She called it off because on day 3 of just getting to know each other he started sending her nudes and rubbing himself with inflated balloons and videos of him humping. That guy has a balloon fetish.
I don’t think the balloons are what killed the short lived relationship so much as the boldness of thinking she wanted those videos/pictures.
If I’m not mistaken it was originally to describe Italian immigrants during whatever period of time (world war 1 maybe?) and it was a acronym for Without Papers. As in not having a visa.
I could be mistaken though, I read that once from one source so not really done any due diligence.
I’m not that young and optimistic tbh, it sounds like you’ve just been dealt a tough hand in life and hope you can get through it one day. Truly.
That’s fair, I’m sorry that you’ve been through what you have, but you made a heavy generalisation that people don’t change, my experience is that they can and do.
Strong disagree on people not changing, my partners brother was a heavy alcoholic at 30 and he’s now 5 years sober and has children and hasn’t touched a drop. He relapsed in his first week and nearly died.
People can change, they just have to want to. Of course this isn’t applicable to all but generalising your situation to everyone isn’t helpful to people in these positions.
On the flip side so show that I understand people not changing, her uncle has currently lost his family and maybe soon his job. Every time the kids are due to be with him he’s completely shitfaced and the adult dropping them off refuses to give them to him in that condition and that still isn’t enough for him to want to change. I bet he has seen his own children for over a year. He is constantly lying and we think he owes money to people because he’s usually in a bit of a roughed up state. It’s sad but until he wants it there’s nothing anyone can do.
Her brother is still a testament to the way people can better themselves though.
The only course they run is bird law
(Mr.) ROY G. BIV was how I was taught to remember it
Oh god no, someone needs to warn the birds about capitalism.
If you’re not a yank then you probably won’t know but basically one of their republican morons who shouts about trans people being a sexual danger to children and calling them rapists etc was caught having her very nice cleavage fondled in a theatre full of children.
I think this one suits me most without sounding like I’m blowing my own trumpet.
I would include that my common sense is brutally lacking. I would also say that I’m happy with short answers but I’m emotionally stunted enough to consider everything without too much bias.
I guess not. I haven’t got the slightest with these things.
Ah ok, I’m using an android app so that may be why I don’t get a clickable(tappable?) link unless it is an exclamation point to start it.
No problem at all haha. I’m glad it worked tbh. Nothing worse that offering up advice for it to just be wrong.
I’m not well versed in Lemmy so this might be totally incorrect but I think if you share a link, instead of the c/ you put “!” at the front so people of different instances can open them community on their own instance.
I’m basically just regurgitating what I’ve read and it could be wrong.
Also just for the sake of conversation, one of my favourite wholesome Reddit subs was mum for a minute where people without mother’s would go for motherly support and congratulations. I haven’t seen anything like it here yet.
Since you can’t manage our finances*
Exactly what issue is being ignored by not changing an already established name for something thats already widely agreed to be vile and disgusting?
Depending on what you meant by “very easily impressed with basic factual statements” it could go either way. I’m an adult and I’m happy to admit I don’t know a lot things, sometimes I’ve been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.