If you're lucky, you'll only get me talking about glacial surficial geology
Oh no! Not the confusion and boredom of someone having thoughts and interests different from mine.
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This sounds perfect. Then I don't have to be the one talking about the thing I'm thinking about for half an hour straight.
So, my partner would do this. One day, she was driving me home from work, and there was a period of extended silence between us, and we had this conversation:
Her: Whatcha thinkin' about?
Me: What would the days of the French Revolutionary Calendar be if they were translated into Esperanto?
Her: ...
Me: Well, you asked.
Exactly why my partner no longer asks me, either.
"I was wondering if people who lose lots of weight and have extra skin could have a kangaroo pouch made with their extra skin. Skin is easy to graft anywhere, so I don't see why not... Buy would it get saggy and stretch out? Can you get a tendon implanted to keep it tight?"
Road trips are 100% podcasts now.
You could definitely make a marsupial, but I think the challenge would be keeping the pocket dry and fungus-free.
put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you're good to go.
Wait so you had an interesting conversation with a guy, and you spin this as ... a win, because you... let down some expectations that you just imagined he had?
You imagine you 'trapped' him into this conversation, like the entire thing was a dominance battle?
He... started it.
Maybe dude was just bored, thought you might make a good conversation partner, and this turned out to be correct.
'Confusion' that you saw could just be, you know, confusion in the sense of 'wow i've never heard of these specific ideas and concepts before, and am trying to wrap my brain around them'.
Contrary to apparently popular opinion, some guys just want to have a pleasant conversation with a stranger, sometimes.
And those guys, if you just tell them you're not in the mood for a conversation, they'll probably understand and respect that.
Is there really no other way to conceive of socializing than as a 24/7 pvp battle of wits and hidden intentions?
She described an interaction that she was present for and how she read it. You were not there, and so instead of reading the actual situation, you are imagining what it could have been like and wondering why she didn't interpret it in any of those ways. That makes no sense.
they'll probably understand and respect that."
You're right, they probably will! Except the small percentage that don't and become so dangerous that women feel the need to shut any man down, just in case.
Fucking seriously. Internet armchair psychiatrists are nuts.
Correct, I do not trust this person's ability to accurately read the emotional expressions of other people, given that she entirely invented a motive of the other person, with no provided evidence to justify this other person's motive as being actually real, and then interpreted/framed the entire story using this as a narrative device.
There are reasons why eyewitness testimony is considered the lowest quality of evidence in both legal and scientific settings: our memories are highly malleable and innacurate, this is affected by many factors.
This person is literally the definition of an unreliable narrator.
Yeah, you know your own inner thoughts, with high to perfect accuracy.
You cannot mind read someone else's intentions and inner thoughts to anywhere near that same level of accuracy, especially not without explanation.
When you interpret other people's actions through the lense of what you assume they are thinking, their presumed motivations, you are projecting your expectations onto them, and your experience of them is then molded around this.
Also, entirely random, stranger v stranger, male on female violence, is considerably more rare than say, the likelihood an average person will be injured or die in a car accident, or even die from a serious fall.... or entirely random, stranger v stranger, male on male violence.
Male on female violence is a serious problem, but this is between men and women who know each other and are not strangers, who are family members, coworkers, partners, ex-partners, etc.
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Classic confusion between Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl.
I prefer mxpx
The manic pixie dream girl who knows about ecology and climate science.
'There are actual several contenders for the title "equation of despair"'
Lesson learned. Look at your phone even if you aren't looking at your phone.
That would have been the moment she became my dream girl.
I would love to listen to any girl go off about any hyper fixation. It'd beat all the conversations I've had to endure about fucking tiktok or instagram make up artist drama.
Right? Like, yes please, tell me more about archeology and west mexico
Well don't leave me hanging about mexico! What's over there?!
Is this a PSA about how I should've been harassing bus passengers this entire time? I don't understand.
depends. most places? sure, try to strike up a conversation (just don't expect/demand one)
New York City? abso fucking lutely not. talking to a stranger on MTA for anything besides asking directions nets you the social equivalent of the death penalty
Well, I found my manic pixie dream girl. I would absolutely would love to talk about Teuchitlán.
Don't forget about the Tarascan Empire!
How could I forget them! The only Purépecha I ever met loved talking about them.
I think part of the point here is going over people's heads. She used her hyperfixation to confuse and bore the man to deflect any opportunity for him to flirt with her or ask her out until she was able to leave.
Everyone saying "jokes on you, this bus girl is so my type" would also have their ear talked off and never given the opportunity to ask her out.
Maybe I'm naive, but I want to think that plenty of people actually stoked about that kind of situation would rather ask to elaborate on the West Mexico civilization instead.
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Dude, I just want to talk about Mesoamerica. I got Tezcatlipoca set as my profile banner. I'm a fan boy.
Also my dream single serving bus friend? I'm not trying to date anyone but I am trying to subscribe for more mesoamerican archeology facts, especially if I can ask clarifying questions along the way.
You watched Fight Club then?
Whew, but I did have a Chuck Palahniuk phase
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Something something I'm into that shit!
Score, free history lecture!
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