Bring back Garfield posting
OldSoulHippie
joined 3 years ago
Not using one, but I'm old.
Going on the first hike of the year with my wife and her sibling that just came out as trans and has started hormone treatment. I'm so happy for them and am excited to hear all about it! I think we are the only ones they are really open with about that stuff.
I thought the parliamentarian struck down the law of gravity
Wouldn't the regular View be the conservative one? Last I heard they treated whoopi like she was stalin for broadly saying that Republicans are stupid and evil
Crying emojis are the new swastikas
I don't know why he thinks someone won't shoot through his kid that he uses for a human shield. He's making the world more detached and hostile and sooner or later, he's going to be on the business end of his creation.
So what now? He just paused a bunch of them
I couldn't stand him when I was growing up. He's actually my step dad, but I've known him since I was like five. He is a blue collar, salt of the earth type and was moderately conservative by today's standards when I was growing up. When my worldview was limited, I saw him as some sort of redneck workaholic guy who would come home angry every day. We always tried to steer clear of him when he was home because if we got in his eye line, he would find some crazy projects for us kids to go work on. Usually involving crazy manual labor that kids shouldn't have been doing. But that's how he grew up.
As I got older and got a job and responsibilities of my own, I realized he was just doing his best and had a lot on his plate. He was never physically abusive towards us, but I was still a little afraid of him when I was young. I grew up in a family with no other kids until I was 8. And I mean no other kids. I have no cousins or anything. I was raised by a bunch of older Midwestern Catholic ladies. I think my dad took it up on himself to "man me up" which I resisted at every turn. I'm glad he taught me about fixing things and helping others though. I've saved so much money with the DIY mentality he gave me. He's devoted to his family and to this day will drop everything to help just about anyone. He's not perfect, but I'm super thankful he was and is in my life. We still don't really see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but in a lot of ways I turned into him. It's a strong case for nurture in the nature/nurture debate.
One of the worst things about the Internet is how mods turn off comments the second something spicy happens. What's the point of comments if we're only allowed to comment on the stories where a dog stole a steak off someone's grill and it was cute or something?
Fuck this country. They've so thoroughly squeezed every last bit of humanity out of us and we can't even speak up
Sooo many people do that. I only give people recommendations when I think it aligns with their other interests and they still don't budge. I have given up. People want the same slop they've been into since the get go. The stupid fucking white lies are so annoying too.
It's the same type of person who doesn't want to seem caught out when you ask them if they have seen a TV show or movie and they respond "bits and pieces". I'm not saying it's not possible for someone to have only seen "bits and pieces" but if you don't think you're going to know why I'm bringing it up, just say "no. I haven't seen enough of whatever you're talking about to get the reference or whatever". I only ask so we can further the conversation. I didn't ask if you happened to walk through a room while Priscilla queen of the Desert was on and saw three seconds of it.
I already limit my engagement about pop culture to the bare minimum with other people, but damn I wish once a year I would find someone who knows where I'm coming from. Not just for the above reasons, but I've kind of stopped being friends with people like that. If we can't talk about music or movies, what's left? I don't want to always be talking about heavy stuff with friends and I don't want to just spend an evening in silence sitting around a campfire drinking beer. I could do that alone and not have to be "on".
People don't have a lot going on anymore aside from their entertainment, and if that doesn't line up, then I don't know what to do with them. At least my good friends like to play tabletop board games. We can bond over that.