I’m a bisexual party demon fueled by lemmy up votes and this little interaction alone has given me the power to sexually awaken 3 straight people and make 2 people consider poly relationships.
I cannot be stopped and I will never die.
Well, this kind of way of making new friends might not be for you, and that’s okay. It’ll be harder to meet strangers if you seem closed off to them, but everyone works a bit differently and not everyone can strike up a conversation with people they don’t know. In fact, it seems fewer and fewer people want to do that as the years go on. That’s alright.
Mostly, what I mean is that you’re not gonna find yourself in this sort of situation if you don’t put yourself in it, but you’re also far from alone in not thinking it possible or even not wanting it. In my friend group of 40 odd people, there’s like 2 people who meet others like this. And they’re both dating people who would NEVER imagine of acting that way.
I think it was more common prior to the internet, since I’m not sure how you’d meet new people or maintain relationships without putting yourself in situations where this kinda thing would happen, but I’m 30ish years old so I don’t really have a memory of those times.
Picture you’re at a bar or event or something. You’re a bit bored so you decide to strike up a conversation. Who are you gonna pick to talk to? Be the kind of person that you would wanna speak to. You might find some like minded people.
Looks are far far less important than people believe.
This absolutely happens. You kinda have to have the right attitude and energy to make it happen, but I’ve had a few flings that lasted a few months because of this kind of meet up.
Let’s put it this way. You’ll never meet anyone randomly at a bar or public event if you don’t strike up a conversation with strangers. Moreso if you don’t go.
Importantly, its hard to set out and make this kind of meet up happen. But sometimes if you go out into the world and just act gregarious, it occurs. Sometimes you’re that weird guy at the club. That’s not so bad, just don’t be a creep about it. Sometimes you make a friend for an evening. That’s fun in its own right. Sometimes you make a friend that lasts longer than that and sometimes you find something special.
In general, when being more friendly than is expected in public, aspire to be the kind of person someone can come home and say “I met some nice weirdo today…” over the dinner table and things tend to work out well.
It’s slow for the business, but busy for me as I finalize plans for the next year, finish off year end reporting and cover the duties of people who take off for the holidays. So it’s a lot of extra work, usually alone. I usually celebrate it being over with a trip to a sauna.
I fold them and set them on a dresser or in a drawer, depending on how soon I’m going to wear them. Shirts I hang up with the hanger facing the “wrong” way to indicate to myself that one’s already been worn once.
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Why not simply make fees proportional to income? For parking and other traffic infractions.
Your daughter married someone who’s a year older than you? How old were you when she was born?
I’ve been really considering one but I’m not sold yet.
I’ve been wanting a tablet or small laptop to do some minor computer stuff sitting on the couch, like looking up recipes or updating budget sheets, researching new products, but I couldn’t justify the cost of either considering its a fairly minor upgrade to my “workflow” vs the phone or sitting at my desktop.
But now my Note 20 5G is aging. The back plastic popped off (though I bet I can glue it back on), the screen is cracked in a way that doesn’t really matter and one of the back camera glass covers also has cracked. Otherwise, it’s been functioning fine, so I can keep using this for another year or so, but it’s also an opportunity to look at the foldable.
I’m looking at the Samsung Galaxy Fold 6, but I’d honestly rather get the Honor Magic V3, since it’s pretty much the same specs at a lower price, but I’m in the US so importing one seems tricky.
I held a coworkers and one small benefit I didn’t realize when looking at ads was that when folded, it’s thinner than the Note so it would be easier to operate with one hand.
There are far worse out there, but about a year ago I injured my hand somehow. I couldn’t close my fist, which made it hard for me to work and support my partner as I do a majority of the cooking and chores. I couldn’t make a firm enough grip to use cast iron cookware. I was really concerned about this for a number of obvious reasons, so I went to the doctor.
I looked up an in network doc, call them up, confirm they take my insurance, double check that the kind of care I was looking for was covered. At my appointment they ask to do a physical as well, since I was due for one. During that they asked all the normal questions, the poignant one here being “do you smoke?” I replied “I have one or two cigarettes socially when drinking with some friends, which happens maybe once every other month or less.” This changed the tone of the entire visit.
My concern about my hand was largely disregarded and the doctor began talking to me about smoking cessation and the dangers of tobacco. Gave me pamphlets, tried to ask if I’d consider quitting, asked if I’ve tried alternatives. I tried to turn things back to my hand and she wasn’t interested. After I strongly insisted that was my sole medical interest, she gave me a referral.
I pay my copay up front and leave. I go to the specialist a few days later. He looks at my hand for 45 seconds and gives me a wrist brace and tells me to sleep with it on. I pay my copay and leave. Wouldn’t ya know? That did it! My hand was working again.
I call the specialist to follow up on his care and say it worked well. He told me I need to speak with billing to settle my bill. I’m confused. Wasn’t the copay for that? He says the insurance covered the visit but not the medical device (the wrist brace). So I check with billing and they want four hundred dollars. I’m flabbergasted. I check where they got the product, because surely it couldn’t cost that. I found the identical product, brand and all, on Amazon for $13. I’m livid. I argue with them, they say they can’t do anything.
I call the insurance and they say my policy was clear about specialists and medical devices. Dejected and feeling stupid, I just pay.
About a week later I get a call from the first doc saying I needed to settle up as well. I owe them five hundred dollars!!! How?? They say the bloodwork they did wasn’t covered. I plead saying that’s a normal part of a physical, no? They say yes, but I didn’t come in for a physical, according to the billing, I came in for a smoking cessation meeting!!
I tried for weeks to get the doctor on the phone to rectify this but they wouldn’t speak to me. My insurance company said they didn’t cover bloodwork as part of that and the doctors office wouldn’t change the billing.
I’m sick of doctors, I’m sick of insurance companies. If I get sick, I make chicken soup, drink tea, and scarf OTC drugs. I sprang my ankle fishing earlier this year. Did I go to a doctor? Absolutely not! I can’t afford a $900 bill every time something goes wrong.
I pay $360 a month for this. Thankfully I make enough that this wasn’t so damaging on my life, but I stopped buying as much meat and ate mostly beans for a year and didn’t travel for my vacation. I had been hoping to visit my father across the country that year but we had to put it off. It changed my outlook on medical services drastically and I’ll never be so honest to doctors again.
I’m actually really not concerned about foreign governments spying on me but I am bothered by my own government, the guys with the guns who can arrest me, doing it.
Tho I suspect if the government is recommending ways to avoid messages being intercepted, they’ve already cracked how to intercept them.
I guess I’d learn Korean then get 평양냉면. I hear it’s better in the North.
Have you seen Star Trek? It’s kickass!
All the world’s billionaires are but one bayonet away from no longer being billionaires.
What a beautiful thought!
Once it stops making money.
“Best” is subjective in the sense that OP hasn’t said which metric is most important to them
Your shitty suggestion optimizes for being gentle and considerate.
I’ve chosen ease on OP’s part and memorability.
OP, you can build tension over the night by asking to play songs that relate to infidelity. Shaggy’s “Wasn’t Me”, Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good”, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “This Kiss”, that kinda thing.
I’m oddly partial to The Outfield’s “Your Love”
Thanksgiving, once everyone is at least 3 drinks deep
That’s the goal!! Socializing can be very scary for a lotta folks, but sometimes a “fuck it, we ball” attitude and merely trying to wear the mask of someone much more sociable than we usually are can be a delight.
It doesn’t come without pain, but little in life does, so it’s good to practice taking a little rejection now and again.