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CptDefB | I will give her credit.
She tried initiating sex (I'm assuming) multiple times.
Given the pattern of things she describes, it makes perfect sense why she'd cheat, and perfect sense why she'd feel so committed now that she's getting exactly what she wants. I wouldn't be surprised if things slow down in the future, and she cheats again.
I seriously hope her dude comes across this, makes his way to TRP, and dread games the fuck out of that bitch. She tried, I did give her credit there. But when it comes to supporting her Captain, she ultimately failed. To be fair, wallowing around like that, he was failing the both of them, more importantly himself. Fuck what she wants (money and kids), any time spent detracting from improving yourself and life experiences or giving yourself peace of mind (moderation in all things, including moderation), is essentially wasted time.
TL;DR: **never lose your frame because women will always act like women**. | I will give her credit.
She tried initiating sex (I'm assuming) multiple times.
Given the pattern of things she describes, it makes perfect sense why she'd cheat, and perfect sense why she'd feel so committed now that she's getting exactly what she wants. I wouldn't be surprised if things slow down in the future, and she cheats again.
I seriously hope her dude comes across this, makes his way to TRP, and dread games the fuck out of that bitch. She tried, I did give her credit there. But when it comes to supporting her Captain, she ultimately failed. To be fair, wallowing around like that, he was failing the both of them, more importantly himself. Fuck what she wants (money and kids), any time spent detracting from improving yourself and life experiences or giving yourself peace of mind (moderation in all things, including moderation), is essentially wasted time.
TL;DR: never lose your frame because women will always act like women .
| TheRedPill | t5_2ve1u | cel6nqy | I will give her credit.
She tried initiating sex (I'm assuming) multiple times.
Given the pattern of things she describes, it makes perfect sense why she'd cheat, and perfect sense why she'd feel so committed now that she's getting exactly what she wants. I wouldn't be surprised if things slow down in the future, and she cheats again.
I seriously hope her dude comes across this, makes his way to TRP, and dread games the fuck out of that bitch. She tried, I did give her credit there. But when it comes to supporting her Captain, she ultimately failed. To be fair, wallowing around like that, he was failing the both of them, more importantly himself. Fuck what she wants (money and kids), any time spent detracting from improving yourself and life experiences or giving yourself peace of mind (moderation in all things, including moderation), is essentially wasted time. | never lose your frame because women will always act like women . |
Mevii | Now that I am on my break I have some time to type a proper explanation.
Haste doesnt work like crit or mastery or kind of hit, because its different in the sense that you already have a base haste.
Allow me to explain why it has to work differently.
Lets say you have 0% haste and you get a mind numbing poison on you, reducing your casting speed by 30%, would this mean that you have -30% haste? That would imply you're casting backwards, you would be uncasting your spells, like sucking a fireball back up.
Another example, if haste were to work like crit or mastery or hit, it would imply that having 100% haste means all your casts are instant, which it does not.
Your character already has a base casting speed and swing timer, meaning you already have a base haste, logically that would mean if you have no haste on your gear you are casting at 100%, same with movement speed, if you dont have a buff or enchant you move at 100% speed.
This means that 20% haste on the char screen does not mean 20% haste, it means 20% haste INCREASE, meaning your actual haste is 120%.
Same with movement speed, if you use a sprint and get 70% movement speed increase, your movement speed is 170%.
So if you were to get a 5% haste increase from, for example a raid buff like you said, you would not be adding 5% haste to your 20%, because that would be unfair and benefit low haste characters more than high haste characters. You would be adding 5% of your 124% haste, which is a (124 * 0.05) 6.2% increase (124+6=130).
It is like that because, as I said it would be unfair for characters with different haste. If you pop bloodlust , meaning you cast 30% faster, and haste were like crit and mastery, that would mean that someone with 0 haste rating casts 30% faster meaning 30% more spells, but a person with 50% haste would get 80% haste(50+30) meaning he doesnt cast 30% faster, but he only casts 20% faster and only get 20% more spells off because 30% increase on 150% is 20%.
Another example of this is defenses but with reductions.
If you use shield wall, reducing damage taken by 60%(its glyphed), and you already have 25% from defensive stance, this doesnt mean you take 85% less damage, add 70% damage reduction from base resillience on top of that and it would mean you take 155% less damage, it would mean you get healed for 55% of the damage you take.
It actually means you take 70% less from resillience, meaning you only take 30% of the original damage, meaning the 25% from defensive stance is 25% of 30% meaning its 7.5% less so you only take 22.5% of original damage, sield wall reducing it by 60% means 60% of 22.5% you only take 9% of the original damage.
Same goes for resi gems, 1% increase in resi from 70% to 71% doesnt mean you take 1% less damage, you take 29% instead of 30% which is like a 3% difference in damage.
TL;DR:
You already have 100% base haste, to calculate haste increases, you multiply the % increase with your base haste + haste increase.
100 base + 24 current * 1.05 (5% increase) = 130
edit: well that was a break wasted :/ | Now that I am on my break I have some time to type a proper explanation.
Haste doesnt work like crit or mastery or kind of hit, because its different in the sense that you already have a base haste.
Allow me to explain why it has to work differently.
Lets say you have 0% haste and you get a mind numbing poison on you, reducing your casting speed by 30%, would this mean that you have -30% haste? That would imply you're casting backwards, you would be uncasting your spells, like sucking a fireball back up.
Another example, if haste were to work like crit or mastery or hit, it would imply that having 100% haste means all your casts are instant, which it does not.
Your character already has a base casting speed and swing timer, meaning you already have a base haste, logically that would mean if you have no haste on your gear you are casting at 100%, same with movement speed, if you dont have a buff or enchant you move at 100% speed.
This means that 20% haste on the char screen does not mean 20% haste, it means 20% haste INCREASE, meaning your actual haste is 120%.
Same with movement speed, if you use a sprint and get 70% movement speed increase, your movement speed is 170%.
So if you were to get a 5% haste increase from, for example a raid buff like you said, you would not be adding 5% haste to your 20%, because that would be unfair and benefit low haste characters more than high haste characters. You would be adding 5% of your 124% haste, which is a (124 * 0.05) 6.2% increase (124+6=130).
It is like that because, as I said it would be unfair for characters with different haste. If you pop bloodlust , meaning you cast 30% faster, and haste were like crit and mastery, that would mean that someone with 0 haste rating casts 30% faster meaning 30% more spells, but a person with 50% haste would get 80% haste(50+30) meaning he doesnt cast 30% faster, but he only casts 20% faster and only get 20% more spells off because 30% increase on 150% is 20%.
Another example of this is defenses but with reductions.
If you use shield wall, reducing damage taken by 60%(its glyphed), and you already have 25% from defensive stance, this doesnt mean you take 85% less damage, add 70% damage reduction from base resillience on top of that and it would mean you take 155% less damage, it would mean you get healed for 55% of the damage you take.
It actually means you take 70% less from resillience, meaning you only take 30% of the original damage, meaning the 25% from defensive stance is 25% of 30% meaning its 7.5% less so you only take 22.5% of original damage, sield wall reducing it by 60% means 60% of 22.5% you only take 9% of the original damage.
Same goes for resi gems, 1% increase in resi from 70% to 71% doesnt mean you take 1% less damage, you take 29% instead of 30% which is like a 3% difference in damage.
TL;DR:
You already have 100% base haste, to calculate haste increases, you multiply the % increase with your base haste + haste increase.
100 base + 24 current * 1.05 (5% increase) = 130
edit: well that was a break wasted :/
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cela076 | Now that I am on my break I have some time to type a proper explanation.
Haste doesnt work like crit or mastery or kind of hit, because its different in the sense that you already have a base haste.
Allow me to explain why it has to work differently.
Lets say you have 0% haste and you get a mind numbing poison on you, reducing your casting speed by 30%, would this mean that you have -30% haste? That would imply you're casting backwards, you would be uncasting your spells, like sucking a fireball back up.
Another example, if haste were to work like crit or mastery or hit, it would imply that having 100% haste means all your casts are instant, which it does not.
Your character already has a base casting speed and swing timer, meaning you already have a base haste, logically that would mean if you have no haste on your gear you are casting at 100%, same with movement speed, if you dont have a buff or enchant you move at 100% speed.
This means that 20% haste on the char screen does not mean 20% haste, it means 20% haste INCREASE, meaning your actual haste is 120%.
Same with movement speed, if you use a sprint and get 70% movement speed increase, your movement speed is 170%.
So if you were to get a 5% haste increase from, for example a raid buff like you said, you would not be adding 5% haste to your 20%, because that would be unfair and benefit low haste characters more than high haste characters. You would be adding 5% of your 124% haste, which is a (124 * 0.05) 6.2% increase (124+6=130).
It is like that because, as I said it would be unfair for characters with different haste. If you pop bloodlust , meaning you cast 30% faster, and haste were like crit and mastery, that would mean that someone with 0 haste rating casts 30% faster meaning 30% more spells, but a person with 50% haste would get 80% haste(50+30) meaning he doesnt cast 30% faster, but he only casts 20% faster and only get 20% more spells off because 30% increase on 150% is 20%.
Another example of this is defenses but with reductions.
If you use shield wall, reducing damage taken by 60%(its glyphed), and you already have 25% from defensive stance, this doesnt mean you take 85% less damage, add 70% damage reduction from base resillience on top of that and it would mean you take 155% less damage, it would mean you get healed for 55% of the damage you take.
It actually means you take 70% less from resillience, meaning you only take 30% of the original damage, meaning the 25% from defensive stance is 25% of 30% meaning its 7.5% less so you only take 22.5% of original damage, sield wall reducing it by 60% means 60% of 22.5% you only take 9% of the original damage.
Same goes for resi gems, 1% increase in resi from 70% to 71% doesnt mean you take 1% less damage, you take 29% instead of 30% which is like a 3% difference in damage. | You already have 100% base haste, to calculate haste increases, you multiply the % increase with your base haste + haste increase.
100 base + 24 current * 1.05 (5% increase) = 130
edit: well that was a break wasted :/ |
toomaszobel | people are only moaning about the meta because it doesn't match their playstyle and they are reluctant/don't know how to adapt.
In actual fact if you look at the game it has never been so balanced before, if they make any major changes to the current meta I can't see it being for the better. Early game is no longer as strong, but if you get really ahead you have to be much better than the other team and actually use your advantage and keep playing well to prevent the other team from coming back, this punishes teams which are lazy and start derping after they get a lead thinking its a win anyway. In the snowball meta you could just get a lead, derp around and still win which is kinda unfair and sometimes luck based. If you look at the champions they are actually really balanced atm aswell, win rates for the best champions are at around 53-54%, which are usually much higher at around the 56-57% mark. This suggests that the game is really balanced and many champions can have a big impact and no one champions just stomps everything, i.e. team composition and skill/teamwork with certain champions is more important to win games. This is even evident with bans as now when I play there are so many good champions to ban that i struggle to decide which one to choose.
TL:DR - the game is currently much more balanced than it has been in a long time and any big change could actually do more harm to the game balance than good. | people are only moaning about the meta because it doesn't match their playstyle and they are reluctant/don't know how to adapt.
In actual fact if you look at the game it has never been so balanced before, if they make any major changes to the current meta I can't see it being for the better. Early game is no longer as strong, but if you get really ahead you have to be much better than the other team and actually use your advantage and keep playing well to prevent the other team from coming back, this punishes teams which are lazy and start derping after they get a lead thinking its a win anyway. In the snowball meta you could just get a lead, derp around and still win which is kinda unfair and sometimes luck based. If you look at the champions they are actually really balanced atm aswell, win rates for the best champions are at around 53-54%, which are usually much higher at around the 56-57% mark. This suggests that the game is really balanced and many champions can have a big impact and no one champions just stomps everything, i.e. team composition and skill/teamwork with certain champions is more important to win games. This is even evident with bans as now when I play there are so many good champions to ban that i struggle to decide which one to choose.
TL:DR - the game is currently much more balanced than it has been in a long time and any big change could actually do more harm to the game balance than good.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cela0r9 | people are only moaning about the meta because it doesn't match their playstyle and they are reluctant/don't know how to adapt.
In actual fact if you look at the game it has never been so balanced before, if they make any major changes to the current meta I can't see it being for the better. Early game is no longer as strong, but if you get really ahead you have to be much better than the other team and actually use your advantage and keep playing well to prevent the other team from coming back, this punishes teams which are lazy and start derping after they get a lead thinking its a win anyway. In the snowball meta you could just get a lead, derp around and still win which is kinda unfair and sometimes luck based. If you look at the champions they are actually really balanced atm aswell, win rates for the best champions are at around 53-54%, which are usually much higher at around the 56-57% mark. This suggests that the game is really balanced and many champions can have a big impact and no one champions just stomps everything, i.e. team composition and skill/teamwork with certain champions is more important to win games. This is even evident with bans as now when I play there are so many good champions to ban that i struggle to decide which one to choose. | the game is currently much more balanced than it has been in a long time and any big change could actually do more harm to the game balance than good. |
tzuiii | Supports need to support with their kits and not with exces gold they get now. They need to be cc/utility bots. They dont need fucking lyandries on zyra (even if no one plays zyra atm). Fiddle was in perfect spot before his fear nerf. That fear was what described his personalty as a champion and as a support. He had that long single target hard cc with decent silence and decent dmg if he gets off nice ulty, there was no need to nerf him so hard since tenacity already had great impact on fear duration (longer cc duration more longer you negate it with tenacity). We now see leona with gold close to junglers even if she is supporting and she turns into fucking super cc tank. That wasnt supposed to happened. If she is supporting she should have decent and maybe below par tankines compared to top laner and jungler. She now just becomes even more tanky then jungler and has far more superior cc. Leona just outshines rest of supports traditional or not traditional. There is ofc thersh that i think is in perfect place when it comes to kit but he too becomes too tanky with excess gold he gets in this preason.
tldr: supports need to be cc/utility bots not 2nd or third tank or 2nd ap carry..... | Supports need to support with their kits and not with exces gold they get now. They need to be cc/utility bots. They dont need fucking lyandries on zyra (even if no one plays zyra atm). Fiddle was in perfect spot before his fear nerf. That fear was what described his personalty as a champion and as a support. He had that long single target hard cc with decent silence and decent dmg if he gets off nice ulty, there was no need to nerf him so hard since tenacity already had great impact on fear duration (longer cc duration more longer you negate it with tenacity). We now see leona with gold close to junglers even if she is supporting and she turns into fucking super cc tank. That wasnt supposed to happened. If she is supporting she should have decent and maybe below par tankines compared to top laner and jungler. She now just becomes even more tanky then jungler and has far more superior cc. Leona just outshines rest of supports traditional or not traditional. There is ofc thersh that i think is in perfect place when it comes to kit but he too becomes too tanky with excess gold he gets in this preason.
tldr: supports need to be cc/utility bots not 2nd or third tank or 2nd ap carry.....
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cele8s6 | Supports need to support with their kits and not with exces gold they get now. They need to be cc/utility bots. They dont need fucking lyandries on zyra (even if no one plays zyra atm). Fiddle was in perfect spot before his fear nerf. That fear was what described his personalty as a champion and as a support. He had that long single target hard cc with decent silence and decent dmg if he gets off nice ulty, there was no need to nerf him so hard since tenacity already had great impact on fear duration (longer cc duration more longer you negate it with tenacity). We now see leona with gold close to junglers even if she is supporting and she turns into fucking super cc tank. That wasnt supposed to happened. If she is supporting she should have decent and maybe below par tankines compared to top laner and jungler. She now just becomes even more tanky then jungler and has far more superior cc. Leona just outshines rest of supports traditional or not traditional. There is ofc thersh that i think is in perfect place when it comes to kit but he too becomes too tanky with excess gold he gets in this preason. | supports need to be cc/utility bots not 2nd or third tank or 2nd ap carry..... |
ajdeemo | hardly conclusive of anything
the enemy team had a meepo so of course you'd get battlefury
and even then, showing a screenshot proves nothing, especially when the game is so lopsided. i could show a screenshot of a kotl with dagon 5 one shotting the enemy team, and it proves nothing
tl;dr: you are a terrible player and you have no idea what you're talking about | hardly conclusive of anything
the enemy team had a meepo so of course you'd get battlefury
and even then, showing a screenshot proves nothing, especially when the game is so lopsided. i could show a screenshot of a kotl with dagon 5 one shotting the enemy team, and it proves nothing
tl;dr: you are a terrible player and you have no idea what you're talking about
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | celz6f9 | hardly conclusive of anything
the enemy team had a meepo so of course you'd get battlefury
and even then, showing a screenshot proves nothing, especially when the game is so lopsided. i could show a screenshot of a kotl with dagon 5 one shotting the enemy team, and it proves nothing | you are a terrible player and you have no idea what you're talking about |
Avian81 | Corprus is a disease made by Dagoth Ur, and is given to his followers as a sort of "blessing". It turns them to either his slave or one of his warriors, but at least they become immortal. Morrowind Spoilers:The Nerevarine contacted the disease but the Wizard Divayth Fyr cured him/her of the negative effects it had with it.
TL;DR Disease of Dagoth Ur makes you an immortal, but turns you into a slave. But side effects can be cured.
[Source]( | Corprus is a disease made by Dagoth Ur, and is given to his followers as a sort of "blessing". It turns them to either his slave or one of his warriors, but at least they become immortal. Morrowind Spoilers:The Nerevarine contacted the disease but the Wizard Divayth Fyr cured him/her of the negative effects it had with it.
TL;DR Disease of Dagoth Ur makes you an immortal, but turns you into a slave. But side effects can be cured.
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| teslore | t5_2t5ay | cem2w3c | Corprus is a disease made by Dagoth Ur, and is given to his followers as a sort of "blessing". It turns them to either his slave or one of his warriors, but at least they become immortal. Morrowind Spoilers:The Nerevarine contacted the disease but the Wizard Divayth Fyr cured him/her of the negative effects it had with it. | Disease of Dagoth Ur makes you an immortal, but turns you into a slave. But side effects can be cured.
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boduke42 | I have no clue who anyone is on here. I saw a post on another subreddit along the lines of: check out the lunalounge, it needs some love. So I came here and I really liked the posts and style here, so I started following it and finally decided to become active in the posts. My first one was in Chinese for some reason.
Tldr: I don't know anyone but thought this place was awesome. | I have no clue who anyone is on here. I saw a post on another subreddit along the lines of: check out the lunalounge, it needs some love. So I came here and I really liked the posts and style here, so I started following it and finally decided to become active in the posts. My first one was in Chinese for some reason.
Tldr: I don't know anyone but thought this place was awesome.
| LunaLounge | t5_2zfqr | cemqq9u | I have no clue who anyone is on here. I saw a post on another subreddit along the lines of: check out the lunalounge, it needs some love. So I came here and I really liked the posts and style here, so I started following it and finally decided to become active in the posts. My first one was in Chinese for some reason. | I don't know anyone but thought this place was awesome. |
gravyboatcaptain2 | Yes.
>God can be wherever He wants to be. Who or what can limit Him? Perhaps He doesn't want to be around evil, but since God is omnipresent then He's everywhere, even where evil lurks.
Responding specifically to this, I think you may need to define what evil is. Evil is not a positive force or an entity or any sort of *thing*. Evil can only be defined negatively, as in by what it *isn't*--namely, Good. Evil does not exist, only Good exists, and the lack of Good.
Think of the way temperature works: there is no such thing as "cold." Cold is a relative term we have come up with to describe the feeling we get when the level of *heat* is below what our body is comfortable with, but there is no positive *force* that is coldness. Temperature is only the measure of heat. There is heat, and less heat. *Theoretically,* there *could* be an absolute lack of heat, or "Absolute Zero", but that has never been reached in either the natural or artificial world.
Just the same, there is only Good, and less good. God is the ultimate Good--in fact, God *is* Good. When we say this we don't just mean God has Good qualities, we mean *God is the concept of Goodness itself and the absolute embodiment of it.* All other Goodness merely participates in the Good, which *is* God. And since God *is* Existence, and everything that exists participates in the Existence of God, *everything that exists in any form contains the Goodness of God*, even Satan himself. If Satan was the "Absolute Zero" of the Goodness scale, he would not exist. So, you could say, **the only true evil is nonexistence**, because God has no part in nonexistence (which is why it doesn't exist.)
TLDR: you're right, in a way, that God is still "around evil." However, evil is a radical deprivation of Good, and thus is separated in a radical way from God. | Yes.
>God can be wherever He wants to be. Who or what can limit Him? Perhaps He doesn't want to be around evil, but since God is omnipresent then He's everywhere, even where evil lurks.
Responding specifically to this, I think you may need to define what evil is. Evil is not a positive force or an entity or any sort of thing . Evil can only be defined negatively, as in by what it isn't --namely, Good. Evil does not exist, only Good exists, and the lack of Good.
Think of the way temperature works: there is no such thing as "cold." Cold is a relative term we have come up with to describe the feeling we get when the level of heat is below what our body is comfortable with, but there is no positive force that is coldness. Temperature is only the measure of heat. There is heat, and less heat. Theoretically, there could be an absolute lack of heat, or "Absolute Zero", but that has never been reached in either the natural or artificial world.
Just the same, there is only Good, and less good. God is the ultimate Good--in fact, God is Good. When we say this we don't just mean God has Good qualities, we mean God is the concept of Goodness itself and the absolute embodiment of it. All other Goodness merely participates in the Good, which is God. And since God is Existence, and everything that exists participates in the Existence of God, everything that exists in any form contains the Goodness of God , even Satan himself. If Satan was the "Absolute Zero" of the Goodness scale, he would not exist. So, you could say, the only true evil is nonexistence , because God has no part in nonexistence (which is why it doesn't exist.)
TLDR: you're right, in a way, that God is still "around evil." However, evil is a radical deprivation of Good, and thus is separated in a radical way from God.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | ceml4pp | Yes.
>God can be wherever He wants to be. Who or what can limit Him? Perhaps He doesn't want to be around evil, but since God is omnipresent then He's everywhere, even where evil lurks.
Responding specifically to this, I think you may need to define what evil is. Evil is not a positive force or an entity or any sort of thing . Evil can only be defined negatively, as in by what it isn't --namely, Good. Evil does not exist, only Good exists, and the lack of Good.
Think of the way temperature works: there is no such thing as "cold." Cold is a relative term we have come up with to describe the feeling we get when the level of heat is below what our body is comfortable with, but there is no positive force that is coldness. Temperature is only the measure of heat. There is heat, and less heat. Theoretically, there could be an absolute lack of heat, or "Absolute Zero", but that has never been reached in either the natural or artificial world.
Just the same, there is only Good, and less good. God is the ultimate Good--in fact, God is Good. When we say this we don't just mean God has Good qualities, we mean God is the concept of Goodness itself and the absolute embodiment of it. All other Goodness merely participates in the Good, which is God. And since God is Existence, and everything that exists participates in the Existence of God, everything that exists in any form contains the Goodness of God , even Satan himself. If Satan was the "Absolute Zero" of the Goodness scale, he would not exist. So, you could say, the only true evil is nonexistence , because God has no part in nonexistence (which is why it doesn't exist.) | you're right, in a way, that God is still "around evil." However, evil is a radical deprivation of Good, and thus is separated in a radical way from God. |
VrP49dBk5x | It makes programmers feel good to think that the problem is user error rather than admit that they don't know how people understand and use computers. *Of course* your own solutions seem obvious in your own mind—you invented them.
A well-designed UI comes from an understanding of how people evaluate systems and expect them to work, otherwise known as user psychology.
**TL;DR:** What many programmers don't understand is that UI design is about teaching computers how to use humans, not the other way around. | It makes programmers feel good to think that the problem is user error rather than admit that they don't know how people understand and use computers. Of course your own solutions seem obvious in your own mind—you invented them.
A well-designed UI comes from an understanding of how people evaluate systems and expect them to work, otherwise known as user psychology.
TL;DR: What many programmers don't understand is that UI design is about teaching computers how to use humans, not the other way around.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cemq93h | It makes programmers feel good to think that the problem is user error rather than admit that they don't know how people understand and use computers. Of course your own solutions seem obvious in your own mind—you invented them.
A well-designed UI comes from an understanding of how people evaluate systems and expect them to work, otherwise known as user psychology. | What many programmers don't understand is that UI design is about teaching computers how to use humans, not the other way around. |
SkinBintin | Wait, it's your first Forza title and you're complaining about removed content? Huh? It's all new to you. You aren't missing anything.
I understand some seasoned veterans of the franchise being annoying at their being less cars and tracks than some previous instalments. But this is a brand new ground up game. No one complains because DiRT doesn't have 600 different cars. Why is it such an issue for Forza?
I'm a huge Forza fan. I love this franchise. And guess what, I love the latest one too. Sure, I wish there were more cars and more tracks, but never do I feel ripped off. The game is brilliant in it's own right.
Now, back to my initial point. You're new. What came before is irrelevant since you have zero experience with it anyway. I struggle to understand how you feel you're missing content and being nickel and dimed to get it back, when EVERYTHING in the base game is brand new. Even the DLC is new.
Seriously mate, take Forza 5 for what it is. An incredibly rewarding driving game with a wealth of depth once you really venture deep in to tuning cars for all classes and circuits. This is a game you could easily play daily until Forza 6 eventually drops (likely with numerous more cars and tracks) and still not be 100% perfect with every car on every track.
TLDR; relax, sit back, and enjoy. This game is incredibly deep and rewarding once you stop paying attention to the bitch fest online. | Wait, it's your first Forza title and you're complaining about removed content? Huh? It's all new to you. You aren't missing anything.
I understand some seasoned veterans of the franchise being annoying at their being less cars and tracks than some previous instalments. But this is a brand new ground up game. No one complains because DiRT doesn't have 600 different cars. Why is it such an issue for Forza?
I'm a huge Forza fan. I love this franchise. And guess what, I love the latest one too. Sure, I wish there were more cars and more tracks, but never do I feel ripped off. The game is brilliant in it's own right.
Now, back to my initial point. You're new. What came before is irrelevant since you have zero experience with it anyway. I struggle to understand how you feel you're missing content and being nickel and dimed to get it back, when EVERYTHING in the base game is brand new. Even the DLC is new.
Seriously mate, take Forza 5 for what it is. An incredibly rewarding driving game with a wealth of depth once you really venture deep in to tuning cars for all classes and circuits. This is a game you could easily play daily until Forza 6 eventually drops (likely with numerous more cars and tracks) and still not be 100% perfect with every car on every track.
TLDR; relax, sit back, and enjoy. This game is incredibly deep and rewarding once you stop paying attention to the bitch fest online.
| xboxone | t5_2xbci | cemu3pg | Wait, it's your first Forza title and you're complaining about removed content? Huh? It's all new to you. You aren't missing anything.
I understand some seasoned veterans of the franchise being annoying at their being less cars and tracks than some previous instalments. But this is a brand new ground up game. No one complains because DiRT doesn't have 600 different cars. Why is it such an issue for Forza?
I'm a huge Forza fan. I love this franchise. And guess what, I love the latest one too. Sure, I wish there were more cars and more tracks, but never do I feel ripped off. The game is brilliant in it's own right.
Now, back to my initial point. You're new. What came before is irrelevant since you have zero experience with it anyway. I struggle to understand how you feel you're missing content and being nickel and dimed to get it back, when EVERYTHING in the base game is brand new. Even the DLC is new.
Seriously mate, take Forza 5 for what it is. An incredibly rewarding driving game with a wealth of depth once you really venture deep in to tuning cars for all classes and circuits. This is a game you could easily play daily until Forza 6 eventually drops (likely with numerous more cars and tracks) and still not be 100% perfect with every car on every track. | relax, sit back, and enjoy. This game is incredibly deep and rewarding once you stop paying attention to the bitch fest online. |
mimecry | gave this game a quick watch, was disappointed. very passive play from both sides, especially the Veno and Clock. AM could have gotten easy kill in lane if he checked Clock's mana, or if Veno just walked up and Gale'd him. Mirana also hit 0 arrows in the 15 minutes i watched. 600 last hits is still impressive tho
tldr: mid level pub, nothing special | gave this game a quick watch, was disappointed. very passive play from both sides, especially the Veno and Clock. AM could have gotten easy kill in lane if he checked Clock's mana, or if Veno just walked up and Gale'd him. Mirana also hit 0 arrows in the 15 minutes i watched. 600 last hits is still impressive tho
tldr: mid level pub, nothing special
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cemxiy2 | gave this game a quick watch, was disappointed. very passive play from both sides, especially the Veno and Clock. AM could have gotten easy kill in lane if he checked Clock's mana, or if Veno just walked up and Gale'd him. Mirana also hit 0 arrows in the 15 minutes i watched. 600 last hits is still impressive tho | mid level pub, nothing special |
laterdude | I was attempting to be sarcastic. I changed the tl dr to make it more obvious. | I was attempting to be sarcastic. I changed the tl dr to make it more obvious.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cen28cq | I was attempting to be sarcastic. I changed the | to make it more obvious. |
laterdude | Let's drive for hours in a blizzard so we can ski on fresh powder. Then get out of the car and attempt to put on tire chains with gloves but your North Faces are too bulky and you have to take them off, instead clamping ice-cold metal together with your [bare hands](
The snow is wet at this lower elevation and your fingers stick to the metal, like [Flick's tongue]( in "A Christmas Story". You yank them off, losing some skin in the process.
Of course, your chains come loose and begin flapping halfway up the mountain but you say fuck it and drive on. By the time you reach the resort, you're not only bleeding from your fingertips but also leaking brake fluid. You hate driving in ski pants and are repulsed at changing in a shitty smelling restroom, so you change in the car and hope no small children with eagle-eyed, overprotective parents walk by. Your windows are so fogged up and your [penis is so small]( it's not like they'd see anything anyways.
Then you wobble up to the ticket counter, fork over [$110]( for your lift ticket and spend the rest of the day waiting in lift lines and riding the chair lift with a few minutes of skiing squeezed in for good measure. It's like Space Mountain for adults.
Good times.
**tl dr**: Skiing is God's way of telling you, you have too much time and money.
EDIT: removed excess verbiage.
| Let's drive for hours in a blizzard so we can ski on fresh powder. Then get out of the car and attempt to put on tire chains with gloves but your North Faces are too bulky and you have to take them off, instead clamping ice-cold metal together with your [bare hands](
The snow is wet at this lower elevation and your fingers stick to the metal, like [Flick's tongue]( in "A Christmas Story". You yank them off, losing some skin in the process.
Of course, your chains come loose and begin flapping halfway up the mountain but you say fuck it and drive on. By the time you reach the resort, you're not only bleeding from your fingertips but also leaking brake fluid. You hate driving in ski pants and are repulsed at changing in a shitty smelling restroom, so you change in the car and hope no small children with eagle-eyed, overprotective parents walk by. Your windows are so fogged up and your [penis is so small]( it's not like they'd see anything anyways.
Then you wobble up to the ticket counter, fork over [$110]( for your lift ticket and spend the rest of the day waiting in lift lines and riding the chair lift with a few minutes of skiing squeezed in for good measure. It's like Space Mountain for adults.
Good times.
tl dr : Skiing is God's way of telling you, you have too much time and money.
EDIT: removed excess verbiage.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cemxckb | Let's drive for hours in a blizzard so we can ski on fresh powder. Then get out of the car and attempt to put on tire chains with gloves but your North Faces are too bulky and you have to take them off, instead clamping ice-cold metal together with your [bare hands](
The snow is wet at this lower elevation and your fingers stick to the metal, like [Flick's tongue]( in "A Christmas Story". You yank them off, losing some skin in the process.
Of course, your chains come loose and begin flapping halfway up the mountain but you say fuck it and drive on. By the time you reach the resort, you're not only bleeding from your fingertips but also leaking brake fluid. You hate driving in ski pants and are repulsed at changing in a shitty smelling restroom, so you change in the car and hope no small children with eagle-eyed, overprotective parents walk by. Your windows are so fogged up and your [penis is so small]( it's not like they'd see anything anyways.
Then you wobble up to the ticket counter, fork over [$110]( for your lift ticket and spend the rest of the day waiting in lift lines and riding the chair lift with a few minutes of skiing squeezed in for good measure. It's like Space Mountain for adults.
Good times. | Skiing is God's way of telling you, you have too much time and money.
EDIT: removed excess verbiage. |
Shadowflank | I got bored one day and decided to google something like "Things to get high in your house" and stumbled upon that video. TL;DR thought it was full of shit, friends thought it was full of shit, wasn't full of shit. | I got bored one day and decided to google something like "Things to get high in your house" and stumbled upon that video. TL;DR thought it was full of shit, friends thought it was full of shit, wasn't full of shit.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cen0ey2 | I got bored one day and decided to google something like "Things to get high in your house" and stumbled upon that video. | thought it was full of shit, friends thought it was full of shit, wasn't full of shit. |
Whatswiththewhip | I don't know where the fuck you went but please tell me, so I never go. 20 second runs? Where? The Poconos? What you described is what *most* places aren't. Thats the best thing about *real* skiiers and boarders, we don't give a fuck what you're drinking or eating; we care about the awesome day we just had and wanna enjoy a few beers when we step off the mtn. Fuck that apres-ski shit. Go to a LOCAL joint and meet REAL people. Honestly some of the nicest people I've ever met have been in ski towns.
For example: There's a place called the Bierstube in Big Mtn Montana (I think it's called Whitefish now). I always ask around where the locals go and this place came up time after time. The 1st thing we heard as we open the doors is "FREE BEER NIGHT STARTS NOW" Excuse me? Do my ears deceive me? No...mother fuckin free beer night. The ski patroller who has the most embarrassing moment of the week or month (can't remember) buys the first 3 kegs or something. Maybe 2, maybe 4, but you get the point. It's not Guinness, buttfuckit, it's free fuckin' beer.
I have many more stories about this trip. Buying PBR tall boys for THE WHOLE FUCKING BUS including the DRIVER whilst blasting Bob Marley. I met a couple of the nicest guys ever, Lee and Travis. They insisted I stay and hang out with them in town as opposed to my hotel and I did.
The runs are about 30/45 mins long and it started snowing 3 days prior to departure and didn't fucking stop the whole trip. 7 of the best fucking days of my life.
TL;DR- sorry for the wall of text, kinda hard to sum up your best week ever. /u/Snowy1234 went to the wrong place. | I don't know where the fuck you went but please tell me, so I never go. 20 second runs? Where? The Poconos? What you described is what most places aren't. Thats the best thing about real skiiers and boarders, we don't give a fuck what you're drinking or eating; we care about the awesome day we just had and wanna enjoy a few beers when we step off the mtn. Fuck that apres-ski shit. Go to a LOCAL joint and meet REAL people. Honestly some of the nicest people I've ever met have been in ski towns.
For example: There's a place called the Bierstube in Big Mtn Montana (I think it's called Whitefish now). I always ask around where the locals go and this place came up time after time. The 1st thing we heard as we open the doors is "FREE BEER NIGHT STARTS NOW" Excuse me? Do my ears deceive me? No...mother fuckin free beer night. The ski patroller who has the most embarrassing moment of the week or month (can't remember) buys the first 3 kegs or something. Maybe 2, maybe 4, but you get the point. It's not Guinness, buttfuckit, it's free fuckin' beer.
I have many more stories about this trip. Buying PBR tall boys for THE WHOLE FUCKING BUS including the DRIVER whilst blasting Bob Marley. I met a couple of the nicest guys ever, Lee and Travis. They insisted I stay and hang out with them in town as opposed to my hotel and I did.
The runs are about 30/45 mins long and it started snowing 3 days prior to departure and didn't fucking stop the whole trip. 7 of the best fucking days of my life.
TL;DR- sorry for the wall of text, kinda hard to sum up your best week ever. /u/Snowy1234 went to the wrong place.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cena9i4 | I don't know where the fuck you went but please tell me, so I never go. 20 second runs? Where? The Poconos? What you described is what most places aren't. Thats the best thing about real skiiers and boarders, we don't give a fuck what you're drinking or eating; we care about the awesome day we just had and wanna enjoy a few beers when we step off the mtn. Fuck that apres-ski shit. Go to a LOCAL joint and meet REAL people. Honestly some of the nicest people I've ever met have been in ski towns.
For example: There's a place called the Bierstube in Big Mtn Montana (I think it's called Whitefish now). I always ask around where the locals go and this place came up time after time. The 1st thing we heard as we open the doors is "FREE BEER NIGHT STARTS NOW" Excuse me? Do my ears deceive me? No...mother fuckin free beer night. The ski patroller who has the most embarrassing moment of the week or month (can't remember) buys the first 3 kegs or something. Maybe 2, maybe 4, but you get the point. It's not Guinness, buttfuckit, it's free fuckin' beer.
I have many more stories about this trip. Buying PBR tall boys for THE WHOLE FUCKING BUS including the DRIVER whilst blasting Bob Marley. I met a couple of the nicest guys ever, Lee and Travis. They insisted I stay and hang out with them in town as opposed to my hotel and I did.
The runs are about 30/45 mins long and it started snowing 3 days prior to departure and didn't fucking stop the whole trip. 7 of the best fucking days of my life. | sorry for the wall of text, kinda hard to sum up your best week ever. /u/Snowy1234 went to the wrong place. |
Mrbryann | Or live fairly close to a mountain and drive up on a beautiful blue bird day with your friends and family. Roads are clear because the plows have been doing their jobs, throw on your ski pants and jacket in the parking lot and head directly towards the lift because you have a season pass that you purchased for $200.
tl dr: My normal ski trip experience. | Or live fairly close to a mountain and drive up on a beautiful blue bird day with your friends and family. Roads are clear because the plows have been doing their jobs, throw on your ski pants and jacket in the parking lot and head directly towards the lift because you have a season pass that you purchased for $200.
tl dr: My normal ski trip experience.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cendr6x | Or live fairly close to a mountain and drive up on a beautiful blue bird day with your friends and family. Roads are clear because the plows have been doing their jobs, throw on your ski pants and jacket in the parking lot and head directly towards the lift because you have a season pass that you purchased for $200. | My normal ski trip experience. |
thelandsman55 | A few friends and I have a drunken DnD game that we play every once in a while that as a consequence of being drunken tends to be very free-form. At the end of our most epic game I was leading an airforce wing of Dark Elf Pegasi riders against a friends army of Lizardmen and Dwarves (we wound up playing by Warhammer lore not DnD lore because we were confused).
In our most recent game I played a bard who had seduced the entire rest of the party into a gay orgy that turned blood bath come dawn when the more homophobic party members realized what had gone down. They spent the rest of the game hunting me down but I evaded them by sleeping in barns and seducing tavern keepers (Bard is a surprisingly useful class when you just need to hide).
tl;dr Drunken DnD is awesome and everyone should play it. | A few friends and I have a drunken DnD game that we play every once in a while that as a consequence of being drunken tends to be very free-form. At the end of our most epic game I was leading an airforce wing of Dark Elf Pegasi riders against a friends army of Lizardmen and Dwarves (we wound up playing by Warhammer lore not DnD lore because we were confused).
In our most recent game I played a bard who had seduced the entire rest of the party into a gay orgy that turned blood bath come dawn when the more homophobic party members realized what had gone down. They spent the rest of the game hunting me down but I evaded them by sleeping in barns and seducing tavern keepers (Bard is a surprisingly useful class when you just need to hide).
tl;dr Drunken DnD is awesome and everyone should play it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cendzwq | A few friends and I have a drunken DnD game that we play every once in a while that as a consequence of being drunken tends to be very free-form. At the end of our most epic game I was leading an airforce wing of Dark Elf Pegasi riders against a friends army of Lizardmen and Dwarves (we wound up playing by Warhammer lore not DnD lore because we were confused).
In our most recent game I played a bard who had seduced the entire rest of the party into a gay orgy that turned blood bath come dawn when the more homophobic party members realized what had gone down. They spent the rest of the game hunting me down but I evaded them by sleeping in barns and seducing tavern keepers (Bard is a surprisingly useful class when you just need to hide). | Drunken DnD is awesome and everyone should play it. |
Lucid_steve | I lost a friend to CCB addiction. It was slow at first, recreational. You know once in a while at a party or out on the lake whilst fishing to pass the time. He said it was under control and my mistake was trusting him. If only i'd seen the signs; the rennit under his nails. The constant presence of cocoa on his coffee table. The bacon grease behind his ears. By the time i did realise it was to late.
He'd already lost his job because of the addiction, nobody wants mortgage advice from a guy who smells worse than the encrusted end of a badgers ring piece. He was stealing from his friends and family to afford the bacon and cheese.
I was driving home from work one night and was hungry so went to a drive through. I saw him there, I almost didn't recognise him. He was offering blowjobs for a bacon and cheese burger and a chocolate shake. Not even a thick shake. I pretended not to see him and left immediatly.
Last I heard he had found some kind of work, on a pig farm. I don't know. If he's happy I suppose its ok.
Moral of the story, be careful what you get into, and everything in moderation.
Tl:dr, blowjobs for bacon and cheese burgers. | I lost a friend to CCB addiction. It was slow at first, recreational. You know once in a while at a party or out on the lake whilst fishing to pass the time. He said it was under control and my mistake was trusting him. If only i'd seen the signs; the rennit under his nails. The constant presence of cocoa on his coffee table. The bacon grease behind his ears. By the time i did realise it was to late.
He'd already lost his job because of the addiction, nobody wants mortgage advice from a guy who smells worse than the encrusted end of a badgers ring piece. He was stealing from his friends and family to afford the bacon and cheese.
I was driving home from work one night and was hungry so went to a drive through. I saw him there, I almost didn't recognise him. He was offering blowjobs for a bacon and cheese burger and a chocolate shake. Not even a thick shake. I pretended not to see him and left immediatly.
Last I heard he had found some kind of work, on a pig farm. I don't know. If he's happy I suppose its ok.
Moral of the story, be careful what you get into, and everything in moderation.
Tl:dr, blowjobs for bacon and cheese burgers.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cenn1jf | I lost a friend to CCB addiction. It was slow at first, recreational. You know once in a while at a party or out on the lake whilst fishing to pass the time. He said it was under control and my mistake was trusting him. If only i'd seen the signs; the rennit under his nails. The constant presence of cocoa on his coffee table. The bacon grease behind his ears. By the time i did realise it was to late.
He'd already lost his job because of the addiction, nobody wants mortgage advice from a guy who smells worse than the encrusted end of a badgers ring piece. He was stealing from his friends and family to afford the bacon and cheese.
I was driving home from work one night and was hungry so went to a drive through. I saw him there, I almost didn't recognise him. He was offering blowjobs for a bacon and cheese burger and a chocolate shake. Not even a thick shake. I pretended not to see him and left immediatly.
Last I heard he had found some kind of work, on a pig farm. I don't know. If he's happy I suppose its ok.
Moral of the story, be careful what you get into, and everything in moderation. | blowjobs for bacon and cheese burgers. |
KinoExo | Ok, I'll try to explain the best I can. but its 3:20am where I am at the moment and I'm dead tired after working all day.
People say weed isn't addictive "physically" I'd agree, but mentally dear god it can ruin you.
I am an ex smoker, starting in 2008 I had really bad depression, was lonely and was on the verge of ending my life. My only friend of mine at the time invited me over to his one day (he was a stoner) and we decided to chill and play video games. Every 15 minutes he would go to the "bathroom" and come back about 10 minutes later and continue gaming. I knew exactly what he was doing and decided to ask him for a hit from his bong, best experience ever.
I was only smoking about a gram a week after that and that continued for a few months. Later that year, my tolerance grew. I was up to 3 grams a week. A few months after that, 7 grams a week (a quarter ounce).
By now its mid 2009 and I was smoking **7 GRAMS A DAY,** this was chewing through my cash and without me realising was making my depression worse. I completely dismissed it and assumed it was just another phase.
I continued this trend till 2012, where I realised I was broke and couldn't afford to buy the same amounts as I used to, this resorted to pawning off all my valuable belongings just to "get my fix".
Mid 2013 I realised I couldn't keep this up, I moved states and broke contact with all my friends and dealers, basically trying to get a fresh start. It took months and months to get over the mental addiction side things and to be honest I still crave for a bong every few months but all I need to do is look at the track my life was heading on and I know that I'm better off without.
I don't see weed as an evil drug, I can see how it can be beneficial to the right people but I do see it as a gateway drug as well. It is incredibly easy to build up a tolerance to but like anything, it's all about moderation. Just my 2 cents.
TL;DR Was smoking up to 7 grams a day over, was killing my bank account and quality of life, changed states and started a new life. | Ok, I'll try to explain the best I can. but its 3:20am where I am at the moment and I'm dead tired after working all day.
People say weed isn't addictive "physically" I'd agree, but mentally dear god it can ruin you.
I am an ex smoker, starting in 2008 I had really bad depression, was lonely and was on the verge of ending my life. My only friend of mine at the time invited me over to his one day (he was a stoner) and we decided to chill and play video games. Every 15 minutes he would go to the "bathroom" and come back about 10 minutes later and continue gaming. I knew exactly what he was doing and decided to ask him for a hit from his bong, best experience ever.
I was only smoking about a gram a week after that and that continued for a few months. Later that year, my tolerance grew. I was up to 3 grams a week. A few months after that, 7 grams a week (a quarter ounce).
By now its mid 2009 and I was smoking 7 GRAMS A DAY, this was chewing through my cash and without me realising was making my depression worse. I completely dismissed it and assumed it was just another phase.
I continued this trend till 2012, where I realised I was broke and couldn't afford to buy the same amounts as I used to, this resorted to pawning off all my valuable belongings just to "get my fix".
Mid 2013 I realised I couldn't keep this up, I moved states and broke contact with all my friends and dealers, basically trying to get a fresh start. It took months and months to get over the mental addiction side things and to be honest I still crave for a bong every few months but all I need to do is look at the track my life was heading on and I know that I'm better off without.
I don't see weed as an evil drug, I can see how it can be beneficial to the right people but I do see it as a gateway drug as well. It is incredibly easy to build up a tolerance to but like anything, it's all about moderation. Just my 2 cents.
TL;DR Was smoking up to 7 grams a day over, was killing my bank account and quality of life, changed states and started a new life.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cemzbum | Ok, I'll try to explain the best I can. but its 3:20am where I am at the moment and I'm dead tired after working all day.
People say weed isn't addictive "physically" I'd agree, but mentally dear god it can ruin you.
I am an ex smoker, starting in 2008 I had really bad depression, was lonely and was on the verge of ending my life. My only friend of mine at the time invited me over to his one day (he was a stoner) and we decided to chill and play video games. Every 15 minutes he would go to the "bathroom" and come back about 10 minutes later and continue gaming. I knew exactly what he was doing and decided to ask him for a hit from his bong, best experience ever.
I was only smoking about a gram a week after that and that continued for a few months. Later that year, my tolerance grew. I was up to 3 grams a week. A few months after that, 7 grams a week (a quarter ounce).
By now its mid 2009 and I was smoking 7 GRAMS A DAY, this was chewing through my cash and without me realising was making my depression worse. I completely dismissed it and assumed it was just another phase.
I continued this trend till 2012, where I realised I was broke and couldn't afford to buy the same amounts as I used to, this resorted to pawning off all my valuable belongings just to "get my fix".
Mid 2013 I realised I couldn't keep this up, I moved states and broke contact with all my friends and dealers, basically trying to get a fresh start. It took months and months to get over the mental addiction side things and to be honest I still crave for a bong every few months but all I need to do is look at the track my life was heading on and I know that I'm better off without.
I don't see weed as an evil drug, I can see how it can be beneficial to the right people but I do see it as a gateway drug as well. It is incredibly easy to build up a tolerance to but like anything, it's all about moderation. Just my 2 cents. | Was smoking up to 7 grams a day over, was killing my bank account and quality of life, changed states and started a new life. |
CureYourYaksEyes | There's been multiple debates on this, usually led by /u/SynysterScene. We've basically agreed that Starrk took on two of the strongest captains (Ukitake and Kyoraku) and two former Vizard captains (Rose and Love). Ulquiorra took on a beaten up Ichigo. Starrk lost due to Kyoraku knowing the rules better and being able to mess with them, while Ulquiorra lost to plotkai. As far as things go, Hueco Mundo arc Ichigo was far weaker than any of the captains that faced Starrk, so we've agreed that Starrk was stronger.
**TL;DR** Starrk faced four top-tier captains, Ulquiorra faced one beaten up captain-level who didn't know what his own powers did. Starrk's stronger. | There's been multiple debates on this, usually led by /u/SynysterScene. We've basically agreed that Starrk took on two of the strongest captains (Ukitake and Kyoraku) and two former Vizard captains (Rose and Love). Ulquiorra took on a beaten up Ichigo. Starrk lost due to Kyoraku knowing the rules better and being able to mess with them, while Ulquiorra lost to plotkai. As far as things go, Hueco Mundo arc Ichigo was far weaker than any of the captains that faced Starrk, so we've agreed that Starrk was stronger.
TL;DR Starrk faced four top-tier captains, Ulquiorra faced one beaten up captain-level who didn't know what his own powers did. Starrk's stronger.
| bleach | t5_2rk7q | cenaz1a | There's been multiple debates on this, usually led by /u/SynysterScene. We've basically agreed that Starrk took on two of the strongest captains (Ukitake and Kyoraku) and two former Vizard captains (Rose and Love). Ulquiorra took on a beaten up Ichigo. Starrk lost due to Kyoraku knowing the rules better and being able to mess with them, while Ulquiorra lost to plotkai. As far as things go, Hueco Mundo arc Ichigo was far weaker than any of the captains that faced Starrk, so we've agreed that Starrk was stronger. | Starrk faced four top-tier captains, Ulquiorra faced one beaten up captain-level who didn't know what his own powers did. Starrk's stronger. |
nixsipples | I've known people who won't end a relationship until they find another person to replace their last SO. I've also known people who are so afraid of "settling" with the wrong person, they use every flaw to end relationships. They might be lonely forever if they don't soon realize no relationship will be perfect. What's important is the other person continues to make you happy. Just because you disagree on things, doesn't necessarily mean you're settling for a mediocre relationship.
tldr: many people make many shitty choices | I've known people who won't end a relationship until they find another person to replace their last SO. I've also known people who are so afraid of "settling" with the wrong person, they use every flaw to end relationships. They might be lonely forever if they don't soon realize no relationship will be perfect. What's important is the other person continues to make you happy. Just because you disagree on things, doesn't necessarily mean you're settling for a mediocre relationship.
tldr: many people make many shitty choices
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cen3spj | I've known people who won't end a relationship until they find another person to replace their last SO. I've also known people who are so afraid of "settling" with the wrong person, they use every flaw to end relationships. They might be lonely forever if they don't soon realize no relationship will be perfect. What's important is the other person continues to make you happy. Just because you disagree on things, doesn't necessarily mean you're settling for a mediocre relationship. | many people make many shitty choices |
ogunther | A gooseneck kettle is still slightly preferable for the Aeropress as it's much easier to pour the right amount in during the initial wetting (for bloom) with a gooseneck however it's not essential like it is for some other brew methods (I had my Aeropress for a year before I purchased a gooseneck kettle).
If all the kettle is going to be used for is the Aeropress (and not, say making tea), then I'd recommend the Bonavita Electric Kettle ( and a thermometer ( (this is the exact setup I have, btw). There are a few reasons for this recommendation (over the Hamilton Beach):
- The Bonavita should be more reliable over the long term since it is a simpler design and thus has less that can go wrong with it.
- If you should ever decide to expand your coffee brewing methods, you will already have a great gooseneck kettle and thus won't have to make another purchase. The Aeropress is a bit of a gateway drug in this regard and its not uncommon for people to post about making their Aeropress purchase and then a year later they have an entire coffee battlestation lol.
- If you wait, the Bonavita electric kettle normally sells for about $45-$50 (currently it's $60) which isn't much more than the Hamilton Beach one. If you really want the programmable aspect, Bonavita sells one for about $90-$100, too.
- As I already mentioned, a gooseneck, while not essential for Aeropress, does make using the Aeropress easier and has less chance of dumping scalding water everywhere (it can happen...not that I ever did that or anything. Nope, nope.)
TL;DR: The Hamilton Beach is fine but I'd still recommend the Bonavita Gooseneck Kettle as it's more future proof.
| A gooseneck kettle is still slightly preferable for the Aeropress as it's much easier to pour the right amount in during the initial wetting (for bloom) with a gooseneck however it's not essential like it is for some other brew methods (I had my Aeropress for a year before I purchased a gooseneck kettle).
If all the kettle is going to be used for is the Aeropress (and not, say making tea), then I'd recommend the Bonavita Electric Kettle ( and a thermometer ( (this is the exact setup I have, btw). There are a few reasons for this recommendation (over the Hamilton Beach):
The Bonavita should be more reliable over the long term since it is a simpler design and thus has less that can go wrong with it.
If you should ever decide to expand your coffee brewing methods, you will already have a great gooseneck kettle and thus won't have to make another purchase. The Aeropress is a bit of a gateway drug in this regard and its not uncommon for people to post about making their Aeropress purchase and then a year later they have an entire coffee battlestation lol.
If you wait, the Bonavita electric kettle normally sells for about $45-$50 (currently it's $60) which isn't much more than the Hamilton Beach one. If you really want the programmable aspect, Bonavita sells one for about $90-$100, too.
As I already mentioned, a gooseneck, while not essential for Aeropress, does make using the Aeropress easier and has less chance of dumping scalding water everywhere (it can happen...not that I ever did that or anything. Nope, nope.)
TL;DR: The Hamilton Beach is fine but I'd still recommend the Bonavita Gooseneck Kettle as it's more future proof.
| Coffee | t5_2qhze | cenbmgg | A gooseneck kettle is still slightly preferable for the Aeropress as it's much easier to pour the right amount in during the initial wetting (for bloom) with a gooseneck however it's not essential like it is for some other brew methods (I had my Aeropress for a year before I purchased a gooseneck kettle).
If all the kettle is going to be used for is the Aeropress (and not, say making tea), then I'd recommend the Bonavita Electric Kettle ( and a thermometer ( (this is the exact setup I have, btw). There are a few reasons for this recommendation (over the Hamilton Beach):
The Bonavita should be more reliable over the long term since it is a simpler design and thus has less that can go wrong with it.
If you should ever decide to expand your coffee brewing methods, you will already have a great gooseneck kettle and thus won't have to make another purchase. The Aeropress is a bit of a gateway drug in this regard and its not uncommon for people to post about making their Aeropress purchase and then a year later they have an entire coffee battlestation lol.
If you wait, the Bonavita electric kettle normally sells for about $45-$50 (currently it's $60) which isn't much more than the Hamilton Beach one. If you really want the programmable aspect, Bonavita sells one for about $90-$100, too.
As I already mentioned, a gooseneck, while not essential for Aeropress, does make using the Aeropress easier and has less chance of dumping scalding water everywhere (it can happen...not that I ever did that or anything. Nope, nope.) | The Hamilton Beach is fine but I'd still recommend the Bonavita Gooseneck Kettle as it's more future proof. |
woutervoorschot | The wired gamepad can just be connected to your PC and it won't need drivers. You can use the windows version or Xbox version, they are the same. The wireless version for PC is different, it has a receiver with USB instead of the Xbox wireless controller, which is connected via the in built wireless of the Xbox.
TL:DR
-Wired->buy the cheapest one
-wireless->buy the windows one.
-Drivers not needed on windows vista+.
-Almost all (new) pc-games include controller support. | The wired gamepad can just be connected to your PC and it won't need drivers. You can use the windows version or Xbox version, they are the same. The wireless version for PC is different, it has a receiver with USB instead of the Xbox wireless controller, which is connected via the in built wireless of the Xbox.
TL:DR
-Wired->buy the cheapest one
-wireless->buy the windows one.
-Drivers not needed on windows vista+.
-Almost all (new) pc-games include controller support.
| windows | t5_2qh3k | cenlojn | The wired gamepad can just be connected to your PC and it won't need drivers. You can use the windows version or Xbox version, they are the same. The wireless version for PC is different, it has a receiver with USB instead of the Xbox wireless controller, which is connected via the in built wireless of the Xbox. | Wired->buy the cheapest one
-wireless->buy the windows one.
-Drivers not needed on windows vista+.
-Almost all (new) pc-games include controller support. |
mindhawk | Kindof a side note but a friend watched The Road and was like 'why didn't they just stay at the bunker' that's when attention to detail pays off, because that dog bark means volumes to a guy like The Man.
It means he's still being followed, they have their sent, they'll find him in the bunker eventually so they can't stay. He's dying, he could just die comfortably in the bunker in a bed and let his kid deal with it but he knows one of two things, and there's no way to tell which.
a these people who are not eating their dog, can afford not to eat their dog, are friendly just looking for folks to team up and are following them for what reason? Why would they be good allies? A dying man and a kid? This seems so unlikely.
b these people keep a dog alive to hunt people to eat, but that doesn't make any sense either because this dog has been following them for weeks, how come they haven't revealed themselves?
But he can't take a chance, and he has no idea who these crazy people are who aren't eating their dog, following these people with no resource gain, in a world where every decision is about resource gain.
So the man doesn't take any chances and dies on the sand, the reason they were being followed was not because of the dog, or the other man or the other kids, but the mother of those other kids. She made the veteran with the shotgun and 2 kids and a dog chase the man because he had the kid, but for good reasons, because she was building a team of kids knowing the two they had were going to need help, and also out of a love for children.
Now that woman, her movie is the real movie, and I suspect Cormac McCarthy knows he is unequipped to write about that character. I see the entire story of The Road as being a side-story to what her and the veteran are accomplishing, which could be the key to the survival and rebirth of the race.
Thinking about that woman's motivation, how she would have seen all that, and go through all of that, and risk everything, for a third child that wasn't even her own and that she'd never met...The veteran is a pretty cool dude too, putting up with that. Conserving that many shotgun shells. Anyone with 10 shotgun shells by the end of that movie would be a king, and here he goes traipsing off in support of a mother on a quest to save children.
One step further back, look around you now, how would we all be transformed? who among us would be the cannibals? Who would be the wife who ran off to die in the dark? Who would be the man? Who would be the veteran? What mother do you know who would do that? What would it be like to grow up in the shadow of that father? What were those first 5 years after the disaster really like?
I could go on but I'll stop. tl:dr the bark of a dog can be the best or the worst thing you'll ever hear in a bunker, hopefully it will be a true mother on a quest to bring you home but it might also be cannibals. | Kindof a side note but a friend watched The Road and was like 'why didn't they just stay at the bunker' that's when attention to detail pays off, because that dog bark means volumes to a guy like The Man.
It means he's still being followed, they have their sent, they'll find him in the bunker eventually so they can't stay. He's dying, he could just die comfortably in the bunker in a bed and let his kid deal with it but he knows one of two things, and there's no way to tell which.
a these people who are not eating their dog, can afford not to eat their dog, are friendly just looking for folks to team up and are following them for what reason? Why would they be good allies? A dying man and a kid? This seems so unlikely.
b these people keep a dog alive to hunt people to eat, but that doesn't make any sense either because this dog has been following them for weeks, how come they haven't revealed themselves?
But he can't take a chance, and he has no idea who these crazy people are who aren't eating their dog, following these people with no resource gain, in a world where every decision is about resource gain.
So the man doesn't take any chances and dies on the sand, the reason they were being followed was not because of the dog, or the other man or the other kids, but the mother of those other kids. She made the veteran with the shotgun and 2 kids and a dog chase the man because he had the kid, but for good reasons, because she was building a team of kids knowing the two they had were going to need help, and also out of a love for children.
Now that woman, her movie is the real movie, and I suspect Cormac McCarthy knows he is unequipped to write about that character. I see the entire story of The Road as being a side-story to what her and the veteran are accomplishing, which could be the key to the survival and rebirth of the race.
Thinking about that woman's motivation, how she would have seen all that, and go through all of that, and risk everything, for a third child that wasn't even her own and that she'd never met...The veteran is a pretty cool dude too, putting up with that. Conserving that many shotgun shells. Anyone with 10 shotgun shells by the end of that movie would be a king, and here he goes traipsing off in support of a mother on a quest to save children.
One step further back, look around you now, how would we all be transformed? who among us would be the cannibals? Who would be the wife who ran off to die in the dark? Who would be the man? Who would be the veteran? What mother do you know who would do that? What would it be like to grow up in the shadow of that father? What were those first 5 years after the disaster really like?
I could go on but I'll stop. tl:dr the bark of a dog can be the best or the worst thing you'll ever hear in a bunker, hopefully it will be a true mother on a quest to bring you home but it might also be cannibals.
| PostCollapse | t5_2sfb4 | ceo5ayq | Kindof a side note but a friend watched The Road and was like 'why didn't they just stay at the bunker' that's when attention to detail pays off, because that dog bark means volumes to a guy like The Man.
It means he's still being followed, they have their sent, they'll find him in the bunker eventually so they can't stay. He's dying, he could just die comfortably in the bunker in a bed and let his kid deal with it but he knows one of two things, and there's no way to tell which.
a these people who are not eating their dog, can afford not to eat their dog, are friendly just looking for folks to team up and are following them for what reason? Why would they be good allies? A dying man and a kid? This seems so unlikely.
b these people keep a dog alive to hunt people to eat, but that doesn't make any sense either because this dog has been following them for weeks, how come they haven't revealed themselves?
But he can't take a chance, and he has no idea who these crazy people are who aren't eating their dog, following these people with no resource gain, in a world where every decision is about resource gain.
So the man doesn't take any chances and dies on the sand, the reason they were being followed was not because of the dog, or the other man or the other kids, but the mother of those other kids. She made the veteran with the shotgun and 2 kids and a dog chase the man because he had the kid, but for good reasons, because she was building a team of kids knowing the two they had were going to need help, and also out of a love for children.
Now that woman, her movie is the real movie, and I suspect Cormac McCarthy knows he is unequipped to write about that character. I see the entire story of The Road as being a side-story to what her and the veteran are accomplishing, which could be the key to the survival and rebirth of the race.
Thinking about that woman's motivation, how she would have seen all that, and go through all of that, and risk everything, for a third child that wasn't even her own and that she'd never met...The veteran is a pretty cool dude too, putting up with that. Conserving that many shotgun shells. Anyone with 10 shotgun shells by the end of that movie would be a king, and here he goes traipsing off in support of a mother on a quest to save children.
One step further back, look around you now, how would we all be transformed? who among us would be the cannibals? Who would be the wife who ran off to die in the dark? Who would be the man? Who would be the veteran? What mother do you know who would do that? What would it be like to grow up in the shadow of that father? What were those first 5 years after the disaster really like?
I could go on but I'll stop. | the bark of a dog can be the best or the worst thing you'll ever hear in a bunker, hopefully it will be a true mother on a quest to bring you home but it might also be cannibals. |
-spartacus- | You don't necessarily need a mainsail, I used the skipper and made a heavy lifter that allows me to go to the moon, minimus, even an attempt to land at Eve (but I crashed on surface due to parachute issues). Once you make that lower part of the lifter, save it, then work on building a landing craft capable of return to Kerbin, then build a station in orbit of the moon and/or minimus.
The station I build included a small probe and an empty science processing center sent up in my heavy lifter, set in orbit around the mun with fuel to spare. Then I sent up the 3 crew capsule (only 2 crew inside) and put it into orbit around the mun, I docked the two and transferred excess fuel into the first tank, undocked the empty tank.
Finally I sent my lander up with Jeb in it, landed it on the mun, took all my samples, went into mun orbit, docked, Eva to collect samples, stored them in the processing center, then reset the samples.
I can now refuel and unload my samples in my station as I make trips to the surface and back. After I get a bunch stored up I can undock the processing center, move the crew back to their capsule and send them to minimus, while I send the probed processing center back to Kerbin for ungodly science collection.
Tl:dr
Store experiments in station orbiting, while refueling for multiple landings. Helps you get more landings and docking in short time. Make sure to use quicksave. | You don't necessarily need a mainsail, I used the skipper and made a heavy lifter that allows me to go to the moon, minimus, even an attempt to land at Eve (but I crashed on surface due to parachute issues). Once you make that lower part of the lifter, save it, then work on building a landing craft capable of return to Kerbin, then build a station in orbit of the moon and/or minimus.
The station I build included a small probe and an empty science processing center sent up in my heavy lifter, set in orbit around the mun with fuel to spare. Then I sent up the 3 crew capsule (only 2 crew inside) and put it into orbit around the mun, I docked the two and transferred excess fuel into the first tank, undocked the empty tank.
Finally I sent my lander up with Jeb in it, landed it on the mun, took all my samples, went into mun orbit, docked, Eva to collect samples, stored them in the processing center, then reset the samples.
I can now refuel and unload my samples in my station as I make trips to the surface and back. After I get a bunch stored up I can undock the processing center, move the crew back to their capsule and send them to minimus, while I send the probed processing center back to Kerbin for ungodly science collection.
Tl:dr
Store experiments in station orbiting, while refueling for multiple landings. Helps you get more landings and docking in short time. Make sure to use quicksave.
| KerbalSpaceProgram | t5_2smr1 | centjbi | You don't necessarily need a mainsail, I used the skipper and made a heavy lifter that allows me to go to the moon, minimus, even an attempt to land at Eve (but I crashed on surface due to parachute issues). Once you make that lower part of the lifter, save it, then work on building a landing craft capable of return to Kerbin, then build a station in orbit of the moon and/or minimus.
The station I build included a small probe and an empty science processing center sent up in my heavy lifter, set in orbit around the mun with fuel to spare. Then I sent up the 3 crew capsule (only 2 crew inside) and put it into orbit around the mun, I docked the two and transferred excess fuel into the first tank, undocked the empty tank.
Finally I sent my lander up with Jeb in it, landed it on the mun, took all my samples, went into mun orbit, docked, Eva to collect samples, stored them in the processing center, then reset the samples.
I can now refuel and unload my samples in my station as I make trips to the surface and back. After I get a bunch stored up I can undock the processing center, move the crew back to their capsule and send them to minimus, while I send the probed processing center back to Kerbin for ungodly science collection. | Store experiments in station orbiting, while refueling for multiple landings. Helps you get more landings and docking in short time. Make sure to use quicksave. |
IS44 | I will follow the trend by pointing you in the direction of the FAQ, but I'll try to elaborate. This is going to be long, mind you, so be warned.
Here's the thing about citing history: *I am not my grandparents.* These commenters are not their great-great uncles, or their ancestors of the 1800's, or cousins of the 16th century. Setting an historical precedent on activism of the present accomplishes absolutely nothing. History is very important, yes, but we aren't in the 1950's anymore.
Women have made amazing gains, and now enjoy a degree of equality with men that goes above and beyond their former struggle for rights in that history I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of people do still take the past as a reason to push forward, and that means women have gained not just equality - but *power*.
This is where the injustices start. It's not about, "Well, men are used to having power, so they're adjusting to having it taken away from them." Contrary, men face discrimination in terms of marital status, health, politics, custody cases and even day-to-day activities like crossing the damn street, or ordering a meal.
One of the worst injustices falls under the so-called "anti-rape culture" brigade's movements. I'm seeing shit every day in forums, news and blurbs, where feminists and sometimes non-affiliated women parade articles and "facts" about, calling men 'inherently prone to rape'. There's one article out there (written by a nut, but no less advocated) that goes to suggest that all males, when having sex, "oppress" women with their penis.
Our world calls male genital mutilation "circumcision", but female genital mutilation "deplorable and horrid". We have women's studies widely in nearly every Western university, but a single male studies course comes up, and it's "anti-feminist" and "extreme".
Men make up around **70% of the homeless population**. Black men make up the majority of the prison population. Men are about 15% likely to win in custody cases for children, apparently regardless of whether the mother is a complete lunatic, because "maternal needs come first". Men must sign up for the Draft, but not women. An accusation *alone* of sexual assault or rape against a man is now enough justification for police to arrest and charge someone.
And the cherry on top: **"Men can't be raped."**
That's why the Men's Rights Movement exists. Now, some might say, "But! But! Feminism represents men in lots of these cases!" It simply is not true. Today's feminism has become more and more isolated from the very idea of associating with the issues men face, and feminism is also responsible for many of these problems.
I sit here and I advocate and I encourage, not because I believe men need more rights, but because men need *equal* rights, and in order to gain equality, sometimes one must focus on the issues of one gender over the other. In this case, in the present, it is now men who face the discrimination.
**TL;DR - Seriously, read the FAQ.**
Edits for to has spammar and gelling errors. Also format. | I will follow the trend by pointing you in the direction of the FAQ, but I'll try to elaborate. This is going to be long, mind you, so be warned.
Here's the thing about citing history: I am not my grandparents. These commenters are not their great-great uncles, or their ancestors of the 1800's, or cousins of the 16th century. Setting an historical precedent on activism of the present accomplishes absolutely nothing. History is very important, yes, but we aren't in the 1950's anymore.
Women have made amazing gains, and now enjoy a degree of equality with men that goes above and beyond their former struggle for rights in that history I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of people do still take the past as a reason to push forward, and that means women have gained not just equality - but power .
This is where the injustices start. It's not about, "Well, men are used to having power, so they're adjusting to having it taken away from them." Contrary, men face discrimination in terms of marital status, health, politics, custody cases and even day-to-day activities like crossing the damn street, or ordering a meal.
One of the worst injustices falls under the so-called "anti-rape culture" brigade's movements. I'm seeing shit every day in forums, news and blurbs, where feminists and sometimes non-affiliated women parade articles and "facts" about, calling men 'inherently prone to rape'. There's one article out there (written by a nut, but no less advocated) that goes to suggest that all males, when having sex, "oppress" women with their penis.
Our world calls male genital mutilation "circumcision", but female genital mutilation "deplorable and horrid". We have women's studies widely in nearly every Western university, but a single male studies course comes up, and it's "anti-feminist" and "extreme".
Men make up around 70% of the homeless population . Black men make up the majority of the prison population. Men are about 15% likely to win in custody cases for children, apparently regardless of whether the mother is a complete lunatic, because "maternal needs come first". Men must sign up for the Draft, but not women. An accusation alone of sexual assault or rape against a man is now enough justification for police to arrest and charge someone.
And the cherry on top: "Men can't be raped."
That's why the Men's Rights Movement exists. Now, some might say, "But! But! Feminism represents men in lots of these cases!" It simply is not true. Today's feminism has become more and more isolated from the very idea of associating with the issues men face, and feminism is also responsible for many of these problems.
I sit here and I advocate and I encourage, not because I believe men need more rights, but because men need equal rights, and in order to gain equality, sometimes one must focus on the issues of one gender over the other. In this case, in the present, it is now men who face the discrimination.
TL;DR - Seriously, read the FAQ.
Edits for to has spammar and gelling errors. Also format.
| MensRights | t5_2qhk3 | ceny9tt | I will follow the trend by pointing you in the direction of the FAQ, but I'll try to elaborate. This is going to be long, mind you, so be warned.
Here's the thing about citing history: I am not my grandparents. These commenters are not their great-great uncles, or their ancestors of the 1800's, or cousins of the 16th century. Setting an historical precedent on activism of the present accomplishes absolutely nothing. History is very important, yes, but we aren't in the 1950's anymore.
Women have made amazing gains, and now enjoy a degree of equality with men that goes above and beyond their former struggle for rights in that history I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of people do still take the past as a reason to push forward, and that means women have gained not just equality - but power .
This is where the injustices start. It's not about, "Well, men are used to having power, so they're adjusting to having it taken away from them." Contrary, men face discrimination in terms of marital status, health, politics, custody cases and even day-to-day activities like crossing the damn street, or ordering a meal.
One of the worst injustices falls under the so-called "anti-rape culture" brigade's movements. I'm seeing shit every day in forums, news and blurbs, where feminists and sometimes non-affiliated women parade articles and "facts" about, calling men 'inherently prone to rape'. There's one article out there (written by a nut, but no less advocated) that goes to suggest that all males, when having sex, "oppress" women with their penis.
Our world calls male genital mutilation "circumcision", but female genital mutilation "deplorable and horrid". We have women's studies widely in nearly every Western university, but a single male studies course comes up, and it's "anti-feminist" and "extreme".
Men make up around 70% of the homeless population . Black men make up the majority of the prison population. Men are about 15% likely to win in custody cases for children, apparently regardless of whether the mother is a complete lunatic, because "maternal needs come first". Men must sign up for the Draft, but not women. An accusation alone of sexual assault or rape against a man is now enough justification for police to arrest and charge someone.
And the cherry on top: "Men can't be raped."
That's why the Men's Rights Movement exists. Now, some might say, "But! But! Feminism represents men in lots of these cases!" It simply is not true. Today's feminism has become more and more isolated from the very idea of associating with the issues men face, and feminism is also responsible for many of these problems.
I sit here and I advocate and I encourage, not because I believe men need more rights, but because men need equal rights, and in order to gain equality, sometimes one must focus on the issues of one gender over the other. In this case, in the present, it is now men who face the discrimination. | Seriously, read the FAQ.
Edits for to has spammar and gelling errors. Also format. |
classycactus | If you can go to anybody on the street and talk to them anything, then you will go far.
If you have a strong testimony, learning the material and the things to teach will come! But one thing that is the hardest to do is to learn to talk to anyone.
Not to down play the importance of gospel study, but that will come, and if you are doing it great! But learn to talk to people. Doesn't need to be gospel related. Just learning to talk. You don't need to be weird, but get comfy talking to people you might have not spoken to before, and have a conversation.
Someone in the ward gives a good talk, go tell them. You see a neighbor that you never have spoken to outside working on a car, go over and see if you can help (Even if you can't). Once you put that plaque on (badge) you don't automatically become a confident person with out social fears. Learn to overcome them now, about easy things, then when you have to talk to people about religion, it will be easier.
TL;DR- Learn to talk to everyone you come in contact. | If you can go to anybody on the street and talk to them anything, then you will go far.
If you have a strong testimony, learning the material and the things to teach will come! But one thing that is the hardest to do is to learn to talk to anyone.
Not to down play the importance of gospel study, but that will come, and if you are doing it great! But learn to talk to people. Doesn't need to be gospel related. Just learning to talk. You don't need to be weird, but get comfy talking to people you might have not spoken to before, and have a conversation.
Someone in the ward gives a good talk, go tell them. You see a neighbor that you never have spoken to outside working on a car, go over and see if you can help (Even if you can't). Once you put that plaque on (badge) you don't automatically become a confident person with out social fears. Learn to overcome them now, about easy things, then when you have to talk to people about religion, it will be easier.
TL;DR- Learn to talk to everyone you come in contact.
| latterdaysaints | t5_2uas2 | cenybnj | If you can go to anybody on the street and talk to them anything, then you will go far.
If you have a strong testimony, learning the material and the things to teach will come! But one thing that is the hardest to do is to learn to talk to anyone.
Not to down play the importance of gospel study, but that will come, and if you are doing it great! But learn to talk to people. Doesn't need to be gospel related. Just learning to talk. You don't need to be weird, but get comfy talking to people you might have not spoken to before, and have a conversation.
Someone in the ward gives a good talk, go tell them. You see a neighbor that you never have spoken to outside working on a car, go over and see if you can help (Even if you can't). Once you put that plaque on (badge) you don't automatically become a confident person with out social fears. Learn to overcome them now, about easy things, then when you have to talk to people about religion, it will be easier. | Learn to talk to everyone you come in contact. |
Castleloch | Like every other "argument" one way or another and assessment of it's value on X map, it's only taken from the point of view of conquest.
I'm not discounting your opinion on a per map basis in terms of conquest but the value of the feature extends beyond one mode. In Rush it's obviously automatic . In Domination it's mostly tailored to secondary events like the pipes on Locker .
In Obliteration it can massively change the dynamic of how the bomb is moved through the zone, especially on something like flood zone As it forces roof top movement almost exclusively since the waters concealing properties are negated by the bombs server-wide location. For Shanghai dropping the tower on obli is an extremely difficult decision that requires many considerations. As it is a solid jump off point for the carrier it benefits both teams, or only the one that decides to dedicate assets to controlling it. If you have vehicle dominance for whatever reason then it's better to drop it as it cuts off an easy route for opposition and you aren't depending on it yourselves.
On Rogue transmission if you are based near the dish ( I forget which team this is) crashing the dish is extremely useful since the bomb spawn in the centre allows atvs to quickly and easily jump straight into a B/A plant from the dish.
I could go on about the other maps but basically anything that alters vehicle movement in some way, or increases infantry movement , this includes the tower in locker, is a big part of Obliteration as Vehicles are pretty critical not for holding the map but for bomb delivery and almost every levelution option can help or hinder depending on how your team is approaching the match and how your opponents are approaching it.
It's safe the assume that in CTF will share the same characteristics of Obli as the have a similar dynamic.
tldr; just because it doesn't work well or is negligible in one game mode, doesn't mean it's not valuable in another. | Like every other "argument" one way or another and assessment of it's value on X map, it's only taken from the point of view of conquest.
I'm not discounting your opinion on a per map basis in terms of conquest but the value of the feature extends beyond one mode. In Rush it's obviously automatic . In Domination it's mostly tailored to secondary events like the pipes on Locker .
In Obliteration it can massively change the dynamic of how the bomb is moved through the zone, especially on something like flood zone As it forces roof top movement almost exclusively since the waters concealing properties are negated by the bombs server-wide location. For Shanghai dropping the tower on obli is an extremely difficult decision that requires many considerations. As it is a solid jump off point for the carrier it benefits both teams, or only the one that decides to dedicate assets to controlling it. If you have vehicle dominance for whatever reason then it's better to drop it as it cuts off an easy route for opposition and you aren't depending on it yourselves.
On Rogue transmission if you are based near the dish ( I forget which team this is) crashing the dish is extremely useful since the bomb spawn in the centre allows atvs to quickly and easily jump straight into a B/A plant from the dish.
I could go on about the other maps but basically anything that alters vehicle movement in some way, or increases infantry movement , this includes the tower in locker, is a big part of Obliteration as Vehicles are pretty critical not for holding the map but for bomb delivery and almost every levelution option can help or hinder depending on how your team is approaching the match and how your opponents are approaching it.
It's safe the assume that in CTF will share the same characteristics of Obli as the have a similar dynamic.
tldr; just because it doesn't work well or is negligible in one game mode, doesn't mean it's not valuable in another.
| battlefield_4 | t5_2uie9 | ceo0i6y | Like every other "argument" one way or another and assessment of it's value on X map, it's only taken from the point of view of conquest.
I'm not discounting your opinion on a per map basis in terms of conquest but the value of the feature extends beyond one mode. In Rush it's obviously automatic . In Domination it's mostly tailored to secondary events like the pipes on Locker .
In Obliteration it can massively change the dynamic of how the bomb is moved through the zone, especially on something like flood zone As it forces roof top movement almost exclusively since the waters concealing properties are negated by the bombs server-wide location. For Shanghai dropping the tower on obli is an extremely difficult decision that requires many considerations. As it is a solid jump off point for the carrier it benefits both teams, or only the one that decides to dedicate assets to controlling it. If you have vehicle dominance for whatever reason then it's better to drop it as it cuts off an easy route for opposition and you aren't depending on it yourselves.
On Rogue transmission if you are based near the dish ( I forget which team this is) crashing the dish is extremely useful since the bomb spawn in the centre allows atvs to quickly and easily jump straight into a B/A plant from the dish.
I could go on about the other maps but basically anything that alters vehicle movement in some way, or increases infantry movement , this includes the tower in locker, is a big part of Obliteration as Vehicles are pretty critical not for holding the map but for bomb delivery and almost every levelution option can help or hinder depending on how your team is approaching the match and how your opponents are approaching it.
It's safe the assume that in CTF will share the same characteristics of Obli as the have a similar dynamic. | just because it doesn't work well or is negligible in one game mode, doesn't mean it's not valuable in another. |
NotaManMohanSingh | >I always get shouted at to gank in lvl 4-6 no matter who I´m midding with, good to know theres a difference.
Though being a succesful mid player ALSO requires you to have very good map awarness. Irrespective of who you are playing mid, wards are a MUST (I usually just grab a set while I head to lane, as the 150 in gold pays off very quickly). Keep an eye open on all lanes at all times.
If one of your lanes has a nuke heavy line up, there is a strong chance that EVEN by level 3 or 4, the enemy lane MIGHT be pushed and with two low hp heroes a little out of position. A good haste or DD gank can really turn things around.
A lot of people who play say...an OD mid have this concept of, "I am OD, I need farm, I do not gank till level 12". It is wrong, there is no hard and set rule AGAINST ganking.
One thing though, gank ONLY if you are certain of at least one kill, as otherwise that is time spent away from the lane without any benefit.
To give you an example, was a mid solo NS against a Puj last night. Had rune wards (as well as giving me vision on potential puj hook spots). Got a DD rune level 4 (not yet night), went bot as the enemy had a low HP Tuskar and a medium HP Rylai while my team had a Venge (with mana for one stun) and a Tiny.
First blood AND double kill.
The next game, same NS mid solo, went top for a gank - botched it up, lost the kill, got away with barely 100 hp (so had to go back to fountain to regen), by this time the enemy QoP had 2/2.5 levels on me, and promptly killed me. Kind of recovered, but botched up another bot gank (their Shadow Shaman got away with some 50 hp), fell behind one more level.
Only reason we won the game was a carry AM and a semi support / carry alche who carried the game for us.
tl;dr : No rules AGAINST ganking early BUT be very careful. A good gank gives you a decent advantage, but a botched early gank can really set you back. | >I always get shouted at to gank in lvl 4-6 no matter who I´m midding with, good to know theres a difference.
Though being a succesful mid player ALSO requires you to have very good map awarness. Irrespective of who you are playing mid, wards are a MUST (I usually just grab a set while I head to lane, as the 150 in gold pays off very quickly). Keep an eye open on all lanes at all times.
If one of your lanes has a nuke heavy line up, there is a strong chance that EVEN by level 3 or 4, the enemy lane MIGHT be pushed and with two low hp heroes a little out of position. A good haste or DD gank can really turn things around.
A lot of people who play say...an OD mid have this concept of, "I am OD, I need farm, I do not gank till level 12". It is wrong, there is no hard and set rule AGAINST ganking.
One thing though, gank ONLY if you are certain of at least one kill, as otherwise that is time spent away from the lane without any benefit.
To give you an example, was a mid solo NS against a Puj last night. Had rune wards (as well as giving me vision on potential puj hook spots). Got a DD rune level 4 (not yet night), went bot as the enemy had a low HP Tuskar and a medium HP Rylai while my team had a Venge (with mana for one stun) and a Tiny.
First blood AND double kill.
The next game, same NS mid solo, went top for a gank - botched it up, lost the kill, got away with barely 100 hp (so had to go back to fountain to regen), by this time the enemy QoP had 2/2.5 levels on me, and promptly killed me. Kind of recovered, but botched up another bot gank (their Shadow Shaman got away with some 50 hp), fell behind one more level.
Only reason we won the game was a carry AM and a semi support / carry alche who carried the game for us.
tl;dr : No rules AGAINST ganking early BUT be very careful. A good gank gives you a decent advantage, but a botched early gank can really set you back.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | ceoebdp | I always get shouted at to gank in lvl 4-6 no matter who I´m midding with, good to know theres a difference.
Though being a succesful mid player ALSO requires you to have very good map awarness. Irrespective of who you are playing mid, wards are a MUST (I usually just grab a set while I head to lane, as the 150 in gold pays off very quickly). Keep an eye open on all lanes at all times.
If one of your lanes has a nuke heavy line up, there is a strong chance that EVEN by level 3 or 4, the enemy lane MIGHT be pushed and with two low hp heroes a little out of position. A good haste or DD gank can really turn things around.
A lot of people who play say...an OD mid have this concept of, "I am OD, I need farm, I do not gank till level 12". It is wrong, there is no hard and set rule AGAINST ganking.
One thing though, gank ONLY if you are certain of at least one kill, as otherwise that is time spent away from the lane without any benefit.
To give you an example, was a mid solo NS against a Puj last night. Had rune wards (as well as giving me vision on potential puj hook spots). Got a DD rune level 4 (not yet night), went bot as the enemy had a low HP Tuskar and a medium HP Rylai while my team had a Venge (with mana for one stun) and a Tiny.
First blood AND double kill.
The next game, same NS mid solo, went top for a gank - botched it up, lost the kill, got away with barely 100 hp (so had to go back to fountain to regen), by this time the enemy QoP had 2/2.5 levels on me, and promptly killed me. Kind of recovered, but botched up another bot gank (their Shadow Shaman got away with some 50 hp), fell behind one more level.
Only reason we won the game was a carry AM and a semi support / carry alche who carried the game for us. | No rules AGAINST ganking early BUT be very careful. A good gank gives you a decent advantage, but a botched early gank can really set you back. |
iamnotinvisible | I see it as being the more viable of the cryptocurrencies *because* it's a joke. See, it starts out as a joke, and is stupid cheap so it becomes widespread. then, because it's perceived as funny and relatively worthless, people use it, building a micro economy on Reddit. Over time, I feel that this is actually going to balloon into it overtaking the other currencies at their own game because dogecoin is doing what the others struggle to do: become wide-spread and used. (Phrasing!)
Give it some time, I bet dogecoin gets more and more serious as a currency. The irony in this is amusing.
EDIT: Thanks for the coins guys (and gals?)
Let me explain a bit what I meant because some replies were rather adamant that I am an idiot.
Every movement starts with a first step. The problem that appears with crypto-currencies now is that they are not widely accepted and not widely used. It's difficult to use something that is not widely accepted, and also difficult for someone to accept something that isn't widely used.
If you allowed a currency to become widespread and *then* began to accept it, you would have a much larger user-base to start with, giving a 'boost' to the credibility.
The issue that I see with other coins, most notably bitcoin is that many people are just holding onto them instead of spending them, whereas with the 'joke' coins, they get traded and used far more often, which is essential for a currency.
TL;DR: Bitcoins are taking a long time to become wide-spread enough to be accepted, especially since people hold them like investments. Dogecoin on the other-hand is already being traded a lot and is wide-spread (at least on reddit). If companies suddenly started to accept dogecoin, you'd already have a ton of people to jump start their actual economic use. It really does help that they are very easy to acquire. | I see it as being the more viable of the cryptocurrencies because it's a joke. See, it starts out as a joke, and is stupid cheap so it becomes widespread. then, because it's perceived as funny and relatively worthless, people use it, building a micro economy on Reddit. Over time, I feel that this is actually going to balloon into it overtaking the other currencies at their own game because dogecoin is doing what the others struggle to do: become wide-spread and used. (Phrasing!)
Give it some time, I bet dogecoin gets more and more serious as a currency. The irony in this is amusing.
EDIT: Thanks for the coins guys (and gals?)
Let me explain a bit what I meant because some replies were rather adamant that I am an idiot.
Every movement starts with a first step. The problem that appears with crypto-currencies now is that they are not widely accepted and not widely used. It's difficult to use something that is not widely accepted, and also difficult for someone to accept something that isn't widely used.
If you allowed a currency to become widespread and then began to accept it, you would have a much larger user-base to start with, giving a 'boost' to the credibility.
The issue that I see with other coins, most notably bitcoin is that many people are just holding onto them instead of spending them, whereas with the 'joke' coins, they get traded and used far more often, which is essential for a currency.
TL;DR: Bitcoins are taking a long time to become wide-spread enough to be accepted, especially since people hold them like investments. Dogecoin on the other-hand is already being traded a lot and is wide-spread (at least on reddit). If companies suddenly started to accept dogecoin, you'd already have a ton of people to jump start their actual economic use. It really does help that they are very easy to acquire.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | cep8ij6 | I see it as being the more viable of the cryptocurrencies because it's a joke. See, it starts out as a joke, and is stupid cheap so it becomes widespread. then, because it's perceived as funny and relatively worthless, people use it, building a micro economy on Reddit. Over time, I feel that this is actually going to balloon into it overtaking the other currencies at their own game because dogecoin is doing what the others struggle to do: become wide-spread and used. (Phrasing!)
Give it some time, I bet dogecoin gets more and more serious as a currency. The irony in this is amusing.
EDIT: Thanks for the coins guys (and gals?)
Let me explain a bit what I meant because some replies were rather adamant that I am an idiot.
Every movement starts with a first step. The problem that appears with crypto-currencies now is that they are not widely accepted and not widely used. It's difficult to use something that is not widely accepted, and also difficult for someone to accept something that isn't widely used.
If you allowed a currency to become widespread and then began to accept it, you would have a much larger user-base to start with, giving a 'boost' to the credibility.
The issue that I see with other coins, most notably bitcoin is that many people are just holding onto them instead of spending them, whereas with the 'joke' coins, they get traded and used far more often, which is essential for a currency. | Bitcoins are taking a long time to become wide-spread enough to be accepted, especially since people hold them like investments. Dogecoin on the other-hand is already being traded a lot and is wide-spread (at least on reddit). If companies suddenly started to accept dogecoin, you'd already have a ton of people to jump start their actual economic use. It really does help that they are very easy to acquire. |
burnshimself | They all basically do the same thing, that is provide an online digital currency unattached to any government or monetary policy. The reason we have different currencies in different countries is because those countries have set up borders and defined laws within those borders, including giving the government monopoly over the issuance of currency. Thus domestic economic activity, as well as foreign demand for investment, represents the demand for that local currency. You wouldn't use dollars in the eurozone for this reason, or pounds in China. With digital currency, there are no boundaries between one and another. There is no domestic market to tie the currency to and generate constant demand for the currency.
Frankly digital currencies aren't like real currencies because they have no government, domestic economy, or monetary policy attached to them. They are much more like commodities, as the acorn example describes. Their value is based off of what people think the digital currencies are worth, plain and simple. There is no underlying value and demand has no barriers to flight (people can switch digital currencies anytime without limit. You can't just choose to go from using dollars to using euros if you live in the US as stores don't take Euros). A perfect example of why there will be only one is gold. There are loads of other precious metals/gems (silver, platinum, copper, diamonds, etc.) which could serve as a value holding inflationary hedge. Heck, some (platinum) are even more valuable than gold intrinsically (it is rarer and costs more to mine). But Gold won the contest to be that investment vehicle, which is why Gold is the only precious metal traded heavily as an investment vehicle. It is hard to find a really perfect example, but gold as the only precious metal investment device is a pretty close one. The only problem is that Gold became used for this purpose over a number of years and due to its connection to currencies, so its not an ideal analogy here.
TL;DR: There are no barriers to exit in the market, very little brand loyalty, and no intrinsic demand driving digital currencies. Without being attached to a domestic economy with a constant demand for the currency, digital currencies are more like commodities with no intrinsic value, leaving their price up to the speculation of the market and their value pegged to whatever people happen to think they're worth. This predicts that the currency may disappear, or at the very least with very little boundaries to jumping between currencies, only the best one will survive. | They all basically do the same thing, that is provide an online digital currency unattached to any government or monetary policy. The reason we have different currencies in different countries is because those countries have set up borders and defined laws within those borders, including giving the government monopoly over the issuance of currency. Thus domestic economic activity, as well as foreign demand for investment, represents the demand for that local currency. You wouldn't use dollars in the eurozone for this reason, or pounds in China. With digital currency, there are no boundaries between one and another. There is no domestic market to tie the currency to and generate constant demand for the currency.
Frankly digital currencies aren't like real currencies because they have no government, domestic economy, or monetary policy attached to them. They are much more like commodities, as the acorn example describes. Their value is based off of what people think the digital currencies are worth, plain and simple. There is no underlying value and demand has no barriers to flight (people can switch digital currencies anytime without limit. You can't just choose to go from using dollars to using euros if you live in the US as stores don't take Euros). A perfect example of why there will be only one is gold. There are loads of other precious metals/gems (silver, platinum, copper, diamonds, etc.) which could serve as a value holding inflationary hedge. Heck, some (platinum) are even more valuable than gold intrinsically (it is rarer and costs more to mine). But Gold won the contest to be that investment vehicle, which is why Gold is the only precious metal traded heavily as an investment vehicle. It is hard to find a really perfect example, but gold as the only precious metal investment device is a pretty close one. The only problem is that Gold became used for this purpose over a number of years and due to its connection to currencies, so its not an ideal analogy here.
TL;DR: There are no barriers to exit in the market, very little brand loyalty, and no intrinsic demand driving digital currencies. Without being attached to a domestic economy with a constant demand for the currency, digital currencies are more like commodities with no intrinsic value, leaving their price up to the speculation of the market and their value pegged to whatever people happen to think they're worth. This predicts that the currency may disappear, or at the very least with very little boundaries to jumping between currencies, only the best one will survive.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | cep9pb3 | They all basically do the same thing, that is provide an online digital currency unattached to any government or monetary policy. The reason we have different currencies in different countries is because those countries have set up borders and defined laws within those borders, including giving the government monopoly over the issuance of currency. Thus domestic economic activity, as well as foreign demand for investment, represents the demand for that local currency. You wouldn't use dollars in the eurozone for this reason, or pounds in China. With digital currency, there are no boundaries between one and another. There is no domestic market to tie the currency to and generate constant demand for the currency.
Frankly digital currencies aren't like real currencies because they have no government, domestic economy, or monetary policy attached to them. They are much more like commodities, as the acorn example describes. Their value is based off of what people think the digital currencies are worth, plain and simple. There is no underlying value and demand has no barriers to flight (people can switch digital currencies anytime without limit. You can't just choose to go from using dollars to using euros if you live in the US as stores don't take Euros). A perfect example of why there will be only one is gold. There are loads of other precious metals/gems (silver, platinum, copper, diamonds, etc.) which could serve as a value holding inflationary hedge. Heck, some (platinum) are even more valuable than gold intrinsically (it is rarer and costs more to mine). But Gold won the contest to be that investment vehicle, which is why Gold is the only precious metal traded heavily as an investment vehicle. It is hard to find a really perfect example, but gold as the only precious metal investment device is a pretty close one. The only problem is that Gold became used for this purpose over a number of years and due to its connection to currencies, so its not an ideal analogy here. | There are no barriers to exit in the market, very little brand loyalty, and no intrinsic demand driving digital currencies. Without being attached to a domestic economy with a constant demand for the currency, digital currencies are more like commodities with no intrinsic value, leaving their price up to the speculation of the market and their value pegged to whatever people happen to think they're worth. This predicts that the currency may disappear, or at the very least with very little boundaries to jumping between currencies, only the best one will survive. |
Gold-Summary | I think this is the dumbest idea. Bit coin will deflate like crazy if there can be dogecoins or whatever brand. Pick a fucking currency and be done.
tldrz:You were golded because someone wants bitcoin to fail, not dogecoin to succeed. | I think this is the dumbest idea. Bit coin will deflate like crazy if there can be dogecoins or whatever brand. Pick a fucking currency and be done.
tldrz:You were golded because someone wants bitcoin to fail, not dogecoin to succeed.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | cepc2zq | I think this is the dumbest idea. Bit coin will deflate like crazy if there can be dogecoins or whatever brand. Pick a fucking currency and be done. | z:You were golded because someone wants bitcoin to fail, not dogecoin to succeed. |
soapjackal |
Maybe he got all his knowledge of the movement from a cursory read of this article he links and didnt bother perusing the sources in the article. Maybe. Maybe not. Keep in mind the 'crypto-scientist' Mencius Moldbug is just a programmer who spent some time gather historical references and obliterating progressivism and democracies assumed benefits and 'goodness' he isn't a leader as much as a catalyst for thought.
This is an interesting article to call 'neo-reactionary'. It's an interesting concept and I recommend you give the piece and the concept 'the first citizen' a read. That said it's still asking to be functional in democarcy and it doesn't discuss any old-right or any other neo-reactionary comment. It does spend some time discussing how the president is a symbolic king, but so do libertarians.
>Why the public would accept a figurehead chosen by a slew of elected officials and appointed judges, Auslin does not say. In his view – which is perfectly typical for an armchair intellectual living in the Potomac bubble – all the people need is a shining star to follow. Behind the scenes, the government will toil away at advancing the nation. So true monarchy, this is not.
It's an ironic insult, but I'm glad miller saw what the article was about. He still thinks its neo-reactionary
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Interesting take. Less strawmanning but sorta forgets what th left/right spectrum actually means. Secessionism shout out.
>That kind of apprehension to power is what makes for an autonomous attitude. Societies composed of individuals suspicious of authority, whether it’s just or not, tend to be more vibrant and thoughtful. Now, suspicion shouldn’t equate to rabid survivalism, but often times it does. Lewis accounts for this mindset by calling it the “atomization and feeling of alienation that is plaguing our nation.” The tacit claim is that anyone who doesn’t firmly bow down to the state are anti-social curmudgeons.
While I do make comments that libertarianism lets social discussion sort of wither and die I don't think libertarians are anti-social hermits. The thing is that neo-reactionaries are post-libertarian and take intellectual strolls into minarchism and seriously consider what beneficial system could arise from that. I imagine many are fan of nozicks ultra minimal state (which is virtually indistinguishable from Ancaps if you give the concept a read)
I don't like how the whole arguement of this piece is predicated on: suspicious citizens make the most intelligent systems so monarchy will never work. The neo-reactionaries desire a system which is tested and shown to be better or worse. They need the suspicious and the intelligent. It's the suspicious and the intelligent which are questioning the current climate.
>The idea of the crown’s return immediately turns most people off. These are individuals who like to think of themselves as independent and self-reliant. They eschew the notion of lordship, but will stand at attention like Pavlov’s dog if some brute barks loudly enough at them. That reaction may appear cowardly, but it’s not unnatural. Some individuals are simply more adept at being leaders than others. Life is full of inequities, some justified and others not. The inherent inequality in social demeanors should not be looked at as nature’s cruel joke. It’s a reality that needs acceptance. As Russell Kirk wrote, “[F]or the preservation of a healthy diversity in any civilization, there must survive orders and classes, differences in material condition, and many sorts of inequality.”
Certainy good work on mr.miller has devils advocate. Gets a little out of hand near the end, but good work.
>This kind of freedom constitutes what historian David Hackett Fischer called “hegemonic liberty.” That term might seem paradoxical at first, but it’s not wholly incongruous with true human flourishing...Striving to bring everyone down around you is no way to live contently. Finding peace in order is something cultural Marxists will never achieve. It’s a temperance thing.
Just started reading the anti-capitalist mind by mises and this is fits right in with it.
>The Auslinite neo-reactionary movement is a funny thing, really. I don’t know if those begging for an objective leader imagine themselves fulfilling the role. If so, the demand comes off as a narcissistic plea for their own aggrandizement. If they are willfully searching for the Remnant to lead them, as well as everyone else, to the Promise Land, that also comes off as pitiful begging. Whatever happened to doing that yourself which others can’t fulfill to your liking?
So if you find that having a king is the most effective and least damaging style of governance you are narcissistic for wanting to lead and a piece of human garbage for wanting to be lead? I think this Judgement has to do with the infestation of progressivism into every ideology that the west has to offer. Specifically the atomization of the individual. Humans have almost always existed within tribal and community frameworks. No man/woman is an island. Having a leader of your tribe or being a leader of your tribe is not the same as being a narcissist or a begger.
>It’s hard to make out what the goal is for advocates of monarchy. If what the neo-reactionaries are seeking is to be part of something bigger than themselves, there is always religion. Looking for meaning in the political is like looking for meaning in a trinket at the bottom of a cereal box. You know what’s coming, and it’s always disappointing. As Noah Millman writes in The American Conservative, the agenda of monarchists is likely driven by a fear “that the American people have failed and needs to be properly directed by the right people” combined also with the idea “that existing privilege cannot be maintained without explicit resort to violence as a political principle.” If that’s true, then the neo-reactionary movement is more misguided than originally thought.
There's always religion? That's the silliest arguement. They seek a governance that rewards virtue. Our current system is inherently corrupt. They aren't looking for divine inspiration in politics, they are looking for effective virtuous ruling systems (or whatever form of governance/non governance) to live in. That seems to be a reasonable and rationale goal.
Close but no cigar.
I commend this guy for not just taking neo reaction at the idea of 'geeks for monarchy' but neo-reactionary sects are determined by three main 'negative' traits
Anti-enlightenment values
Anti-democarcy
Anti-progressivism
Neoreactionaries discuss the idea of the tyrant and the monarch in ways that aren't emotionally tied to some puritanical meme that causes immediate rejection. All they are trying to do is use the perspective of the old-right to see through the lies and memes of today and craft a better world. The techno-commercialist sect of neo-reaction is in of itself a good arguement than anarcho-capitalists are neo-reactionaries of a sense,
>Human leaders will exist in this world, as long as the natural inequality in ability isn’t wiped away through violent egalitarianism. But giving over political power to someone deemed too virtuous to corrupt is just asking for trouble. Enough is known about human nature to understand the warping effect of authority. The throne might make for a more stable society relative to democracy, but it won’t guarantee prosperity.
Nothing will guarantee prosperity. I don't think neo-reactionaries think that any leader is incorruptible. There is see carlylean-esque here worship, but they just seek a system that minimizes the corruption and espouses the virtuous. There is a distinction.
TL;DR
Miller makes a good attempt at considering the neoreactionary movement but boils certain ideas down to things they aren't (hieridatary monarchy is one example, ignores other major tenets, thinks there is an auslinite neoreactionary camp and that all neoreaction is related and ends up relying heavily on the linked (to non-neoreactionary sources) to dictate his understanding of the movement.
Close, but no cigar.
| Maybe he got all his knowledge of the movement from a cursory read of this article he links and didnt bother perusing the sources in the article. Maybe. Maybe not. Keep in mind the 'crypto-scientist' Mencius Moldbug is just a programmer who spent some time gather historical references and obliterating progressivism and democracies assumed benefits and 'goodness' he isn't a leader as much as a catalyst for thought.
This is an interesting article to call 'neo-reactionary'. It's an interesting concept and I recommend you give the piece and the concept 'the first citizen' a read. That said it's still asking to be functional in democarcy and it doesn't discuss any old-right or any other neo-reactionary comment. It does spend some time discussing how the president is a symbolic king, but so do libertarians.
>Why the public would accept a figurehead chosen by a slew of elected officials and appointed judges, Auslin does not say. In his view – which is perfectly typical for an armchair intellectual living in the Potomac bubble – all the people need is a shining star to follow. Behind the scenes, the government will toil away at advancing the nation. So true monarchy, this is not.
It's an ironic insult, but I'm glad miller saw what the article was about. He still thinks its neo-reactionary
>
Interesting take. Less strawmanning but sorta forgets what th left/right spectrum actually means. Secessionism shout out.
>That kind of apprehension to power is what makes for an autonomous attitude. Societies composed of individuals suspicious of authority, whether it’s just or not, tend to be more vibrant and thoughtful. Now, suspicion shouldn’t equate to rabid survivalism, but often times it does. Lewis accounts for this mindset by calling it the “atomization and feeling of alienation that is plaguing our nation.” The tacit claim is that anyone who doesn’t firmly bow down to the state are anti-social curmudgeons.
While I do make comments that libertarianism lets social discussion sort of wither and die I don't think libertarians are anti-social hermits. The thing is that neo-reactionaries are post-libertarian and take intellectual strolls into minarchism and seriously consider what beneficial system could arise from that. I imagine many are fan of nozicks ultra minimal state (which is virtually indistinguishable from Ancaps if you give the concept a read)
I don't like how the whole arguement of this piece is predicated on: suspicious citizens make the most intelligent systems so monarchy will never work. The neo-reactionaries desire a system which is tested and shown to be better or worse. They need the suspicious and the intelligent. It's the suspicious and the intelligent which are questioning the current climate.
>The idea of the crown’s return immediately turns most people off. These are individuals who like to think of themselves as independent and self-reliant. They eschew the notion of lordship, but will stand at attention like Pavlov’s dog if some brute barks loudly enough at them. That reaction may appear cowardly, but it’s not unnatural. Some individuals are simply more adept at being leaders than others. Life is full of inequities, some justified and others not. The inherent inequality in social demeanors should not be looked at as nature’s cruel joke. It’s a reality that needs acceptance. As Russell Kirk wrote, “[F]or the preservation of a healthy diversity in any civilization, there must survive orders and classes, differences in material condition, and many sorts of inequality.”
Certainy good work on mr.miller has devils advocate. Gets a little out of hand near the end, but good work.
>This kind of freedom constitutes what historian David Hackett Fischer called “hegemonic liberty.” That term might seem paradoxical at first, but it’s not wholly incongruous with true human flourishing...Striving to bring everyone down around you is no way to live contently. Finding peace in order is something cultural Marxists will never achieve. It’s a temperance thing.
Just started reading the anti-capitalist mind by mises and this is fits right in with it.
>The Auslinite neo-reactionary movement is a funny thing, really. I don’t know if those begging for an objective leader imagine themselves fulfilling the role. If so, the demand comes off as a narcissistic plea for their own aggrandizement. If they are willfully searching for the Remnant to lead them, as well as everyone else, to the Promise Land, that also comes off as pitiful begging. Whatever happened to doing that yourself which others can’t fulfill to your liking?
So if you find that having a king is the most effective and least damaging style of governance you are narcissistic for wanting to lead and a piece of human garbage for wanting to be lead? I think this Judgement has to do with the infestation of progressivism into every ideology that the west has to offer. Specifically the atomization of the individual. Humans have almost always existed within tribal and community frameworks. No man/woman is an island. Having a leader of your tribe or being a leader of your tribe is not the same as being a narcissist or a begger.
>It’s hard to make out what the goal is for advocates of monarchy. If what the neo-reactionaries are seeking is to be part of something bigger than themselves, there is always religion. Looking for meaning in the political is like looking for meaning in a trinket at the bottom of a cereal box. You know what’s coming, and it’s always disappointing. As Noah Millman writes in The American Conservative, the agenda of monarchists is likely driven by a fear “that the American people have failed and needs to be properly directed by the right people” combined also with the idea “that existing privilege cannot be maintained without explicit resort to violence as a political principle.” If that’s true, then the neo-reactionary movement is more misguided than originally thought.
There's always religion? That's the silliest arguement. They seek a governance that rewards virtue. Our current system is inherently corrupt. They aren't looking for divine inspiration in politics, they are looking for effective virtuous ruling systems (or whatever form of governance/non governance) to live in. That seems to be a reasonable and rationale goal.
Close but no cigar.
I commend this guy for not just taking neo reaction at the idea of 'geeks for monarchy' but neo-reactionary sects are determined by three main 'negative' traits
Anti-enlightenment values
Anti-democarcy
Anti-progressivism
Neoreactionaries discuss the idea of the tyrant and the monarch in ways that aren't emotionally tied to some puritanical meme that causes immediate rejection. All they are trying to do is use the perspective of the old-right to see through the lies and memes of today and craft a better world. The techno-commercialist sect of neo-reaction is in of itself a good arguement than anarcho-capitalists are neo-reactionaries of a sense,
>Human leaders will exist in this world, as long as the natural inequality in ability isn’t wiped away through violent egalitarianism. But giving over political power to someone deemed too virtuous to corrupt is just asking for trouble. Enough is known about human nature to understand the warping effect of authority. The throne might make for a more stable society relative to democracy, but it won’t guarantee prosperity.
Nothing will guarantee prosperity. I don't think neo-reactionaries think that any leader is incorruptible. There is see carlylean-esque here worship, but they just seek a system that minimizes the corruption and espouses the virtuous. There is a distinction.
TL;DR
Miller makes a good attempt at considering the neoreactionary movement but boils certain ideas down to things they aren't (hieridatary monarchy is one example, ignores other major tenets, thinks there is an auslinite neoreactionary camp and that all neoreaction is related and ends up relying heavily on the linked (to non-neoreactionary sources) to dictate his understanding of the movement.
Close, but no cigar.
| Anarcho_Capitalism | t5_2qorf | cepl6js | Maybe he got all his knowledge of the movement from a cursory read of this article he links and didnt bother perusing the sources in the article. Maybe. Maybe not. Keep in mind the 'crypto-scientist' Mencius Moldbug is just a programmer who spent some time gather historical references and obliterating progressivism and democracies assumed benefits and 'goodness' he isn't a leader as much as a catalyst for thought.
This is an interesting article to call 'neo-reactionary'. It's an interesting concept and I recommend you give the piece and the concept 'the first citizen' a read. That said it's still asking to be functional in democarcy and it doesn't discuss any old-right or any other neo-reactionary comment. It does spend some time discussing how the president is a symbolic king, but so do libertarians.
>Why the public would accept a figurehead chosen by a slew of elected officials and appointed judges, Auslin does not say. In his view – which is perfectly typical for an armchair intellectual living in the Potomac bubble – all the people need is a shining star to follow. Behind the scenes, the government will toil away at advancing the nation. So true monarchy, this is not.
It's an ironic insult, but I'm glad miller saw what the article was about. He still thinks its neo-reactionary
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Interesting take. Less strawmanning but sorta forgets what th left/right spectrum actually means. Secessionism shout out.
>That kind of apprehension to power is what makes for an autonomous attitude. Societies composed of individuals suspicious of authority, whether it’s just or not, tend to be more vibrant and thoughtful. Now, suspicion shouldn’t equate to rabid survivalism, but often times it does. Lewis accounts for this mindset by calling it the “atomization and feeling of alienation that is plaguing our nation.” The tacit claim is that anyone who doesn’t firmly bow down to the state are anti-social curmudgeons.
While I do make comments that libertarianism lets social discussion sort of wither and die I don't think libertarians are anti-social hermits. The thing is that neo-reactionaries are post-libertarian and take intellectual strolls into minarchism and seriously consider what beneficial system could arise from that. I imagine many are fan of nozicks ultra minimal state (which is virtually indistinguishable from Ancaps if you give the concept a read)
I don't like how the whole arguement of this piece is predicated on: suspicious citizens make the most intelligent systems so monarchy will never work. The neo-reactionaries desire a system which is tested and shown to be better or worse. They need the suspicious and the intelligent. It's the suspicious and the intelligent which are questioning the current climate.
>The idea of the crown’s return immediately turns most people off. These are individuals who like to think of themselves as independent and self-reliant. They eschew the notion of lordship, but will stand at attention like Pavlov’s dog if some brute barks loudly enough at them. That reaction may appear cowardly, but it’s not unnatural. Some individuals are simply more adept at being leaders than others. Life is full of inequities, some justified and others not. The inherent inequality in social demeanors should not be looked at as nature’s cruel joke. It’s a reality that needs acceptance. As Russell Kirk wrote, “[F]or the preservation of a healthy diversity in any civilization, there must survive orders and classes, differences in material condition, and many sorts of inequality.”
Certainy good work on mr.miller has devils advocate. Gets a little out of hand near the end, but good work.
>This kind of freedom constitutes what historian David Hackett Fischer called “hegemonic liberty.” That term might seem paradoxical at first, but it’s not wholly incongruous with true human flourishing...Striving to bring everyone down around you is no way to live contently. Finding peace in order is something cultural Marxists will never achieve. It’s a temperance thing.
Just started reading the anti-capitalist mind by mises and this is fits right in with it.
>The Auslinite neo-reactionary movement is a funny thing, really. I don’t know if those begging for an objective leader imagine themselves fulfilling the role. If so, the demand comes off as a narcissistic plea for their own aggrandizement. If they are willfully searching for the Remnant to lead them, as well as everyone else, to the Promise Land, that also comes off as pitiful begging. Whatever happened to doing that yourself which others can’t fulfill to your liking?
So if you find that having a king is the most effective and least damaging style of governance you are narcissistic for wanting to lead and a piece of human garbage for wanting to be lead? I think this Judgement has to do with the infestation of progressivism into every ideology that the west has to offer. Specifically the atomization of the individual. Humans have almost always existed within tribal and community frameworks. No man/woman is an island. Having a leader of your tribe or being a leader of your tribe is not the same as being a narcissist or a begger.
>It’s hard to make out what the goal is for advocates of monarchy. If what the neo-reactionaries are seeking is to be part of something bigger than themselves, there is always religion. Looking for meaning in the political is like looking for meaning in a trinket at the bottom of a cereal box. You know what’s coming, and it’s always disappointing. As Noah Millman writes in The American Conservative, the agenda of monarchists is likely driven by a fear “that the American people have failed and needs to be properly directed by the right people” combined also with the idea “that existing privilege cannot be maintained without explicit resort to violence as a political principle.” If that’s true, then the neo-reactionary movement is more misguided than originally thought.
There's always religion? That's the silliest arguement. They seek a governance that rewards virtue. Our current system is inherently corrupt. They aren't looking for divine inspiration in politics, they are looking for effective virtuous ruling systems (or whatever form of governance/non governance) to live in. That seems to be a reasonable and rationale goal.
Close but no cigar.
I commend this guy for not just taking neo reaction at the idea of 'geeks for monarchy' but neo-reactionary sects are determined by three main 'negative' traits
Anti-enlightenment values
Anti-democarcy
Anti-progressivism
Neoreactionaries discuss the idea of the tyrant and the monarch in ways that aren't emotionally tied to some puritanical meme that causes immediate rejection. All they are trying to do is use the perspective of the old-right to see through the lies and memes of today and craft a better world. The techno-commercialist sect of neo-reaction is in of itself a good arguement than anarcho-capitalists are neo-reactionaries of a sense,
>Human leaders will exist in this world, as long as the natural inequality in ability isn’t wiped away through violent egalitarianism. But giving over political power to someone deemed too virtuous to corrupt is just asking for trouble. Enough is known about human nature to understand the warping effect of authority. The throne might make for a more stable society relative to democracy, but it won’t guarantee prosperity.
Nothing will guarantee prosperity. I don't think neo-reactionaries think that any leader is incorruptible. There is see carlylean-esque here worship, but they just seek a system that minimizes the corruption and espouses the virtuous. There is a distinction. | Miller makes a good attempt at considering the neoreactionary movement but boils certain ideas down to things they aren't (hieridatary monarchy is one example, ignores other major tenets, thinks there is an auslinite neoreactionary camp and that all neoreaction is related and ends up relying heavily on the linked (to non-neoreactionary sources) to dictate his understanding of the movement.
Close, but no cigar. |
jamieflournoy | It's not just about what the doctor believes about how many kids you ought to have.
When I went in for a vasectomy consultation, the doctor emphasized that this is not a simple thing to undo if you, for example, get divorced and remarry and suddenly want kids after all. He said his bread and butter was expensive vasectomy reversal surgery for patients who had changed their mind in that situation. He said that it can be very upsetting for men who expected that they could just go in and unsnip, but found out tens of thousands of dollars and multiple surgeries later that they were still infertile.
tl;dr: some vasectomy patients totally do change their minds, and blame their doctor when it turns out to be expensive and/or impossible.
Edit: BTW this was a urologist who also specialized in erectile dysfunction, so I'm sure he has to deal with the "WTF it cost boatloads and didn't work?" patients a lot more than he'd like. Planned Parenthood was a lot more understanding, especially when I told them my age (I look considerably younger than I am). Zero kids by late 30s, wife of many years physically standing there nodding yes in agreement -> no more "are you sure?" questions. | It's not just about what the doctor believes about how many kids you ought to have.
When I went in for a vasectomy consultation, the doctor emphasized that this is not a simple thing to undo if you, for example, get divorced and remarry and suddenly want kids after all. He said his bread and butter was expensive vasectomy reversal surgery for patients who had changed their mind in that situation. He said that it can be very upsetting for men who expected that they could just go in and unsnip, but found out tens of thousands of dollars and multiple surgeries later that they were still infertile.
tl;dr: some vasectomy patients totally do change their minds, and blame their doctor when it turns out to be expensive and/or impossible.
Edit: BTW this was a urologist who also specialized in erectile dysfunction, so I'm sure he has to deal with the "WTF it cost boatloads and didn't work?" patients a lot more than he'd like. Planned Parenthood was a lot more understanding, especially when I told them my age (I look considerably younger than I am). Zero kids by late 30s, wife of many years physically standing there nodding yes in agreement -> no more "are you sure?" questions.
| childfree | t5_2qtwb | ceqm9ex | It's not just about what the doctor believes about how many kids you ought to have.
When I went in for a vasectomy consultation, the doctor emphasized that this is not a simple thing to undo if you, for example, get divorced and remarry and suddenly want kids after all. He said his bread and butter was expensive vasectomy reversal surgery for patients who had changed their mind in that situation. He said that it can be very upsetting for men who expected that they could just go in and unsnip, but found out tens of thousands of dollars and multiple surgeries later that they were still infertile. | some vasectomy patients totally do change their minds, and blame their doctor when it turns out to be expensive and/or impossible.
Edit: BTW this was a urologist who also specialized in erectile dysfunction, so I'm sure he has to deal with the "WTF it cost boatloads and didn't work?" patients a lot more than he'd like. Planned Parenthood was a lot more understanding, especially when I told them my age (I look considerably younger than I am). Zero kids by late 30s, wife of many years physically standing there nodding yes in agreement -> no more "are you sure?" questions. |
Calvus | I'd write that one as: Terrorists hijack planes and flew into buildings.
Next time I know you're near by I'll make sure that my TLDR is more sufficient. | I'd write that one as: Terrorists hijack planes and flew into buildings.
Next time I know you're near by I'll make sure that my TLDR is more sufficient.
| CCW | t5_2s4mc | cepkwmm | I'd write that one as: Terrorists hijack planes and flew into buildings.
Next time I know you're near by I'll make sure that my | is more sufficient. |
smurfhater | WRT the prior charges. I reported a neighborhood theft I witness last summer. Initially I felt a slight guilt for possibly ruining a teenager's life over a $10 gas can he stole from my neighbor's garage.
When I later met up with the police sgt. he explained the perp. had 3 prior burglarlies in this jurisdiction alone and likely others.
**TLDR:** The vast majority of scumbags have been criminals for a long time before you ran into them. | WRT the prior charges. I reported a neighborhood theft I witness last summer. Initially I felt a slight guilt for possibly ruining a teenager's life over a $10 gas can he stole from my neighbor's garage.
When I later met up with the police sgt. he explained the perp. had 3 prior burglarlies in this jurisdiction alone and likely others.
TLDR: The vast majority of scumbags have been criminals for a long time before you ran into them.
| CCW | t5_2s4mc | cepjtbm | WRT the prior charges. I reported a neighborhood theft I witness last summer. Initially I felt a slight guilt for possibly ruining a teenager's life over a $10 gas can he stole from my neighbor's garage.
When I later met up with the police sgt. he explained the perp. had 3 prior burglarlies in this jurisdiction alone and likely others. | The vast majority of scumbags have been criminals for a long time before you ran into them. |
_theophilus_ | A bit late to the party but I found myself in a similar position a while back (at uni).
I had a classic for the same reasons you do/did, and it was admirable and lasted me through school etc, but i was always conscious that I only listened to a small percentage of the music I had on it (I mean, I had a whole bunch of francophone hip hop, slovenian techno, indian EDM when I was really just listening to Steely Dan and KISS).
After a drop and busting the track wheel a little, I got to thinking about replacing it, and I ended up getting a Sansa Clip Zip and putting rockbox on it. While RockBox isn't very minimal it suits a tinkerer like myself, and the player itself if light, expandable via microSD cards. It fits 36GB of music on it in total now - not quite my entire collection but near enough, and it's an exercise in seeing what I miss. It's lightweight, and with rockbox I have total control over the device's behaviour.
I keep my classic about because it sits in a cradle on a dock/clock thing which outputs to some computer speakers and works as an ad-hoc hi-fi, as well as allowing me to take music to house parties (as default music provider for a few of my mates), but the Clip is smaller than a zippo, has excellent battery life and lives in my coats/jackets/trousers wherever I go really. I think the total cost was maybe £40 including the microSD card, and I have zero regret on making the switch, although it may not be for everyone as the interface on the Clip (default as well as, and especially, RockBox) is pretty basic/clunky but sticking it on shuffle and heading into my music collection is good for 90% of my use.
I'm against using my phone as an iPod replacement simply because of the battery drain it presents (not great, but noticeable), and I'm a firm believer in having dedicated tools for tasks (although the phone is an exception, I try to limit the amount of 'screen time' I have.
**tl;dr**
Swapped my iPod Classic for a Sansa Clip Zip (with RockBox) and have zero regrets.
8/10 would recommend. | A bit late to the party but I found myself in a similar position a while back (at uni).
I had a classic for the same reasons you do/did, and it was admirable and lasted me through school etc, but i was always conscious that I only listened to a small percentage of the music I had on it (I mean, I had a whole bunch of francophone hip hop, slovenian techno, indian EDM when I was really just listening to Steely Dan and KISS).
After a drop and busting the track wheel a little, I got to thinking about replacing it, and I ended up getting a Sansa Clip Zip and putting rockbox on it. While RockBox isn't very minimal it suits a tinkerer like myself, and the player itself if light, expandable via microSD cards. It fits 36GB of music on it in total now - not quite my entire collection but near enough, and it's an exercise in seeing what I miss. It's lightweight, and with rockbox I have total control over the device's behaviour.
I keep my classic about because it sits in a cradle on a dock/clock thing which outputs to some computer speakers and works as an ad-hoc hi-fi, as well as allowing me to take music to house parties (as default music provider for a few of my mates), but the Clip is smaller than a zippo, has excellent battery life and lives in my coats/jackets/trousers wherever I go really. I think the total cost was maybe £40 including the microSD card, and I have zero regret on making the switch, although it may not be for everyone as the interface on the Clip (default as well as, and especially, RockBox) is pretty basic/clunky but sticking it on shuffle and heading into my music collection is good for 90% of my use.
I'm against using my phone as an iPod replacement simply because of the battery drain it presents (not great, but noticeable), and I'm a firm believer in having dedicated tools for tasks (although the phone is an exception, I try to limit the amount of 'screen time' I have.
tl;dr
Swapped my iPod Classic for a Sansa Clip Zip (with RockBox) and have zero regrets.
8/10 would recommend.
| minimalism | t5_2r0z9 | cerwebf | A bit late to the party but I found myself in a similar position a while back (at uni).
I had a classic for the same reasons you do/did, and it was admirable and lasted me through school etc, but i was always conscious that I only listened to a small percentage of the music I had on it (I mean, I had a whole bunch of francophone hip hop, slovenian techno, indian EDM when I was really just listening to Steely Dan and KISS).
After a drop and busting the track wheel a little, I got to thinking about replacing it, and I ended up getting a Sansa Clip Zip and putting rockbox on it. While RockBox isn't very minimal it suits a tinkerer like myself, and the player itself if light, expandable via microSD cards. It fits 36GB of music on it in total now - not quite my entire collection but near enough, and it's an exercise in seeing what I miss. It's lightweight, and with rockbox I have total control over the device's behaviour.
I keep my classic about because it sits in a cradle on a dock/clock thing which outputs to some computer speakers and works as an ad-hoc hi-fi, as well as allowing me to take music to house parties (as default music provider for a few of my mates), but the Clip is smaller than a zippo, has excellent battery life and lives in my coats/jackets/trousers wherever I go really. I think the total cost was maybe £40 including the microSD card, and I have zero regret on making the switch, although it may not be for everyone as the interface on the Clip (default as well as, and especially, RockBox) is pretty basic/clunky but sticking it on shuffle and heading into my music collection is good for 90% of my use.
I'm against using my phone as an iPod replacement simply because of the battery drain it presents (not great, but noticeable), and I'm a firm believer in having dedicated tools for tasks (although the phone is an exception, I try to limit the amount of 'screen time' I have. | Swapped my iPod Classic for a Sansa Clip Zip (with RockBox) and have zero regrets.
8/10 would recommend. |
juliankelly | I actually know the answer to this, and it makes absolutely no sense.
4k was established by the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium as a standard for cinema projectors-it is exactly four times the previous resolution used (2048x1080). The ratio for DCI-compliant cinema projectors is ~17:9, not 16:9 like consumer TVs are. 4k also refers to a specific encoding method (JPEG2000 IIRC), bitrate and more. In short, it's just continuing the trend in professional film editing (what we called 1080p in cinema is called 2k).
Now, the TVs we're seeing at CES and elsewhere are 16:9, and (obviously) can't enforce any sort of encoding or bitrate, this already would disqualify them by the DCI from being 4k. The correct term for them is Ultra-HD or 2160p. However, 4k has become such a marketing buzzword that even Wikipedia confuses the two.
TL;DR UHD or 2160p is a resolution, 4k is a film editing standard.
| I actually know the answer to this, and it makes absolutely no sense.
4k was established by the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium as a standard for cinema projectors-it is exactly four times the previous resolution used (2048x1080). The ratio for DCI-compliant cinema projectors is ~17:9, not 16:9 like consumer TVs are. 4k also refers to a specific encoding method (JPEG2000 IIRC), bitrate and more. In short, it's just continuing the trend in professional film editing (what we called 1080p in cinema is called 2k).
Now, the TVs we're seeing at CES and elsewhere are 16:9, and (obviously) can't enforce any sort of encoding or bitrate, this already would disqualify them by the DCI from being 4k. The correct term for them is Ultra-HD or 2160p. However, 4k has become such a marketing buzzword that even Wikipedia confuses the two.
TL;DR UHD or 2160p is a resolution, 4k is a film editing standard.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | ceq5obm | I actually know the answer to this, and it makes absolutely no sense.
4k was established by the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium as a standard for cinema projectors-it is exactly four times the previous resolution used (2048x1080). The ratio for DCI-compliant cinema projectors is ~17:9, not 16:9 like consumer TVs are. 4k also refers to a specific encoding method (JPEG2000 IIRC), bitrate and more. In short, it's just continuing the trend in professional film editing (what we called 1080p in cinema is called 2k).
Now, the TVs we're seeing at CES and elsewhere are 16:9, and (obviously) can't enforce any sort of encoding or bitrate, this already would disqualify them by the DCI from being 4k. The correct term for them is Ultra-HD or 2160p. However, 4k has become such a marketing buzzword that even Wikipedia confuses the two. | UHD or 2160p is a resolution, 4k is a film editing standard. |
Kadmium | I posted this question last week but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again.
I'm shooting with, after crop factor, an equivalent 1440mm field of view on a camera and lens that weigh about 1kg together. I'm looking for the most stable tripod I can get that still folds up to a reasonable size and won't break my back when I'm walking around with it (I don't have a car). I don't mind spending a bunch of money on it if it's really worth it, though I'd prefer to limit that to about $600 unless it were something amazing.
TLDR: 1440mm, 1kg payload, $600 budget. Looking for super stable tripod. | I posted this question last week but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again.
I'm shooting with, after crop factor, an equivalent 1440mm field of view on a camera and lens that weigh about 1kg together. I'm looking for the most stable tripod I can get that still folds up to a reasonable size and won't break my back when I'm walking around with it (I don't have a car). I don't mind spending a bunch of money on it if it's really worth it, though I'd prefer to limit that to about $600 unless it were something amazing.
TLDR: 1440mm, 1kg payload, $600 budget. Looking for super stable tripod.
| photography | t5_2qh2a | ceqntqq | I posted this question last week but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again.
I'm shooting with, after crop factor, an equivalent 1440mm field of view on a camera and lens that weigh about 1kg together. I'm looking for the most stable tripod I can get that still folds up to a reasonable size and won't break my back when I'm walking around with it (I don't have a car). I don't mind spending a bunch of money on it if it's really worth it, though I'd prefer to limit that to about $600 unless it were something amazing. | 1440mm, 1kg payload, $600 budget. Looking for super stable tripod. |
suigenic | Fun fact- when I was a kid had anal bleeding and my dad told me to 'wait it out' a few days. Later ended up in the hospital with a hemorrhoid.
TLDR cheap parents are shit and it's more common than you'd think. | Fun fact- when I was a kid had anal bleeding and my dad told me to 'wait it out' a few days. Later ended up in the hospital with a hemorrhoid.
TLDR cheap parents are shit and it's more common than you'd think.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceq708h | Fun fact- when I was a kid had anal bleeding and my dad told me to 'wait it out' a few days. Later ended up in the hospital with a hemorrhoid. | cheap parents are shit and it's more common than you'd think. |
vaginalallergies | I've recently had some recurring issues like this. It turns out I was ignoring a early sign of whatever the male version yeast infection is, which was caused by my GFs fluids (my immune system doesn't deal with her for whatever reason, which was confirmed by a specialist), the symptoms/early signs were very minimal/mild/ihadnoidea and by the time they were annoying or painful I would see my Dr. and get diagnosed with different infections from epididymitis (if I ignored it for weeks like a fool) to urethritis. I was giving blood and urine tests more often than, well, ya. Thank god I didn't get a kidney infection, my friend just passed away from one (they are serious).
So this has been ongoing for about 3 years, every 4-6 months. Every time it would happen I would learn a little more and start working my way backwards and seeing my Dr. earlier. The last time I saw Dr. it was early enough in the mild symptoms that he prescribed me cream, which I ended up not needing a prescription for since it's just over the counter antifungal cream. Instead the pharmacist suggested I try the oral pill instead. So I bought both. The cream after 7 days was *helping* but not clearing anything up so I took the pill. 3 days later it was clear. Now whenever I have any symptom like this I take the pill and within a day it gets worse and then 2-3 days it is gone.
Now the interesting thing about all this is that my GF and I are **very** clean. We are obsessive about it. However, since I was getting sick and not *seeing* any signs I was in turn infecting her. It would develop fast with her and she would treat it or see a Dr. and then week/s later it would get worse with me and I would see a Dr. These days we keep a few extra pills in the apartment and so far so good.
TLDR: I'm allergic to women. Talk about incentive to *always* use condoms and shower/scrub after. | I've recently had some recurring issues like this. It turns out I was ignoring a early sign of whatever the male version yeast infection is, which was caused by my GFs fluids (my immune system doesn't deal with her for whatever reason, which was confirmed by a specialist), the symptoms/early signs were very minimal/mild/ihadnoidea and by the time they were annoying or painful I would see my Dr. and get diagnosed with different infections from epididymitis (if I ignored it for weeks like a fool) to urethritis. I was giving blood and urine tests more often than, well, ya. Thank god I didn't get a kidney infection, my friend just passed away from one (they are serious).
So this has been ongoing for about 3 years, every 4-6 months. Every time it would happen I would learn a little more and start working my way backwards and seeing my Dr. earlier. The last time I saw Dr. it was early enough in the mild symptoms that he prescribed me cream, which I ended up not needing a prescription for since it's just over the counter antifungal cream. Instead the pharmacist suggested I try the oral pill instead. So I bought both. The cream after 7 days was helping but not clearing anything up so I took the pill. 3 days later it was clear. Now whenever I have any symptom like this I take the pill and within a day it gets worse and then 2-3 days it is gone.
Now the interesting thing about all this is that my GF and I are very clean. We are obsessive about it. However, since I was getting sick and not seeing any signs I was in turn infecting her. It would develop fast with her and she would treat it or see a Dr. and then week/s later it would get worse with me and I would see a Dr. These days we keep a few extra pills in the apartment and so far so good.
TLDR: I'm allergic to women. Talk about incentive to always use condoms and shower/scrub after.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceqde4r | I've recently had some recurring issues like this. It turns out I was ignoring a early sign of whatever the male version yeast infection is, which was caused by my GFs fluids (my immune system doesn't deal with her for whatever reason, which was confirmed by a specialist), the symptoms/early signs were very minimal/mild/ihadnoidea and by the time they were annoying or painful I would see my Dr. and get diagnosed with different infections from epididymitis (if I ignored it for weeks like a fool) to urethritis. I was giving blood and urine tests more often than, well, ya. Thank god I didn't get a kidney infection, my friend just passed away from one (they are serious).
So this has been ongoing for about 3 years, every 4-6 months. Every time it would happen I would learn a little more and start working my way backwards and seeing my Dr. earlier. The last time I saw Dr. it was early enough in the mild symptoms that he prescribed me cream, which I ended up not needing a prescription for since it's just over the counter antifungal cream. Instead the pharmacist suggested I try the oral pill instead. So I bought both. The cream after 7 days was helping but not clearing anything up so I took the pill. 3 days later it was clear. Now whenever I have any symptom like this I take the pill and within a day it gets worse and then 2-3 days it is gone.
Now the interesting thing about all this is that my GF and I are very clean. We are obsessive about it. However, since I was getting sick and not seeing any signs I was in turn infecting her. It would develop fast with her and she would treat it or see a Dr. and then week/s later it would get worse with me and I would see a Dr. These days we keep a few extra pills in the apartment and so far so good. | I'm allergic to women. Talk about incentive to always use condoms and shower/scrub after. |
PattF | Damn it, I just posted about this in another thread. I'm just going to paste that here. Lol
Okay, I look at it this way. I LOVE a few types of film they emulate(mostly Ektachrome) so if I want that look I'll use it. A lot of people say they look "Instagram"ish and not like the original films did. The thing is, if you really plan on doing it right you've got to shoot the way you'd shoot the film. You've got expose your shots like you would. What I do is go into shooting with a mindset of Ektachrome/Velvia/whatever and use some film styled Nikon Picture Controls I've made or downloaded so I have a general idea of where I need to be when I review while still keeping the RAW file pure. I then apply what I want in Lightroom and tweak it from there. Even with all of that it's still never going to be perfect right off the bat and will look generic. For me it'd be like doing your darkroom processing exactly the same way every time, it doesn't make sense if you care about the individual images.
Tldr: it's a tool that when used right can make some stunning images but when abused can make everything look generic. | Damn it, I just posted about this in another thread. I'm just going to paste that here. Lol
Okay, I look at it this way. I LOVE a few types of film they emulate(mostly Ektachrome) so if I want that look I'll use it. A lot of people say they look "Instagram"ish and not like the original films did. The thing is, if you really plan on doing it right you've got to shoot the way you'd shoot the film. You've got expose your shots like you would. What I do is go into shooting with a mindset of Ektachrome/Velvia/whatever and use some film styled Nikon Picture Controls I've made or downloaded so I have a general idea of where I need to be when I review while still keeping the RAW file pure. I then apply what I want in Lightroom and tweak it from there. Even with all of that it's still never going to be perfect right off the bat and will look generic. For me it'd be like doing your darkroom processing exactly the same way every time, it doesn't make sense if you care about the individual images.
Tldr: it's a tool that when used right can make some stunning images but when abused can make everything look generic.
| photography | t5_2qh2a | ceqnesr | Damn it, I just posted about this in another thread. I'm just going to paste that here. Lol
Okay, I look at it this way. I LOVE a few types of film they emulate(mostly Ektachrome) so if I want that look I'll use it. A lot of people say they look "Instagram"ish and not like the original films did. The thing is, if you really plan on doing it right you've got to shoot the way you'd shoot the film. You've got expose your shots like you would. What I do is go into shooting with a mindset of Ektachrome/Velvia/whatever and use some film styled Nikon Picture Controls I've made or downloaded so I have a general idea of where I need to be when I review while still keeping the RAW file pure. I then apply what I want in Lightroom and tweak it from there. Even with all of that it's still never going to be perfect right off the bat and will look generic. For me it'd be like doing your darkroom processing exactly the same way every time, it doesn't make sense if you care about the individual images. | it's a tool that when used right can make some stunning images but when abused can make everything look generic. |
TorqueDog | If I was late, the last thing I'd be doing is dicking around with my phone because "omg what a dick, I should post this to Reddit".
Tl,Dr; OP pls go | If I was late, the last thing I'd be doing is dicking around with my phone because "omg what a dick, I should post this to Reddit".
Tl,Dr; OP pls go
| Calgary | t5_2qn40 | ceqo833 | If I was late, the last thing I'd be doing is dicking around with my phone because "omg what a dick, I should post this to Reddit". | OP pls go |
MechaBlue | I can't speak for all programs, but mine was filled with stereotypical poorly socialized and insecure males. There was an amazing amount of dick swinging and fighting to become the alpha dog among what was, essentially, a pack of losers. (I.e., we were used to being the bottom rung of the social ladder and, in this new environment, we instinctively fought desperately to avoid being in the same situation in our new environment.) Unfortunately, it's easy to accidentally say hurtful things when you are poorly socialized. Worse, it's rare to see people who are even trying to be considerate.
Around third year, things started to get better. It was around that time that most of the chaff had dropped out and the serious students were spending a lot of time crunching on projects. People also started learning who was how skilled; it was much easier when the class size shrunk from 200 to 40 and more evenings were spent in the labs. Because of the lower numbers (and the wistful loneliness), women tended to have much higher visibility.
In 4th year, there were 4 women in a class of 40. 2 of them were very strong (I think one has her doctorate now) and the other 2 were adequate. This compared very favorably to the men, who were closer to the expected 10/70/20 split.
In the work force, I think all 4 of the women would have done very well. Sadly, so would have most all of the men, but that's more the result of the state of the industry.
For what it's worth, skills, a thick skin, and self-awareness will go a long way in a lot of interesting industries that pay well.
tl;dr: I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt... | I can't speak for all programs, but mine was filled with stereotypical poorly socialized and insecure males. There was an amazing amount of dick swinging and fighting to become the alpha dog among what was, essentially, a pack of losers. (I.e., we were used to being the bottom rung of the social ladder and, in this new environment, we instinctively fought desperately to avoid being in the same situation in our new environment.) Unfortunately, it's easy to accidentally say hurtful things when you are poorly socialized. Worse, it's rare to see people who are even trying to be considerate.
Around third year, things started to get better. It was around that time that most of the chaff had dropped out and the serious students were spending a lot of time crunching on projects. People also started learning who was how skilled; it was much easier when the class size shrunk from 200 to 40 and more evenings were spent in the labs. Because of the lower numbers (and the wistful loneliness), women tended to have much higher visibility.
In 4th year, there were 4 women in a class of 40. 2 of them were very strong (I think one has her doctorate now) and the other 2 were adequate. This compared very favorably to the men, who were closer to the expected 10/70/20 split.
In the work force, I think all 4 of the women would have done very well. Sadly, so would have most all of the men, but that's more the result of the state of the industry.
For what it's worth, skills, a thick skin, and self-awareness will go a long way in a lot of interesting industries that pay well.
tl;dr: I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt...
| programming | t5_2fwo | cequiis | I can't speak for all programs, but mine was filled with stereotypical poorly socialized and insecure males. There was an amazing amount of dick swinging and fighting to become the alpha dog among what was, essentially, a pack of losers. (I.e., we were used to being the bottom rung of the social ladder and, in this new environment, we instinctively fought desperately to avoid being in the same situation in our new environment.) Unfortunately, it's easy to accidentally say hurtful things when you are poorly socialized. Worse, it's rare to see people who are even trying to be considerate.
Around third year, things started to get better. It was around that time that most of the chaff had dropped out and the serious students were spending a lot of time crunching on projects. People also started learning who was how skilled; it was much easier when the class size shrunk from 200 to 40 and more evenings were spent in the labs. Because of the lower numbers (and the wistful loneliness), women tended to have much higher visibility.
In 4th year, there were 4 women in a class of 40. 2 of them were very strong (I think one has her doctorate now) and the other 2 were adequate. This compared very favorably to the men, who were closer to the expected 10/70/20 split.
In the work force, I think all 4 of the women would have done very well. Sadly, so would have most all of the men, but that's more the result of the state of the industry.
For what it's worth, skills, a thick skin, and self-awareness will go a long way in a lot of interesting industries that pay well. | I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt... |
iopq | When I was 10 years old I was studying calculus from a textbooks I found someone dropped off near the recycling bin. I DID have problems integrating the area under the curve because I thought I should be able to do this without graphing it every time. So it was not my intelligence that gave me problems, it was my ego, my pride. I thought calculus should be easier than it was.
tl;dr don't underestimate the intelligence of kids | When I was 10 years old I was studying calculus from a textbooks I found someone dropped off near the recycling bin. I DID have problems integrating the area under the curve because I thought I should be able to do this without graphing it every time. So it was not my intelligence that gave me problems, it was my ego, my pride. I thought calculus should be easier than it was.
tl;dr don't underestimate the intelligence of kids
| programming | t5_2fwo | ceqwsyf | When I was 10 years old I was studying calculus from a textbooks I found someone dropped off near the recycling bin. I DID have problems integrating the area under the curve because I thought I should be able to do this without graphing it every time. So it was not my intelligence that gave me problems, it was my ego, my pride. I thought calculus should be easier than it was. | don't underestimate the intelligence of kids |
LeCrushinator | Often that's true, but not all game programming is like that. I work 45 hour weeks, no crunch times, making good money, and our company has almost no turnover whatsoever. The problem is the programmers that decide to work for large studios that are known for fucking over their developers. If they stopped taking those jobs then those companies would be forced to change the way they pay and treat their employees.
**TL;DR:** If you look for a game programming job with EA, Activision, Rockstar, Ubisoft, etc..., you're gonna have a bad time. | Often that's true, but not all game programming is like that. I work 45 hour weeks, no crunch times, making good money, and our company has almost no turnover whatsoever. The problem is the programmers that decide to work for large studios that are known for fucking over their developers. If they stopped taking those jobs then those companies would be forced to change the way they pay and treat their employees.
TL;DR: If you look for a game programming job with EA, Activision, Rockstar, Ubisoft, etc..., you're gonna have a bad time.
| programming | t5_2fwo | cer6sbi | Often that's true, but not all game programming is like that. I work 45 hour weeks, no crunch times, making good money, and our company has almost no turnover whatsoever. The problem is the programmers that decide to work for large studios that are known for fucking over their developers. If they stopped taking those jobs then those companies would be forced to change the way they pay and treat their employees. | If you look for a game programming job with EA, Activision, Rockstar, Ubisoft, etc..., you're gonna have a bad time. |
Scuttle_UM | Yes! I was working a customer service / sales support job a couple years back when I decided to go get an early lunch one day. While I was out, a customer called to complain about an order he'd placed with me. If I'd been at my desk, I would have handled the issue and that would've been that. Instead, he got my boss (who wasn't a fan of mine), who complained to his boss. I got written up for the mistake.
A few months later, the company did a round of layoffs and I was let go because I had had disciplinary action taken against me. So I got on unemployment, took some programming classes, and started firebombing tech companies with resumes.
Got a call out of the blue about a year later, crushed the interview, and am now a developer at an awesome company. Making a hell of a lot more money and generally not hating life anymore. Turns out getting shitcanned when I did was a great thing.
**tl;dr** Took an early lunch one day, ended up a software developer. | Yes! I was working a customer service / sales support job a couple years back when I decided to go get an early lunch one day. While I was out, a customer called to complain about an order he'd placed with me. If I'd been at my desk, I would have handled the issue and that would've been that. Instead, he got my boss (who wasn't a fan of mine), who complained to his boss. I got written up for the mistake.
A few months later, the company did a round of layoffs and I was let go because I had had disciplinary action taken against me. So I got on unemployment, took some programming classes, and started firebombing tech companies with resumes.
Got a call out of the blue about a year later, crushed the interview, and am now a developer at an awesome company. Making a hell of a lot more money and generally not hating life anymore. Turns out getting shitcanned when I did was a great thing.
tl;dr Took an early lunch one day, ended up a software developer.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceqpiwc | Yes! I was working a customer service / sales support job a couple years back when I decided to go get an early lunch one day. While I was out, a customer called to complain about an order he'd placed with me. If I'd been at my desk, I would have handled the issue and that would've been that. Instead, he got my boss (who wasn't a fan of mine), who complained to his boss. I got written up for the mistake.
A few months later, the company did a round of layoffs and I was let go because I had had disciplinary action taken against me. So I got on unemployment, took some programming classes, and started firebombing tech companies with resumes.
Got a call out of the blue about a year later, crushed the interview, and am now a developer at an awesome company. Making a hell of a lot more money and generally not hating life anymore. Turns out getting shitcanned when I did was a great thing. | Took an early lunch one day, ended up a software developer. |
signbasher | Almost every mission today is done in daylight, or at night with a lot of light, i would love to see some action at night when its really dark. I would like to see something like the train heist at night. Where it is hard to see the guards, or civillians. And at night the coops would be so strong, they see u but you might not see them. And then you might wanna ad night vision as a part in that dlc. With battery or something so you cant use it all the time.
Also, i liked the go bank with the fancy escape and getting the bags away with the plane. To bad it's not a good reward for completing the heist on overkill. So a little more fancyness.
A mission where you would need someone on a roof with a sniper to pick of some targets in some way would also be nice
TL DR: Dark missions at night and more fancyness.
| Almost every mission today is done in daylight, or at night with a lot of light, i would love to see some action at night when its really dark. I would like to see something like the train heist at night. Where it is hard to see the guards, or civillians. And at night the coops would be so strong, they see u but you might not see them. And then you might wanna ad night vision as a part in that dlc. With battery or something so you cant use it all the time.
Also, i liked the go bank with the fancy escape and getting the bags away with the plane. To bad it's not a good reward for completing the heist on overkill. So a little more fancyness.
A mission where you would need someone on a roof with a sniper to pick of some targets in some way would also be nice
TL DR: Dark missions at night and more fancyness.
| paydaytheheist | t5_2t0hx | cer13p1 | Almost every mission today is done in daylight, or at night with a lot of light, i would love to see some action at night when its really dark. I would like to see something like the train heist at night. Where it is hard to see the guards, or civillians. And at night the coops would be so strong, they see u but you might not see them. And then you might wanna ad night vision as a part in that dlc. With battery or something so you cant use it all the time.
Also, i liked the go bank with the fancy escape and getting the bags away with the plane. To bad it's not a good reward for completing the heist on overkill. So a little more fancyness.
A mission where you would need someone on a roof with a sniper to pick of some targets in some way would also be nice | Dark missions at night and more fancyness. |
snimax1 | I think it would be cool if a prison break rescue mission were made... It would be that you break into prison either by going stealthy and killing guards for key-cards and keys, and have to watch out for other criminals who can shout to be rescued or to destroy for you. Or you could go guns blazing and blow/saw your way through the prison. After you found the right prisoner you would have to protect the prisoner and escape with him.
Another cool thing would be combined missions. Like if you could do a Proverkill Firestarter followed by a framing frame or whatever. It would give more exp and money than completing the two separate but it will be harder since its so long. Twist combos only appear in Pro jobs. There supposed to be rare and its supposed to be hard but the reward would be sweet. Sort of like the train heist but a much longer and much harder to finish.
TL DR: A prison break in and combined Proverkill missions | I think it would be cool if a prison break rescue mission were made... It would be that you break into prison either by going stealthy and killing guards for key-cards and keys, and have to watch out for other criminals who can shout to be rescued or to destroy for you. Or you could go guns blazing and blow/saw your way through the prison. After you found the right prisoner you would have to protect the prisoner and escape with him.
Another cool thing would be combined missions. Like if you could do a Proverkill Firestarter followed by a framing frame or whatever. It would give more exp and money than completing the two separate but it will be harder since its so long. Twist combos only appear in Pro jobs. There supposed to be rare and its supposed to be hard but the reward would be sweet. Sort of like the train heist but a much longer and much harder to finish.
TL DR: A prison break in and combined Proverkill missions
| paydaytheheist | t5_2t0hx | cer0uhn | I think it would be cool if a prison break rescue mission were made... It would be that you break into prison either by going stealthy and killing guards for key-cards and keys, and have to watch out for other criminals who can shout to be rescued or to destroy for you. Or you could go guns blazing and blow/saw your way through the prison. After you found the right prisoner you would have to protect the prisoner and escape with him.
Another cool thing would be combined missions. Like if you could do a Proverkill Firestarter followed by a framing frame or whatever. It would give more exp and money than completing the two separate but it will be harder since its so long. Twist combos only appear in Pro jobs. There supposed to be rare and its supposed to be hard but the reward would be sweet. Sort of like the train heist but a much longer and much harder to finish. | A prison break in and combined Proverkill missions |
JenCarpeDiem | You've been dating since she was 16/17, which means that her only experience of other dicks is likely from porn, the majority of which tends to feature circumcised American males. They're chosen because they look better on film, and because Americans decided at some point that they should all remove a useful part of their genitalia for no good reason, and now everyone just does it because that's what you do. Science doesn't support it and it's actually banned in some European countries.
The prevalence of circumcision means that there are a lot of people who share misinformation, and there are a lot of people who believe it. Yeah, if you're incapable of pulling foreskin back to clean the glans, you're going to have a dirtier cock than a dude who's cut, but assuming you are capable of that, there's no disadvantage to having a foreskin. Your glans is more sensitive because it lives in a handy protective sheathe and you get a more enveloping friction during sex; she *doesn't know all of this*.
It hasn't bothered her for four years, it doesn't really bother her now -- she just feels like your relationship is secure enough that she can express a preference which doesn't match you. It doesn't mean she doesn't like and enjoy your penis. It seems like a huge deal, but for her it's probably like preferring blondes over brunettes; it doesn't mean you can't be deeply attracted to the hot brunette, you know?
You might want to start washing immediately before sex just in case she was trying to express a hygiene issue in a very roundabout way.
TL;DR: She just likes the pretty dicks, yo. It doesn't mean yours is ugly or disgusting. You'll just have to decide how seriously you want to take this opinion. | You've been dating since she was 16/17, which means that her only experience of other dicks is likely from porn, the majority of which tends to feature circumcised American males. They're chosen because they look better on film, and because Americans decided at some point that they should all remove a useful part of their genitalia for no good reason, and now everyone just does it because that's what you do. Science doesn't support it and it's actually banned in some European countries.
The prevalence of circumcision means that there are a lot of people who share misinformation, and there are a lot of people who believe it. Yeah, if you're incapable of pulling foreskin back to clean the glans, you're going to have a dirtier cock than a dude who's cut, but assuming you are capable of that, there's no disadvantage to having a foreskin. Your glans is more sensitive because it lives in a handy protective sheathe and you get a more enveloping friction during sex; she doesn't know all of this .
It hasn't bothered her for four years, it doesn't really bother her now -- she just feels like your relationship is secure enough that she can express a preference which doesn't match you. It doesn't mean she doesn't like and enjoy your penis. It seems like a huge deal, but for her it's probably like preferring blondes over brunettes; it doesn't mean you can't be deeply attracted to the hot brunette, you know?
You might want to start washing immediately before sex just in case she was trying to express a hygiene issue in a very roundabout way.
TL;DR: She just likes the pretty dicks, yo. It doesn't mean yours is ugly or disgusting. You'll just have to decide how seriously you want to take this opinion.
| relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | ceqz04y | You've been dating since she was 16/17, which means that her only experience of other dicks is likely from porn, the majority of which tends to feature circumcised American males. They're chosen because they look better on film, and because Americans decided at some point that they should all remove a useful part of their genitalia for no good reason, and now everyone just does it because that's what you do. Science doesn't support it and it's actually banned in some European countries.
The prevalence of circumcision means that there are a lot of people who share misinformation, and there are a lot of people who believe it. Yeah, if you're incapable of pulling foreskin back to clean the glans, you're going to have a dirtier cock than a dude who's cut, but assuming you are capable of that, there's no disadvantage to having a foreskin. Your glans is more sensitive because it lives in a handy protective sheathe and you get a more enveloping friction during sex; she doesn't know all of this .
It hasn't bothered her for four years, it doesn't really bother her now -- she just feels like your relationship is secure enough that she can express a preference which doesn't match you. It doesn't mean she doesn't like and enjoy your penis. It seems like a huge deal, but for her it's probably like preferring blondes over brunettes; it doesn't mean you can't be deeply attracted to the hot brunette, you know?
You might want to start washing immediately before sex just in case she was trying to express a hygiene issue in a very roundabout way. | She just likes the pretty dicks, yo. It doesn't mean yours is ugly or disgusting. You'll just have to decide how seriously you want to take this opinion. |
jaffa2178 | I has a lot of views, but most lots of people I know haven't seen [Learn English with Ricky Gervais](
Either that or [Bullshit Man](
TL;DR Karl Pilkington ftw | I has a lot of views, but most lots of people I know haven't seen [Learn English with Ricky Gervais](
Either that or [Bullshit Man](
TL;DR Karl Pilkington ftw
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceqxarl | I has a lot of views, but most lots of people I know haven't seen [Learn English with Ricky Gervais](
Either that or [Bullshit Man]( | Karl Pilkington ftw |
txyan08 | After two rapiers, you would prefer Daed. After that, it's probably DR again.
Edit: THE MATH
Crit increases your DPS by an average of 35% (0.25 * 1.4 = 0.35)
300 < (0.35X) + 81
219 < 0.35X
X > 625.71 (approximate)
Basically Daedalus gives you greater DPS when you have more than ~625 damage. The vast majority of the time, you would not be able to achieve this without two rapiers.
EDIT 2:
Wait I just realized this was the stupidest thing ever said in the history of the world. After two Rapiers and Daed, a third Rapier would obviously be a terrible choice, not only because you can drop DR's, but also because 55 IAS (the amount AC gives you) increases your DPS by 55%, assuming you have no other IAS items. This means that *even before Armour reduction* (which I don't want to calculate because that would require quadratic equations with big numbers that make me cry because I'm dumb), AC is a much better choice than Rapier now that you have like ~926 damage. Mjoll, which gives even more IAS, would also be a superior choice. AC is also superior to Daed after those first two Rapiers.
TL;DR: 2 Rapiers is the maximum number you can buy before you are an even bigger idiot than I am. Buy IAS and Crit after. | After two rapiers, you would prefer Daed. After that, it's probably DR again.
Edit: THE MATH
Crit increases your DPS by an average of 35% (0.25 * 1.4 = 0.35)
300 < (0.35X) + 81
219 < 0.35X
X > 625.71 (approximate)
Basically Daedalus gives you greater DPS when you have more than ~625 damage. The vast majority of the time, you would not be able to achieve this without two rapiers.
EDIT 2:
Wait I just realized this was the stupidest thing ever said in the history of the world. After two Rapiers and Daed, a third Rapier would obviously be a terrible choice, not only because you can drop DR's, but also because 55 IAS (the amount AC gives you) increases your DPS by 55%, assuming you have no other IAS items. This means that even before Armour reduction (which I don't want to calculate because that would require quadratic equations with big numbers that make me cry because I'm dumb), AC is a much better choice than Rapier now that you have like ~926 damage. Mjoll, which gives even more IAS, would also be a superior choice. AC is also superior to Daed after those first two Rapiers.
TL;DR: 2 Rapiers is the maximum number you can buy before you are an even bigger idiot than I am. Buy IAS and Crit after.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cerafml | After two rapiers, you would prefer Daed. After that, it's probably DR again.
Edit: THE MATH
Crit increases your DPS by an average of 35% (0.25 * 1.4 = 0.35)
300 < (0.35X) + 81
219 < 0.35X
X > 625.71 (approximate)
Basically Daedalus gives you greater DPS when you have more than ~625 damage. The vast majority of the time, you would not be able to achieve this without two rapiers.
EDIT 2:
Wait I just realized this was the stupidest thing ever said in the history of the world. After two Rapiers and Daed, a third Rapier would obviously be a terrible choice, not only because you can drop DR's, but also because 55 IAS (the amount AC gives you) increases your DPS by 55%, assuming you have no other IAS items. This means that even before Armour reduction (which I don't want to calculate because that would require quadratic equations with big numbers that make me cry because I'm dumb), AC is a much better choice than Rapier now that you have like ~926 damage. Mjoll, which gives even more IAS, would also be a superior choice. AC is also superior to Daed after those first two Rapiers. | 2 Rapiers is the maximum number you can buy before you are an even bigger idiot than I am. Buy IAS and Crit after. |
SuB2007 | *sigh*
No, I never thought you would write your "personal stories".
I originally asked for a source when you said TSA has been PROVEN to be this bad time and again. All you said was you and your friends had personal experiences.
So...my point was that you and your friends having bad personal experiences with the TSA means no more than me having good experiences.
TL;DR - I asked for proof, you gave me none. | sigh
No, I never thought you would write your "personal stories".
I originally asked for a source when you said TSA has been PROVEN to be this bad time and again. All you said was you and your friends had personal experiences.
So...my point was that you and your friends having bad personal experiences with the TSA means no more than me having good experiences.
TL;DR - I asked for proof, you gave me none.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cero20h | sigh
No, I never thought you would write your "personal stories".
I originally asked for a source when you said TSA has been PROVEN to be this bad time and again. All you said was you and your friends had personal experiences.
So...my point was that you and your friends having bad personal experiences with the TSA means no more than me having good experiences. | I asked for proof, you gave me none. |
benderrod | this is the dumbest thing i've ever read. i hate the TSA as much as anyone else but:
* the checkpoint sounded when she went through (possibly due to the jewelry sewn into her jeans)
* they swabbed her hands, and it came up for explosives (possibly due to handling gasoline earlier)
* they had a FEMALE TSA agent do a full (albeit not-cavity) over the clothes body search.
"Steenhoek said the agent repeatedly dug her fingers into Steenhoek’s armpits."
are you kidding me?
and i would think the boob "groping" was probably because they wanted to make sure nothing was sewn into her bra (a valid concern after the underwear bomber).
tl;dr: woman sets off checkpoint, hands come up for explosives, gets full body search. | this is the dumbest thing i've ever read. i hate the TSA as much as anyone else but:
the checkpoint sounded when she went through (possibly due to the jewelry sewn into her jeans)
they swabbed her hands, and it came up for explosives (possibly due to handling gasoline earlier)
they had a FEMALE TSA agent do a full (albeit not-cavity) over the clothes body search.
"Steenhoek said the agent repeatedly dug her fingers into Steenhoek’s armpits."
are you kidding me?
and i would think the boob "groping" was probably because they wanted to make sure nothing was sewn into her bra (a valid concern after the underwear bomber).
tl;dr: woman sets off checkpoint, hands come up for explosives, gets full body search.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cer97ps | this is the dumbest thing i've ever read. i hate the TSA as much as anyone else but:
the checkpoint sounded when she went through (possibly due to the jewelry sewn into her jeans)
they swabbed her hands, and it came up for explosives (possibly due to handling gasoline earlier)
they had a FEMALE TSA agent do a full (albeit not-cavity) over the clothes body search.
"Steenhoek said the agent repeatedly dug her fingers into Steenhoek’s armpits."
are you kidding me?
and i would think the boob "groping" was probably because they wanted to make sure nothing was sewn into her bra (a valid concern after the underwear bomber). | woman sets off checkpoint, hands come up for explosives, gets full body search. |
gravityplanx | > Feminism is gender specific in name.
That's because it's 100+ years old. I modern corollary is the "Gay Rights Movement". Gay Rights isn't about giving rights to gay people that are denied to straight people... it's about equality for people of all sexual identities. The fact that it's name is specific to one sub-group is because that is a notable subgroup that is lacking their basic rights. Feminism started the same way; it's for gender equality, but was named for the group that was lacking rights.
> Feminism is gender specific in message
Well yeah, it mostly focuses on women. Because (for the most part) men don't need that much help.
Now I need to be clear here. I'm *not* saying that men have everything perfect. Gender roles *definitely* hurt men as well. But when you put things on a theoretical scale, it's clear that women are more disenfrachised and men are more empowered, on a societal level (your individual results may vary).
So the end result is that feminism focuses *more* on womans' rights, but it *also* pays attention to the general abolishment of gender roles. While feminists will campaign strongly for little girls to play with legos, they'll also advocate for little boys to have dolls.
On your 2 topics at the end, I fundamentally disagree.
For one, I don't think equality is about "lowering" anyone. It should be about raising us all up to the same level. You seem to think that feminists need to do things that detriment women in order to be advocating equality, but being a detriment to *anyone* is bad.
I also think the main goals of feminism are *universally good*. It doesn't need to target a specific group in many instances, because it's just good for all of us.
Here's an example; feminism is against the idea that women are weak caregivers and men are strong breadwinners.
Now an obvious way this sees play is for gender equality in the workforce, the glass ceiling, all of that. But let's look at another side of this:
Custody battles.
Currently, women win custody battles in 90% of cases. You may be thinking "Yeah, gender equality should fight against that!". Well... feminism is.
The reason women are awarded custody is because our society says that a woman's role is as a caregiver. By erroding this societal standard, there will be a shift in the way these court decisions are decided. For every new stay at home dad supported by his working wife, it becomes easier to award custody to a man.
By the same token, men pay far more in child support than women do. This is because of the gender role that men are the breadwinners. Again, feminism is very very against this. The more women we have in the workforce, though, the easier it becomes to decide that a man should be awarded custody *and child support payments* from his ex-wife. Something that is currently nearly unheard of.
TL;DR: Feminism *is* about equality.
| > Feminism is gender specific in name.
That's because it's 100+ years old. I modern corollary is the "Gay Rights Movement". Gay Rights isn't about giving rights to gay people that are denied to straight people... it's about equality for people of all sexual identities. The fact that it's name is specific to one sub-group is because that is a notable subgroup that is lacking their basic rights. Feminism started the same way; it's for gender equality, but was named for the group that was lacking rights.
> Feminism is gender specific in message
Well yeah, it mostly focuses on women. Because (for the most part) men don't need that much help.
Now I need to be clear here. I'm not saying that men have everything perfect. Gender roles definitely hurt men as well. But when you put things on a theoretical scale, it's clear that women are more disenfrachised and men are more empowered, on a societal level (your individual results may vary).
So the end result is that feminism focuses more on womans' rights, but it also pays attention to the general abolishment of gender roles. While feminists will campaign strongly for little girls to play with legos, they'll also advocate for little boys to have dolls.
On your 2 topics at the end, I fundamentally disagree.
For one, I don't think equality is about "lowering" anyone. It should be about raising us all up to the same level. You seem to think that feminists need to do things that detriment women in order to be advocating equality, but being a detriment to anyone is bad.
I also think the main goals of feminism are universally good . It doesn't need to target a specific group in many instances, because it's just good for all of us.
Here's an example; feminism is against the idea that women are weak caregivers and men are strong breadwinners.
Now an obvious way this sees play is for gender equality in the workforce, the glass ceiling, all of that. But let's look at another side of this:
Custody battles.
Currently, women win custody battles in 90% of cases. You may be thinking "Yeah, gender equality should fight against that!". Well... feminism is.
The reason women are awarded custody is because our society says that a woman's role is as a caregiver. By erroding this societal standard, there will be a shift in the way these court decisions are decided. For every new stay at home dad supported by his working wife, it becomes easier to award custody to a man.
By the same token, men pay far more in child support than women do. This is because of the gender role that men are the breadwinners. Again, feminism is very very against this. The more women we have in the workforce, though, the easier it becomes to decide that a man should be awarded custody and child support payments from his ex-wife. Something that is currently nearly unheard of.
TL;DR: Feminism is about equality.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cerf5rr | Feminism is gender specific in name.
That's because it's 100+ years old. I modern corollary is the "Gay Rights Movement". Gay Rights isn't about giving rights to gay people that are denied to straight people... it's about equality for people of all sexual identities. The fact that it's name is specific to one sub-group is because that is a notable subgroup that is lacking their basic rights. Feminism started the same way; it's for gender equality, but was named for the group that was lacking rights.
> Feminism is gender specific in message
Well yeah, it mostly focuses on women. Because (for the most part) men don't need that much help.
Now I need to be clear here. I'm not saying that men have everything perfect. Gender roles definitely hurt men as well. But when you put things on a theoretical scale, it's clear that women are more disenfrachised and men are more empowered, on a societal level (your individual results may vary).
So the end result is that feminism focuses more on womans' rights, but it also pays attention to the general abolishment of gender roles. While feminists will campaign strongly for little girls to play with legos, they'll also advocate for little boys to have dolls.
On your 2 topics at the end, I fundamentally disagree.
For one, I don't think equality is about "lowering" anyone. It should be about raising us all up to the same level. You seem to think that feminists need to do things that detriment women in order to be advocating equality, but being a detriment to anyone is bad.
I also think the main goals of feminism are universally good . It doesn't need to target a specific group in many instances, because it's just good for all of us.
Here's an example; feminism is against the idea that women are weak caregivers and men are strong breadwinners.
Now an obvious way this sees play is for gender equality in the workforce, the glass ceiling, all of that. But let's look at another side of this:
Custody battles.
Currently, women win custody battles in 90% of cases. You may be thinking "Yeah, gender equality should fight against that!". Well... feminism is.
The reason women are awarded custody is because our society says that a woman's role is as a caregiver. By erroding this societal standard, there will be a shift in the way these court decisions are decided. For every new stay at home dad supported by his working wife, it becomes easier to award custody to a man.
By the same token, men pay far more in child support than women do. This is because of the gender role that men are the breadwinners. Again, feminism is very very against this. The more women we have in the workforce, though, the easier it becomes to decide that a man should be awarded custody and child support payments from his ex-wife. Something that is currently nearly unheard of. | Feminism is about equality. |
joel-mic | Yeah. Knowledge isn't really a good delineator of MMR tiers. Skill/execution/decision making are what separates the tiers more than anything. I mean, I am average at best (~3000 solo MMR), but I' have a great memory. So, sometimes I mentally correct 5k MMR streamers that I'm watching (on knowledge stuff: item costs, damage, cooldowns, spell interaction). But they'd still destroy me.
tl;dr It's not really about knowledge. | Yeah. Knowledge isn't really a good delineator of MMR tiers. Skill/execution/decision making are what separates the tiers more than anything. I mean, I am average at best (~3000 solo MMR), but I' have a great memory. So, sometimes I mentally correct 5k MMR streamers that I'm watching (on knowledge stuff: item costs, damage, cooldowns, spell interaction). But they'd still destroy me.
tl;dr It's not really about knowledge.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cerclez | Yeah. Knowledge isn't really a good delineator of MMR tiers. Skill/execution/decision making are what separates the tiers more than anything. I mean, I am average at best (~3000 solo MMR), but I' have a great memory. So, sometimes I mentally correct 5k MMR streamers that I'm watching (on knowledge stuff: item costs, damage, cooldowns, spell interaction). But they'd still destroy me. | It's not really about knowledge. |
kitkitsune | Think I have you beat. in RSC probably around 2002-2003 timeframe I had a random person walk up to me and hand me a full set of mithril armour as a gift. I was weary but accepted, a few months later a full set of addy then rune followed. That person made it to the top 100 players for quite a while but quit playing sometime around 06-07. good times. For those not in the know the set of full rune was the best you could have at the time and worth ALOT!
tl;dr - RSC had a lot more scamming but much friendlier players too. | Think I have you beat. in RSC probably around 2002-2003 timeframe I had a random person walk up to me and hand me a full set of mithril armour as a gift. I was weary but accepted, a few months later a full set of addy then rune followed. That person made it to the top 100 players for quite a while but quit playing sometime around 06-07. good times. For those not in the know the set of full rune was the best you could have at the time and worth ALOT!
tl;dr - RSC had a lot more scamming but much friendlier players too.
| runescape | t5_2qwxl | ces2f49 | Think I have you beat. in RSC probably around 2002-2003 timeframe I had a random person walk up to me and hand me a full set of mithril armour as a gift. I was weary but accepted, a few months later a full set of addy then rune followed. That person made it to the top 100 players for quite a while but quit playing sometime around 06-07. good times. For those not in the know the set of full rune was the best you could have at the time and worth ALOT! | RSC had a lot more scamming but much friendlier players too. |
Implier | Neither is particularly unlikely.
The UR rate on any of the 99K packs is 10-15 %. Assuming an average value of 12.5% the probability of getting 0 successes after 10 packs is
(1-0.125)^10 = 26%
while the probability of getting exactly 3 successes is
(10choose3) (0.125)^3 (1-0.125)^(10-3) = 16%
TL:DR It probably has nothing to do with what DLC you have installed. | Neither is particularly unlikely.
The UR rate on any of the 99K packs is 10-15 %. Assuming an average value of 12.5% the probability of getting 0 successes after 10 packs is
(1-0.125)^10 = 26%
while the probability of getting exactly 3 successes is
(10choose3) (0.125)^3 (1-0.125)^(10-3) = 16%
TL:DR It probably has nothing to do with what DLC you have installed.
| MECoOp | t5_2tkk1 | ces4872 | Neither is particularly unlikely.
The UR rate on any of the 99K packs is 10-15 %. Assuming an average value of 12.5% the probability of getting 0 successes after 10 packs is
(1-0.125)^10 = 26%
while the probability of getting exactly 3 successes is
(10choose3) (0.125)^3 (1-0.125)^(10-3) = 16% | It probably has nothing to do with what DLC you have installed. |
skepticalcow | I've had the best luck spending 3~4+ million on the same type of pack. I use Arsenal packs for weapons.
My purchasing drop rate follows a sign wave. One week I spend 3~4 million, I'll get 3-4 ultra rares. The next week I'll get 6-8.
I think you should be patient, save up more, and spend a larget amount of credits on 1 type of pack, the pack choice is yours.
If you are trying to level up your N7, go with PSP's.
If you just want weapons, go with Arsenal.
If you want lvl 3 weapon amps & mostly lvl 3 equipment with a chance of weapons, go SP.
All three of these types of packs have netted about the same drop rate. I personally have noticed that If I spend less than 3 million, I get worse drop rates overall (less than 1 ultra rare per million). Since mid December I have gotten 27 or 29 (my memory is fading) utra rares. When I do my next purchase, I expect about 4 ultra rares.
Using this method, I have yet to get less than 1 ultra rare per million.
TL/DR: Buy the same type of pack (Arsenal or PSP or SP) in quantities > 3 million credits. | I've had the best luck spending 3~4+ million on the same type of pack. I use Arsenal packs for weapons.
My purchasing drop rate follows a sign wave. One week I spend 3~4 million, I'll get 3-4 ultra rares. The next week I'll get 6-8.
I think you should be patient, save up more, and spend a larget amount of credits on 1 type of pack, the pack choice is yours.
If you are trying to level up your N7, go with PSP's.
If you just want weapons, go with Arsenal.
If you want lvl 3 weapon amps & mostly lvl 3 equipment with a chance of weapons, go SP.
All three of these types of packs have netted about the same drop rate. I personally have noticed that If I spend less than 3 million, I get worse drop rates overall (less than 1 ultra rare per million). Since mid December I have gotten 27 or 29 (my memory is fading) utra rares. When I do my next purchase, I expect about 4 ultra rares.
Using this method, I have yet to get less than 1 ultra rare per million.
TL/DR: Buy the same type of pack (Arsenal or PSP or SP) in quantities > 3 million credits.
| MECoOp | t5_2tkk1 | cerw2h2 | I've had the best luck spending 3~4+ million on the same type of pack. I use Arsenal packs for weapons.
My purchasing drop rate follows a sign wave. One week I spend 3~4 million, I'll get 3-4 ultra rares. The next week I'll get 6-8.
I think you should be patient, save up more, and spend a larget amount of credits on 1 type of pack, the pack choice is yours.
If you are trying to level up your N7, go with PSP's.
If you just want weapons, go with Arsenal.
If you want lvl 3 weapon amps & mostly lvl 3 equipment with a chance of weapons, go SP.
All three of these types of packs have netted about the same drop rate. I personally have noticed that If I spend less than 3 million, I get worse drop rates overall (less than 1 ultra rare per million). Since mid December I have gotten 27 or 29 (my memory is fading) utra rares. When I do my next purchase, I expect about 4 ultra rares.
Using this method, I have yet to get less than 1 ultra rare per million. | Buy the same type of pack (Arsenal or PSP or SP) in quantities > 3 million credits. |
BigBallaJett | If you are just looking for traditional colors then I would look at Lands End shorts. They have some colors like khaki, navy, etc. and they are like $20-$25 bucks. But if you are looking for those funky colors, then maybe eBay but most likely if you want chubbies you are gonna have to pay the price.
TLDR: Fuck Chubbies | If you are just looking for traditional colors then I would look at Lands End shorts. They have some colors like khaki, navy, etc. and they are like $20-$25 bucks. But if you are looking for those funky colors, then maybe eBay but most likely if you want chubbies you are gonna have to pay the price.
TLDR: Fuck Chubbies
| Frat | t5_2s0mx | ces03sd | If you are just looking for traditional colors then I would look at Lands End shorts. They have some colors like khaki, navy, etc. and they are like $20-$25 bucks. But if you are looking for those funky colors, then maybe eBay but most likely if you want chubbies you are gonna have to pay the price. | Fuck Chubbies |
Linkenten | Slark is just too hard to kill.
His ulti is basically a free cheese if used correctly, he steals stats so it's extremely hard to just manmode him, he purges dust and gets ms when out of sight range so get an SB and you can't be killed, and pounce is just the icing on the survivability cake.
However, all ya gotta do it counter him. AA mercilessly destroys him, focusing him down using a hard disable like Fiends or Roar is great, obviously you can just doom him, etc. Hard lock down in lane and don't let him snowball, run tankier supports than usual or supports with escapes, and you'll be fine.
**TL;DR**: He's not overrated, you've just gotta know how to deal with him like any other hero. | Slark is just too hard to kill.
His ulti is basically a free cheese if used correctly, he steals stats so it's extremely hard to just manmode him, he purges dust and gets ms when out of sight range so get an SB and you can't be killed, and pounce is just the icing on the survivability cake.
However, all ya gotta do it counter him. AA mercilessly destroys him, focusing him down using a hard disable like Fiends or Roar is great, obviously you can just doom him, etc. Hard lock down in lane and don't let him snowball, run tankier supports than usual or supports with escapes, and you'll be fine.
TL;DR : He's not overrated, you've just gotta know how to deal with him like any other hero.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | ces7dm5 | Slark is just too hard to kill.
His ulti is basically a free cheese if used correctly, he steals stats so it's extremely hard to just manmode him, he purges dust and gets ms when out of sight range so get an SB and you can't be killed, and pounce is just the icing on the survivability cake.
However, all ya gotta do it counter him. AA mercilessly destroys him, focusing him down using a hard disable like Fiends or Roar is great, obviously you can just doom him, etc. Hard lock down in lane and don't let him snowball, run tankier supports than usual or supports with escapes, and you'll be fine. | He's not overrated, you've just gotta know how to deal with him like any other hero. |
TheEpicestDerp | No I didn't. I just shortened what you liked about. A tl;dr. I didn't attack them at all | No I didn't. I just shortened what you liked about. A tl;dr. I didn't attack them at all
| teenagers | t5_2rjli | cesoohl | No I didn't. I just shortened what you liked about. A | I didn't attack them at all |
AdorableLittleFuck | I actually got in an accident a week or so ago from all the ice and snow.
I have to meet with a prosecutor in a month to discuss the legitimacy of my citation. (I'm a minor, have to go to court. Family attorney talked to prosecutor, seems as though citation was written incorrectly. It said the roads were in pristine condition, but there was ice all over the place and a 6 hour wait for AAA service due to all the accidents. TL;DR I fucking hate Ohio winter.) | I actually got in an accident a week or so ago from all the ice and snow.
I have to meet with a prosecutor in a month to discuss the legitimacy of my citation. (I'm a minor, have to go to court. Family attorney talked to prosecutor, seems as though citation was written incorrectly. It said the roads were in pristine condition, but there was ice all over the place and a 6 hour wait for AAA service due to all the accidents. TL;DR I fucking hate Ohio winter.)
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | cet78ls | I actually got in an accident a week or so ago from all the ice and snow.
I have to meet with a prosecutor in a month to discuss the legitimacy of my citation. (I'm a minor, have to go to court. Family attorney talked to prosecutor, seems as though citation was written incorrectly. It said the roads were in pristine condition, but there was ice all over the place and a 6 hour wait for AAA service due to all the accidents. | I fucking hate Ohio winter.) |
Lafecian | As a residEnt, I can tell you that 80% or so of our prisons are for profit. The state spends about $3,000 per prisoner per year. For profit prisons run their prisons for cheaper, make a profit on prisoners, then take a percentage of that money and donate it to local sheriffs' offices, which in turn hires more deputies and they then arrest more people. About 1/4-1/3 of LA prison population is non-violent drug offenders with about 1/3 of those offenders in prison over pot. With this knowledge, you can then understand that Louisiana is fucked. How fucked? We'll be one of the last states to legalize or decriminalize weed. Big alcohol, private prisons, and the tobacco industry are working very hard to insure that this very drug conservative state stays drug conservative.
Basically, we need everyone and their mommas to pressure our state legislature to do the will of the people. If anyone knows anything about Louisiana politics, that means offer a shit load of money to several prominent congressional members. Louisiana, ladies and gEnts, is really fucked up.
TL;DR: Louisiana's private prison, alcohol, and tobacco industries are lobbying heavily against legalization in an already drug conservative state. | As a residEnt, I can tell you that 80% or so of our prisons are for profit. The state spends about $3,000 per prisoner per year. For profit prisons run their prisons for cheaper, make a profit on prisoners, then take a percentage of that money and donate it to local sheriffs' offices, which in turn hires more deputies and they then arrest more people. About 1/4-1/3 of LA prison population is non-violent drug offenders with about 1/3 of those offenders in prison over pot. With this knowledge, you can then understand that Louisiana is fucked. How fucked? We'll be one of the last states to legalize or decriminalize weed. Big alcohol, private prisons, and the tobacco industry are working very hard to insure that this very drug conservative state stays drug conservative.
Basically, we need everyone and their mommas to pressure our state legislature to do the will of the people. If anyone knows anything about Louisiana politics, that means offer a shit load of money to several prominent congressional members. Louisiana, ladies and gEnts, is really fucked up.
TL;DR: Louisiana's private prison, alcohol, and tobacco industries are lobbying heavily against legalization in an already drug conservative state.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | cet9bw3 | As a residEnt, I can tell you that 80% or so of our prisons are for profit. The state spends about $3,000 per prisoner per year. For profit prisons run their prisons for cheaper, make a profit on prisoners, then take a percentage of that money and donate it to local sheriffs' offices, which in turn hires more deputies and they then arrest more people. About 1/4-1/3 of LA prison population is non-violent drug offenders with about 1/3 of those offenders in prison over pot. With this knowledge, you can then understand that Louisiana is fucked. How fucked? We'll be one of the last states to legalize or decriminalize weed. Big alcohol, private prisons, and the tobacco industry are working very hard to insure that this very drug conservative state stays drug conservative.
Basically, we need everyone and their mommas to pressure our state legislature to do the will of the people. If anyone knows anything about Louisiana politics, that means offer a shit load of money to several prominent congressional members. Louisiana, ladies and gEnts, is really fucked up. | Louisiana's private prison, alcohol, and tobacco industries are lobbying heavily against legalization in an already drug conservative state. |
SirFancyWhale | I think this brawl really comes down to pure strength and force (DC) vs. resilience (Marvel).
I think the fight is pretty even, but only if certain circumstances are met. In a straight fight DC doesn't even break a sweat defeating Marvel. But where's the fun in that?
I think the the first move is made by Wolverine. His claws are already out, and being a mutant Canadian, alcohol consumption hasn't had any effect on him. He quickly incapacitates (with a set of claws to the back, it's definitely a cheap shot) Martian Manhunter, who's back is turned to Wolvie's. This leads to Power Girl retaliating at Wolverine. Wolverine's healing factor let's him keep up with the sheer force Power Girl has at her disposal. This match essentially ends in a draw, whoever defeats the other stands virtually no chance in another fight with another super powered individual.
So now Wolverine, Martian Manhunter, and Power Girl are eliminated.
The next four moves happen simultaneously.
1. The Flash goes straight for Black Widow, a quick win for the fastest man alive. Then turns his attention to the Hulk. The Flash can pack a wallop, but it's more of an annoyance to the Hulk than anything. However, the Hulk is still completely incapable of getting his hands on Flash due to his speed. Aquaman (whose water based powers are largely nullified in this land locked bar) goes to help. This goes on for a while...
2. Rouge knows she needs someone's power, and fast. The closest DC member is Wonder Women, who also has a conveniently skin revealing costume. Rouge tackles Wonder Woman, getting at most a 30 seconds worth of skin contact in a struggle before WW gets her bearings and fights back. This evens the match between Rogue and Wonder Woman initially. But the Amazonian is the more skilled warrior of the two, and bests Rouge with moderate ease. Wonder Woman then rejoins the fray...
3. Iron Man's sensors pick up the exploding batarang that Batman has already whipped out. Batman slings the batarang, but it's neutralized by Iron Man's repulsor beam. Iron Man activates his jets, slams full on into Batman, and they soar out of the bar. There's an explosion in midair leaving the fate of both undetermined...
4. Green Lantern makes the next move, which is a shot from his power ring at Spider Man. While this may seem like a one sided battle, Spider Man gives the Lantern (Hal Jordan in this case) a run for his money. Spider-Man's unpredictable, acrobatic fighting style proves to be effective against the more militaristic and practiced combat of the Lantern (Hal Jordan was a fighter pilot before he was a space policeman, and even after he got his ring, he was exposed to rigorous training). Spider Man is eventually able to neutralize Green Lantern long enough to snag the power ring off his finger with a web...
In that fray Black Widow, Rogue, and Green Lantern are eliminated. Batman and Iron Man could possibly return to the fight.
The Hulk, finally frustrated with Aquaman and Flash, grabs Aquaman and "Puny God's" him into the floor of the bar, which also causes enough disruption in the ground around him to trip Flash, allowing Hulk to finally land the few punches he needs to incapacitate Flash. The victory is short lived as Wonder Woman begins to attack Hulk.
At this point Flash and Aquaman are eliminated.
In all this chaos, Thor and Captain America have teamed up on Superman. Supes is of course holding his own against the two heroes, but Thor has landed a few swings of Mjolnir. Superman has yet to use his heat vision, as it has historically been his weapon of last resort. Cap isn't proving to be much help as Thor and Superman took to the air quickly in their brawl.
Wonder Woman's agility keeps her evenly matched against the Hulk until Spider Man swings in. He does his best to aid Hulk but his webbing proves almost entirely ineffective to the super strength of Wonder Woman. WW defeats Spidey. WW finally get's her lasso around the Hulks neck. She avoids a few swings and climbs on to the back of the giant, green, rage monster and tightens her lasso, essentially putting the Hulk into a sleeper hold. After a struggle, the Hulk succumbs and, while unconscious on the floor, turns back into Dr. Bruce Banner. Wonder Woman is weary but still has some fight left in her...
...Until she gets socked with a Vibranium shield. Capt. America, realizing he's useless in the aerial battle between Thor and Supes, comes back into the bar to see if he can help his teammates out. With Wonder Woman already pretty weakened, Cap takes her out, not necessarily because he's stronger, but he's just seen less of this battle than Wonder Woman has.
At this point Spidey, Hulk, and Wonder Woman are eliminated. Leaving Thor, Superman, and Capt. America...
...until Batman glides in. The explosion between him and Iron Man was caused by Batman wedging an exploding batarang into Iron Man's armor. Batman was able to kick off Iron Man before the detonation, taking minimal damage from the explosion that rendered Iron Man's armor useless. Batman throws the remaining batarangs at Thor, distracting him enough for Superman to finally get some solid punches in. Superman, at this point knows he wont kill Thor if he lets loose a little bit, and really wails on him. Thor valiantly tries to summon the lightning once more, but the Man of Steel is just too much at this point.
Superman and Batman now turn to face the only Avenger left, Captain America. Cap, not one to surrender, fights his heart out. But he's no match for Superman AND Batman.
And with that, DC is the victor! But the match was far closer than expected.
TL;DR
DC wins this match more often than not, but I think it's a much closer fight than at first glance.
EDIT: added a few details as to how Wolverine takes out Martian Manhunter | I think this brawl really comes down to pure strength and force (DC) vs. resilience (Marvel).
I think the fight is pretty even, but only if certain circumstances are met. In a straight fight DC doesn't even break a sweat defeating Marvel. But where's the fun in that?
I think the the first move is made by Wolverine. His claws are already out, and being a mutant Canadian, alcohol consumption hasn't had any effect on him. He quickly incapacitates (with a set of claws to the back, it's definitely a cheap shot) Martian Manhunter, who's back is turned to Wolvie's. This leads to Power Girl retaliating at Wolverine. Wolverine's healing factor let's him keep up with the sheer force Power Girl has at her disposal. This match essentially ends in a draw, whoever defeats the other stands virtually no chance in another fight with another super powered individual.
So now Wolverine, Martian Manhunter, and Power Girl are eliminated.
The next four moves happen simultaneously.
The Flash goes straight for Black Widow, a quick win for the fastest man alive. Then turns his attention to the Hulk. The Flash can pack a wallop, but it's more of an annoyance to the Hulk than anything. However, the Hulk is still completely incapable of getting his hands on Flash due to his speed. Aquaman (whose water based powers are largely nullified in this land locked bar) goes to help. This goes on for a while...
Rouge knows she needs someone's power, and fast. The closest DC member is Wonder Women, who also has a conveniently skin revealing costume. Rouge tackles Wonder Woman, getting at most a 30 seconds worth of skin contact in a struggle before WW gets her bearings and fights back. This evens the match between Rogue and Wonder Woman initially. But the Amazonian is the more skilled warrior of the two, and bests Rouge with moderate ease. Wonder Woman then rejoins the fray...
Iron Man's sensors pick up the exploding batarang that Batman has already whipped out. Batman slings the batarang, but it's neutralized by Iron Man's repulsor beam. Iron Man activates his jets, slams full on into Batman, and they soar out of the bar. There's an explosion in midair leaving the fate of both undetermined...
Green Lantern makes the next move, which is a shot from his power ring at Spider Man. While this may seem like a one sided battle, Spider Man gives the Lantern (Hal Jordan in this case) a run for his money. Spider-Man's unpredictable, acrobatic fighting style proves to be effective against the more militaristic and practiced combat of the Lantern (Hal Jordan was a fighter pilot before he was a space policeman, and even after he got his ring, he was exposed to rigorous training). Spider Man is eventually able to neutralize Green Lantern long enough to snag the power ring off his finger with a web...
In that fray Black Widow, Rogue, and Green Lantern are eliminated. Batman and Iron Man could possibly return to the fight.
The Hulk, finally frustrated with Aquaman and Flash, grabs Aquaman and "Puny God's" him into the floor of the bar, which also causes enough disruption in the ground around him to trip Flash, allowing Hulk to finally land the few punches he needs to incapacitate Flash. The victory is short lived as Wonder Woman begins to attack Hulk.
At this point Flash and Aquaman are eliminated.
In all this chaos, Thor and Captain America have teamed up on Superman. Supes is of course holding his own against the two heroes, but Thor has landed a few swings of Mjolnir. Superman has yet to use his heat vision, as it has historically been his weapon of last resort. Cap isn't proving to be much help as Thor and Superman took to the air quickly in their brawl.
Wonder Woman's agility keeps her evenly matched against the Hulk until Spider Man swings in. He does his best to aid Hulk but his webbing proves almost entirely ineffective to the super strength of Wonder Woman. WW defeats Spidey. WW finally get's her lasso around the Hulks neck. She avoids a few swings and climbs on to the back of the giant, green, rage monster and tightens her lasso, essentially putting the Hulk into a sleeper hold. After a struggle, the Hulk succumbs and, while unconscious on the floor, turns back into Dr. Bruce Banner. Wonder Woman is weary but still has some fight left in her...
...Until she gets socked with a Vibranium shield. Capt. America, realizing he's useless in the aerial battle between Thor and Supes, comes back into the bar to see if he can help his teammates out. With Wonder Woman already pretty weakened, Cap takes her out, not necessarily because he's stronger, but he's just seen less of this battle than Wonder Woman has.
At this point Spidey, Hulk, and Wonder Woman are eliminated. Leaving Thor, Superman, and Capt. America...
...until Batman glides in. The explosion between him and Iron Man was caused by Batman wedging an exploding batarang into Iron Man's armor. Batman was able to kick off Iron Man before the detonation, taking minimal damage from the explosion that rendered Iron Man's armor useless. Batman throws the remaining batarangs at Thor, distracting him enough for Superman to finally get some solid punches in. Superman, at this point knows he wont kill Thor if he lets loose a little bit, and really wails on him. Thor valiantly tries to summon the lightning once more, but the Man of Steel is just too much at this point.
Superman and Batman now turn to face the only Avenger left, Captain America. Cap, not one to surrender, fights his heart out. But he's no match for Superman AND Batman.
And with that, DC is the victor! But the match was far closer than expected.
TL;DR
DC wins this match more often than not, but I think it's a much closer fight than at first glance.
EDIT: added a few details as to how Wolverine takes out Martian Manhunter
| whowouldwin | t5_2s599 | cetbfqc | I think this brawl really comes down to pure strength and force (DC) vs. resilience (Marvel).
I think the fight is pretty even, but only if certain circumstances are met. In a straight fight DC doesn't even break a sweat defeating Marvel. But where's the fun in that?
I think the the first move is made by Wolverine. His claws are already out, and being a mutant Canadian, alcohol consumption hasn't had any effect on him. He quickly incapacitates (with a set of claws to the back, it's definitely a cheap shot) Martian Manhunter, who's back is turned to Wolvie's. This leads to Power Girl retaliating at Wolverine. Wolverine's healing factor let's him keep up with the sheer force Power Girl has at her disposal. This match essentially ends in a draw, whoever defeats the other stands virtually no chance in another fight with another super powered individual.
So now Wolverine, Martian Manhunter, and Power Girl are eliminated.
The next four moves happen simultaneously.
The Flash goes straight for Black Widow, a quick win for the fastest man alive. Then turns his attention to the Hulk. The Flash can pack a wallop, but it's more of an annoyance to the Hulk than anything. However, the Hulk is still completely incapable of getting his hands on Flash due to his speed. Aquaman (whose water based powers are largely nullified in this land locked bar) goes to help. This goes on for a while...
Rouge knows she needs someone's power, and fast. The closest DC member is Wonder Women, who also has a conveniently skin revealing costume. Rouge tackles Wonder Woman, getting at most a 30 seconds worth of skin contact in a struggle before WW gets her bearings and fights back. This evens the match between Rogue and Wonder Woman initially. But the Amazonian is the more skilled warrior of the two, and bests Rouge with moderate ease. Wonder Woman then rejoins the fray...
Iron Man's sensors pick up the exploding batarang that Batman has already whipped out. Batman slings the batarang, but it's neutralized by Iron Man's repulsor beam. Iron Man activates his jets, slams full on into Batman, and they soar out of the bar. There's an explosion in midair leaving the fate of both undetermined...
Green Lantern makes the next move, which is a shot from his power ring at Spider Man. While this may seem like a one sided battle, Spider Man gives the Lantern (Hal Jordan in this case) a run for his money. Spider-Man's unpredictable, acrobatic fighting style proves to be effective against the more militaristic and practiced combat of the Lantern (Hal Jordan was a fighter pilot before he was a space policeman, and even after he got his ring, he was exposed to rigorous training). Spider Man is eventually able to neutralize Green Lantern long enough to snag the power ring off his finger with a web...
In that fray Black Widow, Rogue, and Green Lantern are eliminated. Batman and Iron Man could possibly return to the fight.
The Hulk, finally frustrated with Aquaman and Flash, grabs Aquaman and "Puny God's" him into the floor of the bar, which also causes enough disruption in the ground around him to trip Flash, allowing Hulk to finally land the few punches he needs to incapacitate Flash. The victory is short lived as Wonder Woman begins to attack Hulk.
At this point Flash and Aquaman are eliminated.
In all this chaos, Thor and Captain America have teamed up on Superman. Supes is of course holding his own against the two heroes, but Thor has landed a few swings of Mjolnir. Superman has yet to use his heat vision, as it has historically been his weapon of last resort. Cap isn't proving to be much help as Thor and Superman took to the air quickly in their brawl.
Wonder Woman's agility keeps her evenly matched against the Hulk until Spider Man swings in. He does his best to aid Hulk but his webbing proves almost entirely ineffective to the super strength of Wonder Woman. WW defeats Spidey. WW finally get's her lasso around the Hulks neck. She avoids a few swings and climbs on to the back of the giant, green, rage monster and tightens her lasso, essentially putting the Hulk into a sleeper hold. After a struggle, the Hulk succumbs and, while unconscious on the floor, turns back into Dr. Bruce Banner. Wonder Woman is weary but still has some fight left in her...
...Until she gets socked with a Vibranium shield. Capt. America, realizing he's useless in the aerial battle between Thor and Supes, comes back into the bar to see if he can help his teammates out. With Wonder Woman already pretty weakened, Cap takes her out, not necessarily because he's stronger, but he's just seen less of this battle than Wonder Woman has.
At this point Spidey, Hulk, and Wonder Woman are eliminated. Leaving Thor, Superman, and Capt. America...
...until Batman glides in. The explosion between him and Iron Man was caused by Batman wedging an exploding batarang into Iron Man's armor. Batman was able to kick off Iron Man before the detonation, taking minimal damage from the explosion that rendered Iron Man's armor useless. Batman throws the remaining batarangs at Thor, distracting him enough for Superman to finally get some solid punches in. Superman, at this point knows he wont kill Thor if he lets loose a little bit, and really wails on him. Thor valiantly tries to summon the lightning once more, but the Man of Steel is just too much at this point.
Superman and Batman now turn to face the only Avenger left, Captain America. Cap, not one to surrender, fights his heart out. But he's no match for Superman AND Batman.
And with that, DC is the victor! But the match was far closer than expected. | DC wins this match more often than not, but I think it's a much closer fight than at first glance.
EDIT: added a few details as to how Wolverine takes out Martian Manhunter |
Bricci | You can already customize formations in Team Management for normal teams, but it would be great in FUT. For example if someone has to use a Position Change CAM>CM for Chemistry reasons in a 4312 they would want that CM to play higher up the pitch, and could accomplish it by customizing formations.
Also to tell if your opponent customized their formation, it would show the exact diagram in another section on the team-viewing screen right before you enter the match.
TL;DR: Hire me, EA. | You can already customize formations in Team Management for normal teams, but it would be great in FUT. For example if someone has to use a Position Change CAM>CM for Chemistry reasons in a 4312 they would want that CM to play higher up the pitch, and could accomplish it by customizing formations.
Also to tell if your opponent customized their formation, it would show the exact diagram in another section on the team-viewing screen right before you enter the match.
TL;DR: Hire me, EA.
| FIFA | t5_2qxh7 | cet4xxy | You can already customize formations in Team Management for normal teams, but it would be great in FUT. For example if someone has to use a Position Change CAM>CM for Chemistry reasons in a 4312 they would want that CM to play higher up the pitch, and could accomplish it by customizing formations.
Also to tell if your opponent customized their formation, it would show the exact diagram in another section on the team-viewing screen right before you enter the match. | Hire me, EA. |
Rhino_4 | As a peasant would say: "It isn't about the graphics."
And while a peasant wouldn't really mean it, I *do*. What about games like fez, braid, or bastion? What about old games like half life or freespace 2? Would you refuse to play those? If you refuse to play games simply because of bad graphics then you are seriously limiting yourself. Games are art, and just like traditional art, there are millions of variations, from abstract to photorealistic. All mediums tell a story though, and the quality of the story is what determines whether or not we like the art. Halo 4's story was amazingly well told.
tldr: OP needs to grow up and stop trying to impress others with his fanboyishness. | As a peasant would say: "It isn't about the graphics."
And while a peasant wouldn't really mean it, I do . What about games like fez, braid, or bastion? What about old games like half life or freespace 2? Would you refuse to play those? If you refuse to play games simply because of bad graphics then you are seriously limiting yourself. Games are art, and just like traditional art, there are millions of variations, from abstract to photorealistic. All mediums tell a story though, and the quality of the story is what determines whether or not we like the art. Halo 4's story was amazingly well told.
tldr: OP needs to grow up and stop trying to impress others with his fanboyishness.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cet6lv0 | As a peasant would say: "It isn't about the graphics."
And while a peasant wouldn't really mean it, I do . What about games like fez, braid, or bastion? What about old games like half life or freespace 2? Would you refuse to play those? If you refuse to play games simply because of bad graphics then you are seriously limiting yourself. Games are art, and just like traditional art, there are millions of variations, from abstract to photorealistic. All mediums tell a story though, and the quality of the story is what determines whether or not we like the art. Halo 4's story was amazingly well told. | OP needs to grow up and stop trying to impress others with his fanboyishness. |
EvElizabeth | Worst date ever would have to be one with a guy I had met in our University's library. Right? You'd think that if the guy had the guts and the charm to come over to me while I'm studying and ask me to dinner, he'd be a keeper. Nope. At least not in this case.
Told me he'd take me to dinner. Then when he came to pick me up, he said he didn't quite have enough money and maybe could we make dinner back at his place. I am totally fine with this, in fact I think it's a bit romantic. So we start making dinner, drinking wine, all that stuff. But as soon as we sit down, he's on his computer talking about his Fantasy Football League. Now, I have no problems with that but there is a time and place for everything. Then, he calls up some of his mates and talks for a good 20 minutes about who he should pick and a lot of football jargon that I do not quite understand. (Sorry, never been a big fan of football). All while I'm sitting there just idling time by myself, quietly eating. Then he gets off his computer and has finished his food when he asks me if, since he did the cooking (though we both did) could I do the dishes? Alright this slightly annoys me but I can understand why he'd want me to help out. I'm not trying to be a bitch on the first date. I find the sink already absolutely full of dishes and start on the ones that we used. I finish with just the plates that we used because I figured that's what he meant. So as I start to dry my hands he asks me why I haven't done the rest of them. I, now thoroughly pissed off and annoyed, do ALL the rest of the dishes by hand (no dishwasher) and ask him to take me home. Once we get back to my place he asks if he can come in for a bit, I politely say no, and he gets furious, kicking me out of the car and drives away. Needless to say, I didn't call him again.
Now I'm fine doing the dishes and helping out and all of that stuff! That's not a big problem but ignoring me as we eat dinner and then asking me to do the dishes on the FIRST date is a bit much I think.
TL;DR First date made dinner, spent whole meal fixing his Fantasy Football League and calling up mates, asks me to do all his dishes when done, then gets upset when I don't put out. | Worst date ever would have to be one with a guy I had met in our University's library. Right? You'd think that if the guy had the guts and the charm to come over to me while I'm studying and ask me to dinner, he'd be a keeper. Nope. At least not in this case.
Told me he'd take me to dinner. Then when he came to pick me up, he said he didn't quite have enough money and maybe could we make dinner back at his place. I am totally fine with this, in fact I think it's a bit romantic. So we start making dinner, drinking wine, all that stuff. But as soon as we sit down, he's on his computer talking about his Fantasy Football League. Now, I have no problems with that but there is a time and place for everything. Then, he calls up some of his mates and talks for a good 20 minutes about who he should pick and a lot of football jargon that I do not quite understand. (Sorry, never been a big fan of football). All while I'm sitting there just idling time by myself, quietly eating. Then he gets off his computer and has finished his food when he asks me if, since he did the cooking (though we both did) could I do the dishes? Alright this slightly annoys me but I can understand why he'd want me to help out. I'm not trying to be a bitch on the first date. I find the sink already absolutely full of dishes and start on the ones that we used. I finish with just the plates that we used because I figured that's what he meant. So as I start to dry my hands he asks me why I haven't done the rest of them. I, now thoroughly pissed off and annoyed, do ALL the rest of the dishes by hand (no dishwasher) and ask him to take me home. Once we get back to my place he asks if he can come in for a bit, I politely say no, and he gets furious, kicking me out of the car and drives away. Needless to say, I didn't call him again.
Now I'm fine doing the dishes and helping out and all of that stuff! That's not a big problem but ignoring me as we eat dinner and then asking me to do the dishes on the FIRST date is a bit much I think.
TL;DR First date made dinner, spent whole meal fixing his Fantasy Football League and calling up mates, asks me to do all his dishes when done, then gets upset when I don't put out.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetdj50 | Worst date ever would have to be one with a guy I had met in our University's library. Right? You'd think that if the guy had the guts and the charm to come over to me while I'm studying and ask me to dinner, he'd be a keeper. Nope. At least not in this case.
Told me he'd take me to dinner. Then when he came to pick me up, he said he didn't quite have enough money and maybe could we make dinner back at his place. I am totally fine with this, in fact I think it's a bit romantic. So we start making dinner, drinking wine, all that stuff. But as soon as we sit down, he's on his computer talking about his Fantasy Football League. Now, I have no problems with that but there is a time and place for everything. Then, he calls up some of his mates and talks for a good 20 minutes about who he should pick and a lot of football jargon that I do not quite understand. (Sorry, never been a big fan of football). All while I'm sitting there just idling time by myself, quietly eating. Then he gets off his computer and has finished his food when he asks me if, since he did the cooking (though we both did) could I do the dishes? Alright this slightly annoys me but I can understand why he'd want me to help out. I'm not trying to be a bitch on the first date. I find the sink already absolutely full of dishes and start on the ones that we used. I finish with just the plates that we used because I figured that's what he meant. So as I start to dry my hands he asks me why I haven't done the rest of them. I, now thoroughly pissed off and annoyed, do ALL the rest of the dishes by hand (no dishwasher) and ask him to take me home. Once we get back to my place he asks if he can come in for a bit, I politely say no, and he gets furious, kicking me out of the car and drives away. Needless to say, I didn't call him again.
Now I'm fine doing the dishes and helping out and all of that stuff! That's not a big problem but ignoring me as we eat dinner and then asking me to do the dishes on the FIRST date is a bit much I think. | First date made dinner, spent whole meal fixing his Fantasy Football League and calling up mates, asks me to do all his dishes when done, then gets upset when I don't put out. |
ephemeralcynosure | I had seen this guy a couple times, met him through a mutual friend, blahblah. He invited a small group of people over for a party. As guests started leaving one by one, he ended up pulling out some old box of things he had been keeping and showing them to me. A lot of his shit was boring or kind of weird (ex. an empty chip bag from a summer camp ten years prior). I indulged him because I liked making out, okay?
Anyway, he pulls out this envelope and holds it gingerly with a content look on his face. After I prompted him to explain why he was fondly cradling said envelope, he opened it and showed me its contents. Hair. Locks of hair in varying colors. All from his ex girlfriend. Every time she changed her hair style, he would request a lock of her hair and keep it in this creeper envelope.
I couldn't quite keep the expression of disbelief off my face and it prompted him to put the box away. I had convinced myself to forgive him for this eccentricity (he had many--he was literally an artist of the kookiest kind in Portland, OR) mostly because he was hot and I was hoping to get lucky that night. But I was fully aware of how weird it was.
Anyway, we were putting some stuff away from the party and I opened the fridge to put a few sodas away when, in the vegetable crisper, a neon blue liquid catches my eye. I slowly pull the drawer open and see a plastic container with a few fish and a lizard floating in it. I could feel my attraction dying. Just as slowly, I closed the drawer again and turned to put away the ice cream that was still on the counter. When I opened the freezer, I was face to face with a dead bird and, before I could stop myself, I said, "Why the FUCK is there a dead bird in your freezer?"
His response was, "I found it on the side of the road and wanted to do something with it."
I got myself out of that house in under three minutes and, strangely, he never tried calling me again.
**TL;DR Hot, Portland artist-type guy has ex's hair in an envelope and dead animals in the fridge and freezer.** | I had seen this guy a couple times, met him through a mutual friend, blahblah. He invited a small group of people over for a party. As guests started leaving one by one, he ended up pulling out some old box of things he had been keeping and showing them to me. A lot of his shit was boring or kind of weird (ex. an empty chip bag from a summer camp ten years prior). I indulged him because I liked making out, okay?
Anyway, he pulls out this envelope and holds it gingerly with a content look on his face. After I prompted him to explain why he was fondly cradling said envelope, he opened it and showed me its contents. Hair. Locks of hair in varying colors. All from his ex girlfriend. Every time she changed her hair style, he would request a lock of her hair and keep it in this creeper envelope.
I couldn't quite keep the expression of disbelief off my face and it prompted him to put the box away. I had convinced myself to forgive him for this eccentricity (he had many--he was literally an artist of the kookiest kind in Portland, OR) mostly because he was hot and I was hoping to get lucky that night. But I was fully aware of how weird it was.
Anyway, we were putting some stuff away from the party and I opened the fridge to put a few sodas away when, in the vegetable crisper, a neon blue liquid catches my eye. I slowly pull the drawer open and see a plastic container with a few fish and a lizard floating in it. I could feel my attraction dying. Just as slowly, I closed the drawer again and turned to put away the ice cream that was still on the counter. When I opened the freezer, I was face to face with a dead bird and, before I could stop myself, I said, "Why the FUCK is there a dead bird in your freezer?"
His response was, "I found it on the side of the road and wanted to do something with it."
I got myself out of that house in under three minutes and, strangely, he never tried calling me again.
TL;DR Hot, Portland artist-type guy has ex's hair in an envelope and dead animals in the fridge and freezer.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetdk70 | I had seen this guy a couple times, met him through a mutual friend, blahblah. He invited a small group of people over for a party. As guests started leaving one by one, he ended up pulling out some old box of things he had been keeping and showing them to me. A lot of his shit was boring or kind of weird (ex. an empty chip bag from a summer camp ten years prior). I indulged him because I liked making out, okay?
Anyway, he pulls out this envelope and holds it gingerly with a content look on his face. After I prompted him to explain why he was fondly cradling said envelope, he opened it and showed me its contents. Hair. Locks of hair in varying colors. All from his ex girlfriend. Every time she changed her hair style, he would request a lock of her hair and keep it in this creeper envelope.
I couldn't quite keep the expression of disbelief off my face and it prompted him to put the box away. I had convinced myself to forgive him for this eccentricity (he had many--he was literally an artist of the kookiest kind in Portland, OR) mostly because he was hot and I was hoping to get lucky that night. But I was fully aware of how weird it was.
Anyway, we were putting some stuff away from the party and I opened the fridge to put a few sodas away when, in the vegetable crisper, a neon blue liquid catches my eye. I slowly pull the drawer open and see a plastic container with a few fish and a lizard floating in it. I could feel my attraction dying. Just as slowly, I closed the drawer again and turned to put away the ice cream that was still on the counter. When I opened the freezer, I was face to face with a dead bird and, before I could stop myself, I said, "Why the FUCK is there a dead bird in your freezer?"
His response was, "I found it on the side of the road and wanted to do something with it."
I got myself out of that house in under three minutes and, strangely, he never tried calling me again. | Hot, Portland artist-type guy has ex's hair in an envelope and dead animals in the fridge and freezer. |
Death_proofer | This sort of counts. I was 16 and playing wingman for my friend. We met up at the movies and the girl I was suppose to "be with" clearly didn't want to be there. I was trying my best to make her feel comfortable but she wasn't having any of it. We ended up going to the movies and my friends girl demanded we watch what ever she wanted. She chose fucking epic movie. I ended up paying for all 4 tickets. I knew this movie was going to be a piece of shit but they insisted it looked like a good funny movie. They wanted to leave the movie early because it was soo fucking bad and soon after they just left us without really saying good bye.
TLDR went on a double date, mine didn't want to be there. I paid for a shit movie only to have our dates ditch us. | This sort of counts. I was 16 and playing wingman for my friend. We met up at the movies and the girl I was suppose to "be with" clearly didn't want to be there. I was trying my best to make her feel comfortable but she wasn't having any of it. We ended up going to the movies and my friends girl demanded we watch what ever she wanted. She chose fucking epic movie. I ended up paying for all 4 tickets. I knew this movie was going to be a piece of shit but they insisted it looked like a good funny movie. They wanted to leave the movie early because it was soo fucking bad and soon after they just left us without really saying good bye.
TLDR went on a double date, mine didn't want to be there. I paid for a shit movie only to have our dates ditch us.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cete0hf | This sort of counts. I was 16 and playing wingman for my friend. We met up at the movies and the girl I was suppose to "be with" clearly didn't want to be there. I was trying my best to make her feel comfortable but she wasn't having any of it. We ended up going to the movies and my friends girl demanded we watch what ever she wanted. She chose fucking epic movie. I ended up paying for all 4 tickets. I knew this movie was going to be a piece of shit but they insisted it looked like a good funny movie. They wanted to leave the movie early because it was soo fucking bad and soon after they just left us without really saying good bye. | went on a double date, mine didn't want to be there. I paid for a shit movie only to have our dates ditch us. |
microsoftpretzel | In high school, we went on a date to see The Prince of Egypt, the Val Kilmer Moses cartoon, because why not.
We were the only two people in the theater for the first ten minutes or so until a class of various middle-school aged kids from a religious school walk in and sit in the row directly behind us for some reason. They kicked the back of our seats and threw popcorn at our heads continuously saying "what-are-you-gonna-do-about-it?" There was a teacher but he wasn't saying anything.
Like every responsible adult capable of dealing with their own problems, I told on them to the management of the theater. The usher comes down with a flashlight and asks them to behave or leave, they choose to leave, screaming that we were intolerant and were picking on them.
Then she puked popcorn in my car on the way home.
I didn't know what to do, so I pulled over and waited for her to finish.
Because I turned the car off, she thought I was mad at her for puking, so she started to cry and got out of the car to walk home. I had to drive slowly on the road with the door open, beckoning her to get back inside the puke filled car.
I probably looked insane.
tl;dr: Fuck you, Val Kilmer | In high school, we went on a date to see The Prince of Egypt, the Val Kilmer Moses cartoon, because why not.
We were the only two people in the theater for the first ten minutes or so until a class of various middle-school aged kids from a religious school walk in and sit in the row directly behind us for some reason. They kicked the back of our seats and threw popcorn at our heads continuously saying "what-are-you-gonna-do-about-it?" There was a teacher but he wasn't saying anything.
Like every responsible adult capable of dealing with their own problems, I told on them to the management of the theater. The usher comes down with a flashlight and asks them to behave or leave, they choose to leave, screaming that we were intolerant and were picking on them.
Then she puked popcorn in my car on the way home.
I didn't know what to do, so I pulled over and waited for her to finish.
Because I turned the car off, she thought I was mad at her for puking, so she started to cry and got out of the car to walk home. I had to drive slowly on the road with the door open, beckoning her to get back inside the puke filled car.
I probably looked insane.
tl;dr: Fuck you, Val Kilmer
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetebs8 | In high school, we went on a date to see The Prince of Egypt, the Val Kilmer Moses cartoon, because why not.
We were the only two people in the theater for the first ten minutes or so until a class of various middle-school aged kids from a religious school walk in and sit in the row directly behind us for some reason. They kicked the back of our seats and threw popcorn at our heads continuously saying "what-are-you-gonna-do-about-it?" There was a teacher but he wasn't saying anything.
Like every responsible adult capable of dealing with their own problems, I told on them to the management of the theater. The usher comes down with a flashlight and asks them to behave or leave, they choose to leave, screaming that we were intolerant and were picking on them.
Then she puked popcorn in my car on the way home.
I didn't know what to do, so I pulled over and waited for her to finish.
Because I turned the car off, she thought I was mad at her for puking, so she started to cry and got out of the car to walk home. I had to drive slowly on the road with the door open, beckoning her to get back inside the puke filled car.
I probably looked insane. | Fuck you, Val Kilmer |
ARev627 | In college a guy who I had only met once and texted a lot asked me out. I had to drive to his apartment because he would not tell me what we were doing or where we were going. My friends told me to keep my phone on me and have their numbers ready to come pick me up if things get weird.
So when I get to his house, we get in his car and he's still being really vague about what his plans are. After driving a few minutes, he then pulls into a bookstore. He days, "I think going out to eat on a date is so overrated... And I need a book for class." Cool, wish I knew that so I could have already eaten.... Whatever.
So we're walking aimlessly around the bookstore talking. He's randomly picking up books and asking me about myself. Well, we get to talking about my sorority. He's mocking me about it. How we're all little princesses and buy out friends and are whores. He calls me a little princess for the rest of the night. I'm over this now and ready to go home.
After he's done at the bookstore, he never buys any book for class, we leave to head back to his apartment. He asks me if I want to come inside and watch a movie with him and his roommates. I decline and tell him I have a lot of homework to catch up on. He tries to go in for the kiss and I let him kiss my cheek. I leave his place and never spoke to him again.
TL;DR: Guy asks me on date. Doesn't tell me what we're doing. Takes me to bookstore because "eating out on dates is overrated" and he needs a book for class. Spends time at book store insulting me then takes me back to his place to watch a movie with his roommates and attempts and awkward good bye kiss. He never even bought a book... | In college a guy who I had only met once and texted a lot asked me out. I had to drive to his apartment because he would not tell me what we were doing or where we were going. My friends told me to keep my phone on me and have their numbers ready to come pick me up if things get weird.
So when I get to his house, we get in his car and he's still being really vague about what his plans are. After driving a few minutes, he then pulls into a bookstore. He days, "I think going out to eat on a date is so overrated... And I need a book for class." Cool, wish I knew that so I could have already eaten.... Whatever.
So we're walking aimlessly around the bookstore talking. He's randomly picking up books and asking me about myself. Well, we get to talking about my sorority. He's mocking me about it. How we're all little princesses and buy out friends and are whores. He calls me a little princess for the rest of the night. I'm over this now and ready to go home.
After he's done at the bookstore, he never buys any book for class, we leave to head back to his apartment. He asks me if I want to come inside and watch a movie with him and his roommates. I decline and tell him I have a lot of homework to catch up on. He tries to go in for the kiss and I let him kiss my cheek. I leave his place and never spoke to him again.
TL;DR: Guy asks me on date. Doesn't tell me what we're doing. Takes me to bookstore because "eating out on dates is overrated" and he needs a book for class. Spends time at book store insulting me then takes me back to his place to watch a movie with his roommates and attempts and awkward good bye kiss. He never even bought a book...
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetezpo | In college a guy who I had only met once and texted a lot asked me out. I had to drive to his apartment because he would not tell me what we were doing or where we were going. My friends told me to keep my phone on me and have their numbers ready to come pick me up if things get weird.
So when I get to his house, we get in his car and he's still being really vague about what his plans are. After driving a few minutes, he then pulls into a bookstore. He days, "I think going out to eat on a date is so overrated... And I need a book for class." Cool, wish I knew that so I could have already eaten.... Whatever.
So we're walking aimlessly around the bookstore talking. He's randomly picking up books and asking me about myself. Well, we get to talking about my sorority. He's mocking me about it. How we're all little princesses and buy out friends and are whores. He calls me a little princess for the rest of the night. I'm over this now and ready to go home.
After he's done at the bookstore, he never buys any book for class, we leave to head back to his apartment. He asks me if I want to come inside and watch a movie with him and his roommates. I decline and tell him I have a lot of homework to catch up on. He tries to go in for the kiss and I let him kiss my cheek. I leave his place and never spoke to him again. | Guy asks me on date. Doesn't tell me what we're doing. Takes me to bookstore because "eating out on dates is overrated" and he needs a book for class. Spends time at book store insulting me then takes me back to his place to watch a movie with his roommates and attempts and awkward good bye kiss. He never even bought a book... |
Imalawyerkid | Met a girl on craigslist about 5-6 years ago. I was new to the area, so when she told me her address I had no idea I was about to drive into the worst ghetto the state had to offer. When I get there, I text her, but it doesn't go through because she only has a land line. The car in front of me starts blasting its horn before taking off. As soon as he does, she comes out around the corner looking pissed off I was honking. Off to a good start...
I start driving back to my place and this girl does not stop talking the entire time. No problem, a little weird, but at least she was friendly. Honestly, I just wanted to get the hell out of the neighborhood. When we get a few blocks from my place, she leans out the window and yells to some dude at the bus stop. Something like, "look, I'm in a car!" Ok, whatever.
I get her to my place, and we smoke a bit. I offer her ice cream, and she insists on putting the spoon into boiling water. I still don't care because my best move is coming up. I had a studio with a bed in front of the tv... no couch. I suggest we watch a movie and she was game. Picks one, jumps right into bed.
So I go in for the kiss and this girl put her tongue as far down my throat as possible. Seriously, there was tongue everywhere. I would have let that slide, but her arm was above her head, and the BO was overwhelming. Also, at that exact moment, I glanced over and saw a mouse in the center of my apartment. It was the trifecta, and I had enough. It's now 3am and I tell her I will take her home. She obviously wants to stay and gives me the "my mom will be so mad at me coming home this late." Whatever stinky, I need to get you out of here and buy some mouse traps. I trek back to the ghetto and she starts telling me what a nympho she is. For a second I consider getting road head, but at that point I just wanted to call it quits. I drop her home and honestly hope I don't get shot driving out of there.
For the finale to this disaster, I get lost on my way out of the hood and stop at a gas station for directions. I got out of the car, but the store at the station was closed. Being outside the car was a bad idea, but some taxi saw me and took mercy on me and drove over to tell me how to escape. We were pointed opposite directions to talk driver to driver and he points to the highway entrance. I floor it to get out of there... right over a curb.
TL;DR: picked up a girl on the internet. Unknowingly drove to the ghetto to get her, smoked, made out with her while a mouse watched and got repulsed by her BO. Drove her back to the ghetto without getting off and bottomed out on the ride home. | Met a girl on craigslist about 5-6 years ago. I was new to the area, so when she told me her address I had no idea I was about to drive into the worst ghetto the state had to offer. When I get there, I text her, but it doesn't go through because she only has a land line. The car in front of me starts blasting its horn before taking off. As soon as he does, she comes out around the corner looking pissed off I was honking. Off to a good start...
I start driving back to my place and this girl does not stop talking the entire time. No problem, a little weird, but at least she was friendly. Honestly, I just wanted to get the hell out of the neighborhood. When we get a few blocks from my place, she leans out the window and yells to some dude at the bus stop. Something like, "look, I'm in a car!" Ok, whatever.
I get her to my place, and we smoke a bit. I offer her ice cream, and she insists on putting the spoon into boiling water. I still don't care because my best move is coming up. I had a studio with a bed in front of the tv... no couch. I suggest we watch a movie and she was game. Picks one, jumps right into bed.
So I go in for the kiss and this girl put her tongue as far down my throat as possible. Seriously, there was tongue everywhere. I would have let that slide, but her arm was above her head, and the BO was overwhelming. Also, at that exact moment, I glanced over and saw a mouse in the center of my apartment. It was the trifecta, and I had enough. It's now 3am and I tell her I will take her home. She obviously wants to stay and gives me the "my mom will be so mad at me coming home this late." Whatever stinky, I need to get you out of here and buy some mouse traps. I trek back to the ghetto and she starts telling me what a nympho she is. For a second I consider getting road head, but at that point I just wanted to call it quits. I drop her home and honestly hope I don't get shot driving out of there.
For the finale to this disaster, I get lost on my way out of the hood and stop at a gas station for directions. I got out of the car, but the store at the station was closed. Being outside the car was a bad idea, but some taxi saw me and took mercy on me and drove over to tell me how to escape. We were pointed opposite directions to talk driver to driver and he points to the highway entrance. I floor it to get out of there... right over a curb.
TL;DR: picked up a girl on the internet. Unknowingly drove to the ghetto to get her, smoked, made out with her while a mouse watched and got repulsed by her BO. Drove her back to the ghetto without getting off and bottomed out on the ride home.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetfccw | Met a girl on craigslist about 5-6 years ago. I was new to the area, so when she told me her address I had no idea I was about to drive into the worst ghetto the state had to offer. When I get there, I text her, but it doesn't go through because she only has a land line. The car in front of me starts blasting its horn before taking off. As soon as he does, she comes out around the corner looking pissed off I was honking. Off to a good start...
I start driving back to my place and this girl does not stop talking the entire time. No problem, a little weird, but at least she was friendly. Honestly, I just wanted to get the hell out of the neighborhood. When we get a few blocks from my place, she leans out the window and yells to some dude at the bus stop. Something like, "look, I'm in a car!" Ok, whatever.
I get her to my place, and we smoke a bit. I offer her ice cream, and she insists on putting the spoon into boiling water. I still don't care because my best move is coming up. I had a studio with a bed in front of the tv... no couch. I suggest we watch a movie and she was game. Picks one, jumps right into bed.
So I go in for the kiss and this girl put her tongue as far down my throat as possible. Seriously, there was tongue everywhere. I would have let that slide, but her arm was above her head, and the BO was overwhelming. Also, at that exact moment, I glanced over and saw a mouse in the center of my apartment. It was the trifecta, and I had enough. It's now 3am and I tell her I will take her home. She obviously wants to stay and gives me the "my mom will be so mad at me coming home this late." Whatever stinky, I need to get you out of here and buy some mouse traps. I trek back to the ghetto and she starts telling me what a nympho she is. For a second I consider getting road head, but at that point I just wanted to call it quits. I drop her home and honestly hope I don't get shot driving out of there.
For the finale to this disaster, I get lost on my way out of the hood and stop at a gas station for directions. I got out of the car, but the store at the station was closed. Being outside the car was a bad idea, but some taxi saw me and took mercy on me and drove over to tell me how to escape. We were pointed opposite directions to talk driver to driver and he points to the highway entrance. I floor it to get out of there... right over a curb. | picked up a girl on the internet. Unknowingly drove to the ghetto to get her, smoked, made out with her while a mouse watched and got repulsed by her BO. Drove her back to the ghetto without getting off and bottomed out on the ride home. |
smilingjester | my first date. I was 14, and we barely even talk. We walked around the town in the dark listening to music on earphones. When we got back to where she lived, she refused to stay, and followed me to my place, so I won't go home alone.
TL;DR: my first girlfriend was a gentleman to me.
*ninja grammar edit* | my first date. I was 14, and we barely even talk. We walked around the town in the dark listening to music on earphones. When we got back to where she lived, she refused to stay, and followed me to my place, so I won't go home alone.
TL;DR: my first girlfriend was a gentleman to me.
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| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetfiit | my first date. I was 14, and we barely even talk. We walked around the town in the dark listening to music on earphones. When we got back to where she lived, she refused to stay, and followed me to my place, so I won't go home alone. | my first girlfriend was a gentleman to me.
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htallen | I met this girl online who decided when I went to pick her up she wanted to bring along her two best friends who were constantly making out in the back while I drove two hours to a nightclub (she really wanted to go) that it turned out was shut down then another two hours back towards where I picked her up only for her to decide they wanted to go to a strip club. It was a full nude nasty strip club, the kind of place I felt I needed to take an acid bath afterward to be clean again. Her one female friend kept us there until closing in an attempt to pick up one of the strippers and the other male friend spent the entire time lamenting how his girlfriend had dumped him earlier that day. The girl I was on the date with however spent the entire five hours commenting how the strippers vaginas looked wrong. I saw nothing wrong with any of them which led me to wonder what her vagina could possibly look like that she thought the others were wrong.
TL;DR Girl brought along two best friends to nasty strip club; female friend picked up nasty stripper; male friend was depressing; and female date didn't seem to know what a vagina is supposed to look like. | I met this girl online who decided when I went to pick her up she wanted to bring along her two best friends who were constantly making out in the back while I drove two hours to a nightclub (she really wanted to go) that it turned out was shut down then another two hours back towards where I picked her up only for her to decide they wanted to go to a strip club. It was a full nude nasty strip club, the kind of place I felt I needed to take an acid bath afterward to be clean again. Her one female friend kept us there until closing in an attempt to pick up one of the strippers and the other male friend spent the entire time lamenting how his girlfriend had dumped him earlier that day. The girl I was on the date with however spent the entire five hours commenting how the strippers vaginas looked wrong. I saw nothing wrong with any of them which led me to wonder what her vagina could possibly look like that she thought the others were wrong.
TL;DR Girl brought along two best friends to nasty strip club; female friend picked up nasty stripper; male friend was depressing; and female date didn't seem to know what a vagina is supposed to look like.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetflip | I met this girl online who decided when I went to pick her up she wanted to bring along her two best friends who were constantly making out in the back while I drove two hours to a nightclub (she really wanted to go) that it turned out was shut down then another two hours back towards where I picked her up only for her to decide they wanted to go to a strip club. It was a full nude nasty strip club, the kind of place I felt I needed to take an acid bath afterward to be clean again. Her one female friend kept us there until closing in an attempt to pick up one of the strippers and the other male friend spent the entire time lamenting how his girlfriend had dumped him earlier that day. The girl I was on the date with however spent the entire five hours commenting how the strippers vaginas looked wrong. I saw nothing wrong with any of them which led me to wonder what her vagina could possibly look like that she thought the others were wrong. | Girl brought along two best friends to nasty strip club; female friend picked up nasty stripper; male friend was depressing; and female date didn't seem to know what a vagina is supposed to look like. |
isaacboike | Not too bad in comparison to others on here, but I ended up going out with this one girl for a first date a while back. I didn't really know her, but I thought she was cute and asked her out. She tells me a day later that we should go on a double date with her friends (an established couple) because they can get us into a free movie. I'm fine with that. I like free things.
Day of the date, I go to pick her up at her house. Except I can't pick her up. Her mother INSISTS on driving us to the movie theater. I am still not deterred. Awkward ride over, but whatever. We still talk and kind of get to know each other. We meet her friends at the theater and the movie starts. It takes about 5 minutes of the movie before her friends start making out. And it wasn't just quiet stuff you could ignore. The girl is moaning and the guy is "talking dirty". This goes on for the majority of the movie.
By the end, my date and I were just awkwarded out and didn't say a word to each other. Then to top off the awkwardness, we had to ride back to her house with her mother. We did not go out again.
TL;DR Went on a double date with girl and her friends. Her friends make out super hardcore the entire time. Then we had to survive further awkwardness getting a ride from her mother. | Not too bad in comparison to others on here, but I ended up going out with this one girl for a first date a while back. I didn't really know her, but I thought she was cute and asked her out. She tells me a day later that we should go on a double date with her friends (an established couple) because they can get us into a free movie. I'm fine with that. I like free things.
Day of the date, I go to pick her up at her house. Except I can't pick her up. Her mother INSISTS on driving us to the movie theater. I am still not deterred. Awkward ride over, but whatever. We still talk and kind of get to know each other. We meet her friends at the theater and the movie starts. It takes about 5 minutes of the movie before her friends start making out. And it wasn't just quiet stuff you could ignore. The girl is moaning and the guy is "talking dirty". This goes on for the majority of the movie.
By the end, my date and I were just awkwarded out and didn't say a word to each other. Then to top off the awkwardness, we had to ride back to her house with her mother. We did not go out again.
TL;DR Went on a double date with girl and her friends. Her friends make out super hardcore the entire time. Then we had to survive further awkwardness getting a ride from her mother.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetflxt | Not too bad in comparison to others on here, but I ended up going out with this one girl for a first date a while back. I didn't really know her, but I thought she was cute and asked her out. She tells me a day later that we should go on a double date with her friends (an established couple) because they can get us into a free movie. I'm fine with that. I like free things.
Day of the date, I go to pick her up at her house. Except I can't pick her up. Her mother INSISTS on driving us to the movie theater. I am still not deterred. Awkward ride over, but whatever. We still talk and kind of get to know each other. We meet her friends at the theater and the movie starts. It takes about 5 minutes of the movie before her friends start making out. And it wasn't just quiet stuff you could ignore. The girl is moaning and the guy is "talking dirty". This goes on for the majority of the movie.
By the end, my date and I were just awkwarded out and didn't say a word to each other. Then to top off the awkwardness, we had to ride back to her house with her mother. We did not go out again. | Went on a double date with girl and her friends. Her friends make out super hardcore the entire time. Then we had to survive further awkwardness getting a ride from her mother. |
Peapod512 | I was 20, and in college. I'm female. I had met this kid in my ethics class (somewhat pertinent) and he seemed nice. We would talk briefly and he seemed like a fine guy. I worked on-campus at a coffee shop, and when he'd stop by, I'd give him free samples just to be friendly.
We had exchanged numbers to work on a class project, but he texted me one day to ask if I wanted to come to his dorm room to watch a movie. Since we weren't 21, dorm parties were a regular occurrence and I thought nothing of it. He told me there would be some guys from his hall there and I agreed.
I showed up to his dorm room, there was no one else there - not even his roommate. So this was a date...alright, kind of weird that you told me people would be here, but I'll just roll with it. He turns on Superbad and we watch in silence. Out of nowhere, he says "I'm really good at eating girls out." I was flabbergasted because this came out of nowhere and was pretty awkward. I kind of laughed it off and said something along the lines of "good for you." Silently, we kept watching. I should have listened to my instincts to get the hell out of there, but I felt too awkward.
Suddenly, he was asking me all these inappropriate sexual questions. "How many people have you had sex with?" I'm not shy, so I gave him the answer, but it took me a minute or so to think. He got all up in my face and said "ew you're dirty, it took you that long to think of all the guys?" (The number was 5, so really not that many). Everything turned into a competition. This next bit was the last straw.
Still in that competitive mindset, he says, "I bet I've had a harder life than you!" I say, why? Well, fuck me for asking. He pulls out a LARGE knife from his top bedside drawer and tells me his brother held it to his neck when he was a kid. I grabbed my coat and ran the fuck out of there. I got back to my dorm and started banging on my friend's door to let me in. I looked behind me down the hallway and there he was, the kid, following me. My friend finally answered the door and I charged in, slamming the door behind (automatically locking it).
I drank a lot of vodka that night.
TL;DR Trust your instincts when they tell you to get the hell out of the situation. | I was 20, and in college. I'm female. I had met this kid in my ethics class (somewhat pertinent) and he seemed nice. We would talk briefly and he seemed like a fine guy. I worked on-campus at a coffee shop, and when he'd stop by, I'd give him free samples just to be friendly.
We had exchanged numbers to work on a class project, but he texted me one day to ask if I wanted to come to his dorm room to watch a movie. Since we weren't 21, dorm parties were a regular occurrence and I thought nothing of it. He told me there would be some guys from his hall there and I agreed.
I showed up to his dorm room, there was no one else there - not even his roommate. So this was a date...alright, kind of weird that you told me people would be here, but I'll just roll with it. He turns on Superbad and we watch in silence. Out of nowhere, he says "I'm really good at eating girls out." I was flabbergasted because this came out of nowhere and was pretty awkward. I kind of laughed it off and said something along the lines of "good for you." Silently, we kept watching. I should have listened to my instincts to get the hell out of there, but I felt too awkward.
Suddenly, he was asking me all these inappropriate sexual questions. "How many people have you had sex with?" I'm not shy, so I gave him the answer, but it took me a minute or so to think. He got all up in my face and said "ew you're dirty, it took you that long to think of all the guys?" (The number was 5, so really not that many). Everything turned into a competition. This next bit was the last straw.
Still in that competitive mindset, he says, "I bet I've had a harder life than you!" I say, why? Well, fuck me for asking. He pulls out a LARGE knife from his top bedside drawer and tells me his brother held it to his neck when he was a kid. I grabbed my coat and ran the fuck out of there. I got back to my dorm and started banging on my friend's door to let me in. I looked behind me down the hallway and there he was, the kid, following me. My friend finally answered the door and I charged in, slamming the door behind (automatically locking it).
I drank a lot of vodka that night.
TL;DR Trust your instincts when they tell you to get the hell out of the situation.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetfq3c | I was 20, and in college. I'm female. I had met this kid in my ethics class (somewhat pertinent) and he seemed nice. We would talk briefly and he seemed like a fine guy. I worked on-campus at a coffee shop, and when he'd stop by, I'd give him free samples just to be friendly.
We had exchanged numbers to work on a class project, but he texted me one day to ask if I wanted to come to his dorm room to watch a movie. Since we weren't 21, dorm parties were a regular occurrence and I thought nothing of it. He told me there would be some guys from his hall there and I agreed.
I showed up to his dorm room, there was no one else there - not even his roommate. So this was a date...alright, kind of weird that you told me people would be here, but I'll just roll with it. He turns on Superbad and we watch in silence. Out of nowhere, he says "I'm really good at eating girls out." I was flabbergasted because this came out of nowhere and was pretty awkward. I kind of laughed it off and said something along the lines of "good for you." Silently, we kept watching. I should have listened to my instincts to get the hell out of there, but I felt too awkward.
Suddenly, he was asking me all these inappropriate sexual questions. "How many people have you had sex with?" I'm not shy, so I gave him the answer, but it took me a minute or so to think. He got all up in my face and said "ew you're dirty, it took you that long to think of all the guys?" (The number was 5, so really not that many). Everything turned into a competition. This next bit was the last straw.
Still in that competitive mindset, he says, "I bet I've had a harder life than you!" I say, why? Well, fuck me for asking. He pulls out a LARGE knife from his top bedside drawer and tells me his brother held it to his neck when he was a kid. I grabbed my coat and ran the fuck out of there. I got back to my dorm and started banging on my friend's door to let me in. I looked behind me down the hallway and there he was, the kid, following me. My friend finally answered the door and I charged in, slamming the door behind (automatically locking it).
I drank a lot of vodka that night. | Trust your instincts when they tell you to get the hell out of the situation. |
owlmetimbers | Back when it wasn't creepy to pick up girls on MySpace (this was about 7 or 8 years ago) I was messaging a girl and we decided to meet up. I meet her at a park and 5 of her other friends were there. As soon as I got there she said she had to go home and do chores but she'd be back. So I hung out at a park with her friends for two hours. One of them was bi and he was hitting on me constantly. She finally showed up again and then we sat on the beach in almost silence for an hour and then I went home. Saw her at a Bass Pro Shop a year later. We locked eyes for what felt like 10 minutes and didn't say a word to one another. Never saw her again.
Tldr: Met a girl on MySpace, she left to go do chores while I hung out with her friends, bi friend hit on me the entire time, bass pro shop forever!! | Back when it wasn't creepy to pick up girls on MySpace (this was about 7 or 8 years ago) I was messaging a girl and we decided to meet up. I meet her at a park and 5 of her other friends were there. As soon as I got there she said she had to go home and do chores but she'd be back. So I hung out at a park with her friends for two hours. One of them was bi and he was hitting on me constantly. She finally showed up again and then we sat on the beach in almost silence for an hour and then I went home. Saw her at a Bass Pro Shop a year later. We locked eyes for what felt like 10 minutes and didn't say a word to one another. Never saw her again.
Tldr: Met a girl on MySpace, she left to go do chores while I hung out with her friends, bi friend hit on me the entire time, bass pro shop forever!!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetg5xe | Back when it wasn't creepy to pick up girls on MySpace (this was about 7 or 8 years ago) I was messaging a girl and we decided to meet up. I meet her at a park and 5 of her other friends were there. As soon as I got there she said she had to go home and do chores but she'd be back. So I hung out at a park with her friends for two hours. One of them was bi and he was hitting on me constantly. She finally showed up again and then we sat on the beach in almost silence for an hour and then I went home. Saw her at a Bass Pro Shop a year later. We locked eyes for what felt like 10 minutes and didn't say a word to one another. Never saw her again. | Met a girl on MySpace, she left to go do chores while I hung out with her friends, bi friend hit on me the entire time, bass pro shop forever!! |
Jumpingjellybeaner | Okay, so I have one.
There was this girl I thought was really cute in class. I'm not the type to really go out there and get em, so it took a couple weeks for us to start talking more. One day, we stayed after class and were talking and realized we were connected through an extremely specific set of coincidences. one was that we were both only taking that class at that campus, our others were on the main on the other side of town. The other was that my cousin and her sister were in the same graduate program and were really good friends. So I'm here thinking that I have just fallen into a gold mine of a situation. What could be better?
Fast forward two weeks. I've been slow with her. I didn't want to come on too strong. We have been texting and still seeing each other in class. Finally, I muster the courage to ask her out one day after class, she says yes. Sweeeeeeet!
Fast forward *another* two weeks. Date hasn't happened yet. Still see each other in class. Still text. It had just gotten very stale and boring by this point, but we still kept talking to each other. But the waiting was finally over!
We finally have enough time to see each other.
So for this date that has been seemingly waiting to happen for almost a month, we decide to go to dinner and a movie.
But of course, that didn't happen. She calls beforehand and tells me let's just go to a movie. So I tell her okay and we meet up at the cinema.
Now, at this point, I'm about fed up with this chick. She's been giving me excuses, she was putting me off, and I had already gotten the idea that this wasn't going to go well. But I was already there so fuck it. She decides she wants to see Over 21 or finally 21 or something about kids drinking, typical college tomfoolery. We're both laughing, not really talking. I'm sure to other people it looked more like two friends going out than a date. That's just how much didn't happen.
I would have been okay with that. I would have taken that shit date over what unfolded the rest of the night.
So like I said, we are sitting there just watching the movie.
And then I felt it. It just all happened so fast.
*rrrrppphnnhgg*
Enter ready to explode out of my asshole diarrhea. I hadn't eaten anything that day except a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but it felt like I had this unnatural buildup just compounding itself in my intestines. We had to be only halfway through the movie. And I knew I could not get off my ass. Because if I stood up, the shit rocket would be flowing fast and hard behind me.
So I sat there, FOR THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF of that stupid movie trying to give nice, disarming smiles so this girl wouldn't think that I am incapable of controlling my bladder. When she would laugh and move her body forward, I would squirm and readjust just to get a little more comfortable. I was letting out small, tiny farts that I prayed to every God ever known didn't smell, because we were not sitting in an area populated with a lot of people, so she would know the source extremely quickly.
So the movie ends. Finally. Great. Get me the fuck out of this fucking cinema so I can clear this now sizable truckload of feces built inside me. It was one of the worst pains ever. And I just had to grin and bear it, just so I wouldn't embarrass myself on this date that I didn't even care about.
By this point, I have a better handle on it and I'm able to hold it in. I walk her to her car (slowly) and give her a quick hug goodbye. The movie theater was closing (late showing) and I couldn't use their bathroom. So I walked as fast as I could to my car, trying to deal with the sharp pains that had seemingly not gone away for upwards of 2 hours. I drive to the walmart, go immediately to the bathroom, and get sweet, sweet relief.
It was finally over.
**TL:DR** poop sucks sometimes
Edit: forgot to say that I saw her at a store that commonly sells in bulk recently. She still has no idea that she was the worst date I have ever had. | Okay, so I have one.
There was this girl I thought was really cute in class. I'm not the type to really go out there and get em, so it took a couple weeks for us to start talking more. One day, we stayed after class and were talking and realized we were connected through an extremely specific set of coincidences. one was that we were both only taking that class at that campus, our others were on the main on the other side of town. The other was that my cousin and her sister were in the same graduate program and were really good friends. So I'm here thinking that I have just fallen into a gold mine of a situation. What could be better?
Fast forward two weeks. I've been slow with her. I didn't want to come on too strong. We have been texting and still seeing each other in class. Finally, I muster the courage to ask her out one day after class, she says yes. Sweeeeeeet!
Fast forward another two weeks. Date hasn't happened yet. Still see each other in class. Still text. It had just gotten very stale and boring by this point, but we still kept talking to each other. But the waiting was finally over!
We finally have enough time to see each other.
So for this date that has been seemingly waiting to happen for almost a month, we decide to go to dinner and a movie.
But of course, that didn't happen. She calls beforehand and tells me let's just go to a movie. So I tell her okay and we meet up at the cinema.
Now, at this point, I'm about fed up with this chick. She's been giving me excuses, she was putting me off, and I had already gotten the idea that this wasn't going to go well. But I was already there so fuck it. She decides she wants to see Over 21 or finally 21 or something about kids drinking, typical college tomfoolery. We're both laughing, not really talking. I'm sure to other people it looked more like two friends going out than a date. That's just how much didn't happen.
I would have been okay with that. I would have taken that shit date over what unfolded the rest of the night.
So like I said, we are sitting there just watching the movie.
And then I felt it. It just all happened so fast.
rrrrppphnnhgg
Enter ready to explode out of my asshole diarrhea. I hadn't eaten anything that day except a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but it felt like I had this unnatural buildup just compounding itself in my intestines. We had to be only halfway through the movie. And I knew I could not get off my ass. Because if I stood up, the shit rocket would be flowing fast and hard behind me.
So I sat there, FOR THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF of that stupid movie trying to give nice, disarming smiles so this girl wouldn't think that I am incapable of controlling my bladder. When she would laugh and move her body forward, I would squirm and readjust just to get a little more comfortable. I was letting out small, tiny farts that I prayed to every God ever known didn't smell, because we were not sitting in an area populated with a lot of people, so she would know the source extremely quickly.
So the movie ends. Finally. Great. Get me the fuck out of this fucking cinema so I can clear this now sizable truckload of feces built inside me. It was one of the worst pains ever. And I just had to grin and bear it, just so I wouldn't embarrass myself on this date that I didn't even care about.
By this point, I have a better handle on it and I'm able to hold it in. I walk her to her car (slowly) and give her a quick hug goodbye. The movie theater was closing (late showing) and I couldn't use their bathroom. So I walked as fast as I could to my car, trying to deal with the sharp pains that had seemingly not gone away for upwards of 2 hours. I drive to the walmart, go immediately to the bathroom, and get sweet, sweet relief.
It was finally over.
TL:DR poop sucks sometimes
Edit: forgot to say that I saw her at a store that commonly sells in bulk recently. She still has no idea that she was the worst date I have ever had.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceth3ft | Okay, so I have one.
There was this girl I thought was really cute in class. I'm not the type to really go out there and get em, so it took a couple weeks for us to start talking more. One day, we stayed after class and were talking and realized we were connected through an extremely specific set of coincidences. one was that we were both only taking that class at that campus, our others were on the main on the other side of town. The other was that my cousin and her sister were in the same graduate program and were really good friends. So I'm here thinking that I have just fallen into a gold mine of a situation. What could be better?
Fast forward two weeks. I've been slow with her. I didn't want to come on too strong. We have been texting and still seeing each other in class. Finally, I muster the courage to ask her out one day after class, she says yes. Sweeeeeeet!
Fast forward another two weeks. Date hasn't happened yet. Still see each other in class. Still text. It had just gotten very stale and boring by this point, but we still kept talking to each other. But the waiting was finally over!
We finally have enough time to see each other.
So for this date that has been seemingly waiting to happen for almost a month, we decide to go to dinner and a movie.
But of course, that didn't happen. She calls beforehand and tells me let's just go to a movie. So I tell her okay and we meet up at the cinema.
Now, at this point, I'm about fed up with this chick. She's been giving me excuses, she was putting me off, and I had already gotten the idea that this wasn't going to go well. But I was already there so fuck it. She decides she wants to see Over 21 or finally 21 or something about kids drinking, typical college tomfoolery. We're both laughing, not really talking. I'm sure to other people it looked more like two friends going out than a date. That's just how much didn't happen.
I would have been okay with that. I would have taken that shit date over what unfolded the rest of the night.
So like I said, we are sitting there just watching the movie.
And then I felt it. It just all happened so fast.
rrrrppphnnhgg
Enter ready to explode out of my asshole diarrhea. I hadn't eaten anything that day except a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but it felt like I had this unnatural buildup just compounding itself in my intestines. We had to be only halfway through the movie. And I knew I could not get off my ass. Because if I stood up, the shit rocket would be flowing fast and hard behind me.
So I sat there, FOR THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF of that stupid movie trying to give nice, disarming smiles so this girl wouldn't think that I am incapable of controlling my bladder. When she would laugh and move her body forward, I would squirm and readjust just to get a little more comfortable. I was letting out small, tiny farts that I prayed to every God ever known didn't smell, because we were not sitting in an area populated with a lot of people, so she would know the source extremely quickly.
So the movie ends. Finally. Great. Get me the fuck out of this fucking cinema so I can clear this now sizable truckload of feces built inside me. It was one of the worst pains ever. And I just had to grin and bear it, just so I wouldn't embarrass myself on this date that I didn't even care about.
By this point, I have a better handle on it and I'm able to hold it in. I walk her to her car (slowly) and give her a quick hug goodbye. The movie theater was closing (late showing) and I couldn't use their bathroom. So I walked as fast as I could to my car, trying to deal with the sharp pains that had seemingly not gone away for upwards of 2 hours. I drive to the walmart, go immediately to the bathroom, and get sweet, sweet relief.
It was finally over. | poop sucks sometimes
Edit: forgot to say that I saw her at a store that commonly sells in bulk recently. She still has no idea that she was the worst date I have ever had. |
babblueyed5 | I was doing some online dating through OkCupid. I had lots of bad/interesting dates, but one in particular takes the cake. I agreed to meet up with a guy for dinner. We agree to go to an Indian place near me. He indicates that he is taking the bus from where he is from to here and asks if we stay out late if I'd be able to give him a ride home. I didn't think much of it and said sure. So we get to dinner and we start talking about our lives... where exactly do you live, what do you do, etc. Turns out he is unemployed and lives in his grandma's condo (she splits her time 50/50 here and Florida). I went with it, I understand the job market isn't great or whatever. I am in grad school, so it isn't like I'm not used to making no money (or hardly any). I then find that he's been unemployed for over a year and looks down on people who work in the food industry, which is why he'd never get a job at a restaurant. Okay, whatever. Somehow the conversation then goes to past relationships, I find out he has only ever been with 1 person. I'm not against this, but it usually indicates that they hold relationships and sex to a higher level than what I do. I also find it a little disconcerting since he is 29 (I was 26 at the time), and has only had one relationship (and only had sex with one person). Now, to top everything off, at the end of dinner, he licks the plate. I can't imagine what my face looked like at that moment; horror, disgust, surprise, get me the hell out of here as fast as possible. I was just amazed that someone had the balls to do that in the restaurant. We split the bill and he asked if he could come back to my place and watch a movie or something. I told him he better make sure to catch the bus home. He called me several more times to try and have another date, then got mad that I said I was going out with someone else (like I was cheating on him or something). What a mess.
TL/DR: Went to indian with an unemployed plate licker. | I was doing some online dating through OkCupid. I had lots of bad/interesting dates, but one in particular takes the cake. I agreed to meet up with a guy for dinner. We agree to go to an Indian place near me. He indicates that he is taking the bus from where he is from to here and asks if we stay out late if I'd be able to give him a ride home. I didn't think much of it and said sure. So we get to dinner and we start talking about our lives... where exactly do you live, what do you do, etc. Turns out he is unemployed and lives in his grandma's condo (she splits her time 50/50 here and Florida). I went with it, I understand the job market isn't great or whatever. I am in grad school, so it isn't like I'm not used to making no money (or hardly any). I then find that he's been unemployed for over a year and looks down on people who work in the food industry, which is why he'd never get a job at a restaurant. Okay, whatever. Somehow the conversation then goes to past relationships, I find out he has only ever been with 1 person. I'm not against this, but it usually indicates that they hold relationships and sex to a higher level than what I do. I also find it a little disconcerting since he is 29 (I was 26 at the time), and has only had one relationship (and only had sex with one person). Now, to top everything off, at the end of dinner, he licks the plate. I can't imagine what my face looked like at that moment; horror, disgust, surprise, get me the hell out of here as fast as possible. I was just amazed that someone had the balls to do that in the restaurant. We split the bill and he asked if he could come back to my place and watch a movie or something. I told him he better make sure to catch the bus home. He called me several more times to try and have another date, then got mad that I said I was going out with someone else (like I was cheating on him or something). What a mess.
TL/DR: Went to indian with an unemployed plate licker.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceth3yi | I was doing some online dating through OkCupid. I had lots of bad/interesting dates, but one in particular takes the cake. I agreed to meet up with a guy for dinner. We agree to go to an Indian place near me. He indicates that he is taking the bus from where he is from to here and asks if we stay out late if I'd be able to give him a ride home. I didn't think much of it and said sure. So we get to dinner and we start talking about our lives... where exactly do you live, what do you do, etc. Turns out he is unemployed and lives in his grandma's condo (she splits her time 50/50 here and Florida). I went with it, I understand the job market isn't great or whatever. I am in grad school, so it isn't like I'm not used to making no money (or hardly any). I then find that he's been unemployed for over a year and looks down on people who work in the food industry, which is why he'd never get a job at a restaurant. Okay, whatever. Somehow the conversation then goes to past relationships, I find out he has only ever been with 1 person. I'm not against this, but it usually indicates that they hold relationships and sex to a higher level than what I do. I also find it a little disconcerting since he is 29 (I was 26 at the time), and has only had one relationship (and only had sex with one person). Now, to top everything off, at the end of dinner, he licks the plate. I can't imagine what my face looked like at that moment; horror, disgust, surprise, get me the hell out of here as fast as possible. I was just amazed that someone had the balls to do that in the restaurant. We split the bill and he asked if he could come back to my place and watch a movie or something. I told him he better make sure to catch the bus home. He called me several more times to try and have another date, then got mad that I said I was going out with someone else (like I was cheating on him or something). What a mess. | Went to indian with an unemployed plate licker. |
LALladnek | I was on a second date with this girl. We'd met at a rooftop party a few weeks prior. The first date was alright, I'd had fun but it was weird because we quickly had to talk about astrological signs, which I think are barely even fun as entertainment and a very crappy tool for making decisions of any kind. But I'd agreed on a second date because I thought there was some potential there. Little did I know how wrong I was. Anyway, we were going out in Downtown Los Angeles, there is a Whiskey Bar I love down there, So I was taking this girl out. Now I don't like to call Women crazy, because it is unfair and often based on a male's unacceptable behavior towards women. But that chick Cray.
On our first date after mexican food for lunch and a trip to a bookstore, all of which I paid for, because "It's the man's role" (her words) I bought pot from a friend who was her roommate. We smoked, which I didn't really want to do because I had a bad experience on a date previously, but she seemed ok with it so I was fine. She then gets extremely animated and talks about how when she smokes pot she gets all horny and Kinky and she is into Ice Cubes and stuff like that during sex. Now on a first date you would think that would be an exciting thing to hear and you would normally be right. But my date was classically crazy, so this kind of thing did me no good at all. When we walked downtown I was not allowed to walk over certain parts of the street, because I could fall through into the old Subway line that was haunted. Anyway this is about the second date I had with my stoned out crazy medium, just remember the ghost thing.
On our second date, I met my future wife outside her building after parking and walking up. We decided (She decided), that we should go up to my car and smoke pot before going out anywhere else. I'm ok with this because I find myself at least interested in making the night not SUCK for me. So we go up to my car and smoke the pot. On the elevator ride down, we get in an elevator that sends us to certain levels instead of the floor we selected. I joke that the thing MUST be haunted. And she very seriously tells me to not joke about that kind of thing because MANY OF THE BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN are haunted... Again, I should have stopped it there. We then walk out of the parking structure, and past her building again, where she realized that OOPS! She "Forgot" her wallet up in her apartment. Before she can decide not to go up and get it. I make the point that it was ok, I had planned on paying tonight anyway. I was basically about 50% certain that this would be the last date I go on with this girl. I was 12% certain that I would stop dating women in general as I could save money and stress and go out alone and have a much nicer time. Quick tip: I don't know how most men feel about this, but I genuinely do not have a problem with paying for a date, especially when I'm the one doing the asking. What I and I assume most men would appreciate, is acknowledgement at the generosity, not like quid pro quo, or anything just a general good time having kind of thing would be nice. I mean just smile nice and be fun conversation I feel like that kind of thing makes the evening worthwhile. Why would you agree to go out with someone if it wasn't to have a nice time?
We are on our way to the whiskey bar now, my date lives downtown, I should mention. I should also mention that she knows the entire goddamn population downtown, this includes:Nearly Every Bouncer at places on the way to the bar, people standing on the street with their phones trying to mind their own business, as well as random passersby who happen to look at us for a brief moment that they regret because my date HAS to talk with them about being on a date with me. I'm supposed to be charmed by this I think? Or impressed? instead of annoyed at stopping every 12 feet to have a "conversation" with people who appear to just want to be on their way. But it gets better. We walk into a bakery that is around the corner from the whiskey bar, to visit my date's bestie who works there. "Maybe she has a cigarette I can bum" Yes. my date also OBSESSIVELY SMOKES CIGARETTES, which is only ever attractive on a woman and not disgusting and teeth coloringly gross. So we go in and say hi, I actually met this friend at the rooftop party so we chat a bit I was tempted to buy something because I was a bit peckish, but we were actually on our way before I could. Which is hillarious to me, the one stop we make that I enjoy is the one we leave SOOOOOOOO much faster. Also she didn't get an cigarettes so we'd have to make another stop. I'm not realizing at the time that she did not have enough money for cigarettes. You are thinking, this date sounds amazing how did you not propose marriage in the street? I didn't have time because we were finally at the BAR!
I knew the place well enough and I think its like common date strategy to go somewhere you know so you can look better. looking good would not be a problem for me on this date. My date was still in the throes of nicotine withdrawl, so she's decided to find a smoke while I order us drinks. I think this seems reasonable enough, because I'm trying to be game on this date, against my better judgement. I forgot what I had myself. But I had a thought, a coy clever thought that required a callback to the first date. My date is from the Caribbean, she has family from there and has gone there herself previously (so she claimed). So I found a whiskey that had been aged in a Caribbean Cask. I was going to tease her about it because she was older than me, but you know in a playful way. I also decided to ask for a single ice cube, this was based on mentioning that she was into that sort of thing sexually back during our first date. So I am drinking my drink a bit as she comes back after finding a cig.
Now, I can't really explain very well the next part of the story without just typing out the dialogue. So...
Me: He welcome back, did you find your cig?
Her: YEAH! and I met these awesome people outside we should go talk to. They are all Pisces and Gemini so we'll get along with them great.
Me: ... that sounds nice. I got you a drink.
Her: Oooooh so what did you get me? I'm interested in what you choose me.
Me:(perks up) Well... I got this 12 year Glen for myself, here taste it (Shares with her), and I got you this Whiskey that is 10 years old and aged in a Caribbean Cask.
Her: Ooooh I'm from there did you know that? (She sips)
Me: OH you are? What a coincidence (wink knowingly) They say it's got a bit of a bite to it.
Her: yeah it does... you have to be careful.
Me: I like bite so I think its pretty good. There's also another thing about it.
Her: The ice cube?
Me: Yeah I thought you might like that...
Her: Why?(changes tone) BECAUSE I'M AN ICE COLD BITCH?
Me:... uhhh... not exactly what I was thinking...
(End Scene)
After that scene, we had a bit more small talk that she only half listened to and continued to drone on and on about her beliefs and all the connections she's made, then we decided to go outside and see her new friends. It was a group of people out for the night, who just happened to all be Asian. My date, decided to talk about how they were all probably ninjas and/or good at math. I tried to bond with them and avoid the creepy racist undertones the conversation had taken. But my date didn't get the memo. SO they loaned her a cig, which I was worried might have been poison given her comments earlier. But they seemed alright and these people were generally nice and warmly decided to be a fun part of our date night. They did not know that they were the only fun part of our date night. After we left them, we returned to our seats for about 5 minutes tops before my date needed another smoke. I was ready for a snack since my drink was a double(Needed it), so we adjourned to 7-11 for some snacks.
She was still singly focused on cigarettes.She is in-front of me, with what I assume is enough cash to pay for her own filthy habit. As the total comes up she looks back at me to pay, NOW the date is officially over. I pay for her cigarettes, and my own stuff. and we walk out and I can eat my whiskey absorbing Hot Cheetos outside the bar. I have no plans to go back in, I have no plans to do anything else with this terror of a date, because I'm honestly just sobering up so I can drive home. We're standing outside with all intentions of going back in according to her. I can honestly still salvage the evening with video games and complaining on facebook. So after she's finished and I'm finished too, I tell her I'm probably ready to go back I can't really drink more and drive safely so I'd rather just go home.
So we go back to my car and I drive her out of the parking garage. She got back in my car to beg me for some of the weed I had, now again, I'm not stingy, I'm not a mean person, but I literally want as little as possible to do with this girl. I tell her I'm almost out so I can't share with her this time. So she pouts a bit and says ok, like I fucking owe her something or some shit. and we talk and hold hands while I drive her two blocks to her building. It was actually one block but it felt like two. We go past where we went on the first date and she day dreams about the two of us hanging out more, like it will actually happen. I play her some music that I like to drive to while we sit in front of her building. She is looking at me like we're going to kiss, I am completely against it. I am parked and completely shutting down anything else because this night is OVER. She smiles at me with a tobacco stained grin and she says our paths are crossed forever. She gets out of the car and I drive home. WORST. DATE. EVER.
**TL;DR: I went on the date from hell with a terrible person and I learned I'm a great date that should not date actual crazy people.** | I was on a second date with this girl. We'd met at a rooftop party a few weeks prior. The first date was alright, I'd had fun but it was weird because we quickly had to talk about astrological signs, which I think are barely even fun as entertainment and a very crappy tool for making decisions of any kind. But I'd agreed on a second date because I thought there was some potential there. Little did I know how wrong I was. Anyway, we were going out in Downtown Los Angeles, there is a Whiskey Bar I love down there, So I was taking this girl out. Now I don't like to call Women crazy, because it is unfair and often based on a male's unacceptable behavior towards women. But that chick Cray.
On our first date after mexican food for lunch and a trip to a bookstore, all of which I paid for, because "It's the man's role" (her words) I bought pot from a friend who was her roommate. We smoked, which I didn't really want to do because I had a bad experience on a date previously, but she seemed ok with it so I was fine. She then gets extremely animated and talks about how when she smokes pot she gets all horny and Kinky and she is into Ice Cubes and stuff like that during sex. Now on a first date you would think that would be an exciting thing to hear and you would normally be right. But my date was classically crazy, so this kind of thing did me no good at all. When we walked downtown I was not allowed to walk over certain parts of the street, because I could fall through into the old Subway line that was haunted. Anyway this is about the second date I had with my stoned out crazy medium, just remember the ghost thing.
On our second date, I met my future wife outside her building after parking and walking up. We decided (She decided), that we should go up to my car and smoke pot before going out anywhere else. I'm ok with this because I find myself at least interested in making the night not SUCK for me. So we go up to my car and smoke the pot. On the elevator ride down, we get in an elevator that sends us to certain levels instead of the floor we selected. I joke that the thing MUST be haunted. And she very seriously tells me to not joke about that kind of thing because MANY OF THE BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN are haunted... Again, I should have stopped it there. We then walk out of the parking structure, and past her building again, where she realized that OOPS! She "Forgot" her wallet up in her apartment. Before she can decide not to go up and get it. I make the point that it was ok, I had planned on paying tonight anyway. I was basically about 50% certain that this would be the last date I go on with this girl. I was 12% certain that I would stop dating women in general as I could save money and stress and go out alone and have a much nicer time. Quick tip: I don't know how most men feel about this, but I genuinely do not have a problem with paying for a date, especially when I'm the one doing the asking. What I and I assume most men would appreciate, is acknowledgement at the generosity, not like quid pro quo, or anything just a general good time having kind of thing would be nice. I mean just smile nice and be fun conversation I feel like that kind of thing makes the evening worthwhile. Why would you agree to go out with someone if it wasn't to have a nice time?
We are on our way to the whiskey bar now, my date lives downtown, I should mention. I should also mention that she knows the entire goddamn population downtown, this includes:Nearly Every Bouncer at places on the way to the bar, people standing on the street with their phones trying to mind their own business, as well as random passersby who happen to look at us for a brief moment that they regret because my date HAS to talk with them about being on a date with me. I'm supposed to be charmed by this I think? Or impressed? instead of annoyed at stopping every 12 feet to have a "conversation" with people who appear to just want to be on their way. But it gets better. We walk into a bakery that is around the corner from the whiskey bar, to visit my date's bestie who works there. "Maybe she has a cigarette I can bum" Yes. my date also OBSESSIVELY SMOKES CIGARETTES, which is only ever attractive on a woman and not disgusting and teeth coloringly gross. So we go in and say hi, I actually met this friend at the rooftop party so we chat a bit I was tempted to buy something because I was a bit peckish, but we were actually on our way before I could. Which is hillarious to me, the one stop we make that I enjoy is the one we leave SOOOOOOOO much faster. Also she didn't get an cigarettes so we'd have to make another stop. I'm not realizing at the time that she did not have enough money for cigarettes. You are thinking, this date sounds amazing how did you not propose marriage in the street? I didn't have time because we were finally at the BAR!
I knew the place well enough and I think its like common date strategy to go somewhere you know so you can look better. looking good would not be a problem for me on this date. My date was still in the throes of nicotine withdrawl, so she's decided to find a smoke while I order us drinks. I think this seems reasonable enough, because I'm trying to be game on this date, against my better judgement. I forgot what I had myself. But I had a thought, a coy clever thought that required a callback to the first date. My date is from the Caribbean, she has family from there and has gone there herself previously (so she claimed). So I found a whiskey that had been aged in a Caribbean Cask. I was going to tease her about it because she was older than me, but you know in a playful way. I also decided to ask for a single ice cube, this was based on mentioning that she was into that sort of thing sexually back during our first date. So I am drinking my drink a bit as she comes back after finding a cig.
Now, I can't really explain very well the next part of the story without just typing out the dialogue. So...
Me: He welcome back, did you find your cig?
Her: YEAH! and I met these awesome people outside we should go talk to. They are all Pisces and Gemini so we'll get along with them great.
Me: ... that sounds nice. I got you a drink.
Her: Oooooh so what did you get me? I'm interested in what you choose me.
Me:(perks up) Well... I got this 12 year Glen for myself, here taste it (Shares with her), and I got you this Whiskey that is 10 years old and aged in a Caribbean Cask.
Her: Ooooh I'm from there did you know that? (She sips)
Me: OH you are? What a coincidence (wink knowingly) They say it's got a bit of a bite to it.
Her: yeah it does... you have to be careful.
Me: I like bite so I think its pretty good. There's also another thing about it.
Her: The ice cube?
Me: Yeah I thought you might like that...
Her: Why?(changes tone) BECAUSE I'M AN ICE COLD BITCH?
Me:... uhhh... not exactly what I was thinking...
(End Scene)
After that scene, we had a bit more small talk that she only half listened to and continued to drone on and on about her beliefs and all the connections she's made, then we decided to go outside and see her new friends. It was a group of people out for the night, who just happened to all be Asian. My date, decided to talk about how they were all probably ninjas and/or good at math. I tried to bond with them and avoid the creepy racist undertones the conversation had taken. But my date didn't get the memo. SO they loaned her a cig, which I was worried might have been poison given her comments earlier. But they seemed alright and these people were generally nice and warmly decided to be a fun part of our date night. They did not know that they were the only fun part of our date night. After we left them, we returned to our seats for about 5 minutes tops before my date needed another smoke. I was ready for a snack since my drink was a double(Needed it), so we adjourned to 7-11 for some snacks.
She was still singly focused on cigarettes.She is in-front of me, with what I assume is enough cash to pay for her own filthy habit. As the total comes up she looks back at me to pay, NOW the date is officially over. I pay for her cigarettes, and my own stuff. and we walk out and I can eat my whiskey absorbing Hot Cheetos outside the bar. I have no plans to go back in, I have no plans to do anything else with this terror of a date, because I'm honestly just sobering up so I can drive home. We're standing outside with all intentions of going back in according to her. I can honestly still salvage the evening with video games and complaining on facebook. So after she's finished and I'm finished too, I tell her I'm probably ready to go back I can't really drink more and drive safely so I'd rather just go home.
So we go back to my car and I drive her out of the parking garage. She got back in my car to beg me for some of the weed I had, now again, I'm not stingy, I'm not a mean person, but I literally want as little as possible to do with this girl. I tell her I'm almost out so I can't share with her this time. So she pouts a bit and says ok, like I fucking owe her something or some shit. and we talk and hold hands while I drive her two blocks to her building. It was actually one block but it felt like two. We go past where we went on the first date and she day dreams about the two of us hanging out more, like it will actually happen. I play her some music that I like to drive to while we sit in front of her building. She is looking at me like we're going to kiss, I am completely against it. I am parked and completely shutting down anything else because this night is OVER. She smiles at me with a tobacco stained grin and she says our paths are crossed forever. She gets out of the car and I drive home. WORST. DATE. EVER.
TL;DR: I went on the date from hell with a terrible person and I learned I'm a great date that should not date actual crazy people.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cethxx0 | I was on a second date with this girl. We'd met at a rooftop party a few weeks prior. The first date was alright, I'd had fun but it was weird because we quickly had to talk about astrological signs, which I think are barely even fun as entertainment and a very crappy tool for making decisions of any kind. But I'd agreed on a second date because I thought there was some potential there. Little did I know how wrong I was. Anyway, we were going out in Downtown Los Angeles, there is a Whiskey Bar I love down there, So I was taking this girl out. Now I don't like to call Women crazy, because it is unfair and often based on a male's unacceptable behavior towards women. But that chick Cray.
On our first date after mexican food for lunch and a trip to a bookstore, all of which I paid for, because "It's the man's role" (her words) I bought pot from a friend who was her roommate. We smoked, which I didn't really want to do because I had a bad experience on a date previously, but she seemed ok with it so I was fine. She then gets extremely animated and talks about how when she smokes pot she gets all horny and Kinky and she is into Ice Cubes and stuff like that during sex. Now on a first date you would think that would be an exciting thing to hear and you would normally be right. But my date was classically crazy, so this kind of thing did me no good at all. When we walked downtown I was not allowed to walk over certain parts of the street, because I could fall through into the old Subway line that was haunted. Anyway this is about the second date I had with my stoned out crazy medium, just remember the ghost thing.
On our second date, I met my future wife outside her building after parking and walking up. We decided (She decided), that we should go up to my car and smoke pot before going out anywhere else. I'm ok with this because I find myself at least interested in making the night not SUCK for me. So we go up to my car and smoke the pot. On the elevator ride down, we get in an elevator that sends us to certain levels instead of the floor we selected. I joke that the thing MUST be haunted. And she very seriously tells me to not joke about that kind of thing because MANY OF THE BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN are haunted... Again, I should have stopped it there. We then walk out of the parking structure, and past her building again, where she realized that OOPS! She "Forgot" her wallet up in her apartment. Before she can decide not to go up and get it. I make the point that it was ok, I had planned on paying tonight anyway. I was basically about 50% certain that this would be the last date I go on with this girl. I was 12% certain that I would stop dating women in general as I could save money and stress and go out alone and have a much nicer time. Quick tip: I don't know how most men feel about this, but I genuinely do not have a problem with paying for a date, especially when I'm the one doing the asking. What I and I assume most men would appreciate, is acknowledgement at the generosity, not like quid pro quo, or anything just a general good time having kind of thing would be nice. I mean just smile nice and be fun conversation I feel like that kind of thing makes the evening worthwhile. Why would you agree to go out with someone if it wasn't to have a nice time?
We are on our way to the whiskey bar now, my date lives downtown, I should mention. I should also mention that she knows the entire goddamn population downtown, this includes:Nearly Every Bouncer at places on the way to the bar, people standing on the street with their phones trying to mind their own business, as well as random passersby who happen to look at us for a brief moment that they regret because my date HAS to talk with them about being on a date with me. I'm supposed to be charmed by this I think? Or impressed? instead of annoyed at stopping every 12 feet to have a "conversation" with people who appear to just want to be on their way. But it gets better. We walk into a bakery that is around the corner from the whiskey bar, to visit my date's bestie who works there. "Maybe she has a cigarette I can bum" Yes. my date also OBSESSIVELY SMOKES CIGARETTES, which is only ever attractive on a woman and not disgusting and teeth coloringly gross. So we go in and say hi, I actually met this friend at the rooftop party so we chat a bit I was tempted to buy something because I was a bit peckish, but we were actually on our way before I could. Which is hillarious to me, the one stop we make that I enjoy is the one we leave SOOOOOOOO much faster. Also she didn't get an cigarettes so we'd have to make another stop. I'm not realizing at the time that she did not have enough money for cigarettes. You are thinking, this date sounds amazing how did you not propose marriage in the street? I didn't have time because we were finally at the BAR!
I knew the place well enough and I think its like common date strategy to go somewhere you know so you can look better. looking good would not be a problem for me on this date. My date was still in the throes of nicotine withdrawl, so she's decided to find a smoke while I order us drinks. I think this seems reasonable enough, because I'm trying to be game on this date, against my better judgement. I forgot what I had myself. But I had a thought, a coy clever thought that required a callback to the first date. My date is from the Caribbean, she has family from there and has gone there herself previously (so she claimed). So I found a whiskey that had been aged in a Caribbean Cask. I was going to tease her about it because she was older than me, but you know in a playful way. I also decided to ask for a single ice cube, this was based on mentioning that she was into that sort of thing sexually back during our first date. So I am drinking my drink a bit as she comes back after finding a cig.
Now, I can't really explain very well the next part of the story without just typing out the dialogue. So...
Me: He welcome back, did you find your cig?
Her: YEAH! and I met these awesome people outside we should go talk to. They are all Pisces and Gemini so we'll get along with them great.
Me: ... that sounds nice. I got you a drink.
Her: Oooooh so what did you get me? I'm interested in what you choose me.
Me:(perks up) Well... I got this 12 year Glen for myself, here taste it (Shares with her), and I got you this Whiskey that is 10 years old and aged in a Caribbean Cask.
Her: Ooooh I'm from there did you know that? (She sips)
Me: OH you are? What a coincidence (wink knowingly) They say it's got a bit of a bite to it.
Her: yeah it does... you have to be careful.
Me: I like bite so I think its pretty good. There's also another thing about it.
Her: The ice cube?
Me: Yeah I thought you might like that...
Her: Why?(changes tone) BECAUSE I'M AN ICE COLD BITCH?
Me:... uhhh... not exactly what I was thinking...
(End Scene)
After that scene, we had a bit more small talk that she only half listened to and continued to drone on and on about her beliefs and all the connections she's made, then we decided to go outside and see her new friends. It was a group of people out for the night, who just happened to all be Asian. My date, decided to talk about how they were all probably ninjas and/or good at math. I tried to bond with them and avoid the creepy racist undertones the conversation had taken. But my date didn't get the memo. SO they loaned her a cig, which I was worried might have been poison given her comments earlier. But they seemed alright and these people were generally nice and warmly decided to be a fun part of our date night. They did not know that they were the only fun part of our date night. After we left them, we returned to our seats for about 5 minutes tops before my date needed another smoke. I was ready for a snack since my drink was a double(Needed it), so we adjourned to 7-11 for some snacks.
She was still singly focused on cigarettes.She is in-front of me, with what I assume is enough cash to pay for her own filthy habit. As the total comes up she looks back at me to pay, NOW the date is officially over. I pay for her cigarettes, and my own stuff. and we walk out and I can eat my whiskey absorbing Hot Cheetos outside the bar. I have no plans to go back in, I have no plans to do anything else with this terror of a date, because I'm honestly just sobering up so I can drive home. We're standing outside with all intentions of going back in according to her. I can honestly still salvage the evening with video games and complaining on facebook. So after she's finished and I'm finished too, I tell her I'm probably ready to go back I can't really drink more and drive safely so I'd rather just go home.
So we go back to my car and I drive her out of the parking garage. She got back in my car to beg me for some of the weed I had, now again, I'm not stingy, I'm not a mean person, but I literally want as little as possible to do with this girl. I tell her I'm almost out so I can't share with her this time. So she pouts a bit and says ok, like I fucking owe her something or some shit. and we talk and hold hands while I drive her two blocks to her building. It was actually one block but it felt like two. We go past where we went on the first date and she day dreams about the two of us hanging out more, like it will actually happen. I play her some music that I like to drive to while we sit in front of her building. She is looking at me like we're going to kiss, I am completely against it. I am parked and completely shutting down anything else because this night is OVER. She smiles at me with a tobacco stained grin and she says our paths are crossed forever. She gets out of the car and I drive home. WORST. DATE. EVER. | I went on the date from hell with a terrible person and I learned I'm a great date that should not date actual crazy people. |
muscleCarr | I met the girl at a house part my room mates threw. We danced and hit it off, so we exchanged numbers. A week later, we made plans to meet up for dinner, or so I thought, at a sandwich shop on campus. She's over an hour late because church (she lived in the catholic dorm on campus), but she still wants to meet up. Anyway, she finally gets there, and I'm hungry because it's like 8 o'clock and I haven't eaten since lunch. So, I order a sandwich; she orders nothing. So, now I'm feeling all awkward for eating and she didn't even get a drink. There was no second date.
TL;DR - date shows up over an hour late to a dinner date where she doesn't eat. | I met the girl at a house part my room mates threw. We danced and hit it off, so we exchanged numbers. A week later, we made plans to meet up for dinner, or so I thought, at a sandwich shop on campus. She's over an hour late because church (she lived in the catholic dorm on campus), but she still wants to meet up. Anyway, she finally gets there, and I'm hungry because it's like 8 o'clock and I haven't eaten since lunch. So, I order a sandwich; she orders nothing. So, now I'm feeling all awkward for eating and she didn't even get a drink. There was no second date.
TL;DR - date shows up over an hour late to a dinner date where she doesn't eat.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceti0r7 | I met the girl at a house part my room mates threw. We danced and hit it off, so we exchanged numbers. A week later, we made plans to meet up for dinner, or so I thought, at a sandwich shop on campus. She's over an hour late because church (she lived in the catholic dorm on campus), but she still wants to meet up. Anyway, she finally gets there, and I'm hungry because it's like 8 o'clock and I haven't eaten since lunch. So, I order a sandwich; she orders nothing. So, now I'm feeling all awkward for eating and she didn't even get a drink. There was no second date. | date shows up over an hour late to a dinner date where she doesn't eat. |
psykiv | Few years ago I used to internship at a law firm. I would go to court with different attorneys twice a week.
One day I was in the traffic court division. I see this girl sitting behind me and I start flirting with her in one of the breaks. We hit it off, I get her phone number, we start talking.
She tells me she had never been to the zoo so I tell her let's go to the zoo. Why not? I pick her up. She asks me to stop at a gas station to buy some cigarettes (ok strike one) and starts smoking in my car (strike two, but there pale in comparison to three).
So anyways we get to the zoo, start walking around, make fun of the animals, whatever. We're having lunch and I ask her so why were you at court. Was it some bullshit traffic ticket? She told me no she was just early for her bail hearing so she was making time and just randomly went inside another courtroom.
I ask her bail hearing? She tells me yes she's currently out on bail. So I make the stupid question of asking her for what. She said she rather not say. Now I go to the bathroom to investigate on my phone. I had the app that had reverse phone number lookup even for cell phones. Look up her phone number, I get her full name. I go on the clerk of courts website and look her up.
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
So I seriously used my newfound knowledge to kind of ask what it was. I tell her I won't judge her or anything, but if she wants this to work, honesty is a good start. I jokingly tell her I don't want to know you're involved in organized crime or anything. She eventually tells me the truth. Her boyfriend tried beating her and she accidentally killed him. Broke down in tears telling me.
So whatever, end of date. She actually called and texted me again after that but I figured you're probably going to prison for a while soon, so what's the point in pursuing this?
Tldr: went on a date with a murderer. | Few years ago I used to internship at a law firm. I would go to court with different attorneys twice a week.
One day I was in the traffic court division. I see this girl sitting behind me and I start flirting with her in one of the breaks. We hit it off, I get her phone number, we start talking.
She tells me she had never been to the zoo so I tell her let's go to the zoo. Why not? I pick her up. She asks me to stop at a gas station to buy some cigarettes (ok strike one) and starts smoking in my car (strike two, but there pale in comparison to three).
So anyways we get to the zoo, start walking around, make fun of the animals, whatever. We're having lunch and I ask her so why were you at court. Was it some bullshit traffic ticket? She told me no she was just early for her bail hearing so she was making time and just randomly went inside another courtroom.
I ask her bail hearing? She tells me yes she's currently out on bail. So I make the stupid question of asking her for what. She said she rather not say. Now I go to the bathroom to investigate on my phone. I had the app that had reverse phone number lookup even for cell phones. Look up her phone number, I get her full name. I go on the clerk of courts website and look her up.
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
So I seriously used my newfound knowledge to kind of ask what it was. I tell her I won't judge her or anything, but if she wants this to work, honesty is a good start. I jokingly tell her I don't want to know you're involved in organized crime or anything. She eventually tells me the truth. Her boyfriend tried beating her and she accidentally killed him. Broke down in tears telling me.
So whatever, end of date. She actually called and texted me again after that but I figured you're probably going to prison for a while soon, so what's the point in pursuing this?
Tldr: went on a date with a murderer.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetilzo | Few years ago I used to internship at a law firm. I would go to court with different attorneys twice a week.
One day I was in the traffic court division. I see this girl sitting behind me and I start flirting with her in one of the breaks. We hit it off, I get her phone number, we start talking.
She tells me she had never been to the zoo so I tell her let's go to the zoo. Why not? I pick her up. She asks me to stop at a gas station to buy some cigarettes (ok strike one) and starts smoking in my car (strike two, but there pale in comparison to three).
So anyways we get to the zoo, start walking around, make fun of the animals, whatever. We're having lunch and I ask her so why were you at court. Was it some bullshit traffic ticket? She told me no she was just early for her bail hearing so she was making time and just randomly went inside another courtroom.
I ask her bail hearing? She tells me yes she's currently out on bail. So I make the stupid question of asking her for what. She said she rather not say. Now I go to the bathroom to investigate on my phone. I had the app that had reverse phone number lookup even for cell phones. Look up her phone number, I get her full name. I go on the clerk of courts website and look her up.
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
So I seriously used my newfound knowledge to kind of ask what it was. I tell her I won't judge her or anything, but if she wants this to work, honesty is a good start. I jokingly tell her I don't want to know you're involved in organized crime or anything. She eventually tells me the truth. Her boyfriend tried beating her and she accidentally killed him. Broke down in tears telling me.
So whatever, end of date. She actually called and texted me again after that but I figured you're probably going to prison for a while soon, so what's the point in pursuing this? | went on a date with a murderer. |
Angeldown | It started with some odd Facebook statuses. There was a sort of quiet, weird guy at my university, and I noticed that whenever I had just left a room he was in, his Facebook status would update to something like "I wish I could have had the courage... maybe next time." Eventually I start to wonder if these are about me, but I tell myself to stop being so conceited and forget about it.
Anyways, shortly after, this guy asks me out. Turns out they were ALL about me. Well, he does seem sort of sweet, and he thinks I'm really cute and all, so I figure I should at least give him a chance, even though he's not very attractive, and he had the same name as my dead brother, which was a little awkward.
So, over spring break, he drives to my house and picks me up, and we spend some time walking around the town square. Conversation is a bit slow and awkward, but I'm very introverted so I sort of expected that to happen and try to get through it. Afterwards, he comes back to my house (Note: my parents house that I'm visiting over Spring break) and asks if he can show me some Dr. Who episodes. I'm not particularly into Dr. Who myself, but whatever, I'll humor him. So we watch one episode... then two... then he wants to watch a third. And I just want him to leave. Dude didn't know when to end the date. Finally, I get him to leave.
After that, he apparently decided we were in a relationship. He kept showing up in my dorm building to hang out in the lounge, and would follow me around quietly. I would move to a different conversation, and five minutes later he'd wander over and stand silently in that group. This really killed my efforts trying to flirt with a really hot guy who lived down the hall from me.
Eventually, I had to actually "break up" with this guy, even though we were never in a relationship. And he spent the next several days texting me about how sad he was about it, and using me as a person to talk to about it because he didn't have anyone else to confide in and moan about the "breakup" to.
Anyways, now I'm dating that hot guy from down the hall, and it's pretty great. He and his roommate still like to crack jokes about that other guy doing creepy things.
**TL;DR** Quiet creepy guy keeps posting vague Facebook statuses about wanting to date me, then thinks we're in a relationship after one date. Had to "break up" with him to get him to stop bothering me. | It started with some odd Facebook statuses. There was a sort of quiet, weird guy at my university, and I noticed that whenever I had just left a room he was in, his Facebook status would update to something like "I wish I could have had the courage... maybe next time." Eventually I start to wonder if these are about me, but I tell myself to stop being so conceited and forget about it.
Anyways, shortly after, this guy asks me out. Turns out they were ALL about me. Well, he does seem sort of sweet, and he thinks I'm really cute and all, so I figure I should at least give him a chance, even though he's not very attractive, and he had the same name as my dead brother, which was a little awkward.
So, over spring break, he drives to my house and picks me up, and we spend some time walking around the town square. Conversation is a bit slow and awkward, but I'm very introverted so I sort of expected that to happen and try to get through it. Afterwards, he comes back to my house (Note: my parents house that I'm visiting over Spring break) and asks if he can show me some Dr. Who episodes. I'm not particularly into Dr. Who myself, but whatever, I'll humor him. So we watch one episode... then two... then he wants to watch a third. And I just want him to leave. Dude didn't know when to end the date. Finally, I get him to leave.
After that, he apparently decided we were in a relationship. He kept showing up in my dorm building to hang out in the lounge, and would follow me around quietly. I would move to a different conversation, and five minutes later he'd wander over and stand silently in that group. This really killed my efforts trying to flirt with a really hot guy who lived down the hall from me.
Eventually, I had to actually "break up" with this guy, even though we were never in a relationship. And he spent the next several days texting me about how sad he was about it, and using me as a person to talk to about it because he didn't have anyone else to confide in and moan about the "breakup" to.
Anyways, now I'm dating that hot guy from down the hall, and it's pretty great. He and his roommate still like to crack jokes about that other guy doing creepy things.
TL;DR Quiet creepy guy keeps posting vague Facebook statuses about wanting to date me, then thinks we're in a relationship after one date. Had to "break up" with him to get him to stop bothering me.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetiqbi | It started with some odd Facebook statuses. There was a sort of quiet, weird guy at my university, and I noticed that whenever I had just left a room he was in, his Facebook status would update to something like "I wish I could have had the courage... maybe next time." Eventually I start to wonder if these are about me, but I tell myself to stop being so conceited and forget about it.
Anyways, shortly after, this guy asks me out. Turns out they were ALL about me. Well, he does seem sort of sweet, and he thinks I'm really cute and all, so I figure I should at least give him a chance, even though he's not very attractive, and he had the same name as my dead brother, which was a little awkward.
So, over spring break, he drives to my house and picks me up, and we spend some time walking around the town square. Conversation is a bit slow and awkward, but I'm very introverted so I sort of expected that to happen and try to get through it. Afterwards, he comes back to my house (Note: my parents house that I'm visiting over Spring break) and asks if he can show me some Dr. Who episodes. I'm not particularly into Dr. Who myself, but whatever, I'll humor him. So we watch one episode... then two... then he wants to watch a third. And I just want him to leave. Dude didn't know when to end the date. Finally, I get him to leave.
After that, he apparently decided we were in a relationship. He kept showing up in my dorm building to hang out in the lounge, and would follow me around quietly. I would move to a different conversation, and five minutes later he'd wander over and stand silently in that group. This really killed my efforts trying to flirt with a really hot guy who lived down the hall from me.
Eventually, I had to actually "break up" with this guy, even though we were never in a relationship. And he spent the next several days texting me about how sad he was about it, and using me as a person to talk to about it because he didn't have anyone else to confide in and moan about the "breakup" to.
Anyways, now I'm dating that hot guy from down the hall, and it's pretty great. He and his roommate still like to crack jokes about that other guy doing creepy things. | Quiet creepy guy keeps posting vague Facebook statuses about wanting to date me, then thinks we're in a relationship after one date. Had to "break up" with him to get him to stop bothering me. |
Laugh_With_Me | Very first "real" date. I was 19, and he was a classmate who'd been hounding me for a date since class started. I knew it was going to go badly within seconds of showing up.
We'd agreed that I would drive to his apartment, and he would drive us to a by-the-slice pizza place and then see Daredevil (should have known it would be bad in the planning phase, I KNOW). I arrive half an hour before we have to leave and he lets me in with a grunted, "Hi," before returning to his computer chair. He has NO THINGS. There is a computer with a desk and chair, and a lawn chair in his otherwise empty apartment. I try to strike up some conversation, but he's at his desk, furiously typing and has no interest in speaking to me. "What are you playing?" I ask. "Dark Age of Camelot." "So, you wanna take off?" I try. He tells me he can't leave early because he needs to meet a friend and sell him a fake sword for fake money. I sigh and sit down in the lawn chair. I keep trying to talk to him, but he's uninterested.
The time to leave rolls around (let's say it's 4:00 pm for clarity's sake), and I get up and tell him it's time to get rolling. He tells me his friend hasn't logged in yet. "So, he's late. Let's go." "You don't play MMOs. You don't understand. I have a reputation in this game. I can't just stand this guy up." "He's not there. Let's go." "We can push it back another half hour. It's fine." No matter what I say, he won't get up, and he lapses back into typing and ignoring me.
4:30 I tell him the time. I am bored and starving. He won't move. Says we'll catch the last showing of Daredevil at 7:30, and that will give us another TWO HOURS TO WAIT IN HIS EMPTY APARTMENT.
6:30 He hasn't spoken with me except to grunt when I try and spark conversation. He still refuses to move since his friend hasn't logged in. He suggests we skip dinner and just go to the 7:30 showing. I protest, but he just insists I don't understand how important this is, and continues ignoring me.
7:15 It is now time to leave to watch a bad movie while starving. He's rooted in place. I've been here since 3:30. I tell him it's his friend's fault if he doesn't get this sword, and it is time to leave. My date continues protesting. I suggested he call the guy and tell him to log in so we can leave. He doesn't have his number. E-mail him. Doesn't have his e-mail. Turns out he has no way to contact him, because not only is this guy not an actual friend, *but he doesn't even know his toon name and was supposed to have met him AT NOON through a mutual friend WHO IS ALSO NOT ON.* He insists he needs a few more minutes to see if he turns up, or his magic sword selling reputation *may never recover.* I tell him I'm leaving to go get Taco Bell. He starts placing an order. I clarify that I am taking my horrible food back to *my* apartment, and he would have to find his own food, *good day, sir.*
**TL/DR** Got stood up by a date while at his apartment speaking to him. | Very first "real" date. I was 19, and he was a classmate who'd been hounding me for a date since class started. I knew it was going to go badly within seconds of showing up.
We'd agreed that I would drive to his apartment, and he would drive us to a by-the-slice pizza place and then see Daredevil (should have known it would be bad in the planning phase, I KNOW). I arrive half an hour before we have to leave and he lets me in with a grunted, "Hi," before returning to his computer chair. He has NO THINGS. There is a computer with a desk and chair, and a lawn chair in his otherwise empty apartment. I try to strike up some conversation, but he's at his desk, furiously typing and has no interest in speaking to me. "What are you playing?" I ask. "Dark Age of Camelot." "So, you wanna take off?" I try. He tells me he can't leave early because he needs to meet a friend and sell him a fake sword for fake money. I sigh and sit down in the lawn chair. I keep trying to talk to him, but he's uninterested.
The time to leave rolls around (let's say it's 4:00 pm for clarity's sake), and I get up and tell him it's time to get rolling. He tells me his friend hasn't logged in yet. "So, he's late. Let's go." "You don't play MMOs. You don't understand. I have a reputation in this game. I can't just stand this guy up." "He's not there. Let's go." "We can push it back another half hour. It's fine." No matter what I say, he won't get up, and he lapses back into typing and ignoring me.
4:30 I tell him the time. I am bored and starving. He won't move. Says we'll catch the last showing of Daredevil at 7:30, and that will give us another TWO HOURS TO WAIT IN HIS EMPTY APARTMENT.
6:30 He hasn't spoken with me except to grunt when I try and spark conversation. He still refuses to move since his friend hasn't logged in. He suggests we skip dinner and just go to the 7:30 showing. I protest, but he just insists I don't understand how important this is, and continues ignoring me.
7:15 It is now time to leave to watch a bad movie while starving. He's rooted in place. I've been here since 3:30. I tell him it's his friend's fault if he doesn't get this sword, and it is time to leave. My date continues protesting. I suggested he call the guy and tell him to log in so we can leave. He doesn't have his number. E-mail him. Doesn't have his e-mail. Turns out he has no way to contact him, because not only is this guy not an actual friend, but he doesn't even know his toon name and was supposed to have met him AT NOON through a mutual friend WHO IS ALSO NOT ON. He insists he needs a few more minutes to see if he turns up, or his magic sword selling reputation may never recover. I tell him I'm leaving to go get Taco Bell. He starts placing an order. I clarify that I am taking my horrible food back to my apartment, and he would have to find his own food, good day, sir.
TL/DR Got stood up by a date while at his apartment speaking to him.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetj7ox | Very first "real" date. I was 19, and he was a classmate who'd been hounding me for a date since class started. I knew it was going to go badly within seconds of showing up.
We'd agreed that I would drive to his apartment, and he would drive us to a by-the-slice pizza place and then see Daredevil (should have known it would be bad in the planning phase, I KNOW). I arrive half an hour before we have to leave and he lets me in with a grunted, "Hi," before returning to his computer chair. He has NO THINGS. There is a computer with a desk and chair, and a lawn chair in his otherwise empty apartment. I try to strike up some conversation, but he's at his desk, furiously typing and has no interest in speaking to me. "What are you playing?" I ask. "Dark Age of Camelot." "So, you wanna take off?" I try. He tells me he can't leave early because he needs to meet a friend and sell him a fake sword for fake money. I sigh and sit down in the lawn chair. I keep trying to talk to him, but he's uninterested.
The time to leave rolls around (let's say it's 4:00 pm for clarity's sake), and I get up and tell him it's time to get rolling. He tells me his friend hasn't logged in yet. "So, he's late. Let's go." "You don't play MMOs. You don't understand. I have a reputation in this game. I can't just stand this guy up." "He's not there. Let's go." "We can push it back another half hour. It's fine." No matter what I say, he won't get up, and he lapses back into typing and ignoring me.
4:30 I tell him the time. I am bored and starving. He won't move. Says we'll catch the last showing of Daredevil at 7:30, and that will give us another TWO HOURS TO WAIT IN HIS EMPTY APARTMENT.
6:30 He hasn't spoken with me except to grunt when I try and spark conversation. He still refuses to move since his friend hasn't logged in. He suggests we skip dinner and just go to the 7:30 showing. I protest, but he just insists I don't understand how important this is, and continues ignoring me.
7:15 It is now time to leave to watch a bad movie while starving. He's rooted in place. I've been here since 3:30. I tell him it's his friend's fault if he doesn't get this sword, and it is time to leave. My date continues protesting. I suggested he call the guy and tell him to log in so we can leave. He doesn't have his number. E-mail him. Doesn't have his e-mail. Turns out he has no way to contact him, because not only is this guy not an actual friend, but he doesn't even know his toon name and was supposed to have met him AT NOON through a mutual friend WHO IS ALSO NOT ON. He insists he needs a few more minutes to see if he turns up, or his magic sword selling reputation may never recover. I tell him I'm leaving to go get Taco Bell. He starts placing an order. I clarify that I am taking my horrible food back to my apartment, and he would have to find his own food, good day, sir. | Got stood up by a date while at his apartment speaking to him. |
Ferociousshecreature | This will probably be buried but I shall tell it anyway.
So it'd been well over a year since I'd had any action whatsoever. All my friends are couples, and while they do a great job of not making me feel excluded sometimes you still just inherently feel left out. So we all went to this anime convention in town and we all set goals to make sure we had a good time and didn't just wander around saying "I donno what do you wanna do??"
I had two goals: get the signature of one of the special guests, and get laid. They all agreed that the familiar and chill environment would be the perfect place for me to step out of my shell and get out there again.
We are hanging out in a courtyard getting some fresh air and this dude comes up and starts talking to us. He is really cute and asks me if my friend has a boyfriend, she does, asks if my other friend has a boyfriend, she does, finally asks if I do, I don't so he starts flirting with me.
That was sign #1
We leave to go catch a panel, I say see ya and nothing more. I should mention that all my friends are cosplaying various pokemon so in an effort to make me feel included they make me a name badge with "cool trainer ferociousshecreature" and I am their "trainer". So on our way to the panel I think to myself "ah fuck it I will give him my number..." I quickly scribble 'cool trainer ferociousshecreature challenges you!' and my number. Cute right? I walk up and say "you dropped this" hand it to him and walk away. Later on I pass him in the hall and he says "Challenge Accepted!" And I tell him well then he should text me! Several hours later he texts me, we talk, agree to hang out while my friends are in a panel I have no interest in. We go get food, hang out alone, hang out with some of his friends, we kiss, I introduce him to my friends, they don't like him (sign #2) and I tell him to catch up with his friends we will hang out later.
Over texts we agree to go get a beer after the convention wraps up that evening. My friends depart and wish me luck, and I head to a gathering place to meet him. He doesn't answer any messages or calls for hours, and I wait for two hours past the time we agreed to meet before he even responds (sign #3). Four hours after we had agreed to meet he shows up. With another girl he had met earlier at the convention (sign #4). "Sorry I took so long. I lost my phone in her hotel room" (sign #5)
So we go to the bar. He gets a ridiculous mixed drink that teenagers get when they first turn 18. I get a pint and a whiskey neat. The fucking waitress in this club doesn't know what neat is. God damn whisky in a cup. Anyway, he and the other girl proceed to talk about *another* girl that he met at the convention who "won't give him any play" (sign #6) obviously this makes me uncomfortable so I slam my drinks and catch the last bus home. This is where I should have thrown in the towel. Nope. To desperate.
Few days later we agree to meet up and hang out. I straight up tell him I am only interested in sex. So we walk around for a bit. He has a very forthcomming personality so I figure he will make the first move in no time. No dice. So he says he is hungry. I suggest we go get something to eat. I should mention I am 22 he is 23. He says he has no money *we should go to his house and have some cereal or something because his parents already had dinner*. (Sign #7) I say I will pay lets go somewhere, are there ant decent pubs around? He suggests McDonalds (sign #8) but he doesn't want me to pay *he wants me to give him the money so that he can pay so that he doesn't look lame* (sign #9). I say whatever, I really need to get laid. He proceeds to buy and eat $20 worth of McDonald's because that is how much I gave him. (Sign #10). Finally after watching him stuff his face like an animal and yammer on about Naruto (I don’t like Naruto and told him as much but he felt the need to prove me wrong) (sign #11). I finally say "look it's late are we gonna go somewhere or am I catching the last train?" I was thinking of a hotel... or a fucking park or trail or something at this point.
In the distance of metaphor-space a truck can be heard backing up.
*he calls his mom to ask if he can have a friend over*
You see the truck is full of signs. It's hazard lights illuminate as it raises the dump lift...
Of course he can have a friend over, *if his friend will help him clean his room*.
Signs #12-1736 proceed to tumble over me.
Fuck it. I have come this far. I might as well get laid. We go to his place. He makes me fold his laundry while he takes a shower. Then complains because I did it wrong and proceeds to redo it all muttering that "next time you better do it right". He turns on *Conan O'Brian* for background noise. And we go at it.
Of course because of murphy's law he has a huge dick and fucks like an animal.
I am ashamed to say that for that reason I proceeded to see him for two months, only at my apartment, and with as little talking as possible because his personality was about as pleasant as curdled milk in the couch cushions.
TL; DR felt like a pedophile sleeping with a guy a year older than me | This will probably be buried but I shall tell it anyway.
So it'd been well over a year since I'd had any action whatsoever. All my friends are couples, and while they do a great job of not making me feel excluded sometimes you still just inherently feel left out. So we all went to this anime convention in town and we all set goals to make sure we had a good time and didn't just wander around saying "I donno what do you wanna do??"
I had two goals: get the signature of one of the special guests, and get laid. They all agreed that the familiar and chill environment would be the perfect place for me to step out of my shell and get out there again.
We are hanging out in a courtyard getting some fresh air and this dude comes up and starts talking to us. He is really cute and asks me if my friend has a boyfriend, she does, asks if my other friend has a boyfriend, she does, finally asks if I do, I don't so he starts flirting with me.
That was sign #1
We leave to go catch a panel, I say see ya and nothing more. I should mention that all my friends are cosplaying various pokemon so in an effort to make me feel included they make me a name badge with "cool trainer ferociousshecreature" and I am their "trainer". So on our way to the panel I think to myself "ah fuck it I will give him my number..." I quickly scribble 'cool trainer ferociousshecreature challenges you!' and my number. Cute right? I walk up and say "you dropped this" hand it to him and walk away. Later on I pass him in the hall and he says "Challenge Accepted!" And I tell him well then he should text me! Several hours later he texts me, we talk, agree to hang out while my friends are in a panel I have no interest in. We go get food, hang out alone, hang out with some of his friends, we kiss, I introduce him to my friends, they don't like him (sign #2) and I tell him to catch up with his friends we will hang out later.
Over texts we agree to go get a beer after the convention wraps up that evening. My friends depart and wish me luck, and I head to a gathering place to meet him. He doesn't answer any messages or calls for hours, and I wait for two hours past the time we agreed to meet before he even responds (sign #3). Four hours after we had agreed to meet he shows up. With another girl he had met earlier at the convention (sign #4). "Sorry I took so long. I lost my phone in her hotel room" (sign #5)
So we go to the bar. He gets a ridiculous mixed drink that teenagers get when they first turn 18. I get a pint and a whiskey neat. The fucking waitress in this club doesn't know what neat is. God damn whisky in a cup. Anyway, he and the other girl proceed to talk about another girl that he met at the convention who "won't give him any play" (sign #6) obviously this makes me uncomfortable so I slam my drinks and catch the last bus home. This is where I should have thrown in the towel. Nope. To desperate.
Few days later we agree to meet up and hang out. I straight up tell him I am only interested in sex. So we walk around for a bit. He has a very forthcomming personality so I figure he will make the first move in no time. No dice. So he says he is hungry. I suggest we go get something to eat. I should mention I am 22 he is 23. He says he has no money we should go to his house and have some cereal or something because his parents already had dinner . (Sign #7) I say I will pay lets go somewhere, are there ant decent pubs around? He suggests McDonalds (sign #8) but he doesn't want me to pay he wants me to give him the money so that he can pay so that he doesn't look lame (sign #9). I say whatever, I really need to get laid. He proceeds to buy and eat $20 worth of McDonald's because that is how much I gave him. (Sign #10). Finally after watching him stuff his face like an animal and yammer on about Naruto (I don’t like Naruto and told him as much but he felt the need to prove me wrong) (sign #11). I finally say "look it's late are we gonna go somewhere or am I catching the last train?" I was thinking of a hotel... or a fucking park or trail or something at this point.
In the distance of metaphor-space a truck can be heard backing up.
he calls his mom to ask if he can have a friend over
You see the truck is full of signs. It's hazard lights illuminate as it raises the dump lift...
Of course he can have a friend over, if his friend will help him clean his room .
Signs #12-1736 proceed to tumble over me.
Fuck it. I have come this far. I might as well get laid. We go to his place. He makes me fold his laundry while he takes a shower. Then complains because I did it wrong and proceeds to redo it all muttering that "next time you better do it right". He turns on Conan O'Brian for background noise. And we go at it.
Of course because of murphy's law he has a huge dick and fucks like an animal.
I am ashamed to say that for that reason I proceeded to see him for two months, only at my apartment, and with as little talking as possible because his personality was about as pleasant as curdled milk in the couch cushions.
TL; DR felt like a pedophile sleeping with a guy a year older than me
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetjkp2 | This will probably be buried but I shall tell it anyway.
So it'd been well over a year since I'd had any action whatsoever. All my friends are couples, and while they do a great job of not making me feel excluded sometimes you still just inherently feel left out. So we all went to this anime convention in town and we all set goals to make sure we had a good time and didn't just wander around saying "I donno what do you wanna do??"
I had two goals: get the signature of one of the special guests, and get laid. They all agreed that the familiar and chill environment would be the perfect place for me to step out of my shell and get out there again.
We are hanging out in a courtyard getting some fresh air and this dude comes up and starts talking to us. He is really cute and asks me if my friend has a boyfriend, she does, asks if my other friend has a boyfriend, she does, finally asks if I do, I don't so he starts flirting with me.
That was sign #1
We leave to go catch a panel, I say see ya and nothing more. I should mention that all my friends are cosplaying various pokemon so in an effort to make me feel included they make me a name badge with "cool trainer ferociousshecreature" and I am their "trainer". So on our way to the panel I think to myself "ah fuck it I will give him my number..." I quickly scribble 'cool trainer ferociousshecreature challenges you!' and my number. Cute right? I walk up and say "you dropped this" hand it to him and walk away. Later on I pass him in the hall and he says "Challenge Accepted!" And I tell him well then he should text me! Several hours later he texts me, we talk, agree to hang out while my friends are in a panel I have no interest in. We go get food, hang out alone, hang out with some of his friends, we kiss, I introduce him to my friends, they don't like him (sign #2) and I tell him to catch up with his friends we will hang out later.
Over texts we agree to go get a beer after the convention wraps up that evening. My friends depart and wish me luck, and I head to a gathering place to meet him. He doesn't answer any messages or calls for hours, and I wait for two hours past the time we agreed to meet before he even responds (sign #3). Four hours after we had agreed to meet he shows up. With another girl he had met earlier at the convention (sign #4). "Sorry I took so long. I lost my phone in her hotel room" (sign #5)
So we go to the bar. He gets a ridiculous mixed drink that teenagers get when they first turn 18. I get a pint and a whiskey neat. The fucking waitress in this club doesn't know what neat is. God damn whisky in a cup. Anyway, he and the other girl proceed to talk about another girl that he met at the convention who "won't give him any play" (sign #6) obviously this makes me uncomfortable so I slam my drinks and catch the last bus home. This is where I should have thrown in the towel. Nope. To desperate.
Few days later we agree to meet up and hang out. I straight up tell him I am only interested in sex. So we walk around for a bit. He has a very forthcomming personality so I figure he will make the first move in no time. No dice. So he says he is hungry. I suggest we go get something to eat. I should mention I am 22 he is 23. He says he has no money we should go to his house and have some cereal or something because his parents already had dinner . (Sign #7) I say I will pay lets go somewhere, are there ant decent pubs around? He suggests McDonalds (sign #8) but he doesn't want me to pay he wants me to give him the money so that he can pay so that he doesn't look lame (sign #9). I say whatever, I really need to get laid. He proceeds to buy and eat $20 worth of McDonald's because that is how much I gave him. (Sign #10). Finally after watching him stuff his face like an animal and yammer on about Naruto (I don’t like Naruto and told him as much but he felt the need to prove me wrong) (sign #11). I finally say "look it's late are we gonna go somewhere or am I catching the last train?" I was thinking of a hotel... or a fucking park or trail or something at this point.
In the distance of metaphor-space a truck can be heard backing up.
he calls his mom to ask if he can have a friend over
You see the truck is full of signs. It's hazard lights illuminate as it raises the dump lift...
Of course he can have a friend over, if his friend will help him clean his room .
Signs #12-1736 proceed to tumble over me.
Fuck it. I have come this far. I might as well get laid. We go to his place. He makes me fold his laundry while he takes a shower. Then complains because I did it wrong and proceeds to redo it all muttering that "next time you better do it right". He turns on Conan O'Brian for background noise. And we go at it.
Of course because of murphy's law he has a huge dick and fucks like an animal.
I am ashamed to say that for that reason I proceeded to see him for two months, only at my apartment, and with as little talking as possible because his personality was about as pleasant as curdled milk in the couch cushions. | felt like a pedophile sleeping with a guy a year older than me |
seraph77 | I had been crushing on this girl for months. She knew it, and I knew she liked me too, but she never would go out on a date with me for some reason (I think it was a clique thing as I wasn't one of the "cool kids"). We would always flirt like crazy, but never took it any further despite my many attempts. Finally one day she agrees out of the blue, and we schedule a movie for Friday.
We had never really had any time when it was just myself and her. It was always in a social situation, and only when we found ourselves in a semi-isolated part of a party or whatnot. She would always tone it way down in front of her friends.
Anyway, I pick her up, and it's like night and day. She's incredibly giddy/excited and even kisses me when I meet her at the door. We laugh and flirt for the whole drive, and everything is right with the world.
At some point before this day, we had decided that it would be a good "high" movie, and I promised to bring some weed. We had gotten caught up in the flirting/laughing on the drive, and when we finally got to the parking lot I said "oh yeah, did you want to smoke before we go in?" She agreed and we shared a J in the car. Mind you this is in the middle of summer, and my PoS car at the time didn't have AC. It was hot enough just driving, but after sitting in the car, in the sun, idle for 5 minutes, we were both thoroughly baked (both ways :)
When we finally walked into the theater, it was like a slap in the face walking into the AC'd lobby; similar to the momentary shock you get jumping into a cold pool. We got our tickets, and I noticed she looked pale, but didn't say anything. When we got to the concession stand, I ordered popcorn and asked her what she wanted to drink. She says " I can't see" and is getting all wobbly. My THC-addled brain can't process this, and I say "you want a Pepsi?". She then proceeds to collapse...
It's a Friday night at a large theater, so there are tons of people around, and you can hear the collective audible gasp when this happens. I'm just standing there in a stupor, blazed out of my mind, and people are asking "is she ok? does she have any medical conditions?". I think at best I stammered out "I.. I.. I don't know". (It doesn't help to be high in these situations). Thankfully after a minute or so (which felt like an hour) she wakes up.
Apparently she is one of those people who deal with embarrassment with anger, so once she gets up and sees everyone staring at her she runs off. I'm trying to walk with her, helping her stay upright as she is still staggering, but she keeps telling me to "leave her alone".
I finally get her to the car after she rebuffs all my "are you ok, what can I do?" questions, and she passes out again. She sleeps while I just sit there watching, making sure she's still breathing, etc. When she does wake up, she immediately asks to be taken home. The bitchiness is gone now, but she won't talk, so we have an incredibly awkward silence for 20 minutes on the drive home. I finally get to her driveway, and she has tears in her eyes, and says "I'm sorry I ruined our date Seraph". I try to explain that it's not a big deal at all and I just wish she'd talk to me, but she basically runs out of the car and goes inside.
This was pre-cell phone days, and while I think i had her number, it was probably written on a piece of paper somewhere that I couldn't find, so I just accepted my fate and went home crestfallen.
I kept hoping to bump into her at some gathering, but didn't see her for probably a month. When I did finally find her, all I wanted to do was to rush over and hug her, but she would actively avoid eye contact and stay huddled with her friends. This continued until I just gave up, but I still think about her to this day.
tl;dr- ~~cock~~loveblocked by a joint
| I had been crushing on this girl for months. She knew it, and I knew she liked me too, but she never would go out on a date with me for some reason (I think it was a clique thing as I wasn't one of the "cool kids"). We would always flirt like crazy, but never took it any further despite my many attempts. Finally one day she agrees out of the blue, and we schedule a movie for Friday.
We had never really had any time when it was just myself and her. It was always in a social situation, and only when we found ourselves in a semi-isolated part of a party or whatnot. She would always tone it way down in front of her friends.
Anyway, I pick her up, and it's like night and day. She's incredibly giddy/excited and even kisses me when I meet her at the door. We laugh and flirt for the whole drive, and everything is right with the world.
At some point before this day, we had decided that it would be a good "high" movie, and I promised to bring some weed. We had gotten caught up in the flirting/laughing on the drive, and when we finally got to the parking lot I said "oh yeah, did you want to smoke before we go in?" She agreed and we shared a J in the car. Mind you this is in the middle of summer, and my PoS car at the time didn't have AC. It was hot enough just driving, but after sitting in the car, in the sun, idle for 5 minutes, we were both thoroughly baked (both ways :)
When we finally walked into the theater, it was like a slap in the face walking into the AC'd lobby; similar to the momentary shock you get jumping into a cold pool. We got our tickets, and I noticed she looked pale, but didn't say anything. When we got to the concession stand, I ordered popcorn and asked her what she wanted to drink. She says " I can't see" and is getting all wobbly. My THC-addled brain can't process this, and I say "you want a Pepsi?". She then proceeds to collapse...
It's a Friday night at a large theater, so there are tons of people around, and you can hear the collective audible gasp when this happens. I'm just standing there in a stupor, blazed out of my mind, and people are asking "is she ok? does she have any medical conditions?". I think at best I stammered out "I.. I.. I don't know". (It doesn't help to be high in these situations). Thankfully after a minute or so (which felt like an hour) she wakes up.
Apparently she is one of those people who deal with embarrassment with anger, so once she gets up and sees everyone staring at her she runs off. I'm trying to walk with her, helping her stay upright as she is still staggering, but she keeps telling me to "leave her alone".
I finally get her to the car after she rebuffs all my "are you ok, what can I do?" questions, and she passes out again. She sleeps while I just sit there watching, making sure she's still breathing, etc. When she does wake up, she immediately asks to be taken home. The bitchiness is gone now, but she won't talk, so we have an incredibly awkward silence for 20 minutes on the drive home. I finally get to her driveway, and she has tears in her eyes, and says "I'm sorry I ruined our date Seraph". I try to explain that it's not a big deal at all and I just wish she'd talk to me, but she basically runs out of the car and goes inside.
This was pre-cell phone days, and while I think i had her number, it was probably written on a piece of paper somewhere that I couldn't find, so I just accepted my fate and went home crestfallen.
I kept hoping to bump into her at some gathering, but didn't see her for probably a month. When I did finally find her, all I wanted to do was to rush over and hug her, but she would actively avoid eye contact and stay huddled with her friends. This continued until I just gave up, but I still think about her to this day.
tl;dr- cock loveblocked by a joint
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetk4ju | I had been crushing on this girl for months. She knew it, and I knew she liked me too, but she never would go out on a date with me for some reason (I think it was a clique thing as I wasn't one of the "cool kids"). We would always flirt like crazy, but never took it any further despite my many attempts. Finally one day she agrees out of the blue, and we schedule a movie for Friday.
We had never really had any time when it was just myself and her. It was always in a social situation, and only when we found ourselves in a semi-isolated part of a party or whatnot. She would always tone it way down in front of her friends.
Anyway, I pick her up, and it's like night and day. She's incredibly giddy/excited and even kisses me when I meet her at the door. We laugh and flirt for the whole drive, and everything is right with the world.
At some point before this day, we had decided that it would be a good "high" movie, and I promised to bring some weed. We had gotten caught up in the flirting/laughing on the drive, and when we finally got to the parking lot I said "oh yeah, did you want to smoke before we go in?" She agreed and we shared a J in the car. Mind you this is in the middle of summer, and my PoS car at the time didn't have AC. It was hot enough just driving, but after sitting in the car, in the sun, idle for 5 minutes, we were both thoroughly baked (both ways :)
When we finally walked into the theater, it was like a slap in the face walking into the AC'd lobby; similar to the momentary shock you get jumping into a cold pool. We got our tickets, and I noticed she looked pale, but didn't say anything. When we got to the concession stand, I ordered popcorn and asked her what she wanted to drink. She says " I can't see" and is getting all wobbly. My THC-addled brain can't process this, and I say "you want a Pepsi?". She then proceeds to collapse...
It's a Friday night at a large theater, so there are tons of people around, and you can hear the collective audible gasp when this happens. I'm just standing there in a stupor, blazed out of my mind, and people are asking "is she ok? does she have any medical conditions?". I think at best I stammered out "I.. I.. I don't know". (It doesn't help to be high in these situations). Thankfully after a minute or so (which felt like an hour) she wakes up.
Apparently she is one of those people who deal with embarrassment with anger, so once she gets up and sees everyone staring at her she runs off. I'm trying to walk with her, helping her stay upright as she is still staggering, but she keeps telling me to "leave her alone".
I finally get her to the car after she rebuffs all my "are you ok, what can I do?" questions, and she passes out again. She sleeps while I just sit there watching, making sure she's still breathing, etc. When she does wake up, she immediately asks to be taken home. The bitchiness is gone now, but she won't talk, so we have an incredibly awkward silence for 20 minutes on the drive home. I finally get to her driveway, and she has tears in her eyes, and says "I'm sorry I ruined our date Seraph". I try to explain that it's not a big deal at all and I just wish she'd talk to me, but she basically runs out of the car and goes inside.
This was pre-cell phone days, and while I think i had her number, it was probably written on a piece of paper somewhere that I couldn't find, so I just accepted my fate and went home crestfallen.
I kept hoping to bump into her at some gathering, but didn't see her for probably a month. When I did finally find her, all I wanted to do was to rush over and hug her, but she would actively avoid eye contact and stay huddled with her friends. This continued until I just gave up, but I still think about her to this day. | cock loveblocked by a joint |
Claysloth | I did the OkCupid thing one summer. I had so many odd experiences....the one that I keep coming back to is when I went to see fireworks with this dude. He seemed cool, we both lived in a suburb of our city and we thought it would be a good idea to go see fireworks. We easily could have gone right in the area that we lived in...but noo...let's drive 40 fucking minutes in traffic to see them in downtown, that seems like a swell idea. Then he wanted to get beers; I'm easy to please, let's just get some PBR from the gas station, whatever. NOPE! (we're already running late at this point, I should mention) we had to drive to the liquor store that carries this one beer that he insisted I try. Fine. Then, oh the travesty, they don't fucking have it. So let's bug the employees and make them look in the back and them pester them about when the next shipment is coming in. PAIN IN THE ASS. Then, finally settling on a beer, we drive to the fireworks. At this point, he makes it obvious to me that he has music ADD and can't listen to a whole fucking song...I have no idea how many songs I heard the first 45 sec of that night.
Soo..we see fireworks...I like fire and things exploding, so that's cool.
Then...he decides to wait in the parking garage for traffic to clear. I had mentioned earlier in the night that I like yoga. So he decides to make me watch videos of acro yoga. Which is essentially, a man and a woman flipping one another around in awkward places. He wanted to try this, I did not.
I finally get him to leave the parking garage.
This is when he also decides to introduce me to Dubstep. Which he described to me as "ROBOT SEX." Clearly he's setting the mood here...
Then he starts whipping out bowls and weed to show me "how dank his shit is." I like all of these things, but not on the 4th when cops are everywhere directing traffic...don't be stupid.
Then we get stuck in traffic for an hour and a half. I've blocked out the rest of our conversations from my memory. When we get back to his place (where my car was) I promptly RUN to the other side of my car to avoid a goodnight...anything.
20 minutes later he sends me a text: You seemed like you were in a huge hurry to leave, I hope it wasn't anything I did.
Don't let this story, (or the other OkCupid stories in this thread) keep you from online dating. I actually met my current boyfriend about a month later. We've been together for a year and a half. All the bad dates lead to something good (sometimes).
TL;DR: Never get a ride on your first date, and don't get stuck in traffic with the creeper either.
| I did the OkCupid thing one summer. I had so many odd experiences....the one that I keep coming back to is when I went to see fireworks with this dude. He seemed cool, we both lived in a suburb of our city and we thought it would be a good idea to go see fireworks. We easily could have gone right in the area that we lived in...but noo...let's drive 40 fucking minutes in traffic to see them in downtown, that seems like a swell idea. Then he wanted to get beers; I'm easy to please, let's just get some PBR from the gas station, whatever. NOPE! (we're already running late at this point, I should mention) we had to drive to the liquor store that carries this one beer that he insisted I try. Fine. Then, oh the travesty, they don't fucking have it. So let's bug the employees and make them look in the back and them pester them about when the next shipment is coming in. PAIN IN THE ASS. Then, finally settling on a beer, we drive to the fireworks. At this point, he makes it obvious to me that he has music ADD and can't listen to a whole fucking song...I have no idea how many songs I heard the first 45 sec of that night.
Soo..we see fireworks...I like fire and things exploding, so that's cool.
Then...he decides to wait in the parking garage for traffic to clear. I had mentioned earlier in the night that I like yoga. So he decides to make me watch videos of acro yoga. Which is essentially, a man and a woman flipping one another around in awkward places. He wanted to try this, I did not.
I finally get him to leave the parking garage.
This is when he also decides to introduce me to Dubstep. Which he described to me as "ROBOT SEX." Clearly he's setting the mood here...
Then he starts whipping out bowls and weed to show me "how dank his shit is." I like all of these things, but not on the 4th when cops are everywhere directing traffic...don't be stupid.
Then we get stuck in traffic for an hour and a half. I've blocked out the rest of our conversations from my memory. When we get back to his place (where my car was) I promptly RUN to the other side of my car to avoid a goodnight...anything.
20 minutes later he sends me a text: You seemed like you were in a huge hurry to leave, I hope it wasn't anything I did.
Don't let this story, (or the other OkCupid stories in this thread) keep you from online dating. I actually met my current boyfriend about a month later. We've been together for a year and a half. All the bad dates lead to something good (sometimes).
TL;DR: Never get a ride on your first date, and don't get stuck in traffic with the creeper either.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetkr5m | I did the OkCupid thing one summer. I had so many odd experiences....the one that I keep coming back to is when I went to see fireworks with this dude. He seemed cool, we both lived in a suburb of our city and we thought it would be a good idea to go see fireworks. We easily could have gone right in the area that we lived in...but noo...let's drive 40 fucking minutes in traffic to see them in downtown, that seems like a swell idea. Then he wanted to get beers; I'm easy to please, let's just get some PBR from the gas station, whatever. NOPE! (we're already running late at this point, I should mention) we had to drive to the liquor store that carries this one beer that he insisted I try. Fine. Then, oh the travesty, they don't fucking have it. So let's bug the employees and make them look in the back and them pester them about when the next shipment is coming in. PAIN IN THE ASS. Then, finally settling on a beer, we drive to the fireworks. At this point, he makes it obvious to me that he has music ADD and can't listen to a whole fucking song...I have no idea how many songs I heard the first 45 sec of that night.
Soo..we see fireworks...I like fire and things exploding, so that's cool.
Then...he decides to wait in the parking garage for traffic to clear. I had mentioned earlier in the night that I like yoga. So he decides to make me watch videos of acro yoga. Which is essentially, a man and a woman flipping one another around in awkward places. He wanted to try this, I did not.
I finally get him to leave the parking garage.
This is when he also decides to introduce me to Dubstep. Which he described to me as "ROBOT SEX." Clearly he's setting the mood here...
Then he starts whipping out bowls and weed to show me "how dank his shit is." I like all of these things, but not on the 4th when cops are everywhere directing traffic...don't be stupid.
Then we get stuck in traffic for an hour and a half. I've blocked out the rest of our conversations from my memory. When we get back to his place (where my car was) I promptly RUN to the other side of my car to avoid a goodnight...anything.
20 minutes later he sends me a text: You seemed like you were in a huge hurry to leave, I hope it wasn't anything I did.
Don't let this story, (or the other OkCupid stories in this thread) keep you from online dating. I actually met my current boyfriend about a month later. We've been together for a year and a half. All the bad dates lead to something good (sometimes). | Never get a ride on your first date, and don't get stuck in traffic with the creeper either. |
ilestledisko | I'm kinda late to the game, and it might not be as bad as most of yours, but I'll share anyway.
For some reason I was really into this 6 foot, overweight guy who had the world's worst facial hair, long, shoulder length brunette hair and had the worst attitude of any ugly guy I've ever met. I was obviously into him but he was having none of it, but to my surprise one day he asked me out. As soon as I get to his place (I'm looking pretty cute-it is a date, after all), he greets me at the door by telling me, "Pick up a dog, we're taking them for a walk." So I have to grab one of his wiener dogs and carry him downstairs and walk around his shitty apartment complex until the dogs shat/pissed. The whole time he said like, two words.
The dogs were being jerks and didn't do their business, so as soon as we got back upstairs one of his dogs peed on the couch and the other one shit on the floor. Okay, I've had worse dates I think...so I shrug it off. Then, we watch some It's Always Sunny, but I'm sitting on this huge couch all by myself and he's all the way on the other side of the room in a recliner, drinking a beer and not looking at me at all. I have been feeling this date sucked, but at this point I think, "Why the hell would he ask me out if he's not interested?"
So then after a few episodes, he takes me into his bedroom (don't get too excited) to show me an organ that he built. An organ, the musical instrument. He proceeds to play me a piece that he wrote from it, and I can't help but want to kill myself as I'm staring at this dorky, weird 6 foot guy playing this shitty organ in his bedroom. And then he gets REALLY excited, and tells me he writes death metal songs. So then he shows me all of his death metal songs from his computer, which are pretty shitty in general. This went on for at least an hour.
After that, I asked him why he asked me out. He said "One of my friends thinks you're cute and knows you're interested in me, so he convinced me to give you a chance." He then told me that I wasn't his type, which I didn't ask, and he said that he would only date blonde hair blue eyed Scandinavian girls. We are in Texas, mind you. One of the smallest country towns in East Texas. How many Scandinavian girls do you think are walking around down here?
He told me then, "I mean, I guess if I was really drunk, and the lights were out...I could probably muster up the courage to fuck you."
I just got up and left.
**tl;dr: 6 foot organ and death metal enthusiast, shittiest day of my life.** | I'm kinda late to the game, and it might not be as bad as most of yours, but I'll share anyway.
For some reason I was really into this 6 foot, overweight guy who had the world's worst facial hair, long, shoulder length brunette hair and had the worst attitude of any ugly guy I've ever met. I was obviously into him but he was having none of it, but to my surprise one day he asked me out. As soon as I get to his place (I'm looking pretty cute-it is a date, after all), he greets me at the door by telling me, "Pick up a dog, we're taking them for a walk." So I have to grab one of his wiener dogs and carry him downstairs and walk around his shitty apartment complex until the dogs shat/pissed. The whole time he said like, two words.
The dogs were being jerks and didn't do their business, so as soon as we got back upstairs one of his dogs peed on the couch and the other one shit on the floor. Okay, I've had worse dates I think...so I shrug it off. Then, we watch some It's Always Sunny, but I'm sitting on this huge couch all by myself and he's all the way on the other side of the room in a recliner, drinking a beer and not looking at me at all. I have been feeling this date sucked, but at this point I think, "Why the hell would he ask me out if he's not interested?"
So then after a few episodes, he takes me into his bedroom (don't get too excited) to show me an organ that he built. An organ, the musical instrument. He proceeds to play me a piece that he wrote from it, and I can't help but want to kill myself as I'm staring at this dorky, weird 6 foot guy playing this shitty organ in his bedroom. And then he gets REALLY excited, and tells me he writes death metal songs. So then he shows me all of his death metal songs from his computer, which are pretty shitty in general. This went on for at least an hour.
After that, I asked him why he asked me out. He said "One of my friends thinks you're cute and knows you're interested in me, so he convinced me to give you a chance." He then told me that I wasn't his type, which I didn't ask, and he said that he would only date blonde hair blue eyed Scandinavian girls. We are in Texas, mind you. One of the smallest country towns in East Texas. How many Scandinavian girls do you think are walking around down here?
He told me then, "I mean, I guess if I was really drunk, and the lights were out...I could probably muster up the courage to fuck you."
I just got up and left.
tl;dr: 6 foot organ and death metal enthusiast, shittiest day of my life.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetl0dg | I'm kinda late to the game, and it might not be as bad as most of yours, but I'll share anyway.
For some reason I was really into this 6 foot, overweight guy who had the world's worst facial hair, long, shoulder length brunette hair and had the worst attitude of any ugly guy I've ever met. I was obviously into him but he was having none of it, but to my surprise one day he asked me out. As soon as I get to his place (I'm looking pretty cute-it is a date, after all), he greets me at the door by telling me, "Pick up a dog, we're taking them for a walk." So I have to grab one of his wiener dogs and carry him downstairs and walk around his shitty apartment complex until the dogs shat/pissed. The whole time he said like, two words.
The dogs were being jerks and didn't do their business, so as soon as we got back upstairs one of his dogs peed on the couch and the other one shit on the floor. Okay, I've had worse dates I think...so I shrug it off. Then, we watch some It's Always Sunny, but I'm sitting on this huge couch all by myself and he's all the way on the other side of the room in a recliner, drinking a beer and not looking at me at all. I have been feeling this date sucked, but at this point I think, "Why the hell would he ask me out if he's not interested?"
So then after a few episodes, he takes me into his bedroom (don't get too excited) to show me an organ that he built. An organ, the musical instrument. He proceeds to play me a piece that he wrote from it, and I can't help but want to kill myself as I'm staring at this dorky, weird 6 foot guy playing this shitty organ in his bedroom. And then he gets REALLY excited, and tells me he writes death metal songs. So then he shows me all of his death metal songs from his computer, which are pretty shitty in general. This went on for at least an hour.
After that, I asked him why he asked me out. He said "One of my friends thinks you're cute and knows you're interested in me, so he convinced me to give you a chance." He then told me that I wasn't his type, which I didn't ask, and he said that he would only date blonde hair blue eyed Scandinavian girls. We are in Texas, mind you. One of the smallest country towns in East Texas. How many Scandinavian girls do you think are walking around down here?
He told me then, "I mean, I guess if I was really drunk, and the lights were out...I could probably muster up the courage to fuck you."
I just got up and left. | 6 foot organ and death metal enthusiast, shittiest day of my life. |
ToppyTippers | Not mine, but my little brother. A couple of girls and my little brother and his friend plan a date the girls change the time and his friend can't go anymore. Soon all but one girl also bail only the date idea (probably because this girl told them too cause she like my brother). They decided to see Thor 2. My older brother, my boyfriend, and I get in the car to take him to the theater. In the end my younger brother (who did not like the girl) and this girl were sandwiched between my older brother on the right and my boyfriend and I on the left.
After the date her parents showed up yo pick her up, but she refused to get in the car in hopes of getting a kiss. So my brother had to wait until she gave up in 20 degree weather.
TL;DR Brother reluctantly goes on a date with a girl, only to get 5th wheeled. | Not mine, but my little brother. A couple of girls and my little brother and his friend plan a date the girls change the time and his friend can't go anymore. Soon all but one girl also bail only the date idea (probably because this girl told them too cause she like my brother). They decided to see Thor 2. My older brother, my boyfriend, and I get in the car to take him to the theater. In the end my younger brother (who did not like the girl) and this girl were sandwiched between my older brother on the right and my boyfriend and I on the left.
After the date her parents showed up yo pick her up, but she refused to get in the car in hopes of getting a kiss. So my brother had to wait until she gave up in 20 degree weather.
TL;DR Brother reluctantly goes on a date with a girl, only to get 5th wheeled.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetlbhi | Not mine, but my little brother. A couple of girls and my little brother and his friend plan a date the girls change the time and his friend can't go anymore. Soon all but one girl also bail only the date idea (probably because this girl told them too cause she like my brother). They decided to see Thor 2. My older brother, my boyfriend, and I get in the car to take him to the theater. In the end my younger brother (who did not like the girl) and this girl were sandwiched between my older brother on the right and my boyfriend and I on the left.
After the date her parents showed up yo pick her up, but she refused to get in the car in hopes of getting a kiss. So my brother had to wait until she gave up in 20 degree weather. | Brother reluctantly goes on a date with a girl, only to get 5th wheeled. |
cmrocks | I was living with my best friend's Dad for a couple months. He was dating this girl who I got to know and she wanted to introduce me to her daughter. She was my age, doing her PhD in English, looked pretty from the photos etc. Sounded great.
Our first date, we meet for coffee and that goes well. She's interesting, funny, smart etc. We agree to meet again.
Second date, I take her out for dinner. More of the same.
I go out of town for a month for work (I'm a geologist) and we keep in contact over the course of the month; send several emails back and forth.
A couple days after I get back, she invites me over to her place for the night. She'll make dinner, we'll hang out etc. I get there, she opens the door and literally drags me into the apartment and into her bedroom. So we do that. It was fun.
Now, the crazy begins. She has to go to do something downtown quickly so I offer to drive. It's about a 40 minute drive. The entire trip, she goes through an entire run down of everything that is possibly wrong with her:
1. Gets constant migraines
2. Low blood pressure
3. Anger issues
4. Trust issues
5. Bad shoulders
6. Bad joints
7. Self esteem issues
8. Body image issues
9. etc etc
Basically, she spent the entire 40 minutes there and back telling me everything that was wrong with her, all about her awful past relationships, on and on.
We get back to her place. Start watching a movie on the couch. She stands up to go get some water and "WHACK", hits the floor, completely fainted and unconscious.
At this point, I'm freaking out. I check her breathing and pulse, both are good but she's still completely unconscious. She kinda opens her eyes a bit and moans "sugar". So I run to the kitchen, get her some water with sugar mixed in and give it to her.
She drinks then and 5 minutes later she's up and giddy like nothing happened and casually mentioned "oh, I pass out like that if I forget to eat for the day".
Bed time, I go to get into bed with her and she tells me that she'll sleep on the couch because she thrashes uncontrollably during her sleep.
Next morning, we had breakfast and I made an excuse as to why I had to leave. I couldn't deal with that many issues brought on that quickly. We kept in contact for a few more months on a friendly basis but things sorted of faded.
TL;DR: Girl passed out on 3rd date because she "forgot to eat". | I was living with my best friend's Dad for a couple months. He was dating this girl who I got to know and she wanted to introduce me to her daughter. She was my age, doing her PhD in English, looked pretty from the photos etc. Sounded great.
Our first date, we meet for coffee and that goes well. She's interesting, funny, smart etc. We agree to meet again.
Second date, I take her out for dinner. More of the same.
I go out of town for a month for work (I'm a geologist) and we keep in contact over the course of the month; send several emails back and forth.
A couple days after I get back, she invites me over to her place for the night. She'll make dinner, we'll hang out etc. I get there, she opens the door and literally drags me into the apartment and into her bedroom. So we do that. It was fun.
Now, the crazy begins. She has to go to do something downtown quickly so I offer to drive. It's about a 40 minute drive. The entire trip, she goes through an entire run down of everything that is possibly wrong with her:
Gets constant migraines
Low blood pressure
Anger issues
Trust issues
Bad shoulders
Bad joints
Self esteem issues
Body image issues
etc etc
Basically, she spent the entire 40 minutes there and back telling me everything that was wrong with her, all about her awful past relationships, on and on.
We get back to her place. Start watching a movie on the couch. She stands up to go get some water and "WHACK", hits the floor, completely fainted and unconscious.
At this point, I'm freaking out. I check her breathing and pulse, both are good but she's still completely unconscious. She kinda opens her eyes a bit and moans "sugar". So I run to the kitchen, get her some water with sugar mixed in and give it to her.
She drinks then and 5 minutes later she's up and giddy like nothing happened and casually mentioned "oh, I pass out like that if I forget to eat for the day".
Bed time, I go to get into bed with her and she tells me that she'll sleep on the couch because she thrashes uncontrollably during her sleep.
Next morning, we had breakfast and I made an excuse as to why I had to leave. I couldn't deal with that many issues brought on that quickly. We kept in contact for a few more months on a friendly basis but things sorted of faded.
TL;DR: Girl passed out on 3rd date because she "forgot to eat".
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetlseg | I was living with my best friend's Dad for a couple months. He was dating this girl who I got to know and she wanted to introduce me to her daughter. She was my age, doing her PhD in English, looked pretty from the photos etc. Sounded great.
Our first date, we meet for coffee and that goes well. She's interesting, funny, smart etc. We agree to meet again.
Second date, I take her out for dinner. More of the same.
I go out of town for a month for work (I'm a geologist) and we keep in contact over the course of the month; send several emails back and forth.
A couple days after I get back, she invites me over to her place for the night. She'll make dinner, we'll hang out etc. I get there, she opens the door and literally drags me into the apartment and into her bedroom. So we do that. It was fun.
Now, the crazy begins. She has to go to do something downtown quickly so I offer to drive. It's about a 40 minute drive. The entire trip, she goes through an entire run down of everything that is possibly wrong with her:
Gets constant migraines
Low blood pressure
Anger issues
Trust issues
Bad shoulders
Bad joints
Self esteem issues
Body image issues
etc etc
Basically, she spent the entire 40 minutes there and back telling me everything that was wrong with her, all about her awful past relationships, on and on.
We get back to her place. Start watching a movie on the couch. She stands up to go get some water and "WHACK", hits the floor, completely fainted and unconscious.
At this point, I'm freaking out. I check her breathing and pulse, both are good but she's still completely unconscious. She kinda opens her eyes a bit and moans "sugar". So I run to the kitchen, get her some water with sugar mixed in and give it to her.
She drinks then and 5 minutes later she's up and giddy like nothing happened and casually mentioned "oh, I pass out like that if I forget to eat for the day".
Bed time, I go to get into bed with her and she tells me that she'll sleep on the couch because she thrashes uncontrollably during her sleep.
Next morning, we had breakfast and I made an excuse as to why I had to leave. I couldn't deal with that many issues brought on that quickly. We kept in contact for a few more months on a friendly basis but things sorted of faded. | Girl passed out on 3rd date because she "forgot to eat". |
ThinkingOfAChange | This is the Question I was born to answer:
I have had over 200 first dates. I have had **a lot** of bad dates. I would like to post the story I am the biggest fan of. May I present ...
*The New Years Rape Caravan Spectacular!!**
Basically, in my early 20's and my ongoing quest for sex (I am 31 now, and have a very different set of objectives right now), I went out on a date with a woman I met online. Stupid me made the date for New Years Eve. Alot of pressure to have fun, and a big time commitment. Also, hard to bail on someone if there is there is no spark (which I have done, and have done to people. Quickest bail-out of a date for me was 90 seconds)
I ended up meeting her at her place. She was local, but lived in a suburb I didn't know existed, and can't remember the name of. Very rural, you'd almost call it farm land, if the land was cultivated. More like the type of land you'd shoot Wild pigs on.
Anyway, met her, and things seem fine. She seems OK. After a short bit of getting to know each other, and seeing her place (an OK house) We ended up driving off to where we were going to celebrate New Years, which was a family gathering of hers. So its a first date, a major party night, and I'm meeting her entire family. Also, I'm letting her drive, so I am now wholly dependant on this person in getting me the fuck out of this awkward situation.
I'm basically making mistake after mistake here.
We arrive at the party (another rural-ish property near by, but with more car-parts in the yard), and the first thing I see is the Aunt of my date, running around with with her top off, and her boobs out and flapping. Seems this aunt and another guest at the party were getting into a flashing contest. Now, my date didn't make our presence felt for a little while, so this contest went on for a good 5 minutes until someone realised there was a 'stranger' at the party. There was a little bit of shagrin from those involved.
The party then turned into your typical 'Boozy [Bogan]( BBQ' (this is an Australian story), and I am not connecting with anyone. Not my kind of people, sadly. I make my next mistake of the evening, say 'Fuck It' and start drinking. The mistake here is now I have totally fucked my ability to read a situation or escape on my own. I'm here for the duration.
Anyway, after a short while, my date decides to take me back to her place. Hooray, we're away from the awkward party, but at this point, I want nothing to do with this woman. Unfortunately, I am drunk enough that even when I get back to my own car, I don't wanna drive. The fact that we're surrounded by bushland, and I have no survival skill set, also means I am not running into the pitchblack wilderness (although I seriously consider it).
When we get there, we decide to kill some time . . . by watching the 2004 classic [Without a Paddle]( Yeah, so I watch the film for the following reasons:
* 10% cause I had never seen it.
* 30% because I'm too tipsy to escape.
* 60% because I really didn't want to do anything with this woman at all that could be construed as sexual interest.
I will argue that no one has so intently watched Without a Paddle in their life as I had. She keeps answering txts on her phone. I asked her what was going on, and it is at this point that she confides that she was a former prostitute, and that she was fielding requests for a New Years [root]( (again, Australia) from former clients and people who know her.
Now, the fact I've made no moves on this woman should have indicated to her that I was not keen on anything happening that night. However, she took the fact I sat for the entire film without trying something was because I was a 'good guy', and she really wanted a good guy in her life.
She invites me back to her room, and won't take no for an answer. I am young and stupid enough, that I think that there is no way I can say no to a woman in this situation (I have a much better understanding of things now).
Now, her 'room' isn't actually in her house. It's her family's house, and she lives out the back in a caravan. Gives her privacy. We get out there. Now, this detail is the one that sticks with me several years later, and isn't the weirdest thing that should stick out to me from the evening, but it is. The detail is this:
**She had the mattress for a double bed, but the frame for a single bed**
I have no idea if she was poor, or a truly diabolical genius, but this bed kept forcing me to be close to her, lest I roll off the sagging edge of the mattress, and onto the floor. I tried to sleep the night away, but she was very 'hands on' and tried making something happen. In Clinton-ian terms, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, but enough happened that I didn't want to happen.
The next morning, I got the fuck out of there, and showered like there was no tomorrow. I never saw her again, and my life was the richer for it.
**tl:dr - I rung in the New Year being 'raped' in a caravan'** | This is the Question I was born to answer:
I have had over 200 first dates. I have had a lot of bad dates. I would like to post the story I am the biggest fan of. May I present ...
*The New Years Rape Caravan Spectacular!!**
Basically, in my early 20's and my ongoing quest for sex (I am 31 now, and have a very different set of objectives right now), I went out on a date with a woman I met online. Stupid me made the date for New Years Eve. Alot of pressure to have fun, and a big time commitment. Also, hard to bail on someone if there is there is no spark (which I have done, and have done to people. Quickest bail-out of a date for me was 90 seconds)
I ended up meeting her at her place. She was local, but lived in a suburb I didn't know existed, and can't remember the name of. Very rural, you'd almost call it farm land, if the land was cultivated. More like the type of land you'd shoot Wild pigs on.
Anyway, met her, and things seem fine. She seems OK. After a short bit of getting to know each other, and seeing her place (an OK house) We ended up driving off to where we were going to celebrate New Years, which was a family gathering of hers. So its a first date, a major party night, and I'm meeting her entire family. Also, I'm letting her drive, so I am now wholly dependant on this person in getting me the fuck out of this awkward situation.
I'm basically making mistake after mistake here.
We arrive at the party (another rural-ish property near by, but with more car-parts in the yard), and the first thing I see is the Aunt of my date, running around with with her top off, and her boobs out and flapping. Seems this aunt and another guest at the party were getting into a flashing contest. Now, my date didn't make our presence felt for a little while, so this contest went on for a good 5 minutes until someone realised there was a 'stranger' at the party. There was a little bit of shagrin from those involved.
The party then turned into your typical 'Boozy Bogan , and I am not connecting with anyone. Not my kind of people, sadly. I make my next mistake of the evening, say 'Fuck It' and start drinking. The mistake here is now I have totally fucked my ability to read a situation or escape on my own. I'm here for the duration.
Anyway, after a short while, my date decides to take me back to her place. Hooray, we're away from the awkward party, but at this point, I want nothing to do with this woman. Unfortunately, I am drunk enough that even when I get back to my own car, I don't wanna drive. The fact that we're surrounded by bushland, and I have no survival skill set, also means I am not running into the pitchblack wilderness (although I seriously consider it).
When we get there, we decide to kill some time . . . by watching the 2004 classic [Without a Paddle]( Yeah, so I watch the film for the following reasons:
10% cause I had never seen it.
30% because I'm too tipsy to escape.
60% because I really didn't want to do anything with this woman at all that could be construed as sexual interest.
I will argue that no one has so intently watched Without a Paddle in their life as I had. She keeps answering txts on her phone. I asked her what was going on, and it is at this point that she confides that she was a former prostitute, and that she was fielding requests for a New Years root from former clients and people who know her.
Now, the fact I've made no moves on this woman should have indicated to her that I was not keen on anything happening that night. However, she took the fact I sat for the entire film without trying something was because I was a 'good guy', and she really wanted a good guy in her life.
She invites me back to her room, and won't take no for an answer. I am young and stupid enough, that I think that there is no way I can say no to a woman in this situation (I have a much better understanding of things now).
Now, her 'room' isn't actually in her house. It's her family's house, and she lives out the back in a caravan. Gives her privacy. We get out there. Now, this detail is the one that sticks with me several years later, and isn't the weirdest thing that should stick out to me from the evening, but it is. The detail is this:
She had the mattress for a double bed, but the frame for a single bed
I have no idea if she was poor, or a truly diabolical genius, but this bed kept forcing me to be close to her, lest I roll off the sagging edge of the mattress, and onto the floor. I tried to sleep the night away, but she was very 'hands on' and tried making something happen. In Clinton-ian terms, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, but enough happened that I didn't want to happen.
The next morning, I got the fuck out of there, and showered like there was no tomorrow. I never saw her again, and my life was the richer for it.
tl:dr - I rung in the New Year being 'raped' in a caravan'
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetn6sq | This is the Question I was born to answer:
I have had over 200 first dates. I have had a lot of bad dates. I would like to post the story I am the biggest fan of. May I present ...
*The New Years Rape Caravan Spectacular!!**
Basically, in my early 20's and my ongoing quest for sex (I am 31 now, and have a very different set of objectives right now), I went out on a date with a woman I met online. Stupid me made the date for New Years Eve. Alot of pressure to have fun, and a big time commitment. Also, hard to bail on someone if there is there is no spark (which I have done, and have done to people. Quickest bail-out of a date for me was 90 seconds)
I ended up meeting her at her place. She was local, but lived in a suburb I didn't know existed, and can't remember the name of. Very rural, you'd almost call it farm land, if the land was cultivated. More like the type of land you'd shoot Wild pigs on.
Anyway, met her, and things seem fine. She seems OK. After a short bit of getting to know each other, and seeing her place (an OK house) We ended up driving off to where we were going to celebrate New Years, which was a family gathering of hers. So its a first date, a major party night, and I'm meeting her entire family. Also, I'm letting her drive, so I am now wholly dependant on this person in getting me the fuck out of this awkward situation.
I'm basically making mistake after mistake here.
We arrive at the party (another rural-ish property near by, but with more car-parts in the yard), and the first thing I see is the Aunt of my date, running around with with her top off, and her boobs out and flapping. Seems this aunt and another guest at the party were getting into a flashing contest. Now, my date didn't make our presence felt for a little while, so this contest went on for a good 5 minutes until someone realised there was a 'stranger' at the party. There was a little bit of shagrin from those involved.
The party then turned into your typical 'Boozy Bogan , and I am not connecting with anyone. Not my kind of people, sadly. I make my next mistake of the evening, say 'Fuck It' and start drinking. The mistake here is now I have totally fucked my ability to read a situation or escape on my own. I'm here for the duration.
Anyway, after a short while, my date decides to take me back to her place. Hooray, we're away from the awkward party, but at this point, I want nothing to do with this woman. Unfortunately, I am drunk enough that even when I get back to my own car, I don't wanna drive. The fact that we're surrounded by bushland, and I have no survival skill set, also means I am not running into the pitchblack wilderness (although I seriously consider it).
When we get there, we decide to kill some time . . . by watching the 2004 classic [Without a Paddle]( Yeah, so I watch the film for the following reasons:
10% cause I had never seen it.
30% because I'm too tipsy to escape.
60% because I really didn't want to do anything with this woman at all that could be construed as sexual interest.
I will argue that no one has so intently watched Without a Paddle in their life as I had. She keeps answering txts on her phone. I asked her what was going on, and it is at this point that she confides that she was a former prostitute, and that she was fielding requests for a New Years root from former clients and people who know her.
Now, the fact I've made no moves on this woman should have indicated to her that I was not keen on anything happening that night. However, she took the fact I sat for the entire film without trying something was because I was a 'good guy', and she really wanted a good guy in her life.
She invites me back to her room, and won't take no for an answer. I am young and stupid enough, that I think that there is no way I can say no to a woman in this situation (I have a much better understanding of things now).
Now, her 'room' isn't actually in her house. It's her family's house, and she lives out the back in a caravan. Gives her privacy. We get out there. Now, this detail is the one that sticks with me several years later, and isn't the weirdest thing that should stick out to me from the evening, but it is. The detail is this:
She had the mattress for a double bed, but the frame for a single bed
I have no idea if she was poor, or a truly diabolical genius, but this bed kept forcing me to be close to her, lest I roll off the sagging edge of the mattress, and onto the floor. I tried to sleep the night away, but she was very 'hands on' and tried making something happen. In Clinton-ian terms, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, but enough happened that I didn't want to happen.
The next morning, I got the fuck out of there, and showered like there was no tomorrow. I never saw her again, and my life was the richer for it. | I rung in the New Year being 'raped' in a caravan' |
tmotz | I met a nice girl over OkCupid and decided to give it a chance. We chatted, and she was very chipper, a decent conversationalist, and seemed down to earth. I thought I had made a score for sure, so when we arranged for coffee and a movie I was was rather excited. I received her address, and I was off! Things started to go downhill from there. I arrived, and her home is in a bad part of town. I sit outside waiting, and as she leaves I hear people fighting. She gets in my car, and she smiles at me. She was a sweet, nice girl, but her teeth were just awful. Any hope for attraction was gone. I hoped, however we could have good conversation. She just stared at me. At my lips. I withdrew into my dark place.
I proceeded to take this girl to coffee, and a movie, the whole time with her trying to make a move on me. Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs still carries traumatic memories.
Afterward, she texted me non stop trying to secure a second date. I declined, and cut contact, successfully making the only thing I secured from the date a heightened sense of feeling like a shallow asshole.
TLDR: When people don't smile in pictures, there might be a reason. Internet dating turns you into a callous, shallow person. | I met a nice girl over OkCupid and decided to give it a chance. We chatted, and she was very chipper, a decent conversationalist, and seemed down to earth. I thought I had made a score for sure, so when we arranged for coffee and a movie I was was rather excited. I received her address, and I was off! Things started to go downhill from there. I arrived, and her home is in a bad part of town. I sit outside waiting, and as she leaves I hear people fighting. She gets in my car, and she smiles at me. She was a sweet, nice girl, but her teeth were just awful. Any hope for attraction was gone. I hoped, however we could have good conversation. She just stared at me. At my lips. I withdrew into my dark place.
I proceeded to take this girl to coffee, and a movie, the whole time with her trying to make a move on me. Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs still carries traumatic memories.
Afterward, she texted me non stop trying to secure a second date. I declined, and cut contact, successfully making the only thing I secured from the date a heightened sense of feeling like a shallow asshole.
TLDR: When people don't smile in pictures, there might be a reason. Internet dating turns you into a callous, shallow person.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceto9vd | I met a nice girl over OkCupid and decided to give it a chance. We chatted, and she was very chipper, a decent conversationalist, and seemed down to earth. I thought I had made a score for sure, so when we arranged for coffee and a movie I was was rather excited. I received her address, and I was off! Things started to go downhill from there. I arrived, and her home is in a bad part of town. I sit outside waiting, and as she leaves I hear people fighting. She gets in my car, and she smiles at me. She was a sweet, nice girl, but her teeth were just awful. Any hope for attraction was gone. I hoped, however we could have good conversation. She just stared at me. At my lips. I withdrew into my dark place.
I proceeded to take this girl to coffee, and a movie, the whole time with her trying to make a move on me. Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs still carries traumatic memories.
Afterward, she texted me non stop trying to secure a second date. I declined, and cut contact, successfully making the only thing I secured from the date a heightened sense of feeling like a shallow asshole. | When people don't smile in pictures, there might be a reason. Internet dating turns you into a callous, shallow person. |
mushupork | Went to dinner at a diner. We were comfortable enough with each other that we had 'comfortable silence.' It was raining heavily that day and I was staring out the window watching the rain (I love rain !)... Anyway across the aisle from us was a creepy seemingly homeless looking guy sitting alone.. In the middle of my trance my boyfriend loudly says to the guy ' is there a problem? You keep looking over here and staring at her (me)' the guy just kept stating 'just looking out the window' .... It was humiliating, my friends told me to 'get out!!'... I stayed for over 7 years, yeah he could be jealous.
Tl;dr jealous boyfriend accused some guy of staring at me very loudly in a diner.. Guy was just looking out the window. | Went to dinner at a diner. We were comfortable enough with each other that we had 'comfortable silence.' It was raining heavily that day and I was staring out the window watching the rain (I love rain !)... Anyway across the aisle from us was a creepy seemingly homeless looking guy sitting alone.. In the middle of my trance my boyfriend loudly says to the guy ' is there a problem? You keep looking over here and staring at her (me)' the guy just kept stating 'just looking out the window' .... It was humiliating, my friends told me to 'get out!!'... I stayed for over 7 years, yeah he could be jealous.
Tl;dr jealous boyfriend accused some guy of staring at me very loudly in a diner.. Guy was just looking out the window.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetosah | Went to dinner at a diner. We were comfortable enough with each other that we had 'comfortable silence.' It was raining heavily that day and I was staring out the window watching the rain (I love rain !)... Anyway across the aisle from us was a creepy seemingly homeless looking guy sitting alone.. In the middle of my trance my boyfriend loudly says to the guy ' is there a problem? You keep looking over here and staring at her (me)' the guy just kept stating 'just looking out the window' .... It was humiliating, my friends told me to 'get out!!'... I stayed for over 7 years, yeah he could be jealous. | jealous boyfriend accused some guy of staring at me very loudly in a diner.. Guy was just looking out the window. |
MakeMoves | My ex basically brought this up while in the car on our first date, with me driving. I told her she was right, that I could totally kill her and some comment about murder being totally hawt. She thought it was funny and the rest is history.
Tl;dr murdered girl on first date | My ex basically brought this up while in the car on our first date, with me driving. I told her she was right, that I could totally kill her and some comment about murder being totally hawt. She thought it was funny and the rest is history.
Tl;dr murdered girl on first date
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetr12m | My ex basically brought this up while in the car on our first date, with me driving. I told her she was right, that I could totally kill her and some comment about murder being totally hawt. She thought it was funny and the rest is history. | murdered girl on first date |
spacepuppy69 | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me *THE* look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking.
TL;DR: knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race. | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me THE look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking.
TL;DR: knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetvoea | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me THE look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking. | knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race. |
spacepuppy69 | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me *THE* look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking.
TL;DR: knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race. | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me THE look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking.
TL;DR: knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetvohj | Started talking to a really cool guy. Sweet, funny, kinda sassy, fluent in sign language (big plus), smoked pot, "didn't drink often at all"... Met him at a party, stayed for about half an hour while I stood there awkwardly, finally left, went to his place, smoked a bit, went to Denny's... He spent, all together, maybe an hour and a half puking in the bathroom. He was gone for so long at one point the waitress gave me THE look of pity that said "I'm so sorry your date left you". Turned out, he was a stereotypical 21 one year old gay man with no maturity. He couldn't understand why I didn't kiss him goodbye, or why I wouldn't do a second date. Also found out he generally puked in people's cars after drinking. | knowing ASL isn't a good enough reason to date some one.
BONUS: There was a guy I went to stay the night with, ended up walking him after he claimed to associate with the blonde mom on Hairspray and had the same opinion as her on race. |
whatsername717 | a guy i had kind of known in high school asked me out a short time after my long term high school boyfriend and i broke up. he was cute and nice and i had never really heard anything bad about him so i thought, why not?! whats the worst that can happen?
come to the night of the date, we had agreed to meet at a neutral place, i wasnt really comfortable with people knowing where i lived (i had a brief run in with a stalker) so i show up to the parking lot of the mall that we were meeting at maybe 5-10 minutes late but had sent him a text to apologize and let him know. well, im sitting there and get nothing for about 15 minutes, about now im thinking, "awesome, first date since leaving a serious relationship and im being stood up" accepting it, i get ready to turn around and drive home when all of a sudden he texts and says he's pulling in now.
i get in his truck and were off, now he wouldnt tell me where we were going or what we were doing but i was trying to be nice and open minded, i later learned this was a bad choice.
this guys dad was a landscaper and had his own business, i only put this in the story because this guy brought me to the shed that the kept all the machinery and stuff in. for two hours he kept me here while i was very conscious of every move he made and not letting him get behind my back out of worry that he was going to stab me. it was a really weird and uncomfortable experience. he kept calling it the BatCave, and i just wanted out. trying to be polite i played along for about 15 minutes but after that would bring up maybe calling it a night or going somewhere else (somewhere more public).
well two hours later i finally convinced him to take me back to my car and put an end to anything that could ever come out of that terrifying experience.
a couple weeks later i was waitressing at a popular wing restaurant and he shows up absolutely trashed with his friend. i tried to ignore them and not make eye contact and thankfully they got seated at the bar and i didnt have to work with him directly but any time he saw me he would shout and say things and him and his friend just kept drinking for hours. my shift was over and i had to tip out the bartender so i had to go up near them and there was no way of getting around it but i politely said yes. he then asked me out on another date and began bragging about how much he had had to drink and how wasted he was. i was not impressed and did not want to talk to him anymore so i kind of lost it a little bit and yelled at him about how irresponsible he was being because i knew he had every intention of driving home. he and his friend got quiet, i packed my things up and went home. i haven't seen him since, and it has been four years.
TL;DR guy took me to his dads shop/shed that he kept all of his knives and lawnmowers in for two terrifying hours. | a guy i had kind of known in high school asked me out a short time after my long term high school boyfriend and i broke up. he was cute and nice and i had never really heard anything bad about him so i thought, why not?! whats the worst that can happen?
come to the night of the date, we had agreed to meet at a neutral place, i wasnt really comfortable with people knowing where i lived (i had a brief run in with a stalker) so i show up to the parking lot of the mall that we were meeting at maybe 5-10 minutes late but had sent him a text to apologize and let him know. well, im sitting there and get nothing for about 15 minutes, about now im thinking, "awesome, first date since leaving a serious relationship and im being stood up" accepting it, i get ready to turn around and drive home when all of a sudden he texts and says he's pulling in now.
i get in his truck and were off, now he wouldnt tell me where we were going or what we were doing but i was trying to be nice and open minded, i later learned this was a bad choice.
this guys dad was a landscaper and had his own business, i only put this in the story because this guy brought me to the shed that the kept all the machinery and stuff in. for two hours he kept me here while i was very conscious of every move he made and not letting him get behind my back out of worry that he was going to stab me. it was a really weird and uncomfortable experience. he kept calling it the BatCave, and i just wanted out. trying to be polite i played along for about 15 minutes but after that would bring up maybe calling it a night or going somewhere else (somewhere more public).
well two hours later i finally convinced him to take me back to my car and put an end to anything that could ever come out of that terrifying experience.
a couple weeks later i was waitressing at a popular wing restaurant and he shows up absolutely trashed with his friend. i tried to ignore them and not make eye contact and thankfully they got seated at the bar and i didnt have to work with him directly but any time he saw me he would shout and say things and him and his friend just kept drinking for hours. my shift was over and i had to tip out the bartender so i had to go up near them and there was no way of getting around it but i politely said yes. he then asked me out on another date and began bragging about how much he had had to drink and how wasted he was. i was not impressed and did not want to talk to him anymore so i kind of lost it a little bit and yelled at him about how irresponsible he was being because i knew he had every intention of driving home. he and his friend got quiet, i packed my things up and went home. i haven't seen him since, and it has been four years.
TL;DR guy took me to his dads shop/shed that he kept all of his knives and lawnmowers in for two terrifying hours.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetwjj3 | a guy i had kind of known in high school asked me out a short time after my long term high school boyfriend and i broke up. he was cute and nice and i had never really heard anything bad about him so i thought, why not?! whats the worst that can happen?
come to the night of the date, we had agreed to meet at a neutral place, i wasnt really comfortable with people knowing where i lived (i had a brief run in with a stalker) so i show up to the parking lot of the mall that we were meeting at maybe 5-10 minutes late but had sent him a text to apologize and let him know. well, im sitting there and get nothing for about 15 minutes, about now im thinking, "awesome, first date since leaving a serious relationship and im being stood up" accepting it, i get ready to turn around and drive home when all of a sudden he texts and says he's pulling in now.
i get in his truck and were off, now he wouldnt tell me where we were going or what we were doing but i was trying to be nice and open minded, i later learned this was a bad choice.
this guys dad was a landscaper and had his own business, i only put this in the story because this guy brought me to the shed that the kept all the machinery and stuff in. for two hours he kept me here while i was very conscious of every move he made and not letting him get behind my back out of worry that he was going to stab me. it was a really weird and uncomfortable experience. he kept calling it the BatCave, and i just wanted out. trying to be polite i played along for about 15 minutes but after that would bring up maybe calling it a night or going somewhere else (somewhere more public).
well two hours later i finally convinced him to take me back to my car and put an end to anything that could ever come out of that terrifying experience.
a couple weeks later i was waitressing at a popular wing restaurant and he shows up absolutely trashed with his friend. i tried to ignore them and not make eye contact and thankfully they got seated at the bar and i didnt have to work with him directly but any time he saw me he would shout and say things and him and his friend just kept drinking for hours. my shift was over and i had to tip out the bartender so i had to go up near them and there was no way of getting around it but i politely said yes. he then asked me out on another date and began bragging about how much he had had to drink and how wasted he was. i was not impressed and did not want to talk to him anymore so i kind of lost it a little bit and yelled at him about how irresponsible he was being because i knew he had every intention of driving home. he and his friend got quiet, i packed my things up and went home. i haven't seen him since, and it has been four years. | guy took me to his dads shop/shed that he kept all of his knives and lawnmowers in for two terrifying hours. |
najia7866 | I loved the tl;dr lol!!! | I loved the tl;dr lol!!!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetiedt | I loved the | lol!!! |
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