Yes, I call them family.
That’s normal.
That’s why we talk to each other and learn about each other’s interests.
You know.
Socialising.
wait, isn’t that normal?
Sitting down with 99% of my colleagues during lunch. “Playing the links”, fantasy football, ai-generated memes, or how much wealth they have. Christ read a book or something for Christ’s sake.
You mean every moment of every day of my goddamn life?
Yes, it’s called The Holidays™
Yep. Any time I’m around people who love football.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Any time I’m around people.
Any time I’m around.
Any time I am.
Any time
any
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It’s golf, for me. I simply cannot imagine caring. But golf is somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person. Anyway, solidarity with every javelina that has ever destroyed a golf course, and I hope they do it again. Fuckin hate golf.
somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person.
Speaking as someone who loves disc golf for similar reasons I think it’s two things
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It’s a place where you can constantly improve at, and see that you’re improving at it, while also being impossible to master. So career driven people who get something from improving there craft and getting a promotion will probably get a similar feeling from improving there golf score.
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It’s mostly just walking and talking, so you can do your networking and dealing in a place much more pleasant then a board room.
I feel like golf is a networking opportunity first and sport second
It’s also just an excuse to walk around (stoned) on some nice grass
I’m aware it’s a huge waste of water
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A lot of business people like to play golf with other business people to see if they cheat and how they handle issues that come up. It’s a great way to see the real person behind their golf game, it’s hard to hide crazy if you’re super competitive.
Me looking at my family full of conservatives (and borderline fascists) conversing, fully aware that i could’ve been killed if that day i decided to present myself with painted nails:
White and cis passing, the amount of out of pocket shit I hear when im in a group of white people is mind boggling
I’m guessing this means that, in your experience, white (or only cis white?) people shit-talk each other behind each others’ backs more than other racial groups do?
I’m a straight, white and middle aged person and its crazy how many other people of the same demographic just assume we share their bigoted fucking views. Perfect strangers dont even feel you out before talking about whichever “them” they are bothered about. Its shockingly common.
They shit talk all minorities
Like the other reply said, any minority is liable to be shit talked about. Recently I’ve been subjected to a lot of second hand homophobia at work (I haven’t fully come out yet)
Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.
You say you’re a liberal, so you’re either a wealthy, greedy dick; or actually not well educated at all.
Americans use the word liberal to mean democrat voter. Ist vey confusing.
I don’t know about that one, the democratic party is plenty liberal.
It gets ignorant and confusing if someone by liberal mean left-wing
Jargon on the internet is the enemy of clarity, little buddy, not its friend
The comma after ‘educated’ is redundant, since its purpose is already met by the word ‘and’.
Edit: I honestly wasn’t quite sure if I was correct here but was feeling pedantic and now the downvotes tickle me.
You can peel the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, and rigor mortised hands.
Agreed. The Oxford comma is superfluous in a list of adjectives.
If you’re listing adjectives that modify a single noun, there is no ambiguous regrouping of those adjectives that can change their meaning. They all still modify the noun. If you are listing nouns, as in the popular “strippers, JFK, and Stalin” meme, then there is room for confusion and the comma helps to clarify.
Regardless, if the intent is clear, it’s a silly rule to get nitpicky about. Fuck the haters.The only rule that really matters in the end is to take good care of your readers. The little rules only ease the burden; if you want rules about how to talk, do software instead of English.
It changes how I read it though. I expect the list to continue so I read it as if it will, then it doesn’t and the rhythm is off. Not a huge deal, like you say, the intent is clear enough. But it does still add clarity for intended sentence fluency, at least for those of us with strict Oxford comma discipline, lol.
Every moment people at work talk about how excited they are to retire in 20 years, or how happy they are to have hit their deliverables this quarter
For me it’s people at work talking about buying or upgrading their house :(
"… and I wouldn’t want to. "
I sometimes hear the words coming out of my mouth and think, “Damn, if me from 20 years ago could hear me now, they’d think we have nothing in common.”
Same, it’s hilarious being an adult
My extended family. It’s either (slightly) conservative older uncles and aunts or its my beautiful, successful, married with children, living in their own houses cousins.
I love them all (and there are many of them). They are good people. But I feel disconnected from their lives. Not only am I one of only two who have moved far, far away from home, but I am also the family black sheep, a little envious and I just don’t share in the highs and lows they all share with one another simply by them all being married and parents and their lives completely orbiting around that.
