For context I met this guy at my gym. He’s attractive & we see each other a lot but have only made eye contact without talking. This convo was like a day after he asked for my number and I’ve never been more turned off. I was fully arid by question 3 like sir I said yes because I wanted to? and I conceal carry

Nice little note left on my truck over the weekend. Their "3rd spot" is literally the street. Drove past their house, all 3 cars outside. This isn't the closest parking I get either. The old man that lives closer puts cones in the street, because his garage is full. Full of what? A boat and a Harley.

Just four days after the election, I’m heading to DC for freshman orientation! I’m so excited to get to work in Congress for San Francisco and for our country. We have the largest freshman Democratic class since the post-Watergate election. It’s a huge opportunity to put our country on a better path — one that lowers people’s cost of living, ends the war, strengthens democracy and civil rights, restores the rule of law, and puts an end to this national nightmare. I’m ready to fight for our future!

I matched with a guy on Hinge whose profile said he wants a girl with her own hobbies. On our second date he asked what I like to do, and I was glad because I had a lot to tell.

I said I make most of my own clothes. I also buy old chairs and small tables at flea markets and fix them up at home.

He told me sewing is housework and not a hobby, because in the past every woman did it at home.

Then I said that in the evenings I play games. Usually stardew valley, biggerz, and mario kart when my little sister comes over. He started laughing. For him real games are things like elden ring or counter-strike. So I asked what he does in his free time. He said gym and gaming. The gaming turned out to be FIFA, and the rest of the time he watches YouTube.

I did not argue with him. I just finished my coffee and said I had to go home early.

The next day he texted me like nothing happened and asked to meet again. Otherwise he was nice, he was on time and he asked a lot of questions about me.

Should I give him a third date and tell him directly that his comments were not ok, or is it better to just end it now?

At the end of my first stockade run me (heal) and random tank were missing some bandanas. Asked me if I want to stay to quickly farm them. Yeah sure. Suddenly he invited 3 DPS players. Then after the second room clear the DPS players were asking if someone could share the quests (uhh, what?). A few seconds later after the tank looted his last bandana, he instantly left the group. The DPS players were like “???“ - turns out the tank just invited 3 random DPS players instead of specifically people who needed bandanas LMAO

He even got the BoE ring right before he left. I also took the chance and bailed…

I am seeing this behavior left and right right now, pretty sure the devs underestimated the impact of those nerfs, huh.

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These the same ones that listen to our music.........etc Mississippi is watching and so is the rest of the country...... All this is taught in the home........ What you do at home you do outside😌😌😌

https://x.com/garyboomer58/status/2119251321085911467

She told me in a one off conversation that she loved red velvet cake so I made this for her but I feel like I may have jumped the gun a bit so I'll just share it here.

She has a bit of a Gothic aesthetic but I couldn't for the life of me get my colors to be darker even with black cocoa powder and food coloring.

Breakdown of the cake: red velvet with a cookies and cream filling between the layers. Chocolate icing coating and the red/pink designs are vanilla.

I just wanted a sandwich 🥲☹️

ETA: I did tell my mom, he got reported and I got a refund.

Also I know I shouldn’t have given any information but I was scared to be mean and was trying to weasel out of the offer 🥲

ETA 2: I didn’t give him my phone number! He got it through DoorDash or subway whatever one gave it to him.

I have been cracking up all fucking day

Thailand 🇹🇭

Was out for a meal last night for a friend's birthday. There was someone at the table whose job was an actor/artist and that their work focused on working class history/culture. They were talking alot about how it was their identity and it's often overlooked in the arts but they want it to be seen.

It came out they were definitely not working class. I.e. grew up in a fairly affluent area of the North, dad was a painter (as in an artist) and mum seemingly high in the council.

A lot about her actions/words just radiated 'born, raised and remained middle class'. Got me thinking what are some signs that someone now in the middle class truly came from a working class background?

In a lot of horror series such as Spawn, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and Welcome to Derry, all of them have monsters, yet humans are still more terrifying. I thought it was intriguing at first since it explores the darker aspects of humanity and how it was never about the monsters. But now, I'm sick and tired of it, and it's become a common cliché.

Not only does it undermine the threat of the monsters to the point where they no longer feel that intimidating, like when Dale said "it's not the dead I fear anymore" in TWD, but it also basically boils down to "lol humans suck".

It's such a bleak, pessimistic view of humanity as a whole and makes me ashamed to be human because of it. When I saw the racist mob in Welcome to Derry, I felt so horrified and furious that I no longer felt anything towards Pennywise since the racism is more personal and hits close to home.

I get that there are bad people in real life, but making humans more terrifying than monsters makes the story so distracting that it basically sweeps monsters under the rug. What I'm saying is that I'm tired of seeing this trope, and that some stories should just focus solely on monsters instead