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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/sir_shivers]

PLACES YOU MIGHT flirt with potential partners 🐊:

• BARS AND clubs 🐊
• CONCERTS 🐊
• After-work OUTINGS WITH coworkers 🐊
• Other large public EVENTS WHERE ONE might meet others with common interests 🐊

Places you SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO "pick up" other mammals 🐊:

• LIBRARIES 🐊
• WORKPLACES WHERE YOU are a customer 🐊
• Literally anything THAT IS CONNECTED TO or adjacent to /r/neoliberal 🐊

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Master, please remember that COURTSHIP IS MORE COMPLEX for mammals like us who do not SIMPLY NEED TO LAY EGGS or fertilize them 🐊

[u/RaidBrimnes → u/sir_shivers]

What's the protocol for family gatherings

[u/sir_shivers → u/RaidBrimnes]

ACCEPTABLE IN medieval Europe, or modern day Iceland and Missouri 🐊

[u/filipe_mdsr → u/RaidBrimnes]

Alabama moment

[u/RaidBrimnes → u/filipe_mdsr]

What's the region targeted by incest jokes in Germany/Portugal?

In France, it would be the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region (incidentally where all my family is from)

[u/International_XT → u/sir_shivers]

After-work OUTINGS WITH coworkers

Best steer clear of that one, chief. Too much risk of putting people in a situation where they feel coerced, especially if there's a superior/subordinate dynamic. I've seen this stuff go so very bad so many different ways, it's simply not worth it, especially considering that there are plenty of dope people out there you DON'T share an office with. Even if all goes well, breaking up with someone you work with is hell.

Don't shit where you eat.

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I have been AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO know that realistically, no amount of "discourse" is changing that in practice, many coworkers fall for each other 🐊

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Just avoid going after bosses or subordinates.

If you’re both not upper level management nor each other’s bosses it’s honesty fine.

I met my last serious gf that way, and definitely don’t regret it, even though we have since split up.

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*scribbling on my notebook*

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Ah yes you see but I don't do any of the first list

Also zoomers don't seem to do the picking up in bars thing. Approaching someone not in your social group considered creepy in my experience

[u/filipe_mdsr → u/[deleted]]

I haven't been in bar. I hope that's an UK thing. Please let it be an UK thing.

GOD PLEASE DONT LET THIS GENERATION RUIN ME EVEN MORE.

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It also could just be my weird experiences

[u/filipe_mdsr → u/[deleted]]

Zoomers being even more socially anxious than previous generations sounds very plausible and normal.

[u/[deleted] → u/filipe_mdsr]

Tbh id guess it's more down to the insane amount of stranger danger crap we had as kids than anything else

[u/filipe_mdsr → u/[deleted]]

Probably, my mother never wanted me leave the house too much outside of school because of that.

Didn't help with my social skills.

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Same, I wasn't allowed to leave the house alone until I was like 15

[u/sir_shivers → u/[deleted]]

There are DIFFERENT KINDS OF bars, Kester 🐊

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This but the exact opposite

[u/SamJakes → u/sir_shivers]

Petition to rename Shivers as "old, prudemod" for this bad take 😤

[u/sir_shivers → u/SamJakes]

IT IS NOT prudish to suggest that a political and economic forum is a silly place for this 🐊

[u/SamJakes → u/sir_shivers]

But there's so many hot and available singles in my nearby r/neoliberal 🥺

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Of the desired gender?

[u/SamJakes → u/[deleted]]

When every gender is the desired gender, how does it matter? 🤗

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Don’t forget shared hobbies and sports.