Alllll their posts are like this. It’s exhausting.

As Above, So below is reasonably solid

There’s a bit of a Mary Sue issue but otherwise good.

The original Candyman.

Everything about it is excellent and holds up even now. The musical score is exceptional.

Don’t bother with the reboot. It has a message it’s trying to send, which I get, but they’ve done it to the detriment of the horror. Something could’ve been done with the premise but they fell short.

OG all the way.

In the, admittedly terrible, movie Moonfall (2022) they use his tech and one of the main characters keeps saying things like “God I love Elon”. I guess it was under development in years previous but we long knew that he was a babyish edgelord (see behaviour over the rescue of the Thai soccer team in 2018).

Seems shortsighted to make him such a focus.

Yeah they’re ridiculous. Half of this seems imagined or shower thoughts she’s had.

We had arkanoid on our first PC and none of my peers remember it. I know it was an arcade game first (and a derivative of pong/ space invaders) but I recall booting it in DOS.

We were one of the only families I know who had a PC though, back in ~1993

I’m no expert on the technology but God I love our battery powered lawn mower. Our lawn, front and back is mostly temporally embarrassed grass (weeds) but keeping it down is critical in Australian snake season. Plan is to get rid of most of it and do the native plants and minimal grass thing.

In the meantime, no fumes, no refueling, the dog isn’t scared of the noise, and it works a treat. The batteries and how to recycle them in the future is certainly something to worry about, but in the meantime it’s vastly superior to our old stinky, do a rotator cuff turning it on, 2 stroke option.

Our phones are such amazing pieces of mobile, personal technology. We’re using them for all the most mundane details though and they’re detracting from some of the better things we could be doing with our time and intellects.

I feel it’s a problem for all of us but as an elder millennial at least I have experienced a world without them. I feel for the younger generations - they’re all consuming for them.

When I noticed it encroached on something I enjoy - trying to guess or remember a bit of trivia - my partner and I now have a rule that we must spend at least 5 minutes trying to guess who that actor is from, or who sings this song before we look it up. The technology was robbing us of imagination and rifling through the mental files.

I don’t disagree with you at all though - we’re using star trek tech and it’s fucking cool.

Dude, he remembers things being hot in hot places. I don’t know why we even measure things and keep records. This bloke just remembers!

I’m starting to think this guy wasn’t very nice!

Yes. They started the rudeness and I was done being the polite one. It was clearly a misunderstanding that led to a mistake on their part but once I made that obvious to them, they doubled down.

I was getting more and more blunt, think ‘so what you’re telling me…’ type tone. And then I heard myself and internally cringed.

Yes the fuck up was theirs alone. But having worked in a similar role 20 years prior, I remembered how one interaction like the one we were having would completely ruin your day.

She was flushed red in the face and neck and I remembered being young and making the (wrong) decision to double down when I’m caught out in a fuck up rather than admitting fault and working on a remedy. It’s a lesson only learnt in time and humiliation.

I think she’d learnt it at that point but it was too late. And an angry middle aged woman ranting at her was not going to do anything.

So I stopped and said ‘I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be speaking to you like this. I’ve already had a bad day and this has made it so much worse. But that’s got nothing to do with you and you don’t deserve to be spoken like that by customers. When’s the next available appointment?’

She gave me a curt ‘that’s ok’ - and believe me that almost made me snap again, but we sorted it out.

I noted the next time I got a confirmation for my appointment that they’d included my suburb in my surname - I think to differentiate between me and another customer (the reason for the crossed wires). That’s a win. But I hope she learnt a lesson about seeking truth rather than victory and I hope she wasn’t too upset.

Imagine not being able to leave your phone in your pocket just for the duration of your friends’ wedding ceremony, irrespective of the location. Insufferable behaviour.

I’m asking you what you meant, not taking it as advice.

I’ve dropped people for the former and similar drama. The latter would be… Gross

What’s the threshold here - on and off again with their ex type rough times, or ongoing cancer battle

Eat cat food until I feel sick and go to sleep before the cat fights start.

My partner played lots of outdoor sport in his youth so he has some skin damage but from his mid 20s when I met him I encouraged proper sun safe behaviours and to moisturise. We live in Australia for Christ sake, this sun is not fucking around.

He’s got mates of all ages but some of the blokes in their late 20s seem to think looking after their skin is a feminine trait and they play outdoor sports. When he’s been out with these guys, people think he’s the youngest despite being over 10 years their senior.

It’s so silly. Put some sunblock on and moisturize. It’s not that hard.

Not sure if you’ve ever worked an office job or not but don’t underestimate the exhaustion you can get from sitting at a computer all day. Nursing is extremely demanding so you’re obviously no stranger to hard work and exhaustion - but maybe give the office work a go for a bit and see how you feel.

I used to scoff at the idea that a 9-5 office job could be tiring when I had a more physical job. Turns out it really can be, just in a different way.

Try things out and then see if the extra money is worth losing your weekend respite.

Oh I read your responses and it confirmed my initial thoughts.

I had nothing useful to provide you in terms of your original post and others have attempted here and you seem happy with their answers.

But I don’t read tripe like the reductive, false waffle that guy wrote and not call it out. I write how I speak. I don’t speak in slogans so I’m not sure what you’re referring to.

I’m likely old in relative terms to you, yes. Young isn’t an insult. It’s contextualising my scorn (to use your word) for his response to someone who is.

You’re pretty fired up in your responses to me. I only hope you grow to direct that passion towards people espousing that drivel he wrote instead.

I have very few feelings of generosity for men explaining the apparently concrete and defined preferences of women, especially when they’re the dated, stereotypical and unfounded assertions that underpin the incel and PUA ideologies.

OP seems young and naive given the content of her question. His response to her gives her the impression of experience and a confidence in ‘how things are’ and it’s 4chan bullshit.

I’ll save my generosity for people more deserving.

Sounds perfectly cromulent.