Signtist

I’ve recently gotten into vinyl, and what I’ve learned is that convenience is often antithetical to experience. When just about every song ever made is immediately available to me at a moment’s notice, I stop caring; I’ll listen to a song I like for a little while then move onto the next one without thinking about it, and I won’t form any lasting memories along the way. When music is something that takes time and effort to enjoy, I have a chance to form a memory about my enjoyment, and when I have to physically find a song in order to listen to it, it gives that song much more meaning than if I spent less than 5 seconds typing the name in on Spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gDiXNjhEc

I keep people guessing. Need something big and heavy? Try my dick! Need something short and thin? Try my dick! They both make my wife roll her eyes, so I might as well use them.

Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn’t think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I’d probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.

My job isn’t important at all - it basically just makes money for our CEO, but I am proud of how little work I can manage to do while still staying in the good graces of my manager, so there’s that.

Poor air didn’t stand a chance…

I’m definitely like that as well - even when I was pursuing my Master’s degree I was dreaming of retirement. I eventually found an easy, well-paying job that lets me work from home, so I’m set.

The issue for me was that, like many Americans, I tied my identity to my career, so I felt embarrassed that I wasn’t motivated enough to have something interesting to report in my work life. That led to me being unmotivated in seeking out non-work-related activities as well, like hanging out with friends or trying new hobbies. I just sat around wasting my life simply because I didn’t want to do anything with my job.

Eventually I realized that my life and my job were separate things, and that I could have as engaging of a life as I want without needing to have an engaging career. Now I pursue hobbies that interest me, and I spend time with friends and family, and when someone asks “So, what do you do?” I give them a nothing answer because that means nothing to me.

It’s totally fine to not have any career goals, but ask yourself whether that means you want to have no goals at all, or whether you’re making the incorrect assumption that your career is your life. Maybe you’ve already figured all this stuff out, and have a list of things you want to do in life that have no relation to your job, but this revelation was a big turning point for me, so I felt like I should share, just in case.

If you’re seriously asking that, then you need to actually look at the world and the people in it, and make more realistic expectations based on what you see. People pay significantly more time and money on what makes them feel good than what they know is good for them. It’s one of the most basic obvious truths of humanity.

Sure, some people focus enough on logic or have enough willpower to do what’s good for them, but when you get a huge group of people together, those individuals fade into the mindless crowd.

Humanity isn’t going to suddenly do what it needs to do simply because it’s necessary, no matter how much we might hope it will. Like a child who doesn’t want to eat their vegetables, humanity needs an authority figure to coerce it into doing what needs to be done, whether that be a governmental body, a revolutionary, or some other figure or organization. They simply operate on their most basic desires otherwise.

Yup. A lot of guys, especially teenage boys, would say that the left picture is normal, and the right picture is “saggy.” They’re the same people that look at a woman wearing plenty of makeup and say “You look great without makeup!” and when she’s not wearing makeup say “Woah, are you sick or something?”

It’s such a common occurrence on the internet that I honestly think the people who are “confused” about the post are just pretending not to know about it to appear even more separated from the idea than simply disagreeing with it.

What, you don’t put Red Hot nipples on your eyeball cookies?

I’d imagine someone who watches something illegal would be judged pretty harshly by their peers even if you can’t deny that they were trying to seek help. Like, if someone were to seek help for homocidal thoughts, and their employer and friends found out, I can’t imagine they’d have a job and many friends left. If there are any influential people who used this app, and were into some unsavory things, I could definitely see there being some blackmail going on.

This is the “great” that the hats are referring to.

Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say “we” are going to benefit from their decisions.

From what I understand, her previous relationships had all been transactional, where the guy made her feel like she owed him for every nice thing he did. She’s still working on allowing herself to receive without feeling a sense of debt.

My wife hates giving blowjobs, to the point where she doesn’t even want me to go down on her since she feels bad for not wanting to reciprocate. It’s like, I don’t do it because I want to get something in return, I just want to make you feel good, haha!

I spent a good few hours every day on a dating site, making sure to really read through profiles and think of something interesting and engaging to talk about. I might’ve just been lucky, but I got a good amount of responses despite my less-than-ideal looks. Found one girl I clicked with, and 9 years later she’s now my wife.

I introduced my wife to Chuck, one of my favorite shows, and it’s the only show so far that we’ve both liked.

Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.

This is what people don’t understand. Those in power, whether they’re part of the government, a wealthy CEO, or a religious leader, will do what benefits themselves if they think they can get away with it. We keep talking about powerful organizations and what they could do to benefit everyone, but fail to realize that powerful people don’t want to benefit everyone.

They only do what benefits everyone if they feel like they can’t get away with just doing what benefits themselves. It’s our responsibility to make sure they don’t think they can get away with it, and clearly strongly-worded letters and quippy signs held outside their offices for an afternoon or two isn’t enough to do that.

Just look at the comment I responded to for the definition; if you’re doing an activity well, it’s a skill. You might disagree, but that’s between you and the dictionary. The rest of us will be here working on making sure people are paid well regardless of whether or not you think their work isn’t “skilled” enough.