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.
Yes, it’s called The Holidays™
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?
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)
They shit talk all minorities
<Cut to me listening to my fundamental-religious, right-wing, sports-ball loving family, and trying not to explode>
Sportsball and the weather are two of the things that are completely neutral.
You will never guess but: people are multifaceted. 🤯🤯🤯
Yep. Any time I’m around people who love football.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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.
Any time I’m around people.
Any time I’m around.
Any time I am.
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I have. My whole life. But I find it fascinating, usually. Especially since I’ve overall been very lucky to integrate easily.
I’m lucky I’ve rarely been in a group I found repugnant. Not sure how I’d handle that.
This is exactly why I stopped eating lunch in the staff lunch room. Those people are boring AF and can’t find much to talk about other than work or the gym. I’d rather eat at my desk and read a book.
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.
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.
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.”
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 :(
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.
"… and I wouldn’t want to. "
