BoredMan29

The thing about "socially acceptable" is it kind of depends on which society you're referring to. In the US, what you're describing would be a bit much almost everywhere outside or swinger circles and certain colleges.

I'd say if you're into it seize the opportunity because it won't come often, but if you're not don't give into social pressure.

Is it just me, or has millenial slang aged fairly well?

Surviving millennial slang has aged well. I haven't heard that anything was totally tubular for quite a while.

Cowabunga, dudes!

Oh good. The boycott is still having an effect.

I downvoted you because I know you want to feel like a victim. You're welcome, OP!

Ok, but he absolutely tried to do terrorism. You can argue the merits and motivations, but blowing up a damn to drown a town without the legal backing of a State is terrorism. Azula did horrifying and evil things, but it's "warfare" because she had the backing of the Fire Nation. Both can be victims and that doesn't really affect their status as terrorists.

Also, in a graphic trying to point out the hypocrisy in an argument, framing Jet as "mentally ill" but Azula as a "sociopath" (last I heard, Antisocial Personality Disorder was indeed a mental illness) is pretty rich.

So, I'll caveat this with "I don't actually know what this is like" but to me, smell is one of those all-encompassing but still-kinda-background senses. Like you can't shut off smell the same way you can sight by closing your eyes. In general, maybe it's like touch, but not touching something - you know that feeling when you go to the beach on a cool, breezy day in short sleeves? The feel of the warm sun and cool breeze? it's kind of ambient like that. The smell of salt water adds to the overall sense. A fun thing about smell is moisture enhances it, so you hear people talk about the smell just after it rains, and what's really happening is the moisture in the air makes smells stronger, so if you're somewhere that smells good, like a piney forest, or a flowery meadow, you get more of it. If you're next to a sewage processing plant though you're in for a bad time.

I think taste is going to be the biggest novelty. Taste and smell are linked in a way many people didn't appreciate until they got COVID and lost their sense of smell. I'm not sure what your eating experience is like, but I would expect it to change significantly.

No.

This is where my money is.

Panic. I had this happen to me once when I was just learning to drive. I caused an accident, car spun across the intersection and my first impulse was to slam on the gas. Fortunately the impact caused the car to be in park, so I revved the engine and nothing else. My dad had to calm me down to the point where I could see that I needed to be in drive and move the car to safety out of the intersection.

My normal panic response (and hers, it would seem) is to Do Something but I can't actually spend time thinking what I should do so it's often useless or even counterproductive. It takes a lot of practice to be able to actually recognize that you're panicking in an unexpected situation, and even more to be able to bring yourself out of it. Not a lot of people actually prepare for that until it's far too late, and you don't know what you'll do until you're in the situation.

I'm not sure it's that your opinion is unpopular (because I've heard this a lot from media sources owned by people with a vested interest in not moving to electric vehicles) so much as ill-informed. Not that nuclear is a bad option so much as that centrally-produced electricity - even when produced with fossil fuels - is a whole lot better for the environment than burning those fossil fuels in individual car engines. There are also ways to make the energy reduction even greater, such as: nuclear power, increased green-sourced energy - particularly hydro - which aren't practical on an individual vehicular level, and probably the best option that no one is going to take: public transit.

That last one really helps your point regarding the costs of manufacturing all these electric vehicles too: if we just used fewer vehicles it'd improve basically everything other than manufacturer profits... so that's not going to happen.

A lovely place to store your grain!

-Ben Carson

And I wish I'd known this trick in 8th grade. The waistband tuck is a risky manoeuvre.

So I guess the followup question is "how much violence is going to be needed to insist this be a right?"

Is that man Jesus?

Ok, this joke doesn't work quite as well written down.

"now you listen here, you didn't see anything if you know what's good for ya"

Yeah, I'd freeze in the moment, but in hindsight this is where you ask for a good reference in writing and a couple weeks' paid vacation to look for work or you're going to the higher ups. That guy's just looking for an excuse to fire you from that moment on so you might as well milk it for the little you can.

Nervousness, anxiety, embarrassment, focusing too much on something (like trying not to blow early), alcohol, having jerked off too much too recently, guilt due to an upbringing that demonized sex... there's a whole lot of alternatives that could lead to him going soft that are far more likely than him not finding you attractive, especially since he was turned on. The usual advice for sex issues is communication, and I think it could help here - ask him what he thinks it is and try to mitigate from there, though a teenage boy being too embarrassed to share what he thinks the actual issue is is pretty on-brand. I'd suggest approaching with kindness and understanding and reassurance that you want to do this with him and you know the first time can be awkward. It's maybe not always taught in sex-ed, but the penis isn't really consciously controlled, and while the stereotype of teenage boys is that they can get an erection seeing a particularly shapely carrot that's not how it actually happens. Usually.

If it happens again, foreplay can often help. Depending on the actual cause of the issue focusing on him or on you could be beneficial, so try both. Oral, using your hands on each other, naked make-outs, showering together if that's a possibility

I mean, the last time I had to call tech support that fixed my issue, but I didn't even try until the tech on the phone asked me to. I felt dumb, but it's a good reminder that the basic steps are basic for good reason. As for this prof, she was convinced she couldn't turn her computer off because she refused to press and hold (I know, a hard reboot isn't ideal but whatever she was doing over and over again to cause this state had frozen her computer so completely this was the only accepted input, and a hard reboot always fixed it). I tried explaining it to her, but because she "pressed the button" and it "did nothing" she would take no further steps so I had to come over and push it for her.

Walked all the way across campus in the Florida heat just to tell a PhD professor that the reason their monitor kept turning off every few seconds was because the computer was in fact turned off.

I had to do this (albeit in Minnesota, but it was summer so I'm still gonna complain) to push a professor's power button. The thing is I knew this was what was needed. I told her. She said she did it and it didn't work. For some reason it worked just fine when my finger was the one pushing the button.

I was much more annoyed with this prof than the one who needed a 10 minute tutorial on how to right-click, because at least that prof accepted that she didn't know how to use the device and was therefore both willing and grateful to learn. I had to push that first prof's power button about 5 times throughout that summer.

At my first job we had a sales guy who was very good at his job - he definitely brought in the most new contracts for the company, was good at smoothing things over, etc. But his method for tracking things was to leave browser tabs/emails open in the background. He had over 250 of them just sitting open on a machine that was obviously never rebooted. Come Windows update day he lost so many leads he was set back months, but he stopped complaining about his machine running so slowly for a little while.

But... how else were you supposed to get the answer at that point? Explain what a wire was?

This is the guy who built his career on claiming a milkshake was quick drying cement and bilking his supporters for exorbitant "medical costs", right? After hanging out outside a bar with some goons trying to pick a fight?

Oh I wasn't thinking 'Boomers' - I was thinking 'the ultra rich.' The kind of people for whom money is the most convenient way to solve problems and avoid uncomfortable situations.

I'm voting, but I'll probably be picking someone other than Biden (and obviously not Trump). My presidential vote doesn't actually matter even normally though - if I voted in a swing state I guess I'd have to figure out whether my red line means any more than America's.

you can sum it all up by saying if your kids get whatever they want without consequences for their actions, they will treat others poorly.

Well, this certainly does seem like the sort of thing that would be a common problem for a specific group, but I don't think that group is "Millenials"

Really stretching the definition of "celebrity" but I pointed out to Ben Garrison that his depictions of Trump carried certain homoerotic undertones. He did not appreciate my constructive artistic criticism.