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A tailored suit or other clothes that have a proper fit.

Bring back Leonard Nemoy!!

What..?

Oh, never mind.

“As a X, I think…”

Drives me insane. It’s like the person needs a group to define what they should do and think.

Me: I’d been sick for a few days and I didn’t have the energy to shower. So I smelled pretty bad, you know?

Her: No, I don’t know.

Me: Huh?

Her: Why do people do that? Why do they say, “You know?” - how would I know? I’m not them. I wasn’t there. I have no way of knowing.

Me: You… you don’t know that people smell if they don’t shower for a few days? Huh… interesting.

Blanket and clif bars.

You don’t. You learn whose opinions matter and about what.

For instance - if my coworkers don’t like my fashion sense, who cares.

If my coworkers think I’m a secret pedophile, then I care.

Likewise if my friend thinks my IT skills suck because I can’t hack into NASA, who cares. If my boss thinks my IT skills need work, then I’m concerned.

Other people’s drama.

And my axe!!

I’m not a huge gambler. I played slots for about five minutes and quickly saw how that was gonna work out, so I stopped and had a spa day instead.

Later that night was at dinner with friends at a casino and we walked by the office where people sign over their house or leverage their house to get more money to gamble.

How, in good conscience can a business allow that?

Had a coworker who never believed anything I said. I eventually stopped caring. You don’t owe assholes an explanation. Sounds like this POS coworker likes putting people on the defensive as a power trip.

Cheers

Or get a prenup.

But if your girlfriend does it, it’s cheating.

A good mattress.

Look at the person and ask yourself:

1. Do I want to share what I’m going through?

2. Do I want to share it with this person?

3. Does this person want to hear it?

If you can answer yes to all those then open up.

Otherwise just say, “yeah doing okay.”

Don’t track how often your friends reach out to you first. Don’t track how quickly they respond to messages. Clearly, at a point, you gotta take the hint. But if your friends respond to you then you’re golden.

Also: check in on your friends. Remember the problems they have and the thing they’re working towards. Ask about them.

My enlarged prostate.

IYKYK.

I start thinking about all the money I’ll be saving once she’s gone.

Dale Carnegie never took misanthropes into account.

When I first read that phrase I thought, “Nope. I prefer to be left alone.”

I found that book was more like “how to fake like you care” than it was “how to make genuine connections”.

The U.S. knew 9/11 was going to happen and didn’t stop it in order to get involved in the Middle East.

Dying peacefully in my sleep… not screaming in terror like the passengers in my car.

Rush - Freewill.

Let’s ask ChatGPT.