I still feel like my age is a hindrance. I’m 27yo when my groupmates are all in their early 20s. I feel old to them, especially when it comes to women.
I was in a similar situation during my first round of grad school. In retrospect, there was no need for me to feel self-conscious. A lot of guys are still pretty immature in their early 20s. By comparison, a guy in their late 20s can be mature and reliable.
Boxing Day… I’ll have to read up on that, it sounds interesting. In some places I’ve lived there were all these Saints days that took place at the start of the year… Yeah, unfortunately I think a lot of people make a big deal out of Christmas because they just want to sell things.
Oh yeah, santitation engineering is really important, I’m always like: make sure everything’s working OK, and my housemates think I’m crazy, but the alternative is that we all get some weird infection if it isn’t working.
Oh yeah lamb is great, I had some take-out a couple days ago, there’s a place that makes it with some roast vegetables. Merry Christmas to you too.
I didn’t know there was a Taken series… oooh looks like Jennifer Beals is in it…
Going to a restaurant sounds awesome. I’m a bit surprised bc I’da thought they’d all be closed today. That’s why I stocked up on food yesterday.
Wow, that story was a real rollercoaster, sounds like a full day!
Oh yeah… I just finished my second plate of spaghetti that I cooked. My cousin stopped by and I gave them some but I think they didn’t like it bc I made it with less butter and fewer eggs…
That’s cool fam, I’m pretty much doing the same thing. I’m not close to my family either, it’s kind of funny, whenever we get together we all just go to our own corners and ignore each other. One time someone put on a football game and I tried to get them to make cheering sounds but they just looked at me like I’m crazy.
The only xianxia I’ve watched in “The Untamed”, and it was pretty good. I wanna dress more like Wei Wuxian. I also really liked the idea of “cultivation”.
I really loved Hyperion when I was younger, especially “Fall of Hyperion” though I never got into any of the sequels. I should take a look at that again. I’ve also been meaning to give the Conan stories a read-through, starting with the originals then the followups. Hey, did you know there was a free movie on youtube about R.H. Howard, who wrote those Conan stories? this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIQr7pLDEM
Pretty good. Yeah, I was on lemmy.world for a year then I moved to this account here on slrpnk.net just as a way of decentralizing, you know. Every once in a while I think about making my own instance, just for my own use. It sounds complicated but doable.
Christmas is toxic. When I was a kid, New Years was the bigger deal. I think because we didn’t have a lot of money to spend on presents and for New Years people would just make little bonfires in the streets and throw coins. (this was in Latin America)
OMG same, I was reading this long article about a plane crash last night and I think it gave me nightmares or something, I remember almost falling asleep a couple times but then having sudden anxieties and waking up again, so I’m barely stirring this morning.
Hey, merry christmas to you too! How’s hilaroiuschaos going? I remember passing by there and checking out a bunch of interesting-sounding communities, it looked like they had just started out tho.
Hey, a bunch of us are going to hang out here Christmas Day on !casualconversation@lemmy.world and chat like we’re at a party, you should join us!
That picture in the back makes me nostalgic for a time that is still happening. (or will happen… or could happen… I dunno…)
See here:
But personally it’s more fun not knowing.
There’s an argument to be made there but this article did not make that argument. This was just a poorly-reasoned romp through a garden of logical fallacies. I’m surprised that this was printed by The Atlantic, I thought they were better than that.