u/Northern-Buddhism

I'm arguing this based on no hard evidence. Just purely going on intuition.

The 5-over-1 style is just so comically ugly. Ironically in an attempt to build fast and cheap, developers have made development slower since everyone hates this look so much and NIMBY's become more emboldened to push back against it.

In the U.S., build more beautiful brick apartments on the East Coast. More brownstone around New York City. Red brick in and around Boston. Build mission-inspired apartments in California. Build adobe style apartments in New Mexico with turquoise-color balconies. Build Louisiana apartments with that classic French-Quarter creole townhouse style. Etc. Etc.

Oh but it's too expensive and slow waaa I don't want to pay for real brick walls fuck you just build it right.

I'm an average American bachelor, though I live a relatively healthy life compared to most. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, consume added sugar or eat many carbs. I run at least a mile or two a day. I hit the gym three times a week, but now slowing down as I progress through my 30's. It works for me. Most of my buzz in life comes from runner's highs.

Over the years I've had this weird fantasy of adopting and helping a fat person who doesn't want to be fat. Not sleep with her or anything, just let her sleep on my pull-out bed for a few months, cook us up some nice healthy salmon and salads every day, help her through the sugar withdrawals, wake her up at 6:30 to go running, and watch that 30 bmi fall to a 23. Introduce her to oregano, the subtleties of black coffee, get her an adderall prescription maybe. Not even in a weird grooming way either. Just purely altruistic, if not pretty conceited. All I'd ask is they pay for some of my rent and grocery bill. I imagine there are countless fat women who have tried dieting but can't muster the discipline to make it work, and just need a heartless man to slap their wrist when temptation arises. They're all like "I tried dieting but it's just so hard" like it's not that hard, you just need a temporary authority figure.

Could turn it into a play. Call it Pig-Malion lol.

Sadly this fantasy has taken a hit since ozempic became popular, but my longing to make a difference in someone's life persists. Maybe instead I can teach an incel to play guitar. Or maybe teach a poor family of immigrants to speak English. Like my own Von Trapp family but with Guatemalens hiding from ICE, and I'm teaching them English via songs and dancing. Then I can wear a beautiful dress like Julie Andrews and dance in a glass gazebo. Not with the guatemalen husband. Just by myself.

Julie Andrews was also in a stage production of My Fair Lady coincidentally! Did you know that? Yeah the original stage run I think. She would have been amazing.

And she was replaced by Audrey Hepburn who did a great job, and even did her own singing, but they overdubbed her singing in the final cut without telling Hepburn!!! I know what the fuck! And you can find Hepburn's version online easily. It's actually really good! I think way better than the dub.

Remember the horse race scene in the film? Legendary. That white and black dress and the giant hat. My god. I'd wear that in the glass gazebo instead actually.