u/tipoftheiceberg1234

Nobody threw him in the glue factory, and sold his house from unda him

This may be a really niche question for the Balkans but I had to share my story somewhere.

It was a very nice spring day. I went with some friends to a park nearby a church. It’s the kind of place that draws somewhat of a crowd, it’s never u believably packed but never empty. Now the weather was really beautiful. Warm, gentle wind, sunny but mild. And people were walking around and just taking it all in.

Then this old man came in a thong (like speedo swimsuit) with no shirt and laid a towel on the ground and just…laid down. Horizontal, in his thong, people walking around fully clothed.

No one said anything because we didn’t really clock it at the time but now that some time has passed and I came to myself I’m like wow… that was a lot. Like did that really happen

So yeah. Have you ever seen someone get too comfortable in public

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I swear I’ve heard this accent somewhere in my life in real life.

When he says “week” he ends his “k” sound with a bit of a swallow. Also, his affricates (s, z sounds) also sound notable.

What is this accent! I know I’ve heard it before !

Lioară, lioară,
Flori de primăvară
Haideți și-om culege,
Mândrele-om alege.

Treci peste vale
La o casă mare
Cu ușa spre soare

Unde-i șezătoare.
Liorați, feciori,
Și culegeți flori,
Flori fetei alese
Cu sprâncene dese.

I got the literal translation (I don’t speak Romanian btw), but what does she mean by cu sprâncene dese? Thick eyebrows? Does that literally mean what it means or is there an expression/saying in Romanian that uses those words, but it actually describes something specific?

Also, do you know this song/have you ever heard of it?

And what I mean by this is even if it’s sexual on one side.

There’s a lot of factors and variables so I’ll put it like this: you can cherry pick ideal traits/environments. If you got the least repulsive guy (to you), were in the best mood and the timing was right, how would you feel about it?

Does it help if the other dude hypes you up (your looks etc…)? Is this something you’ve thought about before?

Media says experimentation is really common and that straight men will sometimes engage in bisexual/homosexual behaviours or have such fantasies. Tbh I think they overstate that - straight guys are pretty much “100%” straight, regardless if they’re open minded, liberal or intensely homophobic

We’re anonymous here, so hopefully we get some hard truths.

EDIT: straightest thread on the internet here fellas

I didn’t know how to skate as a kid (still don’t), so my parents would take me to the local ice rink on Sundays for fun skate. While I was over there I saw my classmate and was surprised. I waved and said “hi Anna!” She looked at me as if she was super weirded out and awkwardly waved then skated away.

The next day when I saw her at school I decided to bring up seeing her yesterday during small talk (because I was oblivious). And I told her how I saw her yesterday at fun skate.

“Yeah I saw you too. You sucked”

It’s been 15 years and, as you can see, It still pops up in my memory from time to time. Anyways, I think Anna is training to be a doctor now.

I always wondered because I have lots of Nigerian friends but their parents never speak to them in a language other than English and even when the parents speak to each other I’ve only heard them speak English.

But I know Nigeria has a few major indigenous languages. I just never hear them being spoken. So I wonder is English the only language some Nigerians grow up speaking and then their accent is just like the British accent in UK, or does everyone speak another language in addition to English.

Also, to what extent do you speak the indigenous language and learn the grammar/writing/reading in school? Is it your stronger language? Like if you had to have a debate with someone would you use English or your local indigenous language?

I’ve been so curious about this so thank you

That even you as a native speaker hate encountering or get wrong more often than not?

Croatian - uznemiriti vs iznervirati. They are two verbs (disturb vs piss off) which I fuse or corrupt all the time, and end up saying something like uznervirati. I always get it wrong lol.

My grandpa who doesn’t speak English used to watch it when I was a tiny little boy. Sometimes I’d sit next to him and he’d explain to me what he thought was going on in the show.

I’m a nostalgic person and kind of an old soul. Looking back at distant memories conforts me. Really close with both my grandparents who are very old right now.

I read online how melodramatic the show was called by critics, so when I turned on an episode after all these years to see what grandpa was watching back in the day I didn’t expect to be weeping on the second episode. And I was torn.

I’m genuinely sad right now and it’s hitting me in waves throughout the days. Maybe it’s because the episode was about a grandma. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of the early 2000s, when the world was different and I was a kid.

I don’t really know, but I would like to talk to someone who can understand (which I know may not be a lot of you. The show was kind of for old people even back in the day). I don’t know what I need to get off my chest but I think I have more emotion to let out.

Doesn’t matter the situation. I thought this was a no brainer and that everyone did it themselves, until I found online stories of people calling the maintenance person to their room/stall/whatever to plunge it for them. I asked my friends in real life and apparently, yes, people do that.

Listen up people. Never do that. You hear? Never. This rule is so strict that it even applies to the children and mildly disabled. Are you old enough to know how to use a plunger? Do you have enough mobility to use one?

Then do it yourself. How are you not completely and utterly embarrassed by having someone else plunge your waste? That is your waste. No one deals with your waste except you.

Calling someone to help you is the nuclear option. But let me tell you, I would rather pass out trying, come to, and then try until fainting again rather than call someone who can do it in 2 seconds.

And it’s just rude at the end of the day. How humiliating to the other person to plunge your awful, foul, putrid waste when you yourself are able?

Tsk tsk. Tsk tsk tsk.

I liked this game so much on my phone that I decided I wanted to buy it on my PS5 so I could have it on the big screen, faster graphics processing and a more comfy experience.

I don’t know what you guys have on your phone but I got the free version where you have to log in with Netflix. I thought there would be an option to do that on the console as well.

So after spending $50, I opened the game to a brand new file. Created a ninjakiwi account, didn’t matter. Had to start over from scratch.

Controls aren’t fun, more difficult than it seems, activating abilities is harder, tower upgrade paths are more confusing.

Just stick to your phone or PC. It’s good enough.

Once society (or a society) even *thinks* about a new concept, it’s pretty much guaranteed to stay and perhaps even become real/policy.

Take suing for example. You could always sue. But around the 90s society realized that suing is “something you could do”. Now, we live in a litigious world, for better or for worse.

Children playing outside is another example. Before, children would roam unsupervised and play for hours on end outside. Ever since the advent of the cellphone, that’s been permanently gone and categorically irretrievable. We can never go back to that.

Even new thoughts on existing things change life as we know it. Look at online spaces (mostly streaming services). Ads were reintroduced into the basic package. Everything followed suit and now we permanently have a tiered subscription for every online service. Every basic package is going to have ads from now on, every pro package is going to be what the basic package once was.

There’s no getting rid of these things. I wish it was reversible, but it’s like an information hazard. Even society thinking about things like this and saying it out loud is dangerous enough. Once a new model is introduced that’s it. The thought is already in people’s brains and for some reason we can’t just leave it alone, we have to do something with it.

And the crazier and more outrageous these thoughts and models are (airlines introducing non-reclinable seats for a standard ticket), the more crazy and outrageous they will become as we go forward. The fundamental fabric of reality and what we take for granted will be tested in ways we never thought possible. Something will be suggested in the future that will disturb the system so much and disrupt the natural order of things that we won’t even be able to prepare for it - simply because no one would ever think that you could even think like that.

But all it takes is one stupid, loud idiot to say “actually, I think…” and fuck up the entire planet forever. One bad apple to spoil the bunch.

I think either the show was on, or showing reruns when I was a very young boy. My grandpa watched that show so much. Sometimes I would sit beside him and watch with him.

He would point to Della Reese’s character and say “see her? She’s the archangel. That means she’s the most powerful”. And I must’ve liked that because I have quite a few memories where he pointed out her good deeds.

Well 20 years or so must’ve passed since then when I was reminiscing about those times. Then I thought “huh, thats weird. Grandpa doesn’t speak English. How did he know that Della Reese’s character was the archangel.”

Tbh I don’t know either. When I asked him if he remembered saying that, he confirmed “oh yeah she’s the main one.”

And that’s what it was like being a small child in 2004.