Can’t express my anger right now. I’ll be back for you!
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Nothing is more impressive than a power belly. I think Chris Duffin has my ideal physique.
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You dont leave ‘your’ pizza, first step is to way over order for the wife and kids, second step is to eat all your pizza and as most of what they leave, third step is to put what they leave in the fridge for breakfast.
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I’m going back to school tomorrow and I confess that I’m getting a bit anxious about my decision to join a sorority
The girls are so nice but I just don’t feel comfortable with them. The nice thing about my Econ, maths, Econ maths and CS discord friend is that they don’t expect me to dress even halfway decent, it’s easy to have conversations and they appreciate my humour
Also, the sorority has a bunch of rituals and social obligations and these type of things annoy me.
I got an email last week about some event which required me to buy a specific coloured dress and shoes…
I will probably wear that dress at most once a year, if that, and it was expensive
More of a rant than a confession:
I’m a nicer guy online than IRL. Why the fuck is it the opposite for so many people? Even without the incentive of access to a broad range of opinions from all over the world and to share yours’s with others from different backgrounds, you think it’s safer to be an asswipe in writing when your fucking internet history is forever and publishing something gets you more fucked than what you say verbally without personally recording it for dissemination when real shit happens? Fucking dumbasses.
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But really, we aren’t wired to take distant risk seriously. The risk of being punched in the face right now >>>> the risk of losing your job in 10 years.
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I believe you need use a full/thumbs around grip when doing bench presses, for safety.
I also use a false/suicide grip for every other pressing movement including close grip bench press which is stronger than my bench 
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The value of social skills and making connections (with people-as people, not just do-for connections) can not be understated.
It’s also important to do the thing that you’re learning academically of course, but people are social animals.
If you can’t wag your tail and sit pretty, it’s out in the yard with you.
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I’m not nicer - but the internet is where I “choose” to socialise. If I choose to at all.
In real life I just ignore people. To the point of when a dinner party gets boring I will leave. Even if it is at my house.
I have and will again if needed gone to bed with guests in the house (I have a wife so she hosts).
But if its 10:30 and boring as shit - I will pull the old “I had to get up early for work” line and slope off to bed. I’m not even going pretend to feeling bad about this. Not one little bit.
Watch this. Its linked. The idea of “disassociated responsibility”. It is really interesting. If you get all geeky and stuff
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I’m a big Derren Brown fan. I haven’t worked out if I’m watching reality or a magic trick though 
Both
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Try it before you knock it!
Yes. But only if I’ve finished eating.
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Because this is a post about sorority involvement I thought it might need clarification. I think you mean this in a gender-neutral way, and would say the same to guys struggling with social expectations, but “wag your tail and sit pretty” in the context of “buy a dress” feels…icky. Because I don’t think girls need to learn to be pretty or, er, wag their tails. However, if by that you meant “endeavor to be a human being that others want to be around” I quite agree.
No one likes surly dogs. I’ve been schooling my husband in talking to people about Buttons, whom we’re trying to socialize. He’s prone to say “she’s just scared,” which I personally don’t want to hear about others’ dogs. It sounds too much like “she’s fear aggressive,” which someone once said to me about a snarling creature. “Oh, is she? How sad. Now get her the fuck away from me, please.” Instead, I want him to say “she’s a little shy, but she’s friendly,” which is true, and paints her in a more positive light. Friendly dogs are much more popular than fearful or anxious or unfriendly dogs.
I do expect that Buttons will eventually wag her tail as others approach because we’re friendly people and are woking hard to teach her to be the same, and she has a curious and sociable nature. Here is a gratuitous picture of Buttons, out for cocktails and fish tacos on a pretty day, because (confession!) I can’t stop spamming the internet with Buttons.
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I tell people my dog bites people he doesn’t know - he doesn’t. It helps keep teenagers and old people away from me.
Now before everyone starts thinking I’m a terrible person, my wife continuously tells me I’m very rude to people, so I’m doing a public service in protecting these people. I see it as a win for everyone involved.
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I support this theory so much and want to pitch in that thin crust pizza is ideal for putting weight back on after a weight cut, whereas pancakes are an awful idea and why did I think of that?
My greatest mistake was introducing my kid to pizza with stuffed crust first. They now think that’s the DEFAULT setting for pizza, and that any pizza that ISN’T stuffed crust is some sort of “less than” pizza.
Which, don’t get me wrong, that’s true, but it’s easier when you think of stuffed crust as a bonus vs the absence of it as a failure.
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Yeah, definitely on the gender neutral, and also said cynically from the perspective of the dog out in the yard.
As annoying as those rituals and social obligations may be, if a person can’t be arsed to at least give a nod toward social norms and constructs then that same society is likely to not feel obligated to give a nod in return.
I think buttons has a bright future. All of those good experiences and exposures will add up.
And…
So my dude just showed up in New Haven at Sally’s Apizza.
It’s like the Appalachian Trail of Pizza.
Always. And I take a beer with me.
my wife calls this ghosting and I have been known to do it at neighbours houses and my own. I dont usually excuse myself or say I am going. One minute I am there and the next I am not, someone will ask where has he gone and the wife will just say he’s ghosted you’ll see him tomorrow.
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