I agree with the sentiment, however, some names in some languages are practically unpronounceable for 99% of native [insert language] speakers, and hearing your name butchered over and over or seeing people struggle over it gets tiring quickly.

I have experienced this myself in English speaking countries. My name is not impossible to pronounce, but stumps half the people when they try to read it the first time. They will also mishear it and call me something similar. Usually if it’s a colleague or someone I’ll be talking to more than once I will let them know if they got it right. It’s not difficult. But if I’m talking to a customer on the phone or ordering a coffee, I go with something easy.

I remember I had this classmate from Mongolia. She had one of those unpronounceable names. She would get very upset that nobody could say it right. There must have been some very specific sounds that only mongolian natives can pick up and reproduce in her name, because I’ve seen absolutely nobody, ever, from any background or nationality, be able to say it right. If you ask me, many did, and I could honestly not tell the difference between her pronunciation and that of most people. But she was outraged. It took her several months to get over it and accept nobody ever would get it right. She didn’t pick a new name, but resigned herself to the butchered version of her name.

So yeah. More power to Cliff if that’s a name they like.

Apologies for the comment I just edited out- I got attacked by Internet goblins. It was meant for another lemming on this post.

I guess doom attained benchmark status as a program, sort of like VLC.

Personally I think I’d be annoyed. I’d probably be annoyed if anyone rubbed any bodypart on my face except, maybe, their lips if we are kissing. I wouldn’t call that ’ rubbing ’ though, same as giving or receiving oral I wouldn’t consider that ‘rubbing’.

TLDR don’t rub my face, thanks

Without a doubt, and I presume she’s got to be on par. Haven’t met her. But still. Two weeks to propose is crazy, and accepting is even crazier. Happy for them though!

I know, and I hear you. I actually liked Cara, I just didn’t feel encouraged to move my whole portfolio there. I might end up there if I can’t find another option.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that something as simple as a login for users would deter scrapers. I figured bots get everywhere and anywhere. I’ll go through the list more thoroughly later, as they don’t disclose their privacy/login-to-view options on the list, but thank you.

Oh. I know I already commented here, but I remembered a friend from DnD who got married to his wife within a month of meeting her. He said he proposed two weeks after first meeting her. They have been married for like 40 years, kids and all. Still together. Boggles my mind whenever I think about it

Still on Baldurs Gate 3, but this is my second run and the first time as Durge. Made some different choices, recruited different companions, and it’s crazy how different it feels.

I thought I was going to be satisfied with two playthroughs but I’m already planning my third

“huh. More interesting than what I thought”

Yes? Occasionally people hit it off together at the pub or nightclub and they become long lasting relationships.

From the headline I thought they meant finish producing, coding or developing a game.

No, they meant playing

How stupid is this. What’s the point?

No, I can’t say I was familiar with either of those. Closest I could think of would be people eating placentas but not necessarily for youth. Thanks for the reply

Love it lol

Yes I remember this but we used elastic bands instead of strings. Simply because we had them more readily accessible at school. I’ve also seen it done with string or yarn.

And yes usually girls would be the ones playing with that but not too exclusively.

That’s very exciting, I’ve seen many planting a piece of pineapple to grow it but never seen them actually give fruit. Congrats

I feel personally attacked. What’s wrong with having the shoes already tied and forcing the feet in? Some shoes are cushioned enough to allow this, it’s a massive timesaver and it doesn’t feel any different from tying the laces every time.

I do use my shoes and socks many times though, I only have two pairs of shoes.

The link takes me to a page asking me to complete a captcha that never loads.

I’m not sure why you are confused about minors being injured in a nightclub explosion? The guardian article doesn’t explain much, and I don’t know this place in Perú, but if it’s anything like where I grew up in Argentina then you would not be surprised. I’ll presume your background must be very different so I’ll share what mine was like.

I would go nightclubbing too at that age, not too frequently since I’m not much of a party person. You are not supposed to be let inside if you are underage but the bouncers usually don’t care and judge more on appearances (how well dressed you are, how childlike you look) than actual age. You look hot, and older than 15? In. Your dressing doesn’t conform to the club standards, irrelevant of age? Bounced. You look 15 years old or younger? You need to show ID, if you are younger than 18 you get bounced.

Also, at least where I lived, nightclubs were allowed to let underaged before midnight, under the condition that no alcohol was sold to them before midnight and also, that they had to purge everyone out by then. To keep the pedos at bay there was an age cutoff, usually 21 but this also varied and the enforcement also varied. So what usually happens is you get all the teens a couple hours from say 9pm till 12, then everyone is ushered out, they swap the DJ (or, if it’s the same DJ then the music is completely different), then you proceed to let people in for the rest of the night, which usually ran from midnight to 6 or 7 am when everyone is finally kicked out. Minors are supposed to be bounced if they try to go back in, but, I’ve already explained.

Not unusual to see teens who got bounced still hanging out right at the door having a drink or smoking, because, you get the picture.

Am I missing some contextual information here?

You are probably right when you say you feel something and it’s hard to pinpoint. We all have different experiences in life and not always get a chance to fully integrate or become aware of what we did, what that means for ourselves, etc.

So, to add to the other points, you are probably confronted with a variety of topics that are difficult to grapple: the passage of time for everyone; what do we think about ourselves as a result of seizing or letting opportunities pass by; do we want a relationship, and of what kind, and with what kind of person, and was she really this person or not; what do we need to change or adjust in the light of the results of all this thinking, how anxiety-inducing all these topics are, how plausible it would be and how much control we have over any of this… Heavy stuff. YMMV for each one of us when facing these issues.

You are very likely over her, but not over all the topics this touches. So yeah you do well by getting it out of your head and talking about it