Does anyone have a set of "Cards Against Humanity" I can buy?

Reddidactyl · 2012-05-24T19:11:58.810977+00:00

I did this every week. NOBODY SHOWED UP ಠ_ಠ

Loyover · 2012-05-24T06:41:40.243484+00:00

WOW. I SURE HAVEN'T HEARD THIS BEFORE. ESPECIALLY NOT 7 HOURS AGO

Loyover · 2012-05-24T06:39:09.347627+00:00

I for one can verify that good jobs exist

remain_calm · 1 day

As a non-citizen on a work visa, I can't vote on this. But I'm curious: what is Prop A?

thestamp · 1 day

I just wrote a big long reply, and then accidentally the page and it's all gone. So I'll summarize it:

tl;dr:

You really have to sit down and crunch the numbers. If you're going to be in your house for only a couple years, then you need to consider how much the house must appreciate in order for you to break even given the cost of rent and your mortgage rate.

This. If you're only planning on being there for a couple years, you should rent. If you're making a medium-to-long term investment (5+ years), then it depends on your situation.

thestamp · 2 days

I don't have a citation for this, but when I moved out of my parents house two years ago, they thought I was an idiot for renting instead of buying. I did some looking into it, and found a bunch of articles saying that we were experiencing a mini-housing bubble, and that house prices are expected to flatline in the next 5 years or so, and that you would be dumb to buy a house now, instead of waiting a few.

Just a thought.

DeSota · 2 days

I wanted to write a big long reply, but I realized it was all sort of dancing around the issue. So I'll be blunt:

I do that. I go to video game nights. I go on brewery tours. I've gone to every reddit meetup I've been aware of. I actually have started to develop an interest in knitting, though it's a 'pick it up, get frustrated that I'm terrible, quit for two motnhs' sort of thing.

I actively try and make friend connections, and I do moderately succeed. I go to all sorts of meetups. But there is one problem:

ITS ALL DUDES. Every one of my interests, all my social life, everything, is male-dominated. Meeting other shy dudes is fine, I've made some great friends that way. But it's not getting me any lady friends, that's for sure

celerity · 2 days

What mystical land of virtue do you inhabit?

DeSota · 2 days

Yeah. This has never happened to someone who was hanging out with me, ever. And it's never happened to me since I was like 14.

Is there something wrong with me? Am I missing out on the fundamental human experience?

DeSota · 3 days

I'm sorry if I came off as a little confrontational. I didn't mean to.

I am just seriously worried about this. I'm 22. I went on my first real date last week. I will not be going on a second date with her (this is a completely different story though, and not relevant to the discussion at hand). I have no idea what I'm supposed to do on a date. I have no idea what chemistry even means. I'm shy and introverted. I'm dealing with low self esteem from a lifetime of rejection. For that matter, I'm still dealing with the "we're not married, therefore hugging you is a sin" from my upbringing. I'm truly afraid that I've got a bootstrapping problem here, and that I will never in my life have a successful date, because I'm inexperienced.

I would never kiss someone on a first date (for reference: first date in this case means the typical okcupid experience: our first date is basically the first time I've spoken to you irl). Seriously, I'm not even comfortable touching someone I've just met. And I don't even really know what 'flirting' entails.

I'm hopeless at this. Your flair says you're 'Just here to help'. I can't keep chatting now, because my employer isn't paying me to reddit :(. But if you would be willing to give me some advice and/or coaching in PM, I would be really really appreciative. :)

DeSota · 3 days

Specifically, I kind of have a three strikes policy.

First strike: Anyone is allowed one bail, no questions asked. Stuff comes up. Maybe you were busy. Maybe you just don't feel like going out today. Maybe your parents died in a car accident. Especially with a new person who I just met (for whom I am a relatively low priority), this is completely understandable. I'll ignore one "I'm busy", it's like everyones' freebie

Second strike: If you use up your first strike, and then you are 'busy' again, this is where my translation kicks in. If the person I'm trying to arrange a date with (or other social or business meeting for that matter) bails a second time, the ball is in their court. If they don't take the initiative, I assume they're blowing me off

Third strike: if you blow me off three times in a row without giving me a seriously good reason (see above, for instance, parents died), then I say fuck it and move on.

To your comment, you do have a point. It's difficult to tell with people. But I mean, in the entire history of the universe, only three women have ever wanted to spend time with me in a romantic context. All three of them had serious psych issues (social anxiety, depression, low self esteem, etc. ), and two of said three turned out to be mean, manipulative people who just wanted to take advantage of my general good nature. So, I mean, sure. Maybe some people are misinterpreting social ineptitude for disinterest. But I'm not. It's always disinterest when someone bails on me.

always

celerity · 3 days

It's possible that throughout my entire life, every person I've ever met has been a shitty person, and I've just rolled critical failures on every important point.

Or maybe I'm witnessing a trend. Either way, I don't want to be a part of it

DeSota · 3 days

I've figured out the best way to translate this:

"I'm busy this week" => "I'm too busy for you"

"I'm busy this week, you up to anything next friday?" => "I'm actually busy this week and not blowing you off

DeSota · 3 days

I've never ended a first date with a kiss. BECAUSE I'M NOT COMFORTABLE MOVING THAT FAST.

Are you suggesting that this could be misconstrued as me being uninterested/uninteresting? Because that could explain a lot of my dating frustrations. Fuck if I know what I'm doing

Rinn_The_Trickster · 3 days

My combined failures at offline and online dating have rendered me so depressed and insecure that I'm pretty sure I'm going to scare off every lady who finds me even the least bit attractive.

So far I'm three for four, and I have no faith in the fourth one

celerity · 3 days

No. No. One Thousand Times No.

OKCupid has slowly turned my male friends into horribly depressing, dejected shells, and my female friends into extremely shallow, superficial people. I don't care if it works or not; their long term experiences with the site have been bad for them, personally. I can't advocate this

forfun981 · 5 days

This is an original, I came up with it last week

So there is this cat, right. And he gets into a horrible, life altering accident (don't catnip and drive, kiddies), and in the hospital, they have to amputate his leg. However, after months of physiotherapy, he is successfully rehabilitated with a prosthetic limb.

Celebrating his newfound recovery, he decides to go to the bar with his friends for drinks. But once he gets there, he notices that everyone is treating him strangely. They're all avoiding him. When he talks to them, they rudely rebuff his jokes. And he swears some of them were giving him the stink eye. He goes home, alone, and softly meows himself to sleep.

The next day, he calls up his best friend on his purr-izon cell phone, and asks him about the previous night. His friend kind of dances around the question, not really wanting to answer it, but our protagonist presses him, and eventually prevails. His friend says "dude, I'm really sorry that I have to be the one to tell you this, but last night, it's just... you had a really bad faux paw."

king_m1k3 · 5 days

Another piece of advice: if you're desperate for a temp place to live, check airbnb.com. It's cheaper than apartments, and some people are ok to negotiate staying a month or more.

king_m1k3 · 5 days

I don't know how practical this is for you, but seriously, once an hour might not be quick enough. These ads go REALLY fast. I mean, I dedicated most of the first two weeks of may to apartment hunting. I went to a coffee shop, dicked around online, and every 10 minuts checked padmapper. ANd after two weeks, I finally found an apartment, but it wasn't through padmapper, it was through a guy on reddit. So you gotta keep at it.

GOod luck. This city's rental market is terrible right now.

king_m1k3 · 5 days

http://padmapper.com

It makes searching for apartments suck less.

You'll still have a problem actually sealing the deals, but it'll make searching less painful

bL1Nd · 9 days

I won't be playing diablo until june at least, due to not having a gaming computer until then. But you can be sure that my name will be some variation on eqdw or rzeqdw

erauqssidlroweht · 11 days

It's going a bit better now. I think I'm getting my feet. You?

dnlhnes · 14 days

You better stop looking; as of the other day, that shit's illegal

mytmau5 · 18 days

Surely some people were simply moved by the crowd and were therefore not responsible whatsoever.

But do you not make the conscious choice to take part in that crowd?

mytmau5 · 18 days

I wouldn't say a country where Joe Crazypants from down the street can pick up a silenced firearm from the corner store and carry it concealed while walking behind me is civilized. But I guess we just have a difference of opinion.

Because you see, it doesn't matter how big of a gun I have. He's Joe Crazypants. His bullet will kill me dead before I can react, either way. It's nuclear arms proliferation, on the personal level.

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