Grew up on a lake that used to freeze in the winter, this is the best but worst thing we used to do (because it was fun, but the rocks/ice chunks would refreeze in place and be a hazzard while skating)
I practiced spinning sticks so that it looks like I know what I'm doing and every now and then I even look like a cool martial artist when doing so. My wife doesn't think so but my homies got my back.
I love nice sticks.
Watching someone dig a hole. Or standing by the side of a hole that was just dug and commenting about the hole. Or watching construction work in a previously dug hole.
We seem to just like holes. We are simple creatures.
I remember grocery shopping as a kid filling the cart completely full and when we went through the register it was over $100 and my mom was going jeez that's a lot of money for a lot of food. It took 3 people several trips to unload the car.
Today I go through the self checkout, get a few frozen meals, some store brand cookies, and a case of cheap beer for $80. I can carry the two bags and beer with one hand.
I’ve been going to Costco every week for several years. Pre Covid my big trips were around $350. Yesterday I went and got some beer, wine, and some beef jerky and it came out to $350
My big cart days are a lot closer to $700 too now. Certain items I remember being $10 are now $16-18. It’s insane.
Just a note here, I bet your mom wasn't buying "dinners," she was buying "ingredients." Ingredients take up a lot more space in the cart per dollar spent. Sometimes that's because you pay a premium for prepared foods, (flour vs cookies) and sometimes it's because there's inherent waste, like onion skins, and both ends of that head of celery, and the bones of the whole chicken, and the stem, seeds, and vacant space inside a bell pepper. Also, not judging the beer, but in my childhood Dad bought all the alcoholic beverages from the liquor store in a separate trip. So it wouldn't have been in the grocery bags, nor on that receipt.
Inflation is real. But it's important to:
A. Make accurate comparisons
B. Value the work that went into turning those ingredients into dinners.
I'm really weirded out because I strongly remember averaging $100/week grocery trips as a kid, and now that I have my own family we're averaging $100/week. Checking a CPI calculator I should be spending ~$180/week with the exact same spending habits
They're raising the prices because we're buying "frozen meals, cookies, and beer". All of that can be made at home for cheaper. Well, the beer and cookies may cost the same but they will be twice as good.
Figure out what is your biggest purchase and find the recipe for it. Pasta, Indian food, cookies, and even beer can be made at home if you know what you're doing.
Prices were lower before because everyone knew they could probably whip up something similar. If you have a bag of flour, some butter, and some sugar you can basically make half of the things at the grocery store.
I guess I don't buy frozen "meals" I buy frozen prepared meat. I eat meat everyday as my main meal. It's a lot of work to keep meat in daily servings frozen and then prepare that everyday as well. There are a few things I make that I can freeze in daily portions like shredded beef or pork, or just chicken thighs/breast that I'm just going to fry and sauce.
Premade cookies are my vice. I like switching things up and there are a bunch of different ones. Plus they're my snack that can just stay in the unsealed package so I can grab a couple anytime throughout the week. The Walmart brand are only $2.50 per package and the knock out thin mints are a good as the "real" one. 100% worth it, I can't make those. Or many of the others like store brand oreos. I occasionally get a craving for real chocolate chip cookies. So I make a huge batch and consume it in an unhealthy amount of time.
I would. But I'm not cis. And I regularly wear thigh highs. I didn't think I would particularly like them, but got some anyways because of the programming sock meme, but I'm apparently terrible at knowing what I'd like.
Still, was making a joke. Femboys exist too and they like thigh highs too. But unhappiness about masculine aspects of your body if you are amab should be reason to more seriously consider why.
In this case it's funny...if the person asking that were a white straight guy asking about any other group, folks would be getting out their pitchforks.
If there is a fire it must be bothered. It must be prodded several times and sticks need adding to it. The fire cannot be trusted not take care of itself.
This mostly applies to other people's fires. My fires mostly collapse in on themselves gracefully and I might take offense at anyone prodding it before it's ready.
Its just fun to poke at a fire with a stick, but we've had "dont play with fire!" Drilled into us so hard we have to pretend like we're doing something productive.
Weeeelllllll, I’m going to go out on a limb here and state that I do believe my fire tending helps the wood burn cleanly and wholly. That’s why I constantly prod and adjust it.
Same man, same. I usually don't fit the traditional expectations of men, but holy cow a big rock being thrown into a body of water from a great height sounds amazing
And bless her for asking instead of just deciding we like to swordfight with our dicks for social dominance. I mean we do that but women don't need to know about it.
Hitting something with a ranged attack. Doesn't matter the target, doesn't matter the projectile. Basketball at hoop, dart at dart board, pee at poo stain, bb gun at empty can, snowball at tree, bullet at bullseye, it's all the same to us
I'm so baffled that most people reading this don't get its satire of a lot of comics, sci-fi, video games, etc but with the genders reversed and people thinking it's a reasonable position.
The author isn't being literal, they are making a joke about men who unironically say this and expect it to be considered normal.
Please don't yell at me for this I am just the messenger.
That's because there is good satire, and pretty often rubbish niche satire. Satire usually relies on everyone being in on the joke, accepting the ludicrousness of it. Political satire is good at this, gender stereotype satire is pretty deep psychologically layered stuff. Most people are not psychologically trained, or even people watchers. So the satire gets missed.
To me, trying to be dispassionate here, that's also an issue with capping tweets.
In a social media feed such as (pre-Elon) Twitter, if one were the depicted author one would expect ones followers to know you are a successful illustrator, political essayist, social commentator and published author on the topics of sexual violence in culture and an NEA fellow off the back of your successful graphic novel, putting the context of the original tweet in perspective and making the satire very obvious.
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn't the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
Yes and no.
We have limited cognitive abilities as humans. With every bit of information on social and regular media screaming for our attention its easy to miss the nuance. Add to that even the difference in culture in countries side by side there can be barriers to this absorption generated by our various cultures. You have to actively break from cultural norms to explore these other ideas and philosophies.
Might well be a little too deep for "I dont know any men" type memes.. 😅
A fair point but also, if one wants to say "hey they didn't give context to their joke, when the poster deliberately removed it from its contextual home!", there's nothing that can stop them, but also, they shouldn't be surprised to find people asking them to understand the context before complaining about the lack of it.
Consider something like "I didn't know Stevie Wonder was blind, and it's therefore not my fault that I didn't get the joke about Stevie Wonder being blind."
Like, sure, maybe it's not, but also, it would hamper any joke if you had to explain all context.
A rabbi, a priest, and an Iman walk into a bar (a rabbi is a spiritual leader and officiant in the Jewish faith, Judaism is a monotheistic religion, a religion is a set of beliefs that characterize a worldview including but not limited to spirituality, ethics, morals, social conduct and worship of divine beings...)
Very religious single mother with lots of money from a divorce has a daughter, sends her to a girls-only boarding school, she studies theology and joins a convent, becomes a nun - now you have a thirty-something year old woman who has never known a man on a personal conversational basis (may have seen/heard them in passing, possibly a teacher or church leader as well).
(This is most likely not the case and purely exists as a ridiculous but possible answer to your question.)
You do realize some daughters are born with asshole dads who abandon their mothers before they're born, right? Not everyone knows their father on a personal level, some have never seen them ...
The person who "has never known any men in her life" is the daughter here, not the mother...
well the closest I ever got to that was having an all-consuming hobby of attending aerobics classes and there were no men anywhere and I was so sexually frustrated. Had no idea how to meet men cuz all I wanted to do is go to a aerobics classes.
LPT for men: If you want to meet tons of thirsty women, go to aerobics classes.
I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don't have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.
A little of both. I think it was a more common issue a few decades ago and I know it was a common theme on the internet in the 2000s now that a new generation discovers it over and over it kind of perpetuates as a stereotype but I know male writers are so much better about it today than years ago for the same reason.
The reply is also tongue-in-cheek, it's just when you pluck these things out of their context and put them as screenshots on a different website in front of people who dont' follow the individuals involved, you end up with goofy takes about it.
Also, not for nothing, the way this was screenshot feels like somebody wanted to dunk on the Female Woman Writer instead of reading it in the spirit it was written.
That's reading a lot into the post. Her profile says she's a feminist cartoonist. This is standard virtue signaling. She is such a great feminist, against the patriarchy, she doesn't know a single one. You still know you're father, brother, male coworkers? You're not on her level.
If you join any big writing community (the Reddit one most obviously) you'll be stunned at the number of "How do I write [opposite sex]?" posts. Most of them are from men but there are a surprising amount of women making those posts too.
High speed refers to the shutter speed in a camera -- how quickly it can take frames. Slow motion footage is taken in a high speed camera. It's just a weird quirk of language.
When I was a kid, my town had a bowling ball factory where they would leave the rejected balls in a big pile in back of the building, unguarded. In winter, we would sometimes nick a few and walk to one of the bridges on the local river which had iced over and drop the balls in. Dropping little rocks into water is cool and all, but absolutely nothing compares to the satisfying explosion from one of those bowling balls on ice.
Well, this was the late '70s when all kinds of crazy shit was going on that's unheard of today. As another example, retail stores used to just leave handheld electronic games out on the sales counters where amoral young boys could easily slip them into their paper bags and stroll out the door with them and then tell their parents they'd "found them in the garbage". Not that I would know anything about that kind of thing ...
That was one of my favorite activities when I was a kid. We had a steam behind our home, I made a tiny little ecosystem for frogs and crawdads to hang out in, between the flowing parts of the stream 😊 fond memories.
I'm honestly surprised that Stephen King's obsession with including child abuse and rape in his books hasn't caused more waves in the age of twitter. Certainly a bit weird how Stephen King is often recommended to young adults.
Stepping on those frozen-over empty puddles where it's just a thin crust of brittle ice over an empty hollow, and it makes the satisfying crackling noise when it breaks.
Not a man, but it seems to me that if you asked most men what they would like to do if they found themselves alone on the battlements of an abandoned castle, they'd say "Pee over the edge." Dropping a stone is the substitute for when people are around.
Why do men always want to hog all these enjoyable past-times? Next they'll be claiming that stuff like stepping on frozen puddles on the side of the road to hear the satisfying cracking noises is a "guy thing". Like please, we all know men don't go outside.
But when I do, I throw large rocks into bodies of water from great heights. It's one of those instinctual things I just can't control, but it only happens when I go outside.
So lemme clarify for you that first you thought of dick cheese, called someone gay for your thought, then followed that with a thought of under balls cheese…
Something’s on your mind
Gathering in a line or a circle and looking at things. Could be a bonfire, a body of water, someone else digging a hole, etc. Holding a beer during this activity is optional but a significant upgrade.
Drinking very cold bevereges after a strenuous day of work/workout is the best. May or may not be beer.
Having a hot showing drinking a cold one after gym is also THE BEST.
In some places it’s commonly known as - and I make no apologies for this - the “Hitler piss”. Due to the similarity with the salute associated with that whack mofo and his followers.
Sitting on a 5 gallon bucket in the middle of a windy, frozen lake without gloves on in order to feel the very low chance of a fish taking a hook 50' underneath me.
I think that's a great answer, a broader one would be an exciting show of force.
Great impact both physical and emotional in a singular moment in time.
Men are easily captivated by that which inspires awe both figuratively awesome and literally breathtaking, like the neuron activation equivalent of letting strong winds wrap around your body.
That's why most young adult male audience comic books involve transcending mundane limits to our reality with things like magic quirks and genetic mutations: we want to see something big happen and our frail human selves cannot handle that.
Living the dream...
You should try curling. No greater satisfaction.
Winner buys drinks. It's in the rules.
Grew up on a lake that used to freeze in the winter, this is the best but worst thing we used to do (because it was fun, but the rocks/ice chunks would refreeze in place and be a hazzard while skating)
Really. It's only a hazard if you don't like hazards
when they get covered in a light dusting of snow...
The sound must have been incredible
Check out golf ball on frozen lake for some good sounds
Finding a nice stick
"mmm yes that's a good stick."
![email protected] I think?
I believe it is ![email protected].
I practiced spinning sticks so that it looks like I know what I'm doing and every now and then I even look like a cool martial artist when doing so. My wife doesn't think so but my homies got my back. I love nice sticks.
I practice drill team exercises with the broom whenever I'm sweeping the kitchen.
That's a dog
I'm sure bitches like that too
U want sum fuk?
That's why we're best friends.
Especially when its the right height to use as a staff
https://youtu.be/VtMQyhRZwCc?si=u2kdpGtyHrjcGw3-
Digging a hole
Rock and stone, brothers!
https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0?si=TcolV55SdkWq694q
Saw the comment and was going to post this exact thing lol
Watching someone dig a hole. Or standing by the side of a hole that was just dug and commenting about the hole. Or watching construction work in a previously dug hole.
We seem to just like holes. We are simple creatures.
Love me a good hole
Diggy Diggy hole.
Digging a hole was my covid project.
And now I have a pond and a fondness for pretty fish, lol.
At the beach. Also sandcastles.
OMG I've had so many plumbing problems recently. If you enjoy digging, I'll be sure to give you a call. Shoveling will make a MAN out of anyone.
Relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
Fuck no. I hate digging holes.
Man police here: hand over your man card.
No.
Bringing in all the groceries in one trip.
Although... that's a lot easier now-a-days.
I remember grocery shopping as a kid filling the cart completely full and when we went through the register it was over $100 and my mom was going jeez that's a lot of money for a lot of food. It took 3 people several trips to unload the car.
Today I go through the self checkout, get a few frozen meals, some store brand cookies, and a case of cheap beer for $80. I can carry the two bags and beer with one hand.
I’ve been going to Costco every week for several years. Pre Covid my big trips were around $350. Yesterday I went and got some beer, wine, and some beef jerky and it came out to $350
My big cart days are a lot closer to $700 too now. Certain items I remember being $10 are now $16-18. It’s insane.
We just had a $595 sticker shock at Costco a few days ago. I'm pretty sure the same amount of stuff would have been $350 a couple years ago.
Just a note here, I bet your mom wasn't buying "dinners," she was buying "ingredients." Ingredients take up a lot more space in the cart per dollar spent. Sometimes that's because you pay a premium for prepared foods, (flour vs cookies) and sometimes it's because there's inherent waste, like onion skins, and both ends of that head of celery, and the bones of the whole chicken, and the stem, seeds, and vacant space inside a bell pepper. Also, not judging the beer, but in my childhood Dad bought all the alcoholic beverages from the liquor store in a separate trip. So it wouldn't have been in the grocery bags, nor on that receipt.
Inflation is real. But it's important to:
A. Make accurate comparisons
B. Value the work that went into turning those ingredients into dinners.
I'm really weirded out because I strongly remember averaging $100/week grocery trips as a kid, and now that I have my own family we're averaging $100/week. Checking a CPI calculator I should be spending ~$180/week with the exact same spending habits
They're raising the prices because we're buying "frozen meals, cookies, and beer". All of that can be made at home for cheaper. Well, the beer and cookies may cost the same but they will be twice as good.
Figure out what is your biggest purchase and find the recipe for it. Pasta, Indian food, cookies, and even beer can be made at home if you know what you're doing.
Prices were lower before because everyone knew they could probably whip up something similar. If you have a bag of flour, some butter, and some sugar you can basically make half of the things at the grocery store.
I guess I don't buy frozen "meals" I buy frozen prepared meat. I eat meat everyday as my main meal. It's a lot of work to keep meat in daily servings frozen and then prepare that everyday as well. There are a few things I make that I can freeze in daily portions like shredded beef or pork, or just chicken thighs/breast that I'm just going to fry and sauce.
Premade cookies are my vice. I like switching things up and there are a bunch of different ones. Plus they're my snack that can just stay in the unsealed package so I can grab a couple anytime throughout the week. The Walmart brand are only $2.50 per package and the knock out thin mints are a good as the "real" one. 100% worth it, I can't make those. Or many of the others like store brand oreos. I occasionally get a craving for real chocolate chip cookies. So I make a huge batch and consume it in an unhealthy amount of time.
You have extra carrying capacity now because your wallet got lighter.
It's cuz I got strong right?
Right?
I do this every time, mostly because I don't want to make multiple trips
Surely women also love seeing large rocks fall into a lake from great height, right? This has to be just a human love.
Women love throwing paper airplanes, when it glides perfectly on the first try
I like both. Does that make me non-binary?
Yes, now go buy the plush shark from Ikea.
So if I already have blåhaj, do I automatically become egg? I don't think my legs would look good in thigh high socks...
You got trans in your username, I think it was probably too late before the shark.
If you rather that your legs did look good in thigh highs...
.... You wouldn't?
I would. But I'm not cis. And I regularly wear thigh highs. I didn't think I would particularly like them, but got some anyways because of the programming sock meme, but I'm apparently terrible at knowing what I'd like.
Still, was making a joke. Femboys exist too and they like thigh highs too. But unhappiness about masculine aspects of your body if you are amab should be reason to more seriously consider why.
You can use Linux socks regardless of gender
Is that what that instance is primarily about? I just thought they liked random memes a lot
Might as well, makes about as much sense as anything.
I'm mostly ambivalent about it really.
Edit: am woman, still human though
I do very human things, such as metabolize milkshakes and grow eyebrows.
Definitely passed the human vibe check. Please sign up for your existential dread and inability to move freely between nation states!
I'm human and I do that too! You might actually be human after all.
I know I do.
"I'm making a comic about stereotypical man, but I don't know any man"
Must be a good read.
In this case it's funny...if the person asking that were a white straight guy asking about any other group, folks would be getting out their pitchforks.
Hehehehehe sounds like satire as you point this out to how often the opposite happens
If there is a fire it must be bothered. It must be prodded several times and sticks need adding to it. The fire cannot be trusted not take care of itself.
This mostly applies to other people's fires. My fires mostly collapse in on themselves gracefully and I might take offense at anyone prodding it before it's ready.
Of the 3 people who I know who particularly like poking at fires, all of them are girls.
Supported by my wife and I. She makes fires in the fire pit in the yard. I don't even like fires. I hate smelling like smoke.
Its just fun to poke at a fire with a stick, but we've had "dont play with fire!" Drilled into us so hard we have to pretend like we're doing something productive.
Weeeelllllll, I’m going to go out on a limb here and state that I do believe my fire tending helps the wood burn cleanly and wholly. That’s why I constantly prod and adjust it.
Reminds me of Poke and Destroy by The Presidents of the United States of America.
I was going to say all men are different and you can't find something that will appeal to them all.
But then sploosh.
Same man, same. I usually don't fit the traditional expectations of men, but holy cow a big rock being thrown into a body of water from a great height sounds amazing
sha-PLOM-skshhh
Women writing men.
What's the equivalent reverse of 'mansplain'?
Estrolucidate?
hyscribe
Nagging
Found the sitcom writer
If I said I will fix it, I will. There's no need to nag me about it every six months.
minoritysplain
And bless her for asking instead of just deciding we like to swordfight with our dicks for social dominance. I mean we do that but women don't need to know about it.
How does she not know any men? Suspicious.
She had two mothers and four grandmothers
Is this the dystopia (Insert anti-LGBTQ Grifter name here) warned us about?
shemba
Successfully unsticking your balls from an uncomfortable position in public with only minor leg motions
And not making this face after:
Sticks, and boobs. Not necessarily in that order.
Sticks! Very important.
And boobs! Veryer important
And flashlights!
Boobs aren't universal for every man though. Some prefer ass.
Even the ones that prefer ass still pretty much like boobs too. I've even heard gay guys comment on a nice rack before.
IDK, my wife also likes a nice rack, but she's more picky than me. I guess I just have lower standards.
I've known a couple of gay guys who just think boobs are either weird or a little gross lol.
Aw ya thats the shit
Hitting something with a ranged attack. Doesn't matter the target, doesn't matter the projectile. Basketball at hoop, dart at dart board, pee at poo stain, bb gun at empty can, snowball at tree, bullet at bullseye, it's all the same to us
Jizz at the crude target that I drew on my wall with crayon... yea its all them same really
That explains the large rocks from great heights thing. Now I understand my instincts. Thank you wise sage.
How can a woman make it to adulthood without knowing any men in real life?
I'm so baffled that most people reading this don't get its satire of a lot of comics, sci-fi, video games, etc but with the genders reversed and people thinking it's a reasonable position.
The author isn't being literal, they are making a joke about men who unironically say this and expect it to be considered normal.
Please don't yell at me for this I am just the messenger.
That's because there is good satire, and pretty often rubbish niche satire. Satire usually relies on everyone being in on the joke, accepting the ludicrousness of it. Political satire is good at this, gender stereotype satire is pretty deep psychologically layered stuff. Most people are not psychologically trained, or even people watchers. So the satire gets missed.
To me, trying to be dispassionate here, that's also an issue with capping tweets.
In a social media feed such as (pre-Elon) Twitter, if one were the depicted author one would expect ones followers to know you are a successful illustrator, political essayist, social commentator and published author on the topics of sexual violence in culture and an NEA fellow off the back of your successful graphic novel, putting the context of the original tweet in perspective and making the satire very obvious.
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn't the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
Yes and no.
We have limited cognitive abilities as humans. With every bit of information on social and regular media screaming for our attention its easy to miss the nuance. Add to that even the difference in culture in countries side by side there can be barriers to this absorption generated by our various cultures. You have to actively break from cultural norms to explore these other ideas and philosophies.
Might well be a little too deep for "I dont know any men" type memes.. 😅
A fair point but also, if one wants to say "hey they didn't give context to their joke, when the poster deliberately removed it from its contextual home!", there's nothing that can stop them, but also, they shouldn't be surprised to find people asking them to understand the context before complaining about the lack of it.
Consider something like "I didn't know Stevie Wonder was blind, and it's therefore not my fault that I didn't get the joke about Stevie Wonder being blind."
Like, sure, maybe it's not, but also, it would hamper any joke if you had to explain all context.
A rabbi, a priest, and an Iman walk into a bar (a rabbi is a spiritual leader and officiant in the Jewish faith, Judaism is a monotheistic religion, a religion is a set of beliefs that characterize a worldview including but not limited to spirituality, ethics, morals, social conduct and worship of divine beings...)
Here’s a reward: 🎖️
You have the first correct use of “nuance” I’ve seen/heard in the last 50 uses of the word.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. I mean it.
My comment is a tangent and is not directly related to the ongoing discussion.
Man no get satire so satire bad! Man over analyze reason instead of just accepting it not for man and moving on! Grunting noises or something!
As a man, I feel personally attacked and it's glorious. Most of the arguments between my wife and I are me over analyzing things.
I hope the author (if they're actually writing something) goes hard on that concept.
Or.... All satire isn't meant for you and that's ok. It doesn't automatically make it bad, good, or niche.
If it isnt as much of an everyman then its just punching down or an in-joke.
Or... Satire. Nothing wrong with an in-joke anyway.
Nah, this is pretty good satire.
Very religious single mother with lots of money from a divorce has a daughter, sends her to a girls-only boarding school, she studies theology and joins a convent, becomes a nun - now you have a thirty-something year old woman who has never known a man on a personal conversational basis (may have seen/heard them in passing, possibly a teacher or church leader as well).
(This is most likely not the case and purely exists as a ridiculous but possible answer to your question.)
I appreciate the worldbuilding effort
Already a better story than the one shes writing
Reminds me of that one monk who lived his whole life without ever seeing a woman
I'm pretty sure he saw one way up close at the start of his life.
How did she get the daughter?
You do realize some daughters are born with asshole dads who abandon their mothers before they're born, right? Not everyone knows their father on a personal level, some have never seen them ...
The person who "has never known any men in her life" is the daughter here, not the mother...
That makes way more sense. I thought the woman sent the goal to boarding school so she (the mom) could become a nun...
It's been a long week...
Yeah, I get it. I'm really not thinking straight either, it's a Friday. Sorry if the reply came across a bit arrogant.
Nah, I totally missed it. Thanks for helping out. :)
What you've never encountered one of those "went to an all-girls school then got a job at a daycare" chicks?
well the closest I ever got to that was having an all-consuming hobby of attending aerobics classes and there were no men anywhere and I was so sexually frustrated. Had no idea how to meet men cuz all I wanted to do is go to a aerobics classes.
LPT for men: If you want to meet tons of thirsty women, go to aerobics classes.
lol nope. Meeting women at the gym is "creepy." Had that screamed at me for years now.
It's only creepy if you're a creep.
Men who aren't creepy aren't creepy.
lol nope. That's not what women say.
I am a woman.
You're probably a creep if that is the message you are getting back from everyone.
Believe it or not, not all men are creepy.
Ladies of Lemmy: What y'all think of guys joining aerobics classes to meet women?
Single-sex schools still exist ? where ? I know a few people who went to those but they're in their 70s now
My coworker went to one and she's 18. I'm in Australia.
Ireland
She grew up on Themyscira?
Doesn’t know any men in real life? Does she live in a nunnery?
I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don't have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.
Hm. Completely missed that, but then I don’t read articles about what women want.
Is that actually a very real issue, or is just another stereotype? The whole thing is so meta.
A little of both. I think it was a more common issue a few decades ago and I know it was a common theme on the internet in the 2000s now that a new generation discovers it over and over it kind of perpetuates as a stereotype but I know male writers are so much better about it today than years ago for the same reason.
The reply is also tongue-in-cheek, it's just when you pluck these things out of their context and put them as screenshots on a different website in front of people who dont' follow the individuals involved, you end up with goofy takes about it.
Also, not for nothing, the way this was screenshot feels like somebody wanted to dunk on the Female Woman Writer instead of reading it in the spirit it was written.
I kind of agree that it seems like the reply is in on it.
That's reading a lot into the post. Her profile says she's a feminist cartoonist. This is standard virtue signaling. She is such a great feminist, against the patriarchy, she doesn't know a single one. You still know you're father, brother, male coworkers? You're not on her level.
Probably, because no one has ever lied about anything on the interwebs.
If you join any big writing community (the Reddit one most obviously) you'll be stunned at the number of "How do I write [opposite sex]?" posts. Most of them are from men but there are a surprising amount of women making those posts too.
Highspeed camera footage of something being destroyed.
Also slow-motion camera footage of something being destroyed.
The high-speed camera is how you get slow motion footage.
That's a very good point - one I perhaps wish I'd realised myself 20 minutes ago.
[Edit] People also like sped-up footage of things being destroyed though, right?
Nay! Sped up footage of massive things being assembled.
Love a bit of time-lapse construction
The problem is it must go well with a Benny Hill song, because if it's fast and long enough, a Benny Hill song will play inside your head.
"Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill song) pretty much goes with any sped up footage, so I think this problem solves itself :)
High speed refers to the shutter speed in a camera -- how quickly it can take frames. Slow motion footage is taken in a high speed camera. It's just a weird quirk of language.
Stupidly enough, I actually know this, and know it very well :(
I just took it as:
High speed | camera footage
i.e. camera footage, playing at high speed.
Instead of:
High speed camera | footage i.e. footage from a high speed camera
I am ashamed.
Not sure if unaware or trying to trap pedants
When I was a kid, my town had a bowling ball factory where they would leave the rejected balls in a big pile in back of the building, unguarded. In winter, we would sometimes nick a few and walk to one of the bridges on the local river which had iced over and drop the balls in. Dropping little rocks into water is cool and all, but absolutely nothing compares to the satisfying explosion from one of those bowling balls on ice.
A bowling ball factory with unguarded rejects sounds like paradise
Well, this was the late '70s when all kinds of crazy shit was going on that's unheard of today. As another example, retail stores used to just leave handheld electronic games out on the sales counters where amoral young boys could easily slip them into their paper bags and stroll out the door with them and then tell their parents they'd "found them in the garbage". Not that I would know anything about that kind of thing ...
Building a dam in a stream and forming a little lake. Then opening the dam and making a tidal wave.
That was one of my favorite activities when I was a kid. We had a steam behind our home, I made a tiny little ecosystem for frogs and crawdads to hang out in, between the flowing parts of the stream 😊 fond memories.
I did something similar too but no animals. You had a great childhood 👍
That's my favorite part of the book version of "IT." The scene just captures childhood so well.
It wasn't the weird kiddy gangbang scene then?
King's cocaine pile must have looked like the one from Scarface at the point he wrote that.
One of the few times I can think of where a 100% accurate film adaptation of a classic novel would be a felony.
I'm honestly surprised that Stephen King's obsession with including child abuse and rape in his books hasn't caused more waves in the age of twitter. Certainly a bit weird how Stephen King is often recommended to young adults.
I mean, I'm on board with young adults being familiar with abuse in print so if it happens in real life they have an idea of what's going on.
Literally did this last weekend, in a freshwater stream at the beach. Im 34.
Pissing from great heights is a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
just watch out for the headwind
Assert dominance, always piss into the wind.
Always on the Bortus side of life
Mmmmmm yeah that's good. Now lemme take that chunk of ice and smash it on the pavement...
Stepping on those frozen-over empty puddles where it's just a thin crust of brittle ice over an empty hollow, and it makes the satisfying crackling noise when it breaks.
yes
Satisfying even just to watch
Believe it or not, that was part of a U.S. presidential campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel#2008_presidential_campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8
Yeah, it wasn't easy finding a mike gravel gif.
i want that tweet, i want to see the answers lol
Found it!
https://twitter.com/aubreyhirsch/status/1506039335602302985
I miss nitter 😥
You and me both
404
Damn I forgot, I blocked twitter.
Explosions
Except not looking at them.
That's only cool guys.
Can confirm, I look at explosions all the time.
Ah, good point.
Fuck yeah to throwing rocks into bodies of water from great heights though fr.
Am man, can confirm.
Yes, but if you throw a small light stone at the right angle, you can make in bounce off the water. That's much more fun.
That's fun, but definitely not more fun than big KERPLOOSH
It really is that fun. Kerplunk.
an almost perfectly straight stick you randomly found while hiking
Not a man, but it seems to me that if you asked most men what they would like to do if they found themselves alone on the battlements of an abandoned castle, they'd say "Pee over the edge." Dropping a stone is the substitute for when people are around.
I feel like it could be a bit windy on the battlements of an abandoned castle? I'd probably also pick the stone if it was a headwind.
Pee doesn't "bloop"
Why do men always want to hog all these enjoyable past-times? Next they'll be claiming that stuff like stepping on frozen puddles on the side of the road to hear the satisfying cracking noises is a "guy thing". Like please, we all know men don't go outside.
Can confirm - am man, don't go outside.
But when I do, I throw large rocks into bodies of water from great heights. It's one of those instinctual things I just can't control, but it only happens when I go outside.
i think a lot of "guy things" are just people things but guys are like "omg thats totally me and not anyone else"
having said that, its definitely a guy thing to claim things as guy things.
One time I hollowed out a pickle and put a string cheese/ mozzarella stick inside then battered and fried the whole thing
Hmm.
Ur the only one making it gay
It don't matter your sexual orientation, consuming the fromunda cheese is plain wrong.
So lemme clarify for you that first you thought of dick cheese, called someone gay for your thought, then followed that with a thought of under balls cheese… Something’s on your mind
Never called anyone gay, just made a joke that didn't land.
Fellas, is it gay to eat cylindrical shaped foods?
Only if you kiss.
Only if you slide it in and out of your mouth several times before biting down.
Gathering in a line or a circle and looking at things. Could be a bonfire, a body of water, someone else digging a hole, etc. Holding a beer during this activity is optional but a significant upgrade.
Nodding off in a chair after a big meal.
Drinking very cold bevereges after a strenuous day of work/workout is the best. May or may not be beer. Having a hot showing drinking a cold one after gym is also THE BEST.
We also like sticks!
I know someone else who also likes sticks 🐕
Fuck off, dog. The stick is mine
That's why we like dogs! Dogs like sticks, we like sticks! We throw sticks and dogs bring back sticks!
Apparently it's thinking about the Roman Empire or something
AND DIGGING BIG HOLES
Hell yeah
Odd seeing this dude outside his funny hospital based insta/tiltok content
Y'all eating the metaphorical onion on this one
It is a sweet onion though.
Helicoptering our knobs.
You spin me right round baby, right round.
Only if the wife's around to roll her eyes
When I was 15 I used to drive my moped to a breakwater at a near lake and spend hours trying to bomb a piece of wood I threw in the water with stones.
Did you end up playing baseball or something later? Or winning a lot at the circus arcades? ;)
No, but I evolved and nowdays I'm using a David's sling for increased range. Not the air defence system though. Unless someone knows a guy ofcourse?
Slings are legit
Hey.... that actually sounds fun I remember that as well! Have a good Friday!
Oddly specific
Yet surprisingly universal!
Digging holes (for any reason).
Pissing off shit and period stains in the toilet.
Pissing with a hand on the wall in front of you
In some places it’s commonly known as - and I make no apologies for this - the “Hitler piss”. Due to the similarity with the salute associated with that whack mofo and his followers.
Well now that's going to be in my head for the rest of my life.
Yeah… sorry about that.
It's not the size of the rock that matters, it's how you throw it.
i the rock
Pizza Rolls.
Well shit… I guess I do enjoy this. I wasn’t even aware.
Flooded quarries make the most amazing splash zones
Anything that can be operated with a remote control.
An open car hood in a parking lot or driveway will attract a group of men as easily as a puppy or baby will for a group of women.
Doesn't work for me. I just fix the car and the person goes home. Not enough time for a crowd to gather.
Can confirm
I don't like this at all, but I am a male fish
its like all day bored and fun valhalla
Hopefully that's Alex Hirsch's sister and she also shares his creativity to make something great.
witnessing a woman perform a tyre change. (probably only applies in countries where winter tyres are mandated, but universal in that universe.)
Sitting on a 5 gallon bucket in the middle of a windy, frozen lake without gloves on in order to feel the very low chance of a fish taking a hook 50' underneath me.
I think that's a great answer, a broader one would be an exciting show of force.
Great impact both physical and emotional in a singular moment in time.
Men are easily captivated by that which inspires awe both figuratively awesome and literally breathtaking, like the neuron activation equivalent of letting strong winds wrap around your body.
That's why most young adult male audience comic books involve transcending mundane limits to our reality with things like magic quirks and genetic mutations: we want to see something big happen and our frail human selves cannot handle that.
By golly, if men could be the target of sexism, "I don't know any men" sounds sexist a bit.
Good thing men can't be the target of sexism by the 53%.
I'm sure she knows men, but she probably doesn't know any men.