Tristaniopsis @ Tristaniopsis @aussie.zone

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Thanks Baph!

Great take.

I too was born in the 70s and thought that “things were getting better”. Racism was disappearing etc.

Little did I know about the dark forces of Conservative thought and money control bubbling under the surface.

A slightly random angle on your comment: there’s a great episode of Decoder Ring (Slate) talking about Daniel Boone and the modern mythos of him created in the 50’s by Walt Disney. A very good listen.

Sorry re edit. Yes. I’m good at wide takes.

What? You mean you don’t suck/ push them in/ out for a few minutes before releasing them into the wild to seek their fortune elsewhere?

Chickens feet?

Priapulida?

The random animals they either catch from wild or raise in horrific conditions to sell to eat because ‘some bogus reason to do with ‘traditional Chinese medicine’ or male erection insecurity’.

I mean how about the ‘wet market’ where C19 apparently sprung from; bats, pangolins, god only knows what else.

As I said, I am not racist in the least, but I will admit to being somewhat disgusted by many aspects of their culture. As others have discussed elsewhere, the Cultural Revolution destroyed the previous Chinese cultural norms and created a somewhat blank slate that did not include politeness etc. This seems to be by design.

To be fair, I’m also disgusted by many aspects of ‘Western’ culture, including regional variations and various hypocrisies. Again, nothing to do with race.

In fact, lots of human behaviour disgusts me. Hey, when was that asteroid due again?!?

Yes! And the populist demagogues love it that way.

Ok. I accept that.

A very good analysis and much more generous than my hot late night take.

Yes.

I reckon even Buddha had a chick he wishes he didn’t bail on. Edit: btw it’s 2:50 for me and have to get up in 3 hours. I’m going to try to sleep.
Cheers.

One foot in front of the other. Look for the positives. Know that the perfection I imagine is nostalgic nonsense and it wouldn’t have worked out anyway. We’re just meaningless meat bags of hormones and bullshit. Meh. Whatever. There’s no ‘meant to be’ there’s just ‘is’ , and that too shall pass.

But yeah , thanks.

Sorry, I reached for the most extreme thing I could think of quickly.

Thought about turning it off, plenty of times. Off. Right off. Like unplugging it completely.

Me being an impulsive dork and dumping her for a far less intelligent girl with bigger breasts who didn’t even really happen even. That was it. Game over. She wouldn’t take me back.

TBH I should’ve ended myself then but was too stupid to even realise that was the better option than living another 20 years without her. Still… I wouldn’t have wanted to hurt my parents. Been distracting myself ever since with lots of other stuff. Can’t do it now because of my kids, and mother still alive. Dad fucked in head with dementia. Oh well. Keep trudging on and now have Lemmy to make stupid comments on. Yay.

The girl, who is now about 49 with two kids.

I’m fine with being oldish. I’m a much wiser and less impulsive person.

I’ve been for other issues but it’s more or less all the same: “pull yourself together, stop XYZ”

Do you like pina coladas?

At 53 with a partner and two kids, I am currently in deep, deep depression wishing that I’d married the girl I split up with at 24.

I don’t.

If you like taking a shit, but don’t like the shit, then you really like the feeling of something sliding in your anal cavity.