It was going on before the internet. Came home at midnight from my job at the munitions factory early, back in the 80s, because I decided not to stop for a beer with the crew. When I got home my wife was on the phone saying:"...are you sure its him because somebody that looks just like him just walked in the door..". She hangs up and says to me: "you're supposed to be at the Flight 148 with a blonde crawling all over you..".CID1990 wrote:We are ALL becoming dysfunctionalChizzang wrote:
Exactly...
I'm not even sure I understand what the point is anymore
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when I was in college
pretty much every girl I knew loved it when I said: You are looking damn good today girl...
Never kept us from being friends and their boyfriends didn't give a sh!t
usually they would respond with "I know" or something equally hilarious
Honestly
I believe we have lost our way
I blame a number of things - most of all the internet
What used to be isolated outrage at small things now goes globally viral in hours.. and we never miss an opportunity to overblow the trivial. We see every bad thing that every single human does to another... its right there on YouTube, and it is all something "new" and terrible and we lose sight of the fact that humans have been exactly the same for thousands of years.. you would think the advent of horrible people coincided with the advent of the internet
It is easier to go on dating websites to find a mate or a hookup, and it is low risk. So instead of cultivating relationship the old fashioned way, we swipe right or whatever. It is low risk because at least you know that the woman on the other end is also looking.... the traditional places where we found mates were at work or at the bar... now both of those places are minefields that will cripple you for life as surely as if you had both legs blown off
I dont talk to women at work unless there's a witness... even with the ones I trust -
I don't tell jokes... and I like to think I'm a funny guy and could share that with people. But no - I am completely shut off emotionally from my subordinates and my peers. We are strictly professional and quite frankly that is a miserable work existence - I used to think it would be nice to build boats or something for a living. Now I find myself wishing I could go back in time and actually make that career choice
Nobody knows how to interact with anyone anymore. And there's certainly a backlash coming - people are going to one day realize that their harrassment-free world is a joy-free world and they are going to wonder how the fvck they got there
My job? QA supervisor. My subordinates? 18 women. Took my office door off its hinges the next day. Worst job I ever had.





