• partial_accumen
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    6 months ago

    I had to read that 5 times to figure out there as a missing period between “working” and “time”.

    Its still funny though. While we’re here in this comment, let me tell you some fascinating things about the B-29 you’re standing next to. Did you know that during the war…

      • Sneezycat
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        526 months ago

        Yeah it’s especially annoying when people write long winding complicated sentences and use no punctuation signs whatsoever it’s so infuriating!

      • partial_accumen
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        56 months ago

        I’m noticing a disturbing lack of punctuation recently.

        With inflation raising the costs of everything, should we really be surprised that people can’t afford to waste expensive punctuation on memes?

    • Zamotic
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      116 months ago

      I read it 5 times, and couldn’t understand it until I saw your comment. So thank you!

    • tiredofsametab
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      At first, I was trying to figure out what “working time” meant here and thought it must be some other gen-z slang my old ass doesn’t understand.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    606 months ago

    This would work on me if I wasn’t just going to have a pleasant discussion about the airplanes and then tell her to have a nice day, because I’m not going to just assume she’s into me because we both like old airplanes.

    • @[email protected]
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      I once got a tattoo from an artist who was cute and, in hindsight, clearly into me. Just the two of us in the shop, showing me photos of other designs while leaning very close, etc.

      I commended her artwork, paid for the ink and left. Still kick myself thinking about it, we are not the most intuitive creatures.

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        586 months ago

        And you didn’t because then you’d just be another customer hitting on someone who’s just trying to do her job. Just like I’d just be another asshole hitting on a woman who’s just trying to enjoy airplanes.

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        166 months ago

        Similar story for me

        I was in a hostel in Berlin and I’d had a fun time with this girl and a few others in a bar the night before. She had a nice tattoo on her arm and I complimented on it, she then took off most of her clothes and showed me her other tattoos but I didn’t think they were as nice though I politely said they were nice. I then went out to get breakfast leaving this poor girl in her underwear

        • Captain Aggravated
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          106 months ago

          You didn’t miss out on anything.

          If that’s how unclearly she expresses sexual attraction just imagine trying to get consent out of her.

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          Aw geez that smarts. Lesson learned, if you ask a woman about her ink and she offers to show you more…ask to see more. It’s been working pretty well for the gf and I, she’s got em all over.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 months ago

        Getting hit on by business people is very normal, because people who flirt back routinely become repeat customers.

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      That’s fine, that’s what we want you to do.

      We use the purely platonic conversation to get a sense of what level of compatibility there might be. Something physical, something more, what are we feeling.

      Sometimes the companionship of a conversation is enough and we’re both happy to say “this was a lovely chat, bye, have a nice day”

      But occasionally… “thanks for chatting to me, hey I don’t suppose you’d want to come over one day and check out the recreation prop kittyhawk my brother and I are building? I’m stuck in the shop alone on Saturday if you’d like to keep me company and tell me more about old airplanes.”

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        Honestly, if I met someone there I’d want to make friends with her, so that she can tell all her friends what a great guy I am.

        If she wants me she can always just tell me. And, at a minimum, girls are easier to look at and generally smell better than guys so I prefer women as friends to men.

    • @[email protected]
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      286 months ago

      Take your kid to the playground.

      It’s a perfect equivalent, because you’ll get the occasional sexist saying vile things and forcing you to leave, too! But mostly, women will fawn over you.

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        When I was a teenager, I used to walk my grandma’s cute dog past the nearby all-girls school when the girls were coming out at the end of the schoolday.

        Guy with cute dog + dozens of girls around = loads of attention ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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        116 months ago

        It’s funny, two things that made it infinitely easier to pick up women were my wedding ring and my kids. Of course it’s probably the complete lack of pressure, knowing I’m not actually picking up anyone. Always been a confidence issue.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        Are you watching your kid play from the bushes or something? I’ve never had about encounter like that at the playground.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      in my personal experience, going to cooking/baking classes for the general public, as in not some school/academy. I like to cook and decided to find out if something like this existed where I lived. I found a couple and went to the two that had the more interesting information/description online from the person running the classes, and customer comments.

      It ranged from 50/50 to 20/80, men to women, in almost every class. Also, an extended family member of mine has run art classes for a long time now and he says those are very popular with women.

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    316 months ago

    It’s like anything adjacent to weapons or martial arts. The “experts” will pour out of the woodwork and bombard you with AKSHUALLY’s…even though all you did was post a silly meme.

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      56 months ago

      It’s not mansplaining if they ask though, and standing around looking confused is clearly permission!

    • Natanael
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      66 months ago

      “such smooth metalwork! Almost as smooth as my brain”

  • cum
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    246 months ago

    Don’t think you’d get anyone responding under the age of 60, unless she’s looking for a dilf

    • @[email protected]
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      276 months ago

      i would say autistic ppl, but they probably would be more focused on the planes than the woman

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        There are what a thousand or so real WW2 planes left? There are 4 billion woman. Clearly the planes should be the priority given their scarcity.

      • @meliaesc
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        I’m guessing he’s been directly shown a lot of ww2 planes… never had a chance, oh well.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          He prefers movies on planes, trains, tanks, excavators, etc. than e.g. nature or national geographic movies. I am not sure whether this is age-related, or I biased my child 🫣

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    Accepting DMS from girls here in this Sub should totally work.

    On side note if you are a cute girl DMs are open

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      My current META for this is just saying “Do you know about <thing>?” wait for their response and if they know we’re done! If they say “No” I then ask “Do ya wanna hear about it? Approx listening time <x> minutes!” and respect their answer.

      It’s about etiquette and giving them a choice. You have to be prepared for them to say “no” to hearing about that thing you’d like to info dump about. It’s not that dissimilar to getting consent if you think about it, it’s rude to just start shoving your information into their brainhole, so to speak lol

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      36 months ago

      I mean it’s polite to ask what she knows about it first. I mean mansplaining is rude, but it’s also just kind of annoying to have to explain things to people who already know it. Much better to have a conversation and skip that part so you can just get to talking on a level playing field.

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      36 months ago

      Just found it easier to not talk to anyone, IRL, who I can’t trust to not assume the worst things about me.