I once slid a large rock across an entire frozen lake. Please, contain your admiration
Living the dream…
I opt for the primitive version, as it appeals to my caveman brain.
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)
Hazard? I think you mean obstacle course
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
Immensely satisfying frozen lake noises
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
Digging a hole
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.
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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.
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
still human though Sounds sus.
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
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
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.
Successfully unsticking your balls from an uncomfortable position in public with only minor leg motions
And not making this face after:
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?
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.
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.
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. :)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
