Depending on your interests, chess may appeal. There’s generally plenty of clubs around, and you have the social aspect of an activity with the learning curve of a hobby. Lots of clubs organise on Facebook. If you want to play rated games there’s generally a fee (to pay national dues), but if you’re happy just playing internally it’s usually free.

Feel free to ask if you’ve any questions about how it works/is set up near me.

I’m not sure that’s an enjoying it face.

Me too (except for the girlfriend part, though I’m not entirely sure on that front)

But don’t forget the terrifying fear of intimacy and letting romance ruin a good friendship

FUCKING DOING OUR JOB AS TRANSPORT MODELLERS AND DOING A FUCKING COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS THAT SHOWS YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO GET FUCKING MODE SHIFT FROM RURAL USERS UNLESS YOU RUN A FUCKING METRO STYLE 10 MINUTELY SERVICE WHICH IS FUCKING UNFEASIBLE WITH THE FUCKING RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE.

IN THE FUCKING UK WE HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF FUCKING ABANDONED RAILWAYS FROM THE PERIOD OF FUCKING COAL MINING THAT WOULDN’T HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR THE FUCKING DEMAND NECESSARY TO JUSTIFY SETTING UP AN EXPENSIVE AS FUCK SIGNALLING SYSTEM TO BRING THEM UP TO MODERN FUCKING SAFETY STANDARDS, ALONGSIDE REPLACING THE FUCKING RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BEDS.

IF INSTEAD YOU CAN HAVE A FUCKING PUBLICALLY OWNED FLEET OF FUCKING ELECTRIC ‘MINI TRAINS’ THAT PEOPLE COULD USE FOR INFREQUENT BUT NECESSARY TRIPS, THAT COULD REMOVE A FUCKING SIGNIFICANT BARRIER TO MODE SHIFT, WHICH WOULD BE PRETTY FUCKING RAD

Nice to meet you. I’m a 6-balled bearded footman.

it does have a specific sociological meaning :).

It’s not really social standing – it’s more the knowledge and behaviours that permit you a certain social standing. Apologies in advance for repeating the quote from the other comment:

In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society

Not exactly.

In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society

Taking an example: I had a friend at university that did classics. There is no possible way I could have known growing up that classics was even an option; my school didn’t teach it, and it wasn’t something I’d come across at home beyond reading Percy Jackson. So my friend had far more of that kind of cultural capital than I did.

It’s clearly sexual selection; high testosterone results in early baldness, which in turn is deemed unattractive.

Thus, in order to save western society as we know it, we need to start worshipping bald men as the virile hotties we all know they truly are.

Holy shit. That seems so helpful

I use it to scrape up all the stuff once I’ve chopped it. Chop onion, use spine of blade to scrape onto this, dump in pot. Saves lifting heavy chopping board, or scraping onto thin knife.

Eh, I think it’s good to make sure kids don’t pin their self esteem on anything overly tangible.

Grades are something that’s inherently tied to cultural capital. If your parents are able to teach you the skills needed to succeed in academic subjects, you’re going to do better. Pinning kids’ self worth to grades often leads to kids with disadvantages like a disrupted home life becoming disillusioned with the education system and suffering as a result.

I got good grades; I do not think the grades themselves are anything to be especially proud about. What’s more important is the effort that went into getting them, and that’s something more worth focusing on.

A parent saying they think their kid is cool is a value judgement from their perspective. They have a child they enjoy spending time with and with whom they have a good relationship. That’s something that I think anyone can get behind.

Six in the morning don’t want to wake

Sun laying low and the world sleeping late

Hate like the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Five days from seven the week’s hardly mine

The alarm clock’s gone over to enemy lines

Waste my time working for cowards and creeps

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Birds at my window sing in the dawn

By the time that I’m home all this day will be gone

Spend my life sowing what others will reap

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Chumbawamba – I wish they’d sack me

Just move to the UK. This is the norm.

Inability to take a compliment is tied to the general cultural dislike of ‘people who get above themselves’. Arrogance is the cardinal sin, and so in receiving a compliment you either a) accept it (meaning you agree with them that you’re great, which is a sign of arrogance!) or b) deny it (false modesty! A sign of even greater arrogance!). The only acceptable response is to sputter and turn red with embarrassment.

Belated happy international women’s day! Here’s to more open and equitable internet forums :)

Ulcerative colitis

Not as much as it used to be before LLOYD GEORGE got his way smh

Valid; it’s often hard to convey tone across the internet, and what would be a quick clarification in person can easily be misconstrued. Thank you for your service in actively promoting a better understanding of queer history o7

I’m aware of the dogwhistle. At the same time, you do get a number of well-meaning young tumblrites getting swayed by terf talking points if they have only a surface-level understanding of the issues. People are complicated, and may be well read enough (see: have watched enough YouTubers) to know about the whole JK Rowling fiasco, but not enough to have a thorough understanding of all queer issues.

It’s an interesting article though; thank you for sharing!

tw: mild transphobia, JK Rowling

On a podcast, Rowling defined the word ‘woman’ as the ‘producer of the large gametes’ (large gametes referring to The Egg), which is obvs terfy as it’s attempting to reduce the category of ‘woman’ to the ability to produce eggs.

‘large gamete producer’ has since been taken up by terfs as a transphobic dogwhistle.

I had a mild hope it’d be an ironic username, but checked their Tumblr and the first post is digging up someone’s dead name, so yikes.

“large-gamete-maker”

oops, all terf 😬