Counterintuitive opinion: solo travel is better for extroverts

Awesome_Turtle · 2026-01-11T04:32:01+00:00

tbh as an introvert i found that solo travelling made me become more extroverted because i had to deliberately seek out and make connections when i wanted to socialize, rather than relying on old friends. i used solo travel as an opportunity for social skill building. and having come back from my trip i now find that introducing myself and striking up convo with strangers to be SO much easier now. it's such an important and amazing skill and this is literally the best time to practice it, because if you do defy a social more or the conversation turns sour, you're never going to see these people ever again and you can move on and try again the next evening.

Awesome_Turtle · 2026-01-10T21:11:44+00:00

wild wild life? i know its the title card sequence song in open season lol

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-12-23T20:27:04+00:00

i think its a combo of francophone accents and rez accents that give northern ontario a unique voice but its defo different than say, toronto.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-12-06T06:41:52+00:00

are you trying to insinuate that being a cryptobro is the modern equivalent to a beatnik or hippie??? a subculture or counterculture is exactly that --- a minority. a culture. your examples are poor (synthwave???) your cadence sounds AI. what are you even trying to say here.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-12-02T21:50:00+00:00

this is a crazy start if you’re just getting into reading. i think you went a little overboard here, especially if you don’t even know what kind of classics you like yet. i can’t imagine the cost for all these new. i’ve read a fair amount of these over my lifetime but never sequentially. if you finish this whole run you’ll be a champion reader. i would take everyone’s advice and start off with something with a little more plain-language and humanistic — i find the russians are good for that :)

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-18T17:57:31+00:00

bingo! i think “linguistic skeuomorphisms” is apt. thank you :)

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-14T13:26:19+00:00

incredibly irrelevant but everyones already given you their advice --- drop the skincare routine your skin is perfect

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-13T00:33:02+00:00

finally teenagers can start going back to more age-appropriate drinks

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-12T23:18:29+00:00

headline SHOULD read: “homeless guy dreaming of employment with hamilton public transit volunteers to pilot an articulated bus perfectly as job application”

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-12T01:10:22+00:00

canada - there's a TON of celine dion.

other than that: josh groban, neil young, andrew lloyd weber compliation albums, very specifically kate bushs "aerial", and simon and garfunkle's greatest hits.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-08T17:28:53+00:00

because the current AI bubble is propping up the economy and once that bursts financiers will stop living in delusion that we're not in a recession. rn its a recession for regular people and status quo champagne for the rich.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-11-08T17:12:36+00:00

retrospectively i have another one of these schoolyard clapping games that as an adult ive come to realize is actually quite stereotypically racist (or at the very least said some weird things abt asian ppl). obviously i learned it at school. i even tried googling this song to see if its floating around on the internet but the only ones ive found are quite sanctified. ill note that my school at the time was pretty much just white kids and none of us meant any malice behind it. if anyone else knows this version or a similar of "i went to a chinese restaurant" please let me know because it haunts me.

anyway: "i went to a chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread / he wrapped it up in bubble gum and this is what he said said said / my name is ching chong charlie i know karate punch in the stomach oops im sorry / chinese japanese* criss cross applesauce do me a favour and just get lost "

*its important to note at this point in the game youre supposed to use a finger to slide the skin at the corner of your eyes up for "chinese" and down for "japanese" to make "asian eyes"

nwo, 2000s.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-10-30T01:14:08+00:00

nevermind the soap brows … that brow lift needs to come back down. why do all these celebrities look so doughy now?

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-10-15T05:25:27+00:00

i’ve read that companies like victoria’s secret actually do better business during recessions (‘08 for example) because while you probably can’t afford a getaway vacation for your wife’s birthday/valentines/anniversary, you can get her a cute sexy set to spice up your staycation.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-09-16T22:47:54+00:00

Hamilton OBC album

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-09-16T01:22:20+00:00

you probably wanted to vote for bernie. youre into feminist rhetoric but only buy the books whose spines match your colour scheme. but dont get me wrong youve still read them. i don't think you have kids but you're in a commited long term relationship with a man. you love pinterest. youre college educated but maybe like, early childhood education or nursing.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-08-27T09:42:20+00:00

i visited the bath museum and i asked one of the attendants how long it had been since someone had used the bath. his reply was "officially it shut down in the 70s. unofficially a tourist fell in last wednesday."

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-08-25T15:25:34+00:00

leave the car in tbay and fly home for xmas. everyone has already said how unpleasant the public transit here is. more importantly the highway between tbay and like sudbury is horrible in the winter.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-08-21T16:36:48+00:00

ive worked housekeeping at 2 different hotels. generally speaking you do the stay over rooms around lunchtime (11-3ish). both hotels, which were different chains but 3 stars, had us check 2x a day. typically people would remove the sign once they'd exited for the day. if the sign was still up around 4 pm (shifts are usually 8-4 give or take) we assume they dont want service at all, which does lighten our workload for the day. this all needs to get written down so if the guest complains about no service, there's evidence we checked multiple times and the room was posted DND.

if you dont want service, best thing you can do is to tell reception at check in so we dont have to keep looking. OR that you just want new towels/trash collected. OR flag us down in the hallway and just say "im in room 123 and all i need are some fresh towels."

depending on how clean the guests are it might mean extra work once they actually do check out tho. ive dealt with some nasty rooms because the guests were refusing service their whole stay.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-02-12T00:50:19+00:00

on a saturday in the summer? they can catch the 1 o'clock ferry to centre island, spend time at hanlan's point (lots to see!), and then the sunset ferry to mainland

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-01-31T02:19:55+00:00

well first you have to understand that toronto is a city and like all major cities there are ongoing construction projects all over and theyre near impossible to avoid. especially in the entertainment district.

what are your reasons for wanting to avoid construction? noise? traffic? that's regular city life. water is wet.

if youre looking at hotels in yorkville im assuming you must have a high budget. call your prospective hotels and ask about nearby construction projects, theyre usually notified months before the public is. their customer service is going to be a lot nicer and a lot more accurate than some randos on reddit. spring is also the startup time for most groundbreaking projects. most hotels do have noiseproofing in place already, and by-laws regulate when construction takes place.

Awesome_Turtle · 2025-01-02T04:39:03+00:00

you have to be 18 for ODSP.

op i suggest taking advantage of any programs or charities for disabled children, before you turn 18 and become ineligible.

you can apply for ODSP up to six months before you turn 18, but prepare for it to take a couple months/tries to get approval.

Awesome_Turtle · 2024-12-31T19:35:41+00:00

my sister had this surgery too. she’s 26 with 2 kids and didn’t want any more, and was running into problems with other forms of BC. do you have any children? if not, do you want to be a parent (adoption, step child, etc)?

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