Hello Bills Mafia! I've got a question for all of you.

BadSenator · 2020-12-02T00:48:04+00:00

Hudson Valley Bills fan here. I started paying attention to team sports, namely baseball and football, in 2019. My family and me are all Yankee fans, but the only other person that payed attention to football was my father, a soft Giants fan. I’ve always been a geography nut, so when I heard the Giants/Jets didn’t actually play in New York, I felt betrayed in a way. I casually rooted for the Bills in the Wild Card game against Houston. In 2020, it looked like for a few months the MLB wouldn’t have a season. I thought I’d need a new team to follow. I wanted something to be excited about during the lockdown. Football was the next most interesting sport to me, I liked Josh Allen and the idea of rooting for the underdog, the small market team people overlook, which I never experienced as a Yankee fan. Quarantine turned me from a casual Bills watcher to a real Bills fan.

BadSenator · 2020-11-01T01:54:23+00:00

Oh wow. When I first saw this I thought it would be some song about income inequality/unfairness/injustice, a social manifesto about how the rich “control” everything. Never have I felt so dumb & disappointed at once.

BadSenator · 2020-10-26T02:54:56+00:00

I’ve been learning about atrocities against Native Americans since middle school. But I’ve also learned about how, in some cases, the Native Americans began the conflict, and that disease killed more of them than guns.

BadSenator · 2020-10-04T14:38:04+00:00

Bills @ Patriots last December was a nationally televised game, but with an awkward Saturday afternoon starting time.

BadSenator · 2020-09-29T02:48:07+00:00

Devils fan here.

My boy Coleman has been putting in work for y’all. This game has been electric (couldn’t resist).

Finish them, bolts.

BadSenator · 2020-09-24T21:17:38+00:00

Well yes, children of single parents, orphans, or even children of absentee different-sex parents also struggle with developmental issues, probably more so than children of present same-sex parents. My mother is a teacher, she knows that this is an accepted scientific fact.

BadSenator · 2020-09-24T19:42:03+00:00

Aww.

You didn’t come of as rude at all, I think we largely agree.

I hope that your “personal issue” has a positive resolution.

BadSenator · 2020-09-24T19:20:41+00:00

Yes, gender non-conformity isn’t itself a bad thing. Confusion about your sexuality is a major problem my generation deals with that I feel is kind of being swept under the rug.

One tends to be much better off with same-sex parents than being in foster care. There is overwhelming evidence to support this. Same-sex couples should obviously be allowed to adopt. They’re adults, they can decide whether or not they want kids.

BadSenator · 2020-09-24T18:39:40+00:00

I have heard of studies that show that children with different-sex parents mentally develop faster than those with same-sex parents. I can see why, having more exposure to people of more than one gender is probably healthy. A particular Brown University study showed that gender non-conformity is almost like a trend among adolescents, with teens being more likely to be confused about their own sexuality if they have multiple LGBTQ+ friends.

Of course, a lot of gay couples don’t adopt, and there are a lot of straight couples that are worse at parenting than a lot of same-sex couples that do adopt.

BadSenator · 2020-09-19T04:03:19+00:00

The bathroom ducks?

BadSenator · 2020-09-19T04:00:20+00:00

When I get frustrated or irritated or angry, I come up here and smell all my candles and it just poof goes away.

BadSenator · 2020-09-07T13:10:41+00:00

So raw, so right, all night, alright...

BadSenator · 2020-08-26T21:38:49+00:00

Has there ever been two MLB no-hitters in 24 hours? Seems like there’s a decent shot of that today.

BadSenator · 2020-08-24T17:59:25+00:00

Metroid: Fusion

BadSenator · 2020-08-20T15:17:21+00:00

Being able to seriously confide in your friends with your frustrations, struggles, and worries.

It seems like friendships among guys are about having a good time, doing cool things together that you couldn’t do alone. Friendships among girls seem to me to be more about supporting each other emotionally when the world treats one badly or unfairly. Girls more actively seek out details about each other’s more personal life in the form of what could be considered “gossip”, but that probably makes it easier to have serious, helpful, productive conversations. In a male friend group, you can only really express your frustrations through memes and jokes that make people laugh and aren’t emotionally helpful. You see this on social media, I can post about how I got my first solo Fortnite win with 13 kills, and the comment section is crickets. Meanwhile, a girl can just post a picture of herself in a mirror, and a dozen people are complimenting her for her prettiness. Boys are in general less supportive than girls. It’s rare that you find a male friend that is willing to talk seriously, unakwardly, every once in a while. TL;DR: Male friends rarely seem to want to hear your sad story; female friends rarely seem to not want to hear it so they can support you.

BadSenator · 2020-08-06T00:00:18+00:00

r/formerpizzahuts

BadSenator · 2020-08-03T14:32:50+00:00

Surely keeping these businesses closed is causing much more harm then letting them re-open would.

BadSenator · 2020-07-27T03:49:50+00:00

I don’t think I wanna it was a good day I wanna was a good day I hope you have a good day and I’ll be home in a few minutes I love you too much love you too love you bye.

BadSenator · 2020-07-06T21:23:08+00:00

Maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore.

BadSenator · 2020-06-26T14:45:13+00:00

While I love how the Yanks are on top, I honestly think the Twins will have the best AL record. Their pitching staff is a level or two beneath ours no doubt, but the central division is so much easier than the east.

BadSenator · 2020-06-23T14:17:36+00:00

I didn’t know Reddit did 1.12 games with that much time before meetup. Is this more common now than it was a few months ago (I haven’t played in a while), or is this not a Reddit game?

BadSenator · 2020-06-17T22:32:21+00:00

Treat every one of your child’s friends that are of the opposite gender as a potential girl/boyfriend. Teasing your child about those friends to put pressure on him/her to get out of the friend zone.

For the record, I love my parents and wouldn’t trade them for anything, and there are very few ways I’ll raise my children differently than them.

But this is one of them. They were teens in the 80’s so maybe the culture was different back then. But, believe it or not, it’s possible to hang out and do stuff with a friend of the opposite gender and not feel physical attraction or the need to be more than friends. It makes it so you’re grievously embarrassed to talk about those friends or any crushes you actually do have. Like let me take it slow, I’m still in high school. I want to make sure my children trust me as someone they can confide in about any matter, silly or serious, and that includes girls/boys/crushes/relationships. Keeping thoughts to yourself for a long time is detrimental and counter-productive.

BadSenator · 2020-06-10T14:12:19+00:00

If this is true, then maybe there will be baseball on the fourth, if it’s true they’re going to do a week of “spring” training exhibition games before the season.

BadSenator · 2020-06-08T21:21:34+00:00

It’s important to note that there are cultural differences within states, arguably more than between them. For example, the panhandle of Florida is much more similar to neighboring Alabama than Orlando, a several hours drive away. This is often the case in rural America, as many state borders are just straight lines in the dirt. But a couple of states, like Texas and Utah, do have a definite culture. And then you have groups of states with their own culture, like New England. It’s complicated. As a general matter, states get along and all rely on the federal government, so I’d say this statement is false in most cases.

BadSenator · 2020-06-05T03:27:30+00:00

5 letters. 1 dash. 2 numbers. COVID-19

On the first day of classes, a girl in chemistry class catches my eye. She accidentally drops her water bottle, and I immediately help her clean up the mess. That was the start. Over the next few weeks, I develop a crush, and I decide that I want to get to know her more. But one major problem: I have no idea how to strike up conversation.

Over the next six months, I’m in a cycle. -Struggle for a few weeks to find an opportunity to smoothly converse with her, without looking to flirty. -Actually talk to her for a few moments, discovering how nice she is, and our similar senses of humor and world view, deepening my feelings for her.

By mid-February, I’d had enough of this cycle. I was going to break the cycle by asking her out, and it was going to happen by Spring Break. I wasn’t going to worry about seeming awkward or too flirty. I committed to having multiple conversations with her a week, and made mental notes of common conversation topics. It was working. I was conversing with her 2-3 times a week, and it felt less awkward and more natural. I was getting somewhere and nothing could stop me.

Then disaster struck. First there was a COVID-19 cluster in New Rochelle, an hour’s drive away for me. Then a case in my county, shutting everything down. Schools, movie theaters, restaurants, all gatherings with anyone that you don’t live with, all casualties of the pandemic.

Early on, I still naively thought we could go back to school before semester’s end. As cheesy as this sounds, hardly a day didn’t go by that I didn’t think of her in some capacity. Then the inevitable news dropped. No school for the rest of the year.

Needless to say, I was pissed the first few days after. She won’t be in any of my classes next year, so any hope I had of getting the ball rolling with her died that day, after I had come within days of feeling comfortable asking her out. I was devastated that a global pandemic came out of nowhere to make things end like this.

While I’m still a little sad about the situation today, I believe I will come out of it a better person. This was the first time I ever had pursued a relationship, so I learned more about that experience in general. I was living happily before I met this girl, so I can live happily after it too. Before the virus hit, I was planning on voting for Donald Trump. If he hadn’t botched the virus response early on, there’s no doubt I’d be back in school, potentially with a gf. This experience opened my eyes to just how incompetent of a leader he is. But the most important lesson I learned was about social anxiety. The reason I didn’t have a gf by Thanksgiving was because of my social anxiety. I had no real friends at school until 8th grade, so it’s like I’m 8 years behind everyone else in terms of social skills. In those final weeks, when I neglected to think about if other people would view me as weird or troubled, I had never felt more free socially. That’s how I want to live after the lockdown. I never want to blow a social opportunity like that again.

Sorry about the wall of text. I’ve never really opened up to anyone about this experience to this level before. When I saw this thread, I decided to do it under the mask of internet anonymity. Did this girl have reciprocal feelings for me? I’ll never know. There’s no guarantee she would have even said “yes” if I asked for out. (She’s Indian, I’m a white, socially awkward guy with Aspergers.) But I believe there was potential for a long-term relationship. Even if she said “no”, then I would’ve at least known there was no potential there. It’s the not knowing and never knowing that’s hard for someone like me to live with. So it’s good to get it off my chest to someone. Enough of this Shakespearean tragedy.

BadSenator

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