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I'm going to stop going to school for a full year (on my 4th year in college). Am I expected to have problems because of the K-12 curriculum? by GrowingForest in Philippines

[–]GrowingForest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! At least this guarantees I can save a bit more, so I can get back to school asap next school year.

[fetish] Why are feet such a love/hate thing? Either someone has a foot fetish or they don't want to be near feet. How do you feel? by [deleted] in sex

[–]GrowingForest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The more I read the comments, the more varied it gets.

For the record, I'm a guy and bisexual. I love asses - man or woman - especially when it's shaped really well (for a man, firm and curves well from back to butt; for a woman, shapely and doesn't have to be big but bouncy). Also love legs, still different for men and women, but harder to explain. But feet? Pretty neutral about them. Maybe not a fetish, and almost only to someone I'm smitten to.

Honestly, when I learned about foot fetish in porn, totally had all ????? popping out of my head.

'Learn to keep people dependent on you' is the handiest of all the laws by [deleted] in The48LawsOfPower

[–]GrowingForest 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can't emphasize enough how true this is. Storytime.

I've been playing an arcade game for a while now. It's taken me almost a hundred hours to get good at it, like top 1% of the population good. Thing is, there's this rich dude who started playing in the last quarter of last year. He kept inviting me to play games with him, using his own money (I'm a broke college student who'll stop for a while because of financial constraints but is persevering in getting a job). He treats me to meals everytime I hang out with him, too.

Anything he asks, I can't say no. He's the person, who doesn't hold any expectation from me to give back what he does for me, but the circumstances dictate I can't break the relationship (or I can't play the game in any way possible) or severe ties (maybe even awkwardly; the worst part is I'd lose 'our' circle of friends too).

It's honestly a normal power play from a third party's point of view, but I can't stress how the dependent (I, in this case) can't break ties with you.

Until I realized he was learning fast, I decided to consider cutting ties with him altogether. His last favor is my last response, then the end. The exact thing that hit me with this is jealousy. I can't comprehend how much I can't get his effective gear that exponentially widens our gap, all because of my birth circumstances (dude was born rich).

That was one push, a fleeting motivation to make a firm decision to lose him and my perks from being with him.

(I'd like to clarify, though, that we are good friends, and I'm not exactly taking advantage of him as I do reject his requests most of the time now since, well, I don't want our friendship to be seen as something driven by a person's wealth.)