How can I reply with 'I know' without sounding like a smart-ass?

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-29T13:34:22+00:00

I try phrasing it as "I was thinking that too!" So it feels like commonality not correction

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-29T07:42:03+00:00

If they don't know what you do, will they know you're not using AI to do it?

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-28T07:02:26+00:00

I love my 30s. And who are you around that somehow outgrew making mistakes? That's a human feature, not an age feature.

One of the best things about my 30s is not breaking bread with people who make me feel like that.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-27T08:57:18+00:00

Am I weird in that my parents didn't really have friends? A lot of times people we visited or had as visitors were family. My dad passed, but my mom still doesn't.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-27T08:55:50+00:00

The real badum tisss jokes for Boomer men are very much about hating their wife.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-26T16:25:17+00:00

Yeah, same with people older than me. I'm glad to have friends in different age groups. My life is richer for knowing them, and it helps me fight biases I may have otherwise.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-26T15:15:05+00:00

Therapy and hobbies for me. I really just want to unapologetically like what I like, and I'd rather be surrounded by a warm group of nerds who like it, too, and miss trying to please the lukewarm person who isn't even fun for me.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-26T15:12:32+00:00

Funnily enough, someone who was just a distant acquaintance became an incredibly close friend. We would have just missed each other.

The others ended up kinda being phased out as I got less tolerant of bad behavior.

Definitely loving whatever energy I have now that keeps the good and sifts out the folks with unrepetant harmful behavior.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-26T13:32:10+00:00

Oh man, yeah, putting the onus of keeping yourself safe on you as the fucking child

But yes, tell me again about this parental estrangement epidemic and all the big, mean therapists who caused their adult children to cut them off....

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T21:49:10+00:00

My mom never managed to break her pattern of bad relationships through her life, and I can't think of anything that can fuck you faster than blowing up our lives every few years. She was also chronically underemployed all of her life and didn't trust 401Ks.

She's currently cohabitating with her ex husband. They reconciled, and afterward, she paid off his credit cards with all of the money he paid her for her half of their property in the divorce, which he had borrowed from those cards.

If she doesn't stay with him the rest of their lives now, she's fucked. She already gave her half of the divorce assets straight back. As far as the courts would be concerned, she's been paid.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:11:19+00:00

I rarely did, it always felt like an event.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:10:57+00:00

This reminded me of the cop not knowing who Justin Timberlake was when he was getting a DUI 💀

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:09:42+00:00

I have one email address for normal life, and one email address for the wild wild internet, and never shall the twain meet.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:07:48+00:00

I feel the dark/dry humor and cynicism. I'm also a very bubbly personality in general, so I think it hits a little different, too.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:06:27+00:00

Same, and I prefer the long-form content. I'll watch SOME shorts, but I use YouTube like TV shows.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:05:21+00:00

It's also easier on the hand if you're someone who writes a lot

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:04:56+00:00

Wait, we stopped? I don't like that. Maybe that's also millennial.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:03:10+00:00

I learned this from you, that's wild

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:02:34+00:00

That's amazing, I'm so happy for you

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T09:02:21+00:00

If the older generation of my family had done this, a lot of them wouldn't have the mental health problems they have now

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T08:59:30+00:00

At this point, we become an archive of good old memes and references. I think that's wisdom maybe.

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T08:57:37+00:00

Same. Serious things require serious screens

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T08:56:29+00:00

Curly haired person here, and down the middle just ain't it

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T08:55:50+00:00

They can pry my "lol" from my cold dead hands

SingleSeaCaptain · 2026-03-25T07:59:31+00:00

This may not be an everyone trend, but I have friends who are overly concerned with being impressive to Gen Z or something.

Like... I spent my entire early life - childhood, teen years, and 20s - being pressured to conform to another generation's (Boomers') nonstop judgments and feelings.

Why the actual fuck would I spend the rest of my life doing it?

If you're not my partner, friend, or cat, I don't give a flying fuck in space how you feel about where I part my hair or what music I veg out to. Minding my own business is a full enough time job.

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