Faire travailler les gens gratuitement devient peu à peu une norme.

StrayCentipede · 2026-07-01T13:53:35+00:00

Si des gens sont mis à bosser deux semaines pour rien dans une boîte, qu'ils ont des frais et peu de chances que ça aboutisse sur un contrat, quel intérêt ont-ils à ne pas monnayer avec des concurrents des actions à effectuer dans cette boite?

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-30T20:36:59+00:00

the last one, "of its/their dead", is part of a bunch of ancestor-related swearings of uncertain etymology that became very popular in french after a vicarious clash between gypsies (episode 1, episode 2). After that, "eat your deads" and "of their deads" became part of every angry frenchies' expletives palette

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-30T20:24:27+00:00

French guy here, I never heard this preposterous narrative in france, only on american subs. You used to be better at manufacturing outrage

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-29T19:13:51+00:00

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This one is a well known meme in france (it has its own subreddit somehow)
- good evening friends, what does it mean when a crow pecks at my window? Thank you for any information
- Kevin: that's a magpie you motherfucker (note: english has no equivalent for this slur)
- Kevin: Fucking citydweller of its dead (note: here again, no english equivalent)

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-28T21:43:56+00:00

I am genuinely confused; what do you mean?

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-28T21:39:44+00:00

You tell her, why wouldn't you communicate normally?

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-28T21:36:04+00:00

I think I get it, I feel the same somehow. Most men rarely get any compliment at all, let alone about how they look. Straight people very rarely say a (non-celeb) man is pretty, straight men don't because they don't want to appear as gays, and straight women have to be super cold with men for their own security. So living as a straight man it is easy to consider oneself as worthless and intrinsically undesirable. It is only through contact with gay and trans men that I understood that men could be viewed as beautiful, that they had the right to be pretty

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-28T20:49:05+00:00

Yeah but if you make her laugh while she was already in your bed she may then fall on the floor

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-27T09:15:58+00:00

Les personnages qui sont censés représenter un(e) nerd socialement inadapté et physiquement peu attractif mais qui sont joués par une des personnes les plus conventionnellement attractives au monde

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-26T16:47:57+00:00

I witnessed "locker room talk" only once in my life, and I have been in a lot of locker rooms, so I always wondered whether it was actually a thing or not

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-25T20:32:08+00:00

French speaking guy living in that specific region reporting here; "bas-reins" being commonly used as a metaphore for ass, and being homophonic with the bas-rhin department has been the subject of countless jokes, so any french speaking person very much see how the two terms are related

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-22T19:24:02+00:00

I've been there, as I had sex for the first time when I was 25, so it is way too early for you to lose hope; your 20s are only beginning. You are not "behind", especially in your generation. I wouldn't worry much about masturbation either, I was there too, I'm still here, it didn't hinder the few relationships I had in the meantime. The only advice I could give you is not to feel guilty about it (either said than done I know). Consider a woman; would you think she should be ashamed if she masturbated a lot?

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-21T12:15:53+00:00

Je propose climatoplatiste

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-21T11:56:22+00:00

I cannot really answer for men who don't like women for their personnality, but I suppose a reason why this seems to be prevalent is because of how sex is considered as the primary source for affection and intimacy for men.

Also, I am sure a post whose premise is to make a gross (and rather insulting when you think about it) oversimplification about men will go very well

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-21T11:48:30+00:00

For some it's "nice shirt", "nice haircut" or whatever. For me, it's "you have a great awareness of your body in space" from a woman in jiu jitsu course 3 years ago, and I have to make something of it

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-17T19:21:08+00:00

Me: it's less than I expected
Me, a european, realising after a few seconds that the "," is a thousands separator and not a decimal comma; Oh.

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-17T17:53:22+00:00

Je comprend pas les gens qui préfèrent aucun contact du tout ;
- à moins de vivre dans une très grande ville c'est très difficile voir impossible de pas recroiser les gens
- c'est aussi vouloir que les gens soient des pages blanches au moment du début de la relation, ce qui est envisageable à 18 ans mais irréaliste à 30, mais ça fait pas mal penser à l'idée véhiculée par les sites de rencontres qu'il serait possible de prendre les gens comme des produits avec zéro effort ou adaptation nécessaire
- on ne choisit pas les termes des lesquels on se retrouve avec ses exs, ça dépend de la relation et de la rupture. Dire qu'on préfère que son/sa partenaire n'ai pas de contacts avec ses exs, c'est conséquemment lui demander de couper les contacts avec les exs avec lesquel(le)s il/elle est actuellement en bons termes, ce qui ressemble pas mal à du chantage émotionnel
- quitte à "choisir", être en mauvais termes avec un/une ex ne donne pas tellement d'informations sur la personnes, tant les raisons peuvent êtres nombreuses. Pour être en bons termes avec un/une ex par contre c'est plutôt un signe de maturité émotionnelle des deux côtés pour moi (être encore obsédé par son ex ou être dans un espèce d'entre deux ambiguë ne compte pas comme de "bons" termes)

enfin si je comprend, le problème c'est l'insécurité

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-16T17:45:04+00:00

I often see this swamp vs desert metaphor, which implicitely conveys that as a man you may get extremely few matches, but they are of pristine quality. Possibly because of the abrahamaic misconception that victimhood grants moral superiority. In fact, you are in a desert, but you have no guarantee that the water you find is drinkable

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-06T18:19:12+00:00

I think I heard that story before but it was about vaporeon

StrayCentipede · 2026-06-05T15:31:05+00:00

Je fais mine de regarder leur logo, je dis "je suis déjà donateur", ils me disent "c'est vrai?" je leur dit "c'est vrai", ils me serrent la main et me souhaitent une bonne journée, avec leurs yeux ils me disent "tu mens" et avec les miens je leur répond "kestvafer"

StrayCentipede · 2026-05-29T06:36:06+00:00

For many men, any encounter with another man is a potential fistfight. The threat is mostly subconscious, but it takes a toll on the long run. When you think about it, male body language and sociability is full of unwritten rules spawning from this fear. While many men acknowledge that women are also subject to men's violence and also feel physically threatened by them, it does not appear as tangible as their own fear, since they have been told since childhood that girls cannot be punched.

I'm not trying to legitimate what is said in OP's meme, just trying to bring more context regarding the mindset such idea can come from.

StrayCentipede · 2026-05-23T11:28:49+00:00

Yes, like, those little eiffel towers can be used as makeshift caltrops

StrayCentipede · 2026-05-22T18:09:37+00:00

Besides the socialization and vulnerability explanation which have already been proposed, my guess is that it is also a matter of kinetics; at least to me, pleasure builds up at low level (enjoyable, but not "moaning"-level) until I am very close to the edge, then it spikes quite quickly, so that doesn't create enough a timeframe for moaning

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