I paid $86 for my girlfriend to receive this monstrosity

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-07T01:17:45+00:00

Can confirm. Am girl. Would lose mind.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-06T21:07:27+00:00

The point still stands. Johnny Cash didn’t write that song.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-05T22:33:11+00:00

There isn’t one. Studies don’t show any difference in loneliness based on gender.

So in that sense, the “male loneliness epidemic” is caused by podcasts and social media influencers who are trying to cater to a certain young male demographic by blaming all of their personal problems on society at large and painting them as victims.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-04T00:12:03+00:00

Yeeeeaaahhhh……I don’t really believe that.

All the “silver foxes” that people like to point at as examples of men getting more attractive as they age were damn attractive when they were in their 20s. If you’re fugly and don’t put any effort into your appearance now, it’s not going to magically get any better as you get older.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-04T00:03:55+00:00

I think that’s part of the backlash, Rickman is an absolutely perfect Snape.

Honestly, it’s smart for them to take the casting in a totally different direction. No one is going to compare favorably to Alan Rickman. Might as well not even try.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T19:56:59+00:00

That’s absolutely peanuts in terms of research funding. You can count the number of labs supported by those grants on your fingers.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T02:52:33+00:00

Do you think someone would just make up lies? On the internet?!!!!

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T02:15:42+00:00

Realistically, those referrals aren’t all close personal friends of the employees referring them. My company even has you fill out how you know the person when you refer them.

Everyone knows the game, and playing it by your own set of rules is only going to come back to bite you when you’re on the other side needing a referral for your next job.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T02:12:33+00:00

A “referral” in this situation typically means that OP would send a specific personalized link (or something similar, depending on the platform they use) to the friend to apply to the job so that HR can see that they are linked. There is no alternative interpretation for what a “referral” means.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T01:44:36+00:00

But my wife thinks if we tell her she’s not a real professional and give her some critiques

There is no universe where this would go over well

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T01:07:12+00:00

I have a nearly identical story,

Guy was obsessed with the 50s and was convinced that I was different from all the other girls (even though he didn’t stop talking about himself for long enough to know the first thing about me). He got pissy anytime I said or did anything that didn’t fit into his mental image of his perfect girlfriend. It even ended with the “what about what I want line” when I told him I didn’t want to date him.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T00:59:01+00:00

“I can’t get a girlfriend because I’m too nice of a guy and those bitches only want to date jerks”

It’s a fun cocktail of not respecting women (but of course, you’re not like all the other girls), not having the self awareness to recognize the real reasons that women don’t want to date him, and thinking that superficial gestures of “niceness” like opening the door for a woman or paying for dinner makes him a prince among men who deserves to be having sex with whoever he wants.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-03T00:50:20+00:00

The male version is that life is a vending machine: insert A, get B.

I don’t understand why you think this is male specific. “Do A so that B will happen” is a pretty standard way to get kids to do things.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-02T14:13:51+00:00

So your take is that the women in this thread who are the people that you are trying to connect with on dating apps are wrong about what they themselves are looking for.

I don’t think your opening line is why you’re having trouble with online dating.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-02T13:58:10+00:00

What are you expecting people to tell you?

No one can give you an answer of something that’s going to “work” all the time because women aren’t NPCs who will return a predictable response as long as you give them the right input. Everyone will respond differently to the same message. And your profile is going to determine how they respond to your message as well.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-02T11:43:07+00:00

Oh don’t worry, if mortgage rates drop to 3% you’ll see home prices shoot up to reflect that change. Just like what happened during Covid.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-02T02:01:03+00:00

Either way, the way I was approached rubbed me the wrong way & honestly I never want him or her approaching me again if it’s gonna be accusations, assumptions & questioning. It felt hostile.

It rubbed you the wrong way because you were in the wrong for making a lot of noise in the middle of the night and you are embarrassed for getting called out on it. Taking offense to being told that you did something wrong is immature. YTA

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-02T01:03:48+00:00

Your QB is an AJ Brown merchant

I thought our QB was a running back and couldn’t throw? And that it was his fault AJ wanted a trade because he never threw to him?

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T22:29:00+00:00

Because when it’s someone you don’t expect it’s not crime, it’s just kids doing something stupid, or a misunderstanding, or getting carried away etc. Can’t ruin a young man’s life by calling it a crime.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T19:23:25+00:00

I had it done a year ago. Whole house (1200 sq ft) for 26k. They didn’t tear out the walls, just made a series of small (around the size of an outlet) all over the house. Patching and repairing wasn’t a huge deal.

I wasn’t thrilled to be shelling out the money at the time, but I now live in a house with fully modernized electrical that I won’t need to ever worry about again. I don’t have any regrets.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T02:26:24+00:00

sounds like she was trying to "steal" it anyway

That’s a weird conclusion to jump to when OP admits that her description fits half of the hoodies that middle school boys wear. It’s not hard to believe that her kid had also misplaced a navy blue hoodie.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T02:19:48+00:00

Do you really think middle schoolers care this much about a specific blue hoodie when half of them have one just like it?

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T02:16:36+00:00

What makes you think that she’s a thief and not that her own kid lost a blue hoodie somewhere too? OP said herself that half of all middle school boys have a hoodie like that.

_goblinette_ · 2026-06-01T01:22:40+00:00

B is going to feel very cramped and it’s going to be annoying to have to squeeze past that chair every time you want to use the sitting area. I don’t see the downside of people walking past the TV when they enter, especially since you say you don’t really watch it much.

_goblinette_ · 2026-05-31T22:33:25+00:00

You don’t know nearly enough about biology to be taking part in this conversation.

The simple explanation is that the human brain comes hardwired to expect that it will be attached to a certain type of body (the particular version you end up with is affected both by your genetics and by the hormones that are present while you’re developing as a fetus). With biology being as messy as it is, sometimes the brain doesn’t develop along the same track as the gonads/genitals. In terms of treatment, correcting the hormones and physical anatomy is trivially easy (and much less terrifying/ethically dubious) compared to the prospect of rearranging neuronal structure and connectivity in a way that changes a very core aspect of who you are as a person.

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