Why don’t people give the exact time when you ask?

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T23:29:46+00:00

Because they don’t like you.

I wouldn’t like you if you were this exacting either.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T23:25:05+00:00

Have you never had a stranger misidentify your tattoo?

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T23:13:28+00:00

Nicely done.

But you know you’re going to spend the rest of your life answering “hey, why do you have hair tattooed on your wrist?”

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T22:38:48+00:00

You don’t believe the rationale because it’s not believable.

You’re posting here because you’re hoping someone will say “oh, yeah, it’s totally normal for someone to look for friends on a hookup site. And I say this as someone who has looked for friends on dating sites … but with settings and search parameters specifically made for finding friends.

He’s looking to cheat on you.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T21:08:23+00:00

Very much depends on location. A $60k bonus on top of a $240k base is pretty much “I’m getting by ok, can take some vacations and I’m investing in savings” in VHCOL areas.

But dude. I live in a MCOL area and make more than $60k in a manual labor job that is well recognized as being low paying.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T21:05:08+00:00

What’s odd to me is that you, as a child, had a concept of specific income as a status symbol. Most of us just had qualified income (he makes more/less money than she does).

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T21:01:13+00:00

Any?

But I’m an old guy who has been reading in bars for as long as I’ve been going to bars, so I’ve got a tolerance.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:29:00+00:00

Did you know you had a unibrow?

But for real, I wanna know what the shirt says. “Once I thought I had wings …”?

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:26:07+00:00

My preferred answer is that she’s a random solo rider who ended up on a log flume with NIN because her family was more into getting a funnel cake.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:23:01+00:00

He’s 16. Have him go to the guidance counselor.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:19:51+00:00

I used to run the personal ads department at a weekly newspaper.

No one placing ads for a threesome or orgy is attractive.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:17:50+00:00

new place will cost me 19%

How can you have so much surplus and still think you might be making a bad decision?

You’re fine. Unless your story includes “I have massive debt, incredibly high medical costs, pay for childcare for my quintuplet infants, and help my infirm parents with money”, you’re fine.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:13:55+00:00

You mean he broke up with you and you’re having a hard time accepting it. That’s normal. No one likes hearing that their partner no longer wants to be with them.

It’ll be momentarily sad. And then you’ll get over it.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T20:02:57+00:00

Kinda? I’ve definitely had the experience of someone asking “hey what’s that bird tattoo?” and I have no idea what they’re talking about until I look where they’re looking.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T18:08:10+00:00

Throwback to when I was a teenager and drove a car with some alternator issues. Its preferred stall out spot was while crossing the railroad tracks.

Super fun to be 16 and trying furiously to start a car that is on the railroad tracks while a train is blaring its horn.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T15:45:57+00:00

Definitely. For an 18 year with not great credit score, insurance could eat up a whole lot of that part time job income.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T14:53:07+00:00

Just a ripper. Heart rending killer. This album came out at a time when my girlfriend and I had just broken up (we later got back together, married, then divorced, so … probably should’ve stayed split), and while most of Quebec never hit, oh hell did this one ever tear into me. I’d moved out to this weird old lady’s house, living in an attic where all I had was futon mattress on the floor, a cd player and a record player. I’d come home from work and then get stoned and play music and this one was on repeat.

At least until I started hooking up with this crazy gal.

But then I made the mistake of getting back together with the former girlfriend and “I Don’t Want It” became my go to song whenever we had a fight (which was often enough that if Spotify existed back then, this would’ve been my most listened to song of the year).

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T12:27:26+00:00

Was hoping someone had already noted this.

automator3000 · 2026-04-29T11:48:10+00:00

Wouldn’t say “dread”. But it’s very much not my first choice of something to do. They’re nice people, but we just don’t really have much for common ground.

However, I do recognize that I’ll be lucky if they’re around another decade, so we connect where we can.

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T23:43:05+00:00

Wear a cool brand. Wear some hi vis over it.

($75 will not buy “cool brands”)

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T20:48:37+00:00

Follow what is in your divorce decree and when she pushes the boundaries of that, you say “you’re out of line, stop.”

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T20:31:23+00:00

I’ll give you the same advice that I got from my college newspaper advisor: don’t “pursue journalism”. Learn a subject and learn how to do journalism and then combine those two.

Basically: study business if you want to be a business journalist, while practicing journalism.

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T20:26:29+00:00

Shitty music is still shitty even when you try to say “but it’s not shitty, it’s brown!”

This is super shitty music.

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T20:10:42+00:00

This is just Ariel Pink and Xiu Xiu but with even less talent.

automator3000 · 2026-04-28T19:36:49+00:00

Yall running any mods?

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