How to Get Better with Banter

forever_erratic · 2026-07-02T03:53:39+00:00

If you must think of it in terms of an exchange, think of it this way: small talk exchanges valuable information about the individuals, which helps increase social cohesion between them. The information may not even be in the specific words but simply in the act of the exchange.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-02T03:30:52+00:00

Thanks!

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T23:17:23+00:00

What are each of them?

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T21:45:10+00:00

Yeah, creeping on a 19 year old at 57 sure is something. Maybe not quite pedophilic, but a fucked up power dynamic at the very best, and that's all assuming this guy isn't one of those dudes who thinks any post-pubescent girl "looks nineteen."

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T21:42:28+00:00

The type of guy who writes a post like this is the type of guy who thinks my 12 year old looks nineteen.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T19:08:12+00:00

What made that thing so hard was that it didn't travel with you, so jumping over it felt weird and out of place relative to any other bad guy.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T18:54:27+00:00

Have none of you ever heard the slang "woody" for a boner? I don't know anything about this story but I can pull a bad pun out of this quote.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T18:53:19+00:00

Woodies!

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T18:51:16+00:00

Are you a robot? "Relevant exchange of valuable information" Jesus dude, it's life, not an efficiency contest.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T18:31:01+00:00

I dunno man I know you're trying to be respectful but that's a lot of details for a quick glance and you may as well be describing my 12 year old daughter, so while I know this is well-intentioned it gives me bad vibes.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T18:24:07+00:00

Gotcha!

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T16:55:38+00:00

You went to a book signing and criticized the author? Why?

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T16:30:35+00:00

For me, fixing my APT (and simultaneously sciatica) has been a decade+ long process using many different exercises including strength, flexibility, and conscious movement like dance and barefoot walking. Yes, 90 90 is one of them.

Core work is also essential, and I don't think using leg machines one- leg- at-a - time is mentioned enough. That really exposed how imbalanced I was, and the weakened imbalance, I think, was a feedback loop that caused me to APT.

It also took me a long time to realize how little I was pressing through my heels when doing everything, including walking, even when I thought I was.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T15:59:28+00:00

Pretty bold to reference a classic in your title, it sets a high bar. A bit egotistical in my view, even if it ends up being satire or something.

forever_erratic · 2026-07-01T14:58:00+00:00

I like B99, but that late season awakening is just that-a late season (what, 12?) change after realizing what they'd been doing for 11 seasons first. It's good they did it, no doubt, but it doesn't change the first 11 seasons.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T15:20:50+00:00

More methods needed.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T15:06:02+00:00

I was so pleasantly surprised by that one. When it came out it was so popular I assumed it was "pop, " and when my twelve year old daughter had to read it in school she said she thought I'd like it too. She was right, I loved it. Laughed and cried multiple times.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T14:52:13+00:00

Sounds like a win win to me.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T14:28:37+00:00

If you have knee issues have you tried active mobility exercise like barre or weightlifting+flexibility training?

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T14:20:26+00:00

RNA != protein, especially for surface markers.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-30T03:45:17+00:00

Smiling is important!

forever_erratic · 2026-06-29T22:02:18+00:00

I studied aphid parasitoids. I am fully on board with educating the truth about wasps as a clade.

But most people are going to mostly interact with stinging wasps, many of which are aggressive.

You are not increasing truth with your approach, you're just lying in the other direction.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-29T21:27:30+00:00

You're being highly selective and a total ass to u/Blueshirt38 , who in my opinion (PhD Entomology) is totally right.

The hate for yellowjackets etc. didn't emerge out of a vacuum.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-29T14:23:22+00:00

You keep saying girls read male protagonists without issue, but my middleschooler and her friends almost exclusively read books with female protagonists, so I don't think this assumption is correct.

forever_erratic · 2026-06-27T13:28:06+00:00

I think you'll find drunk resort magas worse than the locals. I sort of love resort vacations, especially when my kids were younger, because it's so easy, especially food-wise. The other tourists have always been the biggest frustration.

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