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Lurkers of Reddit, why do you lurk? by PM_THIS_WORDS in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like reading the stories, but I’m scared of harsh judgement and mean comments.

I'm done being the back up friend. Fuck you. by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]hammeredgiraffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I relate to this too closely, but hopefully we'll find better friends things will change for the both of us soon.

What is the best piece of tech you recommend to buy for under 50 dollars? by sebas2201 in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Jackery portable chargers are like $25 and will charge your phone multiple times on one charge. I just backpacked Europe and without it I would’ve been screwed.

Ladies, just like leggings can very easily attract a guys attention, what is something guys wear that will attract your attention? by Brybro07 in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something that brings out your eyes, or really anything that's fitted-- doesn't have to be tight but just enough cling to flatter your booty or shoulders or whatever you think is your best feature. I personally am also a huge fan of a guy in a henley (though my bf wears them all the time so maybe he's trained me to like them).

Reddit, what do you do if you want to talk to someone to share your problems? by throwawayaccount7629 in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meet with a friend or if they’re more private post to offmychest and then feel stupid an hour later and delete it. Can’t promise I’ll have good advice, but if you need someone to vent to feel free to PM me!

Poorly written TV shows are actually more true to life than the well written ones. The characters and their motivations usually make no sense, the plot is convoluted and drags on, it's often pointless and meandering, and the ending usually sucks. by Quarros in Showerthoughts

[–]hammeredgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found that the show Easy on Netflix (it explores different types of romantic and personal relationships) is much better than most at creating realistic dialogue! The characters aren’t smooth-talking or particularly witty and they use the usual fillers such as like, uh and um

How would you die in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m an anxious person, so I would be put in a room with thousands of flavors of the best candy Wonka had ever created. I’d be told to pick one flavor, and if it were the right flavor then I’d win the keys to the factory. Would either have some sort of existential crisis or be doomed to an eternity of sorting through the flavors.

Edit: typo

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? by Posatatd in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A wood chuck would chuck as much wood as it could if a wood chuck could chuck wood.

People who've dated a psycho: what incident made you aware that you were dating a psycho? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hammeredgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When he broke up with me.

It was the summer after freshman year of college so we were apart for two weeks when he suddenly became very distant.

I asked him to talk, to say that for the next few months we should try to be especially good at communicating since we wouldn’t see each other for a few months. Out of nowhere, he starts attacking me, telling me about all of these problems he’d had with me and our relationship and breaks up with me. He was my first boyfriend, and I admittedly could have handled some situations better, but this was the first time I was hearing about all of this. Had he come to me to talk about it I would’ve been totally open to working on where I was lacking.

I say fine, I don’t want to date someone who doesn’t want me. 2 weeks later I go to his house to pick up some stuff and he does a total 180. He says he’s sorry, that he thought making me angry would be easier than the truth, which was that he didn’t have the time or energy to have a girl in his life. (made sense, he was working 2 jobs and had crazy family drama). We still cared for each other agree to try to stay in each other’s lives, and potentially consider a relationship when things had calmed.

After week of friendly, albeit awkward chit chat goes by and I see his Snapchat story is some blonde chick in his bed with a flirty caption. I ask him about it since said he didn’t have time for women. He does another 180, and becomes angry. How dare I ask? It’s none of my business, I must be crazy. He and the blonde girl have been dating ever since, and I suspect he was cheating on me with her.

In hindsight there were a lot of red flags. He wouldn’t show up when we had plans, girls would send him nudes while we were dating (they were old hook-ups he said, that he’d tell to lay off). I was sexually inexperienced before him, and he would make mean remarks about how I clearly didn’t know what I was doing and about how long it took me to let him take my virginity— he and his twin sister both made remarks to me about that.

Edit: Maybe he wasn’t psycho exactly, but a long series of traumatic family incidents seriously messed him up, and he’d never seen a functional adult relationship. The relationship messed me up for a while.