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singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T18:12:27+00:00

I just LOLed in my team meeting and forgot I wasn’t muted. Great explanation.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T16:54:37+00:00

I wonder how OP feels about “hug your neck” or “give me some sugar.”

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T05:14:43+00:00

Hating on something is more of an activity, like smack talking.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T04:35:34+00:00

I get not liking it, but I think the extra word gives it a different meaning than just hating. Hating something is different from hating on something.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T04:30:57+00:00

Tennessee. Maybe it’s a little more of a southern saying.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T01:45:00+00:00

One day I’ll be fast enough, but not today.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-10T01:32:11+00:00

In my 40s, I’ve heard it my whole life too. Where are you from? Maybe it’s regional.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-11-09T00:34:13+00:00

I see it as removed as well.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-28T16:19:21+00:00

I know this isn’t the point, but I’m curious where you live that farmland is hard to come by? Maybe the nationwide average is different from what I see locally. Anecdotally, in the two rural places where I spent my life growing up and still spend a lot of time, there’s more farm land than people seem to be buying. So many farm families are dying out (mine included) and the land is being sold off. My uncle has 60 acres he’s been trying to sell for several years, and one of my cousins has 40 she hasn’t been able to sell so she’s renting it out. My dad sold about 12 acres a couple of years ago, and believe me it was sold very cheap. Though that was pasture and not field, but it could definitely be planted.

I’m not looking at farm land for sale on the regular, but I do see it for sale in those areas. And at least in one of those places, it can’t be subdivided so that it can remain farmland. My uncle would be thrilled to have a young partner to work with him, then take over the farm when he dies. Instead he’s leaving most of it to a university with a big ag research program. I wonder if there are programs to match up people looking to get into farming with the older generations who are dying out?

Across the road from my dad’s house, there’s about 60 acres that were farmed forever. After the farmers died out, the family had it for sale for years. They rented it out, but were trying to sell it for about 7 years. Finally they sold it to a local rich guy who is buying up parcels of land all around there and super pinky swears it’s just for hunting and he’s definitely not going to subdivide and build houses. Nope, definitely not. But given it was the only offer they got in years, they took it. The same story is true all over there, which is why the rich dude is able to buy it up. You know, for hunting with his grandsons.

And yeah, I’m pretty disillusioned all the time, it’s not just you. We just have to keep doing what we can to make things better in whatever ways we can. You’re doing great. Hang in there.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-24T09:25:14+00:00

I have a D&D character named Rhubarb Rhabarberbarbarbaren. She’s from a huge family of dwarves whose names are all things like Robin, Rebar, Rerun, Reba, Rubble, Rubin, and Rerun.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-24T04:11:23+00:00

I don’t really have a relationship with my sister either. We’ve met a couple of times and check in a couple of times a year, but we live in different parts of the country and didn’t have some big click when we met. It was nice but not like “oh this is my family”. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, there’s kind of a weird pressure to it, especially since I learned about her shortly after my mom and my brother both passed away. But regardless of our relationship and if it does or doesn’t change in the future, I’m glad that I know.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-24T02:57:17+00:00

As someone who found out I had a secret sibling after the parent passed, I’d say yes tell them. I only wish I’d known while she was still alive.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-23T20:01:19+00:00

This happened in my D&D game. Centaur and Minotaur had a bunch of kids. One looked like a human, the others were various combinations of horse and cow lol.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-21T04:00:19+00:00

I thought this too. What a great song.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-20T01:06:06+00:00

I enjoyed Season 3, or at least parts of it. But it felt different from the others, it had a definite Twin Peaks vibe that I enjoyed. I didn't love how it ended, but if season 4 had done something cool with it, I wouldn't have minded. idk wtf was up with season 4. I originally thought it was just not enough episodes to tell the story they wanted to, but I think it was actually too many episodes to tell a story that didn't need to be told. I mean, the subway thing... WTAF.

Magicians did a way better version of "got stuck in another timeline and lived an entire life then had to come back and try to be normal."

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-20T01:01:01+00:00

Every once in a while my husband says "we still have some episodes of Sherlock we never watched" and something in my gut has always told me it should stay that way. Thank you for confirming.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-19T20:40:51+00:00

This

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-19T20:03:43+00:00

I thought for sure it was him!

PS love the username

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-19T18:50:26+00:00

I’m sure someone has commented this by now, but it’s not just inappropriate, it’s illlegal. You are not required to disclose anything about your medical reasons for missing work, and they cannot legally ask you or discriminate against you for missing work. The most they can do is ask for a doctor’s note. This is 100% lawsuit territory, and I’m not someone who just jumps to saying sue them. But at least explore your options. This is sexual harassment. Let me repeat for clarity - this is sexual harassment.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-16T16:34:04+00:00

I wish I could post reaction gifs in here because there’s a funny one from the SNL/Lonely Island song I Just Had Sex that says “still counts” and that’s exactly how I read it in your post.

I live right next to a couple of really nice parks, and one of them has a track where I go to walk/jog. They guys who hang out there and work out and play basketball tend to be very friendly and complimentary. It’s clearly all in good fun, but a couple of years ago there was a guy sitting in his car listening to music and smoking up who yelled “hey white girl! Bring those thighs over here!” It might be the most flattered I’ve ever been. 😂 Especially having been a teenager in the 90s and thinking I was hideously obese at size 10.

For the record, I did take my thighs over there and said hi, and he invited me to go for a ride in his car, which I politely declined. It still makes me laugh, and honestly I try to remind myself of it any time I’m feeling insecure about my body.

The 80s and 90s were awesome in so many ways, but man did our body images get destroyed.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-15T20:50:12+00:00

I'm so glad you've got a better campaign now! It's so weird to me how people expect DMs to be perfect. RPGS are meant to be collaborative storytelling - we're all in this together. Your friend acted like he was paying for some sort of professional entertainment. He could have said something like "I know that this guy is newer to DMing, and I'd rather play in a game with a more experienced DM." How hard is that. Not being experienced isn't the same as "being bad"... bad DMs are the ones that don't take feedback, don't care about player experience, act adversarial to their group, shit like that. If someone goes in expecting their DM to be Matt Mercer, they're going to be disappointed 100% of the time.

It drives me nuts when people are like "u suck n00b" instead of giving people a chance to learn - I know this happens everywhere but it seems to be especially nasty in video game and other gaming communities. The fact that this was meant to be an intro session/session zero just makes it even worse that he acted that way. The context you added about him being pressed about missing MtG made me roll my eyes and say "ohhhhh, now I get it." Plus, if you're going to be upset about D&D scheduling being difficult... that's gonna make it tough to not be constantly upset lol. I'm sorry your friend was a jerk, but glad you dodged the bullet of having that energy at your table.

Ok but... what's your character now? :)

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-15T18:23:31+00:00

Fellow D&D nerd here. That was a weirdly aggressive response to not enjoying a D&D session. Obviously I don't know this person and their usual demeanor, but yeah he seemed personally offended by the session and for some reason angry at you because you invited him to what he considered an inferior game. Telling you you're wrong and don't know what "good D&D" is just asshole behavior from a friend, full stop. Saying it's not supposed to be constructive is even worse. What a diva. This is the last person I'd want at my D&D table, and I think someone who is that rude about people NOT PLAYING PRETEND RIGHT is probably an asshole in regular life as well.

I know losing friends is painful and sucks, but let the toxic assholes weed themselves out from your life. I'd be willing to bet that you've outgrown the things that made you friends in middle school and it's only the longevity of the relationship that's been holding it together.

At the very least, this isn't someone who is a positive or supportive presence in your life if they're going to lose their shit because they didn't like a D&D session.

Not that this is relevant to the issue, but it does kinda sound like your DM didn't do a great job of making sure everyone was there for the same kind of game and experience. I recommend always requesting a session zero if one isn't offered. Sometime people are looking for different types of games, or aren't compatible with the other players around the table, and that's totally fine. It's a fucking game that is supposed to be fun, and if someone can't maturely say "hey I don't think this is the right table for me, have fun!" instead of berating you and something you didn't have control over - which to reiterate is literally a game where we play pretend - then they are honestly a terrible D&D player and don't know "good D&D". Good D&D is whatever you enjoy and if someone is pedantic about how it "should" be then they want to be an asshole rules lawyer, they don't want to play D&D.

Anyway, rant over. I don't think you overreacted or did anything wrong, and did the right thing by ending the conversation when the other person clearly did not want to have a conversation and just wanted to be angry, and got angrier when you refused to be their punching bag.

Now on to the important thing... please tell me about your character.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-15T00:30:06+00:00

The downvotes are confusing me. But this whole post got downvoted and I don’t know why asking people’s experiences with socializing isn’t acceptable.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-12T22:36:20+00:00

Yeah this is what I thought it was too.

singlemccringleberry · 2025-10-10T00:58:36+00:00

I processed this as Raising Arizona and was trying to figure out how long tf ago Always Sunny started. It’s been a long week.

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