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Oh no, I didn't mean to offend! It's how I think of myself sometimes with my own encroachment concerns- I went to visit my folks at my childhood home and even still I knocked even though the door was unlocked, I was expected, and precisely on time for my visit.

I've got other encroachment concerns about influencing people with my own emotional desires or imposing my will in what should be objective personal choices in interpersonal handlings, like with relationship things. Like, if you want to be involved with someone but want them to make the best decision about their involvement based on where they're at in life, how do you promote their best choice when you're the consequence and condition of it? Ungh.

Maybe I'm the emotional vampire, here to sup on that warm human connection?

[methylatedspirit]

It's always a kind of hell when you're constantly evaluating "am I overstaying my welcome?" over and over like I think we both are. I currently prefer to just say that it's an undecidable problem. No solution can ever exist, and no procedure can exist that could solve it. I've resigned myself to thinking that socialization is just a form of throwing dice, and hoping that you end up with more good results than bad ones on average. It's all probabilistic.

I mean, we're all emotional vampires, no? We all crave validation and attention from others. I'll posit that we're all just black boxes, taking in some continuous stream as input, and generating a different stream as output. The black box gets lonely without external input from other black boxes like it. Thus, we kinda do need to feed on that human connection; it's how we get external input to feed the black box that is us.

[methylatedspirit]

I woke up really cranky today. I can't point my irritation at anything, but I really just wanna tell everyone, "Fuck you!". Line up all the people I've met, and just carpet-bomb them with F-bombs. I wanna punch walls today.

...and I now have yet another reason to avoid caffeine.

[Great Order]

Hate chesty colds. They always make me feel a little short of breath (I assume it's because it's messing with my asthma somewhat) which is fine for a short while. When you feel like that for hours on end it becomes incredibly uncomfortable.

[Kagus]

I think I might ask too much of myself.


There's a Vietnamese takeaway place nearby that I love ordering from. It's good food, and the family that runs the place is great.


But I have a really hard time actually placing an order and going to pick it up, because I get anxious about my Vietnamese pronunciation. I don't speak Vietnamese. There is absolutely no requirement for me to speak Vietnamese when getting food there. I just decided for myself that I needed to make an attempt at putting in as much as I could manage in order to show respect for the language and culture, and as a result I order less frequently because I'm insecure about making it sound right.

[martinuzz]

I don't think they'll feel any less respected if you just speak to them in your own language.

Trying to speak an immigrant's language might even give off a wrong signal. 'Your english sucks so I'll try to speak to you in your own language'.

[bloop_bleep]

They probably value your patronage more than your ability to speak their own language.

[hector13]

They probably value your patronage more than your ability to speak their own language.

“Your money spends just as well regardless of your ability to make a fool of yourself.”

At least if you do make a fool of yourself you get good food out of the bargain, as well as warm fuzzies for supporting local business.

[methylatedspirit]

I think my programming class broke me a bit with multiple selection questions. Give me a break, teach, I'm not GCC nor a CPU that GCC supports! I guess from now on, I'll do the quizzes with one half of my screen the quiz, and the other half Dev C++.

I got 1st place, somehow, but at the cost of my pride. I'm not being graded on it, but it still stings.

[Kagus]

I don't think they'll feel any less respected if you just speak to them in your own language.

Trying to speak an immigrant's language might even give off a wrong signal. 'Your english sucks so I'll try to speak to you in your own language'.

Oh nah, she knows where I'm coming from... I just make an attempt to fit in a "Hello" and "thank you" and maybe even try actually pronouncing the name of one of the things I'm ordering instead of just listing off the number. Her Norwegian is considerably better than my Vietnamese


I just feel like I should make the attempt to approach her language, since she went through the (considerable) trouble to actually learn mine enough to communicate. We've also talked a little bit about how I'd like to go there someday, and she enjoy suggesting new things for me to try out. It's seemed like she's tickled by my attempts at speaking Vietnamese, but then again she's already very entertained by my ordering habits so I dunno if she just finds me funny as a general rule...

[martinuzz]

In that case, don't worry about your pronunciation, the worst that can happen is that you amuse her

[ArchimedesWojak]

[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person's profile!"]

They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.

What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?

[Dunamisdeos]

[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person's profile!"]

They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.

What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?

Yeah me too :>

[bloop_bleep]

[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person's profile!"]

They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.

What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?

We got 'em, fellas.

[Rolan7]

It's a classic jape, I just hope it never leads to hard feelings!  I fell for it hard the first time, but I think the context was something like "Let's make this person a moderator" so I was mostly just confused by the surprise flattery.