It's the transitions that are the enemy! Getting un/dressed and getting dry are both annoying. In summer when I'm only wearing shorts and can airdry in the warmth I'm fine taking a shower. But most of the year I just hate the transition...
Yeah, I think the answer it that question tell you more about the person's attitude to normalcy / weirdness than how normal they are. Like you say, lots of people want to be normal (or don't want to be seen as weird) so will present themselves that way, and keep all their divergence secret because it's shameful.
But there's also those people who genuinely don't realise that people are different from them, or what most people are like. They belive that however they are is 'normal' and everyone who disagrees is wrong, even if they're in the minority.
Yeah, I first got into vinyl i was in my teens, and spent a lot of my twenties picking up second hand classics in old record stores and thrift shops. But used vinyl and youthful parties means that lots of the records aren't in great condition... Now that I'm used to music that doesn't skip and jump, I'm going to be very tempted to buy pristine records that I can be more respectful of.
Sex can be fun, but tbh a lot of it is pretty underwhelming, especially if you don't understand each other, put in some effort or have good chemistry. When my partner and I are on holiday or have lots of free time we often have sex three or four times a day. But that's not because it's always mind-blowing, most of the time it's just a fun thing to do together.
The 'horny man' thing is a bit different. There's a kinda of arousal and drive that isn't really about the objective fun of sex, but the sense of pursuit. There's people I've slept with where the specific sextime wasn't necessarily amazing, but I had a huge crush on them and the feeling of satisfaction from finally hooking up was amazing. For me, that's usually pretty innocent "oh wow, I didn't know they liked me!" , but for some guys it's about perceived status in quite a douchey Andrew Tate kinda way.
There's also the genuine instinctual drive aspect. Times where I've not had sex in a while, and been thinking about it a lot (like visiting a long distance partner) it can make me pretty crazy. Especially if you do edging or orgasam denial, you can end up in a pretty delirious place. When that has built up for a while I definitely get to the stage where I will do super reckless things just to get release. For me, that's never a big problem because I only get in that state through choice, if I'm not planning on having sex with my partner I'll just jerk off and the urgency is gone. But the experience has given me a bit of understanding of why men sometimes do terrible and destructive things because of sex. I can literally feel my brain shutting down, and all sense of consequences disappearing.
Same, when I read I 'hear' it as a voice in my head. And yeah, I can't imagine enjoying reading without hearing that intonation and emphasis.
I can 'skim read' if I need to find something in an article, but that's like doing a word search of something, glancing at paragraphs and looking for specific key words. It's not enjoyable and it doesn't make me think deeply about the text, even if I could probably summarise the content of article to someone afterwards.
Yeah I get that a lot. Often it's just a few bars, so it loops horrendously. It worse when I don't really know the song well, recently I woke up with Spandau Ballet 'Gold' playing in my head. All day, I just kept hearing "Gold! (gold!)" repeating, didn't know any other words, just a awful loop. That's why I constantly have other music playing to distract.
Not judging other people. Partly, I'm just quite easy going, partly I've had enough personal history of making mistakes to understand that people often have others reasons for their actions. But mostly I just don't see the point in wasting headspace caring about someone's appearance, opinion or behaviour.
But I feel like I'm constantly hearing people bitching, moaning and picking at other people. There are situations where you need to take a decision about something (particularly if you're in a position of responsibility or authority) but most of the time there seems very little point in being judgemental about someone.
Tbh, the main enjoyment I get from skyrim is installing it every few years and screwing around with mods to get the perfect setup. Then once I actually start playing I quickly bored and stop.
In general, it's easier to get dopamine from the anticipation of a game, actually enjoying the game requires some work and a habit. Sometimes it's just too much, especially if you're feeling a bit burnt out from exams.
Is matrix not more like chat channels? I'm lookint for something more like a forum / threaded conversations. Do you think it supports that sort of thing?
Mid 40s, and I don't think colds and stuff have changed much. But it's a little hard to tell as I'm almost always floored by those sorts of things. When I was younger I'd just stay in bed all day, now I have shit that needs done so I have to soldier through. So if anything I've become more functional when sick, even if it feels just as awful.
But for sprains and pains, it's much worse. Any sort of overuse or careless maneuver can lead to weeks of issues. Whether that's specifically age, or just decreasing physical strength and flexibility (I'm very phsycially active, but never do sports or fitness or stretching) is uncertain.
This is exactly it. And the reality is worse, because it's not even just "get the coffee out the cupboard", it sesrch for ten minutes for the coffee in your mess of a kitchen, eventually finding an empty packet, so you get out a new packet but have to wash the scissors to open it, then when you can't find a a clip for the packet you decide to empty it into a old tin only to realise the tin was already full cause you did the same thing yesterday.
As a fan of teen comedies, I do think about this. If everyone's going to look 25 and talk in this mature way, why is it even set in a high-school? The two factors I see are:
Once upon a time : by setting a story in a non-realistic / mythic setting, it's easier to enter into the fiction of it. For adults, it has a nostalgia for a time before responsibilities when everything was possible, but that would be ruined if you had to face up to how akward and useless most teens really are. And for kids these 'teens' who look perfect and always know what to say are wish fulfillment. Everyone knows it's not really like high-school, but peasants and the aristocracy knew that knights were nothing like those dipicted in chavalric ballads, but they both like to imagine that they were for different reasons.
Bottle episode : High school is a super convient writing drvixe, because you have these characters who have freedom and independence enough to move the story forward, but it's also super easy to restrict any option that makes things difficult. There's no need to worry about too many social circles, or why the characters don't just do x or y. If you want a group of friends, who basically only interact with each other, it's plausible enough. Even in college that's harder to do, unless it's a very small, exclusive group (like The Secret History) and even then it feels intentionally insular and incestuous in a way that a high-school clique doesn't.
All the time. I sometimes read my phone, sometimes play games, often I'm doing chores (cooking, cleaning etc). Pretty much the only time I watch something 100% is if I go to the cinema, but if I'm at home I can't resist the distractions.
It also influences what I watch. I definitely prefer shows and films that don't require constant attention, so subtitles or minimal dialogue are not ideal. If it's a film that I really want to try and engage with as much as possible, I watch it first thing in the morning, as I'm still waking up. When my brain is still sluggish, just drinking a pot of coffee is enough to keep me busy while I watch. (and yeah, I've got adhd...)
I'd simulate being on the Enterprise with my space pals and doing fun stuff on the holodeck.