Oh good, more boomer humor.
Talking about life is depressing. I want to do fun shit when I hang out with my friends. If someone has an important update they can bring it up but just general same old shit is pointless.
My wife is always shocked to learn that despite communicating with him somewhat regularly, I have absolutely no details regarding any of my brother’s upcoming plans or life events. Yes, I know he’s engaged. I think I was one of the first to hear about it… No, I don’t know when he plans to get married, or where… I don’t know if he’s going to South America again this year. I don’t know any of this. It didn’t come up. He will probably tell me if/when he does. I’m not really worried about it.
What do we talk about? Memes, mostly… Most recently I’ve been sending him these fake Rastafarian AI doctor videos on Instagram with hilarious visual demonstrations of poop flying out of butts like a whirlwind while a passionate man talks about selling you his herbal cleanse. Now I’ve discovered the female version that is all about vaginal disbiosis and what to do “when ya poosee smell like a rotten fish mahhket” (you buy her secret Rasta herbal cleanse, that’s what you do…)
But no, I don’t know if he’s coming for Christmas.
How are you going to describe content like that and NOT share it??
I have done something like this with my buddies for sure, but we also talk about our families, relationships, jobs, health and such things because we are interested in each other as human beings, like friends are supposed to.
The real truth is he probably talked about getting high (or got really high/drunk), complained about his wife, life, work, talked money (and lack thereof), shit jobs and probably of either sports or gaming.
Damn, four days without having to talk about the usual bs sounds like paradise.
It’s so weird I don’t think of my spouse and kids as bull shit, but I guess you and 20 of your peers here do.
I guess someone’s always looking to take offense online.
There’s the same insipid conversations we have all the time with colleagues/acquaintances, there’s the deep conversations we have with a 1 or 2 friends at a time and the fun silly ones we have with a bunch of old friends. If you don’t know the difference between them, that’s heartbreaking and I’m so sorry for you.
9 days to just name capitals? They must be awful at geography to take that long.
Somebody didn’t watch Animaniacs when they were younger.
Africa is harder but Yakko’s got still us covered.
Yakko didn’t forget Palestine what a goat
I think you misread the post. But four days is still slow geography.
Maybe this is why I have no guy friends. I’d always ask how they were, and they would bust out in song, singing the Animaniacs song of countries.
Sounds like my kind of friend.
What makes naming every African country hard is the fact that there’s like 3 or 4 different “Guinea’s”, and a bunch of island countries, and if you have to put them to the right place on a map? Game over. West africa is the hardest bit to match every country name to map, other than that it’s only slightly choppy sailing.
Test yourself:
- sporcle, name every african country
- Sporcle assign every african country name to the right country on the map
- Sporcle - africa quiz subcategory
This is what i do for fun. While you were partying, I studied the Sporcle
By the time you’re done naming them, there’s probably a new one up and you’re now sucked into writing a wiki article on it.
Well equatorial Guinea has its location in the name. And for the others the way to remember is: Guinea as the true Guinea is obviously the bigger one and Guinea-Bissau has a qualifier to it, therefore it’s smaller.
Fun fact: equatorial guinea is the only African country that speaks Spanish
Well … and Spain (Ceuta, Melilla and the Canarias)
Are these African countries?
No, they’re parts of Spain that lay geographically in Africa. Meaning Spain is a transcontinental country.
The Dickens. I did not know that. Thanks
In an old job, coworkers showed me Jetpunk. Basically the same thing, it seems.
So touché fellow quizzler
Damn that’s sad
No, it’s wonderful
Why? When I am with a gal friend a kinda switch gears, but I also have many wonderful guy friendships that are very much like what’s described above. There’s nothing bad about that. It’s just different. But I would trust them with my life and I know they would trust me with theirs.
…men absolutely suck.
What? Men are the coolest humans on the planet. They built the entire city you live in, including all the infrastructure for electricity and water and plumbing, and many are a lot of fun to talk to. Maybe not all, I dont know, but some guys are hilarious.
If anything, I feel like men should get hell of a lot more credit than they do. They are taken for granted a lot but are doing so much actual important work every day.
… for not boring each other with mundane anecdotes? Lol
I’m sure your friends totally love when you talk about yourself, though
If your friends bore you, you may need better friends
And are you telling me you seriously have nothing interesting to say to a friend when you meet them? What do you do all day that you have nothing to discuss?
What on earth do you even do with your friends? Play football? Drink and sit and go “yup”? Is this a thing I’m not “manly” enough to understand or what?
Are you of an older generation that is embarassed to talk about feelings or private matters? Help me understand here
There’s just no way you’re not gonna have anything to recount. No way. Or do you see your friends every day? Is that it? Is this a small town thing? How is this normal? Is this an American thing? Americans tend to behave in strange ways like this. It’s an American thing isn’t it? It’s King of the Hill. Did I get it? Is it King of the Hill?
What do you do all day that you have nothing to discuss?
My tedious job. Then I get home and work out, make dinner and clean up, maybe have an hour or so to watch a show or game or something.
What on earth do you even do with your friends? Play football? Drink and sit and go “yup”? Is this a thing I’m not “manly” enough to understand or what?
We do other things beside football like darts, or bowling, or have a backyard fire, or boardgames, but for the most part… yea. If somebody’s working on an interesting project or is doing something cool we’ll talk about that.
Are you of an older generation that is embarassed to talk about feelings or private matters? Help me understand here
It’s not that we’re embarrassed, there’s just no point. It does nothing for us. 95% of the time all the mundane personal shit is the same as last time we saw them. If anything major comes up or someone is going through some shit, sure we’ll talk about it. but for the most part it’s not interesting.
If somebody’s working on an interesting project or is doing something cool we’ll talk about that.
If anything major comes up or someone is going through some shit, sure we’ll talk about it.
So that means you talk to your friends about as much as any other person would.
Alright then, get outta here you rascal. Got me all fired up here for nothing. 😂
You Incels just can’t get over it I suppose.
This post is about male friendships being different than female friendships and you bring incels out like a jump scare
You’re the problem here lol
My original comment was that men suck, because friendships with men are generaly like…I recently fell out with a group because they ate the sigma pill, and started to believe really dumb shit.
Looks over at my wife ok bro
Point still stands. The exception does not make the rule.
Most men suck. At least I’m self-aware and admit it.
Username checks out.
Now I’m just left here wondering if you’re doing a bit or if this is an actual viewpoint
Look at the statistics. I have both anectodal experience, have heard the opinion of various women, one of which straight up explained she feels visceral disgust from men.
Then you see the content men like, read about the rape academy, see with your own eyes how society is selfishly structured to benefit mostly men.
And men have reduced empathy and more of a bootstraps mindset.
My increasingly watching my behavior around women, so they don’t feel threatened, showering, and I’m not even going to bother dating, because I know I have to fix my health first.
I don’t even bother correcting my co-workers, I just respond with “yeah”, “hot I guess”, or visible disgust.
Just stay aware, and understand that it is not about you, men are simply more dangerous to women, and there is no way a woman can know you are safe.
Don’t hit on women randomly, there’s dating sites and other places like that.
Keep your violent thoughts, love of physical sports, bragging about muscles to yourself and other men.
And again, showers and deodorant.
There are a lot of sweeping conclusions and self-loathing in your comment, but i’d just like to point out the irony and hypocrisy in what you said.
You said “Men have reduced empathy” while simultaneously advocating visible disgust toward male coworkers and assuming moral guilt by category membership.
Guess what. That’s not empathy either.
A disciplined man is not the same thing as a dangerous man. The internet increasingly struggles to tell the difference.
showering
Self awareness is a good thing.
People downvote this comment and then drop some bomb about the male loneliness issue
I mean, those dudes in that original post sound like they need therapy. They sound like they feel alone even with friends. Either that or they did some Hangover level shit and will take that secret to the grave 😂 We’ll never know
EDIT: Or maybe they’re really into sports or games or something. Doers not talkers. Oh, well… original post is too ambiguous to even discuss tbh. Magnet for arguments lol
My own fault for dispensing judgement instead of support.
But it is my honest opinion that men suck, and I may not suck in the same way, but I suck too.
Ah, hell, man, all people suck in some way, really. But men do tend suck in obvious ways that render immediate consequences. That much I know is true
