Our taste in movies would be a perfect match. Grab some popcorn and a bucket of wine and let’s get this marathon started, baby. Plus, I haven’t seen any of the movies I haven’t seen. Ideal.

That’s lovely :)

Wow. That’s a good one.

Oh I hope I don’t judge you or anyone else that I come across based on how they look and I am absolutely certain there are many that are like me.

Mr or Mrs monster. Love yourself. I deep down mean it.

Fuck yo’ genes.

That was the last time I think anyone has ever stood up for me.

Sorry to hear that. Do you mind me asking if you’re in a big city?

Very nice of the lady though!

That’s fuckin’ awesome.

Oh shit! You just reminded me…On the same journey as my story below my wife left her phone in Singapore airport. It was before passcodes or anything so just a Nokia with a simple unlock which at the time was menu and *. Anyway, they looked up “mum”, phoned her mother and we picked it up on the return leg!

People are good.

I’ll give my story which is small but had a huge impact on me.

On my honeymoon. It’s myself, my wife and a Chinese dude in a suit on our way to Indonesia on the last leg of the flight in the 3 seats.

We get chatting. Newlyweds, congratulations, yada yada. Back and forth. Lasts a decent amount of time. He laughs because we ask him if he’s Indonesian (we’ve never been there before and Indonesian folks do not look Chinese lol).

Before he goes he gives us his business card and says we can call him 24/7 if we have any emergencies or difficulties of any kind on our trip. It was such a seemingly insignificant gesture but just took a bunch of hidden pressure off that we hadn’t even thought was there.

It left a huge impression on me though we never needed it. Ever since I have liberally given my phone number to folks traveling to Ireland (including a nice chap on Lemmy that I nearly met up with). Nobody has ever called me but I would jump in the car on a moments notice if they did.

Ah!!! Makes perfect sense. Thank you!

I don’t get this (as I do use British English). Could you explain?

Myself and a friend decided to share a cigarette in the toilets one day. This was fairly common practice way back then. You’d get someone to look out and they would cough if a teacher was coming. It wasn’t flawless but it has a high success rate.

So we’re utterly destroying one cigarette between the two of us as quickly as we can and there’s a cough followed by loud banging on the door. We’re rumbled.

“OPEN UP. I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE”

So we open the door, sheepishly.

“WHAT WERE YOU BOYS DOING IN THERE?”

Now we’re both confused and look at each other. I timidly reply:

“Smoking, sir”

“WELL I HOPE THAT’S ALL YOU WERE DOING”

and the man stormed off. We couldn’t believe our luck. Smoking apparently A-OK once you’re not being gay.

This is one where the passing of time will really be the only thing that helps. A breakup like that is essentially a grieving process in my experience. When I was younger and still dating I found that trying to lose myself in something (anything) helped after a painful one like this. Movies, games, walks, time with friends, reading - whatever switches your brain off from the grief for a while.

For what it’s worth, it sounds like you absolutely made the right call. Being with someone that’s not emotionally there for you (and in particular, anyone who is belittling) is very, very wearing and detrimental to both your mental health and self confidence. It can be a tough call, but breaking up is the right one.

When you’ve had a chance to gather yourself you will hopefully meet someone more suitable who will be emotionally available, empathetic and fight for your relationship.

That’s really cool. Hadn’t ever seen it before.

48 or 128? (rubber keys?)

Pretty sexy looking but obviously limited. What did you use it for?

One of the things I remember shocking me in first year computer science was the number of people with zero home computer experience. Like they were raw dogging their college course basically.

Obviously this was a long time ago when computers were very expensive compared to today (and people here were poorer).

What a blessing. Absolutely top tier machine.

You know, you could up your viewership by at least 33% by posting a link ;)

That’s a bummer. I find a lot of toxicity in YouTube comments that are just wildly disconnected from my experience with actual humans in the real world.

I think that’s one of the things I really like about Lemmy in that folks will generally respectfully disagree or be kind to each other. Generally.

Not too shabby!