Moral panic is unrelated to games having addictive elements.
A better comparison would be how retro games would be designed for you to die/lose over and over because they were based on arcade dynamics, where the customer has to keep putting in quarters to continue playing.
This is clearly just shaming hair loss.
God, I hate these fucking people. Anything positive is always in their crosshairs.
These days, I mostly drink water. Growing up, however, I hated it. The area I lived in had very mineral-heavy water and it just tasted bad. Took years after moving away for me to even try drinking plain water again.
Yes. I have spent time living in the south and I have family from there.
Your rant has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking about superficial friendliness versus rudeness.
I don’t disagree, but the question was whether or not it’s rude. So that’s what I stuck to.
I grew up in notoriously rude New Jersey. You might be surprised to learn that we also had a similar code, we’re just less tactful about it. People in that region are assholes but genuinely kind, helpful people. Kind of like the opposite of the south.
I think you are deeply mistaken in believing that people can be on their phones and not be bored at the same time.
As some others have said, no, it’s not rude to decline. Whether or not it’s rude is in how you word it. You were rude in this particular instance.
The ones that you call neutral, I would say are still rude.
Baiju is so disgusting.
I like ear plugs that are intended for using while listening to loud live music.
These are what I use, but I’m sure there are many comparable options: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019M576XW
Learning that there is no word for “it” was one of the biggest challenges for me when I first started learning Japanese.
In English, there is never an implied subject (grammatically speaking), unlike in many other languages.
I don’t know if this helps explain it to him, but it could help him to understand the concept. Verbs always need a subject, and if you contextually know what that subject is, you can use “it” (or he, her, etc) instead of being more specific.
“Raining” could be a full sentence in some languages, but in English, you need to specify that the weather is raining, but we can just say “it is raining”.
I’m a little surprised that your boyfriend didn’t learn this while he was learning the language. Did he self-learn? Going through a book on English grammar might be helpful for him.
Great name! That’s not Corporal Radar, is it?
My clumber spaniel likes to be the little spoon when she’s groggy in the morning. It’s the best.
I absolutely love this movie, but it makes me too sad.
Oh, I agree completely. The impacts of this lack of mentorship are very different from one gender to another.
There’s also a mentorship crisis for young girls and women. I get that there are certain challenges that boys face more than girls, but I don’t think lack of mentorship is one of them. We just don’t have much of any mentorship at all in our society here in the US.
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