A few months ago I moved into a shared house. I really like it here, but as per previous questions there's been some conflicts regarding the rules and expectations of other roommates. I worked really hard and we are now on good terms and I can tell talking to them people are happy. I want to keep...
What should you do in such a situation ?
You have Asperger's Syndrome and lack social skills.
You are a 30 years old virgin.
You are an atheist in a Muslim country
No friends, no relationships, no social life.
You want to get married, and girls reject you when you tell them the truth about you....
@Ash kitchen dancing is probably one of the greater things in life :) any place where food is involved gets me going xD
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Heck yes. I am making Guam fiesta plate food today, and it makes me feel like dancing because it is bright and happy, so I put on bright and happy music to match.
@Ash ooo yummy! Wish you could share with your SE family haha. I love cooking; especially when dancing or with other people :D
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Yeah, it is too bad I can't just send food through the internet :P I don't get a lot of chances to cook but I am definitely taking advantage of today to do it. (I am stuck at home today anyhow, I have to test my cat's blood glucose levels every couple hours to see how well he is responding to his insulin therapy).
@Ash Oh no! I hope your cat acclimates to the therapy well :) Do you just do self-expressive dancing while in the kitchen? Or do you break out some organized stuff? I find myself mainly being self-expressive. It's easier to whisk :P
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@Anilla It's mostly just moving however feels fun for wherever the song is going :)
Is there anyway to flag an answer as needing updated? People placed their answers in despite knowing the question was about to be closed and need to revise it since the "on-topic-izing" edits I made :)
@Ash it seems like almost nobody knows it though... it's not one of "the" Greatest Showman songs
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@Mithrandir Yeah, I've noticed that too, but it's one of the most important songs to me from the whole thing. It just...resonated with me.
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I mean so did "This is Me" for a lot of reasons, but "Tightrope" is one of the first songs in a looooong time where I was like "this is a love song I can actually identify with"
Hmm. That's a bit strange... Over here it has it's quiet spots, but I always got the impression there's also bits of the network that are always active.
That's true. Well, always feel free to just drop a 'hello' in here, or a 'good morning'. We could use more chatters at quiet times, and sometimes all it takes is for other people to see someone is here :)
@ElizB I usually 'rate' my group members based on their performance. I like it when they're active participants and making good contributions... otherwise :P
right now i'm just sleepy and tired and thinking I couldve taken a long nap then come here because it is now 45 minutes past 3 and nobody's here. :/ Shitty time judgement.
Speaking broadly across Western culture, on a typical romantic first-time date, is it more common to sit across from the person or to sit at the 3/9-o'clock position on a 4-seater table, and what would be the motivation for that decision?
@Mithrandir I heard it before, and right now I'm contemplating leaving in a few minutes and saying that I came for an hour and waited. If one shows up that's fine i will just leave at 4:30 because I am seriously just not feeling great
I don't think anyone here can or should speak for all of Western Culture. Mind narrowing this down a bit so it doesn't get closed? — bruglesco1 min ago
@Anilla No; only mods can edit messages after the 2 minutes. I didn't feel it was worth it to edit for a typo like that as it would cause a re-ping. Chat is full of typos ;)
@bruglesco No, but it keeps track of the feedback and allows humans to improve the regexes that catch the comments.
Posting the comment here puts more eyes on it and help make sure that comments that should be deleted get noticed.
@Anilla The title seems broad, but the body has a very specific scenario in it. I'd say that they should make clearer what their goal is, though - what's the outcome they'd like to achieve in this situation?
@Mithrandir It was honestly pretty confusing to determine the correct goal; they had a huge grammatical error too. I need to revise my answer quite a bit in order to fix it to their actual intentions.
Besides that though, you'd say it'd still be on topic?
Probably. I was out of the loop for a bit, though, so if something changed I might have missed it. To the best of my knowledge, though, it's on-topic, just could use a bit more polishing.
@Anilla heh, I was thinking of writing an answer to that :P more info about the housemates could be useful, but I agree with Mith that it seems generally on-topic otherwise
also hi :) I am listening to Pentatonix now, thanks to this room
@Em C ooo, you totally should. I'd be interested to hear your take on it... don't look at my answer rn :3 it's wayyyy outta line since recent edits. I'm revising as we speak. :)
@Anilla haha no worries :) I'm still brainstorming, a lot of the examples there sound like some of my family members, but I need to reflect a bit on what/if anything actually worked..
Ohh look at me speaking things the bot doesn't like xD @EmC Sounds good to me :) I'm waiting for the OP To give more info before I revise the answer I have so far
....can anyone think of a word that means "feeling good about what's happened that day, is feeling like what's to come should be good because I'm feeling good because of what's happened"? I was pretty sure there was a word on the tip of my tongue, but it's eluding me now...
Context:
> Everything was running smoothly. While Bailey still wasn’t entirely comfortable with the other kids yet, the ones she had met had seemed friendly enough, especially the ones she had first sat next to in English class. Feeling <word>, Bailey walked into the last class of the day – Geography.
(I don't even have a plan for this story at the moment... I just saw a few scenes in my head and knew I wanted to write those scenes. This is one of those.)
Yes. I nicknamed my co-author "Vanishing Girl", though, since she had a tendency to, well, vanish. We eventually dropped off the project because neither of had the time and we were having a hard time maintaining contact that was sustained enough to work on it.
We spent a dozen emails at one point just emailing the lyrics to "The Sound of Silence" one line at a time to each other :P
(Which reminds me, I should poke her.)
@Anilla It's kinda designed to give a bit of a shock to the reader ;) More than that I will not say at the moment :p
@Mithrandir Haha "Vanishing Girl" xD It's fun to co-create a work 'cause you can just contribute random snippets whenever ya got extra time. I love being shocked! Lol
...it's at times like these that I realize just how much almost useless esoteric knowledge about SE I have picked up and remembered over the past few years...
...what're the chances you describe a professor in your story, define an age and appearance, think of a name, and then out of curiosity Google the name and discover that a professor that age with that name actually exists? O_O
@Mithrandir I would say pretty high if their name is common enough lol. Is there anyway to propose an API for chat? Would people be on board for such a thing? Lol
@Anilla I believe it's been proposed. Chat hasn't seen much development in years, though, as SE needed to focus on keeping the lights on and chat really doesn't make them any money. I'd personally love to see an official way to run a chatbot, but I don't see it happening any time soon. SE staff has worked with the developers of ChatExchange to make sure that it doesn't break some essential bots, though
What should you do in such a situation ?
You have Asperger's Syndrome and lack social skills.
You are a 30 years old virgin.
You are an atheist in a Muslim country
No friends, no relationships, no social life.
You want to get married, and girls reject you when you tell them the truth about you....
Speaking broadly across Western culture, on a typical romantic first-time date, is it more common to sit across from the person or to sit at the 3/9-o'clock position on a 4-seater table, and what would be the motivation for that decision?
