Guy I know who is single: “You need to be literally perfect! Tons of money, super athletic, cultured, brilliant, speaking six different languages! It’s impossible!”
Girl I know who is single: “Fuck me, I hope this next guy I’m seeing isn’t married, can cover his side of the check, and remembered to wash his ass. Although, at this point, two out of three isn’t bad.”
Guy who is me who is single: I’d be fine if we could just get some third places that aren’t focused on drinking where it is appropriate to ask women on a date.
Or if I started drinking more again I guess, but having quit for a while to cut back I don’t want to get back to where I was, I’m doing good.
Additional third spaces definitely required.
I keep hearing people say this. Where are you that you don’t have parks? Tennis courts or swimming pools or volleyball beaches? There’s a spot near my house, just off a popular running trail, that hosted a “Singles Night” and it was swarming with eligible 20-somethings. There’s an outdoor theater in downtown that does free-to-the-public shows every month and a dozen other concert halls and sporting arenas that will happily sell you nosebleed seats for cheap. Nevermind the dating 101 spots - movie theaters, dance clubs, and bowling alleys.
“No more third spaces” has become this suffocating meme that cropped up in the wake of COVID. It’s like some time after 2021 everyone just forgot how to take a walk near a large body of water and talk to one another for an hour or three.
They’re talking about places to approach/get to know strangers
Go dancing. Guaranteed to get to know strangers very quickly.
Also, literally any rec league sports club.
Last time I met up with friends in a park, we were interrupted by the cops because you apparently have to pay the city to use the picnic table now.
Probably subsequent to a secondary location.
I believe second place is supposed to be where you work.
Perhaps so, but in my case I was referring to this John Mulaney sketch.
edit: As observed below, I messed up the link formatting. Fixed now.
You missed the closing parenthesis.
So I did. Corrected, thank you.
100% this. But also, you can make your own third space by inviting friends over and asking them to bring friends. I met most of my serious girlfriends at various house parties. Friends of friends are somewhat pre-vetted.
You have made one major assumption here which I feel cannot be overlooked.
Gotta make friends before dating. Having no friends is a big red flag.
I do get a bit tired of
“There are no third spaces! I can’t meet anyone! Nobody will love me!”
“Have you tried leaving the house?”
“That’s literally impossible.”
Well to do that all my friends would have to un-OD on heroin lol, the opioid epidemic did a real number on my city. I never did it myself, but for me to invite them over I’d need a shovel or a Ouija Board, and idk who they’d bring but I’m not sure I wanna find out!
“Damn Steve, when did you become friends with Moloch and Baal? And why’d you bring Ea-Nasir?!”
My only living in town friend is moving in about a year, too. And if he had anyone he could set me up with I’d know lol, known him for 15yr.
Yeesh. Sounds like you need a new set of friends or a new town. I wonder how much of the loneliness is down to loads of people living in really sparse areas.
Yeah well y’know, I work, then I’m too tired to go out, can’t afford bars anymore and if I could I’m still too old for that shit.
I do go out to some naturey places when the weather permits (of course it’s been hotter than the sun until like this week), but it’s not like a naturey meet up I just smoke weed and read a book next to the creek, and look at frogs and shit.
Furthermore, I don’t know how these people who say “go to X or Y” even find out that X or Y is happening locally, and where/when. Newspapers? Those still around?
Local newspapers are still a thing, so are bulletin boards at city hall or whatever cultural center you have. (I’ve seen event listings at bars, libraries, near a fountain, wherever stuff gets hosted)
Word I’ll look around, thanks. I assumed newspapers was a joke I was making haha, I thought those were dead for that kind of thing by now.
It’s a high bar to clear.
Guys forget that what’s inside their head is far more important
what’s inside their head
Is the mandatory 100-inch dick just implied/assumed?
Diameter? Yes.
100 IQ joke
They really are at the top of the bell curve
Actually this is wrong, you should be 100,000 feet tall, make 6 dollars a year, have 100,000-pack abs and have 6 hairs on your head.
Found the astro-physicist
Can I see a diagram?
I just transitioned. Now I have 3.
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And always eat breakfast even if it’s just an avocado toast
To be fair we are all waiting on robot cat girls with Voice ChatGPT & all terrain interior.
All you need to be a superhero is 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10 km run every day.
be fuckin CAREFUL with that
might end up making the rest of your life boring because you’re too powerful
People laugh but even without the running part this is a lot
Not really. Do 10 of each on the hour for 10 hours straight.
Have you tried? Come back to me in a week.
I did it for 72 days straight back in 2022. Admittedly was a lot easier during the pandemic when you weren’t expected to see anyone.
And eat 3 meals a day. A banana counts for breakfast.
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Its a reference to the anime One Punch Man where Saitama, the hero, attains ungodly power through diet and exercise.
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This isn’t on you, but I feel like there’s a key piece of information missing from this abstract:
It was observed that gastric acid values were higher following banana as compared to porridge and the difference was statistically significant (p < 0.001). It was was thus concluded that ripe banana is not a bland food.
How much higher? It might not be the perfect food, but it might still be okay. I also can’t tell if it’s not there as clickbait (essentially), if the study doesn’t disclose it, or if it’s not actually a significant difference. My money’s on the first or the last, but anything over than the first is shitty.
… Was 100 the highest number you could think of?
If you know a number higher than a HUMDRED I would like to hear it!
What if you had a humdred humdreds of something?
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Tree fiddy 😏
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Remember! Give it to them on a flat palm and fingers together!
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Or not be an incel.
That one secret trick to dating.
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If you write messages to other men about how unreasonable women’s dating expectations are and its mostly relating to common male insecurities, there’s a pretty good chance you’re incel posting or parodying an incel.
Height, abs, balding are all common cishet male insecurities, and largely have nothing to do with finding a girlfriend.
