I go for a walk alone while listening to music, usually instrumental EDM or similar, no lyrics to think about.
I go for a walk alone while listening to music, usually instrumental EDM or similar, no lyrics to think about.
I’m in the US, not sure these are available in the UK, but the other two brands I found with “dumb” tvs the last time I looked in 2021-2022ish, were supersonic and caixun.
You answered your own question. Lots of the social aspect is on discord and you’re not willing to use discord. That’s it.
You blow in the hole, I’ll do the fingering
~ Michael Fassbender as Walter in Alien: Covenant (2017)
I took care of younger siblings, I got my taste of changing diapers, feeding, early years educating, schedule management, being “on” 24/7 for emergencies. No thank you. For me personally, being a mom with the typical gendered expectations would be a pile of hot trash with absolutely no upside.
Oh, interesting. I switched from books/ebooks to audiobooks so I could do other things at the same time, I never thought to combine them.
I listen to audiobooks while walking, if you were open to dropping the reading part. Parks, my neighborhood, while shopping, all while listening to books.
As for sitting down and reading/listening at the same time, I would suggest breweries to mix up the coffee shops, especially earlier in the afternoon or early evening before drinking crowds show up. Parks again.
And as a former barista and bartender, so long as you buy at least one drink, don’t dirty your area unnecessarily, and clear out if the place starts getting busy with people waiting for tables, you’re fine. You are probably the most low-maintenance customer possible. Heck, I was always happy when my fellow introverts felt comfortable in my service and respected them by not engaging in small talk 😁.
Legal? Like the legality of Amazon posting an edited image? It’s Amazon, they probably put it in their contract that they control how they advertised on their own platform.
I babysat him while he was 7-8 years old. He was better with hand tools than many adults I have seen.
One of my interview questions to get the job, if you can call it an interview, was whether I knew how to use a skilsaw and could make cuts for him. He would measure and mark and set the piece up. I just had to double-check that he set it up safely and then make the cut. I am pretty sure if his hands were just a bit bigger, he would have been able to do it himself. He was very diligent in making sure the board he wanted me to cut was stable with nothing in the line of fire that the saw could hit. He would say it out loud even, “nothing in the line of fire, check.”
I know the last five Superbowl winners, no prep required, so go back and gamble big. Also on political elections and any other major events I can recall with confidence. I bet US beating India in T20 cricket the other week could have made me a bundle.
Then that money goes into investments, don’t date the one dude who turned out to be a real POS, more firmly encourage my mom to get her heart checked out earlier, yada yada, basically the same everyone else is saying.
I babysat a little boy who was super into building. His parents brought him wooden pallettes from their work, gave him hammer and nails, and let him go wild. Their only rule was that he couldn’t build up into multiple levels, he had to stay on the ground.
He built castles and tunnels and forts and houses. Every time I babysat him, the backyard was laid out differently and he had torn down old buildings and built the pieces into new.
Legos bored him. Minecraft wasn’t a thing yet. I wonder where he ended up, maybe doing architecture or civil engineering.
If you recapture your thoughts and rephrase the question, curious what you were thinking.
“Male Gaze” is like “critical race theory” in my opinion. It has a defined meaning within feminist theory, but that’s not necessarily how it is used by normal people in daily conversation and certainly not how bad faith actors misuse it.
A classic, approachable example of Male Gaze is the YouTube video comparing how female characters are filmed in Suicide Squad versus Birds of Prey. Does it come to the conclusion that a particular camera man on SS was a sexist horndog? No. It’s more how filmmaking has tended towards showing women in a certain way and here is one way it could be different as we get more women directing and producing. I think of it as challenging the idea that the default perspective is that of a man’s; that’s not really true, society just pushes women out of decision making roles so we are disproportionally inundated by male perspectives.
A coworker broke down near my house on a weekend. He called me for help since he knew I was nearby. I had been doing house projects, so was in athletic shorts, hair bundled out of the way, sunscreen, everything for function and comfort over fashion. He had the audacity to comment. MFer. I dropped him at a gas station to wait for his girlfriend or whatever. Hopefully she made him wait a really long time while she got dressed up to meet his unnecessary standards. Never know when one might need a little black dress and updo to change a tire.
What has changed over the years is my awareness of shitty men being shitty and my shortening patience with their shittiness. The dude described above was just a shithead, I am not spending my energy pondering his behavior through the lens of Male Gaze.
Male Gaze is separate from quality of dating pool. I generally think of Male Gaze as broader cultural trends in how women are portrayed, not how an individual man looks at me. Male Gaze is different than “how that one male over there is gazing at me”. I don’t get what you’re driving at with that section of the question.
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I went running on a new route today which took me past a teen huskie behind a chain link fence. She was so excited as I ran closer and soooooo indignant when I kept running and didn’t play with her. Her huskie yowls were adorbs. I’m going to make it a semi-regular route so I can hopefully meet the owners someday and ask permission to pet their dog.