Doesn’t have to be about over traumatic-related things, but just in general, things you don’t like talking about. Whether it’ll bum you down, distract you or vice versa.
I don’t like talking about work, my job and how the week went. All it’ll do and has done, is make me dread of upcoming work weeks even during my time off. I hate being asked the typical question “how was your day at work?” any other time. Because the answer is just going to be unsatisfying and I get annoyed even having to answer that question. It’s not that I’m hiding anything, it’s just that it’s fucking work and it is the same damn thing every night. I put up with stupid fucking people, even dumber co-workers and I work in a system that is massively ungrateful for what you do for it.
That’s all you’ll ever need to know about it, so stop trying to get me to talk about that shit.
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People’s kids, especially toddlers/babies. Like, I’m so sorry but I literally could not give any less fucks. Even those I consider family, I’m like tolerant of but I don’t want to sit and have a whole ass conversation about what your kid did at daycare. Talk to me when they’re older and doing actual cool shit.
Oh god this.
I’m sure parenting a young child feels really isolating. But YOU chose to isolate yourself. I didn’t.
As someone with a three and a half year old who goes to daycare, who sometimes does finger-painting, or sings songs, and tells stories about being pushed by this girl named Farron, all I can say is haha I fucking got you, you read about my kids day and now yours is ruined lolololol.
rekt
Even worse is a friend of mine who doesn’t even have kids but tells me all about her multiple sisters’ kids!
I think one very scary thing to admit is when a mother has this feeling towards their baby. Sometimes, the movie magic just doesn’t hit; and it feels like an annoying, parasitic burden rather than a precious living human.
But to be in any way vocal about it makes one seem like a horrible or evil mother, and could lead to intense ostracization.
Work. I always felt kinda bad that I had a fun job and people always wanted to hear my work stories. Then it’s their turn and they’re like I crunched some numbers and printed some papers. I couldn’t care less. There’s an imbalance there we’re I have to carry a convo and almost immediately stop caring when it’s flipped to them.
Before you ask, sports broadcasting.
I do not need to know your money situation and you do not need to know mine. You ain’t my family. Even then I don’t care. Keep that shit to yourself.
That’s none of your business.
The future, and how everything sucks now compared to the past, and how much worse it will get
Because all of that is true 😔 I’d rather stay in my “living in 2003” bubble. I’ll go out to vote and then come back to hide again.
I’m exaggerating as I tend to do. But there aren’t any discussions of the future that don’t leave me depressed
I don’t like talking about anything if I don’t get a reflective silence now and then. Some people just talk and talk to hear themselves talk and never take the time to let the words sink in or just plain cook before spitting them out.
am currently forced via circumstance to live with a person like this…motherfucker never shuts up or says anything of consequence.
just constant soap opera bullshit, former rich-person who probably watched too much tv growing up now down on their luck.
always going on about how X person he ran into that day was an asshole for some arbitrary social slight (when that person was probably just someone working, who wanted this talker to leave em the fuck alone)
Myself
I’ve been vegan for nearly ten years, I dread any time the topic comes up with people who aren’t also vegan.
It usually becomes a pointless debate where I either have to heavily self-censor, or end up hurting the feelings of people who eat animal products. It’s always the same conversations I’ve already had hundreds of times, no one’s gonna change my mind and I probably won’t change theirs either.
It’s kind of unfortunate because I always want to ask details with what I believe is an open mind. However people are naturally cautious against going there.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not interested in going vegan but as an omnivore I can appreciate any source of good food and sometimes choose vegan ones. And as someone who wants to entertain, I want to be able to provide good choices for you to enjoy
Now if only I can figure out vegan meals that would do well in my smoker!
If you go about it with curiosity, especially if you focus on recipes instead of ethics, you’re probably good. Sharing food is such a big social thing that you get a bit ostracized from when you’re vegan, so it truly is nice to share recipes with earnest people like you seem to be.
Now if only I can figure out vegan meals that would do well in my smoker!
I’ve never used a smoker so I’m not quite familiar with the process, but my first instinct would be trying something with seitan. I did find some recipes with just a quick search.
If you do smoke some seitan, feel free to invite me, I’ll bring drinks! :P
I’ll look into that …
A smoker is essentially cooking for a long time at lower temperatures while infusing flavor from selected wood. It works well with certain meats that match the wood flavors well, and especially tougher cuts where the long cooking time tenderizes.
Other things that have worked well include
- Mac and cheese (vegetarian)
- Apple pie (could easily be vegan)
- baked beans (could easily be vegan)
- corn, both on cob and in casserole
- some fruits like pineapple
- avocados worked well because of the lower temperatures compared to a grill, but I don’t think it picked up the smoke
Vegetables generally don’t, because they don’t pick up any flavor. For roasted peppers especially, it doesn’t get hot enough to blacken the skins well. Halloumi didn’t do well but maybe I don’t know how to cook that
I really want to build on the baked beans - I bet similar stew type things work well, like lentils - and the pie
Jackfruit is a great pulled pork substitute, haven’t tried smoking it yet though
Huh, never tried it
Are there different forms or something I should look for? I’ve only noticed it in a small can in the Asian section of my grocery
I get pretty big cans at Trader Joe’s if you have one of those close by. I haven’t looked for it in a while though, so no clue if they still carry it.
I’ll take a look, thanks
I probably won’t change theirs either.
🙏
I’ve never made anyone become vegan, but a lot of my friends have definitely opened up to incorporating more vegetarian or vegan meals into their diets, which I do count as a small win.
A friend who used to be very much the meat & potatoes type has recently been texting me excitedly about the new vegan recipes he’s been trying out. He still regularly eats meat, but hey, it’s something.
Trans stuff. I really have no strong opinions on gender and it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Whenever I have discussed it when asked directly I just become aware of my own ignorance. I don’t want to upset or hurt anyone and don’t feel engaged enough to dig much beyond a basic sort of live and let live philosophy.
It is so fucking tempting to ask every single person in this thread to elaborate lol
Yeah, can you please do that? It’s too many lol
My work.
As someone who moved from the US to Canada, where I come from. I was born in a Latin American country and speak fluent Spanish so I introduce myself with that first and foremost out of spite
Any personal project I’m doing. Talking about it seems to give enough satisfaction to keep me away from continuing it later.
vibecoding/ai bs
I hate the word “vibecoding.”
same. maybe i should have added quotation marks lol
Oh it wasn’t aimed at you. I understand that you were using the term demonstratively.
That’s what the fanboys use. It’s “slopping” for the rest of us.
My blood family. Its just always the same and it frustrates me only thinking about them, their actions, their thinking, their behaviours. Calling them snakes and sociopaths is insulting to snakes!!
People. I do find things like group psychology interesting but discussing individuals is mind-numbingly uninteresting. Especially celebrity gossip but political figures are a close second.
the most i bother with celebrity stuff is lamenting when another actor/actress fucks their face/body up with bad plastic surgery.
they (they being our general society/entertainment industry, which is mostly designed around exploiting insecurities it seems) got to jim carey recently…rip
