I’ve never lived in a house with a garbage disposal. It’s not baffling, exactly, but it des give me a different perspective on how kitchens work and what becomes of scrps than people who are the opposite.
Also, apparently there are people on the board who consider it rude not to bother complete strangers who are minding their own business.
Here’s another example, then. I don’t know anyone who’s a big enough asshole, or sufficiently stuck in the '70s, to look down on people who are in therapy.
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[li]It’s easier to suggest that in text than to someone standing there blubbering in front of you. [/li][li]We get the person’s woes all at once, with a lot of gaps filled in and questions resolved, as opposed to watching it play out for however long.[/li][li]I’m no more likely to think it on SDMB than in meatspace, I’m just more likely to say it.[/li][/ol]
I’m not saying she’ll be reading Shakespeare, but I can definitely see her getting to the point of sounding out ‘C-A-T’ from the letters, and getting people to go ‘Woah! She’s reading it!’
I don’t understand this criticism. I don’t go to very many movies and I’ve never walked out of one but there’ve been a few I wish I had left halfway through.
I have, however, given up on books a third of the way in. Books I paid money for as well. Same thing, surely.
Excuse me? I’m not an arsehole or stuck in the 70s. And I don’t look down on people who are in therapy either (I think it’s very smart to recognise if you need help and go and get it), so I don’t know where you got that from - I just said it weirded me out to read people mention it so casually. I don’t want an apology from you, but maybe you should not just insult / attack first?
People mention therapy / therapist very casually on this board, as if it’s an everyday occurence and very prevalent, like going to the grocery store, and when barely related to the topic at hand. I have never EVER had anyone just mention it “in the wild” (unless it was the point of the discussion), hence why it’s a little jarring, and also why it would baffle me in the real world. I would not find it at all odd in the context of some horrible event, or PTSD sufferers, or a discussion on mental illness, for example - but just interspersed randomly, yes I find it odd.
Even if a kid can “read” at 2, that doesn’t necessarily mean they understand what they’re reading. I was able to memorize certain words at four, at the youngest, just from certain advertisements, but it doesn’t mean I could “read” them, just that I knew them from sight. And even then, it was probably the font that I recognized more than anything, rather than the word itself.
I’m guessing because people are more likely to mention it on an anonymous message board than they would in real life. Just saying.
There was a thread where someone asked if it was okay if he took home the leftovers of a six pack he brought to a party, if only one or two had been drunk. To me, the idea was completely alien that you would bring food to a party like that and then just take it home with you, unless either the host insisted, or it was your own personal casserole dish. It just seemed so rude to me, but dopers acted like it was no big deal.
Or not bathing regularly. I understand not everyone can bath EVERY day, if they have skin issues, but bathing every other day was somehow too much? That was kind of a creepy.
