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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 105 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yep. Any time I’m around people who love football.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any time I'm around people.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s golf, for me. I simply cannot imagine caring. But golf is somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person. Anyway, solidarity with every javelina that has ever destroyed a golf course, and I hope they do it again. Fuckin hate golf.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person.

Speaking as someone who loves disc golf for similar reasons I think it's two things

  1. It's a place where you can constantly improve at, and see that you're improving at it, while also being impossible to master. So career driven people who get something from improving there craft and getting a promotion will probably get a similar feeling from improving there golf score.

  2. It's mostly just walking and talking, so you can do your networking and dealing in a place much more pleasant then a board room.

[–] content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like golf is a networking opportunity first and sport second

It's also just an excuse to walk around (stoned) on some nice grass

I'm aware it's a huge waste of water

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[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.

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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

White and cis passing, the amount of out of pocket shit I hear when im in a group of white people is mind boggling

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm guessing this means that, in your experience, white (or only cis white?) people shit-talk each other behind each others' backs more than other racial groups do?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

They shit talk all minorities

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I'm a straight, white and middle aged person and its crazy how many other people of the same demographic just assume we share their bigoted fucking views. Perfect strangers dont even feel you out before talking about whichever "them" they are bothered about. Its shockingly common.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like the other reply said, any minority is liable to be shit talked about. Recently I've been subjected to a lot of second hand homophobia at work (I haven't fully come out yet)

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[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every moment people at work talk about how excited they are to retire in 20 years, or how happy they are to have hit their deliverables this quarter

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

For me it's people at work talking about buying or upgrading their house :(

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

"... and I wouldn't want to. "

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Me looking at my family full of conservatives (and borderline fascists) conversing, fully aware that i could've been killed if that day i decided to present myself with painted nails:

[–] SlumDogGazillionaire@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sitting down with 99% of my colleagues during lunch. "Playing the links", fantasy football, ai-generated memes, or how much wealth they have. Christ read a book or something for Christ's sake.

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

My extended family. It's either (slightly) conservative older uncles and aunts or its my beautiful, successful, married with children, living in their own houses cousins.

I love them all (and there are many of them). They are good people. But I feel disconnected from their lives. Not only am I one of only two who have moved far, far away from home, but I am also the family black sheep, a little envious and I just don't share in the highs and lows they all share with one another simply by them all being married and parents and their lives completely orbiting around that.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

That's normal.

That's why we talk to each other and learn about each other's interests.

You know.

Socialising.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It's odd I can't stand being around people at work talking about perfectly mundane things that should be relatable.

But when I'm with my friends i'll listen to them talk about their weird niche hyperfixations, I could listen to them for hours and not once find it unrelatable.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's called The Holidays(tm)

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I sometimes hear the words coming out of my mouth and think, "Damn, if me from 20 years ago could hear me now, they'd think we have nothing in common."

Same, it's hilarious being an adult

[–] BetterDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

You mean every moment of every day of my goddamn life?

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I have. My whole life. But I find it fascinating, usually. Especially since I've overall been very lucky to integrate easily.

I'm lucky I've rarely been in a group I found repugnant. Not sure how I'd handle that.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How Bill Burr (before he lost his funny) feels about brunch is how I feel about hanging out with anyone other than my close friends.

https://youtu.be/Smq4GOtwE0I

Its just fill talking for the sake of talking, I get a headache. No substance just sounds like Peanuts cartoons parents talking.

https://youtu.be/q_BU5hR9gXE

Then there are the dark thoughts, John Doe

https://youtu.be/dV_MkUyUTMw

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I always thought I was bad at making small talk but then I realized I just hated doing it. When I'm forced to be around my wife's moronic family talking about the most mundane shit it feels like I'm in a bad tv show and I'm just dying to get away. I don't know how I've survived as long as I have

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I always felt so bad for my husband at my family events. My family is very traditional and conservative, so every event is de facto segregated by gender. The women are all in the kitchen, and the men are all in the living room or on the front porch (depending on the weather).

Acceptable topics of conversation among the men: livestock, farm equipment, and neighbors whose land is adjacent to my grandfather's farm. My husband is a suburban guy who had been on a horse before he met me.

We were both glad when my cousins' kids got old enough that he could play games with them. (And video games when they hit their teens.) He got bonus points with my mom and aunts for "taking care of the kids" even though he was just trying to escape the boredom of talking to the adults.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Move away and be a hermit, its how I have survived. I love people in very small doses. And like you family is the worst and you can never get small doses around them.

I dont care about the weather or the sports scores. I like sports but not to talk about. Watch it or read the box scores and I'm good.

I'd rather be under my classic getting greasy or some other project. After that reading a good book, I'm on a stoic kick again so rereading Marcus Aurelius and all other similar materials.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

You will never guess but: people are multifaceted. 🤯🤯🤯

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, my family.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

Nah, but i thought that while reading this tweet... Does that count? 😅

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

wait, isn't that normal?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Linus tech tips discussing his private plane or high end hardware nowadays...

Welcome to my world. I have no idea why people want to spend time with me at all.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is exactly why I stopped eating lunch in the staff lunch room. Those people are boring AF and can't find much to talk about other than work or the gym. I'd rather eat at my desk and read a book.

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