I’m now just thinking of Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul…

Meaning he probably wasn’t homeless and was just a beggar. I’ve seen plenty of those sorts in my hometown.

Man is cooked no cap.

The “terminally online” aspect is the obsession with pronouns, which doesn’t seem to exist in reality.

I know quite a few LGBT people and even work with someone who is trans. None of them have ever once mentioned anything about pronouns. Because we just conversed like normal people.

Remember when we just conversed like human beings and didn’t have all this convoluted nonsense about worrying over pronouns?

If the person is called John, 99.9% of the time, you know what the pronouns would be, because not everyone is terminally online.

I don’t do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.

Don’t use it then.

The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

I couldn’t care less what people refer to me as if I’m not there.

If you’re introducing yourself to me, I only need your name.

I’m 6’2. It’s a height that women seem to like, but I don’t need to duck to get through doors.

So yeah, it’s ideal.

Asking someone out on a date.

I had social anxiety for years, so I probably struggled with this more than most. But it’s surprisingly easy. And more often than not, if your instincts are that that person likes you, you’re usually right.

Have a day off.

The TV show Defiance.

I loved that show and the third season was probably the best one, and yet it still got cancelled. 🙁

Concord.

…what? I liked it. 😉

So you wouldn’t actually change anything, you’d just be closing down avenues of debate and saying “I’m right, you’re wrong”.

I think you’ve just wasted your money.

If anyone needed a summary of British politeness and not wanting to cause a fuss, this is it.

The reason some companies do this is because they make a loss on every new customer offer they give out, but it’s designed to just get their custom in the first place. If they offered the same discounts for existing customers, they would go out of business.

Though if you hassle them enough, you can get something close to a new customer offer.

I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with “it’s easy, maybe you’re just dense?”.

Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn’t have the kind of people I’d want to interact with on it.