If you’re lucky, you’ll only get me talking about glacial surficial geology
Well, I found my manic pixie dream girl. I would absolutely would love to talk about Teuchitlán.
Also my dream single serving bus friend? I’m not trying to date anyone but I am trying to subscribe for more mesoamerican archeology facts, especially if I can ask clarifying questions along the way.
Here you go: Ancient Americas
This channel has incredible content
You watched Fight Club then?
Whew, but I did have a Chuck Palahniuk phase
I think part of the point here is going over people’s heads. She used her hyperfixation to confuse and bore the man to deflect any opportunity for him to flirt with her or ask her out until she was able to leave.
Everyone saying “jokes on you, this bus girl is so my type” would also have their ear talked off and never given the opportunity to ask her out.
Maybe I’m naive, but I want to think that plenty of people actually stoked about that kind of situation would rather ask to elaborate on the West Mexico civilization instead.
I think you’re right, I’m just responding to the people (who are all over this thread) saying that this is part of their manic pixie dream girl fantasy.
Even the op explains that this is a method to avoid the guy trying to pick her up.
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Dude, I just want to talk about Mesoamerica. I got Tezcatlipoca set as my profile banner. I’m a fan boy.
Having just been there, it’s very much not ignored by the tourists. Yes, me too.
Don’t forget about the Tarascan Empire!
How could I forget them! The only Purépecha I ever met loved talking about them.
Just don’t lock anyone’s knees, and use the appropriate dating spaces? Because strangers don’t want to talk to you on the ride, it is one of the most anti-social places on Earth.
You can talk to me on the bus if I’m not obviously doing something else.
Hard disagree. What are “appropriate dating spaces”?
Pretty sure lots of the people would love to have something serendipitous happen outside of the boring designations society expects.
This isn’t even outside of what society expects. Striking up conversations with people is normal and human!
There are bad ways to do it, of course. In this case, I’d be rattled by the knee tap. But a little conversation is fine, and if they aren’t responding enthusiastically you can just drop it.
What am I supposed to do? Be that creep that just hits on women? 😭
I can’t imagine that it’s not a game friend being a date, or friend of a friend who recommended me.
Or one of those dating servers/forums.
Everything else feels creepy.
Dude OP was describing was striking up a conversation with another person. Sometimes that becomes a date, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s a nice way to go about every day. You don’t need an ulterior motive. If you can imagine having the conversation with a man in the same scenario, then it’s fine IMO.
Ironically, I cannot. I would not chat up a random man without a good reason.
What am I supposed to do? Be that creep that just hits on women? 😭
I can’t imagine that it’s not a game friend being a date, or friend of a friend who recommended me.
Or one of those dating servers/forums.
Everything else feels creepy.
So, my partner would do this. One day, she was driving me home from work, and there was a period of extended silence between us, and we had this conversation:
Her: Whatcha thinkin’ about?
Me: What would the days of the French Revolutionary Calendar be if they were translated into Esperanto?
Her: …
Me: Well, you asked.
Exactly why my partner no longer asks me, either.
“I was wondering if people who lose lots of weight and have extra skin could have a kangaroo pouch made with their extra skin. Skin is easy to graft anywhere, so I don’t see why not… Buy would it get saggy and stretch out? Can you get a tendon implanted to keep it tight?”
Road trips are 100% podcasts now.
You could definitely make a marsupial, but I think the challenge would be keeping the pocket dry and fungus-free.
Also making sure there is enough bloodflow to the skin to keep it from just dying off.
put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you’re good to go.
Yeah, I figured it would be like obese people that have folds… They clean them, right? Do they get fungus? Is this only for people in desert places? Ooooh… Wait, never thought about sweat before. Hm… OK, so whoever suggested a drain was right. But that’s maybe also a deal breaker from my perspective.
No, no, this is interesting. Now I’m actually curious. I don’t know enough about how Esperanto works–aside from knowing it’s supposed to be an ideal language–to have any rational idea.
The idea behind an auxiliary language is that everybody would only need to learn two languages: their native language and the auxiliary language. You’d talk to people in your own community in your native language and use the auxiliary to talk to foreigners. This helps to preserve language diversity while enabling international communication. To facilitate this, a good auxiliary language needs to be easy to learn and flexible enough to express a wide array of concepts. Esperanto is the most popular auxiliary language.
As it turns out, the Esperanto Wikipedia does have an article on the calendar. However, the day names are presented in French, so there is still no definitive answer to this particular question lmao
i hadn’t realized it was supposed to be auxiliary. Interesting.
As it stands, English ends up being one of the most widely used second languages, which is nuts because English is a fuckin’ nightmare to learn.
Is this a PSA about how I should’ve been harassing other bus passengers this entire time? I don’t understand.
depends. most places? sure, try to strike up a conversation (just don’t expect/demand one)
New York City? abso fucking lutely not. talking to a stranger on MTA for anything besides asking directions nets you the social equivalent of the death penalty
Stopping back at this thread a moment because I need to tell you my most common thoughts in a moving vehicle are to do with estimating speeds and distances multiple ways and seeing how close I can get while still approximating things like “car length = 2m” or “building height = 2 storeys = 2 x (2.5m + 1m) appearing half the height of that hill over yonder which is approximately three times as far away”. I’ll do this in different ways and see if they all agree. I’ll often get stuck in rabbit holes of things like working out the speed of light in terms of pedestrians or angle of sunlight based on which way the train was going before it annoyingly went round a bend to throw me off.
Wow that sounds so smart. If I’m thinking of anything it’s just replaying social interactions and trying to keep my tics from becoming to apparent until I get home.
It’s not smart; I’m usually wrong :)
But that sounds like a fascinating rabbit hole?
Well don’t leave me hanging about mexico! What’s over there?!
That would have been the moment she became my dream girl.
Lesson learned. Look at your phone even if you aren’t looking at your phone.
This sounds perfect. Then I don’t have to be the one talking about the thing I’m thinking about for half an hour straight.
Classic confusion between Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl.
I prefer mxpx
Oh no! Not the confusion and boredom of someone having thoughts and interests different from mine.
I’m sure this happened
What’s hard to believe here? It’s a pretty common pickup line and the most effective non confrontational way to make a person regret trying to talk to you. I’ve had basically the same experience more than once, except I rant about grammatical cases instead (just as boring for most).
more boring I would say
You almost got me monologuing for a moment there!
But yeah, it’s not inherently a topic of broad appeal, which is why it’s so effective in filtering out people who don’t ever want to talk about grammar.
Seems like kind of a dick move on her part though IMO.
Well I guess it may have happened. It just seems weird to me to be be so insufferably petty over a thing so minor.
Who was being petty? They asked, they got an honest answer.
I didn’t even realize, but you’re right. What are the options here for someone who doesn’t want to talk to a stranger in that moment?
A) She’s polite and tries to make conversation B) she doesn’t respond, C) she answers rudely, D) she gives a non seqitur, or E) she answers honestly
A) sucks for her and could create a situation where a stranger feels led on and entitled to her further attention
B or C) she’s antisocial, full of herself, or an asshole
D) she’s crazy
E) she’s insufferably petty
E doesn’t need to be petty? ‘Sorry, I’m not in the mood to chat’ is fine?
I agree, I’m just using the words above that were used to characterize my honest answer.
As an autist I don’t really know how to feel about wether i am or am not in the mood to express my theoretical frameworks to explore causality with faster then light mechanics to a random stranger in public
it would be an accurate response to their question and easier then confronting a long pause as i try to gather and organise my spacetime thoughts back into a decisive communication about wether i consent to conversating.
Getting the same pickup line over and over is minor, but tedious enough that it makes you want to create your own fun.
Plus, if they are down for grammar rants, that increases the chances that we could actually have something in common.
Maybe that’d work on me. I find passion hot
Yeah, especially since the person immediately felt the need to post this on a social media. Truly a non-phone user.
Something something I’m into that shit!
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Eskers are cool
