I don't know where all these people are that there is some dirth of women. In my 15+ years, I have worked in tech companies where female engineers probably account for a third of engineering staff, easily.
I'm sure women generally have to put up with a little more bullshit over their career, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone who is actually legitimately interested in the career from entering it.
This is why people have made statements in this thread about how it is important to have specifics. Time frames, goals, arrangements. A set limited amount of time before the distance is a thing of the past is not as difficult as an indefinite time period with nonspecific arrangements and plans for the future. Those are situations that breed uncertainty, suspicion, loneliness, and "cheating".
Nothing more annoying when someone makes a generalized statement and people respond with "but but but . . . . I had a different experience!" as if there are not also some exceptions or as if those exceptions prove the generalization wrong. Or . . . worse . . . as if the person making a generalization is some how stupid, insensitive, or even evil for making generalizations. Hello, people?! It's the internet! If we don't know you very well or the specifics of your situation, personality, life, etc -- all we can do is speak in generalities!
Also, I'm sure they are unique snowflakes that will never be torn apart and their love will be eternal and they'll pass three days apart from each other in old age blah blah.
Yeah, I know several parents who keep in touch with their young (or college) aged kids who are out of state by regularly playing GW2 together. It's just challenging and varied enough with enough story and cuteness to appeal to a wide range of people.
God damn, I remember when I was a teenager and in one of my first handful of relationships, the girl wanted to constantly be on the phone (even though we only lived like thirty fucking miles apart). It was like having a fucking anvil tied to my ankle. I mean, I can get that occasionally. LIke every couple of weeks. Especially if you're a great distance apart. But every mother fucking day? When you're practically in the same city? Good god...
I really envy kids of the last 5-10 years. More options to feign "attention/communication" without it necessarily directly interrupting things you need to be spending your time doing.
It especially works if both people are so desperate to be with someone that they'll tolerate any inconvenience and they are also so afraid of being alone and afraid that nobody else will ever want them that they better make this 1,500 mile long distance relationship with the girl/boy they met last month work out.
This is also the logic high school students (especially boys) use in their relationship. "I'll never get another girl to like me, so I'll be a loyal puppy dog, no matter what happens! And we wuuuv each other so much things will never be bad!"
Sometimes shit works out, sure . . . sometimes people can jump off a tall building and the wind catches them just right and drops them safely on the top of another nearby building. But usually, they leave a vicious dent in the ground.
I've always thought watching movies was a weird way to be with someone. I mean, all you're doing is sharing meatspace with them while you both stare at a screen. Remotely, you're both staring at a screen while listening to each other chew popcorn over the phone for a couple hours. Bizarre!
Also, to the point of the actual question, I'm sure there are plenty ipad games they could play throughout the day, too. Some are actually damn good.
Heh. I don't think it necessarily applies to the submitter since he is asking for a specific purpose, but I definitely don't get those people who are always trying to find a significant other who is into the same recreational activities that they are or who try desperately to convince their significant other to be into those same things.
I need a made to be someone I'm attracted to and who is attracted to me. Who I can get along with, talk with, have sex with, have mutual accountability with, and share responsibilities and major life goals with. I already have people I can go bowling with -- they're called friends.
No, man! You don't understand! Our love is SPECIAL and we are UNIQUE! We'll be together forever and ever and ever and that guy who is always in the background at her house when I call her is totally just her platonic friend!
Advice: Go ask a handful of deployed/formerly-deployed marines about long-distance relationships.
No, but what a shitty way to spend 10% or more of your adult life. It isn't like people are so hard to come by that it'll be the end of the world if people part ways amicably due to long distances.
Also, anecdotal exceptions always exist. I'm sure the OP is speaking in generalities because . . . well, that's all you can speak to if you don't know someone very closely.
Also, I refer to "people like you", because I don't know you or (necessarily) your positions and can only reference people of similar statements to yours. I didn't intend it to be pejorative.
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In that case, can I have a loan, bmo (77928)?
I'd think the biggest hangup would be the stank of commercialized hippy and deadbeat.
Only if you're applying for credit or an account at a financial institution as "bmo".
Aaaaaand, now I don't have to post anything else in this thread because Kjella said all that needed to be said.
Hasn't impeded me, either and I don't even have a degree in anything, period.
I don't know where all these people are that there is some dirth of women. In my 15+ years, I have worked in tech companies where female engineers probably account for a third of engineering staff, easily.
I'm sure women generally have to put up with a little more bullshit over their career, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone who is actually legitimately interested in the career from entering it.
Hey, maybe one day a black guy could even become president.
Men are only 4% of the nursing field. Clearly this inequality needs to be rectified to combat the rampant sexism in the nursing field.
The disgusting criminals at the top sacrificing a few pawns.
Well, that's neat looking.
I predict this will be the least commented on article in Slashdot's history.
You spelled 'station wagon' incorrectly, sir.
Yeah, fuckwit! Doctor woot says you can only reply to random anonymous internet advice seekers on their own terms!
Not childish; just unrealistic.
This is why people have made statements in this thread about how it is important to have specifics. Time frames, goals, arrangements. A set limited amount of time before the distance is a thing of the past is not as difficult as an indefinite time period with nonspecific arrangements and plans for the future. Those are situations that breed uncertainty, suspicion, loneliness, and "cheating".
No, he's making rational generalizations.
Nothing more annoying when someone makes a generalized statement and people respond with "but but but . . . . I had a different experience!" as if there are not also some exceptions or as if those exceptions prove the generalization wrong. Or . . . worse . . . as if the person making a generalization is some how stupid, insensitive, or even evil for making generalizations. Hello, people?! It's the internet! If we don't know you very well or the specifics of your situation, personality, life, etc -- all we can do is speak in generalities!
Also, I'm sure they are unique snowflakes that will never be torn apart and their love will be eternal and they'll pass three days apart from each other in old age blah blah.
Sure, until she pilfers your chests of precious resources while you're not on.
Or burns down your house.
Yeah, I know several parents who keep in touch with their young (or college) aged kids who are out of state by regularly playing GW2 together. It's just challenging and varied enough with enough story and cuteness to appeal to a wide range of people.
God damn, I remember when I was a teenager and in one of my first handful of relationships, the girl wanted to constantly be on the phone (even though we only lived like thirty fucking miles apart). It was like having a fucking anvil tied to my ankle. I mean, I can get that occasionally. LIke every couple of weeks. Especially if you're a great distance apart. But every mother fucking day? When you're practically in the same city? Good god...
I really envy kids of the last 5-10 years. More options to feign "attention/communication" without it necessarily directly interrupting things you need to be spending your time doing.
It especially works if both people are so desperate to be with someone that they'll tolerate any inconvenience and they are also so afraid of being alone and afraid that nobody else will ever want them that they better make this 1,500 mile long distance relationship with the girl/boy they met last month work out.
This is also the logic high school students (especially boys) use in their relationship. "I'll never get another girl to like me, so I'll be a loyal puppy dog, no matter what happens! And we wuuuv each other so much things will never be bad!"
Sometimes shit works out, sure . . . sometimes people can jump off a tall building and the wind catches them just right and drops them safely on the top of another nearby building. But usually, they leave a vicious dent in the ground.
Your story is an exception to the rule.
Man, I thought you were going to say "by this stage, we have figured out how women worked" and I was going to say ".... wut...".
I've always thought watching movies was a weird way to be with someone. I mean, all you're doing is sharing meatspace with them while you both stare at a screen. Remotely, you're both staring at a screen while listening to each other chew popcorn over the phone for a couple hours. Bizarre!
Also, to the point of the actual question, I'm sure there are plenty ipad games they could play throughout the day, too. Some are actually damn good.
Heh. I don't think it necessarily applies to the submitter since he is asking for a specific purpose, but I definitely don't get those people who are always trying to find a significant other who is into the same recreational activities that they are or who try desperately to convince their significant other to be into those same things.
I need a made to be someone I'm attracted to and who is attracted to me. Who I can get along with, talk with, have sex with, have mutual accountability with, and share responsibilities and major life goals with. I already have people I can go bowling with -- they're called friends.
No, man! You don't understand! Our love is SPECIAL and we are UNIQUE! We'll be together forever and ever and ever and that guy who is always in the background at her house when I call her is totally just her platonic friend!
Advice: Go ask a handful of deployed/formerly-deployed marines about long-distance relationships.
No, but what a shitty way to spend 10% or more of your adult life. It isn't like people are so hard to come by that it'll be the end of the world if people part ways amicably due to long distances.
Also, anecdotal exceptions always exist. I'm sure the OP is speaking in generalities because . . . well, that's all you can speak to if you don't know someone very closely.
Also, I refer to "people like you", because I don't know you or (necessarily) your positions and can only reference people of similar statements to yours. I didn't intend it to be pejorative.