I have dated both and feel like I could never really fully please the rich girl, as her father had spoilt her and treated her so well. Feel like I was always being compared and especially when young / early in your career its hard to live up to that.

The poor girl on the other hand despite lacking some social etiquette (which can be taught), was always so appreciative of everything.

I guess you are a result of your upbringing, but I do wonder if dating girls that grew up rich and have been spoilt by their fathers is just a bad idea. Unless of course you are loaded going in.

As a man myself, the Lindsay Clancy case has really highlighted how much women defend other women - sometimes to a fault (especially with this case).

I've noticed that men do NOT do that. In fact, it seems like we are always trying to one up each other.

We don't even have each other backs like women do. Why not? Can this be changed?

He currently already has a mini chainsaw and he's been talking about how much a really needs a regular size chainsaw for a couple years now. I'd like to just surprise him with one. I feel like he won't get around to getting one soon cause it's not completely a need right now. So I'm going to use some money I've saved up to get one for him.

I've got $300 max to work with for this. I know he likes the brand Milwaukee a lot. But I know he wants gas powered. One of the giant Blue Spruce trees in our yard is dying and he's been talking about how much it would cost to have it chopped down and that he would prefer to just do it himself if he has the right chainsaw for the job. If you have any questions for me, I'll do my best to have answers. Thanks guys!

I’ve been pining recently over a girl and the relationship that could have been. I always liked her and it all started at a party when she came up to me and started talking. We have always been friendly but this was different. Her friends told me later she liked me and that’s when I thought something would happen. But every night out after that nothing did happen. It was close and it was like we were both waiting but nothing came. Maybe I was too scared or maybe she didn’t push but when we were together nothing came. I asked her to the end of school balland we went and had a blast, but now that schools over it’s like I’m empty and waiting for what could have been. I spent so much time thinking about something that could have happened. So many mixed signals and messages and I just keep wondering what could have happened and what I could have done differently. I put her on a pedestal I can’t take her down from. By the time the ball came we both just knew that it was as friends even tho it was never said. And I accepted that even though really I wish I just did something more.

For example, when you read this comic (https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/), what is your first reaction/perspective?

For me it has been the robot vacuum. I absolutely enjoy not having to clean up after myself. That thing is automated to clean up my messes. Other notable purchases all live on my desktop. I think these smart lights are pretty good, the automations are pretty neat. I have even gotten myself involved in signing up for robot companions on desk or are they really just desk pets? And then another monitor that moves with the help of robotic arm so that I don't haave to actually drag the screen back towards me.

Backstory, I used to lay down on floor with my laptop placed sideways on the floor. Its one of those things where I was just too tired to lean towards the desk. I've been laying weird for a while, some reels even made me believe that I have adult adhd for laying around at odd angles.Anyways, I feel this will be a good purchase idk. Still undecided. But what about you? Even limiting to 2026, what has been your best tech buy so far?

Like making coffee with hotdog water or mixing sprite with a raw egg.

As the title says, my roommate is elderly (I believe 74). He's generally an okay guy, but then every once in a while he turns into what I can only describe as a horny old dude caricature from a comedy movie in denial about his age.

We live in a walking neighborhood, so he'll be looking out the window at be talking about how hot the woman walking by is or always about how many hot women were at the bar or at the gym. He'll try to pull me into it sometimes ("oh, did you see her?") and I just say nope and move on. And it's always about way younger women. One night I came home and there was this woman in our house and she was drunk and he kept, like, "bragging" at me about how she was 32. That's gross, dude, I do not want to be a part of this.

I get that there is probably a difficulty being an older person who still has desire and drive, but I would like to be left out of it.

I always have this though that how should you decide whether to be friends with someone or not. I’ve seen friends who will invite you and motivate you to do all sort of stuff (smoking, drugs etc) trying to be the supportive and non judgmental friends.
I personally have always been the kind of person who will stop verbally or physically (with very good friends) if I believe they are doing something wrong.

Another thing is I’ve noticed that some friends can start being jealous of you. One thing happened that made me think about all this. I’m an immigrant living quite far from home. Have a few other people who live in the same building as me. There’s one guy who is from the same country. I’ve felt like his friendship is very conditional. I usually cook a lot and will invite a few people to eat. He’s also always one of them. The last time, I cooked some stuff, it was quite good. As soon as we started to eat, he said Dude, whatever you cook always tastes the same. I was very surprised by his comment as to me it felt like a silently jealous person would say. Am I just overthinking this?
Also, a lot of times he knows that I am working ( I work from home) and he’d just come around to sit and talk. Then when I ignore in a non rude way and keep working, he leaves after a while. It’s like someone not giving a fuck about your schedule.

Did you had friends like this? How was your experience with them. Curious to hear.

E.G. Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery or Jonathan Banks.

2 part for the boys. With Halloween a ~60 days away, what's everyone thinking about dressing up as for halloween? Where do y'all usually get costumes from?

ill go first,

i was 17 and talking to this girl on a bench and she randomly just turned to face me, started playing with my face. She said that my lips were dry and offered me vaseline and i just sat there awkwardly.

Still don’t know if she wanted to kiss me till this day🫠

This could honestly been deemed a shit post but I didn't know if the humor was worth it.

*First let me start by saying this is not some weird scat/fetish thing...I genuinely want to know.

So I work in an office that has one men's room, one women's room, and one shared bathroom that we will call the handicapped accessible restroom. The single restroom is always the most popular as it is big and spacious and has a bidet on the toilet.

The mens room and the single are shared between roughly 100 men...for context here some of these guys are in the field so they have access to other restrooms.

I am a morning pooper-just when my body says its go time. Over my time here it happens over and over again, guys will be in the adjacent stall doing their thing and either A.) not wipe and get up and leave or B.) wipe and then get up and leave...both with out washing their hands. Is this normal? Do men who do this do the same at home?

The second part of this...when did people get so comfortable that they don't mind talking in the restroom on speaker phone for all to hear...when I run across this I try and let er rip as loud and bad as possible to let the person on the other end of the line know that who they are talking to is in the toilet.

Is this just my office?

My wife and I attended the back to school night for our daughter who just started Kingsgaten. As the teachers were introduced I noticed that none of them were male. I then went through the list of school employees and saw that the only male in the entire school was the janitor.

Is this common? I have fond memories of several male teachers from elementary school and later, and it seemed strange that the entire staff was women

My gf has been through alot of things that,i think, ultimately made her feel sad, tired and depressed.
It’s a combination of family drama that she’s been in the middle of and the stress of alot of small things that accumulated over time. Now she’s feeling sad and I can tell that she is very depressed through the way she texts me. She doesn’t build up on what I say nor she shows genuine affection. However that’s not problem for me as I truly understand where this comes from. The thing is, when I try to talk to her about what’s specifically making her feel this way she seems to brush it off and shifts the convo. Because I do not know the genuine reason that started this wave and what I said earlier were just assumptions of mine.
My question is How would you approach this and how can I not overthink about the way she talks and help her in the best way I can as well? because all I do is I just send her reminders that I love her and always try to ask her about her day and i feel like I force a conversation.

I graduated college a year back and have been working full time and living alone (no family) for a while. Most of my college friends live a bit far and also work so it’s a bit hard to plan time.

I go to places for golfing and softball pitching but most ppl I see are either a bit outside my age range, families, or something else. I’m pretty introverted but it feels impossible to find other people also have nerdy interests and also aren’t kinda “weird” about it (the more extreme ends).

Any tips?