If you could make the rules, what would they be?

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08 Feb 2023, 10:19 pm

Classic Six Feet Under - Wish I could find a clip of it.

Claire: "You know, it's polite for the first person downstairs to make the coffee, even if that person has a penis."

Nate: "Well, you know, it's also polite for the first person who uses the bathroom to spend less than forty-five minutes in there, even if that person has a vulva."

Ruth: (coming in) "Oh, goodness, everyone's here."

David: "With all their genitalia!"

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08 Feb 2023, 10:21 pm

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If you could make the rules, what would they be?


For one, "Hyperpartisanship" would be banned. 8)



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08 Feb 2023, 10:22 pm

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Take turns driving.

Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean that I want you to drive me everywhere.


This is a dilemma. On the one hand, I hate being driven by other people. On the other, I hate driving with passengers.


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08 Feb 2023, 10:24 pm

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Twilightprincess wrote:
Take turns driving.

Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean that I want you to drive me everywhere.


This is a dilemma. On the one hand, I hate being driven by other people. On the other, I hate driving with passengers.


Separate cars or public transportation!

Do you hate driving with all passengers or is it more like backseat drivers?

I’m more likely to get motion sickness when I’m not driving.


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08 Feb 2023, 10:31 pm

I HATE being a passenger. Hate Hate Hate.

It's a sensory thing because when I drive I normally blast my music at extremely high volume and play the same song on repeat for hours (11 hours is my record for one song.)

I get antsy and stir crazy when someone else drives.

I notice all the weird sounds more because I'm not focussed on driving (windscreen wipers, tickers, honking horns) and I have misophonia attacks.

I hate that people want to make conversation when driving (See: Loud Music, above).

I hate sitting beside people (I'd rather be face to face if I have to be with someone).
I hate when they put on the radio and there's news or weather.
I can't handle "talking voices" or adverts on the radio.
I'm a really stressy passenger.

If I have to go somewhere in the city that's unfamiliar I'd likely want my partner to drive.
I'd bite the bullet for that.
We don't drive together very often since we just go to each other's house most of the time.

I also like the way guys are (usually) really good drivers in terms of parallel parking or towing things.


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08 Feb 2023, 10:46 pm

Twilightprincess wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
Take turns driving.

Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean that I want you to drive me everywhere.


This is a dilemma. On the one hand, I hate being driven by other people. On the other, I hate driving with passengers.


Separate cars or public transportation!

Do you hate driving with all passengers or is it more like backseat drivers?

I’m more likely to get motion sickness when I’m not driving.


Just in general I get anxious because I feel like they're always a potential distraction. I can't have music either, but I don't mind having a loud exhaust.

I don't like not being in control because I end up trying to 'drive' subconsciously and they always do it differently.


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08 Feb 2023, 10:55 pm

It was brutal when my daughter learned to drive because it was just after my big stroke, meaning I wasn't allowed to drive. I couldn't teach her and I couldn't ever take the wheel after she got licensed. In my opinion she tailgated. In her opinion I was always back-seat driving or yelling STOP!, which made her freak out and nearly hit things.

It didn't help that she smashed into a car when trying to park during her first week of being licensed and her insurance went through the roof. I had to avoid the "I told you so" attitude for a few years until I could drive again. I hated being dependent on her.

She's a great driver now so I think it was all my anxiety feeding into her inexperience.



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08 Feb 2023, 10:56 pm

conservatism in government would be banned.



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08 Feb 2023, 11:01 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
It was brutal when my daughter learned to drive because it was just after my big stroke, meaning I wasn't allowed to drive. I couldn't teach her and I couldn't ever take the wheel after she got licensed. In my opinion she tailgated. In her opinion I was always back-seat driving or yelling STOP!, which made her freak out and nearly hit things.

It didn't help that she smashed into a car when trying to park during her first week of being licensed and her insurance went through the roof. I had to avoid the "I told you so" attitude for a few years until I could drive again. I hated being dependent on her.

She's a great driver now so I think it was all my anxiety feeding into her inexperience.


My ex would yell loudly at me when I was driving. He would almost get me into an accident sometimes. Then I’d be anxious and drive even worse.

I’m a decent driver. My last accident was 15 years ago.


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08 Feb 2023, 11:13 pm

I feel that. ^

My husband always drove everywhere.
He had a rule that "the driver controls the radio" ( ... and heat, and AC, and pee-breaks, etc.)

I couldn't even change the song on a CD (Lion King was huge then and I agonised through the bad songs.)

Eventually he sprained his ankle or broke his leg or something.
I can't remember what happened but he had crutches and I had to drive.
I thought I'd get to control the radio.
Suddenly, the rule became "the injured person gets control ... "

Asshat.



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08 Feb 2023, 11:19 pm

As recommended by Richard Reeves I'd red-shirt men (hold them back a year) in education so they were developmentally in-phase with academia and more likely to succeed, thus giving women more successful men to look across and upward at.

If evidence bore out that men did better with hands-on learning I'd also perhaps do more to bifurcate education for men in that direction, again for reasons stated above.

Increased incentivization for male children to have either fathers, uncles, or good male mentors of some type around to give them a point of reference on what it looks like to turn out well as a male.

I'd also do my level best to figure out one of the following and implement it:

a) Figure out why social capital and meeting places have been on such a deep decline (the whole 'Bowling Alone' thing) and try to re-incentivize formation of stable social capital, this way people could not only do more interesting things in groups but wouldn't be as stuck to Tinder and other dating apps.

b) For people who really like dating apps over meeting people in person I'd build a new dating app that encourages positive interaction, open forum rather than walled, and structurally penalizes spamming (ie. the guys who'd count 3,894,241 women on the service and bulkmail requests to all of them in one evening). It would be a bit like the Instagram dating scene but a site specifically for dating - although if straight guys or girls made great friendships there too that's cool as well.


Pretty much anything I could do to reconstitute the health of dating, mating, and family world by better satisfying the principles of Darwinian game theory I'd do it.


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08 Feb 2023, 11:31 pm

Comfy clothes only (no clothes on the Sabbath)

Weird Movie Night Tuesdays.


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08 Feb 2023, 11:59 pm

More public water fountains and trash cans.
Pet peeve ^.


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09 Feb 2023, 12:00 am

my rule would be that to get a driver's license, you first had to watch the movie "Eraserhead" and do a movie critique of it.



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09 Feb 2023, 12:01 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:
I feel that. ^

My husband always drove everywhere.
He had a rule that "the driver controls the radio" ( ... and heat, and AC, and pee-breaks, etc.)

I couldn't even change the song on a CD (Lion King was huge then and I agonised through the bad songs.)

Eventually he sprained his ankle or broke his leg or something.
I can't remember what happened but he had crutches and I had to drive.
I thought I'd get to control the radio.
Suddenly, the rule became "the injured person gets control ... "
Asshat.


OH MY GAWD!! !
So this is you? EEP!! !
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09 Feb 2023, 12:02 am

:twisted: I walked right into that one, din I?