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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:22 pm
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(May 15, 2015 at 12:17 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (May 15, 2015 at 11:25 am)dahrling Wrote: How am I supposed to know which guys are "good" and which ones are "bad"?
If I have never met them, I don't know what kind of person they're, or if they're potentially dangerous.
So I prefer they don't come up to me, unless if there is a context. Context is very important when meeting people.
Well, when you start a job in a new place, you don't assume every guy in there is going to rape you. But you can bet some will talk to you... mostly about work... but, soon enough, about other things - team-building, they call it.
Why is it so different when a guy, not employed in the same place as you, comments on what he perceives to be your job?
If someone comes up to me and there is no context, I might feel threatened because I sense an immediate (and probably very shallow) interest in me. It's bothersome because I don't know to what lengths this person (99% of the time, a man) will go to "fulfill his interests".
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:30 pm
(May 15, 2015 at 11:25 am)dahrling Wrote: Oh my god, you're insane
Please tell me they were like, reef sharks?
Actually, the first time they were reef sharks. The second and third times were both mako sharks. Fun times.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:33 pm
(May 15, 2015 at 12:22 pm)dahrling Wrote: (May 15, 2015 at 12:17 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Well, when you start a job in a new place, you don't assume every guy in there is going to rape you. But you can bet some will talk to you... mostly about work... but, soon enough, about other things - team-building, they call it.
Why is it so different when a guy, not employed in the same place as you, comments on what he perceives to be your job?
If someone comes up to me and there is no context, I might feel threatened because I sense an immediate (and probably very shallow) interest in me. It's bothersome because I don't know to what lengths this person (99% of the time, a man) will go to "fulfill his interests".
Of course you don't know... just remain in public and keep it civilized.
Creeping out immediately is akin to something like this:
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:38 pm
I was going to do some work, or watch a movie... But that was 3 hours ago, before I fell asleep
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Sleep has a tendency to sneak up on the best of us.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:49 pm
I guess lying down and closing my eyes didn't help matters along....
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 1:09 pm
(May 15, 2015 at 12:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (May 15, 2015 at 12:22 pm)dahrling Wrote: If someone comes up to me and there is no context, I might feel threatened because I sense an immediate (and probably very shallow) interest in me. It's bothersome because I don't know to what lengths this person (99% of the time, a man) will go to "fulfill his interests".
Of course you don't know... just remain in public and keep it civilized.
Creeping out immediately is akin to something like this:
Sorry, poca, but no. Keeping it public doesn't work. I went on a SART call last week because a chick was raped in a convenience store parking lot.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 1:37 pm
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(May 15, 2015 at 1:09 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: (May 15, 2015 at 12:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Of course you don't know... just remain in public and keep it civilized.
Creeping out immediately is akin to something like this:
Sorry, poca, but no. Keeping it public doesn't work. I went on a SART call last week because a chick was raped in a convenience store parking lot.
And that's not to mention the amount of sexual assaults (including those attempted) that go unreported...
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 1:40 pm
Looking at Brand New, a corporate art blog.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Synching a 30 MB file to my tablet through Dropbox. Frigging XP only recognizes one partition per microSD card.
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