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[Max Rockatansky]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

Can't say that makes your previous claims any more convincing. 

[LilianaUwU]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

And even if they did, I doubt Scott "I think Andrew Tate is a reliable source" Kozel would be able to do so.

[Molandfreak]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

[Max Rockatansky]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

And even if they did, I doubt Scott "I think Andrew Tate is a reliable source" Kozel would be able to do so.

Only so much time with those 39 hobbies.

[Molandfreak]

I'm struggling to come up with even 20 hobbies spread between me and my family, including seasonal stuff like golf and skiing.

[LilianaUwU]

I could probably name a few hobbies that then fall into the same "hobby of hobbies" (e.g. roadgeeking and buses both fall in travelling). But even then I couldn't name 20.

Then I could probably have video games as the ultimate hobby of hobbies because the games I play encompass all the other hobbies I got.

[Scott5114]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

Who the fuck counts how many hobbies they have????

[LilianaUwU]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

Who the fuck counts how many hobbies they have????

I got 67 hobbies and all of them are Beltway's mom.

[Scott5114]

I think we've reached the point that if this was D&D I would tell Kozel's player to go back and roll a new character because this one is too unrealistic.

[Molandfreak]

I think we've reached the point that if this was D&D I would tell Kozel's player to go back and roll a new character because this one is too unrealistic.

I was going to suggest he was taking a hallucinogenic before playing D&D which was making his life seem 100 times more interesting, but he doesn't do drugs. So I guess even something like bong collecting is off the table unless he's extremely lame about it.

[TheCatalyst31]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

Who the fuck counts how many hobbies they have????

What if hobby counting is one of the hobbies? Every so often you have to update your spreadsheet of which hobbies are active, which are on hiatus, and which you've lost interest in, and add any new ones you've picked up (like "complaining about bridge plans").

[Scott5114]

Nobody who is member of this hobby has enough game to go out on dates even with 20 different people in their lifetime.

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

Who the fuck counts how many hobbies they have????

What if hobby counting is one of the hobbies? Every so often you have to update your spreadsheet of which hobbies are active, which are on hiatus, and which you've lost interest in, and add any new ones you've picked up (like "complaining about bridge plans").

Do you have to update the sheet if you fly into Houston Hobby?

I think we've reached the point that if this was D&D I would tell Kozel's player to go back and roll a new character because this one is too unrealistic.

I was going to suggest he was taking a hallucinogenic before playing D&D which was making his life seem 100 times more interesting, but he doesn't do drugs.

From experience, it's actually a lot more fun when you have the character take the hallucinogens. (He's fine, he's a druid, that's how he meditates.)

[Big John]

"Jack of all trades, master of none."

[formulanone]

I had a yogurt, two cups of coffee, and a small bowl of cereal this morning.

Seems relevant.

[Scott5114]

I had a yogurt, two cups of coffee, and a small bowl of cereal this morning.

Seems relevant.

What flavor was the yogurt?

[formulanone]

I had a yogurt, two cups of coffee, and a small bowl of cereal this morning.

Seems relevant.

What flavor was the yogurt?

Chobani Raspberry fat-free, which one of the few fat-free foods I enjoy. 

[kphoger]

I think a society that doesn't protect a woman from financial ruin if her husband leaves her is objectively worse than one that does, whether the community agrees that her ruin is acceptable or not.

The problem is about 10:1 in the opposite direction, documented by men's rights groups. father's rights groups, the manosphere and MGTOW groups. Family courts destroy men on a grand scale.

True as this may be (even if not 10:1) in our current society, women have been the more likely victim across the grand scope of history.

2026 in the U.S. is not "the grand scope of history."

Duh.  That was kind of my point.

Nor is it 1970. For at least 40 years now my statement is correct for the U.S.

Which I agreed with, even if I have no clue how accurate the 10:1 figure is.  Why are you arguing with me?  I agreed with you.

A lot of the legal protections surrounding a mother's rights—or a woman's rights in general—date back further than 40 years, to a time when they were more vulnerable and needed greater protection.  I'm not saying we live in the same era today, I'm just saying we still live in the shadow of that era, and so it's understandable why things are the way they are.

[Max Rockatansky]

I had a yogurt, two cups of coffee, and a small bowl of cereal this morning.

Seems relevant.

So what you're saying is that yogurt enthusiasm is one of your several dozen hobbies?

[kphoger]

Oh, bloody hell.  I didn't look at the page number when I posted a little bit ago.  What the heck happened?  Ughh...

Anyway...

As a regular church-goer myself, I don't see how church attendance alone by older fuddy-duddies like me exposes me to all the mentalities and dating habits/rituals of the younger generations.  Sitting around and listening to sermons certainly doesn't.

I suppose if I were teaching Sunday School or something like that to kids -- which I have done in the past -- it is something more of a window.  I do pick up the occasional pop cultural reference from helping out with the youth here and there, but nothing more than that now.  Still, there's something very Steve-Buscemi-How-Do-You-Do-Fellow-Kids about the overall assertion that because one simply goes to church that has kids in the congregation that one understands kids.

Exactly.  The youth are typically doing their own thing at church and, during down times, they're bound to be hanging out with each other rather than with me.  I know some of them well enough, but it's not like we talk about things on a deep level—the way I might with others at church who are closer to my own demographic (or older, because adult age groups tend to mix and match more commonly at church than the youth do with adults).

Even having my own kids in the church youth department, that doesn't mean I have a good feel on what young people think or believe.  I only know as much as my kids tell me, and that's not much.  It's not like we sit down once a week and have an hour-long discussion about what their peers think about this or that.  Besides which, even if I did, then I'd only know about a small sliver of society—conservative Evangelicals in the suburbs/exurbs of Wichita, in my specific case—which doesn't really tell me a whole lot about anyone outside that sliver.

Well, you get what you pay for. Really good quality tattoos aren't cheap. Truly original art rather than the stock "flash" clip art costs more. A tattoo artist who is really skilled is going to charge more. Obviously there is a lopsided balance of unremarkable tattoo art on display versus good, original stuff.

The last tattoo my wife got was by a friend of her mom's, sitting on a stool in her mom's trailer, freehand.  It turned out nothing like she'd hoped.  It turned out crap.  That did it for her, no more tattoos after that.

I've dated 47 women across a pretty wide range of ages and ethnic backgrounds, so "being enjoyable to be around" clearly wasn't a barrier.

So, you've had 47 relationships that didn't make it.  Sounds like you're probably not too enjoyable for a woman to be around, or surely one of them would have stuck.

[kphoger]

What if you are a "member" of 39 diverse hobbies and interests, 27 of which started before high school age?

[formulanone]

I had a yogurt, two cups of coffee, and a small bowl of cereal this morning.

Seems relevant.

So what you're saying is that yogurt enthusiasm is one of your several dozen hobbies?

Hard No

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[JayhawkCO]

So, you've had 47 relationships that didn't make it.  Sounds like you're probably not too enjoyable for a woman to be around, or surely one of them would have stuck.

I would imagine someone that knows exactly how many relationships they have had (when the number is larger than, say, five) would be exactly the type of person who would have a tough time getting one to stick.

[kphoger]

How did we stop talking about sex?

Someone wanting it 3 or 4 times per week vs. someone wanting it once per month.

Twice a week is typical average.

Actually, the large majority of married couples have sex once a week or less.

https://nicetracker.app/posts/is-it-normal-to-go-weeks-without-sex

[Max Rockatansky]

I mean hey there is at least one follow up question which would easily transition claimed dating partner statistics back onto the topic of sex.  I've refrained from asking that follow up question thus far.

[thenetwork]

The question I'm surprised nobody has actually asked you is what exactly wrong with a woman having tattoos?

Nobody should think there is anything wrong with a woman having tattoos. Now, if having tattoos is a turn-off for you from a physical standpoint, that goes in the same category as not being turned on by certain hair colors, skin tones, or body shapes. The characteristics that get our hormones going vary by person. I think sometimes as hetero men we have a hard time separating a woman's value to society from her attractiveness to us specifically.

20 some years ago, it seemed to me that women who had tats had little ankle tats or tramp stamps -- all were mostly covered  or subtle.  A lot of that was because most  businesses still prohibited visible tattoos or excessive piercings.

Nowadays those rules are pretty much extinct, since it's harder to get those conservatively dressed employees anymore.

After watching episodes of Cops over the years, tattoos on most policemen and women is practically a given nowadays.

Personally, I would never spend money on a tat. However, there was an episode of Bosom Buddies in the 1980s where Tom Hank's character got a tattoo to prove his love to his girlfriend -- a tiny dot of ink.  That's as far I would go to claim I have a tat.