When I moved into my husband's house, I noticed he only used pinesol. I thought it fucking weird. 6 years later, I only use pinesol.
I clean relatively often. I'll use bleach in the bathroom once a year maybe, the rest of the time it's Pinesol. We have a litter box in our bathroom, that I clean 3 times a week, and usually just clean the whole bathroom down at the same time. It's clean in there.
My own thoughts and inspirations come to me most often in the quiet times. I like saying hello to the birds. If I feel exhausted, I count my footsteps like you would music. 1234, 2234, 3234, 4234, and so on. I like hearing the winds, the trees crack as they sway, the squirrels hunting their forage. I listen out for other voices, and enjoy feeling connected to the rest of the world, a desire driven by isolation and loneliness, rarely do I find that sense of community in a podcast. The old man who walks my neighborhood every morning, does not have in headphones, he waves and smiles to every passerby, sometimes, his simple gesture, is the only kind/happy moment of my day.
People are different, it may be boring for you, but my ADD keeps my brain busy, and my CPTSD has me want to hear my surroundings vividly. I jump scare very easily, to avoid that, I use the power of, hearing one coming. I know I'm boring, but I don't think it's because I don't listen to stuff while walking. Nothingness carries something within it, the interpretation only being found by the self. And to note, when I was younger I always had music. Things have just changed with age, it's shocking I know, but as time moves, I want to slow it down, and appreciate everything I can. I crave quiet more than ever.
My husband is completely different, and more like you, where he spends most of his waking hours listening to podcasts and such. People are different, and that doesn't make one better than the other.
You don't have to tear others down, to make yourself feel better. I could call you a robot (hypothetically, I'm not, do you) for putting in your headphones like everyone else does. I'm on our states University campus kind of often. The amount of young people with headphones in, eye on screens, even as they get their meals or cross the street, is very odd to see for me. It honestly feels a bit like culture shock everytime I am up there. They walk into staff without looking or apologizing, and if you people watch for an hour or so, you'll notice the majority plug themselves in. While I don't think one is better than the other, it's just different process. I find it amusing you call the ones who unplug robots however. We used to clown of people who had Bluetooth ear pieces in the early 00's, it was the universal sign someone was a douche. Now everyone has airpods and the like. White socks, white shoes, white earbuds, head down in screen, it's the standard look at the university by me.
It's just amusing to see how things have changed in 25 years, from bluetooth sales douches, to today being called a robot for not plugging in, and instead paying attention to one's environment out and about.
Sure, why not
All in favor for the new vegger, say Aye
Back in those days I only went to bars that had live music, or a pool table. More like ~2010 for me but still. Live bands at the bar was tits.
I graduated highschool in 2007.
I was burning CDs off of mp3' I downloaded, someone taught me how to use IRC (internet relay chat). I had a lot of NoFx, and was really getting into Punk music from the 90s. I spent a lot of time downloading/seeding music. I had an old computer I can still visualize.
Internet dating was brand new, and I dipped my toe in. We would have parties with 10-15 people, and played beer pong with beer in the cups, not water, I learned kings cup, and shortly after refused to play it.. but we also played cards a lot, five card stud/draw and Rummy. My group loved card games, we'd play Bullshit and Spoons while wasting late into the night.
For a time, I was going with some buddies Friday nights to the capital city, where they'd have car races, and then we'd be chased away by cops. Not my scene, but it was sort of fun.
Weed wasn't legal and obtaining it was not difficult but more expensive. I paid $60 for an 1/8 for the good stuff, $40 an 1/8 for the shit stuff. Today, there is no shit stuff, least I haven't seen it in over a decade. We made a giant bong out of a water cooler jug, that summer, attaching hoses and gas mask pieces. It took a half to fill the bowl on it, and when we woke up the next morning, the chamber still jad smoke. Ten people, and we couldn't clear it. We used to have "smoking apparatus" competitions. We'd set 20 mins, and you can only use what was in the house to make something to smoke out of. Then see what people came up with.
We'd go swimming and (lol a lot a weed, we were always trying to find place to smoke the more interesting the better) we'd stick joints and lighters into dry empty bottles and swim with it out to the docks at midnight and smoke under moonlight. One time, my brothers friend was on the junior police force or something, and we were at the lake after hours, and he rolled up and hit is siren he had intalled in his geo. We buried the blunt in the sand :( only to find out it was him. Aye those days.
One night we stayed up and played the longest game of mario party of all time. Nearly 18 hours of mario party, on an old game cube. We set the turn limit to max and just didnt sleep.
But we we're always hanging out with folks. I was a social reject and still had good people always around. There are no pictures really and definitely no videos from that time, only memories. We didn't bring phones with us out to the dock, we didn't post about our adventures. I had a lot of fun. We did some cringe shit, I remember telling my brother's friend, who I wasn't physically attracted to, that I wanted to fuck his mind, like I think back, like girl, what are you doing, and laugh. So much cringe shit, but it didn't matter, and tbf, I meant it in that moment. We often spoke about existential stuff and discussed weird philosophy of 18 year olds trying to find their place and values. I read old books. I still read 100 year old books. We talked about ideas, a lot, while stoned.
Went to college shortly after, got a job, learned my tolerance with alcohol, and yeah.
2007 was an interesting year for sure, I'm only sharing what I did in my free time, which was hang out with buddies, with no cares.
My suffering is the same as my ancestors.
The suffering is a part of the cycle. It's just our turn.
It is comforting once you realize. Doesn't help truly, but it does bring comfort. Being kind to others also brings comfort.
Come on everyone, lets trauma bond
I'm one of these types of people, if I am around an accent enough, I pick it up very quickly, I cannot help it.
I'd likely pronounce a name the same as the person speaks it to me. Really depends on the accent/language and my correlating familiarity with it though.
The ahh sound is pretty common in New England accents I'm pretty certain. Goin to the ha-bah this sum-ah (harbor this summer).
Many of us don't pronounce Rs completely, and vowel sound have a slight adjustment. Bob, and Bahb, is such a small change, but saying Bob in Maine or Boston, I totally hear it, Bahb. Yeah, I totally understand what OP means.
I think about the car thing a lot, as we may need a new one in a few years.
My husband's father leased a new BMW. He picked us up on easter with it. The whole front is a giant screen. You wave your hand a certain way, it can change the song or adjust the volume.. by waving your hand. While he thought it was cool, all I could think about was the fact something was visually recording every movement in the car. And what if you're a person who talks with their hands?
Stupid fucking needless features.
I lost my hairbrush, couldn't find it, gave up and used a comb. Three days later, It was right there on my nightstand.
I also lost my keys once for five days, (I had a spare set thankfully). They were on top of a cabinet.
All the damn time. It's "funny" but honestly, so frustrating I'm like this. If I can't find something, best to just wait, it'll appear eventually.
Yes and No, it's general cleaner/disinfectant. It's called Pinesol because there is pine oil in it. The name brand stuff no longer has real pine oil, it's not that sustainable at scale, but the store brand I get does. Here's the label
"Pine oil is a disinfectant that is mildly antiseptic" Wikipedia