DagwoodIII

A much shorter list would be all the books/stories I am sure of.

It’s obviously a basic human desire. Porn’s been around since the Stone Age. Might as well ask why do people like games.

You can defrost quickly with the microwave.

Also, free range kids are likely to be reported by ‘concerned’ neighbors.

Pretty soon, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘The Goonies’ are going to be classified as dangerous propaganda.

Battle of Little Big Horn was in June, 1876.

The first telephone call was made March 10, 1876.

Man Walked on the Moon in 1969. A few weeks after the Stonewall Riots.

Rich parents can afford nannies who force the children to interact with them.

Poor parents use TVs and smart phones to amuse their kids.

Big Trouble In Little China.

Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

Thanks for the information.

If you want to learn to talk to people, start by talking to old people.

Folks who were around before the internet actually spent a good portion of their lives just making small talk with strangers.

Next, develop some hobbies/pursuits that involve socializing. Adult league sports teams, or volunteer work, or community theater.

If I buy it I’ll forget about it.

If I don’t buy it, I’ll spend the next twenty years thinking about that cool think I didn’t buy when I had the chance.

It was a stupid little statue of a fairy sitting next to a mirror and I still wish I’d brought it.

Ahh, the good old days, when a wife beating drunk was next to Dennis the Menace on every comic page.

USSR imploded with little help from the West.

Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn’t sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.

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Check out the graphic novel series “The Wicked And The Divine.”

Every year, a dozen young people reincarnate as various gods. They have incredible powers, but know that they will all soon die.

https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-wicked-the-divine

Got my aunt’s rotary phone in the closet.

I have two. Ginger beer tastes great, and it’s helpful if you’ve got a cold or stomach ache.

It’s a ‘soft drink’ only because it doesn’t have alcohol. Manhattan Special Espresso soda. I’d see the old Italian men drinking it when they played bocce. Three bottles have enough caffeine to give you heart palpitations.

https://www.manhattanspecial.com/

I just got to a point where I couldn’t handle the abuse from family, being betrayed by my ex of 7 years, serious health issue, and noone wanted to help me through it regardless of what kindness I showed them in the past.

Have a good night.

Let’s break it down.

First, what kind of ‘peace and security’ are you going to have without other people? Even if you manage to amass a vast fortune, you’ll need some kind of caretakers.

Second, you act as if every single person you interact with is out to get you. You had a lousy family and apparently one adult relationship that floundered after 7 years. That sounds about average, tbh.

As for your health issues. Have you looked for support groups of people with the same problem?

Interacting with people is like any other skill. If you don’t do it badly at first, you’ll never get to the point where you can do it well.

I was an isolator who got a job where I was dealing with everyone in a public health facility. By ‘everyone’ I mean everyone from doctors and police to homeless schizophrenics.

It was sink or swim, but I got the skills.

[joke]

Two students are talking and one says that according to the book she’s reading, mentally healthy people can recall stuff from before they knew how to speak. She asks the other what his earliest memory is?

“I remember being very nervous the first day of high school.”

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https://youtu.be/pWrioRji60A

“Halt And Catch Fire.”

TV show about a Texas electronics company that starts making computers, circa 1983.