https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/1i8otu0/weekly_free_talk_friday_thread/
created by MLModBot on 24/01/2025 at 06:00 UTC
7 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)
Welcome to our weekly Free Talk Friday thread! Feel free to discuss anything on your mind, issues you may be dealing with, how your week has been, cool new music or tv shows, school, work, sports, anything!
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Comment by AutoModerator at 24/01/2025 at 06:00 UTC
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Comment by GrandJetty at 25/01/2025 at 04:45 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This morning, two guys yelled out their pickup window, “awesome satchel, man!” Apparently they liked my bag. A few days ago, the guy at the cash register complemented me on my sweater. I also try to make a point of giving compliments. I know compliments for guys are rare, but I feel like the situation is getting better. Giving and receiving compliments is a wonderfully inexpensive way to add joy to people’s lives.
Comment by fperrine at 24/01/2025 at 13:55 UTC
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Some really awful ICE news in my state lately that has my girlfriend really spooked. The last 16 hours have had me go from irate to scared back to enraged. I'm not optimistic about these things going forward.
In an attempt to lighten the mood: A guy I used to compete with as a kid is making a decent MMA career for himself. He has a fight tonight in some minor league organization tonight and I plan to tune in to the stream and watch. We used to wrestle together as kids and he's always been a bit of a character. I was surprised but not shocked when I'd learned about it.
Comment by Oregon_Jones111 at 24/01/2025 at 12:09 UTC
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I don’t have any hope for the future now.
Comment by GraveRoller at 24/01/2025 at 15:15 UTC
3 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Most people don’t hate violence. They may hate using violence themselves or others using it against them or those they like, but they are usually somewhere between permissive and celebratory when others commit the “right kind” of violence on their behalf.
Comment by StrangeBid7233 at 26/01/2025 at 11:41 UTC
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For a few years now I wanted to get nose ring piercing, but I keep delaying it as I'm kinda afraid of how people will react, it's still seen as "gay" here and not something dudes should be rocking, which I don't find offensive at all, gay dudes kinda almost always look really good, but at the same time I simply don't like being labeled as something I'm not. If I was more confident I'd just rock it and not care, but I do care.
Being labeled as something I don't feel like I am is honestly one of those things that makes me feel really bad, and it shouldn't, but it happens so much, and it past it was done to me by people I was really close, which kinda broke me at the time.
Comment by Ballblamburglurblrbl at 27/01/2025 at 11:41 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Probably tmi, but I had a wet dream last night, and it was one of those super romantic ones that's been sorta lingering emotionally after waking. The bitterest kind of bittersweet, I swear to god.
I wish some feelings had an off switch.
Comment by Effective_Fox at 24/01/2025 at 19:41 UTC
3 upvotes, 3 direct replies
This is a stupid question but has anyone made new friends from scratch after 30? I feel extremely socially isolated and very helpless to improve my situation in life. I only have one friend and we only speak on the phone. All my attempts to make friends fall flat. Can anyone give me any advice? Every class or hobby I go to are full of people who just want to do the thing and go home