And boring shit too, but at least it was human-generated boring shit

Link if you can find it pls :D

Pretty much that entire blog was golden. Real shame it’s gone. I used to re-read pretty much everything once a year

I met three women on Twitter between 2010 and 2016. But really, almost all the people I know in my city I met via the one schoolfriend I actually knew when I moved here. I now have my own friends, but they’re basically all within 6 steps of separation away from him, even if he doesn’t know them himself

Probably Brazil in the 1600’s. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).

You’d need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.

Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.

Well… in my experience it never went well. Every teenage couple where one or both went to Uni ended up breaking up before the year was out. SMS was relatively expensive in the 90’s/00’s, as was broadband - a lot of folk were on dial-up internet, which was also paid by the minute. So if money was a factor you’d go online, download your emails, disconnect, then draft all your replies, reconnect and send.

In fact, email was probably the preferred non-urgent medium between my peers until 2008 or so. SMS was more of a “hey, we’re headed to the bar now” kinda thing.

Letters were getting rarer and rarer - but one particular friend I exchanged actual postal letters a few times a year until 2012 or so.

As for family, my mum called me every week, and I never went more than 6 weeks between visits back home. Still don’t.

Downside with this system is if your birthday was o. a tuesday, it’ll always be a Tuesday. Having the occasional Saturday birthday is a good thing imo

As long as it’s small chunks, not whole rings

So… by giggling at farts I’m not masculine? :(

As humans in civil society, we’re kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That’s the danger with becoming rich and/or famous… I don’t believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.

Congratulated him on day 1, I don’t think said anything since

Furniture generally, beds specifically