If you're lucky, you'll only get me talking about glacial surficial geology
Well, I found my manic pixie dream girl. I would absolutely would love to talk about Teuchitlán.
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Also my dream single serving bus friend? I'm not trying to date anyone but I am trying to subscribe for more mesoamerican archeology facts, especially if I can ask clarifying questions along the way.
I think part of the point here is going over people's heads. She used her hyperfixation to confuse and bore the man to deflect any opportunity for him to flirt with her or ask her out until she was able to leave.
Everyone saying "jokes on you, this bus girl is so my type" would also have their ear talked off and never given the opportunity to ask her out.
Maybe I'm naive, but I want to think that plenty of people actually stoked about that kind of situation would rather ask to elaborate on the West Mexico civilization instead.
I think you're right, I'm just responding to the people (who are all over this thread) saying that this is part of their manic pixie dream girl fantasy.
Even the op explains that this is a method to avoid the guy trying to pick her up.
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Yeah, like I'd love to talk to this girl about this stuff if she wanted to talk about it, regardless of if she was interested in dating me or not, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. She was doing it to run him off
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Having just been there, it’s very much not ignored by the tourists. Yes, me too.
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Is this a PSA about how I should've been harassing other bus passengers this entire time? I don't understand.
depends. most places? sure, try to strike up a conversation (just don't expect/demand one)
New York City? abso fucking lutely not. talking to a stranger on MTA for anything besides asking directions nets you the social equivalent of the death penalty
Score, free history lecture!
I would love to listen to any girl go off about any hyper fixation. It'd beat all the conversations I've had to endure about fucking tiktok or instagram make up artist drama.
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So, my partner would do this. One day, she was driving me home from work, and there was a period of extended silence between us, and we had this conversation:
Her: Whatcha thinkin' about?
Me: What would the days of the French Revolutionary Calendar be if they were translated into Esperanto?
Her: ...
Me: Well, you asked.
Exactly why my partner no longer asks me, either.
"I was wondering if people who lose lots of weight and have extra skin could have a kangaroo pouch made with their extra skin. Skin is easy to graft anywhere, so I don't see why not... Buy would it get saggy and stretch out? Can you get a tendon implanted to keep it tight?"
Road trips are 100% podcasts now.
You could definitely make a marsupial, but I think the challenge would be keeping the pocket dry and fungus-free.
put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you're good to go.
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Wait so you had an interesting conversation with a guy, and you spin this as ... a win, because you... let down some expectations that you just imagined he had?
You imagine you 'trapped' him into this conversation, like the entire thing was a dominance battle?
He... started it.
Maybe dude was just bored, thought you might make a good conversation partner, and this turned out to be correct.
'Confusion' that you saw could just be, you know, confusion in the sense of 'wow i've never heard of these specific ideas and concepts before, and am trying to wrap my brain around them'.
Contrary to apparently popular opinion, some guys just want to have a pleasant conversation with a stranger, sometimes.
And those guys, if you just tell them you're not in the mood for a conversation, they'll probably understand and respect that.
Is there really no other way to conceive of socializing than as a 24/7 pvp battle of wits and hidden intentions?
She described an interaction that she was present for and how she read it. You were not there, and so instead of reading the actual situation, you are imagining what it could have been like and wondering why she didn't interpret it in any of those ways. That makes no sense.
they'll probably understand and respect that."
You're right, they probably will! Except the small percentage that don't and become so dangerous that women feel the need to shut any man down, just in case.
Fucking seriously. Internet armchair psychiatrists are nuts.
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Well don't leave me hanging about mexico! What's over there?!
I bet when he saw you on the bus the next time, he quickly buried his face in his phone.
Also, without a mountain range in the way, how far south did the ice extend during the last ice age on the American continent?
Was it already colder than in Europe back then or is the warming Gulf Stream a more recent phenomenon?
The ice went about as far south as Northern Montana and South Dakota for the most part. It was kilometres thick, and caused drumlins and kames, deposited till and formed massive lakes.
It was kilometres thick
There was a discussion on climate change. One economist made a model that said 4 degrees C warming only will cause a few percentage GDP. The guy said that if you put -4 in the model, you also get a few percentage cost, and that at -4 there would be a kilometer of ice on the spot they're sitting and it seems a bit off it would just influence the economy that little.
New ice pirate based economy incoming if we do enough geoengineering‽
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I bet when he saw you on the bus the next time, he quickly buried his face in his phone.
Are you replying to that girl? You do realize it's just a meme and someone else just posted a screenshot here?
That would have been the moment she became my dream girl.
I’m sure this happened
What’s hard to believe here? It’s a pretty common pickup line and the most effective non confrontational way to make a person regret trying to talk to you. I’ve had basically the same experience more than once, except I rant about grammatical cases instead (just as boring for most).
more boring I would say
You almost got me monologuing for a moment there!
But yeah, it’s not inherently a topic of broad appeal, which is why it’s so effective in filtering out people who don’t ever want to talk about grammar.
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Yeah, especially since the person immediately felt the need to post this on a social media. Truly a non-phone user.
Lesson learned. Look at your phone even if you aren't looking at your phone.
Something something I'm into that shit!
Stopping back at this thread a moment because I need to tell you my most common thoughts in a moving vehicle are to do with estimating speeds and distances multiple ways and seeing how close I can get while still approximating things like "car length = 2m" or "building height = 2 storeys = 2 x (2.5m + 1m) appearing half the height of that hill over yonder which is approximately three times as far away". I'll do this in different ways and see if they all agree. I'll often get stuck in rabbit holes of things like working out the speed of light in terms of pedestrians or angle of sunlight based on which way the train was going before it annoyingly went round a bend to throw me off.
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This sounds perfect. Then I don't have to be the one talking about the thing I'm thinking about for half an hour straight.
But that sounds like a fascinating rabbit hole?
The manic pixie dream girl who knows about ecology and climate science.
'There are actual several contenders for the title "equation of despair"'
Classic confusion between Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl.
I prefer mxpx
Oh no! Not the confusion and boredom of someone having thoughts and interests different from mine.
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