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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 112 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yep. Any time I’m around people who love football.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Any time I'm around people.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] fozid@lem.radiantfig.fyi 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
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[–] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s golf, for me. I simply cannot imagine caring. But golf is somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person. Anyway, solidarity with every javelina that has ever destroyed a golf course, and I hope they do it again. Fuckin hate golf.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

somehow immensely popular with a certain type of career-oriented person.

Speaking as someone who loves disc golf for similar reasons I think it's two things

  1. It's a place where you can constantly improve at, and see that you're improving at it, while also being impossible to master. So career driven people who get something from improving there craft and getting a promotion will probably get a similar feeling from improving there golf score.

  2. It's mostly just walking and talking, so you can do your networking and dealing in a place much more pleasant then a board room.

[–] content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like golf is a networking opportunity first and sport second

It's also just an excuse to walk around (stoned) on some nice grass

I'm aware it's a huge waste of water

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A lot of business people like to play golf with other business people to see if they cheat and how they handle issues that come up. It's a great way to see the real person behind their golf game, it's hard to hide crazy if you're super competitive.

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.

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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

White and cis passing, the amount of out of pocket shit I hear when im in a group of white people is mind boggling

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm guessing this means that, in your experience, white (or only cis white?) people shit-talk each other behind each others' backs more than other racial groups do?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago

They shit talk all minorities

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a straight, white and middle aged person and its crazy how many other people of the same demographic just assume we share their bigoted fucking views. Perfect strangers dont even feel you out before talking about whichever "them" they are bothered about. Its shockingly common.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like the other reply said, any minority is liable to be shit talked about. Recently I've been subjected to a lot of second hand homophobia at work (I haven't fully come out yet)

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[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every moment people at work talk about how excited they are to retire in 20 years, or how happy they are to have hit their deliverables this quarter

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

For me it's people at work talking about buying or upgrading their house :(

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 weeks ago

"... and I wouldn't want to. "

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Me looking at my family full of conservatives (and borderline fascists) conversing, fully aware that i could've been killed if that day i decided to present myself with painted nails:

[–] SlumDogGazillionaire@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sitting down with 99% of my colleagues during lunch. "Playing the links", fantasy football, ai-generated memes, or how much wealth they have. Christ read a book or something for Christ's sake.

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

My extended family. It's either (slightly) conservative older uncles and aunts or its my beautiful, successful, married with children, living in their own houses cousins.

I love them all (and there are many of them). They are good people. But I feel disconnected from their lives. Not only am I one of only two who have moved far, far away from home, but I am also the family black sheep, a little envious and I just don't share in the highs and lows they all share with one another simply by them all being married and parents and their lives completely orbiting around that.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's odd I can't stand being around people at work talking about perfectly mundane things that should be relatable.

But when I'm with my friends i'll listen to them talk about their weird niche hyperfixations, I could listen to them for hours and not once find it unrelatable.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

That's normal.

That's why we talk to each other and learn about each other's interests.

You know.

Socialising.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, it's called The Holidays(tm)

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I sometimes hear the words coming out of my mouth and think, "Damn, if me from 20 years ago could hear me now, they'd think we have nothing in common."

Same, it's hilarious being an adult

[–] BetterDev@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

You mean every moment of every day of my goddamn life?

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have. My whole life. But I find it fascinating, usually. Especially since I've overall been very lucky to integrate easily.

I'm lucky I've rarely been in a group I found repugnant. Not sure how I'd handle that.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How Bill Burr (before he lost his funny) feels about brunch is how I feel about hanging out with anyone other than my close friends.

https://youtu.be/Smq4GOtwE0I

Its just fill talking for the sake of talking, I get a headache. No substance just sounds like Peanuts cartoons parents talking.

https://youtu.be/q_BU5hR9gXE

Then there are the dark thoughts, John Doe

https://youtu.be/dV_MkUyUTMw

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I always thought I was bad at making small talk but then I realized I just hated doing it. When I'm forced to be around my wife's moronic family talking about the most mundane shit it feels like I'm in a bad tv show and I'm just dying to get away. I don't know how I've survived as long as I have

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I always felt so bad for my husband at my family events. My family is very traditional and conservative, so every event is de facto segregated by gender. The women are all in the kitchen, and the men are all in the living room or on the front porch (depending on the weather).

Acceptable topics of conversation among the men: livestock, farm equipment, and neighbors whose land is adjacent to my grandfather's farm. My husband is a suburban guy who had been on a horse before he met me.

We were both glad when my cousins' kids got old enough that he could play games with them. (And video games when they hit their teens.) He got bonus points with my mom and aunts for "taking care of the kids" even though he was just trying to escape the boredom of talking to the adults.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Move away and be a hermit, its how I have survived. I love people in very small doses. And like you family is the worst and you can never get small doses around them.

I dont care about the weather or the sports scores. I like sports but not to talk about. Watch it or read the box scores and I'm good.

I'd rather be under my classic getting greasy or some other project. After that reading a good book, I'm on a stoic kick again so rereading Marcus Aurelius and all other similar materials.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, my family.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

You will never guess but: people are multifaceted. 🤯🤯🤯

Welcome to my world. I have no idea why people want to spend time with me at all.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, but i thought that while reading this tweet... Does that count? 😅

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Linus tech tips discussing his private plane or high end hardware nowadays...

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

wait, isn't that normal?

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I call them family.

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