@tautologer@zetalyrae there is a volume aspect
but i think it’s mainly b/c it’s anti-social
eg someone using the 40 min train ride to catch up with their friend and imposing it on everyone else
same as on a restaurant
@QuetzalPhoenix autological?
altho in a different way to “small” and “polysyllabic”
more about the shape and feel
other example:
- voluptuous
- titillating
@lkesteloot@jenalden yeah we’ll take the trade off
but a dark part of me sympathised with that viral justin murphy tweet when he talked about resenting playing catch with his son
*on the phone for 2+ hours w friend*
gf: “how is he?”
“eh, alright i think”
“well, how’s his wife; how’s his job going”?
“not sure. fine i think”
“well what did you talk about?”
“oh. geopolitics, foucaultian power, 18th century ottoman empire, polynesian genetics”
mum is staying with us.
we watched a gameshow which does iq type questions that a % of the population gets right which get progressively harder
mum always does quite well
but when anything mildly politically comes up i swear she’s completely retarded, sorry to be rude
@lkesteloot@kitten_beloved@eigenrobot it just sort of happened
and tbh it’s not strictly true now i think about it. but it almost never comes up and i completely forget that they’re poly
for instance, the wife has never mentioned it
i don’t tend to ask about it out of perceived potential awkwardness
>get stabbed by african
>Yookay police do nothing
>Make twitter account to vent
>Get arrested for hate speech and have your bank accounts frozen
The UK is some sort of Looney Tunes version of 1984
@prerat i think there was heaps of dumb money lying on the table on sports betting
but 10+ years after the moneyball revolution the markets are smarter
probably still some money to be made tho tbh. maybe it’s mainly an interest thing