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    NietzschiroTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:28pm

    - Splitting a check in an itemized fashion.

    - Sleeping late

    - keeping up with new music

    - hearing about the new, up-and-coming neighborhood - It’s was full of crack and hookers when I was your age, wherever it is - same story.

    - Beer pong, flip cup, etc.

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      SipowitzNietzschiro
      8/13/15 4:38pm

      Holy shit. Even back in college I was so fucking embarrassed when I was with a group of friends who, on a group tab, went every fucking item to see what people “owed.” ‘Cause between folks not figuring in tax and the ever-present prick or 2 who is gonna tip like shit anyways, it makes the whole group look like assholes unless someone covers for them.

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinaSipowitz
      8/13/15 4:45pm

      Yeah, I would usually just take the check for a group and let people give me what they thought they owed (which was never as much as the total even without tip), because fuck it, let’s not all sit here discussing it in minute, crass detail. I’d rather just pay a little more and be done with it.

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    Ken Yadiggit, AdiosTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:30pm

    pretending to enjoy going to clubs.
    shitty music, douchey bros, overpriced drinks, and I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that it’s perfectly okay that I don’t dance.
    do. not. dance.

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      SipowitzKen Yadiggit, Adios
      8/13/15 4:32pm

      YAS. FUCK dancing.

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      Ken Yadiggit, AdiosSipowitz
      8/13/15 4:34pm

      I had a coworker ask me to dance at a Christmas party once and I gave him my best April Ludgate and said “DOES IT LOOK LIKE I DANCE? NO. It looks like I sit at home and smoke pot and listen to records.”

      He laughed and bought me a beer and we talked about music all night.

      And WOW I just got really, really sad because I wasn’t even thinking.....he passed away this week and I keep expecting to see him and forgetting that he is gone. And then I remember and it sucks all over again.

      Speaking of getting old...now I’ve entered the stage in life where the next several funerals I go to will probably not all be for family members and that’s strange.

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    CrazyWorldLottaSmellsTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:22pm

    Too old to pretend to be into loud electronica. Or any electronica.

    Also shots. I used to be able to take shots like a champ. Now, upon taking a shot, I will immediately vomit in the sink.

    Oh and uncomfortable shoes. Give me comfort or give me death.

    I’m 24 and many of my peers are still into these things, so I may just be a really lame human. But I have new interests! Like not leaving my apartment. And bubble baths. And drinking wine out of the bottle in the aforementioned bubble bath.

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      cwpCrazyWorldLottaSmells
      8/13/15 4:24pm

      Definitely shots! and luminous alcopops with stupid names

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      SipowitzCrazyWorldLottaSmells
      8/13/15 4:27pm

      Comfortable shoes and bubble bath wine bottles? You’re living your best life (and mine)...

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    ad infinitumTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:29pm

    Giving a shit about my physical appearance.

    I mean, don’t get me wrong. I care about being clean, kempt and presentable. But I am DONE spending massive amounts of time and energy trying to meet a beauty standard I can never come close to.

    I don’t wear make-up, ever. I tie my hair back, even though I know I am objectively much more attractive with my hair down, because I hate having hair in my face and the upkeep it takes to make my hair presentable when it’s loose. I enjoy the beach and swimming pools without a single thought about who I am offending by displaying my fat, pale body in a bathing suit. And so forth.

    I spent way too much of my life hating myself and my body because I was “fat and ugly,” and trying desperately and fruitlessly to work hard enough/spend enough money to be societally acceptable. Now I just don’t care. I have a whole lot of really awesome qualities, and I’d much rather focus on those than constantly obsess about meeting a physical standard I can never hope to meet.

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      mocenaad infinitum
      8/13/15 4:36pm
      GIF
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      imtiredthatisall IS just like Gywneth Paltrowad infinitum
      8/13/15 4:37pm

      I was thinking about this - re the usual female feelings of fatness not fatness - and I realized that even when I actually was bone thin, ribs showing, I still thought I was obese. Now I am decidedly not super skinny anymore, actually do have fat, and I just don’t care because no matter what size I actually am, I am evidently going to think I’m fat some days. So it really does not matter at all as long as I’m healthy.

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    sklayTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:35pm

    I’m 5 years older than my boyfriend and some of his friends are 5 years younger than him. That means nightly texts at 11pm that “everyone” is meeting at some shitty EDM bar and we totally have to come out!!1! No. NO. No no no no. It’s 11pm on a weeknight. I have to work in the morning. Go away, children.

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      rslwnsklay
      8/13/15 4:41pm

      That means nightly texts at 11pm that “everyone” is meeting at some shitty EDM bar and we totally have to come out!!1!

      ... Ansel, is that you?

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      Ginger Is A Constructsklay
      8/13/15 4:43pm

      An ex invited me to a show she was DJing that began at 1 in the morning. As in, I would leave my house at 12am, and one hour after midnight IT WOULD START. Girl no, I am waaaaaaay to 30 for that shit.

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    CarlySparklesTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:22pm

    alcohol.

    I turned 21 less than 3 weeks ago, had roughly a beer bottle’s worth of wine, champagne, wine coolers, and apple cider since then (I took about a sip of each before saying ew no thank you) and i’m already tired of it.

    :(

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      andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbaneCarlySparkles
      8/13/15 4:24pm

      is this satire

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      MessO'Espresso is a noodle-bodied slothCarlySparkles
      8/13/15 4:25pm

      It’s ok. Send them all to me!

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    lunchcomaTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:23pm

    - Caring whether a bar or a restaurant is cool.

    - Watching movies in genres I almost always dislike (broad comedies with R ratings, wish fulfillment romcoms for nerdy dudes) because other people tell me I’ll love this particular one.

    - Sleeping in my makeup.

    - Caring what my parents think about my love life or career choices.

    - Being Facebook friends with people I wouldn’t talk to in real life.

    - Going to multilevel marketing parties to be polite.

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      LimaBeanslunchcoma
      8/13/15 4:29pm

      Good list!

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      Ken Yadiggit, Adioslunchcoma
      8/13/15 4:35pm

      - Caring what my parents think about my love life or career choices.

      when does this go away, please halp

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    jnalvTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:31pm

    The dreaded birthday dinner. I’m done with showing up at a fancy-ish place during their busiest shift of the week and waiting for a table for 12 (Or is it 14? Did Beth say she was coming or not? And I’m not sure when Brendan’s flight gets in, I think his phone is off???) only to get split into two tables for 5 and 7 that are only sorta close to each other.

    It’s hell for the waitstaff, it sucks to shout halfway across the restaurant just to talk to the birthday human, it sucks to be crushed between two near-strangers, it sucks to spend way too much money at an overhyped venue — oh hey Brendan, didn’t realize you were coming... I guess you can just squish in on the end? — splitting the bill is a nightmare, and most importantly, did I mention that it’s hell for the waitstaff?

    Just find a dive bar that’ll let you order in some pizzas.

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      mrsfinchjnalv
      8/13/15 4:44pm

      My name is mrsfinch, and I endorse this message wholeheartedly.

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinajnalv
      8/13/15 4:46pm

      Just find a dive bar that’ll let you order in some pizzas.

      This sounds like fun anytime, too!

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    mollymlf05Tracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:28pm

    Sleeping on friends’ couches. An air mattress or pull-out couch is cool, but if all you can offer me is your soft, lumpy couch, I’ll get a hotel room.

    (I am 28 and a grump.)

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      wishtmollymlf05
      8/13/15 4:48pm

      I slept on an air mattress once when I was about 13 and it slowly deflated in the night, meaning I woke up lying on a flat piece of plastic. I’ve been suspicious of them ever since.

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      DragonsDaughterwisht
      8/13/15 4:51pm

      I once roomed with a friend over an summer internship, and on the first night her cats slowly, methodically clawed their way to my blow up mattresses destruction.

      tl:dr - I slept on a deflated mattress on an otherwise bare floor for a summer, but had purring mewing kitty company. I’ll call it a draw.

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    LynxTracy Moore
    8/13/15 4:36pm

    Crashing in a hotel room with multiple people I barely know to save money.

    Nope. Nope. Nope.

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      imtiredthatisall IS just like Gywneth PaltrowLynx
      8/13/15 4:51pm

      Even people you DO know. I’m over it. Seriously we are all adults here do we need to do sleepovers? I do not like to share a bathroom with anyone not my husband/kids. And even then I only tolerate them because you know they are my direct family.

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      miss_cheviousLynx
      8/13/15 4:55pm

      A friend of a friend was trying to organize a party at a remote location and proposed this, and got slightly shirty with me when I told her I would pay for my own private room. I feel for people trying to save a few dollars, but no thanks on my own behalf. That is what my credit card exists for.

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