Casual Conversation

It's getting harder and harder to enjoy activities on a casual basis.

Your young kids want to play sports? Unfortunately, municipal rec leagues are dying off. Get ready to join a private league, with substantial fees and a travel schedule that will consume your weekends.

You want to watch just one sporting event this season? Too bad, it isn't being broadcast. It's now on a streaming service that you don't subscribe to.

You want to take your family skiing once to try it out? That'll be a few hundred dollars. The big resort owners want to drive sales of season passes, so they are making day passes stupid expensive. (The hill where I learned to ski now has demand pricing. I have seen day passes up to $200/person. 😭)

(gestures at the United States)

Not just the election. There's a gross apathy towards our fellow humans that would have prevailed no matter who won. It's been very hard to love the world this year.

I tried watching TV authentically "like in the old days" during this holiday, looking things up only in a magazine guide and only watching live TV. And all the great films start at 11:30pm and end at bloody 2am!

It’s ridiculous that the different parts of the city can’t coordinate to dig once, schedule all needed maintenance on that section, and then repave once. Maybe it doesn’t matter for cars but for skateboards having uneven patches of cement is disruptive.

you, Flickerman! my son tells me your company stinks!

I'm 35 and still alone, virgin and living with my family. Half of the time I'm tired of living, Sometimes I wanna just erase myself but I don't have the courage to do it. So yeah.

I know how this goes, please don't try to send help messages that you're not alone or to talk to an specialist. That doesn't help me. Even punching me in the face would be more useful

I grieve that my fellow human ,whom I love, is a fucking idiota.

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