This comment last week is pure gold. So glad the story was told!

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/20461868

Keep it simple! Andrew Carnegie wrote the only book you need, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Terrible title in today’s context, that’s not really what it’s about.

Carnegie set out to find a solid book on human communication. Traveled all over the US, meeting and writing university professors, was astonished that such a thing didn’t exist, so he wrote it.

Interestingly, you can pick it up and read any chapter. Nothing need be in order, it’s not a study course, very easy to digest. Most of it is simply Carnegie telling stories.

There was one that’s always stuck with me: He goes to dinner at a man’s house and the guy won’t shut the fuck up, talks on and on and on. Carnegie shut up, listened, made it clear he was listening, hardly spoke a word. On the way out the man was congratulating Carnegie on what a fine conversationalist he is!

Public domain, totally free, give it a spin. I need to brush up on it myself.

Weirdly cold for NW Florida, froze 2 nights in a row. Back to normal, 50F nights, 70F days.

If I helped one person, more than worth the tiny effort!

*reciprocal friendly noises

The complaint is about guys who want to text forever and not move forward. Heard that a lot when I was dating hot and heavy. Seems lots of guys are either just lonely and wanting to talk on dating apps or who aren’t bold enough to ask for the date in a timely manner.

You have to establish, quickly, that there aren’t any screaming red flags, then ask for the first date. If dating isn’t what you’re there for, go find something else to do.

It’s also a filter for wishy-washy men. Sorry guys, women like men who are decisive. Which a lot of men take to mean “be a controlling jerk”. Not the same, not even close.

And I thought she smelled bad… on the outside.

Get in there you hairy oaf!

Zwerner’s attorneys said Parker failed to act in the hours before the shooting after several school staff members told her that the student had a gun in his backpack.

You have to be fucking kidding me. Several people knew there was a 6-yo wandering around with a gun and they felt they had to kick it up the chain to get a response?!

I don’t take them down in nature unless they’re blocking the trail. I twirl them up on a twig and yeet 'em to the side. A face full of 4"-wide banana spider female is just too much.

Didn’t remove one last week because I could duck a little. Guess who forgot to duck on the way back. Take a wild guess.

I can go from redneck casual to showered and in a tux in 30 minutes if I push it. Will I push it? Only if vagina is on offer, and I’m married, got plenty at home.

Somehow that book shakes me on each read. Not like I don’t know what to expect and if you described the plot to me it wouldn’t sound scary at all. But it is.

Bingo. Keep it short, very short.

“We are here, and this is now.” Constable Visit, a strict believer in the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted that from their holy book. Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copper speak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.

– here and now, we are alive | Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

Wife and I just caught COVID for the first time. 3 shots, maybe it could have been worse? Yeah, not taking my nose for granted. Until I get better and forget again.

On a serious note, isn’t it nice that we can’t truly remember pain? Pretty sure I’d go insane if I could remember all the fucked up shit I’ve been through.

CO should also be, “Even the liberals have guns.”

Them folks in Vermont aren’t exactly afraid of arms, and neither is Bernie.

Notice the fascists aren’t pulling this shit where we’re armed? Funny that.

Yep! First job was as a grocery boy. If you feed the cashier your goods in an organized manner, they do better.

My wife was an utter mess at Aldi, pushed her aside and handled scanning and bagging my way. Know what? She’s great at it now! After watching a few times, she hands me our purchases in a logical order. Boxy stuff? That goes together. Cold goods? Goes together. Heavy shit? That goes in the empty bag. Soft stuff? Top off a bag.

What’s great is that I didn’t say much of anything. She figured it out after a few trips!

Anyway, I’m a grocery bagging expert. AMA.

Great point! But I’m in the American South and cashiers are rarely talkative, at all.

Is there something physically preventing you? That sounds like a thing the fire department would shit all over.