People at the pub don't talk to strangers, bruh, pls tell me your so-called "advice" isn't to literally just harass random stranger groups just having a day out at the pub. As an extraverted person please don't do that, that's gonna get the cops called on ye sooner or later, most of us are just being polite.
At school you are in forced social situations where you have to bond to "survive" (ask for advice/help to pass classes), less at uni, but it still helps. That's why the friends I have from there I'm honestly relatively distant with because we don't actually have much in common except past shared experience.
I do meet people plenty, all initially online though, not IRL. Dating apps have been where I met most of my friends.
They are literally on a website meetup.com... you're finding people ONLINE to then meet IRL. It's not the same as meeting people IRL, same as how online dating is still online dating even though you meet the person IRL, because you met them online on the dating apps or whatever.
Are you a sign of things to come with people using chatbots instead of thinking?
Yeah I guess if you're into this weird stuff or you're a furry, but again, none of those are IRL, and that's what's being debated, since the guy I'm replying to specifically said "IRL" as opposed to OP asking how to meet people online. Please learn to read.
You were talking about IRL, yet mention game servers and VRC? Wut?
I do appreciate the suggestions but I wasn't asking for advice lol, I was debating your point. I have no trouble meeting people, but your way isn't one I've ever had success with, as a not-so-young-anymore adult. Online has been much more fruitful always.
I guess what you're trying to say is if you're into all those outdoorsy hobbies you end up meeting people IRL?
You were talking about IRL, yet mention game servers and VRC? Wut?
I do appreciate the suggestions but I wasn't asking for advice lol, I was debating your point. I have no trouble meeting people, but your way isn't one I've ever had success with, as a not-so-young-anymore adult. Online has been much more fruitful always.
Is it? Fucking where? And how? Because all the people I know I've met through dating apps up, online forums, or knew them from school or uni. I have plenty of hobbies, but there aren't any even vaguely related groups for them, and if they are, they aren't very discoverable.
Where are you going to meet people IRL? What are you, 12? IRL doesn't have any groups that do anything remotely interesting, and it's expensive asf to travel and those groups are nigh-undiscoverable. And don't harass random strangers, you're not gonna make many friends like that, unless you mean in prison.
I agree with this with one exception - if you're in admin or clerical customer facing roles where the stuff you do is actually life changing for people.
I almost got deported because some cunt at the uni couldn't be arsed to send one email of a document she got by clicking one button for a whole year despite the fact I rang every day for like two months and visited the offices for a goddamn week.
Another example is healthcare. If you're some piece of shit receptionist who can do fuck all and instead of sympathising - and just trying at all - you act all smug about how you can't even do me the decency of telling me which fucking department I need to talk to when I can't get the result of a fucking piss test I need for life-changing surgery.
Surgery that I have been on a waiting list for for 7 years, surgery hat I have bad scheduled months ago that I have done everything for months ago, that's now in a week and all of that is now under threat of being postponed many more months because you can't fucking ring a phone number? Because you can't be arsed and you'll "let me know if there's anything further" in 15-30 working days? And you, despite working this job, can't possibly know how long it usually even takes? Literally refuse to even give an estimate?
I will make your day hell because I hate you - not just the company - but you as a human being, fuck you and find another fucking job, your failure in life is no excuse to fuck mine up too.
Especially when I know I'll come back tomorrow and someone with a fucking brain is going to sort it out for me, so it was never some "policy", it was you and your lack of effort when human lives are on the fucking line. Wouldn't piss on you if you was on fire, you living piece of evidence that some people are just plain inferior and why some people don't deserve welfare and security because they can't do anything unless you threaten them with not being able to eat the next fucking day.
God, sorry, all this shit was years ago but it boils my blood to this day that some fucknuggets could've destroyed my entire amazing life for literally no other reason than the fact they have no life worth living and choose to make everyone else's a living nightmare.
I think the pain will heal once all this shit is replaced by a nice LLM integration. And communism too, fuck capitalism and decay in public services.
Actually in a better world I'd gladly pay taxes so these actual fucking untermenschen stay home and rot or whatever it is they do, so the rest of us can get on with life. They already mooch off my taxes, the least they can do is get out of the fucking way.
These people do not want it and won't allow it. Leftsplaining to them will just radicalize them further right because they'll think that if you know so much and they so little, that must mean they're inferior to you and that's an unpleasant thought for them.
Why not just use an external microphone and put the phone on speaker?