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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

This sounds like the kind of flirting I'd expect after seeing '80s and '90s teen angst movies. In retrospect screenwriters just don't understand how humans interact, or rather they just don't care and go for madcap antics instead.

I'm way neurodivergent, and was completely unaware of human interaction, so I was looking at Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo's Fire (etc. etc.) trying to decipher how all that works.

I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction. (Note that I matrix-dodged a barrage of incel-to-fascist pipeline bullets thanks to some amazing strokes of fortune.)

After the fact, in recollection, I realized then that a lot of women in my young adult life were signalling me and I never knew.

I also realized my aunt was totally hitting on me when I was sixteen. That's all sorts of awkward to reconcile.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 hours ago

"I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction."

Solidarity fist bump. My own experience was somewhat different, but there is the common ground of learning communication skills on a lag, and learning from a niche community of lovely weirdos

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Note that I matrix-dodged a barrage of incel-to-fascist pipeline bullets

Here goes my hero

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I like it when these little dramas align on the front page:

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 hours ago

Fake: well obviously

Gay: almost certainly written by a guy

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Girl tries flirting by biting lip

I use arch btw

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

But do you actually use arch?

[–] 90s_hacker@reddthat.com 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How are we so sure bro wasn't just flirting back?

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 points 47 minutes ago

Because he was smashing the burger, not femanon.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

you don't fuck with moms spaghetti.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

flirting? at the workplace? at this time and age?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"Touching his food" can run the gamut between:

Take one of his potato chips and eat it

to

Stick my thumb in his soup

If a friend or family member took one of my potato chips and ate it, I'd probably be fine with it. At worst I'd be a little annoyed. If an acquaintance or cow-orker did that it would be a little more strange, but not the end of the world. But, the other end of the spectrum is much weirder.

Grabbing a potato chip, if done carefully, will mean not touching anything else. Any dirt or germs on the toucher's hands aren't going to get spread around the rest of the food, but touching a liquid or something with sauce on it is different. IMO, touching someone's pasta is definitely on the germ-spreading end of the scale.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (5 children)

I can't respond to your other comment bc snooggums is banned from my instance

It’s one of those things that works in movies because it’s something you can get away with if you’re incredibly attractive. There’s a whole stock images category involving girls licking their fingers, mostly in a seductive style. But, in the real world, it’s something you do with your husband or long-term partner, not a random cow-orker.

I think this is what people aren't understanding. Someone who does this repeatedly surely must have learned that it's okay/works from a history of doing it, so they're probably very attractive. I'm pretty confident that most normies would react much more playfully/positively than the responses in the comments here if an incredibly attractive person did this to them. If the goal is to swap spit anyway, you're not gonna be thinking about the germs on their fingers

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Attractiveness is both subjective and situational and people are often terrible at judging their subjective attractiveness to particular others.

There are also lots of reasons not to want to be persued starting with being in a relationship

Also peoples attitude towards germs and hygiene varies wildly.

The greatest sin of this comment is to suppose that because someone does something it makes sense even in their own subjective context. People are both weird and stupid.

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[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

It's not weird to touch other people's food everyone does it just for fun. Go to your neighbor's house and touch their food and you can laugh together.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 191 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

seriously who touches others food to flirt?!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 95 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Flirty people in movies.

Real people in relationships.

Weirdos who deserve to have their reheated fast food burger smashed.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's one of those things that works in movies because it's something you can get away with if you're incredibly attractive. There's a whole stock images category involving girls licking their fingers, mostly in a seductive style. But, in the real world, it's something you do with your husband or long-term partner, not a random cow-orker.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

But those girls are licking their OWN food off their fingers, not pasta sauce from sticking their hand into a co-worker's spaghetti! Even within an intimate relationship grabbing the other person's food isn't appropriate without consent.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They'd agreed to share the plate. And they had the grace to blush when they realized it was the same spaghetto

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

👆 This mf has never had siblings

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

Siblings doing something to your food isn't a sign it's appropriate, more the opposite. We're worst behaved towards each other, although we'd defend them against others.

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[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 55 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

Poll: VPN user voting is not allowed.

Ok bye.

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[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 79 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

ITT: people taking a shitpost from 4chan seriously.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 12 hours ago

I made this greentext with photoshop in response to this post

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

You can discuss the events of a story, and the relative morality and social etiquette of the characters in it, even if the whole thing is entirely fiction. Functionally, it makes no difference if it really happened or it didn't. Sometimes that matters, but here is doesn't. You don't know these people, you'll never meet these people, and there's no real-world effect of discussing this story (except maybe someone learns not to touch somebody else's food?).

Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously. I could be an AI created to respond to your prompts to try to convince you not to complain about fabricated stories. This entire interaction could be four bots engaged in a learning exercise in a simulated online forum. Or maybe it was all a dream the whole time.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago

Anyone who sticks their hands in my food uninvited is not someone I would like a relationship with.

Respect boundaries.

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