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For example, I love to sing. However, only one other person in my life has ever heard me sing and I haven't seen that person in years. I'm not sure I'm good at singing but I think I can hit the notes well enough.

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[–] PMmeYourPenis@fedinsfw.app 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm a deeply perverted person (shocker)

[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I have a wicked sense of humor and a penchant for puns and word play. I also have a very large vocabulary from being a voracious reader from an early age which feeds my puns.

I can trace the point in time when my wife and I fell in love with each other was when we spent an entire car trip doing puns and word play. Not just any puns but as the trip went on they got more and more esoteric. We discovered that we could keep up with each other and we've been together ever since.

[–] tangible@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

I too have been trying to make people laugh with damn near a dozen word jokes, but no pun in ten did.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I drive a truck for work, and I'm a major gearhead.

Nobody who knows me in-person knows that I've written erotica for money. Hardly anyone knows I like to write, like, period.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My dad has a cancer that has no cure. He will eventually die because it, but the medication has given he a few good years so far and hopefully he has few more in him.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's rough mate, how are you all managing it?

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It was pretty rough at start. Especially when we were not sure whats happening and after we did, we did not know how the medication was going to effect as it varies a lot person to person, but luckily it has been effective for my dad.

It has also been tough because the cancer effects the immune system, so if i have made plans to travel to home and i get runny nose i need to cancel the trip. Especially because when the medicine stops being effective the cancer will develope quickly, so every time i miss a birthday or christmas, there is possibility that it could be the last one we get.

Since mom has retired now too, they have beem doing lots of travelling and they have come to terms with the disease they are pretty much living to the fullest while his is still fit to travel.

Big suprice was that the disease actually revealed useful side of facebook. There is support group of people having the same disease. It helped dad a lot to understand he should not just stop living his life because of the sickness. The group is little eerie tough as for the obvious reason people in there may suddenly just disapear.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago

Yes there's a lot of variables and a lot that's hard to predict. Even a runny nose could change things, which is a lot of stress. You don't even know how much time you have. The Facebook group sounds good but I get that it's eerie tough. I hope your family gets as much happiness as you possibly can over this time

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Probably more like a super well-guarded secret than just an aspect at this point. There was one anime series that was both my favorite and quite foundational to my personality for a long time. I legitimately have never told anyone about it; not even my parents

And no I have no intention on disclosing it here. Probably not too hard to infer for hardcore anime fans who would know me in person, but still

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't told anyone that my Mum died last weekend, because it's not a big deal to me.

I don't want to put up with people not understanding and being weird about it.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've not had contact with my mother for decades and I can't tell you how much my life improved when I cut her out. If she died tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear. A friend of mine loved her mum but her death was a long time coming, so she shrugged it off. So yep, can totally understand someone having an unconventional response

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I feel that ... I was out of contact for 12 years, then we were in a sort of armed neutrality for ages so that I could spend time with my Dad.

We ended up on reasonably good terms after she gave a genuine if somewhat vague apology, but the last time I saw her was two years ago, and I wasn't in a rush to see her again.

I mostly feel a mild form of relief

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 1 minute ago

Yep can deffo relate to that!

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

There is a silent war inside my brain between autism and ADHD

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

i have a phd in philosophy.

i can't ever talk about it because people never respond positively. they almost always attack me for it because it is scary or something.

if i say it's english they are are a lot less hostile, so that's what I do if it comes up.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 14 hours ago

What was your PhD in? And what did you learn from it?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 20 hours ago

Pfft. People are idiots. Philosophy is literally the OG PhD.

[–] eta@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What is so scary about a philosophy PhD?

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

they don't know what it is. so it's scary. people fear the unknown.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Boils down to "we're so smart we don't need to think or evaluate our thinking anymore". Anyone who can look around the world and try to push that line aping an oligarch's fantasy of going back to serfdom.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I think it's a cool PhD. Fuck those haters.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

i live in the USA. people here don't admire/respect nyone with a PhD unless they are an MD or a scientist, and even then...

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't actually know what I'm doing. I just keep getting away with it, and I know that one day I'll be found out.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Am I even good enough to have imposter syndrome?

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

you have to have achieved something to have it.

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most people don't know that I left the Marine Corps an expert rifleman and sharpshooter with a pistol. I really miss hitting the range. It's kind of therapeutic for me.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Check out the JaredAF channel on YouTube, he's an American bullseye competitor who makes really good content, it isn't the usual "guntube" shite.

I do Olympic 25m pistol and really enjoy it even though I'm rubbish, lol (I average maybe 80/100 over all) ... love playing with different guns, too.

[–] polysexualstick@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Very few people irl know my actual political beliefs because I water them down constantly in order to make them sound more socially acceptable

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Just between me and you, what are your beliefs?

[–] mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No one knows the cute little lady at work listens to extreme metal on her headphones lol. I pause my black metal and say the sweetest things to my patients.

I also know a lot of anime. Not the new stuff, but the tried and true stuff. I don’t watch it anymore, but yeah. No one would know because I don’t talk about it.

Oh and I know old school UFC too, because I’ve got Fight Pass and have been watching it (and Pride) chronologically lol.

My ethnicity mix also seems to trip people up. I get some interesting guesses!

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 4 points 1 day ago

You sound like someone who wants a good beer and tickets to Whitechapel. 🤘

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Im not sure there is anything. Im kinda an open book in person. Im one of those person who if you could read my mind would be hearing the same thing I am saying.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like it can be challenging to be around. Just saying what I'm thinking here.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

likely it is. Im pretty sure I have friends and family that do not want me at particular things because of what I might say.

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shakira is in my playlists

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Chainsmokers, chase and status and Coldplay are in mine. Next to people like Slipknot, Stormzy and various forms of trance. So I NEVER show my playlist

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Your lists don't lie

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why hide that? She’s got an amazing voice and great rhythms.

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

You know the world

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

None, I'm an open book.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

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[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Democratic-lottocracy where the canditades are drawn from the elligble population, but where people vote who they want to represent them in senate would be fire.

Bonus points if the terms end at different times. Like if there would be 200 seats and 4 years terms, there would be elections for 50 seat every year.

[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That would be roughly 1 election per week which feels very very draining. If you combine multiple election in a single day it would be too much for people to carefully consider every option

Maybe the solution could be that some of them are chosen elected like you said, while other seats are given randomly

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Im thinking more like 200 seats divided by province or state or what ever is applicable and voting only representatives from your own area so it would be pretty close to parlamentic elections we have here now.

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it does have legitimate narrow use cases imo ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Everywhere? Nawww not rlly

[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Ik ik but it’s a fantasy I like to think about

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