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Playing tennis.

In jr high I had some friends who played football say my other friends and I on the tennis team were gay for playing tennis.

I had to point out to them that the tennis team was co-ed and we regularly made out with our female teammates on the long bus rides to tournaments.

While those on the football team were constantly manhandling each other, showering together and slapping each other on the ass to say "good game." But the tennis team are the gay ones?

They got mad, but dropped it.

Oh yeah, I have noticed that the virtual desktop switching on windows 11 sucks. It's extra shitty if you set a different wallpaper for each one.

When teams is just doing chat things, it's fine. But the fact that it's the only program that doesn't remember which monitor it is supposed to be on, and never remembers the show on all desktop settings, drives me insane. Not to mention that it seems to restart itself multiple time per day and makes me fix its location each time.

MC Frontalot.

I could never get into 3D "dungeon crawler" games that entirely take place in dungeons. I like open worlds where I can discover dungeons and caves to explore.

I think It's the maze like endless aspect of dungeon crawlers that I dislike. I need breaks to see the virtual sky.

You nailed my experience. Though AIM was preferred. I begrudgingly used MSN too for a couple people who weren't allowed to install AIM.

I was once on a Greyhound bus where a guy was loudly talking on his phone, but not on speaker. The issue was he was just repeatedly saying:

"Listen....... Listen..... Listen.... Listen... Lemme tell you.... Listen... Listen .... Listen lemme.... Lemme tell you .. listen"

For half an hour.

Finally a hero yelled out: "Listen! Lemme tell you to shut the fuck up!"

He said "lemme call you back later" hung up and shrunk down on his seat as the whole bus clapped.

I can't be the only person who instinctively trusts a product/brand less the more I see ads for it.

The biggest example is alcohol brands. It's almost guaranteed that the more advertising a brand does, the more middle-low quality is. (There will always be the ultra-cheap option with no marketing of course.)

It's mind boggling to me that in this modern interconnected era that this isn't obvious to everybody.

I've had two root canals. One in 5th grade, and one in college. Local anesthesia only. It was a long painful process. Both teeth eventually failed anyway, and had to be pulled, and replaced with implants.

So my opinion is, if you can afford it just skip the extra misery and have them yank it out and replace it from the start.

My main digital system is a Canon M6 MKII.

But I am a camera collector, so I have somewhere around 200 film & digital cameras. (I am behind on updating my inventory app, so I don't know the exact current number.)

I am an opportunistic photographer who takes photos of anything that catches my eye. But I do a lot of macro nature work, and general abstract photography.

As many have mentioned the real reason is to suppress votes by making the experience miserable.

The cover story for the rules is to prevent campaigns or other groups from "buying votes" by giving people in line food/water in exchange for a promise to vote for their candidate.