Years ago I had a gay male friend who got drunk and decided to hook up with a girl to see what it was like. I (also drunk and being a twat) was trying to cockblock him by telling the girl he was gay.
No matter what I said, she thought I was just slinging witty banter. "haha gay". "No you don't understand, he is a 100% homosexual man!!!" My buddy found the interaction pretty hilarious.
I'll have you know that I regularly do that by accident and switch from UK-US, which is the same except for a few symbols. I usually realise after the 3rd or 4th password attempt.
I used to be a window cleaner, and I'd get home and my hands were "dirty" with soap. Always felt weird trying to clean my hands. Can't use soap that'll make it worse!
One girl dumped me after a few dates, nothing special, and she was super apologetic. She said she'd understand if I called her a fucking bitch and blocked her. I was so offended by that comment. I'm not one of those insecure guys who flips out when they get rejected. I can handle being dumped! I can't believe she thought so lowly of me! Fucking bitch!
Surprised to see so many people on Lemmy in favour of social media. It's horrendous for everybody, adults and children alike. I don't think kids should be on there.
Usually for things like this, I'd be fine with parents handling it and controlling their own kids' access. But social media is too pervasive, you'd turn your kid into an outcast if they didn't have it when 96% of their peers did.
One time I was in Spain and I found 5 Australian dollars on the floor in a train station. I picked it up and pocketed it. The same day, I climbed a bell tower in some museum/remains and was chilling up there for half an hour, without anybody else coming up. Eventually another person came up and said hi. Recognised they were Australian so I asked them if they wanted 5 dollars and they said "....yeah?" And I gave it to them. No explanation.
I laugh sometimes thinking of the story from their perspective, climbing a Spanish bell tower and meeting an English guy at the top who hands them 5AUD, like a NPC in an RPG.
Such as? This article trails off around 80 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_foreign_policy_in_the_Middle_East