Your social self

[version]

My parents aren't very politically engaged (which I inherited off them) but they'd never say anything homophobic or racist or sexist. (Unlike me.)

I'm still trying to work out my dad's politics. He hates pretty much everyone, but women in particular, he thinks Corbyn's clueless, scruffy and hopeless, he can't stand bureaucracy/management-types etc, he thinks Brexit's completely stupid, he hates the Tories, he thinks someone needs to shoot Trump, he moans about political correctness a lot, hates fat people, prides himself on not understanding technology whilst constantly going on abut how ignorant people are and how they don't understand things like climate change and the damage of a sedentary lifestyle, he goes on about Gordon Brown selling the gold reserves whenever someone mentions Gordon Brown, he hates nationalists and says people who want Brexit think we're gonna win the day with spitfires etc but loves WW2 films like The Battle of Britain and gets really fired up when it shows the Germans being all cocky. He says Thatcher was right to smash the unions, but hates her politics (and probably the fact she was a woman). He likes William Hague because his dad liked him. When I've asked him who he'd vote for he says Green.

I think I hide my humour from them because it's so bound up with disgusting/edgy stuff,

That's my dad's kind of humour. He thinks telling vegans stuff like the problem with abattoirs is that they're too sexy is really funny.

 

[luka]

I suppose people want to be ruled by themselves. A big version of them minus some of the more obvious flaws.

 

[version]

mind you, he's a stonemason and works on a building site all day. He reports that quite a few of them are addicted to crack.

This doesn't surprise me. Every builder I know is a massive cokehead and my brother has to deal with them sometimes and says more or less the same of the ones he knows.

 

[version]

Luka is our Withnail

Dissensus' very own Peter Pan, or Michael Jackson.

 

[luka]

How does one go about this?

I've been trying to teach you!

 

[luka]

Dissensus' very own Peter Pan, or Michael Jackson.

Careful!

 

[luka]

I've been trying to teach you!

There's nothing wrong with treating this like a game provided it's a game in which you're able to tell the truth.

 

[luka]

Ultimately, it is a game. But your actions go towards deciding what type of game it is. It's a game you shape by playing it.

 

[Corpsey]

That's my dad's kind of humour. He thinks telling vegans stuff like the problem with abattoirs is that they're too sexy is really funny.

That's not bad tbf

 

[pattycakes_]

Dissensus' very own Peter Pan, or Michael Jackson.

Dissensus' very own milquetoast vanilla lad

 

[version]

That's not bad tbf

I wasn't very impressed by it. I dunno how the vegan couple took it.

 

[luka]

Barty you're supposed to say you love me too now so I can feel a warm glow

 

[Corpsey]

I do want to differentiate myself here from the gleefully offensive but I'm not sure I can

So I'll just call you all cucks and unleash a DDOS attack on you

 

[Corpsey]

On that subject I keep offending people on WhatsApp in particular because I have different circles of friends with different sensibilities. Not sure if I get mixed up or if I'm just deliebrately being a bastard and then rationalising it.

 

[version]

Something I often struggle with is people having a surface interest in things. Someone asks me about football or politics or music or whatever and I spend the whole time being careful not to bring up tactics and passing patterns or something they just won't know or care about, but as a result I find the conversation pretty uninspiring and dull and worry I might come across as boring/stupid, rude and disinterested, or perhaps all four.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Barty you're supposed to say you love me too now so I can feel a warm glow

EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS A LIE!!!!!!!

 

[sadmanbarty]

I do want to differentiate myself here from the gleefully offensive but I'm not sure I can

So I'll just call you all cucks and unleash a DDOS attack on you

i'm very much of that persuasion that jokes are completely divorced from the real world. i genuinely feel you can joke about anything and it's not a bad thing.

a part of my maturing process is to see that other people feel differently and they're not completely bizarre for thinking so.

 

[Leo]

I'm sometimes a bit envious of people who are genuinely witty, but that can turn to dislike when, consciously or not, they go overboard with the nonstop effort to be funny. comes off as trying to hard to be the life of the party. less is more.

 

[luka]

I'm sometimes a bit envious of people who are genuinely witty, but that can turn to dislike when, consciously or not, they go overboard with the nonstop effort to be funny. comes off as trying to hard to be the life of the party. less is more.

It's good to break the ice but you need to know when to change gear

 

[luka]

That comes with growing up.