It was the inverse in my family. The uncle who extricated himself from most of the family was actually a huge piece of garbage and did everyone a favor by cutting us off. I don’t think he expected that nobody would make an effort to re-establish contact.
Not being in constant contact with everyone you know, and not having a neverending stream of notifications assaulting you via your phone.
When you got to see relatives who lived far away, you talked about what had been going on in their life because you probably had no idea.
You read, listened to, or watched the news when you wanted to, unless someone you know told you sooner.
If you had to wait somewhere without a book or magazine, you just sat there with your thoughts. During childhood, you learned how to be bored and practice imagining things.
Nothing beats Junior talking about his job or children.
I’m pretty sure “ensuring conformance” was listed in the discipline section of the handbook at a school I went to as a kid. They viewed it explicitly as their duty.
It was a phenomenal visual device for the medium of film.
Pepsi just does international distribution of it. Keurig Dr Pepper owns it.
I’m a tad jealous of people who got to do this. My work just got busier. It was like normal except people were dying and I had all my groceries delivered.
That would be terribly boring. It would take the art, nuance, and fun out of language. It would also curtail the development and evolution of language. Can you imagine language without innuendo or double entendre?
So all the straight players never mention their wives, girlfriends, or sexual conquests to their teammates? They just keep that to themselves? Bullshit. Straight people are never told to “keep their sexuality to themselves.”
I’m both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it’s for my job or not. I suppose that’s a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.
That is exactly my point. It’s not worth asking because it doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know. The ones employers ask are the same, though they want you to blow smoke up their ass about how it’s been your dream to write backend code for an insurance company since you were a kid.
I don’t like wasting time in interviews on questions or exercises that don’t help at least one party decide if the other will be a good fit. Unless you a hiring for a position where someone regularly needs to lie about why they’re engaging another party, these questions are rarely if ever valuable.
These are my least favorite questions, along with “what made you want to apply for this position?” I tried asking it back to a recruiter once (“why did you decide to contact me for an interview?”), and they didn’t really know what to say.
I’m pretty sure this is a Demetri Martin joke.