This just sounds like you were misled and it was awkward. I don’t think you intended to chase young women.

When I was in high school in the 80s it was not uncommon for high school girls in higher grades to have adult men as boyfriends. One of my teachers in fact did it, and got put on leave for a while LOL.

We have MAID in Canada. It’s so nice to let someone with a terrible illness go with dignity.

Exactly.

I went back to church 5 years ago after walking away when I was 18. It truly has been the best experience for me, has made a VAST difference in my life, and I wouldn’t call myself visibly religious either; I am a believer, but I’d never discuss it outside of my church friends. I’m picky about what religious people I’d associate with because I sure don’t subscribe to the nonsense about queer people and abortion that many of them do. I would NEVER try to convert someone or anything like that. If someone expresses interest in coming with me, cool, but really you would never hear from me about it otherwise.

I can’t find those here anymore, but they were AMAZING. They’re insanely expensive on Amazon.

Lemmy, Bluesky, Catodon, which is an adorable Mastodon clone which is way better than the Mastodon app. Pixelfed is nice too.

An aside, I haven’t used my Twitter account in 11 years, and I would read it now and then, but when Space Karen bought it I logged out and deleted it (didn’t deactivate so nobody took my name), and randomly a few weeks ago got notified my account has been banned for “inauthentic behaviour”. It was super weird, but who cares. Dumpster fire.

Not if they have to simply because of affordability, of course not. But I don’t see why anyone who isn’t American would be going anywhere near the US right now, and certainly trying to avoid American products. Canadian grocery stores are labelling what products are affected by tariffs and what products are Canadian and most people are really making an effort to not buy anything American.

I really do miss visiting the US though. I would go to Buffalo a lot for day trips and that really is a wonderful city, and you can’t beat clothes shopping there. Not sure what it’s like with the tariffs, but I shopped last fall for clothes and got AMAZING bargains.

Let’s talk about politics a whole hell of a lot less. Yes, things are awful and insane, but there is good stuff to discuss.

Ignoring the people in your replies who don’t like church, I meet the loveliest guys at church. Find the right church which is progressive and inclusive and a younger crowd and you will meet some amazing people. It’s not like what the other commenters think at all. Even just the amazing supportive friends I’ve met are enough, I’ve never had better friends in my life.

I am reading Moon Zappa’s autobiography, I just finished 1000 Acres by Jane Smiley, which I REALLY recommend, and I’m also reading the collected Wendell Berry, Margaret Atwood’s latest short story collection Babes In The Woods, and the book about the Toronto Gay Village murders. All very good, I am decidedly not into true crime but it happened close to me and one of my friends was part of the Village and they told the cops several times that people were going missing. I feel awful for all the victims, but especially for the very closeted religious ones whose wives and children got to find out their fathers were queer because they found parts of them in a planter, and the whole world got to find out too. It’s not nice to posthumously out someone even under the circumstances when it will have such a profound effect on their families.

Maybe he travelled to a country that does it. I don’t know.

Do they have MAID in England?

If Lemmy was alive do you think we could have convinced him to do an AMA on Lemmy?

“We’re working on our relationship”. Well yes.

I am too old to understand this reference…

They don’t live near me. They’re all online friends.

It unexpectedly happened to me recently, and I didn’t mean to follow the gossip so much as I was surprised, and I discovered the husband had put up a video of the wife cheating on him that he had hired a private investigator to follow. That is very much not nice, but also cheating is crappy. Last person I expected it from would be her.

It is. And young women are kind of forced into it as part of the conventional ideas of marriage and weddings. I didn’t change my last name, because I married an asshole who wanted me to feel bad for wanting “normal” things like that, which is another story, and in the end I’m very glad I didn’t, but my narcissistic mother was OBSESSED with me changing my name.

If I had some other platform that was viable I would not be there. Some of it is beyond my control, but none of those friends use Livejournal anymore.

Are you serious? It’s a propaganda tool basically owned by the Russian government now.