Drusas

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So many of these comics read more as autism than ADHD.

Moral panic is unrelated to games having addictive elements.

A better comparison would be how retro games would be designed for you to die/lose over and over because they were based on arcade dynamics, where the customer has to keep putting in quarters to continue playing.

So, stuff you made up.

This is clearly just shaming hair loss.

Jole?

I definitely have to agree with the point of them not respecting the road laws. Lane splitting is illegal and dangerous. I get the temptation, but they shouldn’t be doing it (legal in California, not elsewhere).

One of my lazy meals is to saute up some flaked surimi in butter with garlic powder and salt. So satisfying.

That is really bizarre because they do not taste the same.

These days, I mostly drink water. Growing up, however, I hated it. The area I lived in had very mineral-heavy water and it just tasted bad. Took years after moving away for me to even try drinking plain water again.

I used to have a cat who would do this. She was mostly a bitch, but we loved each other.

You are clearly not familiar with how much Canadians are into Kraft dinner.

Yes. I have spent time living in the south and I have family from there.

Your rant has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking about superficial friendliness versus rudeness.

I don’t disagree, but the question was whether or not it’s rude. So that’s what I stuck to.

I grew up in notoriously rude New Jersey. You might be surprised to learn that we also had a similar code, we’re just less tactful about it. People in that region are assholes but genuinely kind, helpful people. Kind of like the opposite of the south.

I think you are deeply mistaken in believing that people can be on their phones and not be bored at the same time.

As some others have said, no, it’s not rude to decline. Whether or not it’s rude is in how you word it. You were rude in this particular instance.

The ones that you call neutral, I would say are still rude.

More like c/actuallyinfuriating.

Learning that there is no word for “it” was one of the biggest challenges for me when I first started learning Japanese.

In English, there is never an implied subject (grammatically speaking), unlike in many other languages.

I don’t know if this helps explain it to him, but it could help him to understand the concept. Verbs always need a subject, and if you contextually know what that subject is, you can use “it” (or he, her, etc) instead of being more specific.

“Raining” could be a full sentence in some languages, but in English, you need to specify that the weather is raining, but we can just say “it is raining”.

I’m a little surprised that your boyfriend didn’t learn this while he was learning the language. Did he self-learn? Going through a book on English grammar might be helpful for him.