RTHKI
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I actually just thought of how I can get out of this relationship: dying. I am going to die. Not really die but I will create a burner account on Facebook and post a sympathy message announcing my death. I will make sure only the girl and her mom will see it.
your arm is making an offset play button

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SuperJail Warden
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Chicago is cold and full of poverty. Atlanta? lol.

NYC is the way to go. Your live will change for the better in so many ways.
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SuperJail Warden
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RTHKI wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I actually just thought of how I can get out of this relationship: dying. I am going to die. Not really die but I will create a burner account on Facebook and post a sympathy message announcing my death. I will make sure only the girl and her mom will see it.
your arm is making an offset play button
That is the muscular dystrophy I had been hiding to spare her feelings. I have no idea how muscular dystrophy works. But that sounds plausible.

I should probably start setting up the ground work for my death by telling her my health problems.
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unnamednewbie13
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Chicagoans vs. Falling Icicles: A History
The Chicago skyline is gorgeous to look at, but in the winter it rains down icy fingers of death upon the populace.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles … -a-history

maybe see if any tactical umbrellas out there (these exist…) can tank a shot:

https://www.primalsurvivor.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/umbrella-open.jpg
RTHKI
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Yea, Atlanta is an odd one but I go there once a year and see friends and it's always a good time.

Chicago means I'm still kinda close to home. Stay a year and enjoy the shitty winter weather by taking snowy photos.

NYC - haven't been since like 2004
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RTHKI
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Related to this thread and moving downtown. There's a girl who likes MTG and every time I remember that I think of Mac
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SuperJail Warden
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RTHKI wrote:

Yea, Atlanta is an odd one but I go there once a year and see friends and it's always a good time.

Chicago means I'm still kinda close to home. Stay a year and enjoy the shitty winter weather by taking snowy photos.

NYC - haven't been since like 2004
Atlanta is full of poor blacks, gun violence, and you can't stuff a girl full of Plan B and mifepristone. The dating apps in the south are full of girls who are like "Jesus is my #1."

Chicago near family? What is even the point of moving if you are staying near family. Make a clean break. Start new. Fake your death even.

NYC, 20 year return.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e5/85/41/e58541fb6b42856c79d2f806d1eaf996.jpg
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unnamednewbie13
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remember when she at least acted like she cared about slaves or something? then she chained her kids in a dungeon with no natural light. even before all that though, people were romanticizing her relationship with her rapist.

imagine if tywin(?) was really as clever/paranoid as he was played out to be and tyrion ended up shooting a body double on the crapper before making his escape. charles dance appears in the next scene elsewhere like nothing happened.
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i never saw a single episode of that show. a girl tried to show me it once when hanging out together in a netflix-and-chill kind of situation. still managed to dodge watching the thing. the world was incredibly lame for getting obsessed with it. and i think it's funny those nerds will be even more frustrated in this life than the star wars fandom post-disneyification. you deserve it.
SuperJail Warden
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The producers had one of the greatest career blunders of all time. They rushed the final two scenes and pissed off the audience because they were desperate to make bank on a series of Star Wars films. Then Disney yanked the project from underneath them.
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my threshold is a bit higher than that. i won't make fun of someone for getting invested in nerd shows (i used to watch star trek, so i'm not one to talk), but if they stay invested when it becomes apparent that it's bad (the awful kind of bad, not the "fun" kind), that's on them.

if it's the only sort of thing they ever get invested in, it's kind of tragic. the comfort zone of on that kind of thing is a small cage to keep yourself in.
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My sister ground through 'Walking Dead' for no obvious reason.
I gave up after two episodes, it was obvious it was going to be a cycle of fights with zombies, fights with other groups, fights within the group, group social dynamics soap opera repeated forever.
At least the X-Files had some variability, and I mostly drunk-snoozed through that after a week's work and a 2hr night drive.
Fuck Israel
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walking dead fills the niche of zombie shows for moms. i feel the zombie mutator has been fleshed out in about every possible direction, so i can't possibly begrudge twd for being a soap opera with the occasional zombie cutscene.

but without multiple seasons of context, i'm completely lost when someone starts explaining to me whatever's going on in the series.
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I wouldn't worry, nothing of interest went on as far as I could tell, just the building climax came to a climax sort of thing - repeated regularly.
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SuperJail Warden
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Once I get my pension I will probably cash out of America and go to some poor country. Buy a big house and date a girl a generation younger than me. Maybe have a kid with her too to lock her down.

I keep seeing the Instagram Reels from Passport bros and their girls. They give good advice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_bro

I my girlfriend said Laos or Cambodia are considered the poorest Asians. One of those places seem like good choices.

Maybe I could even buy property out there to rent and live like a colonial grande.
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RTHKI
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Please settle down and find happiness in NYC
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SuperJail Warden
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I have been trying that for 34 years. It doesn't seem to be working out.
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RTHKI
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and whose fault is that?
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SuperJail Warden
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The Deep State
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uziq
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property in the countryside or mountain/seaside tourist areas of japan is ridiculously cheap. so much so that we are looking at a countryside retreat already. you can get architect-designed homes built in the 90s/00s with plenty of land for sub>$200k. it is really insane. japan are on the far side of their population decline (unlike, say, korea or taiwan, where a population collapse is imminent but the housing markets are still supercharged and overheated). there's a lot of old people dying off in japan and leaving pristine property dotted all over the place.

you won't enjoy a 'passport bro' dynamic with the locals in east asia, unfortunately (not enough of an income differential and the japanese passport is already one of the most well-regarded in the world), but in recent years it has definitely become A Thing for rich americans to buy up extremely cheap property in japan.

beware that in 'hot' places like bali or southeast asian countries like thailand that the land and long-term rights are basically designed to fuck you over. as it probably should be. so long as you're not looking into property as an investment, and rather something that you will make use of and get your value's worth that way, then it's definitely a good idea.

having seen how easy it can be, i'm frankly surprised many more europoors, yookayers and americains aren't doing the same. i think a lot of british people are constitutionally uneasy with the new reality of basically being a country on a downwards trajectory, and that they could/should make like the irish and start emigrating. brits still have an arrogance as if everywhere they go should be grateful to have them, as opposed to the attitude of the emigre who moves abroad earnestly to seek a better life. but alas, that is a different conversation.

come to japan anyway.
SuperJail Warden
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It does sound nice to get a cheap home in a place where my pension and social security would go farther. That's not Japan but there are plenty of places like that.

I am stuck in my career though. The money is too good believe it or not. If the pension still exists in the future the payments will be higher than my current salary. You could live really well in other places with that.

I think many white Americans really haven't internalized the fact that this country and their culture isn't intrinsically better than people from elsewhere. My older white assistant acts like the kids speaking Arabic and Spanish are assaulting her ears. She can't appreciate any music or culture outside of 80s American. She looks at any food outside of the most basic American as strange, gross, and beneath her. It is such an obnoxious mindset and I hate being around someone who gets annoyed when I talk with the kids about the rap music they like or talk about the ethnic food they eat.
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your older white assistant sounds like what jk rowling was channeling when she wrote harry potter's unpleasant, snobby, suburban relatives as the villains. jk freaking rowling. lol.

https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/aunt-marge.jpg

white american chauvinism existing is a fact. your assistant would probably all too willingly store the mexican kids in the broom closets (or spirit them away to ice detention centers for indiscriminate processing).
uziq
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that sounds less like snobbery to me and more like just being provincial and a bit of a bumpkin. i think that was more the vibe rowling was going for with suburban relatives, too. the suburbs don't really connote 'snobs' in british culture; they're signifiers of small-mindedness and insularity. lower-middle class oblivion rather than upper-middle class disdain. (although, of course, the lower orders in the UK love to affectedly adopt the snobbishness and superiority of the upper orders.)

not eating any food from foreign cuisines or listening to music beyond your high-school greatest hits is low class behaviour, first and foremost. it's rube coded. chauvinists and elitists can at least travel somewhat and try new things. just sticking to where and what you've been raised with is small town, small horizons stuff.

@mac: and yeah, fair enough. if you can't work remotely or if you're used to an above average american wage, particularly on the east or west coasts, obviously nowhere in the world outside of a few enclaves like hong kong/singapore/switzerland/etc. are going to compete with that. but you would be seriously surprised how far your dollars could go, even in 'first-world', s-tier cities like tokyo or seoul. you could live very comfortably in both places on $50-60k USD a year.

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SuperJail Warden wrote:

Once I get my pension I will probably cash out of America and go to some poor country. Buy a big house and date a girl a generation younger than me. Maybe have a kid with her too to lock her down.

I keep seeing the Instagram Reels from Passport bros and their girls. They give good advice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_bro

I my girlfriend said Laos or Cambodia are considered the poorest Asians. One of those places seem like good choices.

Maybe I could even buy property out there to rent and live like a colonial grande.
In Laos they used to have a law banning foreigners from being in a room alone with a local woman. Not sure if it's changed.

Laos has huge sex trafficking problems, and now a huge influx of Chinese investment.
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laos doesn't sound like an ideal retirement destination. that and cambodia seem like good destinations if you want a more authentic backpacking experience. there's a lot to discover there culturally. but also a lot that is very developing world and borderline sketchy. especially with those weird chinese free enterprise zones and lots of human trafficking and gangsterism.

i think myanmar has similar iirc.

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