I scrolled way to far for this. Lichess bs above had me questioning my sanity. If the Badger just lost that Rook, its only getting worse for them, otherwise…

My first comcent ended on the note that if you got your way, we would likely never interact again, and that that was fine by me. You didn’t have to treat this thread like your last chance to save my soul or sell me the latest from Amway global, but here we are.

I’m not here to apologize that some rosy cheeks and a linen-wrapped body that’s had its organs ripped-out doesn’t do it for either of us. Maybe move on with your day rather than literally chasing things to annoy and then claim you were the one being annoyed-by.

Attempted, sure, but it very much requires specific audiences to land. Did you think the word “delivers” was in there to look pretty?

Inspiring conversation and thought is far from “nothing else”. I thought I had implied this one delivers fuck-all in the way of “sexualization” unless one is desperate or aversive, but I guess I’ll make that statement explicit; It’s not sexy unless that’s what one is desperate to see or avoid.

I chuckled at this one for many reasons, not least of which because she would be dry, brittle, smelly, taste awful, voice probably horrifying, as well as delusional, dumb, or just inconsiderate to boot.

Whatever the case, not even a conversation first? On all but my worst days, I had more game than that, and could draw a mummy that doesn’t look like a water-filled baloon too, but sure, all that’s possibly going on with this one is innuendo.

I checked myself on the dude.

I thought the joke was that she forgot what Mummies do and made up something on the spot that just happens to suit her and her victim, this time.

EDIT: we don’t get the victim’s reaction. Not every dude’s a monster-fucker wannabe.

This is some of the most over-dressed, under-cleavaged-nippled-camel-toed-or-ass-hanging-out gooner-bait I’ve seen in a minute, but maybe the fact I can say that means you’re onto something.

It mostly amounts to you and I would be in seperate circles, but you do you.

Honestly, this exact scenario playing out with AI lovers of both anatomies and getting bad-enough that people decide learning to understand and put up with eachother’s non-sense is the better option … is the best chance our species has in this and future generations.

Otoh, we all know its mostly men, and this represents maybe a bottleneck we need to weed-out the ones that will never get the lesson. Here’s hoping there’s enough genetics in it at-play to actually eliminate a substantnal amount of the right(very specific levels/attributes of NP, gullibility and psychopathy) things, and not pointlessly cost our species a bunch of genetic diversity that could otherwise hang-around.

If that second paragraph seems harsh/eugenic, understand its the only potential possitive I see along this path, and almost certainly accidental if it works-out that way in the end at all. I believe anyone trying to make such happen on-purpose is insane and a bad person, promise.

More likely, our grand-kids will all be fucking robots until they die, and “their” kids won’t be so-much theirs as clones/test-tube-babies the robots raise, should they for some absurd reason deign to keep flesh-bags around at all.

Oh noes! People are incapable of adapting their aesthetics to changing bodies, how cruel! Someone tell my wife of 18 years before she finally listens when I say she doesn’t need to lose weight for my sake!

Seriously, are you so far up your own ass that you don’t think old couples fuck? Or just convinced those that do couldn’t possibly have loved eachother as much when they were younger?

Where did I say shit about “don’t settle for anything but top-shelf?” If women are the ones better at staying attracted to their partners, then what’s up with all the lesbian dead-bedrooms?

If anything, my advice about not settling was aimed at women, and to men not to settle for being settled-for. Not my fault if you waste your time fretting over all of the lonely or soon-to-be-deservedly-lonely people who don’t even enjoy their own company.

Or do you prefer everyone treat companionship as a means to an end?

Yeah, he thought it was her and didn’t care if the breath was a little off, or more likely didn’t smell it, but either way, he’s the opposite of repulsed at the thought of her touch, no matter how out of the blue or overbearing … pay attention.

Let’s be real, few women are going to be happy about the skirt-pull either, so these two are particularly into eachother. That’s goals.

Your SO should be exceptional to you like that, on the order of you not minding if they accidentally got turned-on by the dog, no matter how viscerally repugnant the thought otherwise is.

This is literally it. If two healthy people can’t work-out their issues together like-so, or rather if the idea isn’t appealing to both, any intimate relationship is all-but-dead.

Your SO should look good, sound good, taste and smell good to you, or you’re gonna spend a lot of extra effort forcing things to work. Hardly anyone has that effort to spare for any long span of time, and they’ll often revisit a cost/benefit analysis that shames them and creates its own problems.

You’re regurgitating pro-corporate, pro-offshoring talking-points as if they justify lying-to and manipulating consumers. That’s not just saying “yes, and…”

You quoted someone-else’s yes-and, and picked a particularly-shitty someone to quote. You could have just taken the L, but wasted 5 paragraphs to wrap-up with “but oh btw, this is all meaningless”.

I prefer to buy local yes, but I’ll take Canadian, Mexican, or anything made in South America as close-enough to “Made in America”. As it is, there’s a great many (quality, price irrelavent)products that won’t reach me from those places, couldn’t tell you if quality versions are even still made in the Americas today, what with logic like yours deciding the supply-chain behind closed-doors, but I can get them from any number of SE Asian countries by way of my local Big-box.

If I’m going that route, I prefer to cut-out the middle-man -I’m no stranger to alibaba/ali-express, and all sorts of niche sellers around the globe, except:

As you say, I often don’t have the budget for quality, origin be damned. End-up having to modify or retrofit things I buy instead. If I’m lucky, they last long enough for me to obtain better versions, probably used. Local second-hand does just fine when Local-made is unobtainium, and has the virtue of not enriching the big-box stores that try to put everything smaller out of business.

Fair-enough. The difference between flirting and ribbing like you mention amounts to whether the parties are platonic, interested in eachother, or even then, aware of eachother’s feelings.

I’m not trying to sexualize what isn’t; From our vantage point its irrelavent and not our business until the artist & characters make it so. Odds are really good that my vocabulary just failed me, failed us all, on my earlier comment.

I’m probably older than you, or at least my adult children still answer the phone when I call and I’ll almost-certainly spend time with any grand-babies when that day comes.

“Out-of-touch” isn’t the flex you think it is either. Oh, and “flex” comes from workout-culture - its probably older than either of us.

Is she method-acting/workshopping for a role as one of those characters who is just oblivious to all the male attention they get, or just throwing out there that dating isn’t hard either, so there’s no down-side?

Whatever the case, this is either something-like flirting for them, or just rude. Too rude to be within snapped-like-a-twig distance of a woman who is, by comparisson to “Margot” at least, built like a brick shit-house.

Unintentional “why does the larger one not just eat the smaller one?” implication/reference, but I’m leaving it. With as much as I do NOT miss gynecomastia, please rest assured that I believe y’all are troopers.

We get it, you’re the bottom of the triangle. That a flex where you’re from?

“one”

You mean like the blog/“study” quoted by another here to support the notion that USians won’t actually pay more for local products? The one rigged, run and published by capitalists to justify off-shoring production?

Someone here is indeed quoting those capitalists, and its not the top-left stick-figure.

The few Made In America products with a 200% premium over the overseas competition I am aware of are not short on customers.

Of the many, many, many, “66% off from the factory” overseas products out there, almost none reach American retail shelves without a markup that gets them within 25% of the price of their “locally”-produced counterparts.

Your “certain companies” set-up those consumers to fail, in order to convince share-holders that their brands wouldn’t suffer from off-shoring production.

You should try being more selective with your sources.

What you’re missing is that actual “Made In America” products, the ones that don’t just get a nice label based on a technicality, usually are made by workers paid a living-wage, so long as those products aren’t burgers.

Sucks for the burger-flippers, but without those other products, there are fewer living-wage jobs available to them to escape the minimum-wage trap.

Fewer well-paid workers results in fewer well-educated children. Resulting in more of the cognitave-dissonance-but-accidentally-maybe-doing-one-thing-right voters OOP has a problem with.

… but by all means, attacking certain “buy-local” people for only understanding the part of the message where one speaks with their wallet, and using the wrong, “patriotic”-and-not-en-vogue phrasing … yeah, its super-important work being done in these three low-effort panels without nuance or elaboration, yo.