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Please don’t, I’ve read so many words that I’ve never said aloud and am 100% saying them wrong
Send me a picture of you wearing mom jeans.
Okay, but I’m reading naked.
Best of both worlds.
Sure, when they do it they’re “awesome” but when I do it suddenly I’m “tresspassing” and “not allowed to come back to the library”.
I’m diagnosed dyslexic which, when reading aloud, sends me into a stutter to full embarrassed apologies. When reading to myself, I’ll make it 10 pages before I realize I didn’t read shit. I’m never getting laid in your hypothetical world.
Who am I kidding? I’m not getting laid as is.
Show me the progress of your most recently opened audiobook.
Man idk
I got a date secured and it dawned on me that I am NOT ready to have a date over. Like you ever realize how many things you gotta take care of that you stopped paying attention to?
Like fine, clear your counters, sweep the floor, clean the bathroom, replace the burnt out light bulb, clean sheets on bed, on box spring, on bedframe, shampoo carpets, dust shelves, put away clean clothes, wash dirty clothes, check your fingernails, check your ear and nose hair, your regular hair, make sure they don’t have allergies, etc, etc.
Im ok with not getting laid I don’t have the energy to go to work, do all that shit, panic for a week about the date, have fun at the date, play the social awkward dance of “more, not more” and potentially end up having her see that I’m an absolute disaster?
Nah I’m good.
Yeah, I have SO many rescue animals, it’s hard to explain to normal people. Multiple dogs with all sorts of problems, a few parrots, an angry hedgehog, two cats, and my vet’s first call to foster (almost anything). They are all well taken care of and clean but there’s a… smell.
I’m also holding Balthazar, a bark scorpion, against his will for invading Pretty Kitty Pepper’s land. Balthazar is kept well and fed a steady diet of pinheads. When he eats, it looks like a dot matrix printer in reverse. That’s the one creature in the house most people freak out about the most, but they would all be wise to fear the parrots.
Pretty Kitty Pepper for reference
Hmmm. I have a cat and an 8yo ADHD boy.
There’s a smell, and stuff everywhere. So yeah, you get it. I don’t live in a barn, but it sure does feel like it some days.
Yeah routine self-management/self-care is something many people are looking for in a partner. At a minimum. Good on you for knowing. I actually live alone now, and I find those things are much easier to take care of without someone else’s clutter adding to the cacophony. Also, where things used to pile up I use baskets.
I need more baskets
Don’t fall for it ppl! This is just the AI wanting more samples to detect, know and reproduce our voices.
This is why I just burp into the phone until I know I’m talking to a real person.
Oof, that’s at least 1/4 of USA just OUT
Good. There’s too many of us.
reading books to each other is an amazing pastime.
pastime
keep reading those books
I don’t see the problem…?
They edited the post from pass time to pastime after my comment.
Oh. I took your “pastime” as a quote, not a correction.
i Swype type on my phone
i really hope I’m smarter irl
Until its me where my fiancée always wants me to read to her while she falls asleep but I CANT RED OUTLOUD AND UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON AND SHE INTERRUPTS ME WOTH “HUH? WHOS THAT? WHY DID SHE DO THAT? WAS THIS WRITTEN BY A MAN??”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions, has been a trip so far
Although I recommend it, It is obvious it isn’t for everyone.
I’m sure your fiancée appreciated it.
Read? … what kind of pervert are you?
Here’s a very horny variant of this idea (no idea how it counts as SFW by Youtube standards)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle…
My issues prevent me from being able to read allowed without sounding stupid. But otherwise I read a few books a week, so are we sure this is evidence?
…“aren’t”. What’s “ain’t” a contraction of, exactly?
I agree with the sentiment though.
Ain’t has been around since 1749, with an’t and in’t preceding it. It seems to have always been associated with the common people, and familiar/colloquial talk. Dickens used it a lot for that reason.
Aren’t to an’t makes perfect sense among people who don’t pronounce their rs like certain Brits (non-rhotic).
And isn’t to in’t, and haven’t/hasn’t to hasn’t are certainly no more difficult elisions to understand than Worcestershire or Cholmondly, although those have kept their spelling because they’re names.
AI not. Ain’t.
Snicker. :)
In fairness they never said they ain’t stupid, they want to know if who they’re messaging isn’t stupid.
Ain’t is just a shifted dialectal pronunciation of aren’t
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ain't
Also relevant to the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster’s_Third_New_International_Dictionary#Treatment_of_the_contraction_'Ain’t’
