Ah, kph/“kills per hour”. My favorite American unit of speed.

They’ll unleash such violent violence that women’s voice won’t ever again.

Did any famous people dodge the draft (and also underachieve their whole life) and succeed? I need a more achievable role model.

It does?

Sorry, I didn’t sanitize my output, assuming this would forestalled by the redirect to my other comment explaining I see how I was applying my implicit biases and connotations to what “argument” means.

I didn’t call out the addition of competitions then because I didn’t think this would sprawl as long as it did. I will do so now:

I never said a word about competitions and that, in my mind, has no inherent bearing on the healthiness of a relationship as there can be different types of competition. So we can immediately excise that from further discussion.

Addressing the sole part that is relevant now: I now agree arguments aren’t necessarily angry, by everyone’s definition. But that was the tone and definition with which I made the original comments up until that first reply to chicken.

You can see that segment as a revision of my first reply to you. Have a good whatever.

Yeah, I can admit my definition of argument might not widely applicable. Not to say my understanding of the word is the sole definition but people often use words wrong, so I shouldn’t die on the hill that my interpretation is the correct one.

But, to your second point, I read the OOP as the supposed “gf” (I still assume the OOP is fake) being the main instigator for the argument while the writer is more passive. The gf is able to leave but is also the one who rejoins the argument later, after having ChatGPT corrall her talking points.

But that’s getting more into the weeds of analysis than I csre to go.

I’ve never said a single word about competitions in relationships.

Idk if you saw my expansion in my comment to chicken in a different subthread.

If you have and this is still your answer, then whatever that’ll be your opinion and I’ll have mine. Some people smoke multiple packs a day and live to 80 but that doesn’t make smoking a healthy thing to do either.

Check my comment to chicken and edit this if you want.

Hmm, that’s given me pause, to reconsider.

I consider an “argument” when voices get raised and people get heated. Big or small is difference of how long people are upset and how loud participants get. I will concede I was unwittingly applying a definition other people may not share.

Note: it it gets physical, that escalates from “argument” to “fight”.

Edit: to address your comment more directly. No, if people are being civil and tones are reasonable, a disagreement doesn’t have to be an argument. It’s just another discussion. Perhaps a debate. But an “argument” in my mind is oppositional.

Since we’re playing silly numbers: 0. You can, and likely will, disagree but healthy people shouldn’t escalate into anything resembling an argument.

But speaking of silly numbers. All of those you used. No one says “a couple” when they have a concrete number in mind unless they’re looking to downplay the number. It can be 2, it can be 3, it can be 4. It’s only, definitively, more than 1.

Also, why are big arguments being weighted the same as small arguments? Although I’m not going to quibble over how many small arguments a big argument is “worth” (assuming we take 1 ‘small argument’ as our unit).

Lastly, how often are you seeing each other in the first month that an argument, even a small one, doesn’t throw up red flags. If you REALLY like them on the first date, you’d make time to see them like twice a week or something? I’ll admit that there is leeway here as to what constitutes “dating” someone as some people see potential SOs for weeks (months?) before locking in. I also admit I’m abnormal as I frequently need time to not see people. My point remains that unless you’ve moved in with them as soon as you started dating, you are not seeing each other with enough frequency for that volume of arguments to make sense. Unless the arguments are about the (in)frequency of going on dates.

If you consider multiple big arguments in the first 8 months of a new relationship a “minor inconvenience”, then I hope you only have partners that agree with you and spare all the normal people.

Ignoring that this is probably bullshit, I think the bigger problem is that you’ve had multiple bigger and even more smaller arguments in only 8 months. Just break up.

I don’t recall the full episode but a few things stood out.

• it would be cold as hel, so properly strapping a lifevest around some flotsam seems iffy
• isn’t saltwater more buoyant or is that old fishwife’s tale? Also idk if that test body of water is salty.

And that’s job creation right there!

Thanks to Discord, I’m able to keep merchants that “connect overbearing authoritarian entities with the data they shouldn’t have, at a price point we all can agree on” at stable, sub-full time employment status.

Truly, pillar of the economy, er community.

Not meaningless but certainly undercuts the grandstanding.

It’s unpossible, is what it is.

I can’t tell if you really thought I was really out here to post “hot takes” or if that’s simply the limit of your ability to process other people’s questions. In any case, thanks for the clarification. This will no longer be addressing you, so feel free to go be angry somewhere else.

If true, it’s a long standing issue. And weird that it’s only being heavily brought up this election cycle. Perhaps last time the idea of Trump presidency was so far-fetched that it wasn’t deemed worth it? But it’s so easy that, if you’re going to sling mud like most political parties do, you’d have no reason not to use it from last time.

We absolutely should be banning people from public office (especially the presidency) because of age, mostly because of its causal relation with physical and mental fitness. Which is what the questions about his apparent smell are also trying to get to the bottom. Is this person suffering the advanced effects of age or are they still fit to perform the duties of the position?

But thanks for engaging with the topic instead of trying to make this some banal conversation about what I think of his eau d’ toilet. Is what I wish I could’ve said.

I don’t get the people saying this doesn’t matter. People don’t just naturally smell horrid if they are regularly bathing.

Has he always smelled like shit or is this new? Is this further evidence of his inability (or unwillingness) to clean himself? Or is this a refusal to allow anyone to clean him despite a disability? Incredibly, is someone forcing him not to clean himself? Is this some form of incontinence he has refused to address?

There are various implications about his health. Things most reasonable people have assumed but that Trump has stringently refused to provide acceptable verification for.

There are things to think about beyond “bad man stinky” but other people here are acting like they’re too high-minded to ponder them.

/inb4 I already know Trump sucks because <laundry list of deficiencies />