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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean there are way less interesting things to make your whole personality.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Kite 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh god. This caught me completely off guard and I just laughed so much. Grew up in western NY, understand perfectly!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol yeah I’m sure I could replace it with a bunch of teams, but growing up in New England I’ve never found more of a “my personality is my football team” than bills fans

[–] Kite 14 points 1 week ago

It wasn't this bad back when I was growing up in the 80's-90's. We were definitely fans, though the Superbowl years gave a lot of us football PTSD. I always enjoyed the Bills because so many of the players then were very small town types. It was normal to see even the big name players like Jim Kelly playing pool in one of the small, rural communities outside the city. (Sabers, too!). I moved away in 2004, so I don't know how much of that community feeling is still there, but something definitely changed. Fans are kind of embarrassing now.

Funny aside:. When Jim Kelly retired as quarterback, he and some others went to play pool at a place in one of those little towns. A friend of mine found out they were there and phoned me up all excited because she was going to go and try to recruit him for her Amway downline, "because now that he's retired, hell need a new source of income!". She wanted me to go with her. Haha hellll no girl, you go shill your MLM by yourself! The second-hand embarrassment was awful.

[–] anomnom 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Got my wife a hat with a buffalo it that is not a Bills hat, not even close if you bother to actually look at it.

When we were in NY last summer she was constantly being asked about football, so much she still hesitates to wear it out now, 2+ states away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They went, alright

[–] Lucidlethargy 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are, but how many people use something worse as an excuse?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

MAGA people

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I've got the opposite problem. I've never travelled, so I feel like I can only ever talk about really mundane things.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I travelled a lot but have shit memory so I can't recount much

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why I take pictures.

[–] timbuck2themoon 10 points 1 week ago

And write a recap as youre going or right after you get back. You'll recall it all reading it years later better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I keep getting told that no one will want to see my travel photos. Maybe it's because I'd rather show them in person instead of posting on social media?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I just take them so I can remember personally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Literally me, if it was up to my memory it would seem like I've never left my hometown

[–] TriflingToad 24 points 1 week ago

ah, a prime candidate for [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No matter where you live, there are guaranteed to be non mundane things going on. You just dont see or interact with them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Live in the midwest, can't confirm.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Start using Arch!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

There are lots of people who travel but still only have mundane things to say because all they did was eat food and not venture outside of the TripAdvisor Top 10 Things To Do in X City

[–] Lucidlethargy 9 points 1 week ago

The mundane things make us who we are. Travel is not something most people can do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No matter where you go, there you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My problem is a different opposite. I grew up abroad but haven't really traveled since. It wasn't my choice and it's got fuckall to do with anything, so I loathe talking about it.

And every time I meet someone it's like "Hey, where're you coming from? There's something in your accent I can't place."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Off road cycling, kayaking, open water swimming? Surely these are not overly mundane things and can be done locally.

[–] CidVicious 1 points 1 week ago

Traveling is expensive and understandably not everyone can do it, but that doesn't mean traveling is a bad thing for people with the means.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of someone I know who still talks about a trip to Europe she did when she was 19 to prove that she's adventurous... It's been close to 50 years and she hasn't done anything like it since and she's anxious at the idea of visiting her family who lives 2h away...

[–] Lucidlethargy 1 points 1 week ago

She's also (probably) wealthy... So... Yeah. That explains a lot, doesn't it?

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 week ago

I posted this to my dating profile