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And they're fake hikers and travelers too. I met somebody irl who said one of their interests was eating food but they just go to the places for the vibes and not for the food. Whereas I'm the complete opposite, I would go to a crack den for the best food.
A date I had said their hobbies were walking and hiking among other things. Our 1st date was at a local park with a 20 step stair case that took her out... It was my first exposure to this bizarre labelling that goes on here.
There wasn't a 2nd lol
Humans are just animals at the end of the day. This is all a sexual display of fitness. Hiking and traveling tell people you're physically and financially fit. You can move around no issue. You are social. You are socially and physically healthy.
They lie a ton and show pics of hiking from 5 years ago and act like they can still do all that. Or they never could and the pics are deceiving... Regardless, it's just a game all genders are playing to show sexual fitness. It looks like carbon copies because it's the best way to communicate "my body moves well and I can afford luxury".
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joke is on them.
I can't afford luxury shit, but I can ride my non luxury bike like 150 miles in a day.
I had a firdt date with someone who loved hiking. I asked her if she wanted to go on a trail i like. I was worrued that it was maybe to long and steep, or maybe even to short. When we met, she was way bigger than i expected. I told ger that we could do something else, but she insiated. She was super slow and i was worried sge's gonna pass out. She asked me if how far we have to go, when i could still see my car. Similar thing happened when i went on a vike ride with someone who was really into cycling
I feel like this could be really uncomfortable because of the helmet horns.
I invited a girl out on a bike ride and she literally did pass out. Was able to revive her and walk her home.
She never talked to me again.
I love walking and hiking, but having to walk uphill takes me out, too.
Relevant XKCD
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Best Chinese food I've had was in a legit city basement.
Best philly cheesesteak I've ever had was from a hospital cafeteria.
The best food is usually in places like that too. My home city has this literal hole in a wall mexican place. You know it's good when it's also a grocery store and nobody speaks good English except for the kids who are the wait staff. Best fucking food I've ever had and I'm gutted because they closed down 6 months later and I don't know if they moved or went out of business 😭😭😭
There's this bengali place I love that is also a grocery store. It's so epic
I have a Pavlovian response to seeing shelves of spices and dried peppers in unlabeled bags in a language I can't read because of this. If I'm already hungry and I walk in to a new place and see that suddenly I'm ravenous.
amen brother.
best places to eat are the places with no white people. whitey has no taste.
but sucks that usually such places don't last and get replaced with generic white person food.
No need to get all racist, mate
They do be trifflin
Yep. I mean, he's not wrong that everyone has a sort of carbon copy "hike/travel" profile but that's like being a bird and complaining that all the mating dances of your species look the same. It's just a skin deep display of "I am healthy, can move around physically, make friends, and make enough money to do luxury things". Dating app profiles look the same because everyone is trying to present themselves as sexually fit in the same ways.
But that doesn't mean everyone is the same, and you'll find out half the people are faking it. So many "love to travel" but provide pictures of their one vacation 7 years ago, and would struggle to try to again. Or actually hate the physical exercise of the hikes they show pictures of.
It is kind of a bullshit game but it's just an aspect of how we're basic animals doing little mating dances for each other, and some can't hide that they're not "normal" and struggle a fuck ton on these apps. They try to be the weird honest ones but just end up advertising they're broken.
Ohh a group of my friends has someone like that. Although everyone has been getting increasingly distant from her as she won't turn up to anything that isn't fancy enough for her, and there is an increasing feeling that she only ever messages us when she doesn't have anything else she would rather do going on - we hear from her much more when she is unemployed and single.