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[–] [email protected] 151 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] kautau 97 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] kautau 21 points 4 days 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days 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.

[–] Jackcooper 5 points 3 days ago

They went, alright

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

MAGA people

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days 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] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Dadifer 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's why I take pictures.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days 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] 2 points 3 days 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?

[–] Dadifer 3 points 3 days ago

I just take them so I can remember personally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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

[–] menemen 17 points 3 days ago

Start using Arch!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

ah, a prime candidate for [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days 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.

[–] Zorque 18 points 4 days ago

Live in the midwest, can't confirm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days 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

[–] Blue_Morpho 7 points 4 days ago

No matter where you go, there you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[–] blady_blah 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's better to have traveled than not. Life is about experiences and the world is a big place.

[–] hark 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What if I want to experience a life of no travel?

[–] Shardikprime 7 points 3 days ago

Sucks for you, the planet itself is already moving.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 6 points 3 days ago

You'll go nowhere.

[–] Shardikprime 6 points 3 days ago

I mean I really doubt that someone who handles European eccentricities for months all by themselves is gonna get nervous about that question.

At the very least, they may had mishaps with the locals did to the language barrier, got scammed a few times, learned about eating healthy good food for once in their lives, got to see and listen to the many guided attraction tours, maybe knew a few nice people here and there for future reference, got to experience a city full of trash thanks to union actions and so on

All in all, a good learning experience

[–] thesohoriots 7 points 4 days ago

The Bed-Stuy to Berlin pipeline for trust fund kiddies trying make it as power electronics/power noise musicians is strong.

[–] Norodix 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Discover 3 points 3 days ago

You midwestern floozy