It seems a little wild to plan a wedding at which the bride wouldn't be considered legally responsible enough to have a celebratory drink. But if your folks are all good with it, I imagine there's some cultural context I'm missing.
Do you feel like you are much different than you were at say, 15? And similarly different then as to the man you were at 10?
It is different but still, imagine one of your best friends from childhood. With the benefit of hindsight, would you be confident saying you'd be best friends until death, let alone the trials and tribulations of raising a family?
That being said, you know your situation better than I.
Yeah, I know I'm in the minority in the fediverse on this but for the last few months (for some of what I wanted, about 10 months) I've kept glancing at a few things that weren't urgent but would be needed soonish, and now the prices have all come down a good chunk for Black Friday.
I get if you're randomly scrolling amazon looking for deals, yeah, that's garbage. But if you've been patient, with actual specific ideas...
Maybe recency bias, but a lot of stuff from the new Running Man hits home. Maybe not the murder TV show but (obviously minor worldbuilding spoilers):
Bifurcated society, where the have nots have to check in to enter the nice part of town. (Related story: A couple years ago, I visited America for a wedding. After the pre-wedding reception, I was walking back to my hotel through an upscale neighbourhood, in a suit. Within a half hour private security drove by, got out of the car, hand on gun and explained they'd received calls about me walking on the sidewalk. The guy then insisted he drive me to a more suitable area.)
Unions existed but reporting to them gets you blacklisted, people need work so safety regulations only exist on paper.
Veterans Affairs is taken over by the Y and reduced to a miserable hostel and not much else.
Time in a green park is awarded by lottery and only briefly.
Ubiquitous private security.
One media network, that is free and mostly exists to pit haves vs have nots. (Pretty much social media already)
Etc. I think the part that really gets me is you don't have to imagine particularly hard to see us getting there.
I like it as a more relaxing version of Slay the Spire. I'm not great at either though, so take what I say with more than a few grains of salt. I feel like I can see the combos Monster Train wants more easily than in Slay the Spire, where I sometimes feel like I'm tricking the system OR the Spire is trying to trick me by offering something remoting that doesn't quite work with my deck.
How about you? Which do you prefer, or do you have a preference?
Oh, best believe we used that line all the time, unironically. It's like they'd all watched Glengarry Glen Ross and missed the entire point of the movie/play.
My rule, especially when I was working in South East Asian neighbourhoods, was something like "stop saying yes to the first dinner offer! There'll be something amazing you haven't had yet by door 5." (Those folks were crazy friendly, really blew me away and opened my eyes to a whole range of delicious foods.)
I'm not sure about pure evil so much as sociopathic. I worked briefly in door to door sales, got taken to some high performer award celebration nonsense and was standing in one of those group circles as people were recounting war stories. "Give her the discount? Hell no. And then I realized she was too old to read what I was writing so I just added an extra year on to the contract!" Huge round of laughter, light applause.
To make it more gross... The discount was standard, we got no extra commission for having or not having it, was purely a free promotion to grease the wheels. He just didn't because, well, the old lady he'd scammed was too trusting.
Is there a physical community notice board somewhere? Failing that, a local library? (The librarians would probably know where to find some sort of community notice board.) Those things often have group activities posted.
Unsure how common it is in smaller towns but in my city moat bars have event nights whether they're trivia, karaoke etc. Or, sounds weird but even going, sitting at the bar and watching a game has, in my experience, often led to conversation.
It's about a real problem absolutely, and a problem that is worthy of discussion but just this thought process rings so false (at least, among the priviliged western users whom I think make up a large percentage of us.)
I mean, absolutely, especially globally, there are still a lot of communities like that.
In the developed west, personally at least, I think the people who would have that attitude tend to be a bit too old (or way too old) to be having kids.
While I can't speak to OP's experience, that's the kind of sentiment that publicly expressed would make employment more difficult etc.
I jumped to piefed a couple of weeks ago. Copying my feeds from lemmy was fine (also grabbed pugJesus' to round out the collection.) I liked the topic browsing etc so subscribed to a bunch of other communities but often just find myself on all sorted by scaled.
I don't think there's any real consequences to switching, I rather like the UI and a couple of handy features but admittedly am still just using the front end website rather than an app.
It seems a little wild to plan a wedding at which the bride wouldn't be considered legally responsible enough to have a celebratory drink. But if your folks are all good with it, I imagine there's some cultural context I'm missing.
Do you feel like you are much different than you were at say, 15? And similarly different then as to the man you were at 10?
It is different but still, imagine one of your best friends from childhood. With the benefit of hindsight, would you be confident saying you'd be best friends until death, let alone the trials and tribulations of raising a family?
That being said, you know your situation better than I.