Krik

I don’t miss carrying 20 kg CRTs.

I’m also 40-something and I see all that stuff around me. It’s hard not to notice. All the (6) colleagues in my office room are divorced and in most cases the (ex-)wife is the reason. And when I see the other women… there aren’t a lot of good choices.

Some guys would do that because they know they won’t have a chance to get a ‘better’ woman.

The problem is women and men are different and they treat each other differently.

No man would would push down a young beautiful woman from the edge of a bed. Women notice that and are flattered that they are wanted so much. Honestly women only need not to be obese and the guys will line up. But that’s only true for young woman. After 30-35-year-old most women beauty diminish rapidly.
Men on the other hand age visibly slowly. A lot of women still judge them handsome when the guys are already 40 or 50 years old. (There are of course ugly 40 and 50 years old.) But young men are more often only playthings and only the 6-6-6 ones have a good shot a being choosy.

Which is true. But! Men <30 years old usually are more tolerant in what they accept. They’ll take almost any woman 18-30 years, low or high income, fat or skinny, beautiful or ugly, etc.

Women below 30 years age on the other hand often are fixated on 6-6-6 rule (6+ foot height, 6 digits income, 6 pack) which are like the top 1% of the male population. Once they are older and want to ‘settle down’ they won’t get any of these top guys because these guys can cherrypick their women. And then the women are disappointed by the ‘left-overs’. I’m not an incel but I can understand why it (sometimes? often?) happens this way.

How to solve this? No idea.
How did couple come together 100 years ago? What did they do different back then?

Let’s eat, grandpa!
Let’s eat grandpa!

Fun fact:
In medieval times cats were seen as evil and chased away. The job of hunting mice was done by smaller dogs.

I don’t feel so HD yet.

Most guys are playing female characters. Even most female player chose them and women hate women the most. :D

when you realize the average reading level of the US is at a 7th grade level and 20% read below a third grade level it explains why companies require degrees.

Ouch. I didn’t know it is so bad. How could the people allow that? Why is nobody on the street and marching for more education?

This is stupid. Not you what you tell.

You can game that system by majoring an easy degree.

Or gender studies. I still don’t know what that is about.

You can also try philosophy so you can philosophize about why this choice was bad.
Who tf hires someone with a degree in philosophy?

What? Automated food supply?

BUY! BUY! BUY!

Yeah! What’s going on with the names? Is he trying to punish his kids for existing?

There are shrimps in it? I thought they just mixed gelatine, yogurt, mayo and some spices. O_o

I would like to see the recipe of that mayo cake(?) in the center.

There exists a generation of people today that do not know that the save icon shows a floppy disk. They have no idea what a floppy disk even was.

I feel old now and will go back into my cave and weep quietly.

Old English catt (c. 700) “domestic cat,” from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz (source also of Old Frisian katte, Old Norse köttr, Dutch kat, Old High German kazza, German Katze), from Late Latin cattus.

The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. It is probably ultimately Afro-Asiatic (compare Nubian kadis, Berber kadiska, both meaning “cat”). Arabic qitt “tomcat” may be from the same source. Cats were domestic in Egypt from c. 2000 B.C.E. but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans.

The Late Latin word also is the source of Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.). Independent, but ultimately from the same source are words in the Slavic group: Old Church Slavonic kotuka, kotel’a, Bulgarian kotka, Russian koška, Polish kot, along with Lithuanian katė and (non-Indo-European) Finnish katti, which is via Lithuanian.

Source

So… our word for cat is derived from a 2000 year old latin word that itself probably derived from an earlier word from somewhere in Northern Africa and/or the Levant. I guess the people then didn’t pick the name by the sound it makes.

It’s got electrolytes!