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If "most of them male" were a factual, true description, then no one would have cause to take you to task about it. If it were inaccurate, then the inaccuracy should, naturally, be corrected.
To borrow from the curmudgeon, bravo sierra.
Now, feel free to continue to respond. I, however, find it boring, trivial, and mundane, so I will allow you to have the last word. I will consider it my charitable act for the day. Bye!
Now, feel free to continue to respond. I, however, find it boring, trivial, and mundane, so I will allow you to have the last word. I will consider it my charitable act for the day. Bye!
It is certainly not a "charitable act", but rather an appropriate one to cease hijacking the thread. Glad to hear it, of course.
Sometimes I'm interested in mundane topics because it may take my mind off the pain I have which others do not wish to hear. lol Years ago after my college years which included those deep philosophical discussions about life and living, I got that out of my system. Recently, a good friend was visiting and somehow we got into talking about something I'd never discussed with anyone before: beliefs on what happens when we die. It turns out we both pretty much think the same thing. We may or may not ever talk about it again, but it was interesting to do.
In the City-Data Retirement Forum there is a Chat Thread;
But there is something I don't understand. Many posters, mostly female, post about and are interested in the posts of others concerning the most trivial, mundane, boring aspects of daily life:
I don't make objections to those posts in the Chat Thread because, hey, it's a chat thread, so anything goes as long as the City-Data rules are observed. But I am greatly puzzled why there is such a high volume of absolute trivia, and I am hoping that posters here will be able to shed some light on this phenomenon.
Do people have no life of the mind, no real adventures or significant happenings in their lives? If so, perhaps the meaningless trivia is all there is and people validate each other by relating their trivia? Help me with this.
I'm late to this party (thread), but sure I'll help: women have been prattling on about drama since the dawn of time, it's what they do to maintain tribal social cohesion. Men in hunter-gatherer tribes expended their energy finding food animals, hunting in groups as we do, and in the evening sat around the fire and did a lot less talking.
As a man, I too have no use for that malarkey and spend my time on vastly different pursuits that don't involve what some bunch of "people" did or didn't do. I don't care, never did or will. But others do. Whatever, let them have at it!
We are, of course, tribally evolved plains apes and have a hard time at a primal level accepting outsiders/foreigners without distrust. So when you need to maintain social cohesion, have the women do that and focus on child rearing. Hello? Google "Dian Fossey" and her studies on Silverback Gorillas if the subject is interesting: we're primates and the social parallels are interesting.
Nature of the beast, tribalism, be it on the Internet or 12,000 years ago around some campfire on the Ukraine Steppe as the glaciers ebbed and flowed across the landscape. Thank Jean Auel for that imagery in my head.
You do wonder why people need to tell strangers all of this. I don't get it, either. It obviously is not limited to older people, though....look at younger kids on social media.
I don't get it either - I am on FB but I only have about 20 or so "friends". Some of them post the most inane stuff - they act like they are teenagers writing in their diary. I finally had to unfollow some of them.
I'd discuss the nutritional value of food in the "Health & Wellness" group; saving money on food in the "Frugal Living" group; and I think there is a "Recipes" group.
Seems to me that the discussions in the food forum are quite appropriate: mostly enjoying foods.
I think there is a writing group and a literature group too.
Yes, Entertainment and Arts, Books, and a Writing Forum.
I'm late to this party (thread), but sure I'll help: women have been prattling on about drama since the dawn of time, it's what they do to maintain tribal social cohesion. Men in hunter-gatherer tribes expended their energy finding food animals, hunting in groups as we do, and in the evening sat around the fire and did a lot less talking.
Would that some would indulge in the same kind of reticence now.
Chatting about small matters connects people to people. Some people like that. I don't know that this could be simpler and am surprised to see a rash of similar threads lately. "ZOMG why do people like to communicate about non-essential, non-critical things? Why that is just cray-cray!"" Uh...how long have you been a human being again? LOL! These are the easy ones, folks, they get tougher...
Anyway...HTH. For all the C-3POs out there who have not yet figured out that social species communicate non-essentially in order to create or strengthen bonds, whether temporarily or long-term, this one's for you.
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