I mean there are way less interesting things to make your whole personality.
Go Bills!
Oh god. This caught me completely off guard and I just laughed so much. Grew up in western NY, understand perfectly!
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
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.
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.
Next time get her a hat featuring a bunch of unpaid invoices
a hat with a buffalo it that is not a Bills hat, not even close if you bother to actually look at it.
Hers is lighter pink too.
That’s pretty damn close imo lol
They went, alright
There are, but how many people use something worse as an excuse?
MAGA people
I’ve got the opposite problem. I’ve never travelled, so I feel like I can only ever talk about really mundane things.
I travelled a lot but have shit memory so I can’t recount much
That’s why I take pictures.
And write a recap as youre going or right after you get back. You’ll recall it all reading it years later better.
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?
I just take them so I can remember personally.
Literally me, if it was up to my memory it would seem like I’ve never left my hometown
ah, a prime candidate for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
No matter where you live, there are guaranteed to be non mundane things going on. You just dont see or interact with them.
Live in the midwest, can’t confirm.
Start using Arch!
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
The mundane things make us who we are. Travel is not something most people can do.
No matter where you go, there you are.
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.”
Off road cycling, kayaking, open water swimming? Surely these are not overly mundane things and can be done locally.
It’s better to have traveled than not. Life is about experiences and the world is a big place.
What if I want to experience a life of no travel?
You’ll go nowhere.
Sucks for you, the planet itself is already moving.
Full disagree. Googlemaps exists, and I can see the Eiffel Tower anytime I want. No need to spend 16 hours on a plane, and $9,000 to take a picture of a thing that’s stood for centuries and has literally millions of photos taken of it.
I’d rather spend that time going to a store that sexxs sex equipment, and then spending time with a woman discussing what sexual kinks she may may have, and what sexual kinks I may have, buying a bunch of bondage and restrzints, and then kidnapping a bunch of hobos, and involuntarily running unethical medical experiments on them to try to create an army of lizardmen. Which I will then use to takeover the government, and prove conspiracy theorists right.
And that’s when I go back in time znd buy evdn MORE drugs, which I will share with that woman who likes to be spanked sometimes.
Yeah, travelling is not so much about seeing stuff, but about feeling a place; at least to me. It feels different to walk through Amsterdam then to walk through Toronto or Tunis.
Google maps cannot really do this at all. Some youtubers can do it to a degree. My go to for that if I cannot travel, is Dale Phillips or Luke Damant. But there are others.
The previous comment is just cope. If you can afford to travel then do so and see how you like it. Traveling is a work out for your brain. We fall into the same patterns of daily living and traveling smooths those grooves. It makes us appreciate things we overlooked and took for granted and gives us a lot of depth when comparing things based on our senses. You can’t reproduce the smell of a spice market or sound of a snowy mountain. Some things are vastly over hyped but that’s because of how we package our vacations to be quick and efficient. If you only do group tours when you are tired of self determination then you will enjoy those better too. All that being said I have been the person in this meme before. When you do a big trip it BECOMES all you think about because it was so impressive. It takes a while before your interest becomes more natural again. People will be annoyed hearing about it and in no small part is that jealousy because the vast majority of us can’t afford the time and cost of big trips. It’s the same as any hobby, you can’t expect other people to be in on your obsession. Traveling is great.
This kind of comment is Plato’s Cave exemplified.
As an American who has spent some time in multiple European countries, using Google maps and looking at online pictures is never going to replace the experience of actually travelling to these places and experiencing them with your own eyes and ears. It’s never going to come close to actually sitting down and eating at local restaurants, trying out your language skills with the shop vendors, or chatting with the locals.
Digital images have a way of becoming “meme-ified” in a sense. You get used to seeing iconic imagery of places or things you’ve never actually experienced yourself. The brain lazily shortcuts this to “seen it”. This is the kind of shit Magritte was warning us against with “The Treachery of Images”. Yeah, anyone can look up Google images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when you’re actually there, breathing the air and seeing the real thing, experiencing every tilted marble step upward to a fantastic panorama of the Italian cityscape and countryside, you will understand everything that an image cannot show you. Anybody can look up a picture of the Sagrada Familia. I can never, ever replace the experience of stepping out of a Spanish taxi and being absolutely gobsmacked by how far I had to crane my head and body just to look at the entire structure from bottom to top.
You will never truly understand what you have not experienced without any intermediate filter.
I lived in new york!
You midwestern floozy
The Bed-Stuy to Berlin pipeline for trust fund kiddies trying make it as power electronics/power noise musicians is strong.
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