anywhere densely populated really

I understand anon. I understand. 😶

You’re a techie vegetarian and you attempt to stifle your inborn bigotry? Are you really…

Op would love Finland. Only ever talked to one stranger (who is now my wife) and the only thing we shake is the umbrella. And booze, well you will need it too.

What is the umbrella reference about?

When you go inside you shake the water out of the umbrella so it doesn't drip inside your house. Yeah, that's it, no reference or anything.

Yeah but like, is that somehow Finnish?

Umbrella gets wet.
Ya shake it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯

Is that a Finnish thing or just the first thing you thought to shake?

introverted and alcoholic? Please tell me more about this wonderful place called Finland

What else do you shake on a fairly common basis, I suppose you also shake the bottle to get every last drop out. So it's bottle or umbrella.

I really liked the Jodel app many years ago. Hyperlocal social media that led me to meet and interact with quite a few interesting people that i would never meet in a bar. Okay i am maybe not that introvert, but i hate disco shaky booty

Only ever talked to one stranger

Scandalous!

Same thing in sweden when I grew up there, except nobody dances, nobody did booty shakes, only football and drinking 😑😔.

I left.

Finnish people do not shake hands.

It's a similar experience being an introvert who isn't into sports in Australia.

I hate that the end of every news segment on radio and TV ends in "sports".

Sports is not fucking news. Stop wasting our fucking time perpetuating a tribalist game

There is no innuendo if you are looking for an innuendo. He's literally talking about shaking the rain off an umbrella. He's happily married and neither his wife nor he like to dance so they don't shake anything but their umbrella. Get it?

It's worldwide. Everyone around the world who has used an umbrella has shaken rain off an umbrella. Are you an alien from another solar system?

People should dance more. It really does make things a bit more tolerable.

What exactly did you think the political section was about?

Sport is politics in Europe, at least. It's important who you support because sports clubs are often tied to political movements.

You don't want to support Lazio, for instance, and Real Madrid was Franco's club.

Anyway, politics is also a sort of game as you say.

I'm an ambivert. I'm also not particularly into watching a good percentage of sports, but I'll pretty much go to anything if a friend asks if I want to join them going to an event or even just watch it with them somewhere.

Doesn't really just apply to sports either, up for anything really: gigs, art exhibitions, hikes, cinema, visiting a random town for some reason, you name it.

Firstly, I can't exactly knock something until I've given it a good go, but more importantly for me, it's time I get to spend with one/some of my mates and might result in some good memories. Reminder that introversion is not the same thing as social anxiety, introverts generally also like to hang out with their friends.

Plus I also like photography, so random days out are a good way to get pictures you wouldn't otherwise.

indeed, came to point this out, nothing much has changed in 1000s of years though. Pie 'n footy os the new Bread 'n Circuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority

Loving in Has main a the biggest concern of the public is a es AFL football stadium and yet we have the worst health outcomes, the worst educational outcomes etc etc

Maybe from Saudi Arabia? No umbrella-shaking in Saudi Arabia.

To be fair, if you go out to a loud party you're not likely to meet many introverts there - they'll all be at home, unless their own extravert friend dragged them out to the party.

Dancing with trusted people, yes. But in many/most places, how you dance is subject to social stigma, which is much much worse than any benefit of dancing.

And if you only know the stigma-attached dancing, then it poisons "healthy" dance for you, because humans think of the bad thing first.

Oh yeah, I definitely know the difference between social anxiety and introversion. Social anxiety is when it's intensely uncomfortable to even talk to my dad, or my partner. Introversion is being capable of having a nice day all on my own, but still being totally up for hanging out with friends, as long as I get time alone often enough in between.

Ironically I even like sporting events if me and my friends are actually there in the stadium. The feel of the crowd is magical. But that's not really about the sport

I'm mostly baffled that when people don't even understand the concept of "not liking sports"
I have a lot of smalltalk at work with dudes and it's always something like: wait, so you have no idea who won the football game? What happened?

Oh i don't watch football.

Never?

Nope, i have never seen a football match.

Huh. So you just watch the big games.

No, never.

But you watch the World championship.

No.

Not even when your country plays?

Is it still millionaires chasing a ball in a really boring manner? Then still no.

It's not even just sports, somehow, some people can't comprehend that someone doesn't like or even know of "insert mainstream thing". C'mon, stop pretending you don't know famous artist who sells out stadiums. For fucks sake, why would i? I maybe read their name at some point or maybe a song was once playing in a mall, but other than that we don't live the same life.

Oh god. Very close to me. Exactly why I left and refuse to date latinas and for the most part make friends with latinos.

A bit over the top tho. You can definetly be a ladies man even if you don't dance. Not easy as if you dance, but totally doable.

Now to the serious thing:

Fake: Anon has internet in Colombia
Gay: Anon dosn't like booty.

Before you downvote me, I am Colombian and don't really dance to anything remotely latin

no. Scandinavian

As a Brazilian, I can relate

Turns out these people identify with the teams and feel a victory as if it was their own. The "We won!" crowd. Some other folks have a stronger separation between self and other and don't have any emotional attachment with some sports team that did something.

Football hooliganism must be the endgame of "everything is political." I see it as something to preferably be avoided personally.

Polaroid picture

As someone who never dances, almost entirely due to social anxiety, I think you'd actually find that most people don't care what you look like while dancing (unless it's a competition or something). That's really the key, from what I understand: stop giving a fuck about whether you look silly or not. Most of the people already dancing look silly, they have just learned to not care and enjoy it.

As I said, easier said than done of course. Alcohol can definitely help.

My Latino friends say the stigma doesn't exist.

My doubt is palpable...

To be fair American culture is also mostly football and drinking

I felt this way in my own home culture as well. I grew up in a red bubble in a blue state in the US, where the underlying currents were no more than “conformity and hometown pride.” Oddly, the only things to be “proud” of were conformity itself and high school football (the pride-surrogate of adults with nothing better to celebrate.) It was all so hollow, and when 9/11 happened it all turned up to… well, 11. Being 12 and saying, “I don’t think this war makes sense” was enough to ostracize one’s self and be bombarded with the brain-dead argument of, “iF yOu hAtE AMURICA tHeN yOu cAn JuSt LEAVE!” Yeah okay, parrot. It was always obvious the kids just absorbed whatever mindless take their parents said (which was, itself, picked up from other people or Fox News.)

Man, thinking of my hometown always brings out a rant… Anyway, I grew up always feeling like a stranger in my own home, bullied and cast aside for not being like the rest. Thank goodness I was able to GTFO and meet people who use their brains as more than a copy/paste bin for other people’s thoughts.

People should (insert any random activity here) more. It really does make things a bit more tolerable.

Their mountains so lofty

Their treetops so tall

Fine, if you don't like sports we can talk about the stock market. Tesla and Palantir, bro. Oil futures to the moon. Selling reverse vix puts. Alpha beta gamma I'm going to be rich.

I once talked with my date about football and she said, well, when there is a really big game, she likes to watch, otherwise not really. And i asked why, it's the same game. And she said, she doesn't really know, she just likes to cheer for a team and hopes that they win. Which i found interesting. It's like gambling, but boring and stretched out. When i was younger and people asked me what my team was, i always asked which team is the best, or winning, and that was my answer. Then you get so much shit for being a bandwagon fan. Like dude, you are cheering for a team that has been losing for 10 years like your life depends on it, get a grip.

Man, those crypto bros somehow have even less self awareness than the sports dudes

Never felt more identified with a post. I've been saying this for a while and all they tell me is "just dance!" :(

What’s your favorite looks maxxing hammer?

Hey ya

Not every European country. I’d wager it’s mostly Southern and Eastern Europe where that is the case.

I'm in a similar boat, but I guess thanks to where I work I haven't had that much of a problem, STEM still has some dancers and partiers as well as a lot of soccer fans, but thankfully we can talk about many other subjects too

Don't forget Jesus, racism and military cosplay.