Drusas

Yes. I have spent time living in the south and I have family from there.

Your rant has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking about superficial friendliness versus rudeness.

I don’t disagree, but the question was whether or not it’s rude. So that’s what I stuck to.

I grew up in notoriously rude New Jersey. You might be surprised to learn that we also had a similar code, we’re just less tactful about it. People in that region are assholes but genuinely kind, helpful people. Kind of like the opposite of the south.

I think you are deeply mistaken in believing that people can be on their phones and not be bored at the same time.

As some others have said, no, it’s not rude to decline. Whether or not it’s rude is in how you word it. You were rude in this particular instance.

The ones that you call neutral, I would say are still rude.

Learning that there is no word for “it” was one of the biggest challenges for me when I first started learning Japanese.

In English, there is never an implied subject (grammatically speaking), unlike in many other languages.

I don’t know if this helps explain it to him, but it could help him to understand the concept. Verbs always need a subject, and if you contextually know what that subject is, you can use “it” (or he, her, etc) instead of being more specific.

“Raining” could be a full sentence in some languages, but in English, you need to specify that the weather is raining, but we can just say “it is raining”.

I’m a little surprised that your boyfriend didn’t learn this while he was learning the language. Did he self-learn? Going through a book on English grammar might be helpful for him.

I hope that hell exists specifically for people like the Koch brothers.

I was using computers in the '90s. Guess it just wasn’t ubiquitous.

I didn’t know that’s even a thing.

I’m old enough and nerd enough to be slightly peeved that “community built” isn’t hyphenated (“community-built”).

Is it just me or does it increasingly seem like almost everything increases one’s risk of Alzheimer’s? Great progress is being made, but it’s crazy how varied the apparent risk factors can be.

It’s an attempt to proactively prevent any progressive progress.

Oh, I agree completely. The impacts of this lack of mentorship are very different from one gender to another.

There’s also a mentorship crisis for young girls and women. I get that there are certain challenges that boys face more than girls, but I don’t think lack of mentorship is one of them. We just don’t have much of any mentorship at all in our society here in the US.

No. No, he doesn’t.

Yes.

There aren’t any actors who would pull me in to seeing everything they are in, but Willem Dafoe, Ryan Reynolds, and Nick Offerman are pretty close.

Guess they’re not really worth $800 million dollars, then, are they?

Paycheck to paycheck isn’t easy. But I understand your point.