It can be anything: at your job or any forced activity that you just don’t feel like doing surrounded by other people. Visiting certain place, local, party, etc. It can be anything: at your job or any forced activity that you just don’t feel like doing surrounded by other people. Visiting certain place, local, party, etc.
I had to accompany my young brother to a small comic con thing a month ago and I was cringing HARD in that place I couldn’t bear being there, I just kept my head down most of the time otherwise I would’ve just start laughing or rolling my eyes looking all that adult people dressed like it’s a shitty Halloween party.
I think the worst is forced companionship, like getting together with a family for birthdays and stuff. The meaningless chit-chat… The being nice even though you know there are some that can’t stand each other. Once you’ve had some unforced editions of these, like with friends or just people you get along with easily, it becomes blatantly obvious how uncomfortable it gets when it’s forced.
In the US, the singing of the national anthem and the military involvement always makes me uncomfortable, coming from a culture where that doesn’t happen unless it’s a really big event.
I am a veteran (you’re welcome for my service) and I also find this annoying/over the top.
I am shocked an appalled that you don’t have any replies thanking you for your service.
However, I’m suspecting that you don’t feel extremely offended by Kaepernick kneeling either?
There, with the sarcasm out of the way, how did the “thank you for your service”-thing start? I assume it was during the Bush Jr era, but was there a public statement of some sort suggesting everyone should do this? I’m also a “veteran”* (not US, though), and I would just be weirded out if it became a trend here.
*: Never deployed abroad. I was offered a contract, but turned it down due to a competing offer from the IT sector.
Veteran here sharing my personal experience. It seemed like people generally didn’t give a shit about veterans except for maybe a few people that had some sort of relevant personal experience or values related to patriotism or sacrifice. Around 2009, it got politicized. After that, it was a competition to see who cared more about veterans and felt a bit odd and fake, kind of like how people are publicly obsessed with the US Constitution, yet have never read the whole thing. It’s a theater in the never-ending war for political or moral validity. Around 2018, it started slowly waning off again, but not to the level it was before.
Anytime two people who don’t know each other are forced to wait in a shared waiting area.
One person feels the NEED to talk about SOMETHING. So it’s always the weather. ALWAYS the weather. Is there a more boring and irrelevant topic in all of humanity???
“Oh, think it’ll rain Tuesday?”
“I don’t give a shit.”
But somehow I’M the asshole. All I wanted to do was scroll my phone, and wait for my appointment in silence. I’m not even a fan of this mundane music we’re forced to listen to. If I want music, I’ll wear my headphones. And if you want music, YOU wear YOUR headphones.
But don’t bother me with the weather just because you feel a compulsive need to fill the silence. I like the silence.
Just don’t look at them and say, “Indeed, there does appear to be weather outside, happening right now.”
I cringe at the narcissism of thinking others are “normies” or whatever. The type of reddit “sportsball”, “I hate small talk”, “dark humor”, “r/raisedbynarcissists”, etc. And many more things. A lot of it feels like it’s just people thinking they know better than others(yes I see the irony).
Unrelated answer I get uncomfortable eating in restaurants.
Americans chanting “USA! USA! USA!” At the Olympics
