When telemarketers call, my wife doesn’t answer the phone because they get her all flustered and she just doesn’t like dealing with them. She wants me to f... more
When telemarketers call, my wife doesn’t answer the phone because they get her all flustered and she just doesn’t like dealing with them. She wants me to follow her lead, which I usually do, but there are times that I will answer and engage with them. Sometimes there is no one on the other end, it’s a robocall, and I just hang up. My wife assumes that her anxiety with dealing with telemarketers is universal (meaning that since she is my wife, she believes that I should think and feel exactly the same way that she does), she then gets flustered with me after I hang up the phone from talking with them. I assure her that I’m not bothered by talking with them at all, but to no avail; she would rather I don’t answer. That’s been a long-standing quasi-“agreement” around here for almost a year that we don’t answer telemarketers‘ calls. Then I retired, so nowadays I’m home more, and I’m around her more. I didn&rs... less
I know they're future dead men because they're GUARANTEED to be dead in the future.I'm a future immortal because I'm young enough to reap the benefits of advancing medical science ... moreI know they're future dead men because they're GUARANTEED to be dead in the future.I'm a future immortal because I'm young enough to reap the benefits of advancing medical science long enough to become clinically immortal once the ways to make clinical immortality reality are discovered.If anyone is younger than retirement age, they're potentially future immortals too.Future dead people are too old to live long enough to reap the benefits of clinical immortality because a medical breakthrough to make them clinically immortal will not come along in time to benefit them. That's why they're "Future Dead People."
Now if you were an old person and I called you a future dead man / lady to your face, how would you react?And why do I have this temptation to call old people that? less
What's with the "Karen" meme going around this year?
What are guy Karens called?What are young Karens called?What are old Karens called?What does it mean to "be a Karen?"What... moreWhat's with the "Karen" meme going around this year?
What are guy Karens called?What are young Karens called?What are old Karens called?What does it mean to "be a Karen?"What are Karens called in other countries?
