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[โ€“] promitheas 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Use chapstick

Read a book in public

Not go to gym

Play certain more "feminine" games

Those off the top of my head. I live in a nation of backwards idiots, so there for sure are more

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Use chapstick

My first exposure to Big Bang Theory was the scene where they made fun of one of their friends for "wearing lip gloss" and refusing to call it chapstick. It was so weird and toxic and I assumed it was a gay panic joke before finding out it was the nerd show I was avoiding. Fucking terrible show.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Chapstick and lip gloss are different where I'm at. Chapstick is a thick paste stick like beeswax consistancy, and Lip Gloss is a roller tip with liquid inside.

One goes on matte and one is Glossy

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're different in the US where the show was written and the target audience is. Sitcoms just have terrible, toxic people in them because it's easier to write conflicts. It's Always Sunny is aware of that and takes the idea to the extreme without making the MCs likable. BBT is just lazy writing with lazy "nerd jokes"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

BBT has terrible "jokes". Nerd jokes are fine, but this is lazy writing and the "nerd humor" is the only thing that sets this show apart from other sitcoms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe, although I don't know any sitcoms that are decent, they typlcally have pretty lame jokes, that aren't funny outside of the "situation"

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Use chapstick

How I get around that: Wait until my girl uses hers, then kiss her.

It's a bit of a running meme between us.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Reading a book seems so absurd. Where do you live ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I would assume the US, and probably somewhere rural. I'm an hour outside a major CA city and it's like 70% functionally illiterate racists. They are not fans of books.